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The Faber Book Of Science
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Author : John Carey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
The Faber Book Of Science written by John Carey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Science categories.
John Carey, editor of the internationally acclaimed Faber Book of Reportage, plots the development of modern science, from Leonardo da Vinci to Chaos Theory. This anthology is made up of accounts by the scientists themselves.
The Faber Book Of Science
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Author : Carey J Staff
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003-11
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Faber Book Of Science
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Author : Carey J Staff
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995-09-01
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The Book Of Strange New Things
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Author : Michel Faber
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2014-11-18
The Book Of Strange New Things written by Michel Faber and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-18 with Fiction categories.
I am with you always, even unto the end of the world . . . Peter Leigh is a missionary called to go on the journey of a lifetime. Leaving behind his beloved wife, Bea, he boards a flight for a remote and unfamiliar land, a place where the locals are hungry for the teachings of the Bible—his "book of strange new things." It is a quest that will challenge Peter's beliefs, his understanding of the limits of the human body and, most of all, his love for Bea. The Book of Strange New Things is a wildly original tale of adventure, faith and the ties that might hold two people together when they are worlds apart. This momentous novel from the author of The Crimson Petal and the White sees Faber at his expectation-defying best.
The Faber Book Of Reportage
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Author : John Carey
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2022-07-08
The Faber Book Of Reportage written by John Carey and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-08 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
***FEATURED ON BBC 2's BETWEEN THE COVERS WITH SARA COX*** The Faber Book of Reportage is John Carey's remarkable collection of eyewitness accounts that draws on the voices and emotions of the people who experienced some of history's most memorable events. 'Stunning . . . There are descriptions in this book so fresh that they sear themselves into the imagination.' JEREMY PAXMAN 'Fascinating - there's funny stuff, interesting stuff, loads of brilliant stuff really.' JO BRAND (on BBC 2's Between the Covers) What was it like to be caught in the firestorm that destroyed Pompeii? To have dinner with Attila the Hun? To watch the charge of the Light Brigade? To see the Titanic slide beneath the waves? John Carey's best-selling Faber Book of Reportage draws its eyewitness account from memoirs, travel books and newspapers. This is history with the varnish removed.
The Common Sense Of Science
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Author : Jacob Bronowski
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2011-12-15
The Common Sense Of Science written by Jacob Bronowski and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-15 with Science categories.
Jacob Bronowski was, with Kenneth Clarke, the greatest popularizer of serious ideas in Britain between the mid 1950s and the early 1970s. Trained as a mathematician, he was equally at home with painting and physics, and wrote a series of brilliant books that tried to break down the barriers between 'the two cultures'. He denounced 'the destructive modern prejudice that art and science are different and somehow incompatible interests'. He wrote a fine book on William Blake while running the National Coal Board's research establishment. The Common Sense of Science, first published in 1951, is a vivid attempt to explain in ordinary language how science is done and how scientists think. He isolates three creative ideas that have been central to science: the idea of order, the idea of causes and the idea of chance. For Bronowski, these were common-sense ideas that became immensely powerful and productive when applied to a vision of the world that broke with the medieval notion of a world of things ordered according to their ideal natures. Instead, Galileo, Huyghens and Newton and their contemporaries imagined 'a world of events running in a steady mechanism of before and after'. We are still living with the consequences of this search for order and causality within the facts that the world presents to us.
Eyewitness To History
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Author : John Carey
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 1997-08-01
Eyewitness To History written by John Carey and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-08-01 with History categories.
Imagine. . . Witnessing the destruction of Pompeii. . . Accompanying Julius Caesar on his invasion of Britain. . . Flying with the crew of The Great Artiste en route to dropping the atomic bomb on Nagasaki. . . Civilization's most momentous events come vibrantly alive in this magnificent collection of over three hundred eyewitness accounts spanning twenty-four turbulent centuries -- remarkable recollections of battles, atrocities, disasters, coronations, assassinations and discoveries that shaped the course of history, all related in vivid detail by observers on the scene.
The Finger Ratio
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Author : John Manning
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2009
The Finger Ratio written by John Manning and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Fingers categories.
SCIENCE: GENERAL ISSUES. What could fingers and sex possibly have in common? What does the shape of a child's fingers reveal about future musical talent? And why should professional footballers have longer fingers than other men? This book is about a simple measurement of the human hand: the 'finger ratio', or the length of the ring finger relative to the index finger. John Manning uses a tiny difference between the sexes - that men tend to have a greater finger ratio than women - to examine a dizzying group of questions about human behaviour, from sexuality, to musical ability, to predisposition to disease. Provocative, intriguing and balanced, John Manning's cutting-edge research poses many fruitful and unusual questions about what makes us as we are.
Fluid Dynamics For Physicists
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Author : T. E. Faber
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1995-08-17
Fluid Dynamics For Physicists written by T. E. Faber and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-08-17 with Science categories.
It is over three hundred and fifty years since Torricelli discovered the law obeyed by fountains, yet fluid dynamics remains an active and important branch of physics. This book provides an accessible and comprehensive account of the subject, emphasising throughout the fundamental physical principles, and stressing the connections with other branches of physics. Beginning with a gentle introduction, the book goes on to cover Bernouilli's theorem, compressible flow, potential flow, surface waves, viscosity, vorticity dynamics, thermal convection and instabilities, turbulence, non-Newtonian fluids and the propagation and attenuation of sound in gases. Undergraduate or graduate students in physics or engineering who are taking courses in fluid dynamics will find this book invaluable, but it will also be of great interest to anyone who wants to find out more about this fascinating subject.
The Social Function Of Science
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Author : J. D. Bernal
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2010
The Social Function Of Science written by J. D. Bernal and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Science categories.
J. D. Bernal's important and ambitious work, The Social Function of Science, was first published in January 1939. As the subtitle -What Science Does, What Science Could Do - suggests it is in two parts. Both have eight chapters. Part 1: What Science Does: Introductory, Historical, The Existing Organization of Scientific Research in Britain, Science in Education, The Efficiency of Scientific Research, The Application of Science, Science and War and International Science. Part 11: What Science Could Do: The Training of the Scientist, The Reorganization of Research, Scientific Communication, The Finance of Science, The Strategy of Scientific Advance; Science in the Service of Man, Science and Social Transformation and The Social Function of Science. To quote Bernal's biographer, Andrew Brown, 'The Social Function of Science . . . was Bernal's attempt to ensure that science would no longer be just a protected area of intellectual inquiry, but would have as an inherent function the improvement of life for mankind everywhere. It was a groundbreaking treatise both in exploring the scope of science and technology in fashioning public policy, with Bernal arguing that science is the chief agent of change in society, and in devising policies that would optimize the way science was organized. The sense of impending war clearly emerges. Bernal deplored the application of scientific discoveries in making war ever more destructive, while acknowledging that the majority of scientific and technical breakthroughs have their origins in military exigencies, both because of the willingness to spend money and the premium placed on novelty during wartime.' Anticipating by two decades the schism C. P. Snow termed 'The Two Cultures', Bernal remarked that 'highly developed science stands almost isolated from a traditional literary culture.' He found that wrong. Again, quoting Andrew Brown, 'to him, science was a creative endeavour that still depended on inspiration and talent, just as much as in painting, writing or composing.' The importance of this book was such that twenty-five years after its publication, a collection of essays, The Science of Science, was published, in part in celebration, but also to explore many of the themes Bernal had first developed.