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In the process Wulf does a great deal more. \u003cb\u003eThis meticulously researched work - part biography, part cabinet of curiosity - takes us on an exhilarating armchair voyage through some of the world's least hospitable regions\u003c\/b\u003e -- Giles Milton * Mail on Sunday *\u003cbr\u003eThrilling . . . \u003cb\u003eIt is impossible to read \u003ci\u003eThe Invention of Nature \u003c\/i\u003ewithout contracting Humboldt fever\u003c\/b\u003e. Wulf makes Humboldtians of us all . . . At times \u003ci\u003eThe Invention of Nature \u003c\/i\u003ereads like pulp explorer fiction . . . 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Ecologists today, Ms Wulf argues, are Humboldtians at heart. With the immense challenge of grasping the global consequences of climate change, Humboldt's interdisciplinary approach is \u003cb\u003emore relevant than ever\u003c\/b\u003e * The Economist *\u003cbr\u003eWe all know who Darwin was because he came up with that memorable line about us all being descended from apes, but, as he himself would readily have admitted, the great man would never have arrived at his great theory had it not been for the very considerable influence of Alexander von Humboldt . . . Given the magnitude of his influence, why Humboldt isn't a household name today is a mystery . . . \u003cb\u003eOn the evidence of this wonderful book, however, he should be hastily added to every school syllabus in the land\u003c\/b\u003e * Scotsman *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDarwin pronounced him the greatest scientific traveller who ever lived,\u003c\/b\u003e but the brilliant German Alexander von Humboldt left no groundbreaking theory or world-changing book. Wulf sets out to restore his diminished reputation, and has given us \u003cb\u003ethe most complete portrait of one of the world's most complete naturalists\u003c\/b\u003e * Mark Cocker, The Spectator, Books of the Year *\u003cbr\u003eWulf's narrative relates Humboldt's life and ideas at a good pace and with a strong eye for the details which will attract the reader's attention * TLS *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eW\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eulf imbues Humboldt's adventures there with something of the spirit of Tintin\u003c\/b\u003e, relishing the jungles, mountains and dangerous animals at every turn . . . [she] has\u003cb\u003e an unfailing ability to spot an interesting quotation or a curious situation\u003c\/b\u003e. She is very good on the cities where Humboldt lived and the rival atmospheres of Paris and Berlin . . . a superior celebration of an adorable figure * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis ambitious book restores Humboldt to his rightful place in the pantheon of scientific history\u003c\/b\u003e. The best chapters describe his exciting travels * Lady *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHumboldt's vision became the inspiration for Darwin\u003c\/b\u003e and a whole generation of American Romantics, including Thoreau and Poe. Humboldt, like Einstein, breathed life into Kant's transcendental unity. We still live in the world they imagined, even if few of us comprehend it * Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWulf writes about complicated topics with lucidity and vitality.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Invention of Nature\u003c\/i\u003e is a book of ideas, which repays careful reading. \u003cb\u003eThe intuitive yet systematising genius, courage and charm of Humboldt also make this a most inspiring book\u003c\/b\u003e * The Times *\u003cbr\u003eAndrea Wulf's \u003cb\u003esuperb biography\u003c\/b\u003e is a re-evaluation of a great lost scientist whose thinking strongly affected the way we now conceptualise nature . . . His extensive travels mean his biography is also an \u003cb\u003eadventure story\u003c\/b\u003e, and Wulf combines scrapes and the science to great effect * Independent *\u003cbr\u003eRead Andrea Wulf's gripping biography and you will be wowed by him too. 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She has travelled in Humboldt's footsteps and made good use of original German evidence. \u003cb\u003eI have much enjoyed my eco-tour through the planet world in her company\u003c\/b\u003e * Financial Times *\u003cbr\u003eIn this \u003cb\u003eilluminating\u003c\/b\u003e, vivid biography, historian and writer Andrea Wulf reveals a great explorer a century or more ahead of his time . . . \u003cb\u003ea cracking read\u003c\/b\u003e * BBC Wildlife Magazine *\u003cbr\u003eA pleasure to read . . . Buckle up and prepare yourself for Andrea Wulf's hugely enjoyable voyage of discovery . . . 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Darwin as a scientist: an evaluation ; Further Reading ; Index","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732599026007,"sku":"9780192854544","price":9.