Hollywood Science: Movies, Science, and the End of the World

Sidney Perkowitz

November, 2007
Cloth, 272 pages, 40 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-14280-9
$24.95 / £14.95

Web Features

• Listen to an interview with Sidney Perkowitz from the Columbia University Press Podcast series
• Read Sidney Perkowitz’s choices for the best and worst science films from Discover.
• Read a review from the Los Angeles Times
• Listen to Sidney Perkowitz’s appearance on Living on EarthListen to Sidney Perkowitz’s podcast interview with Astronomy magazine
• Read a review from American Scientist

Related Subjects

• Film
• General Science

About the Author

Educated as a physicist, Sidney Perkowitz has produced dozens of research papers and books, along with four popular science books, works for stage and screen, and numerous magazine articles. Hollywood Science combines his science background with his love of movies. Born in New York, he lives in Atlanta and is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Physics at Emory University. He's happy to hear from readers at www.sidneyperkowitz.net.

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