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Classic Feynman: All the Adventures of a Curious Character

by Richard Phillips Feynman

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Publisher Comments:

Richard Feynman (1918-1988) thrived on outrageous adventures. Now packaged with an hour-long audio CD of the 1978 "Los Alamos from Below" lecture, "Classic Feynman" offers readers a chance to finally hear a great tale in the Nobel Prize-winning physicist's own voice.

Book News Annotation:

Comic stories about his life and work by American Nobel laureate physicist Feynman (1918-88) are compiled from his 1985 Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! and 1988 What Do YOU Care What Other People Think. The included compact disk contains 19 recordings of him telling stories.
Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Book News Annotation:

Comic stories about his life and work by American Nobel laureate physicist Feynman (1918-88) are compiled from his 1985 Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! and 1988 What Do YOU Care What Other People Think. The included compact disk contains 19 recordings of him telling stories. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Synopsis:

An omnibus edition celebrating a great scientific mind and a legendary American original--including a live recording.

Richard Feynman (1918-1988) thrived on outrageous adventures. In the phenomenal national bestsellers Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman and What Do You Care What Other People Think? the Nobel Prize-winning physicist recounted in an inimitable voice his adventures trading ideas on atomic physics with Einstein and Bohr and ideas on gambling with Nick the Greek, painting a naked female toreador, accompanying a ballet on his bongo drums, solving the mystery of the Challenger disaster, and much else of an eyebrow-raising, hugely entertaining, and astounding nature. One of the most influential and creative minds of recent history, Feynman also possessed an unparalleled ability as a storyteller, a delightful coincidence celebrated in this special omnibus edition of his classic stories. Now packaged with an hour-long audio CD of the 1978 Los Alamos from Below lecture, Classic Feynman offers readers a chance to finally hear a great tale in the orator's own voice.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780393061321
Subtitle:
All the Adventures of a Curious Character [With CD]
Editor:
Leighton, Ralph
Editor:
Leighton, Ralph
Author:
Feynman, Richard Phillips
Afterword:
Alda, Alan
Afterword:
Alda, Alan
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Subject:
Physics
Subject:
Intellectual life
Subject:
Physicists
Subject:
Scientists - General
Subject:
Physicists -- United States.
Subject:
Feynman, Richard Phillips
Publication Date:
October 2005
Binding:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
511
Dimensions:
9.50x6.42x1.43 in. 1.99 lbs.

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