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Antoni Bosch Editor, S.A. Virus: Una breve introducción
Book SynopsisLos virus son noticia. Desde el surgimiento de pandemias como el VIH, la gripe porcina o el SARS, constantemente estamos siendo bombardeados con información sobre nuevas infecciones letales. La última y más dramática es el SARS-CoV-2. En esta breve introducción, Dorothy Crawford muestra hasta qué punto los virus resultan inteligentes y son, con mucho, las formas de vida más abundantes del planeta.En esta segunda edición actualizada, Crawford relata la historia de virus asesinos por todos conocidos, como el ébola y Zika, así como el virus del MERS, el SARS-Cov-1 y el Sars-Cov-2, causante de la pandemia de la covid-19, y analiza cómo en el siglo XXI los viajes aéreos facilitan la propagación internacional de los virus. También evalúa los efectos del calentamiento global, que ha hecho aumentar la dispersión de virus transmitidos por vectores como el dengue, la fiebre amarilla y el virus del Nilo Occidental, y adelanta los efectos que esto tendrá en las poblaciones de climas subtropicales y templados de América, Australasia y Europa. Asimismo, explora el papel que desempeñan los virus en el control del medio marino, pues hay casi dos mil millones de ellos en cada litro de agua de mar y resultan esenciales para el delicado ecosistema del océano. Finalmente, tras examinar nuestro actual estilo de vida, Crawford mira hacia el futuro para preguntarse si alguna vez podremos vivir en armonía con los virus y cómo deberíamos actuar para prevenir las consecuencias devastadoras asociadas a algunos virus emergentes.
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Ediciones Corona Borealis El Hombre del Saco Ya No Es un Extrano
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Guadalmazán HISTORIA DEL CEREBRO N.E.
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Todos los seres vivos
Book SynopsisLinneo y Buffon: unrelatoextraordinario derivalidad yambiciónporclasificartoda lavidaen la tierra.Una narración, épica y extraordinaria, de rivalidad y obsesión científica en la carrera por estudiar toda la vida en la Tierra.The New York Times BookReviewEn el siglo XVIII, dos hombres de la misma edad (y caracteres opuestos) dedicaron sus vidas a la misma ardua tarea: identificar y describir toda la vida en la Tierra. Carl Linneo, un médico sueco muy devoto y con dotes de comerciante, consideró que la clasificación debía responder a categorías ordenadas y estáticas. Por el contrario, Georges-Louis de Buffon, aristócrata, polímata y director del Jardin du Roi de Francia, veía la vida como un remolino dinámico y complejo. Cada uno emprendió su trabajo consciente de las dificultades pero creyéndolo posible. Cómo podría el planeta albergar más de unos pocos miles de especies?
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Urano World UNA HISTORIA DE LA INTELIGENCIA
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Antoni Bosch Editor, S.A. Los renglones torcidos de la ciencia: De la
Book SynopsisA partir de pequeñas historias de la ciencia más básica, mediante anécdotas e indagando en la vida personal de los científicos implicados en los diversos descubrimientos que condujeron al PET (la tomografía de emisión de positrones), este libro relata cómo se llegó al diseño y la puesta en marcha de esta máquina, actualmente usada en medicina para el diagnóstico y el seguimiento del cáncer, así como otras enfermedades.Entre las personas a menudo se dan desavenencias y envidias, pero también colaboración constante y trabajo desinteresado. La ciencia es un ejemplo de ello: acaba siendo una colmena inteligente, fruto del esfuerzo, a veces solidario, entre hombres y mujeres de ayer y de hoy. Este libro muestra cómo también el quehacer científico se teje con hilos sueltos que podrían quedar como simples renglones torcidos de la ciencia aunque con frecuencia resultan en estampados insospechados.
