Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature

C.S. Lewis

• Paperback | Engels | Canto Classics
• C. S. Lewis's Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature is a collection of fourteen fascinating essays, half of which were never published in Lew... Lees meer

The Golem

Harry M Collins, Trevor Pinch

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• Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch liken science to the Golem, a creature from Jewish mythology, powerful yet potentially dangerous, a gentle, helpful cre... Lees meer

Nations and Nationalism Since 1780

E J Hobsbawm

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• Nations and Nationalism since 1780 is Eric Hobsbawm's widely acclaimed and highly readable inquiry into the question of nationalism. Events in the lat... Lees meer

The Invention of Tradition (Canto Classics)

Hasbawn Eric

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• Many of the traditions which we think of as very ancient in their origins were not in fact sanctioned by long usage over the centuries, but were inven... Lees meer

Magic in the Middle Ages

Richard Kieckhefer

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• How was magic practised in medieval times? How did it relate to the diverse beliefs and practices that characterised this fascinating period? In Magic... Lees meer

Two Cultures?

F R Leavis

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• In this first annotated edition of F. R. Leavis' famous critique of C. P. Snow's influential argument about 'the two cultures', Stefan Collini reappra... Lees meer

Something of Myself and Other Autobiographical Writings

Rudyard Kipling

• Boek | Engels | Canto Classics
• Rudyard Kipling's last work reflects on his life and the basis of his art. Illustrated with Kipling's own satirical drawings from the manuscripts, and... Lees meer

The Life of Isaac Newton

Richard S Westfall

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• Isaac Newton was indisputably one of the greatest scientists in history. His achievements in mathematics and physics marked the culmination of the mov... Lees meer

Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning

Jay Winter

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• Jay Winter's powerful study of the 'collective remembrance' of the Great War offers a major reassessment of one of the critical episodes in the cultur... Lees meer

Liberty Before Liberalism

Quentin Skinner

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• This extended essay by one of the world's leading historians seeks, in its first part, to excavate, and to vindicate, the neo-Roman theory of free cit... Lees meer

MR Tompkins in Paperback

George Gamow

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• Since his first appearance over sixty years ago, Mr Tompkins has become known and loved by many thousands of readers as the bank clerk whose fantastic... Lees meer

The Discarded Image

C.S. Lewis

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• The Discarded Image paints a lucid picture of the medieval world view, providing the historical and cultural background to the literature of the middl... Lees meer

Governing the Commons

Elinor Ostrom

• Paperback | Engels | Canto Classics
• The governance of natural resources used by many individuals in common is an issue of increasing concern to policy analysts. Both state control and pr... Lees meer

On Growth and Form

D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

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• Why do living things and physical phenomena take the form they do? D'Arcy Thompson's classic On Growth and Form looks at the way things grow and the s... Lees meer

Why Life Speeds Up as You Get Older

Douwe Draaisma

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• Entertaining and educational, Douwe Draaisma's Why Life Speeds Up As You Get Older raises almost as many questions as it answers. Draaisma applies a b... Lees meer

What is Life? (Canto Classics)

Erwin Schrodinger

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• Nobel laureate Erwin Schrödinger's What is Life? is one of the great science classics of the twentieth century. It was written for the layman, but pro... Lees meer

Aztecs

Inga Clendinnen

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• In 1521, the city of Tenochtitlan, magnificent centre of the Aztec empire, fell to the Spaniards and their Indian allies. Inga Clendinnen's account of... Lees meer

Spenser's Images of Life

C.S. Lewis

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• This book was compiled by Alastair Fowler from notes left by C. S. Lewis at his death. It is Lewis's longest piece of literary criticism, as distinct ... Lees meer

The Two Cultures

C P Snow

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• The notion that our society, its education system and its intellectual life, is characterised by a split between two cultures - the arts or humanities... Lees meer

The Dating Game

Cherry Lewis

• Paperback | Engels | Canto Classics
• In this book, Cherry Lewis skilfully blends the history of gauging the age of the earth with a biography of Arthur Holmes, a British geologist who was... Lees meer

Think on my Words

David Crystal

• Paperback | Engels | Canto Classics
• For decades, people have been studying Shakespeare's life and times, and in recent years there has been a renewed surge of interest in aspects of his ... Lees meer

States and Social Revolutions

Theda Skocpol

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• State structures, international forces, and class relations: Theda Skocpol shows how all three combine to explain the origins and accomplishments of s... Lees meer

On Space and Time

• Paperback | Engels | Canto Classics
• This book gets to the heart of science by asking a fundamental question about its essence: what is the true nature of space and time? Both defy modern... Lees meer

The English Language

Barber, Joan Beal, Philip Shaw

• Paperback | Engels | Canto Classics
• This bestselling text by Charles Barber, with updating contributions from Joan C. Beal and Philip A. Shaw, recounts the history of the English languag... Lees meer