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Science in Popular Culture A Reference Guide
A. Bowdoin Van Riper
ISBN: 0-313-31822-0
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-31822-1
336 pages
Greenwood Press
Publication: 5/30/2002
List Price: $57.95 (UK Sterling Price: £39.95)
Discount Price: $28.98 Sale Price for U.S. Customers Only. Save 50%. Ends 12/31/2009.
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: Spaceships travel through time at lightspeed, piloted by human clones and talking animals. Serious injuries are healed with the wave of a medical gizmo. The media makes it all look easy. Can scientists hope to accomplish such amazing feats in the real world, or are they merely flights of fancy? This book is a fun look at what can, and can't, be achieved with current technology in today's laboratory experiments.

Fans of the Jetsons, Star Trek, and Star Wars will learn the facts behind the fiction through entires that describe the scientific inventions and procedures on the screen, and how they differ from the reality. Van Riper shows us who innovators like Charles Darwin, Benjamin Franklin, and Isaac Newton really were before they were mythologized. He discusses how animals such as chimpanzees, dolphins, and elephants are portrayed in books and films, and what we really know about animal intelligence. This book lifts the curtain on science fiction, revealing how and where scientific laws have been discarded for the sake of a good plot.
Table of Contents:
  • Conventions Used in this Book
    Introduction
    Entries
    Acceleration
    Action-Reaction, Law of
    Alternate Worlds
    Androids
    Atomic Energy
    Chimpanzees
    Clones
    Comets
    Computers
    Cryonics
    Cyborgs
    Darwin, Charles
    Death Rays
    Dinosaurs
    Dolphins
    Dreams
    Earthquakes
    Eclipses
    Einstein, Albert
    Electricity
    Elephants
    Epidemics
    Evolution
    Evolution, Convergent
    Evolution, Human
    Experiments
    Experiments on Self
    Extinction
    Flying Cars
    Food Pills
    Franklin, Benjamin
    Galileo
    Genes
    Genetic Engineering
    Gorillas
    Gravity
    Houses, Smart
    Ideas, Resistance to
    Inertia
    Insects
    Insects, Giant
    Intelligence, Animal
    Intelligence, Artificial
    Intelligence, Human
    Life, Extraterrestrial
    Life, Origin of
    Lightning
    Longevity
    Magnetism
    Mars
    Matter Transmission
    Meteorites
    Mind Control
    Miniaturization
    Miracle Drugs
    Moon
    Mutations
    Newton, Isaac
    Organ Transplants
    Prehistoric Humans
    Prehistoric Time
    Psychic Powers
    Race
    Radiation
    Relativity
    Religion and Science
    Reproduction
    Robots
    Sharks
    Space Travel, Interplanetary
    Space Travel, Interstellar
    Speed of Light
    Speed of Sound
    Superhumans
    Theory
    Time Travel
    UFOs
    Vacuum
    Venus
    Volcanoes
    Whales
    General Bibliography
    Index
About the Author: A. BOWDOIN VAN RIPER is a professor in the Department of Social and International Studies at Southern Polytechnic State University. He specializes in the history of science and has written numerous articles on the history of space and aviation.
LCC Class: 306
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