Jörn Glökler

Ninox boobook

A Science Diction

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Annoyed with something in your daily routine in life sciences? You think that some stuff is just happening to you exclusively? You wish that there was a word for this?Well now there probably is one. Find out what's bugging so many of your colleagues most of the time. If you like naming your problem and having a good laugh, this book's for you.This book belongs to the new genre of science diction that started out as "The other dictionary" in the humour section of Lab Times magazine. It contains various situations, objects, findings, notions, and people typically encountered in life sciences that are combined to produce a fresh new name. To make this even more scientific, the corresponding names are taken from real species names. Enjoy the many coloured illustrations and find out which weird species names can be combined witheven weirder situations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Books on Demand
• Seitenzahl: 100
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. August 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 190mm x 120mm x 7mm
• Gewicht: 115g
• ISBN-13: 9783839181010
• ISBN-10: 3839181011
• Artikelnr.: 31271380

Autorenporträt

Jörn Glökler was born 1966 in Tübingen, Germany. He studied biology at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. He is currently leading a research group at the Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin, Germany. His main research subject is the in vitro evolution and selection of combinatorial libraries. In order to compensate for his demanding job he started writing. As a result he publishes ¿The Other Dictionary¿ in Lab Times magazine. He is married, has one child, and lives in Berlin.