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Debolsillo Einstein
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Eclipses
Book SynopsisPor qué en China decapitaban a los astrólogos que no predecían un eclipse? Cómo funciona el ciclo de Saros que descubrieron los babilonios? Por qué un eclipse total tarda 375 años en repetirse en el mismo lugar? Qué era el mecanismo de Anticitera y para qué servían sus treinta engranajes? Cómo confirmó un eclipse la teoría general de la relatividad de Einstein? Por qué los animales se desconciertan cuando se oscurece el cielo en pleno día? Es casualidad que la Luna y el Sol tengan ahora el mismo tamaño aparente? Qué descubrieron los astrónomos del siglo xix fotografiando la corona solar?Un libro para quienes buscan entender cómo pasamos del terror supersticioso al cálculo matemático preciso, gracias a un fenómeno que dura pocos minutos y que ha marcado, en muchos aspectos, la historia de la ciencia.Eclipses documenta más de tres mil años de historia humana ante la desaparición del Sol: desde los sacrificios aztecas de personas albinas y los tambores chinos hasta las expediciones científicas que persiguieron la sombra lunar por todo el planeta. Moncho Núñez combina astronomía (geometría orbital, periodicidades, efectos físicos medibles) con episodios históricos verificables: tablillas de arcilla, el Códice de Dresde maya, los informes de Eddington en la isla de Príncipe y hasta el burro que rebuznó en Plasencia durante la totalidad del eclipse de 1900.
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Oxford University Press (UK) Avoid Boring People
Book Synopsis`ames D. Watson looks back on his extraordinary and varied career -- from its beginnings as a schoolboy in Chicago''s South Side to the day he left Harvard almost 50 years later, world-renowned as the co-discoverer of DNA -- and considers the lessons he has learnt along the way. The result is both an engagingly eccentric memoir and an insightful compendium of lessons in life for aspiring scientists. Watson''s ''manners'' range from those he learnt bird-watching with his father during the Great Depression (''Avoid fighting bigger boys and dogs'' and ''Find a young hero to emulate'') to the manners appropriate for a Nobel Prize (''Have friends close to those who rule''). He evokes his time as a graduate student in the 1940s (''Hire spunky lab helpers''); the excitement of working in DNA for the first time as well as having his first dates; his time working as a White House advisor; and at Harvard in the ''70s. Avoid Boring People is a quirky, original, wise, and infuriatingly un-put-downTrade ReviewIt's never dull. * The Herald (Glasgow) *A lively and provocative book. * Financial Times, Books of the Year *Scientists will find the book most interesting. * Irish Times *The story is frank, personal, revealing and sometimes entertaining. * Peter Lawrence, Literary Review *...a deliciously detailed account of his life...Watson remains one of the most fascinating scientists of our time, as iconic in some respects as his double helix. * Nature *Table of Contents1. Manners acquired as a child (Chicago's South Side) ; 2. Manners learned while an undergraduate ; 3. Manners picked up in graduate school ; 4. Manners followed by the Phage Group ; 5. Manners passed on to an apprentice scientist ; 6. Manners needed for important science ; 7. Manners practiced as an untenured professor ; 8. Manners deployed for academic zing ; 9. Manners noticed as a dispensable White House advisor ; 10. Manners appropriate for a Nobel Prize ; 11. Manners demanded by academic ineptitude ; 12. Manners behind for readable books ; 13. Manners required for academic civility ; 14. Manners displayed to hold two jobs ; 15. Manners felt reluctantly leaving Harvard ; Epilogue
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OUP Oxford Ben Franklin Stilled the Waves
Book SynopsisBenjamin Franklin, the 18th-century American statesman and scientist, watched the calming effect of a drop of oil on the waves and ripples of a London pond, and began to investigate exactly what was happening to cause this strange phenomenon. Following Franklin's lead, a motley crowd of scientists over the next two centuries and more chose to investigate the nature of atoms and molecules through the interaction of fluid membranes. Building on Franklin's originalexperiments, their work has culminated in the discovery of the structure of cell membranes, research that continues to bear fruit today. Ben Franklin Stilled the Waves is far more than the story of oil on water; it is a voyage into the very nature of science and its place in our history.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Benjamin Franklin ; 3. Friends and Influences ; 4. The French Connection ; 5. Pliny the Elder ; 6. Eighteenth-Century Science ; 7. Franklin's Experiment: The Observation ; 8. How Small is a Molecule? The Calculation Franklin Did Not Make ; 9. One Hundred Years Later: Science Comes of Age ; 10. Lord Rayleigh ; 11. Meticulous Miss Pockels ; 12. Comrades in the Search: The Flavor of Late Nineteenth-Century Physics ; 13. Ben Franklin Wonders Why (Molecular Interpretation) ; 14. In Praise of Water ; 15. Irving Langmuir - Cells and Membranes ; 16. Biology - Cells and Membranes ; 17. Ernest Overton: Gentle Genius ; 18. Gorter and Grendel: A Factor of Two ; 19. Epilogue - The Biological Frontier ; Bibliography ; Index
