Authors
- Martin Heidegger
- David Farrell Krell
Publication date: 1991-07-17
Dewey code: 193
RRP: £19.99
Price: £13.29
Review Nietzsche: The Will to Power as Art v. 1 (Nietzsche, Vols. I & II) / HarperCollins,Australia:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2006-04-18
Dewey code: 973.931092
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.67
Review The Perfect Wife: The Life and Choices of Laura Bush / Simon & Schuster Ltd:
Publication date: 2001-10-15
RRP: £14.99
Price: £55.12
Review Friends, Voters, Countrymen / HarperCollins Publishers Ltd:Whatever you think of Boris Johnson's politics, it is hard to deny the man's ability to raise a chortle, as evidenced in Friends, Voters, Countrymen. Not content with gainful employment as a columnist for the Daily Telegraph, editor of the Spectator and regular contestant on Have I Got News For You, Johnson decided to turn his hand to politics on the principle that side-swiping at those in positions of responsibility didn't amount to much if one never had to make political decisions oneself. And despite the self-deprecating indignities of the trawling campaign trail recounted here, Johnson clearly has no regrets in taking up the challenge. The book chronicles his failures and successes over the course of two general elections: from humiliating failure in Clwyd South to glorious victory in Henley-upon-Thames. There are many hilarious episodes: his rivalry with golden boy "Hezza", the unforgivable incident at the village jumble sale and the time when, out running in the rain, he is stopped by several young men who call him a c**t. He turns on them, rather pitifully protesting that "things are bad enough, and now you call me a c**t-why do you say that?" only to be met with the simple, arm-round-shoulder response: "face the fact that you're a c**t". Such is life in the public eye as one of the representatives of a great democracy. A light and delightful romp, this is a thoroughly enjoyable eye-opener for anyone who's ever wondered what it's like to get into politics and why on earth people do it. -Rebecca Johnson.
Edition: Reissue
Publication date: 1978-08
Dewey code: 944.02
RRP: £6.96
Price: £69.95
Review A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century / Alfred a Knopf:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1992-11-12
Price: £6.99
Review The Cat Who Came in from the Cold / Corgi Books:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1998-01-03
Dewey code: 938.07092
RRP: £12.99
Price: £19.95
Review Alexander the Great / Penguin Books Ltd:
Publication date: 1999-06-28
Dewey code: 510.92
Price: £10.93
Review A Beautiful Mind: A Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 1994 / Pocket Books:A Beautiful Mind in some ways could join the ranks of stories of famously eccentric Princetonians-such as that of chemist Hubert Alyea, the model for The Absent-Minded Professor, or Ralph Nader, said to have had his own key to the library as an undergraduate. Another much-related story on campus concerns the "Phantom of Fine Hall", a figure many students had seen shuffling around the corridors of the maths and physics building wearing purple sneakers and writing numerology treatises on the blackboards. This was in fact John Nash, one of the most brilliant mathematicians of his generation, who had spiralled into schizophrenia in the 1950s. His most important work had been in game theory, which by the 1980s was underpinning a large part of economics. When the Nobel Prize committee began debating a prize for game theory, Nash's name inevitably came up-only to be dismissed, since the prize clearly could not go to a madman. But in 1994 Nash, in remission from schizophrenia, shared the Nobel Prize in economics for work done some 45 years previously. Economist and journalist Sylvia Nasar has written a biography of Nash that looks at all sides of his life. She gives an intelligent, understandable exposition of his mathematical ideas and a picture of schizophrenia that is evocative but decidedly unromantic. Her story of the machinations behind Nash's Nobel is fascinating and one of very few such accounts available in print (the CIA could learn a thing or two from the Nobel committees). This highly recommended book is indeed "a story about the mystery of the human mind, in three acts: genius, madness, reawakening". [+]-Mary Ellen Curtin, Amazon. com Stories of famously eccentric Princetonians abound-such as that of chemist Hubert Alyea, the model for The Absent-Minded Professor, or Ralph Nader, said to have had his own key to the library as an undergraduate. Or the "Phantom of Fine Hall", a figure many students had seen shuffling around the corridors of the maths and physics building wearing purple sneakers and writing numerology treatises on the blackboards. The Phantom was John Nash, one of the most brilliant mathematicians of his generation, who had descended into schizophrenia in the 1950s. His most important work had been in game theory, which by the 1980s was underpinning much current economic theory. When the Nobel Prize committee began debating a prize for game theory, Nash's name inevitably came up- only to be dismissed, since the prize clearly could not go to a madman. But in 1994 Nash, in remission from schizophrenia, shared the Nobel Prize in Economics for work done some 45 years previously. Economist and journalist Sylvia Nasar has written a biography of Nash that looks at all sides of his life. She gives an intelligent, understandable exposition of his mathematical ideas and a picture of schizophrenia that is evocative but decidedly unromantic. Her story of the machinations behind Nash's Nobel Prize is fascinating and one of very few such accounts available in print (the CIA could learn a thing or two from the Nobel committees). This highly recommended book is indeed "a story about the mystery of the human mind, in three acts: genius, madness, reawakening. " - Mary Ellen Curtin.
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2000-05-04
Dewey code: 910
RRP: £7.99
Price: £6.08
Review Return To Tibet / Phoenix:
Publication date: 2008-02-28
RRP: £8.99
Price: £4.41
Review Lola Montez: Her Life and Conquests / Portrait:
Publication date: 2004-07-26
Dewey code: 941
RRP: £16.99
Price: £5.99
Review Metro-Land: British Empire Exhibition 1924 Edition: British Empire Edition / Southbank Publishing:
Creator: Michael Croucher
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1992-10-29
RRP: £8.99
Price: £74.92
Review The Diary of a Farmer's Wife, 1796-97 / Penguin Books Ltd:
Publication date: 2007-05-04
RRP: £9.99
Price: £6.29
Review The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African Written by Himself / Dodo Press:
Publication date: 2003-04-15
Dewey code: 338.761004092
RRP: £19.99
Price: £0.01
Review The Maverick and His Machine: Thomas Watson, Sr., and the Making of IBM / John Wiley & Sons:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2001-03-28
Dewey code: 363.25092
RRP: £13.95
Price: £8.87
Review J.Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets / W. W. Norton & Co.:
Publication date: 2008-03-11
RRP: £9.99
Price: £2.85
Review The Queen's Knight / Corgi Books:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2007-03-15
RRP: £8.99
Price: £0.20
Review The Young Victoria / Sutton Publishing Ltd:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2000-03-20
RRP: £25.00
Price: £32.95
Review Harold: The Last Anglo-Saxon King / Sutton Publishing Ltd:
Authors
- Elias Chacour
- David Hazard
Publication date: 2003-02
Dewey code: 956.9450049274
RRP: £8.99
Price: £4.59
Review Blood Brothers / Chosen Books:
Edition: Revised edition
Publication date: 2003-03-28
Dewey code: 943
Price: £12.99
Review The Swan King: Ludwig II of Bavaria (Tauris Parke Paperback) / Tauris Parke Paperbacks:
Publication date: 2006-08-03
RRP: £7.99
Price: £1.13
Review The First Psychic: The Peculiar Mystery of a Victorian Wizard / Abacus:
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