Publication date: 1998-01-01
Dewey code: 551.5092
RRP: £15.50
Price: £7.56
Review Snowflake Man: A Biography of Wilson A. Bentley / McDonald & Woodward Publishing Company, US:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2001-03-17
Dewey code: 616.8914092
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.51
Review Mockingbird Years: A Life in and Out of Therapy / Basic Books:
Creator: Sir Peter Medawar
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1984-03-22
Dewey code: 575.0092
RRP: £2.00
Price: £104.15
Review J.B.S.: The Life and Work of J.B.S.Haldane (Oxford Paperbacks) / Oxford Paperbacks:
Publication date: 2001-08-16
Dewey code: 509
Price: £10.99
Review Albert Einstein (Scientists Who Made History) / Hodder Wayland:
Creator: Frederick Burkhardt
Publication date: 2006-03-28
Dewey code: 575.0092
RRP: £80.00
Price: £68.80
Review The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 15, 1867: 1867 v. 15 (The Correspondence of Charles Darwin) / Cambridge University Press:
Publication date: 1992-10-08
Price: £14.99
Review Farming Times / Gollancz/Witherby:
Publication date: 2008-03-03
Dewey code: 363.25092
RRP: £7.99
Price: £1.15
Review The Killer Catcher: Britain's Top Ballistics Expert Reveals How He Hunted the World's Deadliest Criminals / John Blake Publishing Ltd:
Authors
- Anita Burdman Feferman
- Solomon Feferman
Dewey code: 199.438
RRP: £23.00
Price: £18.40
Review Alfred Tarski: Life and Logic / Cambridge University Press:
Publication date: 2007-10-11
Dewey code: 509
RRP: £18.99
Price: £12.53
Review Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume 1 / BiblioBazaar, LLC:
Publication date: 2005-10-14
Dewey code: 327.12470730922
RRP: £25.00
Price: £20.99
Review Engineering Communism: How Two Americans Spied for Stalin and Founded the Soviet Silicon Valley / Yale University Press:
Authors
- Dwight Williams
- Edgar Mitchell
Dewey code: 629.450092
RRP: £24.95
Price: £22.95
Review The Way of the Explorer: An Apollo Astronaut's Journey Through the Material and Mystical Worlds / G P Putnam's Sons:
Creator: Keith Shackleton
Publication date: 1989-08
Price: £9.95
Review Sir Peter Scott at Eighty: A Retrospective / Sutton Publishing Ltd:
Creator: J.Morton Boyd
Publication date: 1992-10-26
Dewey code: 574.5096092
RRP: £38.00
Price: £19.27
Review Fraser Darling in Africa: A Rhino in the Whistling Thorn / Edinburgh University Press:
Publication date: 2008-10
Dewey code: 550.92
RRP: £15.60
Price: £9.81
Review Bretz's Flood: The Remarkable Story of a Rebel Geologist and the World's Greatest Flood / Sasquatch Books:
Creator: Richard Wollheim
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2001-10-25
Dewey code: 709.2
RRP: £8.99
Price: £2.75
Review Michelangelo (Routledge Classics) (Routledge Classics) / Routledge:
Creator: Radu R. Florescu
Edition: New, Updated, and Rev. Ed
Publication date: 1994-10
Dewey code: 809.93351
Price: £9.99
Review In Search of Dracula / Houghton Mifflin (Trade):
Publication date: 2008-08-02
Dewey code: 509
RRP: £26.00
Price: £19.43
Review Imagining The Elephant: A Biography of Allan Macleod Cormack: A Biography of Allan MacLeod Cormack / Imperial College Press:
Edition: Export Ed
Publication date: 2000-09-07
Review Galileo's Daughter: A Drama of Science, Faith and Love / Fourth Estate:Galileo Galilei is famous for many things: for his science (Einstein called him the "father of modern physics"); for his flamboyant style (he wrote in Italian not Latin, enlivened texts with rough humour, argued loudly in staged debates) and for his harsh treatment by the Catholic Church. What's less well known are the details of his private life-a life that, as Dava Sobel points out in Galileo's Daughter, was just as complex as the scientist's public life. Galileo had three illegitimate children; the book's title refers to the oldest, Virginia, later Suor Maria Celeste (she took the name in acknowledgement of her father's fascination with the stars). Unable to marry because of her illegitimate status, Virginia entered a convent at 13 and maintained a lifelong correspondence with her father. Sobel has translated Virginia's surviving letters for the first time and, combining those letters, commentary, and gorgeous illustrations, she sets out in Galileo's Daughter to illuminate a different side of Galileo, the father deeply committed to his daughter and to her faith. Virginia's letters are tender, witty and intelligent. They are crammed with details of day-to-day life in Florence: "The broad beans are set out to dry and their stalks fed for breakfast to the little mule, who has become so haughty that she refuses to carry anyone. " Sobel's commentaries brilliantly help to put the letters into context. "Most of Suor Maria Celeste's letters travelled in the pocket of a messenger or in a basket laden with laundry, sweetmeats or herbal medicines. " But life in the convent was not idyllic. [+]Virginia was surrounded by women in various states of mental collapse and her letters