Coming to Terms Author:Wayne Biddle Elegant, useful, and witty explanations of 160 words and terms shrouded in the professional mystery that makes people distrust whoever utters them. This lexicon, and a brilliant introductory essay in which Wayne Biddle takes on the perpetrators of scientific newspeak, make Coming to Terms a primer of the new science, and a trenchant commentary ... more »on language, culture, and our perception and manipulation of the world around us.
Illustrated throughout with David Suter's ingenious drawings.
Parts of this book appeared in a different form in Harper's magazine.« less