Canto Classics 2015 catalogue

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Canto Classics draws from the most successful titles published by Cambridge over the past half-century and more, bringing them together in a newly-designed paperback series that offers the very best, most influential and most enjoyable books from the breadth of Cambridge publishing. This catalogue showcases the titles in the Canto Classic series to date.

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Language and Linguistics

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The Decipherment of Linear B

Classical Studies

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John Chadwick The languages of the ancient world and the mysterious scripts, long undeciphered, in which they were encoded have represented one of the most intriguing problems of classical archaeology in modern times. not only an account of a ‘ …startling piece of philological and archaeological research, but a simple, moving human story.

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An Experiment in Criticism

Image and Imagination

C.S. Lewis

Essays and Reviews

Amid the complex welter of current critical theories, C. S. Lewis’s wisdom is valuably down-to-earth, refreshing and stimulating in the questions it raises about the experience of reading.

C. S. Lewis, Edited by Walter Hooper

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A collection of the literary-critical essays and reviews by C. S. Lewis, most of them previously uncollected, and one essay, ‘Image and Imagination’, published for the first time. The volume concerns a wide range of literary topics and includes Lewis’s reviews of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. book delivers a surprising ‘ This taste of C. S. Lewis beyond the more familiar “Lewis Canon” ’ Professor Dennis Danielson

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Selected Literary Essays

Something of Myself and Other Autobiographical Writings

C. S. Lewis, Edited by Walter Hooper This volume includes over twenty of C. S. Lewis’s most important literary essays, written between 1932 and 1962. Common to each essay are the lively wit, the distinctive forthrightness and the discreet erudition which characterise Lewis’s best critical writing. is no essay by C. S. Lewis on ‘ There any writer that does not provoke attention and inspire awe at his energy and clarity of mind.

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Rudyard Kipling, Edited by Thomas Pinney Rudyard Kipling’s last work reflects on his life and the basis of his art.

Illustrated with Kipling’s own satirical drawings from the manuscripts, and brought together with his other autobiographical writings (some previously unpublished), this fascinating book sheds new light on the intriguing relationship between Kipling’s life and work.

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Spenser’s Images of Life C. S. Lewis, With Alastair Fowler This book was compiled by Alastair Fowler from notes left by C. S. Lewis at his death. It approaches The Faerie Queene as a majestic pageant of the universe and nature, and argues that conventional views must be modified if the poem is to be fully enjoyed and understood.

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Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature C. S. Lewis, Edited by Walter Hooper This entertaining and learned volume contains book reviews, lectures and hard-to-find articles from the late C. S. Lewis, whose constant aim was to show the twenty-first-century reader how to read and how to understand old books and manuscripts.

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Studies in Words 2nd Edition C. S. Lewis 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 English literature.

The Allegory of Love A Study in Medieval Tradition C. S. Lewis A classic study of the allegorical power of love in literature, traced through major works of the medieval and Renaissance periods, by one of the major literary critics of the twentieth century.

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The Discarded Image An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature C. S. Lewis Paints a lucid picture of the medieval world view, providing the historical and cultural background to the literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance.

This, Lewis’s last book, has been hailed as ‘the final memorial to the work of a great scholar and teacher and a wise and noble mind’.

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Think On My Words Exploring Shakespeare’s Language David Crystal So how can we better understand Shakespeare? David Crystal provides a lively and original introduction to Shakespeare’s language, making his plays easily accessible to modern-day audiences. is a linguist [David Crystal] ‘ Here who knows not only how words work but how they work in theatre. Anyone who cares for Shakespeare will be informed and entertained by this intriguing and wide-ranging study.

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Aztecs An Interpretation Inga Clendinnen Inga Clendinnen’s account of the Aztecs recreates the culture of the city of Tenochtitlan, magnificent centre of the Aztec empire, in its last unthreatened years before it fell to the Spaniards and their Indian allies.

