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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Guerrilla Science
    sub title: Survival Strategies of a Cuban Physicist
  name:
    name part: Altshuler, Ernesto.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: X, 147 p. 71 illus., 50 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: Full of drama, dedication, and humor, this book narrates the author’s often frustrating experiences working as an experimental physicist in Cuba after the disintegration of the so-called socialist block. Lacking finance and infrastructure, faced with makeshift equipment, unpredictable supplies, and unreliable IT, Altshuler tells how he and his students overcame numerous challenges to make novel and interesting contributions to several fields of science. Along the way, he explains the science - from studies of ant colonies to superconductivity - either qualitatively or quantitatively, but always at a level fully understandable to an undergraduate student of natural sciences or engineering. An even wider audience, however, may skip the technical sections without missing the essence. With numerous anecdotes, photographs and the author’s own delightful cartoons, the book tells a remarkable, and often amusing story of how successful science can be performed against all odds.
  table of contents: Guerrilla Science -- The Chinese Connection -- Strange Phenomena in Cuban Sands -- Lab-in-a-Bucket: Low Budget Experiments on the Solar System -- Garbage Experiments -- A Reason to Drink Coca Cola -- Should We Be a Little Afraid of Urinating? -- Smarter than Bibijaguas -- Annex: How Grains Influence Weak Links in Ceramic Superconductors.
  note: by Ernesto Altshuler.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Entomology
  subject:
    topic: Condensed matter
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
  subject:
    topic: Societal Aspects of Physics, Outreach and Education
  subject:
    topic: Popular Science in Physics
  subject:
    topic: Popular Life Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Condensed Matter Physics
  subject:
    topic: Entomology
  classification: QC6.9
  classification: QC5.53
  classification: 530.01
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783319516240
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51624-0
  record info:
    record creation date: 170316
    record change date: 20170316183501.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-51624-0