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The Masters by C. P. Snow
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $20.32Winner 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: $31.18Booksplease Price: $27.89The 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: $25.33Booksplease Price: $20.90Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
C. P. Snow and the Struggle of Modernity by John de la Mothe
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $32.12The 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: $19.48Booksplease Price: $17.24In 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... -
Literature and Science by Sharon Ruston 9781843841784
RRP: $126.75Booksplease Price: $123.32Essays exploring the complex relationship between literature and science. In 1959 C. P. Snow memorably described the `gulf of mutual incomprehension' which existed between `literary intellectuals'... -
Science and the Humanities by Moody E. Prior
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $61.07Science and the Humanities contains five lectures concerning the discussion of the relation of science and the humanities, focusing on the work of thinkers such as James B. Conant and C. P. Snow.Book... -
A Mathematician's Apology by G. H. Hardy 9781107604636
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $24.69G. 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... -
Social Texts and Context: Literature and Social Psychology Jonathan Potter 9781032575179
RRP: $58.48Booksplease Price: $57.51First published in 1984, Social Texts and Context illustrates the ways in which familiar psychological concepts - femininity, the environment, groups, the self - are constructed in discourse. Novels... -
Social Texts and Context: Literature and Social Psychology by Jonathan Potter 9781032575131
Booksplease Price: $215.26First published in 1984, Social Texts and Context illustrates the ways in which familiar psychological concepts - femininity, the environment, groups, the self - are constructed in discourse. Novels... -
Pamela Hansford Johnson: A Writing Life by Deirdre David 9780198729617
Booksplease Price: $97.27Deirdre David traces the successful writing life of Pamela Hansford Johnson (1912-1981) from the time of her childhood growing up in a theatrical household in South London to her death as the widow... -
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The Cambridge Quintet by John L. Casti 9780738201382 [USED COPY]
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $1.87In 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: $21.43Booksplease Price: $12.66No 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... -
Academic Instincts by Marjorie Garber
RRP: $74.10Booksplease Price: $64.00In this lively and provocative book, cultural critic Marjorie Garber, who has written on topics as different as Shakespeare, dogs, cross-dressing, and real estate, explores the pleasures and pitfalls... -
Teaching with Science Writing in the Humanities Classroom Allison Dushane 9781603297165
Booksplease Price: $62.89Options for teaching science writing in humanities courses Science writing is an expansive genre that invites collaborations between the humanities and science-not as separate endeavors but as... -
Teaching with Science Writing in the Humanities Classroom Allison Dushane 9781603297158
Booksplease Price: $193.65Options for teaching science writing in humanities courses Science writing is an expansive genre that invites collaborations between the humanities and science-not as separate endeavors but as... -
The Arts Of Eminent Scientists: Essential Connections Between Art And Science by Robert Root-bernstein 9789819820054
RRP: $234.00Booksplease Price: $208.98Scientists as artists?! The idea may sound strange, even unlikely, yet The Arts of Eminent Scientists demonstrates that many of the world's most respected scientists have been extraordinarily... -
Anatomy of Satire by Gilbert Highet 9780691619415
RRP: $97.50Booksplease Price: $93.21Literary satire assumes three main forms: monologue, parody, and narrative (some fictional, some dramatic). This book by Gilbert Highet is a study of these forms, their meaning, their variation,... -
Teaching Science Through Science Fiction: A Story of Innovation in the Classroom and Beyond by Joerg Matthias Determann 9783032243522
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $38.43This book explores the modern history of teaching science through science fiction. In the 1950s, British scientist and novelist C. P. Snow argued that the growing divide between the "two cultures",... -
Science on Stage: From Doctor Faustus to Copenhagen by Kirsten Shepherd-Barr
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $49.16Science on Stage is the first full-length study of the phenomenon of "science plays"--theatrical events that weave scientific content into the plot lines of the drama. The book investigates the... -