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Alfred W. Crosby Ecological Imperialism Second Edition

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Ecological Imperialism The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900–1900 2nd Edition Alfred W. Crosby In this original and fascinating study, Alfred W. Crosby argues that the Europeans’ displacement and replacement of the native peoples in the temperate zones was more a matter of biology than of military conquest. The spread of European disease, flora and fauna went hand in hand with the growth of populations.

Imperialism could not ‘ Ecological ask for a more lucid and stylish exponent. ’ The Times Literary Supplement

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Liberty before Liberalism

Magic in the Middle Ages

Quentin Skinner

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This extended essay by one of the world’s leading historians seeks, in its first part, to excavate and to vindicate, the neo-Roman theory of free citizens and free states as it developed in early modern Britain.

Richard Kieckhefer

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Richard Kieckhefer Magic in the Middle Ages Second Edition

Magic in the Middle Ages is a fascinating and wide-ranging study of natural and demonic magic within the broad context of medieval culture. It investigates the way that magic relates to the many other cultural forms of the time, in particular religion and science, literature and art. excellent introduction to ‘ …an aninteresting and expanding subject. ’ BBC History Magazine

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Making a New Deal

Medieval Women

Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919–1939 2nd Edition

Eileen Power, Foreword by Maxine Berg

Lizabeth Cohen

Lizabeth Cohen Making a New Deal Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919–1939 Second Edition

This book examines what it meant for ordinary factory workers to become effective unionists and national political participants by the mid-1930s.

Through decisions such as whether to attend ethnic benefit society meetings or go to the movies, they declared their loyalty in ways that would ultimately have political significance.

The lectures of medieval historian, Eileen Power, are brought together to provide a lively narrative on special women representative of the period and give an accessible and clear snapshot of the life and work of women in medieval times from the nunnery to the town to the castle.

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every step the argument is ‘ Atdeveloped in a sophisticated way … Making a New Deal constitutes a major achievement.

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Julia Greene, Journal of American History Review of previous edition.

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Nations and Nationalism since 1780

Science and Religion

Programme, Myth, Reality 2nd Edition

John Hedley Brooke

E. J. Hobsbawm Nations and Nationalism since 1780 is Eric Hobsbawm’s widely acclaimed and highly readable enquiry into the question of nationalism. This second edition has been updated in light of those events, with a final chapter addressing the impact of the dramatic changes that have taken place. fails, great historian ‘ …thatnever he is, to supply the essential absorbing material. ’ Michael Foot, The Guardian

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Some Historical Perspectives John Hedley Brooke offers an introduction and critical guide to one of the most fascinating and enduring issues in the development of the modern world: the relationship between scientific thought and religious belief. Brooke stands back from general theses affirming ‘conflict’ or harmony’. arguably the most important ‘ …historical analysis of science and religion since Andrew Dickson White’s History of the Warfare of Science and Theology in Christendom (1898).

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Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning The Great War in European Cultural History Jay Winter This powerful study of the ‘collective remembrance’ of the Great War offers a major reassessment of one of the critical episodes in twentiethcentury cultural history. A book of seminal importance for the attempt to understand the course of European history during the first half of the twentieth century.

The British Isles A History of Four Nations 2nd Edition Hugh Kearney This new edition endeavours to recognise and examine contemporary multi-ethnic Britain and its implications for ‘four-nations’ history, making it an invaluable case study for European nationhood of the past and present.

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one interested in the broad ‘ No impact of the First World War, or the cultural history of the twentieth century, can afford to neglect this book.

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The Conquests of Alexander the Great

The Fall of Constantinople 1453

Waldemar Heckel

Steven Runciman

Tracing the rise and eventual fall of one of the most successful military commanders in history, Heckel engagingly and with great detail shows us how Alexander earned his appellation, The Great.

This classic account shows how the fall of Constantinople in May 1453, after a siege of several weeks, came as a bitter shock to Western Christendom.

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The Invention of Tradition

The New Knighthood

Edited by Eric Hobsbawm & Terence Ranger

A History of the Order of the Temple

This book addresses the complex interaction of past and present, bringing together historians and anthropologists in a fascinating study of ritual and symbolism which poses new questions for the understanding of our history.