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Oxford University Press, USA From Artefacts to Atoms The Bipm and the Search for Ultimate Measurement Standards
Book SynopsisThe International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) is currently implementing the greatest change ever in the world''s system of weights and measures -- it is redefining the kilogram, the final artefact standard, and reorganizing the system of international units. This book tells the inside story of what led to these changes, from the events surrounding the founding of the BIPM in 1875 -- a landmark in the history of international cooperation -- to the present. It traces not only the evolution of the science, but also the story of the key individuals and events. The BIPM was the first international scientific laboratory. Founded in 1875 by the Metre Convention, its original tasks were to conserve the new international standards of the metre and the kilogram, to carry out calibrations for Member States and undertake research to advance measurement science. The book is based on the substantial archive of the BIPM which, from the very beginning, recounts the many discussions and arguments first as to whether and how such an institute should be created and in due course, how over the next one hundred and thirty years it should develop. Despite many national and personal rivalries, the institute actually created was admirably suited to its declared tasks. In the years and decades that followed, the scientific work of the small group of men who made up its first staff was of a very high order. One of the early Directors received the Nobel Prize for physics in 1920 for his discovery of invar. The international governing Board of the institute, the International Committee of Weights and Measures, has guided the institute from one charged with the conservation of the prototype artefacts to one now at the centre of world metrology and preparing for the redefinition of the last remaining artifact, the kilogram, in terms of a fixed value for one of the fundamental constants of physics, the Planck constantTable of ContentsIntroduction ; Chapter 1: The origins of the Metre Convention 1851 to 1869 ; Why? ; The need for international agreement on measurement standards ; The great Exhibition of 1851 in London ; The 1855 Paris Universal Exhibition and Statistical Congress ; The Universal Exhibition Paris 1867; a time of political tension in Europe ; The unit of length for geodesy and the original definition of the metre ; The International Conferences on Geodesy, Berlin 1864 and 1867 ; Reactions from France: the Bureau des Longitudes ; Academy of Science of Saint Petersburg ; Reaction from the Academie des Sciences ; Chapter 2: The creation of the International Metre Commission 1869 ; Creation of the Metre Commission ; The members of the French Section of the Metre Commission ; The first meetings of the French Section ; What should be the origin of the new international metre? ; The first meeting of the Metre Commission, August 1870 ; Chapter 3: The International Metre Commission, meetings of 1872/73 ; The order of things from 1869 to 1875 ; The Committee for Preparatory Research April 1872 ; The International Metre Commission September October 1872 ; Chapter 4: The casting of 1874 and the first steps in the fabrication of the new metric standards ; Great Britain decides not to join ; The problem of melting and casting platinum ; Preparations for the Conservatoire casting ; The casting of 250 kilograms of platinum-iridium on 13 May 1874: the alloy of the Conservatoire ; Approval of the Permanent Committee ; First indications that the alloy of the Conservatoire was contaminated with iron and ruthenium ; To proceed regardless ; Chapter 5: The Diplomatic Conference of the Metre 1875 ; The first sessions of the Conference ; The Special Commission ; First drafts of the Convention ; Attempts at a compromise proposal ; The opinion of the French Government ; The first vote on the proposals ; The 12 and 15 April sessions of the Diplomatic Conference ; The signing of the Metre Convention on 20 May 1875 ; Chapter 6: The creation of the BIPM and the beginning of the construction of the new metric prototypes; problems with the French Section ; The first meeting of the International Committee for Weights and Measures ; The founding members of the International Committee ; Choosing the site for the International Bureau, the Pavillon de Breteuil ; Decisions on the main instruments for the new institute ; Progress between April 1875 and April 1876; design for laboratory building ; Difficult relations between the International Committee and the French Section ; First meeting of the International Committee at the Pavillon de Breteuil; the Committee refuses the 1874 alloy ; A new railway line and improved relations with the French Section ; Chapter 7: 1879 to 1889, the first decade of scientific work at the International Bureau ; Progress with metres and instruments ; Publications, official and scientific and the library ; Elections to the International Committee ; Construction of the new prototypes, the metres ; Construction of the new prototypes, the kilograms ; More on the metres ; Good relations with the French Section ; The measurement of temperature, the 