Oxygen: A Play in 2 Acts (Häftad)
avCarl Djerassi, Roald Hoffmann, Djerassi
ISBN: 9783527304134 - UTGIVEN: 200103"Oxygen" is a play about priorities and competition in science and the resulting consequences. The play deals with the discovery of oxygen as well as revolutions - both chemical and political. And "Oxygen" concerns the Nobel Prize. Half of this play with 11 characters takes place in 1777, the other[...]
Menachem's Seed (Häftad)
avCarl Djerassi
ISBN: 9780140277944 - UTGIVEN: 199809In Menachem's Seed, Carl Djerassi, world-renowned scientist and inventor of the birth-control pill, brings us a new novel that explores the human--and passionate--side of science. Melanie Laidlaw and Menachem Dvir meet at a series of international conferences where jet-setting scientists come togeth[...]
No (Häftad)
avCarl Djerassi
ISBN: 9780140296549 - UTGIVEN: 200011Cutting edge research on human reproductive biology in the hothouse atmosphere of Silicon Valley is the focus of this last installment in Carl Djerassi's pioneering "science-in-fiction" tetralogy. Renu Krishnan is an Indian-born, American-educated scientist who discovers how NO (nitric oxide) can he[...]
Four Jews on Parnassus--A Conversation (Inbunden)
avCarl Djerassi
ISBN: 9780231146548 - UTGIVEN: 2008-12-29Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. Adorno, Gershom Scholem, and Arnold Schönberg each struggled with the question of Jewish identity in the absence of a common religious label. Adorno was the prototypical German Jewish non-Jew, Benjamin vacillated between German Jew and Jewish German, Scholem was a commit[...]
Sex in an Age of Technological Reproduction (Övrigt)
avCarl Djerassi
ISBN: 9780299227944 - UTGIVEN: 2008-09Carl Djerassi is one of the 'the fathers of the Pill' - he was awarded the National Medal of Science for the first synthesis of a steroid oral contraceptive - and has had a prolific additional career as a writer of fiction, plays, and dialogues about science. In these two plays, "ICSI" and "Taboos",[...]
In Retrospect (Pocket)
avCarl Djerassi
ISBN: 9781783265329 - UTGIVEN: 2015-01These are the reflections of a nonagenarian polymath describing the shift from a fifty-year-long career as a world-famous chemist to a subsequent twenty-five-year immersion in "science-in-fiction" and "science-in-theater," which is virtually unique among contemporary scientists.[...]
An Immaculate Misconception (Häftad)
avCarl Djerassi
ISBN: 9781860942488 - UTGIVEN: 2000-06One of the most challenging issues of the 21st century is the impending separation of sex (in bed) and reproduction (under the microscope) as a result of recent advances in contraception and assisted reproduction. Many of the ethical and societal issues associated with these new reproductive technol[...]
