Creator: David McDowall
Publication date: 2004-11-26
Dewey code: 915.672
RRP: £12.99
Price: £5.61
Review Road Through Kurdistan: Travels in Northern Iraq / Tauris Parke Paperbacks:
Authors
- Ralph Leighton
- Richard P. Feynman
Price: £11.95
Review What Do You Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious Character / HarperCollins Publishers Ltd:
Creator: Elaine Verstraete
Publication date: 2004-08-01
Dewey code: 579.092
RRP: £4.99
Price: £9.95
Review Germ Hunter: A Story About Louis Pasteur (Creative Minds Biography (Paperback)) / Lerner Publishing Group:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2000-11-01
Dewey code: 509
RRP: £10.09
Price: £5.66
Review Strange Beauty / Vintage Books:As its subtitle Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics indicates, this is a biography of the quirky human being and father of quarks, the brilliant American Nobel Prize winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann. Born in New York in 1929, he is a surviving member of a great generation of physicists who rode the wave of the atomic bomb and its aftermath in theoretical physics. Gell-Mann rubbed shoulders and argued the toss with the likes of Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi and Richard Feynman. George Johnson, an award-winning science writer for the New York Times and author of four other books, spent several years compiling this wonderful portrait of Gell-Mann, warts and all. Johnson certainly conveys for the general reader the brilliant, complicated, always fascinating and often exasperating man that he eventually came to like and respect. Gell-Mann was something of a prodigy, graduating from Yale at 18 and getting his doctorate from MIT by the age of 21. Within a few years he was recognised as one of the foremost theorists in the strange world of particle physics, who studied the behaviour of subatomic particles and proposed the existence of quarks, one of the fundamental constituents of matter. For this work he was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics in 1969. As Johnson describes and explains, life within the highly competitive academic world of particle physics was particularly rebarbative but Gell-Mann managed to shoulder his way through to the top. A Dickensian character, he was at times a show-off and bully but also a generous polymath, who subsequently has espoused environmentalism and arms control. [+]Under Johnson's expert guidance (assisted by a glossary, notes and bibliography) even the general reader is guided through the complex science and life of this charming conversationalist. apologetic procrastinator and. dispenser of acid remarks-Murray Gell-Mann. -Douglas Palmer Murray Gell-Mann is a leading light in 20th- century physics, yet his name rings few bells outside of those interested in particle physics. Science writer George Johnson was fortunate enough to develop a friendly relationship with the great scientist and his biography Strange Beauty glows with a rare intimacy gained from a notoriously private and irascible man. From his childhood in New York City to his current scientific elder-statesman status in New Mexico, Johnson explores Gell-Mann's life in glorious detail. A passionate, jealous and brilliant man, he was capable of both profound insight and bitter lifelong rivalries, but Johnson finds much more to the man than these two simple poles; Gell-Mann's volatile family life and deft academic manoeuvring also find room in this expansive biography. The reader finds that Johnson's careful attention to detail shows more than it tells through enlightening stories of Gell-Mann's troubled, romantic or pretentious dealings with peers, family and even strangers. Explaining his strange surname means investigating old phone books, scientific legend and family history, as the scientist is unwilling to shed light on the mystery (it turns out that his father hyphenated it and Murray dreamed up etymologies as needed-giving rise to the tangled web of myths). Johnson is up to the challenge of recording the life story of a man nearly as strange as the quarks he discovered and named, and Strange Beautylives up to the promise of its title. -Rob Lightner, Amazon. com.
