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Science in Popular Culture A Reference Guide
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A. Bowdoin Van Riper
Book Code: GR1822
ISBN: 0-313-31822-0
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-31822-1
336 pages, figures, photos
Greenwood Press
Publication: 5/30/2002
List Price: $57.95 (UK Sterling Price: £31.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • Recommended. General Readers; lower- and upper-division undergraduates.
    —Choice     December 2002
  • ...a quirky and fun look at science versus dramatic license in movies, television, written fiction, and music...This book would be especially appropriate for public libraries, particularly those with strong science fiction collections, and would not be a bad addition for undergraduate academic libraries. It also would be quite a handy resource for armchair and professional critics of literature, television, and film.
    —E-Streams     .
  • ...this may be just right for your library.
    —Thomson-Gale Reference for Students     January 2003
  • This title is an interesting look at science.
    —Library Media Connection     January 2003
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
LC Card Number: 2001055616
LCC Class: Q172
Dewey Class: 306
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