Malcolm Barber

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Malcolm Barber’s lucid narrative separates myth from history in this full and detailed account of the Order, from its origins, flourishing and suppression to the Templars’ historical afterlife.

military forces of the Middle Ages. The story of their rise and sensational fall is the subject of this splendid book.

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The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe 2nd Edition Elizabeth L. Eisenstein This edition discusses the changes introduced by the establishment of printing shops and how printing affected major cultural movements: the Renaissance, the Reformation and the rise of modern science. It also demonstrates that the cumulative processes created by printing are likely to persist despite the development of new technologies.

The Sicilian Vespers A History of the Mediterranean World in the Later Thirteenth Century Steven Runciman This is an excellent guide to the historical background to Dante’s Divine Comedy, forming almost a Who’s Who of the political figures in it and providing insight into their placement in Hell, Paradise or Purgatory.

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The Spanish Labyrinth

The Trial of the Templars

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Gerald Brenan

Malcolm Barber

Gerald Brenan’s The Spanish Labyrinth, first published in 1943, has become the classic account of the background to the Spanish Civil War.

Finding resonances between the fourteenth-century trial and contemporary events, Barber’s classic account endeavours to tackle the unresolved controversies surrounding the consequences of the trial and includes discussions in the context of new work on the crusades, heresy, the papacy and the French monarchy.

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narrative of ‘ …thethislastdetailed days of the Order of the Temple has deservedly established itself as the standard account in a major European language.

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The Theft of History

What was History?

Jack Goody

The Art of History in Early Modern Europe

Jack Goody, one of the world’s most distinguished anthropologists, raises questions about theorists, historians and methodology and proposes a new comparative approach to cross-cultural analysis which allows for more scope in examining history than an East versus West style.

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Anthony Grafton This book is a powerful and imaginative exploration of themes in the history of European ideas. Elegant and accessible, it is a deliberate evocation of E. H. Carr’s celebrated Trevelyan Lectures, What Is History?.

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History Language and Linguistics

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English as a Global Language

The English Language

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David Crystal

Charles Barber, Joan Beal & Philip Shaw

Written in a detailed and fascinating manner, this is a book written by an expert both for specialists in the subject and for general readers interested in the English language. perfect introduction ‘ …by the an acknowledged linguistic expert. ’ Observer

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This bestselling text by Charles Barber, with updating contributions from Joan C. Beal and Philip A. Shaw, recounts the history of the English language from its remote ancestry to the present day. readable introduction ‘ Atoclear, language … the layers of vocabulary are dealt with brilliantly …

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Language Death David Crystal

David Crystal Language Death

The endangerment and death of minority languages across the world is a matter of widespread concern.

A leading commentator on language issues, David Crystal asks the question, ‘why is language death so important?’, reviews the reasons for the current crisis, and investigates what is being done to reduce its impact.

Death offers compact, ‘ Language profound, and easily accessible insights into the problem of linguistic extinction.

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Mathematics History

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A Mathematician’s Apology G. H. Hardy, Foreword by C. P. Snow 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’. This is a unique account of the fascination of mathematics and of one of its most compelling exponents in modern times. provides an amazing ‘ Hardy insight into the mind of the mathematician. ’ Marcus du Sautoy, The Week

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Philosophy History

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Morality

Mortal Questions

An Introduction to Ethics

Thomas Nagel

Bernard Williams Bernard Williams’s remarkable essay on morality confronts the problems of writing moral philosophy and offers a stimulating alternative to more systematic accounts.

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Thomas Nagel’s Mortal Questions explores some fundamental issues concerning the meaning, nature and value of human life. This original and illuminating book aims at a form of understanding that is both theoretical and personal in its lively engagement with what are literally issues of life and death.

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Politics History

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Elinor Ostrom Governing the Commons The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action

Theda Skocpol States and Social Revolutions

Governing the Commons

States and Social Revolutions

The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action

A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China

Elinor Ostrom

Theda Skocpol

The governance of natural resources used by many individuals in common is an issue of increasing concern to policy analysts. Elinor Ostrom provides a unique body of empirical data to explore conditions under which common pool resource problems have been satisfactorily or unsatisfactorily solved.

