Simon Boyle's Books

Chemistry

The Impure Science

By: Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent,Jonathan Simon

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Chemistry

The Impure Science

By: Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent,Jonathan Simon

A presentation of the history and philosophy of chemistry. It introduces the reader to various themes in the domain, and argues for a thesis: chemistry is not reducible to physics, but rather needs it own philosophy that reflects its practical engagement with the material world.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

281

Publisher

World Scientific

Published Date

ISBN 10

1848162251

ISBN 13

9781848162259

Light without Heat

The Observational Mood from Bacon to Milton

By: David Carroll Simon

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Light without Heat

The Observational Mood from Bacon to Milton

By: David Carroll Simon

In Light without Heat, David Carroll Simon argues for the importance of carelessness to the literary and scientific experiments of the seventeenth century. While scholars have often looked to this period in order to narrate the triumph of methodical rigor as a quintessentially modern intellectual value, Simon describes the appeal of open-ended receptivity to the protagonists of the New Science. In straying from the work of self-possession and the duty to sift fact from fiction, early modern intellectuals discovered the cognitive advantages of the undisciplined mind. Exploring the influence of what he calls the "observational mood" on both poetry and prose, Simon offers new readings of Michel de Montaigne, Francis Bacon, Izaak Walton, Henry Power, Robert Hooke, Robert Boyle, Andrew Marvell, and John Milton. He also extends his inquiry beyond the boundaries of early modernity, arguing for a literary theory that trades strict methodological commitment for an openness to lawless drift.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

352

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1501723413

ISBN 13

9781501723414

Northern Ireland’s ’68

Civil Rights, Global Revolt and the Origins of the Troubles ~ New Edition

By: Simon Prince

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Northern Ireland’s ’68

Civil Rights, Global Revolt and the Origins of the Troubles ~ New Edition

By: Simon Prince

The Troubles may have developed into a sectarian conflict, but the violence was sparked by a small band of leftists who wanted Derry in October 1968 to be a repeat of Paris in May 1968. Like their French comrades, Northern Ireland's 'sixty-eighters' had assumed that street fighting would lead to political struggle. The struggle that followed, however, was between communities rather than classes. In the divided society of Northern Ireland, the interaction of the global and the local that was the hallmark of 1968 had tragic consequences. Drawing on a wealth of new sources and scholarship, Simon Prince's timely new edition offers a fresh and compelling interpretation of the civil rights movement of 1968 and the origins of the Troubles. The authoritative and enthralling narrative weaves together accounts of high politics and grassroots protests, mass movements and individuals, and international trends and historic divisions, to show how events in Northern Ireland and around the world were interlinked during 1968.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

346

Publisher

Merrion Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1788550382

ISBN 13

9781788550383

A Commerce of Knowledge

Trade, Religion, and Scholarship Between England and the Ottoman Empire, C.1600-1760

By: Simon Mills

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

A Commerce of Knowledge

Trade, Religion, and Scholarship Between England and the Ottoman Empire, C.1600-1760

By: Simon Mills

A Commerce of Knowledge tells the story of three generations of Church of England chaplains who worked in Ottoman Aleppo during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. By reconstructing their careers, Simon Mills shows the links between English commercial and diplomatic expansion, and English scholarly and missionary interests.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

353

Published Date

ISBN 10

0198840330

ISBN 13

9780198840336

Britain's Revival and Fall in the Gulf

Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and the Trucial States, 1950-71

By: Simon C. Smith

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Britain's Revival and Fall in the Gulf

Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and the Trucial States, 1950-71

By: Simon C. Smith

This book examines Britain's decision to leave the Gulf and considers the interaction between British decision-making, and local responses and initiatives, in shaping the modern Gulf.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

