{"id":8383,"date":"2024-09-22T09:51:21","date_gmt":"2024-09-22T09:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentsclub.org\/homepage\/uncle-tungsten-memories-of-a-chemical-boyhood\/"},"modified":"2024-09-22T09:51:21","modified_gmt":"2024-09-22T09:51:21","slug":"uncle-tungsten-memories-of-a-chemical-boyhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentsclub.org\/homepage\/uncle-tungsten-memories-of-a-chemical-boyhood\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\nPrice: <span style=\"color:#b12704\"><del>$18.00<\/del> - $12.77<\/span><br \/><i><small>(as of Sep 22, 2024 09:51:21 UTC &#8211; <span class=\"wp_automatic_amazon_disclaimer\" title=\"Product prices and availability are accurate as of the date\/time indicated and are subject to change. Any price and availability information displayed on [relevant Amazon Site(s), as applicable] at the time of purchase will apply to the purchase of this product.\">Details<\/span>)<\/small><\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amazon.com\/dp\/0375704043?tag=musadiqhus0f2-20\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/valvepress.s3.amazonaws.com\/imgs\/buy_now.png\"><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n  From the distinguished neurologist who is also one of the most remarkable storytellers of our time\u2014a riveting memoir of his youth and his love affair with science, as unexpected and fascinating as his celebrated case histories.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA rare gem\u2026. Fresh, joyous, wistful, generous, and tough-minded.\u201d \u2014The New York Times Book Review<\/p>\n<p>Long before Oliver Sacks became the bestselling author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Awakenings, he was a small English boy fascinated by metals\u2014also by chemical reactions (the louder and smellier the better), photography, squids and cuttlefish, H.G. Wells, and the periodic table. In this endlessly charming and eloquent memoir, Sacks\u00a0chronicles his love affair with science and the magnificently odd and sometimes harrowing childhood in which that love affair unfolded.<\/p>\n<p>In Uncle Tungsten we meet Sacks\u2019 extraordinary family, from his surgeon mother (who introduces the fourteen-year-old Oliver to the art of human dissection) and his father, a family doctor who imbues in his son an early enthusiasm for housecalls, to his \u201cUncle Tungsten,\u201d whose factory produces tungsten-filament lightbulbs. We follow the young Oliver as he is exiled at the age of six to a grim, sadistic boarding school to escape the London Blitz, and later watch as he sets about passionately reliving the exploits of his chemical heroes\u2014in his own home laboratory. Uncle Tungsten is a crystalline view of a brilliant young mind springing to life, a story of growing up which is by turns elegiac, comic, and wistful, full of the electrifying joy of discovery.    <\/p>\n<p> Publisher                                    \u200f                                        :                                    \u200e                                 Vintage; Reprint edition (September 17, 2002) <br \/> Language                                    \u200f                                        :                                    \u200e                                 English <br \/> Paperback                                    \u200f                                        :                                    \u200e                                 352 pages <br \/> ISBN-10                                    \u200f                                        :                                    \u200e                                 0375704043 <br \/> ISBN-13                                    \u200f                                        :                                    \u200e                                 978-0375704048 <br \/> Item Weight                                    \u200f                                        :                                    \u200e                                 10.6 ounces <br \/> Dimensions                                    \u200f                                        :                                    \u200e                                 5.16 x 0.76 x 7.97 inches <\/p>\n<div id=\"product-summary\" data-hook=\"cr-insights-widget-summary\" class=\"a-section a-spacing-none\">\n<div class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-spacing-top-medium\">\n<h3 class=\"a-size-base-plus a-color-base a-text-bold\">Customers say<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"a-spacing-small\"><span>Customers find the book well worth reading and fun. They also find the content fascinating and a great way to learn about chemistry. Readers describe the writing style as well-written, elegant, and gifted. They appreciate the pacing and uplifting content.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-csa-c-item-id=\"ai_generated_text_banner\" data-csa-c-owner=\"CustomerReviews\" data-csa-c-slot-id=\"cr-product-insights-cards_ai-generated-text\" data-csa-c-type=\"uxElement\" class=\"a-size-small a-color-secondary\">AI-generated from the text of customer reviews<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> From the distinguished neurologist who is also one of the most remarkable storytellers of our time\u2014a riveting memoir of his youth and his love affair with science, as unexpected and fascinating as his celebrated case histories. \u201cA rare gem\u2026. 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