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How I Beat Coca-Cola and Other Tales of One-Upmanship de Carl Djerassi

How I Beat Coca-Cola and Other Tales of One-Upmanship

Autor Carl Djerassi
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 sep 2013
Carl Djerassi crafts a shrewd collection of comedies of manners, exposing the foibles of elite tribes—business executives, chefs, scientists, professors, musicians, and other clever characters. They spar in battles of one-upmanship using class, education, gender, or prestige as their weapons, sometimes leaving damaged bystanders in their wake but sometimes finding their superiority deflated by unexpected turns of events.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780299295042
ISBN-10: 0299295044
Pagini: 172
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.21 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Wisconsin Press
Colecția University of Wisconsin Press

Recenzii

“Carl Djerassi can write knowledgeably and wittily not only about scientists, but also about smart, competitive, obsessive people from many other walks of life.”—David Lodge, author of Changing Places and A Man of Parts

“One of the pleasures of Carl Djerassi’s witty, richly detailed stories is that they have the rare merit of letting us look into some special works—art, science—that are usually closed to writers who are only writers. The pen of the trained observer is as acute as his eye.”—Diane Johnson, author of L’Affaire

“These stories describe abstract conflicts, jockeying for prestige, or social interactions seen as complexes of negotiation, and the pleasure they give is akin to that of being taken through a skillful game of chess by an explicitly authoritative commentator.”—Colin Greenland, Times Literary Supplement

“This was a meal which, the more I ate, the hungrier I became. . . . The stories are attitudinal and intellectual, even instructive. They bring the reader into the culture and 'cultivated taste' of the sophisticated, worldly, even jaunty Djerassi: upper-crust Brits, opera, food, art, money, and sex (and sex and sex). . . . These stories are sophisticated fun.”—Jeffrey I. Seeman, Chemical & Engineering News

Notă biografică

Carl Djerassi (1923–2015) was the author of many novels, plays, essays, poetry, and short stories published in twenty languages. Renowned as both a writer and a scientist, he was an emeritus professor of chemistry at Stanford University and the recipient of thirty honorary doctorates as well as many international scientific honors. His books published by the University of Wisconsin Press are: How I Beat Coca-Cola and Other Tales of One-Upmanship; Foreplay: Hannah Arendt, the Two Adornos, and Walter Benjamin; Sex in an Age of Technological Reproduction:? "ICSI" and "Taboos"; and A Diary of Pique 1983–1984 / Ein Tagebuch des Grolls 1983–1984.

Cuprins

Preface                                   
 
How I Beat Coca-Cola           
The Dacriologist                    
Castor's Dilemma                   
Sleight of Mind                      
Maskenfreiheit                       
First-Class Nun                     
Noblesse Oblige                     
The Psomophile                     
The Glyndebourne Heist                   
The Futurist               
What's Tatyana Troyanos Doing in Spartacus's Tent?                     
The Toyota Cantos

Descriere

Carl Djerassi crafts a shrewd collection of comedies of manners, exposing the foibles of elite tribes—business executives, chefs, scientists, professors, musicians, and other clever characters. They spar in battles of one-upmanship using class, education, gender, or prestige as their weapons, sometimes leaving damaged bystanders in their wake but sometimes finding their superiority deflated by unexpected turns of events.