232

Publisher

Psychology Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0415331927

ISBN 13

9780415331920

Boardwalk of Dreams

Atlantic City and the Fate of Urban America

By: Bryant Simon

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Boardwalk of Dreams

Atlantic City and the Fate of Urban America

By: Bryant Simon

During the first half of the twentieth century, Atlantic City was the nation's most popular middle-class resort--the home of the famed Boardwalk, the Miss America Pageant, and the board game Monopoly. By the late 1960s, it had become a symbol of urban decay and blight, compared by journalists to bombed-out Dresden and war-torn Beirut. Several decades and a dozen casinos later, Atlantic City is again one of America's most popular tourist spots, with thirty-five million visitors a year. Yet most stay for a mere six hours, and the highway has replaced the Boardwalk as the city's most important thoroughfare. Today the city doesn't have a single movie theater and its one supermarket is a virtual fortress protected by metal detectors and security guards. In this wide-ranging book, Bryant Simon does far more than tell a nostalgic tale of Atlantic City's rise, near death, and reincarnation. He turns the depiction of middle-class vacationers into a revealing discussion of the boundaries of public space in urban America. In the past, he argues, the public was never really about democracy, but about exclusion. During Atlantic City's heyday, African Americans were kept off the Boardwalk and away from the beaches. The overly boisterous or improperly dressed were kept out of theaters and hotel lobbies by uniformed ushers and police. The creation of Atlantic City as the "Nation's Playground" was dependent on keeping undesirables out of view unless they were pushing tourists down the Boardwalk on rickshaw-like rolling chairs or shimmying in smoky nightclubs. Desegregation overturned this racial balance in the mid-1960s, making the city's public spaces more open and democratic, too open and democratic for many middle-class Americans, who fled to suburbs and suburban-style resorts like Disneyworld. With the opening of the first casino in 1978, the urban balance once again shifted, creating twelve separate, heavily guarded, glittering casinos worlds walled off from the dilapidated houses, boarded-up businesses, and lots razed for redevelopment that never came. Tourists are deliberately kept away from the city's grim reality and its predominantly poor African American residents. Despite ten of thousands of buses and cars rolling into every day, gambling has not saved Atlantic City or returned it to its glory days. Simon's moving narrative of Atlantic City's past points to the troubling fate of urban America and the nation's cultural trajectory in the twentieth century, with broad implications for those interested in urban studies, sociology, planning, architecture, and history.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

300

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0199883297

ISBN 13

9780199883295

National Theatre Connections 2023

10 Plays for Young Performers

By: Simon Longman,Lisa McGee,Leo Butler,Jordan Tannahill,Avaes Mohammad,Jon Brittain,Molly Taylor,Shamser Sinha,Ed Harris,Alison Carr

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

National Theatre Connections 2023

10 Plays for Young Performers

By: Simon Longman,Lisa McGee,Leo Butler,Jordan Tannahill,Avaes Mohammad,Jon Brittain,Molly Taylor,Shamser Sinha,Ed Harris,Alison Carr

National Theatre Connections 2023 draws together ten new plays for young people to perform, from some of the UK's most exciting and popular playwrights. These are plays for a generation of theatre-makers who want to ask questions, challenge assertions and test the boundaries, and for those who love to invent and imagine a world of possibilities. The plays offer young performers an engaging and diverse range of material to perform, read or study. Touching on themes like climate change, politics, toxic masculinity and gang culture, the collection provides topical, pressing subject matter for students to explore in their performance. This 2023 anthology represents the full set of ten plays offered by the National Theatre 2023 Festival, as well as comprehensive workshop notes that give insights and inspiration for building characters, running rehearsals and staging a production.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

567

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1350382701

ISBN 13

9781350382701

Chemistry: The Impure Science (2nd Edition)

By: Jonathan Simon,Bernadette Bensaude-vincent

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Chemistry: The Impure Science (2nd Edition)

By: Jonathan Simon,Bernadette Bensaude-vincent

What do you associate with chemistry? Explosions, innovative materials, plastics, pollution? The public's confused and contradictory conception of chemistry as basic science, industrial producer and polluter contributes to what we present in this book as chemistry's image as an impure science. Historically, chemistry has always been viewed as impure both in terms of its academic status and its role in transforming modern society. While exploring the history of this science we argue for a characteristic philosophical approach that distinguishes chemistry from physics. This reflection leads us to a philosophical stance that we characterise as operational realism. In this new expanded edition we delve deeper into the questions of properties and potentials that are so important for this philosophy that is based on the manipulation of matter rather than the construction of theories./a

