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Author: Stephen S Hall
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
Imprint: Grand Central Publishing
Dimensions:
Width: 15.00cm
, Height: 3.60cm
, Length: 23.20cm
Weight: 0.620kg
ISBN: 9781538741337
ISBN 10: 1538741334
Pages: 416
Publication Date: 15 May 2025
Audience:
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College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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General
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
"PRAISE FOR INVISIBLE FRONTIERS ""An important and pioneering book.""--New York Times Book Review PRAISE FOR WISDOM ""A comprehensive and thought-provoking book that examines the difficult topic of wisdom in a fair--even wise--manner.""--Science News ""A splendid piece of science writing.""--Washington Post Book World ""Stephen Hall is not just a terrific science writer, he's a terrific writer, period.""--Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore's Dilemma ""Utterly engaging. . . . Hall's work as a translator and intermediary between the humanities and the hard neurosciences is in itself a feat of extraordinary mental balance and understanding.""--The Post and Courier"
PRAISE FOR INVISIBLE FRONTIERS ""An important and pioneering book.""--New York Times Book Review PRAISE FOR WISDOM ""A comprehensive and thought-provoking book that examines the difficult topic of wisdom in a fair--even wise--manner.""--Science News ""A splendid piece of science writing.""--Washington Post Book World ""Stephen Hall is not just a terrific science writer, he's a terrific writer, period.""--Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore's Dilemma ""Utterly engaging. . . . Hall's work as a translator and intermediary between the humanities and the hard neurosciences is in itself a feat of extraordinary mental balance and understanding.""--The Post and Courier
Author Information
Stephen S. Hall has been reporting and writing about the intersection of science and society for more than 40 years. In addition to numerous cover stories in the New York Times Magazine, where he also served as a Story Editor and Contributing Writer, his work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, National Geographic, New York Magazine, Wired, Science, Nature, Scientific American, Discover, The Sciences, Hip-pocrates, Smithsonian, and more. He is also the author of six critically acclaimed non-fiction books about contemporary science. Among other honors, he has received the Walter Sullivan Award for Excellence in Science Journalism from the American Geophysical Union (2011); the Best Magazine Story of the Year from the American Association for the Advancement of Science-Kavli Foundation in 2017; and an honorary doctorate from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in 2023. He also received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2012. Since 2007 Hall has served as an adjunct professor of journalism at New York University, where he taught a core-curriculum graduate-school seminar in science writing at NYU's Science, Health, and Environmental Reporting Program (SHERP) for ten years. He previously taught graduate seminars in science writing and explanatory journalism at Columbia University. Since 2009, he has also conducted hundreds of Science Communication Workshop sessions for scientists and doctors at NYU, Rockefeller University, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
