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Luminous moments
93 pages
Contents: 1. Luminous moments -- 2. The beauty of magnetic resonance -- 3. On 'pseudo-science' -- 4. A week in my life -- 5. Speaking as a cancer patient -- 6. Fatherhood -- 7. Four stories from my life
Summary: This book brings together some of his most significant writing. Whether he describes his childhood in Wanganui, reflects on discovering the beauty of science, sets out New Zealand's future potential or discusses the experience of fatherhood, Sir Paul Callaghan offers eloquent narratives that will endure in this country's literature. Meeting with the cancer that ended his life, he documents for us all ways of living well in the face of illness. As his daughter Catherine writes in her moving foreword: 'He became his own scientific experiment.' (Publisher)
BWB texts