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The Faber Book Of Science
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Author : John Carey
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2012-12-20
The Faber Book Of Science 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 2012-12-20 with Science categories.
The Faber Book of Science introduces hunting spiders and black holes, gorillas and stardust, protons, photons and neutrinos. In his acclaimed anthology, John Carey plots the development of modern science from Leonardo da Vinci to Chaos Theory. The emphasis is on the scientists themselves and their own accounts of their breakthroughs and achievements. The classic science-writers are included - Darwin, T.H. Huxley and Jean Henri Fabre tracking insects through the Provencal countryside. So too are today's experts - Steve Jones on the Human Genome Project, Richard Dawkins on DNA and many other representatives of the contemporary genre of popular science-writing which, John Carey argues, challenges modern poetry and fiction in its imaginative power.
Faber Book Of Science
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Author : Carey J Staff
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995-09-01
Faber Book Of Science written by Carey J Staff and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-09-01 with categories.
The Faber Book Of Science
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Author : Carey J Staff
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003-11
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The Faber Book Of Science
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Author : John Carey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
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 2006 with Science categories.
This book presents one hundred essays by scientists, writers and poets who discuss developments in modern science from Leonardo da Vinci to current theories on fractals and chaos theory.
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 Faber Book Of Utopias
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Author : John Carey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000-09-01
The Faber Book Of Utopias 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 2000-09-01 with Utopias categories.
Utopias come in every conceivable cultural and sexual shade: communist, fascist, anarchist, green, techno-fantastic, all male, all female. John Carey's anthology encompasses many noble schemes, as well as chilling attempts at social control.
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.
Faber And Kell S Heating And Air Conditioning Of Buildings
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Author : Martin
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 1997
Faber And Kell S Heating And Air Conditioning Of Buildings written by Martin and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Technology & Engineering categories.
NOW IN PAPERBACK This long established work is accepted as the most practical and comprehensive volume on heating and air-conditioning design and is a standard reference book for both students and practitioners. 'Faber and Kells' has for over 50 years been accepted as the most practical and comprehensive book on heating and air conditioning. In order to provide up-to-date info, this 8th edition has been revised to include the latest changes to system design and covers many aspects in greater depth, whilst still retaining the character of previous editions. Building service engineers, architects and others involved in the construction industry will find no better place for easily accessible and assimiable information on all aspects of the heating and air conditioning of buildings. This new edition includes up-to-date information on the changes to the Building Regulations relating to energy conservation; revisions to practices arising from the enforced phasing out of CFE refrigerants; expansion and updating of the text on ventilation and air-conditioning systems; and the introduction of over 40 new illustrations. Established for over 50 years with excellent reputation. Easy to read up-to-date on practice with simple explanations. Very practical.
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.
The Faber Book Of Exploration
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Author : Benedict Allen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
The Faber Book Of Exploration written by Benedict Allen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Discoveries in geography categories.
What does it feel like to walk off the edge of a map? To emerge dazed, dying yet triumphant, from the Amazon? Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration ranges across various terrains - hot and cold deserts, mountains and plains, jungles and high seas - and presents the words of those who, through the centuries - be they Vikings or missionaries, conquistadors or botanists - have set off into 'the unknown'.'Immaculately edited and shrewdly considered . . . a hugely readable compendium.' Independent on Sunday'A monumental feat of compilation and editing, and will satisfy every armchair traveller.' Literary Review'A generous, handsome volume, that will provide hours upon hours of absorption and revelation.' The Times