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by Carl Djerassi
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- Title In Retrospect - From the Pill to the Pen
- Author Carl Djerassi
- Binding Papeback
- Condition Used
- Pages 400
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Imperial College Press
- Date pp. 400
- Features Bibliography, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # 6323890678
- ISBN 9781783265329 / 1783265329
- Weight 1.41 lbs (0.64 kg)
- Dimensions 8.9 x 6 x 0.7 in (22.61 x 15.24 x 1.78 cm)
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Themes
- Aspects (Academic): Life Writings
- Library of Congress subjects Chemists - United States, Djerassi, Carl
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2014028183
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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These are the reflections of a nonagenarian polymath describing the shift from a fifty-year-long career as a world-famous chemist to a subsequent twenty-five-year immersion in "science-in-fiction" and "science-in-theater," which is virtually unique among contemporary scientists. Sharply self-critical, yet full of humor, this autobiographical account covers themes such as the future of sex in an age of technological reproduction, the history of the Pill seen through the eyes of one of its inventors, innovative even unique pedagogic experiments, the insoluble homelessness of a refugee, suicide, and art collecting. This book is also heavily illustrated with 94 individual pictures.