Pauli's Exclusion Principle
There is hardly another principle in physics with wider scope of applicability and more far-reaching consequences than Pauli's exclusion principle. This book explores the principle's origin in the atomic spectroscopy of the early 1920s, its subseq...
Philosophy and the Sciences for Everyone
What is the origin of our universe? What are dark matter and dark energy? What is our role in the universe as human beings capable of knowledge? What makes us intelligent cognitive agents seemingly endowed with consciousness? Scientific research a...
Pauli's Exclusion Principle
There is hardly another principle in physics with wider scope of applicability and more far-reaching consequences than Pauli's exclusion principle. This book explores the principle's origin in the atomic spectroscopy of the early 1920s, its subseq...
Memoirs Of A Cancer Researcher
This narrative of a cancer researcher spans a period in which biomedicine research has been so revolutionary. The educational background and socioeconomic circumstances of the author make the story unique, shedding light on many important intellec...
Needle Felted Tapestries
Bring pictures to life with needle felting From simple mug rugs to Renaissance-style tapestry wall hangings, 16 charming projects lead fiber lovers on a journey to discover the art of needle felting. Felt artist Neysa Russo shares her years of exp...
Key concepts in science and technology studies
Key Concepts in Science and Technology Studies is an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of science and technology studies through concepts that are also used in other areas, from design to organization studies. The book is relevant for st...
La chute du léopard
LA CHUTE DU L OPARD est un classique de la litt rature anglo-saxonne. En 2023, The Economist l'a salu comme l'un des cinq meilleurs livres jamais crits par des correspondants trangers. Michela Wrong, qui a assist aux derniers jours de Mobutu, retrace l'ascension et la chute du jeune journaliste id aliste devenu le st r otype du despote africain. Surnomm le l opard, le pr sident du Congo (ex-Za re) a utilis toutes les ruses pour acc der au pouvoir et y rester pendant trente-deux ans. Il a s duit les puissances occidentales, achet l'opposition et domin son peuple avec un m lange d vastateur de brutalit et de charme. Alors que la population tait appauvrie, il buvait du champagne dans son palais au milieu de la jungle comme une r incarnation moderne du chef de gare fou de Joseph Conrad. Bien que Mobutu soit mort en 1997, le diagnostic de Michela Wrong sur son r gime pr dateur reste pertinent pour comprendre les turbulences actuelles des Grands Lacs africains.
It's Our Turn to Eat
A gripping account of both an individual caught on the horns of an excruciating moral dilemma and a continent at a turning point. When Michela Wrong's Kenyan friend John Githongo appeared one cold February morning on the doorstep of her London fla...
In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz
'Joyous ? a book that makes other journalists weep with envy' The Economist 'Provocative, touching, and sensitively written ? an eloquent, brilliantly researched account' Sunday Times One of The Economist's best books by foreign correspondents. A ...
Do Not Disturb
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2022 'Superb' The Times 'Engrossing and revelatory' Observer 'Powerful, compelling and meticulously researched' New Statesman A new book from the award winning author of In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz,Do Not Disturb ...
It's Our Turn to Eat
'A fast-paced political thriller.... Wrong's gripping, thoughtful book stands as both a tribute to Githongo's courage and a cautionary tale.' --New York Times Book Review 'On one level, It's Our Turn to Eat reads like a John Le Carr novel.... On a deeper and much richer level, the book is an analysis of how and why Kenya descended into political violence.' -- Washington Post Called 'urgent and important' by Harper's magazine, It's Our Turn to Eat is a nonfiction political thriller of modern Kenya--an eye-opening account of tribal rivalries, pervasive graft, and the rising anger of a prospect-less youth that exemplifies an African dilemma.
Laughing at Architecture
Laughing at Architecture
I Didn't Do It For You
One small East African country embodies the battered history of the continent: patronised by colonialists, riven by civil war, confused by Cold War manoeuvring, proud, colorful, with Africa's best espresso and worst rail service. Michela Wrong bri...
Decadent Modernity
How did Latin Americans represent their own countries as modern? By treating modernity as a ubiquitous category in which ideas of progress and decadence are far from being mutually exclusive, this book explores how different groups of intellectual...
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Perspectival Realism
What does it mean to be a realist about science if one takes seriously the view that scientific knowledge is always perspectival, namely historically and culturally situated? In Perspectival Realism, Michela Massimi explores how scientific knowled...
Accabadora
One of Elena Ferrante's best 40 books by female writers When Maria, the fourth child of a widow, is adopted by the old and childless Bonaria Urrai, her life is instantly transformed - she finally has the love and affection she craves. But her new ...