Theda Skocpol shows how state structures, international forces, and class relations combine to explain the origins and accomplishments of social-revolutionary transformations.

Believing that existing theories of revolution, both Marxist and nonMarxist, are inadequate to explain the actual historical patterns of revolutions, Skocpol urges the reader to adopt fresh perspectives.

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a landmark in the study of the ‘ …sources of revolution. ’ Lewis A. Coser, The New York Times Book Review

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The Two Cultures

Two Cultures?

C. P. Snow, Introduction by Stefan Collini

The Significance of C. P. Snow

This 50th anniversary printing of The Two Cultures and its successor piece, A Second Look (in which Snow responded to the controversy four years later) features an introduction by Stefan Collini, charting the history and context of the debate, its implications and its afterlife.

F. R. Leavis, Introduction by Stefan Collini

Collini’s introduction and ‘ Stefan annotation of this new edition of the lecture not only help to contextualize and rehabilitate it but also bring to the surface ideas that have relevance today.

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This is the first annotated edition of F. R. Leavis’s famous critique of C. P. Snow’s theory of the ‘two cultures’. In a comprehensive introduction Stefan Collini describes what was at stake in the dispute, reappraises its literary tactics and evaluates the purpose of Leavis’s brand of cultural criticism. introduction cogently ‘ Collini’s restores the debate to its proper setting, and shows how many of its central issues are still urgent.

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When Things Fell Apart State Failure in Late-Century Africa Robert H. Bates

Robert H. Bates When Things Fell Apart State Failure in Late-Century Africa

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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. This book covers a wide range of territory by drawing on materials from Rwanda, Sudan, Liberia, and Congo to explore state failure in Africa.

a strong argument for ‘ …contains the central role of the state for economic development. ’ Africa Spectrum

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Psychology History

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Why Life Speeds Up as You Get Older How Memory Shapes our Past Douwe Draaisma Draaisma applies a blend of scholarship, poetic sensibility and keen observation in exploring the nature of autobiographical memory, covering subjects such as déjà-vu, near death experiences and memory recall. A highly accessible and personal read, this book will not fail to touch or provoke thought in its readers.

one finishes the book with ‘ …a heightened awareness of the complexity and the fickleness of human memory, and a genuine sense of pleasure at having encountered such a subtle, entertaining, and illuminating guide to the territory.

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Burton Richter Beyond Smoke and Mirrors Climate Change and Energy in the 21st Century

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Beyond Smoke and Mirrors

Information and the Nature of Reality

Climate Change and Energy in the 21st Century 2nd Edition

From Physics to Metaphysics

Burton Richter An insightful overview of climate change science and sustainable energy provision that assesses our options for averting potentially disastrous consequences of global warming, written by a Nobel Prize-winning scientist.

Winner of the 2011 Phi Beta Kappa Book Award in Science (First edition)

a wonderfully balanced ‘ …overview. ’ Physics Today Review of previous edition.

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Edited by Paul Davies & Niels Henrik Gregersen Many scientists regard mass and energy as the primary currency of nature. In this book, eminent scientists, philosophers and theologians chart various aspects of information, from quantum information to biological and digital information, to understand how nature works. is the anthology we have ‘ This been waiting for … ’ Professor Sir Brian Heap, President, European Academies Science Advisory Board, German Academy of Sciences

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Mr Tompkins in Paperback George Gamow, Foreword by Roger Penrose Since his first appearance over sixty years ago, Mr Tompkins has become known and loved by many readers as the bank clerk whose fantastic dreams lead him into a world inside the atom. This classic provides a delightful explanation of the central concepts in physics, from atomic structure to relativity.

Erwin Schrödinger Nature and the Greeks and Science and Humanism

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‘Nature and the Greeks’ and ‘Science and Humanism’ Erwin Schrödinger Nobel laureate Erwin Schrödinger’s lectures on the history and philosophy of science are legendary. Here the texts of some of his most famous lectures are made available for the first time in many years. As Roger Penrose’s foreword confirms, they are as relevant today as when they were first published.