1887 hydrogen scale ; A first unsuccessful step towards electrical standards at the BIPM ; Chapter 8: New Member States and the first General Conference on Weights and Measures, 1889 ; New States join including Great Britain ; Time to call a General Conference? ; Final acts of the French Section ; The first General Conference on Weights and Measures September 1889 ; The formal adoption of the new metric prototypes ; The distribution of national prototypes ; In the end, who was right about the alloy of the Conservatoire? ; Chapter 9: The development of the scientific work at the BIPM, the General Conferences of 1895 and 1901 ; More new scientific work ; Thermometry ; The density of water ; The length of the metre in terms of the wavelength of light ; Calibrations ; Staff health problems and building repairs ; Members of the International Committee ; The toise and the Imperial Standard Yard ; The second General Conference and the BIPM pension scheme and reserve fund ; The third General Conference: the BIPM too small and fragile? ; Chapter 10: The creation of the Grands Laboratoires ; Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt (PTR) ; National Physical Laboratory (NPL) ; The National Bureau of Standards (NBS) ; A French national standards laboratory? ; Chapter 11: The story of invar and the extension of the role of the International Bureau at the 6th General Conference 1921 ; The origins of the discovery of invar ; Thermal and mechanical properties of invar ; Samuel Stratton and Sir David Gill and proposals for changing the Convention ; Scientific staff of the Bureau ; The fifth General Conference and proposals for a new temperature scale ; Legal and practical metrology ; The International Bureau 1914 to 1918 ; The meeting of the International Committee in 1920 and the resignation of Foerster ; Plans to broaden the range of the Bureau's work ; The opening of the sixth General Conference 27 September 1921 ; Objections to the new role for the International Bureau ; Final conclusions of the Conference: a new Convention and broader role for the International Bureau ; Chapter 12: The 7th and 8th General Conferences 1927 and 1933, practical metrology and the Bureau during the Second World War ; The financial situation of the Bureau in the 1920s ; Results of the first verification of national prototypes of the metre presented to 7th General Conference ; What should be the standard temperature for the definition of the metre and for industrial length metrology? ; Quartz reference standards for length and proposals for a new definition of the metre ; Agreement for work on electrical standards at the International Bureau and the creation of the Consultative Committee for Electricity ; The International Temperature Scale of 1927 ; The beginning of electrical work at the International Bureau ; The move to absolute electrical units ; A Consultative Committee for Photometry and the CIE, new definition of the standard of light ; The International Committee takes an important decision related to practical metrology ; Other activities of The International Committee and international Bureau in the 1930s ; The International Bureau during the Second World War ; Scientific work during the War ; Chapter 13: The SI, absolute electrical units, the International Committee and the creation of the ionizing radiation section. ; The call for an International System of Units at the 9th General Conference 1948 ; The substitution of absolute electrical units for the 1908 International Units ; Objections on the part of the PTR ; A date for implementation of the absolute system and interruption caused by the war ; The need to act quickly ; Final decisions of the International Committee ; Final discussions on practical metrology ; New science, new prospects for units ; The International Committee after the war ; The International Bureau and its staff after the war, the Accord de Siege ; The creation of the Ionizing Radiation Section at the Bureau ; Chapter 14: The adoption of the SI, revising the Metre Convention, new definitions of the metre and second at the 11th General Conference 1960 ; The International System of Units SI ; Preparations to revise the Metre Convention ; Discussions at the 11th General Conference ; The change in definition of the Metre: arguments for and against ; Which radiation to choose? ; The new definition of the metre and the International Bureau ; Financial matters and problems of the Cold War ; The definition of the second ; The International Committee decides ; Problems with the new definition of the second ; The second redefined again in 1967 ; The development of the scientific work of the International Bureau up to 1975 ; The influence on the Bureau of national standards laboratories ; The influence of the Consultative Committees ; Laser wavelength standards at the Bureau ; Staff development at the Bureau ; Calibrations: an evolving activity at the Bureau ; The new journal, Metrologia ; Chapter 15: The mole, the speed of light and more about the Metre Convention ; The mole and chemistry ; The first attempt to bring chemistry into the affairs of the Bureau ; The 13th CGPM and its refusal to adopt the dotation ; The Centenary of the Metre Convention in 1975 ; Redefinition of the metre in terms of the speed of light ; New proposals to modify the Metre Convention ; The Direction