Livro Uncle Tungsten - Memories of a Chemical Boyhood

Usado, brochura, cor amarelada, desgaste em torno do exterior, manchas, marcas de uso. 337 páginas. 20x13cm. 04/12/18. VF

Livro usado em bom estado, brochura, 337 páginas, 13cm x 20cm. Sem marcações ou sublinhados, miolo amarelado, corte amarelado, desgastes nas bordas. Livro em inglês; GG233 s

9446 - long before oliver sacks became a distinguished neurologist and bestselling writer, he was a small english boy fascinated by metals - also by chemical reactions, photography, cuttlefish, h.g.wells, and the periodic table... in "uncle tungsten: memories of a chemical boyhood" sacks evokes, with warmth and wit, his upbringing in wartime england, and is the story of a brilliant young mind springin to life. // first vintage books edition, 2001. paperback. dim. 200x130x23 mm. 337 pp. illustrated and includes more 10 photos out of text. index. // keywords: science. chemestry. neurologist - england. biography. sacks, oliver w. // exemplar importado, usado, pouco manuseado, higienizado, bem conservado, nome de posse na primeira página.

10028 - In “Uncle Tungsten” we meet Sacks’ extraordinary family, from his surgeon mother (who introduces the fourteen-year-old Oliver to the art of human dissection) and his father, a family doctor who imbues in his son an early enthusiasm for housecalls, to his “Uncle Tungsten, ” whose factory produces tungsten-filament lightbulbs. (...) “Uncle Tungsten” is a crystalline view of a brilliant young mind springing to life, a story of growing up which is by turns elegiac, comic, and wistful, full of the electrifying joy of discovery. 1st Ed. 2002. Paperback. Dim.205x130x20 mm; 346 pp. Illu. with drawings and figures in tex and 4 pp. out of text with 10 photos in b&w. Index. keywords: science. chemestry. neurologist - england. biography. sacks, oliver w. book apparently not read or used.