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On Growth and Form

On Space and Time

D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson Edited by John Tyler Bonner

Edited by Shahn Majid, With contributions by John Polkinghorne, Roger Penrose, Andrew Taylor, Alain Connes, Michael Heller

Analysing biological processes in their mathematical and physical aspects, this historic work, first published in 1917, has also become renowned for the sheer poetry of its descriptions. It is now available for a wider readership including a foreword by one of today’s great populisers of science.

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This unique volume brings together world leaders in cosmology, particle physics, quantum gravity, mathematics, philosophy and theology, to provide fresh insights into the deep structure of space and time.

Subjects ranging from dark matter to the philosophical and theological implications of spacetime, ensuring that the issue is thoroughly explored.

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Quantum Physics

Schrödinger

Illusion or Reality?

2nd Edition

Life and Thought

Alastair Rae

This is a biography of the great scientist, Erwin Schrödinger (author of What is Life?), which draws upon recollections of his family and friends, as well as on contemporary records, diaries and letters. It aims to reveal the fundamental motives that drove him.

This new edition has been revised throughout to take into account developments in this field over the past fifteen years, including the idea of ‘consistent histories’ to which a completely new chapter is devoted. book can be strongly ‘The recommended to all who are interested in this fascinating subject, which remarkably demonstrates that physics and philosophy are not two separate disciplines.

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The Dating Game

The Golem

One Man’s Search for the Age of the Earth

What You Should Know About Science 2nd Edition

Cherry Lewis In this book, Cherry Lewis skilfully blends the history of gauging the age of the Earth with a biography of Arthur Holmes, a British geologist who was a pioneer of geochronology. Both fascinating and touching, this book appeals to a broad readership of both geologists and science enthusiasts.

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I would recommend it … to anyone who has the slightest interest in how our planet came to be the way it is.

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Harry M. Collins & Trevor Pinch The very well-received first edition generated much debate, reflected in a substantial new Afterword in this second edition, which seeks to place the book in what have become known as ‘the science wars’. extraordinarily ‘ …wellit succeeds in this task of portraying and assessing the real fabric of scientific research, based on the insights of modern scholarship.

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The Golem at Large What You Should Know about Technology 2nd Edition Harry M. Collins & Trevor Pinch In this follow up to their earlier book, The Golem: What You Should Know about Science, the authors now consider the Golem of technology.

Using the same successful format, in a series of case studies they demonstrate that the imperfections in technology are related to the uncertainties in science. impressive texts ‘ Ofthattheusemany case studies to convey ‘what you should know about technology’, The Golem at Large is the clearest and simplest.

Richard S. Westfall The Life of Isaac Newton

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The Life of Isaac Newton Richard S. Westfall Isaac Newton was indisputably one of the greatest scientists in history.

Richard Westfall captures in engaging detail both his private life and scientific career. An abridged version of his magisterial study Never at Rest (1980), this concise biography makes Westfall’s highly acclaimed portrait of Newton newly accessible to general readers.

Westfall has organised his ’ …enormous task beautifully and done our most elusive worthy proud.

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What is Life?

With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches Erwin Schrödinger, Foreword by Roger Penrose Nobel laureate Erwin Schrödinger’s What is Life? is one of the great science classics of the twentieth century. The philosopher Karl Popper hailed it as a ‘beautiful and important book’ by ‘a great man to whom I owe a personal debt for many exciting discussions’.

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A Mathematician’s Apology

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Language Death 978-1-107-43181-2

Liberty before Liberalism 978-1-107-68953-4

Aztecs

Magic in the Middle Ages

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Beyond Smoke and Mirrors

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‘Nature and the Greeks’ and ‘Science and Humanism’

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Making a New Deal

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Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning

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The Spanish Labyrinth

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What is Life?

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Think On My Words 978-1-107-61768-1

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What was History?

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