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A Brief History of Medicine by Paul Strathern
Category: History | Series: Brief Histories
Paperback original The foundations for the scientific study of the body and modern Western medicine as we know it started with William Harvey's discovery of the circulatory system in the early 17th century. But its roots stretch back into Ancient Greece, when medicine first departed from the divine and ...Show more
Curie & Radio Activity (The Big Idea) by Paul Strathern
Category: Science & Natural History | Series: Big Idea
At a moment of great discovery, one Big Idea can change the world...Marie Curie had one of the finest scientific minds of the twentieth century, overturning established ideas in both physics and chemistry. She had an equally profound effect in the social arena, challenging the commonly held belief that ...Show more
Dark Brilliance: The Age of Reason from Descartes to Peter the Great by Paul Strathern
Category: History
Between the end of the Renaissance and the start of the Enlightenment, Europe lived through an era known as the Age of Reason. This was a period which saw advances in areas such as art, science, philosophy, political theory and economics. However, all this was achieved against a background of extreme ...Show more
Dark Brilliance: The Age of Reason from Descartes to Peter the Great by Paul Strathern
Category: History
A sweeping history of the Age of Reason, which shows how, although it was a time of progress in many areas, it was also an era of brutality and intolerance, by the author of The Borgias and The Florentines. Between the end of the Renaissance and the start of the Enlightenment, Europe lived through an er ...Show more
Darwin and Evolution (The Big Idea) by Paul Strathern
Category: Children's | Series: Big Idea
Charles Darwin's formulation of the theory of evolution with its now commonplace central idea of "the survival of the fittest" is, if not fully proven, generally accepted as logical and self-evident. Yet at the time, his revolutionary work "On the Origin of Species", and the notion that mankind was just ...Show more
Death in Florence: The Medici, Savonarola and the Battle for the Soul of the Renaissance by Paul Strathern
Category: History
By the end of the fifteenth century, Florence was well established as the home of the Renaissance. As generous patrons to the likes of Botticelli and Michelangelo, the ruling Medici embodied the progressive humanist spirit of the age, and in Lorenzo the Magnificent they possessed a diplomat capable of g ...Show more
Dr Strangelove\'s Game by Paul Strathern
Category: unmapped
An account of the lives, times and ideas of the great economists - men such as Adam Smith, Karl Marx, John Maynard Keynes and, of course, Dr Strangelove himself - John von Neumann, the crippled, crazed genius who invented game theory.