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The Masters by C. P. Snow
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42Winner of 1954 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction.Widely regarded as C. P. Snow's masterpiece, this lucid and compelling story of the contest for the Mastership of a Cambridge college is the... -
The Two Cultures by C. P. Snow
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.30The notion that our society, its education system and its intellectual life, is characterised by a split between two cultures - the arts or humanities on one hand and the sciences on the other - has... -
Time of Hope by C. P. Snow 9781509864140
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.72Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
C. P. Snow and the Struggle of Modernity by John de la Mothe
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47The condition of modernity springs from that tension between science and the humanities that had its roots in the Enlightenment but reached its full flowering with the rise of twentieth-century... -
Two Cultures?: The Significance of C. P. Snow by F. R. Leavis 9781107617353
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.84In this first annotated edition of F. R. Leavis' famous critique of C. P. Snow's influential argument about 'the two cultures', Stefan Collini reappraises both its literary tactics and its purpose as... -
A Mathematician's Apology by G. H. Hardy 9781107604636
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.66G. H. Hardy was one of this century's finest mathematical thinkers, renowned among his contemporaries as a 'real mathematician ... the purest of the pure'. He was also, as C. P. Snow recounts in his... -
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The Cambridge Quintet by John L. Casti 9780738201382 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £0.96In this narrative tour de force, gifted scientist and author John L. Casti contemplates an imaginary evening of intellectual inquiry--a sort of "My Dinner with" not Andre, but five of the most... -
Statesmanship: The Best of the New Statesman, 1913-2019 by Various
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.49No British periodical or weekly magazine has a richer and more distinguished archive than the New Statesman, which has long been at the centre of British political and cultural life. If not quite at... -
The Boer War by Thomas Pakenham 9781399632423
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.63The war declared by the Boers on 11 October 1899 gave the British, as Kipling said, 'no end of a lesson'. The public expected it to be over by Christmas, but it proved to be the longest (two and... -
The Face Of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme by John Keegan
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.74The Face of Battle is military history from the battlefield: an imperishable account of the direct experience of individuals at 'the point of maximum danger'. It examines the physical conditions of... -
Richard Aldington: An Autobiography in Letters by Norman T. Gates 9780271028446
Booksplease Price: £37.69In the most comprehensive selection of his letters ever published, Norman Gates allows Richard Aldington to tell the story of his life in his own words. Unlike Aldington's autobiography, Life for... -
The Sciences and the Humanities: Conflict and Reconciliation by W. T. Jones 9780520368057
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £70.89The Sciences and the Humanities: Conflict and Reconciliation by W. T. Jones confronts one of the most enduring dilemmas of modern culture: the apparent chasm between scientific rationalism and... -
Random Curves: Journeys of a Mathematician by Neal Koblitz 9783540740773
Booksplease Price: £102.50These autobiographical memoirs of Neal Koblitz, coinventor of one of the two most popular forms of encryption and digital signature, cover many topics besides his own personal career in mathematics... -
The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Volume X – Companion by Samuel Pepys 9780004990309
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.77The companion volume to the complete Diary of Samuel Pepys in its most authoritative and acclaimed edition. Samuel Pepys's Diary was first published in abbreviated form in 1825. A... -
Culture and Society: 1780-1950 by Raymond Williams
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Acknowledged as a masterpiece of materialist criticism, this book delves into the complex ways economic reality shapes the imagination. Surveying two hundred years of history and English literature -... -
Proust Was a Neuroscientist Jonah Lehrer 9780857862310
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Is science the only path to knowledge?In this sparkling and provocative book, Jonah Lehrer explains that when it comes to understanding the brain, art got there first. Taking a group of celebrated... -
The Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel: John Williams, Stoner, and the Writing Life by Charles J. Shields 9781477317365
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.89When Stoner was published in 1965, the novel sold only a couple of thousand copies before disappearing with hardly a trace. Yet John Williams's quietly powerful tale of a Midwestern college... -
The Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel: John Williams, Stoner, and the Writing Life by Charles J. Shields 9781477320105
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37When Stoner was published in 1965, the novel sold only a couple of thousand copies before disappearing with hardly a trace. Yet John Williams's quietly powerful tale of a Midwestern college... -
The Atomic Human: Understanding Ourselves in the Age of AI by Neil D. Lawrence 9781802062106
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.42'An utterly absorbing account of humans, computers, and how much they differ' Dame Diane Coyle, author of Cogs and MonstersWhat does Artificial Intelligence mean for our identity? Our fascination... -
The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity-and Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race by Daniel Z. Lieberman
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.002020 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Winner - Science Category2018 Forward Indies Finalist - Psychology CategoryWhy are we obsessed with the things we want only to be bored when we get them? Why...