{"product_id":"what-do-you-care-what-other-people-think-further-adventures-of-a-curious-character-9780393355642","title":"What Do You Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious Character","description":"\u003cp\u003eLike the \"funny, brilliant, bawdy\" (\u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e) \u003cem\u003e\"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!\"\u003c\/em\u003e this book's many stories--some funny, others intensely moving--display Richard P. Feynman's unquenchable thirst for adventure and unparalleled ability to recount important moments from his life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere we meet Feynman's first wife, Arlene, who taught him of love's irreducible mystery as she lay dying in a hospital bed while he worked on the atomic bomb at nearby Los Alamos. We listen to the fascinating narrative of the investigation into the space shuttle \u003cem\u003eChallenger\u003c\/em\u003e's explosion in 1986 and relive the moment when Feynman revealed the disaster's cause through an elegant experiment: dropping a ring of rubber into a glass of cold water and pulling it out, misshapen. In \u003cem\u003e\"What Do You Care What Other People Think?\"\u003c\/em\u003e one of the greatest physicists of the twentieth century lets us see the man behind the genius.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFeynman, Richard P.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eRichard P. Feynman\u003c\/strong\u003e (1918-1988) was a professor at Cornell University and CalTech and received the Nobel Prize for physics in 1965. In 1986 he served with distinction on the Rogers Commission investigating the space shuttle \u003cem\u003eChallenger\u003c\/em\u003e disaster.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLeighton, Ralph:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eRalph Leighton\u003c\/strong\u003e lives in northern California.","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50607260205330,"sku":"9780393355642","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b37ad67e-59a0-4e3e-86ea-ca52c38139c3.jpg?v=1732306486","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/what-do-you-care-what-other-people-think-further-adventures-of-a-curious-character-9780393355642","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}