Galileo's Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and the Search for Justice in Science

by Alice Domurat Dreger

Book Overview

New York Times Book Review
S]mart, delightful... a splendidly entertaining education in ethics, activism and science."

Editors's Choice, New York Times Book Review

An impassioned defense of intellectual freedom and a clarion call to intellectual responsibility, Galileo's Middle Finger is one American's eye-opening story of life in the trenches of scientific controversy. For two decades, historian Alice...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1594206082
• ISBN13: 9781594206085
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Penguin Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"