describing those collapses are vivid and at times terrifying. The bubonic plague, too, affected the nuns just as it did the outside world. But what emerges most strikingly from these letters is the degree to which Virginia supported her father. Suor Maria Celeste may never have left the convent but in her letters she accompanies her father through physical and intellectual trials. We see her planning her brother's wedding (which she can't attend) and copying out her father's manuscripts. The relationship between father and daughter "is not a tale of abuse or rejection or intentional stifling of abilities", writes Sobel. "Rather, it is a love story, a tragedy and a mystery. " -Simon Ings Galileo Galilei is famous for many things: for his science (Einstein called him the "father of modern physics"); for his flamboyant style (he wrote in Italian not Latin, enlivened texts with rough humour, argued loudly in staged debates) and for his harsh treatment by the Catholic Church. What's less well known are the details of his private life-a life that, as Dava Sobel points out in Galileo's Daughter, was just as complex as the scientist's public life. Galileo had three illegitimate children; the book's title refers to the oldest, Virginia, later Suor Maria Celeste (she took the name in acknowledgement of her father's fascination with the stars). Unable to marry because of her illegitimate status, Virginia entered a convent at 13 and maintained a lifelong correspondence with her father. Sobel has translated Virginia's surviving letters for the first time and, combining those letters, commentary, and gorgeous illustrations, she sets out in Galileo's Daughter to illuminate a different side of Galileo, the father deeply committed to his daughter and to her faith. Virginia's letters are tender, witty and intelligent. They are crammed with details of day-to-day life in Florence: "The broad beans are set out to dry and their stalks fed for breakfast to the little mule, who has become so haughty that she refuses to carry anyone. " Sobel's commentaries brilliantly help to put into contextual the letters. "Most of Suor Maria Celeste's letters travelled in the pocket of a messenger or in a basket laden with laundry, sweetmeats or herbal medicines. " But life in the convent was not idyllic. Virginia was surrounded by women in various states of mental collapse and her letters describing those collapses are vivid and at times terrifying. The bubonic plague, too, affected the nuns just as it did the outside world. But what emerges most strikingly from these letters is the degree to which Virginia supported her father. Suor Maria Celeste may never have left the convent but in her letters she accompanies her father through physical and intellectual trials. We see her planning her brother's wedding (which she can't attend) and copying out her father's manuscripts. The relationship between father and daughter "is not a tale of abuse or rejection or intentional stifling of abilities", writes Sobel. "Rather, it is a love story, a tragedy and a mystery. " -Simon Ings.
Authors
- Martin X. Moleski
- William Taussig Scott
Dewey code: 192
RRP: £29.99
Price: £20.39
Review Michael Polanyi: Scientist and Philosopher / OUP USA:
Edition: Pap/DVD
Publication date: 2009-01-01
Dewey code: 523
RRP: £13.95
Price: £7.81
Review Around the World in 84 Days: The Authorized Biography of Skylab Astronaut Jerry Carr (Apogee Books Space): The Authorized Biography of Skylab Astronaut Jerry Carr (Apogee Books Space) / Apogee Books:
| Browse Science, Mathematics & Technology:
Models & Brands:
Snowflake Man: A Biography of Wilson A. Bentley, Mockingbird Years: A Life in and Out of Therapy, J.B.S.: The Life and Work of J.B.S.Haldane (Oxford Paperbacks), Albert Einstein (Scientists Who Made History), The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 15, 1867: 1867 v. 15 (The Correspondence of Charles Darwin), Farming Times, The Killer Catcher: Britain's Top Ballistics Expert Reveals How He Hunted the World's Deadliest Criminals, Alfred Tarski: Life and Logic, Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume 1, Engineering Communism: How Two Americans Spied for Stalin and Founded the Soviet Silicon Valley, The Way of the Explorer: An Apollo Astronaut's Journey Through the Material and Mystical Worlds, Sir Peter Scott at Eighty: A Retrospective, Fraser Darling in Africa: A Rhino in the Whistling Thorn, Bretz's Flood: The Remarkable Story of a Rebel Geologist and the World's Greatest Flood, Michelangelo (Routledge Classics) (Routledge Classics), In Search of Dracula, Imagining The Elephant: A Biography of Allan Macleod Cormack: A Biography of Allan MacLeod Cormack, Galileo's Daughter: A Drama of Science, Faith and Love, Michael Polanyi: Scientist and Philosopher, Around the World in 84 Days: The Authorized Biography of Skylab Astronaut Jerry Carr (Apogee Books Space): The Authorized Biography of Skylab Astronaut Jerry Carr (Apogee Books Space) |
