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Classic Feynman: All the Adventures of a Curious Characterby Richard P Feynman, Ralph LeightonISBN 0393061329 (0-393-06132-9)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Classic Feynman: All the Adventures of a Curious Character'Book summary: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. [via]More editions of Classic Feynman: All the Adventures of a Curious Character:
Epidurals for Childbirth: A Guide for All Delivery-suite Staffby Anne May, Ralph LeightonISBN 0521704618 (0-521-70461-8)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Feynman's Tips on Physics: A Problem-Solving Supplement to the Feynman Lectures on Physicsby Richard Feynman, Michael A. Gottlieb, Ralph LeightonISBN 0805390480 (0-8053-9048-0)
Softcover, Pearson Education, Limited
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Feynman's Tips on Physics: A Problem-Solving Supplement to The Feynman Lectures on Physicsby Richard Phillips Feynman, Robert B Leighton, Matthew Sands, Ralph Leighton , Michael A. Gottlieb, Rochus VogtISBN 0805390634 (0-8053-9063-4)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley
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How to Count Sheep without Falling Asleepby George Ulrich, Ralph Leighton , Carl FeynmanISBN 0134044592 (0-13-404459-2)
Hardcover, Prentice-Hall
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QEDby Richard Phillips Feynman, Peter Parnell, Ralph LeightonISBN 1557835926 (1-55783-592-6)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'QED'Book summary:(Applause Books). QED is a seductive mix of science, human affections, moral courage and comic eccentricity... not to be missed." John Simon, New York Magazine The play itself is a kind of proof, dramatically illustrating how a man who happens to be a genius elegantly and movingly works through the human problem of how to face the end of his life." Nancy Franklin, The New Yorker With a moving and powerful introduction from Alan Alda. Who knew that quantum electrodynamics could make for a dramatic read? In the hands of the late, great physicist Richard Feynman, it does. Feynman's theory of QED is just one of the many topics the playwright Peter Parnell explores in this nearly-one-man show, a recent Broadway triumph for star Alan Alda as Feynman. Set in Feynman's office on the weekend of his realization that he has terminal cancer, this play is an intellectual tour-de-force that captures the unique, hilarious, and puckish genius that Feynman was. From his work on the Manhattan Project to the death of his beloved first wife, from his mission to reconstruct the Challenger space shuttle tragedy to his Nobel-prize winning physics ideas, the resume of Feynman's life is fascinating. But Parnell gives us more, letting fill in the details of his life. When he reads a letter he wrote to his wife after her death, or flirts with a student, or chillingly recalls walking around Manhattan calculating the damage an atomic bomb could do, we grow to love the man behind the scientist. And we read in fascination as he puzzles out the problem of his own death. Combining the current interest in science and math in the entertainment world with one of the most entertaining scientists in U.S. history, QED is a tour-de-force. [via]
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Characterby Ralph Leighton , Richard P Feynman, Edward HutchingsISBN 0393316041 (0-393-31604-1)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character'Book summary:A series of anecdotes shouldn't by rights add up to an autobiography, but that's just one of the many pieces of received wisdom that Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman (1918-88) cheerfully ignores in his engagingly eccentric book, a bestseller ever since its initial publication in 1985. Fiercely independent (read the chapter entitled "Judging Books by Their Covers"), intolerant of stupidity even when it comes packaged as high intellectualism (check out "Is Electricity Fire?"), unafraid to offend (see "You Just Ask Them?"), Feynman informs by entertaining. It's possible to enjoy Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman simply as a bunch of hilarious yarns with the smart-alecky author as know-it-all hero. At some point, however, attentive readers realize that underneath all the merriment simmers a running commentary on what constitutes authentic knowledge: learning by understanding, not by rote; refusal to give up on seemingly insoluble problems; and total disrespect for fancy ideas that have no grounding in the real world. Feynman himself had all these qualities in spades, and they come through with vigor and verve in his no-bull prose. No wonder his students--and readers around the world--adored him. --Wendy Smith [via]
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"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Characterby Richard Phillips Feynman, Ralph Leighton , Edward HutchingsISBN 0045300232 (0-04-530023-2)
Softcover, Allen & Unwin, Limited
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Tuva or Bust: Richard Feynman's Last Journey/33 1/3 Recordby Ralph LeightonISBN 0393029530 (0-393-02953-0)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tuva or Bust: Richard Feynman's Last Journey/33 1/3 Record'Book summary:Richard Feynman, brilliant physicist and inspirational teacher, wasn't much for coats and ties. He lived a life that the adjective "bohemian" doesn't begin to cover, scripting percussion scores for avant-garde ballet troupes, musing over life's imponderables, and delighting and annoying his many friends with odd-duck questions--all the while teaching generations of students at CalTech.
Always adventurous, Feynman was also a careful planner, recounts his friend and fellow drummer Ralph Leighton in this affectionate memoir. When a chance remark happened to dislodge a long-dormant memory of a faraway Siberian land called Tannu-Tuva, Feynman and Leighton set about scheming to get there--a programme that included learning the little-described Tuvan language, picking up the rudiments of throat singing, and reading the scattered, hard-to-find literature concerning a place that, in Feynman's fond view, was as close to paradise as the earth contained. It also involved corresponding with scholars in what was still the Soviet Union, wrangling with bureaucrats to secure the necessary papers--and all for the sake of seeing a country that had to be interesting, Feynman insisted, just because its capital, Kyzyl, had such an odd spelling.