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]},{"product_id":"frank-ramsey-9780192856753","title":"Frank Ramsey","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe full story of Frank Ramsey''s extraordinary life.When he died in 1930 aged 26, Frank Ramsey had already invented one branch of mathematics and two branches of economics, laying the foundations for decision theory and game theory. Keynes deferred to him; he was the only philosopher whom Wittgenstein treated as an equal. Had he lived he might have been recognized as the most brilliant thinker of the century. This amiable shambling bear of a man was an ardent socialist, a believer in free love, and an intimate of the Bloomsbury set. For the first time, Cheryl Misak tells the story of his tragically short, but extraordinary life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ean engaging account of the lamentably short life of Ramsey... exemplary piece(s) of intellectual history... * New Statesman, Books of the Year *\u003cbr\u003e\"Cheryl Misak's biography has helped shine some much-needed light on this shockingly underappreciated figure.\" * David Edmonds, Wall Street Journal *\u003cbr\u003eFrank Ramsey [...] makes noble reading. Ms Misak is a born teacher who explains tricky intellectual abstractions with a clarity that is exceptional. More than that, she writes with love. Her tenderness toward Ramsey, his parents and siblings, his wife and friends gives spirit and delicacy to the whole. There is astounding emotional intelligence in every chapter. One feels on each page Ms. Misak's fine mind concentrating hard on doing the best she can. This is an enthralling and glorious book. * Richard Davenport-Hines, The Wall Street Journal *\u003cbr\u003eHer book is unlikely to be bettered... Misak provides by far the most complete picture we have of Ramsey's personality and personal life. *  London Review of Books  *\u003cbr\u003eCheryl Misak has done valuable work in producing the first biography of Frank Ramsey which is both comprehensive and detailed. Through meticulous documentary research (very well described in the preface), the biographer is able to lift the veil on some of the little-known aspects of Ramsey's intellectual journey and remedy some of the erroneous or magnified perceptions of his life and work. Various excerpts from his correspondences allow us, for example, to put in context Ramsey's depressive episode resulting from an impossible love...Cheryl Misak has successfully met the challenge of inspiring her readers to take the next step - following Ramsey - toward the high peaks of abstract thought in analytical philosophy, mathematical logic, economics, and pure mathematics. * Frédéric Morneau-Guérin, Université TÉLUQ, Mathematical Association of America *\u003cbr\u003eFascinating ... combining insight, wit and affection with erudition, [Misak] conveys how lovable as well as how brilliant Ramsey was ... She has given Ramsey the biography that he richly deserves. * Jane O'Grady, Literary Review *\u003cbr\u003eIn her important new work, Cheryl Misak [...] finally gives Ramsey the consideration he deserves ... it is an impressive work. She has a devotion to the archive and her book is thoroughly researched and well put together ... We should feel lucky that we have the work we do, and that Misak has done such a good job of drawing our attention to one of the most important and intriguing figures in 20th-century philosophy. * Alex Dean, Prospect *\u003cbr\u003eThought-provoking, wide-ranging, and highly readable. * Matthew McKeever, The Philosopher's Magazine *\u003cbr\u003eCheryl Misak's Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers is terrific... This biography is my book of the year so far. * enlightenmenteconomics *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword: 'Mind and Heart' Part I: Boyhood 1: The Ramseys 2: Winchester Nearly Unmade Him 3: 'We really live in a great time for thinking' Part II: The Cambridge Man 4: Undergraduate Life 5: 'To my generation, he was rather frightening' 6: Ramsey and the Early Wittgenstein 7: Vienna Interlude 8: 'The fundamentals are so philosophical' 9: The New Don 10: Passion Found Part III: An Astonishing Half Decade 11: Settling Down in Work and Life 12: Revolution in Philosophy 13: Two Crises 14: Cambridge Economics 15: Ramseyan Economics: The Feasible First Best 16: 1928 Return to Mathematics 17: Wittgenstein Comes Home 18: 'The problem of philosophy must be divided if I am to solve it' 19: The End and Meaning of a Life","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732600271191,"sku":"9780192856753","price":13.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780192856753.jpg?v=1719997594"},{"product_id":"one-hundred-letters-from-hugh-trevorroper-9780198703136","title":"One Hundred Letters From Hugh TrevorRoper","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA carefully chosen selection from the correspondence of Hugh Trevor-Roper, one of the most gifted and famous historians of his generation and one of the finest letter-writers of the twentieth century\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHugh Trevor-Roper was probably the greatest letter writer of what Noel Annan called 'our age', corresponding with almost anybody who was anybody, and in a style that was both inimitable and incomparable. This latest anthology is by turns memorable, fascinating, wicked and malicious, and impossible to put down. * Sir David Cannadine *\u003cbr\u003eA superb selection ... The book makes a hugely entertaining volume ... it should be treated as a salient part of [Trevor-Ropers'] oeuvre. * Paul Johnson, Standpoint *\u003cbr\u003e100 letters that show this brilliant, difficult man in a new light ... The many Trevor-Ropers of this collection ... together make a complex but fascinating creature ... ' * John Gallagher, Sunday Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003eA splendid introduction to this delightful, funny, ebullient and relentless person ... The present volume is beautifully produced and the