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

295

Publisher

World Scientific

Published Date

ISBN 10

1908977620

ISBN 13

9781908977625

Thrifty Science

Making the Most of Materials in the History of Experiment

By: Simon Werrett

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Thrifty Science

Making the Most of Materials in the History of Experiment

By: Simon Werrett

If the twentieth century saw the rise of “Big Science,” then the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were surely an age of thrift. As Simon Werrett’s new history shows, frugal early modern experimenters transformed their homes into laboratories as they recycled, repurposed, repaired, and reused their material possessions to learn about the natural world. Thrifty Science explores this distinctive culture of experiment and demonstrates how the values of the household helped to shape an array of experimental inquiries, ranging from esoteric investigations of glowworms and sour beer to famous experiments such as Benjamin Franklin’s use of a kite to show lightning was electrical and Isaac Newton’s investigations of color using prisms. Tracing the diverse ways that men and women put their material possessions into the service of experiment, Werrett offers a history of practices of recycling and repurposing that are often assumed to be more recent in origin. This thriving domestic culture of inquiry was eclipsed by new forms of experimental culture in the nineteenth century, however, culminating in the resource-hungry science of the twentieth. Could thrifty science be making a comeback today, as scientists grapple with the need to make their research more environmentally sustainable?

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

327

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

022661039X

ISBN 13

9780226610399

And Now on Radio 4

A Celebration of the World's Best Radio Station

By: Simon Elmes

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

And Now on Radio 4

A Celebration of the World's Best Radio Station

By: Simon Elmes

And Now on Radio 4 offers an enthusiast's guide to the shows that have made Radio 4 what it is, and also explores some of the wonderful corners of the network's history that are long forgotten by all but a few. Who, for instance, now recalls Ronnie Barker's starring role on Radio 4 in a sophisticated cabaret-cum-sketch-show called Lines from My Grandfather's Forehead? What about Spike Milligan's intimate, soul-bearing account of his upbringing in colonial India, Plain Tales from the Raj? And who now remembers that Start the Week was once hosted by Russell Harty, a bit of programming compared by one insider to letting Graham Norton run Newsnight. In order to reflect the way devotees listen to Radio 4, the book is organised not on simple chronological lines but in the form of a typical day. Chapter by chapter, the day evolves, from Farming Today, through the daily feast that is Today, through the morning menu of conversation, Woman's Hour, documentary and comedy. Lunchtime brings The World at One. The early evening, of course, yields The Archers. And finally there's Book at Bedtime and Sailing By. An addictive mix of history, biography, anecdote and occasional useless fact, this is the perfect book for Radio 4 aficionados.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

352

Publisher

Random House

Published Date

ISBN 10

1407005286

ISBN 13

9781407005287

Onion Gods

By: Simon Goodway

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Onion Gods

By: Simon Goodway

Fourteen stories that run the gamut of genres, from comedy to scifi to horror to crime, and span multiple centuries, three continents and two dimensions. Two pirates, stranded amongst a primitive civilisation with unusual ideas about beauty, find their preconceptions challenged and start asking deeper questions than pirates are used to. A pair of grave robbers get more than they bargained for when they dig up a serial killer. A scientist goes to extreme lengths to save her dying husband. A Japanese girl gives advice from beyond the grave. A gardener gets his revenge. A drug lord battles to save his career. A woman swears at a giant holographic paperclip. And so on. Full of unexpected twists, profound ideas and silly jokes. If you don't like them, you must be weird.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

210

Publisher

Lulu.com

Published Date

ISBN 10

1326482882

ISBN 13

9781326482886

Physics in Anaesthesia, second edition

By: Ben Middleton,Justin Phillips,Simon Stacey

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Physics in Anaesthesia, second edition

By: Ben Middleton,Justin Phillips,Simon Stacey

Much of anaesthetic practice is underpinned by physics, yet many struggle when studying the subject. This book has been written with the aim of helping those who have long since parted company with physics. This new edition has been comprehensively updated, but the content remains aligned with the FRCA syllabus, making Physics in Anaesthesia ideal for trainee anaesthetists, as well as for operating department practitioners and anaesthetic nurses. In addition, clinical science and engineering students will appreciate the linking of theory and practice. Physics in Anaesthesia gives a complete and structured overview: Explanations start from first principles Simple everyday examples are used to illustrate core concepts Clinical examples highlight the applications of physics in anaesthesia Worked examples and helpful diagrams develop understanding Completely revised MCQs/SBAs now available online with hints and tips, plus answers

