The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity : : A Study in Sociological Semantics and the Sociology of Science / / Elinor Barber, Robert K. Merton.
From the names of cruise lines and bookstores to an Australian ranch and a nudist camp outside of Atlanta, the word serendipity--that happy blend of wisdom and luck by which something is discovered not quite by accident--is today ubiquitous. This book traces the word's eventful history from its...
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011] ©2004 |
Year of Publication: | 2011 |
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