When you hold the violin the left hand thumb is still curved. Sam keans work has earned the title of a new york times bestselling author and various awards and recognition. He is able to transform what could be difficult and dry scientific concepts into compelling narratives driven by a series of larger than life personalities. A recommendation and some questions about the violinists. The violinists thumb npr coverage of the violinists thumb. Download now from new york times bestselling author sam kean comes incredible stories of science, history, language, and music, as told by our own dna. Author sam kean talks about how and why he writes about science, using history and facts to educate us in an entertaining and understandable way. Each piece, as it should be referred to when being played on violin, is preceded by a preparatory scale which. You may recognize the authors name because of his previous bestselling book about the periodic table, the disappearing spoon. In this book, he tackles genetics, doing a fine job in explaining a very complex subject bit by bit, with clever analogies. Has the violinists thumb by sam kean been sitting on your reading list. In the violinist s thumb, he explores the wonders of the magical building block of life. Learn from violin experts like george frideric handel and galina kopytova.
Sam kean is author of the new york times bestsellers the disappearing spoon and the violinists thumb. I heard a bit about this book from a radiolab podcast about genes that allow you to survive nuclear bombs. Aug 19, 2012 a recommendation and some questions about the violinist s thumb the violinist s thumb does for dna what sam kean s first book, the disappearing spoon, did for the periodic table. And other lost tales of love, war, and genius, as written by our genetic code, science writer sam kean, author of the disappearing spoon. Jul 17, 2012 a thumb on the pulse of what makes us human sam kean s the violinist s thumb.
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