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Writing and Script
OUP Oxford 2009; US$ 9.99Without writing, there would be no records, no history, no books, and no emails. Writing is an integral and essential part of our lives; but when did it start? Why do we all write differently and how did writing develop into what we use today?All of these questions are answered in this Very Short Introduction. Starting with the origins of writing five... more...
Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye
I.B.Tauris 2006; US$ 22.00Satyajit Ray's films include the "Apu" trilogy, "The Music Room", "Charulata", "Days and Nights in the Forest", "The Chess Players" and "The Stranger". He also made comedies, musicals, detective films and documentaries. Beginning with the classic "Pather Panchali" in 1955, Ray... more...
The Apu Trilogy
I.B.Tauris 2010; US$ 80.00"I can never forget the excitement in my mind after seeing 'Pather Panchali'", noted Akira Kurosawa. Satyajit Ray's three films about the boyhood, adolescence and manhood of Apu, 'Pather Panchali' (1955), 'Aparajito' (1956) and 'The World of Apu' (1959) - collectively known as The Apu Trilogy - are established... more...
Genius
OUP Oxford 2011; US$ 9.99Homer, Leonardo da Vinci, Mozart, Shakespeare, and Tolstoy; Curie, Darwin, Einstein, Galileo, and Newton. What do these world-famous artists and scientists have in common?- apart from the fact that their achievements predate our own time by a century or more. Most of us would probably answer: all ten possessed something we call genius, which in each... more...
Sudden Genius?
OUP Oxford 2010; US$ 25.99The highly admired scientist Linus Pauling, a double Nobel laureate in chemistry and peace, was once asked by a student. 'Dr Pauling, how do you have so many good ideas?' Pauling thought for a moment and replied: 'Well, David, I have a lot of ideas and throw away the bad ones.'Where do ideas come from? Why do some people have many more... more...
Earthquake
Reaktion Books 2013; US$ 24.95The 2011 devastating, tsunami-triggering quake off the coast of Japan and 2010’s horrifying destruction in Haiti reinforce the fact that large cities in every continent are at risk from earthquakes. Quakes threaten Los Angeles, Beijing, Cairo, Delhi, Singapore, and many more cities, and despite advances in earthquake science and engineering... more...
Exceptional Creativity in Science and Technology
Templeton Press 2013; US$ 27.99In the evolution of science and technology, laws governing exceptional creativity and innovation have yet to be discovered. The historian Thomas Kuhn, in his influential study The Structure of Scientific Revolutions , noted that the final stage in a scientific breakthrough such as Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity—that is, the most... more...
A Stitch in Time
Pocket Books/Star Trek 2000; US$ 6.50For nearly a decade Garak has longed for just one thing -- to go home. Exiled on a space station, surrounded by aliens who loathe and distrust him, going back to Cardassia has been Garak's one dream. Now, finally, he is home. But home is a world whose landscape is filled with death and destruction. Desperation and dust are constant companions and... more...
God and the World of Signs
BRILL 2010; US$ 168.00Drawing on the philosophy of C. S. Peirce, Robinson develops a ?semiotic model? of the Trinity and proposes a new theology of nature according to which the evolving cosmos may be understood as bearing ?vestiges of the Trinity in creation?. more...
Ds9#27 A Stitch In Time
Simon & Schuster UK 2012; Not AvailableTailor, soldier, spy ... the enigmatic Garak, Cardassian-in-exile on space station Deep Space Nine, established himself rapidly - thanks largely to his superb portrayal by actor (and now author) Andrew Robinson - as one of the best-loved characters on Star Trek DS9. Garak refers to himself as 'just a simple tailor' - but everyone knows that there's... more...









