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February 6

Science & Vie

(Not sure where this question should go): Is, or was ever, the French popular scientific journal Science & Vie in any way affiliated with its Russian counterpart? Or do they simply happen to coincidentally share the same name and a similar format? Also, is, or was ever, either of them affiliated with publications of the same name in Eastern European countries other than the USSR (in particular, in Poland, Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria)? 2601:646:8A81:6070:6C67:B2B6:D530:3F2A (talk) 10:35, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

According to the French Wikipedia, the French journal was founded in 1913 as La Science et la Vie by Paul Dupuy, whose father Jean Dupuy owned and published Le Petit Parisien. Paul had travelled to the US to study the press there and was inspired by magazines such as Popular Science and Popular Mechanics. Thus, an institutionalized link with the older Наука и жизнь appears unlikely, although the French name may have been borrowed from the Russian periodical. The Russian Wikipedia does not discuss a possible link but refers to Наука и жизнь in the "See also" section. --Lambiam 08:59, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Night in Tunisia (short story collection)

Hi people, Tried to populate the isbn in the infobox from https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=30859720972 (on the second image), but got a parameter error, Any ideas?, Happy to move the question elsewhere GrahamHardy (talk) 13:19, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Found Talk:International Standard Book Number should I move this question there?GrahamHardy (talk) 13:34, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The ISBN that you attempted to add in the infobox had only 9 digits; it should have 10. What was your source for it, and did you transcribe it correctly? Deor (talk) 16:59, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Please see the image above...GrahamHardy (talk) 17:44, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

So the publisher got it wrong; you'll need to see if you can find another source, from a different printing or edition or from the back cover. --184.144.97.125 (talk) 18:15, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The way the number seems to be grouped (0-905441-01) makes me think this is registration group 0 (English language), publisher 905441, and title 01, with the check digit improperly omitted. But this is all speculation. (If this is correct, the check digit should be "X".) CodeTalker (talk) 19:40, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

An ISBN of 090544101X is not recognized by WorldCat or any other site I've searched, and I've not been able to turn up a copy of the first edition in any library I've looked at. There is a copy of a 1979 edition by the same publisher in the British Library, for which the ISBN is given as 0904613569. Deor (talk) 22:17, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Whereas in the Toronto Public Library catalog, they show the 1979 edition ISBN as 0904613550. --184.144.97.125 (talk) 06:20, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I thought the correct ISBN might be 0-905441-00-1, but this has been assigned to a different book. Google Books lists its publisher as "Co-op Books" and the year as "1976", both the same as for the 1976 edition of Night in Tunisia. The 0-905441-0✽-✽ numbers beyond 0-905441-01-✽ are for books published in 1977 or 1978, making it more than likely that 0-905441-01-X is the correct ISBN. The publisher seems to have been inactive after 1982. --Lambiam 18:10, 8 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Plenty of editions are listed at Worldcat. 0904613550 is one of the early ISBNs, I couldn't find one for the edition linked to (ISBNs were still quite new-fangled in the mid 70s) Chuntuk (talk) 12:57, 8 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]