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    Classic Feynman: All the Adventures of a Curious Character

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    by Richard P. Feynman, Ralph Leighton (Editor)


    Hardcover

    (BOOK & CD)

    $39.95
    $39.95

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    • ISBN-13: 9780393061321
    • Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
    • Publication date: 11/07/2005
    • Edition description: BOOK & CD
    • Pages: 528
    • Product dimensions: 6.60(w) x 9.60(h) x 1.60(d)

    Richard P. Feynman (1918–1988) was a professor at Cornell University and CalTech and received the Nobel Prize for physics in 1965. In 1986 he served with distinction on the Rogers Commission investigating the space shuttle Challenger disaster.

    Ralph Leighton lives in northern California.

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    An omnibus edition celebrating a great scientific mind and a legendary American original including a live recording.
    Richard Feynman (1918-1988) thrived on outrageous adventures. In the phenomenal national bestsellers "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" and "What Do You Care What Other People Think?" the Nobel Prize-winning physicist recounted in an inimitable voice his adventures trading ideas on atomic physics with Einstein and Bohr and ideas on gambling with Nick the Greek, painting a naked female toreador, accompanying a ballet on his bongo drums, solving the mystery of the Challenger disaster, and much else of an eyebrow-raising, hugely entertaining, and astounding nature. One of the most influential and creative minds of recent history, Feynman also possessed an unparalleled ability as a storyteller, a delightful coincidence celebrated in this special omnibus edition of his classic stories. Now packaged with an hour-long audio CD of the 1978 "Los Alamos from Below" lecture, Classic Feynman offers readers a chance to finally hear a great tale in the orator's own voice.

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    Like Boswell's biography of Samuel Johnson or Robert Craft's diaries about Stravinsky, Classic Feynman brings a highly unusual man to vivid, blazing life. So if you somehow missed the original two books back in the '80s, here's yet one more reason to acquire Classic Feynman -- the chance to rectify your error. Good scientists, after all, learn from past mistakes.
    — The Washington Post
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