The Path to Genocide

Christopher R Browning

• Hardcover | Engels | Canto
• The Path to Genocide studies three aspects of the events leading up to the Final Solution in Nazi Germany. First, Nazi's "solutions" to their self-imp... Lees meer

The Old World and the New

J H Elliott

• Paperback | Engels | Canto
• The impact of Europe on a newly-discovered world of America has long been a subject of historical fascination. Yet the impact of that discovery and co... Lees meer

The Golem at Large

Harry Collins, Trevor Pinch, H M Collins

• Paperback | Engels | Canto
• In the widely discussed first volume in the Golem series, The Golem: What You Should Know About Science, Harry Colllins and Trevor Pinch likened scien... Lees meer

The Ghost in the Atom

Davies

• Paperback | Engels | Canto
• Anybody who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it. Niels Bohr's dictum bears witness to the bewildering impact of quantum theory, fly... Lees meer

The Return of Grand Theory in the Human Sciences

• Paperback | Engels | Canto
• The past quarter of a century has seen dramatic developments in social and political thought. These essays offer an indispensable introduction to some... Lees meer

Canto Volume 1: If I Only Had a Heart

David M Booher

• Hardcover | Engels | Canto
• A tiny clockwork hero on a quest for a heart for the one he loves, fights for freedom and hope, facing tyrannical forces in a fantastical modern fairy... Lees meer

Genius Explained

Michael J a Howe

• Paperback | Engels | Canto
• The cherished view of genius is that it is a special inborn gift: something mysterious, even miraculous. In Genius Explained, psychologist Michael How... Lees meer

Shakespeare's Professional Career

Peter Thomson

• Paperback | Engels | Canto
• Shakespeare's career as actor and playwright reveals the extraordinary accommodation of his genius to the circumstances of his time. This unique accou... Lees meer

The Large, the Small and the Human Mind

Roger Penrose

• Paperback | Engels | Canto
• Roger Penrose's views on the large-scale physics of the Universe, the small-scale world of quantum physics and the physics of the mind are controversi... Lees meer

Superstrings

Davies

• Paperback | Engels | Canto
• Superstring theory is one of the most exciting and actively pursued branches of physics today. This book explains the superstring theory for laymen, i... Lees meer

The Thread of Life

Susan Aldridge

• Paperback | Engels | Canto
• In this fascinating book, Susan Aldridge gives an accessible guide to the world of DNA and also explores the applications of genetic engineering in bi... Lees meer

Conquest and Empire

A B Bosworth

• Paperback | Engels | Canto
• This book is an exploration of the process and consequences of the campaigns of Alexander the Great of Macedon (who reigned from 336 to 323 BC), focus... Lees meer

Improving Nature?

Michael J Reiss, Roger Straughan

• Paperback | Engels | Canto
• Little more than a decade ago the term "genetic engineering" was hardly known outside research laboratories. Today it regularly makes headlines. Those... Lees meer

The Seeds of Speech

Jean Aitchison

• Paperback | Engels | Canto
• Human language is a weird communication system: it has more in common with birdsong than with the calls of other primates. Jean Aitchison explores the... Lees meer

The Rise and Fall of Anne Boleyn

Retha M Warnicke

• Paperback | Engels | Canto
• The events which led to the execution of Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's second queen, in 1536 have traditionally been explained by historians in terms of a... Lees meer

The English Languages

Tom McArthur

• Paperback | Engels | Canto
• Hundreds of millions of people use English every day everywhere in the world, but may or may not succeed in understanding each other. Despite the succ... Lees meer

Canto II: The Hollow Men

David Booher

• Paperback | Engels | Canto | nr. 2
• Once, a little tin slave with a clock for a heart broke all the rules--he found love, took a name, and escaped his masters to go on an epic journey to... Lees meer

The Theory of Evolution

John Maynard Smith, Smith John Maynard

• Paperback | Engels | Canto
• All living plants and animals, including man, are the modified descendants of one or a few simple living things. A hundred years ago Darwin and Wallac... Lees meer

The Bigger Bang

James E Lidsey

• Paperback | Engels | Canto
• James Lidsey deftly steers us along a journey back in time to the very origin of the universe. We are introduced to the fascinating ideas scientists a... Lees meer

The River of Time

Igor D Novikov

• Paperback | Engels | Canto
• The nature of time has long fascinated physicists and the general public. As an irresistible flow into which all events are embedded, time cannot be s... Lees meer

Marc Bloch

Carole Fink

• Hardcover | Engels | Canto
• Few twentieth-century scholars have achieved such widespread admiration as the French historian Marc Bloch (1886-1944). A soldier in both world wars a... Lees meer

Reading the Holocaust

Inga Clendinnen

• Paperback | Engels | Canto
• Exploring the experience of the Holocaust from both the victims' and the perpetrators' points of view, Ithis 2002 book seeks to dispel what the author... Lees meer

Myth, Literature and the African World

Wole Soyinka

• Paperback | Engels | Canto
• Wole Soyinka, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and one of the foremost living African writers, here analyses the interconnecting worlds of myt... Lees meer

Seven Clues to the Origin of Life

A G Galexander Cairns-Smith

• Paperback | Engels | Canto
• This book addresses the question of how life may have arisen on earth, in the spirit of an intriguing detective story. It relies on the methods of She... Lees meer