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What is Life?
With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches
Häftad, 2012
245 kr
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Nobel laureate Erwin Schrödinger's What is Life? is one of the great science classics of the twentieth century. It was written for the layman, but proved to be one of the spurs to the birth of molecular biology and the subsequent discovery of DNA. What is Life? appears here together with Mind and …
Governing the Commons
The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action
Häftad, 2015
288 kr
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The governance of natural resources used by many individuals in common is an issue of increasing concern to policy analysts. Both state control and privatization of resources have been advocated, but neither the state nor the market have been uniformly successful in solving common pool resource …
The Discarded Image
An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature
Av C. S. Lewis
Häftad, 2012
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
299 kr
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The Discarded Image paints a lucid picture of the medieval world view, providing the historical and cultural background to the literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. It describes the 'image' discarded by later years as 'the medieval synthesis itself, the whole organisation of their …
The New Knighthood
A History of the Order of the Temple
Häftad, 2012
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321 kr
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The Order of the Temple, founded in 1119 to protect pilgrims around Jerusalem, developed into one of the most influential corporations in the medieval world. It has retained its hold on the modern imagination thanks to the dramatic events of the Templars' trial and abolition two hundred years …
Mr Tompkins in Paperback
Av George Gamow
Häftad, 2012
259 kr
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Since his first appearance over sixty years ago, Mr Tompkins has become known and loved by many thousands of readers as the bank clerk whose fantastic dreams and adventures lead him into a world inside the atom. George Gamow's classic provides a delightful explanation of the central concepts in …
Morality
An Introduction to Ethics
Häftad, 2012
235 kr
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In Morality Bernard Williams confronts the problems of writing moral philosophy and offers a stimulating alternative to more systematic accounts which seem nevertheless to have left all the important issues somewhere off the page. Williams explains, analyses and distinguishes a number of key …
The Invention of Tradition
Av Eric Hobsbawm, Terence Ranger
Häftad, 2012
321 kr
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Many of the traditions which we think of as very ancient in their origins were not in fact sanctioned by long usage over the centuries, but were invented comparatively recently. This book explores examples of this process of invention - the creation of Welsh and Scottish 'national culture'; the …
On Growth and Form
Av D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, John Tyler Bonner
Häftad, 2014
312 kr
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Why do living things and physical phenomena take the form they do? D'Arcy Thompson's classic On Growth and Form looks at the way things grow and the shapes they take. Analysing biological processes in their mathematical and physical aspects, this historic work, first published in 1917, has also …
Mortal Questions
Av Thomas Nagel
Häftad, 2012
273 kr
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Thomas Nagel's Mortal Questions explores some fundamental issues concerning the meaning, nature and value of human life. Questions about our attitudes to death, sexual behaviour, social inequality, war and political power are shown to lead to more obviously philosophical problems about personal …
The Allegory of Love
A Study in Medieval Tradition
Av C. S. Lewis
Häftad, 2013
440 kr
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The Allegory of Love is a landmark study of a powerful and influential medieval conception. C. S. Lewis explores the sentiment called 'courtly love' and the allegorical method within which it developed in literature and thought, from its first flowering in eleventh-century Languedoc through to its …
The Trial of the Templars
Häftad, 2012
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330 kr
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Malcolm Barber's classic The Trial of the Templars recounts the dramatic demise of this elite military force in the fourteenth century. Having fought against Islam in the crusades in the East for nearly two centuries, in October 1307 the members of this respected Order were arrested on the order of …
A Mathematician's Apology
Av G. H. Hardy
Häftad, 2012
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243 kr
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G. H. Hardy was one of this century's finest mathematical thinkers, renowned among his contemporaries as a 'real mathematician ... the purest of the pure'. He was also, as C. P. Snow recounts in his Foreword, 'unorthodox, eccentric, radical, ready to talk about anything'. This 'apology', written in …
Aztecs
An Interpretation
Häftad, 2014
330 kr
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In 1521, the city of Tenochtitlan, magnificent centre of the Aztec empire, fell to the Spaniards and their Indian allies. Inga Clendinnen's account of the Aztecs recreates the culture of that city in its last unthreatened years. It provides a vividly dramatic analysis of Aztec ceremony as …
What Was History?
