Faber Book of Science, Paperback - John Carey

So too are today's experts - Steve Jones on the Human Genome Project, Richard Dawkins on DNA and many other representatives of the contemporary gen...

An experienced and imaginative anthologist, editor of The Faber Book of Reportage and The Faber Book of Science, Carey has gathered together a vast...

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The English professor at Oxford, controversial commentator, book critic and beekeeper John Carey reflects on his life immersed in literature, from ...

After its publication in 1667, John Milton's Paradise Lost was celebrated throughout Europe as a supreme achievement of the human spirit.

William Golding was born in 1911 and educated at his local grammar school and Brasenose College, Oxford. Lord of the Flies, his first novel, was an...

Paperback edition of the latest novel from the Australian author, who has won the Booker Prize twice. Set in contemporary London and in 19th centur...

From one of the country's most eminent reviewers and academics, a delightfully sceptical and devastatingly intelligent assessment of the true value...

Reducere. The wonders of plant and animal life told with rare literary charm by Uncle Paul in conversations with three children. Besides such stories as the ...

Narrated by the twin voices of the artist Butcher Bones, and his 'damaged two-hundred- and-twenty-pound brother' Hugh, this novel once again displa...

Reducere. Originally published in 1917, "The Story Book of Science" is a detailed children's story book about nature. "Uncle Paul" teaches his niece and neph...

Yeats and other canonized writers, he relates this to the cult of the Nietzschean Superman, which found its ultimate exponent in Hitler. Carey's as...

An anthology of worlds revealed by explorers through the ages.Publisher: Faber & FaberNumber of pages: 832Publication date: 2004Dimensions: 197 x 1...

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Just when you thought it was safe to start showing off again, the bestselling authors of The Book of General Ignorance and 1, 277 QI Facts To Blow ...

For Christmas 2016 the writers behind the hit TV show }QI{ return with a new paperback, proving once again that everything you think you know is wr...

This stunning memoir-cum-travelogue from twice Booker winning author Peter Carey re-evaluates Japan through its attempts to understand the violent ...

A vital, engaging, and hugely enjoyable guide to poetry, from ancient times to the present, by one of our greatest champions of literature

From the author of the million-copy bestselling The Girl With All the Gifts comes The Book of Koli - the start of a breathtakingly original new tri...

Peter Carey's astonishing debut novel is a fast-moving extravaganza, both funny and gripping, about a man who, recovering from death, is convinced ...

Discover fun facts about the greatest scientists from history through Basher's fresh and unique illustration style. Did you know that Marie Curie u...

Reducere. A Universe of Stories Uncle Larry's Antique Shop & Junkyard is a magical world where everything has a price--and nothing is as it seems. In this ju...

James Fenton, a Whitbread-winning poet praised for his own love poetry, gathers together the best lyric poems originating in the English language. ...

Peter Carey is justly renowned for his novels, which have included the Booker Prize-winning titles Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly ...

What does he want after all these years, and why is he so interested in the comings and goings at a plush townhouse in Great Queen Street? And why ...

Reducere. Introduction to the wonders of the physical world: sunbeams and the work they do, the aerial ocean in which we live, a drop of water on its travels...

Twelve years ago, Amores Perros erupted in the cinemas across the world and announced the arrival of Mexican film-makers. The film-makers profiled ...

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The third and final novel in the Rampart trilogy - a breathtakingly original series set in a strange and deadly world of our own making, from the a...

Book two in a ground-breaking new series from the million-copy bestselling M. R. Carey - a modern masterpiece for fans of Jeff VanderMeer's Souther...

Seven-year-old Che was abandoned by his radical Havard-student parents during the upheaval of the 1960s, and since then has been raised in isolated...

Science, with its inherent tension between the known and the unknown, is an inexhaustible mine of great stories. Collected here are twenty-six amon...

DescriptionListen along as Uncle Paul converses with his three children, teaching them all about the world around us. Share the story of ants' unde...

This bestselling dictionary contains more than 9, 500 entries on all aspects of chemistry, physics, biology (including human biology), earth scienc...

Learn all about the scientists that have shaped our worldPublisher: Hachette Children's GroupAuthor(s): Rob ColsonNumber of pages: 32Collection: ST...

Together with Willie, their lanky navigator, they embark upon the Redex Trial, a brutal race around the continent, over roads no car will ever quit...

* Feyerabend was one of the most important philosophers of science of the second half of the 20th century. His most famous book, Against Method, wa...

A text of the philosophical movement of critical realism.

Peter Carey's novel of the undeclared love between clergyman Oscar Hopkins and the heiress Lucinda Leplastrier is both a moving and beautiful love ...

"Beyond doubt the most interesting book on the evolution of mathematics which has ever fallen into my hands."--Albert Einstein Number is an eloquen...

Part 1: What Science Does: Introductory, Historical, The Existing Organization of Scientific Research in Britain, Science in Education, The Efficie...

A comprehensive introduction to the philosophy of science. Introduces the key topics, such as the scientific method, rationalism and empiricism, as...

This is the first comprehensive overview of the 'science of science, ' an emerging interdisciplinary field that relies on big data to unveil the re...

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What is science? Is it uniquely equipped to deliver universal truths? Or is it one of many disciplines - art, literature, religion - that offer dif...

Dispositionalism - the view that causal powers are among the irreducible properties of nature - is one of the main competing theories within the me...