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Science 28 January 2000:
Vol. 287. no. 5453, p. 599
DOI: 10.1126/science.287.5453.599
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TECHNOLOGY:
Tales of Cooling

A review by David Goodstein

Absolute Zero and the Conquest of Cold
Tom Shachtman
Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1999. 271 pp. $25. ISBN 0-395-93888-0.

In his first book on science, writer Shachtman provides a fresh perspective on the scientific and commercial histories of cold. His account suffers from numerous factual errors that could have been easily corrected.
The author is vice provost at the California Institute of Technology, MC 104-31, Parsons-Gate, Room 104, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA. E-mail: dg{at}caltech.edu

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