Jeff Cox

INTRODUCTIONFresh grapes and wine are perhaps the most luscious foods we mortals encounter during our sojourn here. That's a big part of the unique affinity between grapevines and men. That's how the vine has tempted us to take it down from the wild trees, to protect it and work with it, so we can...

. ,. I-':,'!ntroductionNature is so full of purposes that her ü wild landscapes confuse us. There's much more information in the wilderness than we can comprehend. The closer we look, the more we see, until it all shimmers out into visual white noise, beyond our sensory grasp or our intellectual...

INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION The Goal is about science and educadon. I believe that these two words have been abused to the extent that their original meanings have been lost in a fog of too much respect and mystery. Science for me, and for the vast majority of respectable scientists, is...