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Roland Duncan, Miranda Weston-Smith, eds.
The Encyclopaedia of Ignorance.
Pergamon. 1977

rating : 3 : worth reading

Contents

• Otto R. Frisch. Why. 1977
• Hermann Bondi. The lure of completeness. 1977
• Ray A. Lyttleton. The nature of knowledge. 1977
• John Archibald Wheeler, C. M. Patton. Is physics legislated by cosmogony?. 1977
• William H. McCrea. Origin of Earth, moon and planets. 1977
• Michael Rowan-Robinson. Galaxies, quasars and the universe. 1977
• Douglas Gough. The solar interior. 1977
• Paul C. W. Davies. Curved space. 1977
• I. W. Roxburgh. Is space curved?. 1977
• Bruno Bertotti. The riddles of gravitation. 1977
• Thomas Gold. Relativity and time. 1977
• A. J. Leggett. The "arrow of time" and quantum mechanics. 1977
• C. J. S. Clarke. The hinterland between large and small. 1977
• Ted Bastin. A clash of paradigms in physics. 1977
• Alan Cottrell. Emergent properties of complex systems. 1977
• R. W. Cahn. Transformations. 1977
• Denys Haigh Wilkinson. The unknown atomic nucleus. 1977
• Abdus Salam. Probing the heart of matter. 1977
• Roger Penrose. Is nature complex?. 1977
• Hans J. Bremermann. Complexity and transcomputability. 1977
• C. W. Kilmister. Mathematics in the social sciences. 1977
• Heini Halberstam. Some unsolved problems in higher arithmetic. 1977
• John Kendrew. Introduction. 1977
• Roy J. Britten. The sources of variation in evolution. 1977
• James C. Lacey Jr, Arthur L. Weber, Kenneth M. Pruitt. The edge of evolution---a molecular historical perspective. 1977
• E. W. F. Tomlin. Fallacies of evolutionary theory. 1977
• John Maynard Smith. The limitations of evolution theory. 1977
• Donald C. Johanson. Rethinking the origins of the genus Homo. 1977
• Vincent B. Wigglesworth. The control of form in the living body. 1977
• Horace B. Barlow. The languages of the brain. 1977
• Richard L. Gregory. Consciousness. 1977
• Henry A. Buchtel, Giovanni Berlucchi. Learning and memory and the nervous system. 1977
• Francis H. C. Crick. Developmental biology. 1977
• H. S. Micklem. Immunology. 1977
• Arthur E. Mourant. Why are there three blood groups?. 1977
• Peter J. Grubb. Leaf structure and function. 1977
• Anthony Charles Neville. Symmetry and asymmetry problems in animals. 1977
• K. A. Bettelheim. Bacterial pathogenicity. 1977
• M. M. Lehman. Human thought and action as an ingredient of system behaviour. 1977
• Michael V. Tracey. Human nutrition. 1977
• Patrick D. Wall. Why do we not understand pain?. 1977
• J. H. P. Willis. Drug addiction. 1977
• Wilse B. Webb. Sleep. 1977
• Ewan Cameron, Linus Pauling. Ascorbic acid and the glycosaminoglycans: an orthomolecular approach to cancer and other diseases. 1977
• Preston Cloud. The veils of Gaia. 1977
• A. G. Cairns-Smith, C. J. Davis. The design of novel replicating polymers. 1977
• A. G. Cairns-Smith. Synthetic life for industry. 1977
• Martin Holdgate, J. W. L. Beament. The ecological dilemma. 1977
• N. L. Falcon. Ignorance below our feet. 1977
• Roger W. Sperry. Problems outstanding in the evolution of brain function. 1977