{"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":"World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42565384634443,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":998.29,"currency_code":"THB","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0641\/0023\/7387\/files\/9789812560117-1.jpg?v=1783541836","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.co.th\/products\/9789812560117","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Thailand","version":"1.0","type":"link"}