selection from the voluminous correspondence is particularly well judged. * John Banville, The Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eBeguiling ... This volume isn't peripheral, but central to a career of fluctuating accomplishment ... Tom Sharpe's Porterhouse Blue couldn't have blended sugar and acid more silkily. * Peter Preston, The Observer *\u003cbr\u003eThe quality of the prose is so sparkling, the wit is so sharp, and the Enlightenment standpoint so carefully nourished, that the book serves not only as entertainment, but as a manifesto for the intellectual values that were Hugh Trevor-Roper's lodestar. * A.N Wilson, Times Literary Supplement *\u003cbr\u003eWhat better way to celebrate the centenary of Trevor-Roper's birth than to treat the reading public to a hundred of his letters? ... Collected by two editors who really know the territory and who really understand the ethos of the period, Hugh Trevor-Roper's letters are a marvellous evocation of a world now completely vanished. * Leslie Mitchell, Literary Review *\u003cbr\u003eTrevor-Roper was ... one of the great prose stylists of our times ... and in this magnificent collection of letters dating from the war years until shortly before his death in 2003, he lays into \"impertinent adversaries\" with wit and gusto ... He would have been delighted to know that his letters ... have been impeccably edited. * Jeremy Lewis, The Oldie *\u003cbr\u003eA masterly editorial touch ... [the editors have] succeeded both in choosing letters of the highest standard and in creating what amounts to a supplementary biography, enhanced by vital, Gibbonian footnotes ... [Trevor-Roper] would surely be delighted that the last ten years have already produced a fruitful harvest of posthumous books, to which these Hundred Letters are both a stylish addition and an admirable tribute to his hundredth birthday. * John Saumarez Smith, Country Life *\u003cbr\u003eThis is a significant reference work without many, if any, serious competitors for both scope and content. 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Had he lived he might have been recognized as the most brilliant thinker of the century. This amiable shambling bear of a man was an ardent socialist, a believer in free love, and an intimate of the Bloomsbury set. For the first time Cheryl Misak tells the full story of his extraordinary life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book is dedicated to the memory of Ramsey in a solemn and comprehensively devoted manner. The author has tried to satisfy all the parties interested in Ramsey for one reason or another...The result is an introduction to his work, as well as an account of his life. * Michael Otte, MathSciNet *\u003cbr\u003eFrank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers is a very well researched biography, thus is of great value to academic students and professional scholars alike. The book is a joy to read for not only economists but also mathematicians and philosophers too. * Jason Wakefield, Avello Publishing Journal *\u003cbr\u003ean engaging account of the lamentably short life of Ramsey... exemplary piece(s) of intellectual history... * New Statesman, Books of the Year *\u003cbr\u003eFrank Ramsey [...] makes noble reading. Ms Misak is a born teacher who explains tricky intellectual abstractions with a clarity that is exceptional. More than that, she writes with love. Her tenderness toward Ramsey, his parents and siblings, his wife and friends gives spirit and delicacy to the whole. There is astounding emotional intelligence in every chapter. One feels on each page Ms. Misak's fine mind concentrating hard on doing the best she can. This is an enthralling and glorious book. * Richard Davenport-Hines, The Wall Street Journal *\u003cbr\u003ePhilosophers sometimes play the game of imagining how twentieth-century thought might have been different if Ramsey had survived and his ideas had caught on earlier. That exercise has become more entertaining with the publication of the first full biography ... Misak tells a more colorful story than one might have thought possible so long after such a short life ended. * Anthony Gottleib, The New Yorker *\u003cbr\u003eMisak' narrative is compelling. * Paolo Mancosu, Philosophia Mathematica *\u003cbr\u003eHer book is unlikely to be bettered... Misak provides by far the most complete picture we have of Ramsey's personality and personal life. *  London Review of Books  *\u003cbr\u003eAs a whole, the book is a precious piece for the history of analytic philosophy, nicely written and supported by terrific archival research and a love for the author. It is worth reading it for the pleasure of good writing, for a picture of Cambridge at that time, and to learn more about one of the greatest intellects of the last century. * Caterina Sisti, Metascience *\u003cbr\u003e...a brilliant, evocative biography of Ramsey. * Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Open *\u003cbr\u003eIt is thanks to Misak that we can now see Ramsey's mathematical economics from a new and thought-provoking perspective, and this is only one among many reasons why this book deserves to be read. * Carlo Cristiano, History of Economic Ideas *\u003cbr\u003eThere is a lot of talk about Bloomsbury, and therefore about sexual freedom and the many instances that made up that freedom. There is unhappiness (Ramsey struggled coming into his own, as a sexual person). There is much talk of psychoanalysis, and of extended stays