Old Wine, New Flasks. Reflections On Science And Jewish Tradition.
Hoffmann, Roald and Shira Leibowitz Schmidt.
Published by W. H. Freeman and Co.1997.
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- Hardcover
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Seller: Tacoma Book Center, Tacoma, WA, U.S.A.Tacoma Book Center
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Hardback. First Printing. Very Good to Near Fine Condition in a Very Good to Near Fine condition Dustjacket. Tight Bright Attractive Copy With No Markings To The Book. $28.95 Original Price is Present and Unclipped on the Front Dustjacket Flap. ISBN 0-7167-2899-0. Copy One.
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- Title
- Old Wine, New Flasks. Reflections On Science And Jewish Tradition.
- Author
- Hoffmann, Roald and Shira Leibowitz Schmidt.
- Publisher
- W. H. Freeman and Co.1997.
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0716728990
- ISBN 13
- 9780716728993
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
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Review
If you like detective stories, or crossword puzzles, or intellectual games, you're missing pleasure by not reading it. -- Endeavor, Vol.22, 1998
The authors have presented a well-written, concise, and thoroughly enjoyable reconciliation of the old, the new, and the scientific...All in all, the book is a new flask filled with some very fine old wine. -- San Francisco Viewpoint, Sept.19, 1997
The complexity of the book mirrors the complexity of truth itself. Bits of science and Jewish lore are tossed together with poems and diagrams of chemical structure and correspondence between the authors and colleagues, e-mail discussions, scripture, basic lessons on physics, law and art. The authors don't apologize for this lack of focus, though readers may find it frustrating. "We tell stories, inherently digressive the way real life is," they write. Their digressions are enchanting, but sometimes they play in too many different keys at once. -- The Los Angeles Times Sunday Book Review, K. C. Cole
This book will read with pleasure by those who adjure the simplistic, enjoy complex ideas, and have abandoned hope for definitive answers for unanswerable questions. -- Endeavor, Vol.22, 1998
This is a very different kind of book, often insightful, occasionally hillarious, never dull. We recommend it for those who live either within the world of science or the world of Judaism and would like to walk - or dance- on a bridge that has been constructed to connect the two. -- St. Louis Jewish Light, February 18, 1998
Throughout, Old Wine, New Flasks is a remarkable blending of earnestness and playfulness, learning and imagination, prose and poetry, rigorous scientific thinking and critical humanistic considerations. Indeed, the book is a validation of the philosophy of Torah U-Madda, of the union of Judaism and culture, religion and secularism. -- The New Leader, March 9-23, 1998
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