'What Do You Care What Other People Think?'
Further Adventures of a Curious Character
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4.2 • 18 Ratings
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- £5.49
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Publisher Description
Richard Feynman – Nobel Laureate, teacher, icon and genius – possessed an unquenchable thirst for adventure and an unparalleled gift for telling the extraordinary stories of his life.
In this collection of short pieces and reminiscences he describes everything from his love of beauty to college pranks to how his father taught him to think. He takes us behind the scenes of the space shuttle Challenger investigation, where he dramatically revealed the cause of the disaster with a simple experiment. And he tells us of how he met his beloved first wife Arlene, and their brief time together before her death. Sometimes intensely moving, sometimes funny, these writings are infused with Feynman’s curiosity and passion for life.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Roughly half of these 21 short, colloquial essays deal with Feynman's firsthand investigaton of the Challenger space-shuttle disaster. He casts himself in the role of intrepid detective, and the first-person singular pronoun keeps intruding on the worthwhile things he has to say about flight safety and lack of communication within NASA. An appendix offers his chilling technical observations on the shuttle's reliability or lack of it. The remaining pieces are mostly a blur of international conferences, purveying slight anecdotes. But two essays touch genuine depths of feeling: his tribute to his father, who taught him to cultivate a sense of wonder, and his account of his love affair with his first wife (who died). In this posthumous miscellany, theoretical physicist Feynman displays only sporadically the adventurousness that captivated readers of Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman.
Customer Reviews
Awe inspiring
This is one of my favourite books, from inspiring ways. To go through life by bluffing and not caring what people think. It's great.
Good Content Badly Presented
The content of the book is great and really interesting. One star though because this is unfortunatley let down by terrible formatting and layout. The book has a section of letters but the signatures are chopped off so you don’t know who wrote them. Some of the pictures seem to be missing and those that are presented are of very low resolution and are hard to see what they are supposed to be picture of. All the references and footnotes are collected on indiviual pages in the middle of the book - there are 40-50 pages with a single footnote followed by a blank page. This is an eBook and should have been formatted so that it fits a screen and have footnotes properly at the bottom of the page.
I strongly suggest you read this book - but choose a copy from a different publisher.