and supervision of the International Bureau from 1975 to 2003 ; The financial situation of the BIPM from 1975 to 2003 ; The Pavillon du Mail, some difficulties with building permission ; Chapter 16: New science at the BIPM and the Recognition of National measurement Standards ; The BIPM staff in the last quarter of the 20th century ; Developments in photometry and radiometry and a new definition of the candela ; International Atomic Time and Coordinated Universal Time ; Other new science at the Bureau ; The new quantum electrical standards ; The BIPM mechanical workshop ; Chemistry at last comes to the CIPM and BIPM ; Traceability in laboratory medicine ; The International Organization for Legal Metrology ; The CIPM Mutual Recognition Arrangement for National Measurement Standards - early discussions ; First moves towards an MRA ; Regional metrology organizations ; Other pressures on national laboratories and looking to the BIPM ; First meeting of Directors of national metrology institutes and first draft of an MRA ; Quality systems and key comparison reference values ; Final agreement reached ; Chapter 17: The redefinition of the kilogram and the move towards the New SI ; The kilogram from 1889 to the present day ; Advances in science that at last make absolute units possible ; The watt balance ; Determine the mass of an atom by x-ray crystal density of silicon ; Comparing the results from the watt balance and the silicon crystal density experiments ; How and when to proceed to an actual redefinition of the kilogram ; What does it mean to fix the numerical value of a fundamental constant and how do we use it to define a unit? ; The arguments against a new definition ; Redefining the ampere, kelvin and mole ; How to formulate the new definitions ; The CIPM proposes an absolute system of units based on the fundamental constants of physics ; Epilogue: The new SI and the future role of the BIPM ; Appendix English text of the Metre Convention ; Bibliography
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Clarendon Press Inward Bound
Book SynopsisThe history of physics since the discovery of X-rays would be too simplistic a description of this book. Certainly it covers the historical period from the late nineteenth century to the present day, but the book attempts to relate not only what has happened over the last hundred years or so, but why it happened the way it did, what it was like for those scientists involved, and how what, at the time, seemed a series of bizarre or unrelated events, now with hindsight presents a logical narrative. The author, himself a notable physicist and author of the highly successful Subtle is the Lord (Clarendon Press 1982), was personally involved in many of the developments described in the book. As with his previous book, unique insights into the world of big and small physics are to be gained from this major work.Trade Review'It is rare indeed to find a professional physicist who combines such historical accomplishment, a lucid and refreshing style and a deep and relaxed understanding of his subject matter...Throughout, he provides shrewd and illuminating comments on experimental practice and theory construction and on current theories in the philosophy of scientific discovery.' Times Literary Supplement'a learned and detailed commentary on what has been discovered about the constituents of matter, the laws to which they are subject, and the forces which act on them. It is a work of real scholarship.' New Scientist'Pais's mastery of the whole field of elementary particle physics is manifest on every page. In addition, his insight into the personalities of the actors in the story is remarkable ... It is an inimitable work.' Nature'The history of "modern" physics has been told many times, although seldom with such insight and affection.' Times Higher Education Supplement'In this groundbreaking new volume, Pais undertakes a history of the physics of matter and of physical forces since the discovery of X-rays ... this magisterial survey richly conveys what has been discovered about the constituents of matter, the laws to which they are subject and the forces that act on them' europe & astronomy, 1992Table of ContentsPurpose and plan; PART I: 1895-1945: A HISTORY; The new rays; From uranic rays to radioactivity; The first particle; Interlude: earliest physiological discoveries; Radioactivity's three early puzzles; Pitfalls of simplicity; ß-spectra 1907-1914; Atomic structure and spectral lines; `It was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity'; Nuclear physics' tender age; Quantum mechanics, an essay; First encounters with symmetry and invariance; Nuclear physics: the age of paradox; Quantum fields, or how particles are made and how they disappear; Battling the infinite; In which the nucleus acquires a new constituent, loses an old one, reveals new forces with new symmetries, and is explored by new experimental methods - the 1930s; PART II: THE POSTWAR YEARS: A MEMOIR; Of quantum electrodynamics' triumphs and limitations and of a new particle sobering impact; In which particle physics enters the era of big machines and big detectors and pion physics goes through ups and downs; Onset of an era: new forms of matter appear, old symmetries crumble; Essay on modern times: 1960-83; Being a conclusion that starts as epilog and ends as prolog.