in Vienna to imbibe the same. There is, as anyone who has read Pigou's biography might guess, a great deal of walking in the mountains. There is Arthur's (Ramsey's father) tragic inattentiveness while driving his car. And there is Ramsey living openly with a woman while (mostly) maintaining his happy marriage. So, it isn't all just philosophy. But the philosophy does make for compelling reading ... one must read this excellent book. * David C.Coker, George Mason University , Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics *\u003cbr\u003eA full intellectual biography of Frank Ramsey, examining both his complex personal life and his work in philosophy, mathematics, and economics. * Journal of Economic Literature *\u003cbr\u003eCheryl Misak has done valuable work in producing the first biography of Frank Ramsey which is both comprehensive and detailed. Through meticulous documentary research (very well described in the preface), the biographer is able to lift the veil on some of the little-known aspects of Ramsey's intellectual journey and remedy some of the erroneous or magnified perceptions of his life and work. Various excerpts from his correspondences allow us, for example, to put in context Ramsey's depressive episode resulting from an impossible love...Cheryl Misak has successfully met the challenge of inspiring her readers to take the next step - following Ramsey - toward the high peaks of abstract thought in analytical philosophy, mathematical logic, economics, and pure mathematics. * Frédéric Morneau-Guérin, Université TÉLUQ, Mathematical Association of America *\u003cbr\u003eFascinating ... combining insight, wit and affection with erudition, [Misak] conveys how lovable as well as how brilliant Ramsey was ... She has given Ramsey the biography that he richly deserves. * Jane O'Grady, Literary Review *\u003cbr\u003eIn her important new work, Cheryl Misak [...] finally gives Ramsey the consideration he deserves ... it is an impressive work. She has a devotion to the archive and her book is thoroughly researched and well put together ... We should feel lucky that we have the work we do, and that Misak has done such a good job of drawing our attention to one of the most important and intriguing figures in 20th-century philosophy. * Alex Dean, Prospect *\u003cbr\u003eA monument to good scholarship while still conveying the human being at the centre ... A landmark book if you dwell among the modernists. * Richard Lofthouse, QUOD *\u003cbr\u003eWriting a biography of a man with such an amazing capacity and range of interests is itself extraordinarily demanding but the author succeeds admirably... hugely informative as well as entertaining and a vivid picture of the contemporary Cambridge intellectual landscape. * Paradigm Explorer *\u003cbr\u003etruly comprehensive 'life and works'. * William H Janeway, Project Syndicate *\u003cbr\u003eThought-provoking, wide-ranging, and highly readable. * Matthew McKeever, The Philosopher's Magazine *\u003cbr\u003eCheryl Misak's Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers is terrific... This biography is my book of the year so far. * enlightenmenteconomics *\u003cbr\u003eThis is a gripping read about the twentieth century's forgotten genius. It provides a fascinating and meticulously detailed portrait of Frank Ramsey's life and times. Finally, Ramsey has the biography he deserves. * David Edmonds, co-author of Wittgenstein's Poker *\u003cbr\u003eIn this brilliantly written biography of Frank Ramsey, the philosophical and mathematical genius, Cheryl Misak helps us to understand how this innovative thinker could transform so much of the intellectual world of the twentieth century in a short life that ended before he turned 27. The story of Ramsey - his life, his ideas and his engaging arguments with others - as told by Misak is both deeply insightful and much fun to read. * Amartya Sen, Harvard University *\u003cbr\u003eI read the book over three long nights of lockdown, in the middle of an Australian winter. Id expected to find it fascinating, but not to find it so gripping... she [Misak] takes us so successfully into Ramseys world, and we know how it ends... [she] pitches things just right. She takes us into Ramseys personal world, without over-dramatising it. * Huw Price, Society *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword: 'Mind and Heart' Part I: Boyhood 1: The Ramseys 2: Winchester Nearly Unmade Him 3: 'We really live in a great time for thinking' Part II: The Cambridge Man 4: Undergraduate Life 5: 'To my generation, he was rather frightening' 6: Ramsey and the Early Wittgenstein 7: Vienna Interlude 8: 'The fundamentals are so philosophical' 9: The New Don 10: Passion Found Part III: An Astonishing Half Decade 11: Settling Down in Work and Life 12: Revolution in Philosophy 13: Two Crises 14: Cambridge Economics 15: Ramseyan Economics: The Feasible First Best 16: 1928 Return to Mathematics 17: Wittgenstein Comes Home 18: 'The problem of philosophy must be divided if I am to solve it' 19: The End and Meaning of a Life","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732778824023,"sku":"9780198755357","price":26.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780198755357.jpg?v=1719998362"},{"product_id":"biography-9780199533541","title":"Biography","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBiography is one of the most popular, best-selling, and widely-read of literary genres. 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