Browse by category
Coffee with Aristotle by Jonathan Barnes
Category: Fiction | Series: Coffee With...Series
Not many people can claim to have invented a new science, but Aristotle invented two: zoology and logic. More than two millennia after his death, Aristotle's thought still influences us. Here, over coffee (a drink Aristotle never tasted), he converses with refreshing and illuminating simplicity about ev ...Show more
Coffee with Groucho by Simon Louvish
Category: Other Gift | Series: Coffee With...Series
With a foreword by the actor, director, and playwright described as "the greatest living exponent of Groucho Marx's material" by "The New York Times, " and text by the author of Monkey Business, a biography of the Marx Brothers, this bio brings the wisecracking, cigar-chomping, eyebrow-raising comedian ...Show more
Coffee with Isaac Newton by Michael White
Category: Maths Physics Chemistry | Series: Coffee With...Series
Sir Isaac Newton formulated the concept of gravity, devised a radically new theory of light, and created a calculus that revolutionized mathematics. Join him for a mind-expanding tour of the principles of modern science! You'll discover that there was far more to Sir Isaac than his great discoveries. Mi ...Show more
Coffee with Michelangelo by James Hall
Category: Art Books | Series: Coffee With...Series
How would it feel to stand in the Sistine Chapel as Michelangelo painted? To watch him create his breathtaking sculptures? James Hall, an art critic, historian, and lecturer, puts us in that amazing position, and in the process reveals intriguing details on the master artist's life and thoughts. Despite ...Show more
Coffee with Mozart by Julian Rushton (University of Leeds)
Category: Performing Arts | Series: Coffee With...Series
Imagine: Mozart, near death, positioned at just the point when he can reflect on the entirety of his relatively short, but amazingly productive life. Julian Rushton, an Emeritus Professor of Music and author of the "New Grove Guide to Mozart and His Music, " takes us to him at just that time. The former ...Show more
Coffee with Oscar Wilde by Merlin Holland
Category: Other Health | Series: Coffee With...Series
Oscar Wilde's own grandson, with the help of actor and author Simon Callow--who has performed Wilde's work on stage--capture the essence of this wittiest of all playwrights. Set in Paris, where he fled after the scandalous trial that revealed his homosexuality, Wilde chats about language, his mother (an ...Show more
Coffee with Plato by Donald R Moor
Category: Other Gift | Series: Coffee With...Series
Around 428 BC, Plato was born into one of Athens's most aristocratic families, and ultimately gathered around him some of the greatest minds of his age. Travel back to ancient Greece with Professor Emeritus of Philosophy Donald R. Moor and author Robert M. Pirsig ("Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintena ...Show more
Coffee with the Buddha by Joan Duncan Oliver
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Coffee With...Series
The earth trembles. Lions, tigers, and scorpions grow tame. Humans shower one another with kindness. Such marvels herald a wondrous event: Siddhartha Gautama, known as The Buddha. What knowledge would such a sage have to impart? The Way of the Bodhisattva becomes clear as The Buddha speaks here about su ...Show more
1 - 8 of 8