Matteo Ricci
Matteo Ricci (1552-1610), the first of the early Jesuit missionaries of the China mission, is widely considered the most outstanding cultural mediator of all time between China and the West. This engrossing and fluid book offers a thorough, knowle...
Molecular Basis of Breast Cancer
This richly-illustrated atlas-like book provides a foundation for the biological and molecular understanding of how the mammary gland develops and how breast cancer originates. The main goal is to comprehensively review in ten chapters fundamental...
Undead
George A. Romero's classic 1968 film, "Night of the Living Dead", introduced a new era of gutmunching cinematic mayhem and inspired legions of directors and writers, among them Quentin Tarantino and George Lucas. John A. Russo co-wrote t...
Nobody's Fool
Nobody's Fool
Nobody's Fool
Richard Russo's slyly funny and moving novel follows the unexpected workings of grace in a deadbeat town in upstate New York - and in the life of one of its unluckiest citizens, Sully, who has been doing the wrong thing triumphantly for fifty year...
Angelic Vengeance
Angelic Vengeance
Somebody's Fool
'A wise and witty drama of small-town life . . . delivering the generous humour, keen ear for dialogue, and deep appreciation for humanity's foibles that have endeared the author to his readers for decades' Publishers WeeklyTen years after the death of the magnetic Donald 'Sully' Sullivan, the town of North Bath is going through a major transition as it is taken over by its much wealthier neighbour, Schuyler Springs. Peter, Sully's son, is still grappling with his father's tremendous legacy as well as his relationship to his own son, Thomas, wondering if he has been all that different a father than Sully was to him.Meanwhile, the towns' newly consolidated police department falls into the hands of Charice Bond following the resignation of Doug Raymer, the former North Bath police chief and Charice's ex-boyfriend. When a decomposing body turns up in the abandoned hotel situated between the two towns, Charice and Raymer are drawn together again and forced to address their complicated attraction to one another. Across town, Ruth, Sully's married ex-lover, struggles to understand her granddaughter, Tina, and her growing obsession with Peter's other son, Will. Amidst the turmoil, the town's residents speculate on the identity of the unidentified body and wonder who among their number could have disappeared unnoticed. Brimming with warmth, wisdom and Russo's signature wry humour, Somebody's Fool is another classic from a modern master of storytelling.
Empire Falls
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - The bestselling author of Nobody's Fool and Straight Man delves deep into the blue-collar heart of America in a work that overflows with hilarity, heartache, and grace. 'Rich, humorous ... Mr. Russo's most seductive book thus far.' --The New York Times Welcome to Empire Falls, a blue-collar town full of abandoned mills whose citizens surround themselves with the comforts and feuds provided by lifelong friends and neighbors and who find humor and hope in the most unlikely places, in this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Richard Russo. Miles Roby has been slinging burgers at the Empire Grill for 20 years, a job that cost him his college education and much of his self-respect. What keeps him there? It could be his bright, sensitive daughter Tick, who needs all his help surviving the local high school. Or maybe it's Janine, Miles' soon-to-be ex-wife, who's taken up with a noxiously vain health-club proprietor. Or perhaps it's the imperious
Trajectory
RTE Guide's Book of the Year, 2018 Richard Russo's characters in these four expansive stories bear little similarity to the blue-collar citizens we're familiar with from many of his novels. In 'Horseman,' a professor confronts a young plagiarist a...
Somebody's Fool
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls returns to North Bath, in upstate New York, and to the characters that captured the hearts and imaginations of millions of readers in his beloved best sellers Nobody's Fool and Everybody's Fool. 'Sumptuous, spirited . . . Russo] paints a shining fresco of a working-class community...' --The New York Times - 'Another instant classic, filled with Russo's witty dialogue and warm understanding of human foibles.' --People Magazine Ten years after the death of the magnetic Donald 'Sully' Sullivan, the town of North Bath is going through a major transition as it is annexed by its much wealthier neighbor, Schuyler Springs. Peter, Sully's son, is still grappling with his father's tremendous legacy as well as his relationship to his own son, Thomas, wondering if he has been all that different a father than Sully was to him. Meanwhile, the towns' newly consolidated police department falls into the hands of Charice
Composing Music
Aimed at those who have some knowledge of music but not formal training in composition, this concise introduction to composing starts right in with a brief composition exercise, then proceeds step by step through a series of increasingly complex a...
Female Grotesque
The grotesque - the exagggerated, the deformed, the monstrous - has been a well-considered subject for students of comparative literature and art. In a major addition to the literature of art, cultural criticism and feminist studies, Mary Russo re...