These picaresque armchair adventures make up the bulk of Tuva or Bust, an unconventional mix of travelogue and scientific biography that's a pleasure to read at every turn. The book yields a memorable picture of Richard Feynman--who did not live to see Tuva, but whose memory is honoured there today, thanks to Leighton's refusal to abandon their shared dream. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Tuva or Bust!: Richard Feynman's Last Journeyby Ralph LeightonISBN 0140156143 (0-14-015614-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tuva or Bust!: Richard Feynman's Last Journey'Book summary:Richard Feynman, brilliant physicist and inspirational teacher, wasn't much for coats and ties. He lived a life that the adjective "bohemian" doesn't begin to cover, scripting percussion scores for avant-garde ballet troupes, musing over life's imponderables, and delighting and annoying his many friends with odd-duck questions--all the while teaching generations of students at CalTech.
Always adventurous, Feynman was also a careful planner, recounts his friend and fellow drummer Ralph Leighton in this affectionate memoir. When a chance remark happened to dislodge a long-dormant memory of a faraway Siberian land called Tannu-Tuva, Feynman and Leighton set about scheming to get there--a programme that included learning the little-described Tuvan language, picking up the rudiments of throat singing, and reading the scattered, hard-to-find literature concerning a place that, in Feynman's fond view, was as close to paradise as the earth contained. It also involved corresponding with scholars in what was still the Soviet Union, wrangling with bureaucrats to secure the necessary papers--and all for the sake of seeing a country that had to be interesting, Feynman insisted, just because its capital, Kyzyl, had such an odd spelling.
These picaresque armchair adventures make up the bulk of Tuva or Bust, an unconventional mix of travelogue and scientific biography that's a pleasure to read at every turn. The book yields a memorable picture of Richard Feynman--who did not live to see Tuva, but whose memory is honoured there today, thanks to Leighton's refusal to abandon their shared dream. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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- Tuva or Bust: Richard Feynman's Last Journey: ISBN 0393320693 (0-393-32069-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - Tuva or Bust!: Richard Feynman's Last Journey: ISBN 0670840149 (0-670-84014-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Books, Limited - Tuva or Bust! : Richard Feynman's Last Journey: ISBN 0140174850 (0-14-017485-0)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited - Tuva or Bust!: Richard Feynman's Last Journey: ISBN 0140156143 (0-14-015614-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
- Tuva or Bust: Richard Feynman's Last Journey: ISBN 0393320693 (0-393-32069-3)
What Do You Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious Characterby Richard Phillips Feynman, Ralph LeightonISBN 0044405286 (0-04-440528-6)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'What Do You Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious Character'Book summary:A thoughtful companion volume to the earlier Surely You Are Joking Mr. Feynman!. Perhaps the most intriguing parts of the book are the behind-the-scenes descriptions of science and policy colliding in the presidential commission to determine the cause of the Challenger space shuttle explosion; and the scientific sleuthing behind his famously elegant O-ring-in-ice-water demonstration. Not as rollicking as his other memoirs, but in some ways more profound. [via]
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- What Do You Care What Other People Think? : Further Adventures of a Curious Character: ISBN 0553347845 (0-553-34784-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books - What Do You Care What Other People Think? : Further Adventures of a Curious Character: ISBN 0586218556 (0-586-21855-6)
Softcover, Micro Data Base Systems, Incorporated (m d b s) - What Do You Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious Character: ISBN 0044403410 (0-04-440341-0)
Hardcover, Routledge - What Do You Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious Character: ISBN 0044405286 (0-04-440528-6)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
- What Do You Care What Other People Think? : Further Adventures of a Curious Character: ISBN 0553347845 (0-553-34784-5)
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What Do You Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious Characterby Ralph Leighton , Richard P FeynmanISBN 0393320928 (0-393-32092-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'What Do You Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious Character'Book summary:A thoughtful companion volume to the earlier Surely You Are Joking Mr. Feynman!. Perhaps the most intriguing parts of the book are the behind-the-scenes descriptions of science and policy colliding in the presidential commission to determine the cause of the Challenger space shuttle explosion; and the scientific sleuthing behind his famously elegant O-ring-in-ice-water demonstration. Not as rollicking as his other memoirs, but in some ways more profound. [via]
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What Do You Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious Characterby Ralph Leighton , Richard P FeynmanISBN 0393026590 (0-393-02659-0)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'What Do You Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious Character'Book summary:A thoughtful companion volume to the earlier Surely You Are Joking Mr. Feynman!. Perhaps the most intriguing parts of the book are the behind-the-scenes descriptions of science and policy colliding in the presidential commission to determine the cause of the Challenger space shuttle explosion; and the scientific sleuthing behind his famously elegant O-ring-in-ice-water demonstration. Not as rollicking as his other memoirs, but in some ways more profound. [via]
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