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OUP Oxford Fabulous Science
Book SynopsisThe great biologist Louis Pasteur suppressed ''awkward'' data because it didn''t support the case he was making. John Snow, the ''first epidemiologist'' was doing nothing others had not done before. Gregor Mendel, the supposed ''founder of genetics'' never grasped the fundamental principles of ''Mendelian'' genetics. Joseph Lister''s famously clean hospital wards were actually notorious dirty. And Einstein''s general relativity was only ''confirmed'' in 1919 because an eminent British scientist cooked his figures. These are just some of the revelations explored in this book. Drawing on current history of science scholarship, Fabulous Science shows that many of our greatest heroes of science were less than honest about their experimental data and not above using friends in high places to help get their ideas accepted. It also reveals that the alleged revolutionaries of the history of science were often nothing of the sort. Prodigiously able they may have been, but the epithet of the ''mTrade ReviewReview from previous edition Waller writes with clarity and flair . . . [he] has a real talent for telling a story. * Roy Porter *Everyone with an interest in science should read this book. * Focus *a great read * Nature *Waller tells these stories well ... [his] examples are a valuable look sideways at the rolling juggernaut of modern science. * Martin Ince, New Scientist *Table of ContentsPART 1: RIGHT FOR THE WRONG REASONS ; PART 2: TELLING SCIENCE AS IT WAS
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Oxford University Press, USA Victorian Afterlives The Shaping of Influence in NineteenthCentury Literature
Book SynopsisQuestions of survival were much discussed during the nineteenth-century, ranging from debates over the likelihood of a personal immortality, to anxieties over the more dispersed and unpredictable aftermath of particular acts and utterances. Some of these questions emerged in the intellectual and stylistic preoccupations of individual writers, such as Dickens, Tennyson, and FitzGerald. Others contributed towards the cultural atmosphere they shared, in which shifty and overlapping ideas of ''influence'' (from the seductive touch of the mesmerist to the contagious breath of the poor) became central to attempts to work out how far-reaching were the effects which people had on one another and themselves.Victorian Afterlives sets out to recover this atmosphere, and to explain why its pressures are still being exercised on and in our own ways of thinking. Moving freely between different fields of enquiry (including literary criticism, philosophy, and the history of science), and written in a lively and accessible style, this major new study redraws the map of nineteenth-century culture to show what the Victorians made of one another, and what they might still help us make of ourselves.Trade ReviewReview from hardback edition ... neatly phrased, incisive commentary is a precious feature of this book: its strength lies in such observations, in the author's highly-trained discrimination as a close reader of words. * Dickens Quarterly *Review from hardback edition It is perhaps the most remarkable achievement of Victorian Afterlives that this book, whose subject seems at first so uncertain, so forced, so peculiar to itself, should emerge as a significant combination of subjects previously known. * MODERNISM/modernity *Review from previous edition This book is one of the most impressive critical analyses of nineteenth-century literary culture that I have read in a long time. A closely written and argued discussion of theories of literary influence in a nineteenth-century context, it ranges widely and makes always interesting and sometimes brilliant connections . . . This is a major work of Victorian literary criticism, and a book to be read over and over again for its myriad insights and felicities. * Tennyson Research Bulletin *Close readings unravel the manner in which "dead" voices haunt Tennyson's poetry, and the author is uncommonly