Publication date: 2006-07-03
RRP: £17.99
Price: £0.01
Review Every Second Counts: The Race to Transplant the First Human Heart / Scribner:
Publication date: 2003-10
Dewey code: 576.8092
Price: £12.10
Review The Tree of Life: Charles Darwin (New York Times Best Illustrated Books (Awards)) / Farrar Straus Giroux:
Edition: 3Rev Ed
Publication date: 2002-01-15
Dewey code: 509
RRP: £9.99
Price: £17.95
Review In Search of Nikola Tesla / Ashgrove Publishing:
Authors
- G. Downs-Rose
- G.Downs- Rose
- W.S. Harvey
Price: £14.00
Review William Symington: Inventor and Engine Builder / Mechanical Engineering Publications:
Publication date: 2008-06-18
Dewey code: 509
RRP: £8.50
Price: £8.31
Review Birds, Beasts and a Bike Under the Southern Cross: Two Canadian Naturalists Camping Rough in New Zealand and Australia in the 1950s / Agio Publishing House:
Publication date: 2008-06-15
RRP: £32.50
Price: £30.87
Review Rifle-Green by Nature: A Regency Naturalist and his Family, William Elford Leach: A Regency Naturalist and His Family, William Elford Leach: 71 / Ray Society:
Publication date: 2007-11-30
Dewey code: 818.303
RRP: £25.00
Price: £16.32
Review I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau / Yale University Press:
Publication date: 1985-10-31
Dewey code: 741.092
RRP: £3.95
Price: £20.95
Review Time View: Complete "Doctor Who" Illustrations of Frank Bellamy / Carol Pub Group:
Authors
- Terrence J. Sejnowski
- Steven R. Quartz
Publication date: 2002-10
Dewey code: 612.82
RRP: £18.12
Price: £9.56
Review Liars, Lovers, and Heroes: What the New Brain Science Reveals about How We Become Who We Are / William Morrow & Company:
Publication date: 1990-04
Dewey code: 629.40092
Price: £10.72
Review Moonwalker / Thomas Nelson Inc:
Publication date: 1992-06-30
Dewey code: 917.9130452
RRP: £25.50
Price: £22.32
Review Rough-water Man: Elwyn Blake's Colorado River Expeditions / University of Nevada Press:
Creator: George Lawrence
Publication date: 2007-11-15
Dewey code: 576.82092
RRP: £14.50
Price: £5.92
Review The Voyage of the Beetle: A Journey Around the World with Charles Darwin and the Search for the Solution to the Mystery of Mysteries, as Narrated by Rosie, an Articulate Beetle / University of New Mexico Press:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2003-10-27
Dewey code: 610
RRP: £13.95
Price: £4.30
Review Hepatitis B: The Hunt for a Killer Virus / Princeton University Press:
Publication date: 2006-10-15
Dewey code: 510.922
RRP: £25.50
Price: £19.44
Review Mathematics Frontiers: 1950 to the Present (Pioneers in Mathematics) / Facts On File Inc:
Authors
- Arthur Pendragon
- Chris J. Stone
Dewey code: 941.0859092
RRP: £12.99
Price: £2.51
Review The Trials of Arthur: The Life and Times of a Modern-day King / Thorsons:
Publication date: 2009-03-19
Dewey code: 509
RRP: £3.92
Price: £3.92
Review Sigmund Freud (Giants of Science) / Puffin Books:
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Road Through Kurdistan: Travels in Northern Iraq, What Do You Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious Character, Germ Hunter: A Story About Louis Pasteur (Creative Minds Biography (Paperback)), Strange Beauty, Every Second Counts: The Race to Transplant the First Human Heart, The Tree of Life: Charles Darwin (New York Times Best Illustrated Books (Awards)), In Search of Nikola Tesla, William Symington: Inventor and Engine Builder, Birds, Beasts and a Bike Under the Southern Cross: Two Canadian Naturalists Camping Rough in New Zealand and Australia in the 1950s, Rifle-Green by Nature: A Regency Naturalist and his Family, William Elford Leach: A Regency Naturalist and His Family, William Elford Leach: 71, I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau, Time View: Complete "Doctor Who" Illustrations of Frank Bellamy, Liars, Lovers, and Heroes: What the New Brain Science Reveals about How We Become Who We Are, Moonwalker, Rough-water Man: Elwyn Blake's Colorado River Expeditions, The Voyage of the Beetle: A Journey Around the World with Charles Darwin and the Search for the Solution to the Mystery of Mysteries, as Narrated by Rosie, an Articulate Beetle, Hepatitis B: The Hunt for a Killer Virus, Mathematics Frontiers: 1950 to the Present (Pioneers in Mathematics), The Trials of Arthur: The Life and Times of a Modern-day King, Sigmund Freud (Giants of Science) |
