Entropy and the Magic Flute

by Harold J. Morowitz

Book Overview

Harold Morowitz has long been regarded highly both as an eminent scientist and as an accomplished science writer. The essays in The Wine of Life, his first collection, were hailed by C.P. Snow as "some of the wisest, wittiest and best informed that I have read," and Carl Sagan called them "a delight to read." In later volumes such as Mayonnaise and the Origin of Life and The Thermodynamics of Pizza, he has established a reputation for a wide-ranging...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195081994
• ISBN13: 9780195081992
• Release Date: June 1993
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 8.5"