Extreme Science: From Cryogenics to Time Travel, Adventures at the Edge of Knowledge

by Phil Clarke and Phil Clarke

Book Overview

In this book readers will travel to the outer extremities of experimental science to contemplate the unhallowed arts of re-animation, genetic engineering, galvanism, time travel, mind control, and psychadelic drugs. Center stage are the extreme scientists who challenged everything--nature, morality, the government, the law and sometimes even their own bodies--in pursuit of knowledge. Can you extract a man's soul from his body? Can you transplant a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0785828796
• ISBN13: 9780785828792
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Chartwell Books
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.6" x 10.8"