{"product_id":"9789812560117","title":"Petit Point: A Candid Portrait On The Aberrations Of Science","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this fascinating book, Nobel Prize winner Pierre-Gilles de Gennes wittily captures the lives of personalities from both the academic and the industrial world in delightful bite-size stories. Most of the characters in this collection are like those in Aesop's fables, but in modern-day research settings. The book provides a critical account of aberrations (fortunately rare) of the scientific community. Many lessons can be drawn from the stories. For the young researcher, this book is like a telescope: for seeing other human beings beyond his or her laboratory. For the administrator, this book is like a microscope: for seeing inside the human beings huge and complex structures. However, like Aesop's fables, you would not offer the book as a gift to anyone other than a close and wise friend.Petit Point is not a book to be devoured in a single sitting. It is one to be savored and reflected upon — it shows what the world may be like and what we ourselves may become. It is like a mirror — to be visited from time to time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOOKS YOU CAN TRUST PUBLISHING","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47065517818096,"sku":"9789812560117","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9789812560117_p0.jpg?v=1763691329","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9789812560117","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}