sharp-eared for nuance. * Scotland on Sunday *Ambitious, delightful, frustrating, wide-ranging, often beautifully written . . . Its sheer range sets it apart from the usual academic monograph . . . refreshingly free of jargon. * Angela Leighton, Times Literary Supplement *One of the enjoyable features of Douglas-Fairhurst's writing is its commitment to close reading. He can make a word or line come alive by a turn of phrase which resonantly prolongs its momentum. * Angela Leighton, Times Literary Supplement *'Douglas-Fairhurst's excellent ear for the influential voices in the Victorian air is . . extraordinarily impressive in its demonstration of an ambitiously capacious conception of influence . . . the range of reference and allusion in the book is dizzying, . . . and the evocation of these echoing voices provides an extraordinary resonance to his discussions, especially, of Dickens' Great Expectation, Tennyson's "sympathy", and Edward FitzGerald's nostalgic savouring of the afterlives of friends and texts in memory.' * Victorian Poetry *Table of ContentsAbbreviations ; Introduction ; 1. Forms of Survival ; 2. Voices in the Air ; 3. Tennyson's Sympathy ; 4. Edward FitzGerald: Under the Influence ; Afterword ; Bibliography ; Index
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Oxford University Press The Many Worlds of Hugh Everett III
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Oxford University Press Newton Papers The Strange and True Odyssey of Isaac Newtons Manuscripts
Book SynopsisThe untold story of Newton's private papers, hidden for centuries, sold for a pittance and then painstakingly reconstructed to reveal a man altogether stranger and more complicated than the genius of legend.Trade ReviewThis fascinating book traces thehistory of Newton's papers...The author gives some fascinating background...It is a captivating story. * Paradigm Explorer, David Lorimer, Programme DirectorScientific and Medical NetworkEditor, Paradigm Explorer *Not only is the book a valuable contribution to the history of Newton's work, but it is a most enjoyable read with elements of a good detective story * J. S. Rowlinson, Science Progress *Sarah Dry tells a riveting, beautifully written story * Times Higher Education *Dry's fine writing and scholarship make this book a useful resource and a good read * Robyn Arianrhod, Times Higher Education *compelling * Stuart Kelly, Scotland on Sunday *Engaging book * Economist *Dry is to be congratulated for furnishing us with a fresh and readable chronicle of the tortuous route that Newtons manuscript took to being made public. * Nature *By identifying the roles of a host of collectors in securing various parts of the collection, Dry does full justice to a fascinating story; it sheds bright light on the range and development of this most brilliant - and most elusive - of minds. Pure joy. * Graham Farmelo, Times Higher Education *Drawing on existing scholarship, it is a story well worth sharing with anyone interested in Newton and how we have, over three hundred years, come to know him and shaped his legacy. Sarah Dry has a colorful and intriguing cast of characters on which to draw, who represent a surprisingly varied set of motives for engaging with Newton's life and literary remains. * Rebekah Higgitt, H-Albion *Table of ContentsPreface ; I. 1727-1822 ; 1. The last conflagration ; 2. Sincere search ; 3. To gratify men's curiosities ; II. 1822-1872 ; 4 Deranged studies ; 5. Lighting the fire ; 6. Marginal notation ; 7. Any scrap ; 8. Monsters of perfection ; III. 1872-1888 ; 9. Proudest boast ; 10. A hiatus in the history ; 11. Examine, classify, divide ; IV. 1888-1936 ; 12. Human documents ; 13. Hundreds of feet of mellow calf ; 14. Four shillings ; 15. Pioneers of science ; 16. L9,000 ; 17. A very substantial collection ; 18. Arab's antiquities ; 19. Last of the magicians ; V. 1936-the present ; 20. Founding of a discipline ; 21. We know nothing of Newton here ; 22. Newtonian industry ; 23. Newton's paper trail ; 24. Unity and flux ; 25. Ultimate value
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