The Art of History in Early Modern Europe
Häftad, 2012
330 kr
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From the late fifteenth century onwards, scholars across Europe began to write books about how to read and evaluate histories. These pioneering works grew from complex early modern debates about law, religion and classical scholarship. Anthony Grafton's book is based on his Trevelyan Lectures of …
The British Isles
A History of Four Nations
Av Hugh Kearney
Häftad, 2012
320 kr
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Hugh Kearney's classic account of the history of the British Isles from pre-Roman times to the present is distinguished by its treatment of English history as part of a wider 'history of four nations'. Not only focusing on England, it attempts to deal with the histories of Wales, Ireland and …
The Spanish Labyrinth
An Account of the Social and Political Background of the Spanish Civil War
Häftad, 2014
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320 kr
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Gerald Brenan's The Spanish Labyrinth has become the classic account of the background to the Spanish Civil War. Written during and immediately after the Civil War, this book has all the vividness of the author's experience. It represents a struggle to see the issues in Spanish politics …
Studies in Words
Av C. S. Lewis
Häftad, 2013
303 kr
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Language - in its communicative and playful functions, its literary formations and its shifting meanings - is a perennially fascinating topic. C. S. Lewis's Studies in Words explores this fascination by taking a series of words and teasing out their connotations using examples from a vast range of …
The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe
Häftad, 2012
330 kr
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In 1979 Elizabeth Eisenstein provided the first full-scale treatment of the fifteenth-century printing revolution in the West in her monumental two-volume work, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change. This abridged edition, after summarising the initial changes introduced by the establishment of …
Making a New Deal
Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939
Häftad, 2014
367 kr
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This book examines how it was possible and what it meant for ordinary factory workers to become effective unionists and national political participants by the mid-1930s. We follow Chicago workers as they make choices about whether to attend ethnic benefit society meetings or to go to the movies, …
Language Death
Häftad, 2014
321 kr
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The rapid endangerment and death of many minority languages across the world is a matter of widespread concern, not only among linguists and anthropologists but among all concerned with issues of cultural identity in an increasingly globalized culture. By some counts, only 600 of the 6,000 or so …
'Nature and the Greeks' and 'Science and Humanism'
Häftad, 2014
267 kr
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Nobel laureate Erwin Schrödinger was one of the most distinguished scientists of the twentieth century; his lectures on the history and philosophy of science are legendary. 'Nature and the Greeks' and 'Science and Humanism' makes available for the first time in many years the texts of two of …
When Things Fell Apart
State Failure in Late-Century Africa
Häftad, 2015
276 kr
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In the later decades of the twentieth century, Africa plunged into political chaos. States failed, governments became predators, and citizens took up arms. In When Things Fell Apart, Robert H. Bates advances an exploration of state failure in Africa. In so doing, he not only plumbs the depths of …
States and Social Revolutions
A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China
Häftad, 2015
207 kr
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State structures, international forces, and class relations: Theda Skocpol shows how all three combine to explain the origins and accomplishments of social-revolutionary transformations. Social revolutions have been rare but undeniably of enormous importance in modern world history. States and …
The Life of Isaac Newton
Häftad, 2015
311 kr
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Isaac Newton was indisputably one of the greatest scientists in history. His achievements in mathematics and physics marked the culmination of the movement that brought modern science into being. Richard Westfall's biography captures in engaging detail both his private life and scientific career, …
Ecological Imperialism
The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900
Häftad, 2015
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311 kr
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People of European descent form the bulk of the population in most of the temperate zones of the world - North America, Australia and New Zealand. The military successes of European imperialism are easy to explain; in many cases they were a matter of firearms against spears. But as Alfred W. Crosby …
Schrödinger
Life and Thought
Av Walter Moore
Häftad, 2015
356 kr
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Erwin Schrödinger was a brilliant and charming Austrian, a great scientist, and a man with a passionate interest in people and ideas. In this, the first comprehensive biography of Schrödinger, Walter Moore draws upon recollections of Schrödinger's friends, family and colleagues, and on contemporary …
Nations and Nationalism since 1780
Programme, Myth, Reality
Häftad, 2012
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275 kr
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Nations and Nationalism since 1780 is Eric Hobsbawm's widely acclaimed and highly readable enquiry into the question of nationalism. Events in the late twentieth century in Eastern Europe and the Soviet republics have since reinforced the central importance of nationalism in the history of the …
Quantum Physics
Illusion or Reality?
Av Alastair Rae
Häftad, 2012
267 kr
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Quantum physics is believed to be the fundamental theory underlying our understanding of the physical universe. However, it is based on concepts and principles that have always been difficult to understand and controversial in their interpretation. This book aims to explain these issues using a …
The Golem
What You Should Know About Science
Av Harry M. Collins, Trevor Pinch
Häftad, 2012
235 kr
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Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch liken science to the Golem, a creature from Jewish mythology, powerful yet potentially dangerous, a gentle, helpful creature that may yet run amok at any moment. Through a series of intriguing case studies the authors debunk the traditional view that science is the …
An Experiment in Criticism
Av C. S. Lewis
Häftad, 2012
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287 kr
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Why do we read literature and how do we judge it? C. S. Lewis's classic An Experiment in Criticism springs from the conviction that literature exists for the joy of the reader and that books should be judged by the kind of reading they invite. He argues that 'good reading', like moral action or …
