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A Stress Analysis of a Strapless Evening Gown and Other Essays for a Scientific Age

Robert A. Baker

First published 1963
Publisher Prentice-Hall
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Pages xvi+192
Price $3.95

Contents from later printing and {{OCLC|338410}}

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Page Title Author(s) Type
1 The Chisholm Effect: Basic Laws of Frustration, Mishap and Delay Francis P. Chisholm Short Story
5 Body Ritual Among the Nacirema Horace Miner Short Story
13 Postal System Input Buffer Device Gil Robertson Osborne & Joe Robertson Osborne Essay
18 Terns F. E. Warburton Short Story
20 The Bridge of San Luis Rey Edwin B. Wilson Short Story
30 Cosmic Gall John Updike Poem
32 The Abominable Snowman John Masters Short Story
43 A Psychoanalysis of U.S. Missile Failures S. A. Rudin Short Story
46 Peniwisle R. W. Payne Short Story
51 Univac to Univac Louis B. Salomon Poem
54 Saga of a New Hormone Norman Applezweig Short Story
57 Digging the Weans Robert Nathan Short Story
71 The Twenty Third Psalm—Modern Style Alan Simpson & R. A. Baker (I) Poem
72 Psalm Lester del Rey Poem
73 Hiawatha's Lipid Hugh Sinclair Poem
84 On the Nature of Mathematical Proofs Joel Cohen Short Story
91 A New Tool Mo Twente Short Story
96 Cosmic Sex and You Nils Peterson Short Story
99 Calling All Stars Leo Szilard Short Story
106 A Stress Analysis of a Strapless Evening Gown Charles E. Siem Short Story
112 Meihem in ce Klasrum Dolton Edwards Essay
117 A Report to the AMA Frank Getlein Short Story
122 Frieze R. A. Baker (I) Poem
123 The Chaostron J. B. Cadwallader-Cohen & W. S. Zysiczk & R. R. Donnelly Short Story
128 How Newton Discovered the Law of Gravitation James E. Miller Short Story
140 Mathmanship Nicholas Vanserg Short Story
146 Logarithmic and Arythmic Expression of a Physiological Function R. Arnold Le Win Short Story
150 Report of the Special Committee Warren Weaver Short Story
156 The Average Working Hours of a Scientist During Lifetime S. Evershamen Short Story
158 The Lab Coat as a Status Symbol F. E. Warburton Essay
161 Principles of Research Administration, or Eliza on the Radioactive Ice Michael B. Shimkin Short Story
170 Parkinson's Laws in Medical Research C. Northcote Parkinson Short Story
177 The Scientist As Seer Rudolf B. Schmerl Essay
ix Introduction (A Stress Analysis of a Strapless Evening Gown) Robert A. Baker Essay