The Boer War by Thomas Pakenham 9781399632423
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $26.58The 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... -
Unified Fields: Science and Literary Form by Janine Rogers 9780773544239
RRP: $58.48Booksplease Price: $48.28Literary form presents an important opportunity for understanding the relationship between literature and science. Through a series of close readings of poetry and prose, Unified Fields demonstrates... -
Perspectives on Science and Culture by Kris Rutten
Booksplease Price: $90.27Edited by Kris Rutten, Stefaan Blancke, and Ronald Soetaert, Perspectives on Science and Culture explores the intersection between scientific understanding and cultural representation from an... -
The Face Of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme by John Keegan
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.84The 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... -
Margaret Mead: The Making of an American Icon by Nancy C. Lutkehaus
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $52.12"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world."--Margaret Mead This quotation--found on posters and bumper stickers, and adopted as the motto for hundreds of... -
Robert Frost and New England: The Poet As Regionalist by John C. Kemp 9780691630991
RRP: $214.50Booksplease Price: $192.17Though critics traditionally have paid homage to Robert Frost's New England identity by labeling him a regionalist, John Kemp is the first to investigate what was in fact a highly complex... -
Robert Frost and New England: The Poet As Regionalist by John C. Kemp 9780691601250
RRP: $87.75Booksplease Price: $71.43Though critics traditionally have paid homage to Robert Frost's New England identity by labeling him a regionalist, John Kemp is the first to investigate what was in fact a highly complex... -
The Sciences and the Humanities: Conflict and Reconciliation by W. T. Jones 9780520368057
RRP: $156.00Booksplease Price: $138.24The 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: $199.88These 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: $37.03Booksplease Price: $30.75The 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... -
Richard Aldington: An Autobiography in Letters by Norman T. Gates 9780271028446
Booksplease Price: $73.50In 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... -
Disrupting Science: Social Movements, American Scientists, and the Politics of the Military, 1945-1975 by Kelly Moore
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $49.16In the decades following World War II, American scientists were celebrated for their contributions to social and technological progress. They were also widely criticized for their increasingly close... -
Culture and Society: 1780-1950 by Raymond Williams
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.45Acknowledged 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 -... -
Numbers at Work: A Cultural Perspective Rudolf Taschner 9781568812908
RRP: $234.00Booksplease Price: $215.26Drawing primarily from historical examples, this book explains the tremendous role that numbers and, in particular, mathematics play in all aspects of our civilization and culture. The lively style... -
Nazi Antarctic Exploration: Hitler's Escape to South America and Secret Nazi Bases in Antarctica by Ladislas Szabo
Booksplease Price: $58.48Within the pages of this fully illustrated book you will be able to follow the author's detailed research showing how Hitler escaped war torn Berlin, at the end of the war and able to flee Europe,... -
The Hatred of Literature by William Marx
RRP: $70.10Booksplease Price: $59.01For the last 2,500 years literature has been attacked, booed, and condemned, often for the wrong reasons and occasionally for very good ones. The Hatred of Literature examines the evolving idea of... -
Proust Was a Neuroscientist Jonah Lehrer 9780857862310
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50Is 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... -
Social Cognition: Development, Neuroscience and Autism Tricia Striano (University of Leipzig) 9781405162173
RRP: $183.20Booksplease Price: $165.77How we perceive and interpret the actions of others is crucial if we are to develop into healthy adults. It has even been argued that a lack of social cognitive skills lays a strong foundation for a... -
Secrets of Creativity: What Neuroscience, the Arts, and Our Minds Reveal by Suzanne Nalbantian 9780190462321
Booksplease Price: $157.60Secrets of Creativity: What Neuroscience, the Arts, and Our Minds Reveal draws on insights from leading neuroscientists and scholars in the humanities and the arts to probe creativity in its many... -
The Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel: John Williams, Stoner, and the Writing Life by Charles J. Shields 9781477320105
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $26.07When 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...