Publication date: 2006-10-02
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £15.00
Price: £7.32
Review Sheepwrecked / Bantam Press:
Authors
- William L. Simon
- Jeffrey S. Young
Publication date: 2006-03-21
Dewey code: 332
RRP: £9.79
Price: £5.91
Review ICon: Steve Jobs, the Greatest Second Act in the History of Business / Penton Overseas Inc:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2002-07-02
Dewey code: 780
RRP: £12.95
Price: £7.09
Review A Heart at Fire's Center: The Life and Music of Bernard Herrmann / University of California Press:
Authors
- A.S. Byatt
- Peter Blegvad
- Wellcome Trust
Publication date: 2003-06-19
Dewey code: 610.74421
RRP: £12.99
Price: £6.99
Review The Phantom Museum: Henry Wellcome's Medical Mysteries / Profile Books Ltd:
Publication date: 2000-03-31
Dewey code: 332.092273
RRP: £10.95
Price: £12.45
Review Rags to Riches: Motivating Stories of How Ordinary People Achieved Extraordinary Wealth! / Dearborn Trade,U.S.:
Publication date: 2004-03-03
Dewey code: 797.122092
RRP: £14.95
Price: £4.36
Review Out There: In the Wild in a Wired Age / Voyageur Press Inc.,U.S.:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1984-06-28
Price: £8.99
Review Landscape with Machines: An Autobiography (Biography, Letters & Diaries) / Sutton Publishing Ltd:
Publication date: 2008-10-01
Dewey code: 551.46092
RRP: £3.99
Price: £1.25
Review Jacques Cousteau: A Life Under the Sea (Sterling Biographies): A Life Under the Sea (Sterling Biographies) / Sterling:
Publication date: 2002-01-24
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £16.99
Price: £9.97
Review The Pope and the Heretic: A True Story of Courage and Murder at the Hands of the Inquisition / Little, Brown:The Pope and the Heretic asks why, on the morning of February 19, 1600, following years of hideous torture, philosopher Giordano Bruno was led out to a stake in the middle of the Field of Flowers in Rome, to burn to death. This lucid and illuminating book is an attempt to find the answer. One reason, carefully and cleverly teased out by Michael White, author of the bestselling Leonardo: The First Scientist, is the era that Bruno was unfortunate enough to live and work in. The late 16th century was a time of savage religious and ideological conflict across Europe. A ruthlessly honest, determinedly original, exuberantly syncretist thinker like Bruno, willing to question the theological and historiographical verities espoused by the Vatican, was a noisome thorn in the flesh of a Roman Catholic Church already wrestling with Protestant dissent. Another reason, not elided by White, was Bruno's intellectually pugnacious personality. As White says, "If he had applied more cunning, as did Erasmus, he may have lived to enjoy old age. Instead, Bruno actually courted danger and controversy, confronting his enemies head-on. " A third reason for Bruno's terrible fate was the Inquisition. This institution could have been expressly designed to root out someone like Bruno, who was cheerfully willing to add a dash of occultism and Greek philosophy to the pure dogma of Catholic thought. [+]The Inquisition certainly relished Bruno's demise: after his charred corpse was brought down from the stake, the remaining flesh was pulverised with gavels and the ashes hurled to the wind, as if to nullify for all time Bruno's repellent heresies. The Inquisition failed, of course. Bruno's original and clairvoyant contributions to the fields of psychology and theology continue to resonate to this day. This elegantly concise, pleasingly readable book is a fitting memorial to such a remarkable thinker. -Sean Thomas.
Publication date: 2008-05-08
Dewey code: 770.92
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.08
Review George Eastman and the Kodak Camera (Inventions and Discoveries) / Capstone Press:
Publication date: 2002-11-12
Price: £12.99
Review Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?: How I Turned Around IBM / HarperCollins Publishers Ltd:
Publication date: 2006-10-10
Dewey code: 500
RRP: £8.35
Price: £3.91
Review Descartes' Secret Notebook: A True Tale of Mathematics, Mysticism, and the Quest to Understand the Universe / Broadway Books:
Edition: New title
Publication date: 2003-04-12
Dewey code: 332.632042
Price: £14.99
Review A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market / Basic Books:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1992-07-27
Dewey code: 362.196994
RRP: £12.99
Price: £13.92
Review Making Miracles: Finding Meaning in Life's Chaos / Simon & Schuster Ltd:
Publication date: 1992-09-24
Dewey code: 575.0092
Price: £19.55
Review DARWIN / Little, Brown and Company:
Creator: Gordon Hendricks
Publication date: 2003-03-01
Dewey code: 616.852620092
Price: £14.99
Review Slim to None: A Journey Through the Wasteland of Anorexia Treatment / McGraw-Hill Contemporary:
Publication date: 1990-09-01
Dewey code: 839.818603
RRP: £25.14
Price: £55.80
Review The Diaries of Hans Christian Andersen / University of Washington Press:
Publication date: 2003-03-18
Dewey code: 796
RRP: £9.99
Price: £2.75
Review William Speirs Bruce: Polar Explorer and Scottish Nationalist / NMSE - Publishing Ltd:
Publication date: 1990-11
RRP: £5.99
Price: £7.98
Review Aleen Cust, Veterinary Surgeon: Britain's First Woman Vet / Biopress Ltd:
Publication date: 1995-01-01
Dewey code: 133
Price: £15.99
Review Flim Flam / Humanity Books:
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