Falling for Science: Objects in Mind

Turkle, Sherry, editor and author of the introduction

ISBN 10: 0262201720 / ISBN 13: 9780262201728

Published by Mit Pr, 2008

About this Item

A collection of personal essays exploring how childhood objects, sensory experiences, toys, tools, and scientific instruments inspired later careers in science, engineering, technology, and design. Edited and introduced by Sherry Turkle.

Contributors describe the objects that first awakened their scientific imaginations?from microscopes, radios, and computers to fishing rods, mud pies, and household machinery. The book includes mentor essays by Susan Hockfield, Donald Ingber, Alan Kay, Sarah Kuhn, Donald Norman, Seymour Papert, Rosalind Picard, and Moshe Safdie.

Octavo. xii, 318 pages, with illustrations, bibliographical references, and index. Original hardcover in illustrated dust jacket. The MIT Press identifies this as the out-of-print hardcover edition published April 4, 2008. MIT Press edition record

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Near Fine hardcover in a near Fine dust jacket. Binding is firm and square. Boards and page edges show only light shelfwear. Interior appears clean and unmarked.

Dust jacket is bright and substantially clean, with light rubbing, minor edgewear, and a few small surface marks. No significant tears, chips, ownership markings, or institutional markings are visible in the supplied photographs.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Falling for Science: Objects in Mind
• Publisher: Mit Pr
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262201720
• ISBN 13: 9780262201728
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Dimensions: 5.5W x 8H x 1D inches 5.5 inches width by 8 inches height by 1 inches depth
• Weight: 1.199 pounds
• Seller catalogs:
  • Philosophy of Science
  • Psychology
  • Sience & Technology
  • Essays

About this title

Synopsis

"This is a book about science, technology, and love," writes Sherry Turkle. In it, we learn how a love for science can start with a love for an object - a microscope, a modem, a mud pie, a pair of dice, a fishing rod. Objects fire imagination and set young people on a path to a career in science. In this collection, distinguished scientists, engineers, and designers as well as twenty-five years of MIT students describe how objects encountered in childhood became part of the fabric of their scientific selves.

About the Author

Barbara Neri is a multidisciplinary artist and scholar based in Michigan. She is currentlycreating a book of art/criticism on EBB's Sonnets from the Portuguese. Neriwill perform The Consolation of Poetry on 23 and 24 October 2003 in the SponbergTheatre, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan.