Einstein's Greatest Mistake - The Life of a Flawed Genius by David Bodanis
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Category: Science
Widely considered the greatest genius of all time, Albert Einstein revolutionised our understanding of the cosmos with his general theory of relativity and helped to lead us into the atomic age. Yet in the final decades of his life he was also ignored by most working scientists, his ideas opposed by eve ...Show more
The Word Detective: A Life in Words: from Shenanigan to Selfie by John Simpson
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Category: On Writing
Language is always changing. No one knows where it is going but the best way to future-cast is to look at the past. John Simpson animates for us a tradition of researching and editing, showing us both the technical lexicography needed to understand a word, and the careful poetry needed to construct its ...Show more
The Essential Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Category: Philosophy
This is translated by Peter Constantine Edited and with an new introduction by Leo Damrosch. 'Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains' is the dramatic opening line of The Social Contract, published in 1762. Quoted by politicians and philosophers alike, the power of this sentence continues to re ...Show more
Hunt for Vulcan - How Albert Einstein .. by Thomas Levenson
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Category: Science
In 1859, the brilliant scientist Urbain LeVerrier discovered that the planet Mercury has a wobble, that its orbit shifts over time. His explanation was that there had to be an unseen planet circling even closer to the sun. He called the planet Vulcan. Supported by the theories of Sir Isaac Newton, the f ...Show more
The Most Perfect Thing: Inside (and Outside) a Bird's Egg by Tim Birkhead
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Category: Science
'I think that, if required on pain of death to name instantly the most perfect thing in the universe, I should risk my fate on a bird's egg' Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1862 How are eggs of different shapes made, and why are they the shape they are? When does the shell of an egg harden? Why do some eggs ...Show more
The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World by Oliver Morton
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Category: Science
The risks of global warming are real, and potentially vast. The difficulty of doing without fossil fuels is daunting, and possible insurmountable. So there is an urgent need for new thinking on climate. To meet that need, a small but increasingly influential group of scientists is exploring proposals fo ...Show more
Grunt - The Curious Science of Humans at War by Mary Roach
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Category: Science
grunt n. informal a low-ranking soldier At a converted movie studio amputee actors help prepare army medics for the shock and gore of combat wounds, while at the base for anti-terror operations in East Africa diarrhoea threatens national security. Beyond weapons and strategy, this is about the other sid ...Show more
Ask the Beasts: Darwin and the God of Love by Elizabeth A. Johnson
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Category: Science
For millennia plant and animal species have received little sustained attention as subjects of Christian theology and ethics in their own right. Focused on the human dilemma of sin and redemptive grace, theology has considered the doctrine of creation to be mainly an overture to the main drama of human ...Show more
Latest Readings (PB) by Clive James
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Category: On Writing
An esteemed literary critic shares his final musings on books, his children, and his own impending death In 2010, Clive James was diagnosed with terminal leukemia. Deciding that "if you don't know the exact moment when the lights will go out, you might as well read until they do," James moved his librar ...Show more
Faith: Embracing Life in All its Uncertainty, Beauty and Mystery by Tim Costello
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Category: Philosophy
Faith is an important message of hope and reconciliation -- as well as an invitation to think about the many soul-searching events that challenge belief. Tim Costello, who is a respected speaker on social justice issues, points us to an inclusive faith, bringing people from across the spectrum of societ ...Show more
Bounded Mobilities: Ethnographic Perspectives on Social Hierarchies Global Inequalities by Miriam Gutekunst
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Category: Contemporary Thought
Mobility is a keyword of late modernity that suggests an increasingly unrestrained and interconnected world of individual opportunities. However, as privileges enable some to live in a seemingly borderless world, others remain excluded and marginalised. Boundaries are created, modified and consolidated, ...Show more
Criminal The Hidden Truth about Why People Do Bad Things by Tom Gash
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Category: Words & Ideas
How our views of crime and its causes are wrong -- and how we can begin to understand and tackle it properly. The way we see and understand crime falls into two types of story that, in essence, have been told and retold many times throughout human history -- in fiction, as in fact. Criminality is e ...Show more