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

365

Publisher

Scion Publishing Ltd

Published Date

ISBN 10

1911510878

ISBN 13

9781911510871

Chemistry3

Introducing Inorganic, Organic and Physical Chemistry

By: Andrew Burrows,John Holman,Simon Lancaster,Andrew Parsons,Tina Overton,Gwen Pilling,Gareth Price

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Chemistry3

Introducing Inorganic, Organic and Physical Chemistry

By: Andrew Burrows,John Holman,Simon Lancaster,Andrew Parsons,Tina Overton,Gwen Pilling,Gareth Price

Chemistry is widely considered to be the central science: it encompasses concepts on which all other branches of science are developed. Yet, for many students entering university, gaining a firm grounding in chemistry is a real challenge. Chemistry3 responds to this challenge, providingstudents with a full understanding of the fundamental principles of chemistry on which to build later studies.Uniquely amongst the introductory chemistry texts currently available, Chemistry3's author team brings together experts in each of organic, inorganic, and physical chemistry with specialists in chemistry education to provide balanced coverage of the fundamentals of chemistry in a way that studentsboth enjoy and understand.The result is a text that builds on what students know already from school and tackles their misunderstandings and misconceptions, thereby providing a seamless transition from school to undergraduate study. Written with unrivalled clarity, students are encouraged to engage with the text andappreciate the central role that chemistry plays in our lives through the unique use of real-world context and photographs.Chemistry3 tackles head-on two issues pervading chemistry education: students' mathematical skills, and their ability to see the subject as a single, unified discipline. Instead of avoiding the maths, Chemistry3 provides structured support, in the form of careful explanations, reminders of keymathematical concepts, step-by-step calculations in worked examples, and a Maths Toolkit, to help students get to grips with the essential mathematical element of chemistry. Frequent cross-references highlight the connections between each strand of chemistry and explain the relationship between thetopics, so students can develop an understanding of the subject as a whole.Digital formats and resourcesChemistry3 is available for students and institutions to purchase in a variety of formats, and is supported by online resources.The e-book offers a mobile experience and convenient access along with functionality tools, navigation features, and links that offer extra learning support: www.oxfordtextbooks.co.uk/ebooksThe e-book also features interactive animations of molecular structures, screencasts in which authors talk step-by-step through selected examples and key reaction mechanisms, and self-assessment activities for each chapter. The accompanying online resources will also include, for students:DT Chapter 1 as an open-access PDF;DT Chapter summaries and key equations to download, to support revision;DT Worked solutions to the questions in the book.The following online resources are also provided for lecturers:DT Test bank of ready-made assessments for each chapter with which to test your studentsDT Problem-solving workshop activities for each chapter for you to use in classDT Case-studies showing how instructors are successfully using Chemistry3 in digital learning environments and to support innovative teaching practicesDT Figures and tables from the book

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

1429

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0198829981

ISBN 13

9780198829980

Financial Modeling, fourth edition

By: Simon Benninga

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Financial Modeling, fourth edition

By: Simon Benninga

A substantially revised edition of a bestselling text combining explanation and implementation using Excel; for classroom use or as a reference for finance practitioners. Financial Modeling is now the standard text for explaining the implementation of financial models in Excel. This long-awaited fourth edition maintains the “cookbook” features and Excel dependence that have made the previous editions so popular. As in previous editions, basic and advanced models in the areas of corporate finance, portfolio management, options, and bonds are explained with detailed Excel spreadsheets. Sections on technical aspects of Excel and on the use of Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) round out the book to make Financial Modeling a complete guide for the financial modeler. The new edition of Financial Modeling includes a number of innovations. A new section explains the principles of Monte Carlo methods and their application to portfolio management and exotic option valuation. A new chapter discusses term structure modeling, with special emphasis on the Nelson-Siegel model. The discussion of corporate valuation using pro forma models has been rounded out with the introduction of a new, simple model for corporate valuation based on accounting data and a minimal number of valuation parameters. New print copies of this book include a card affixed to the inside back cover with a unique access code. Access codes are required to download Excel worksheets and solutions to end-of-chapter exercises. If you have a used copy of this book, you may purchase a digitally-delivered access code separately via the Supplemental Material link on this page. If you purchased an e-book, you may obtain a unique access code by emailing digitalproducts-cs@mit.edu or calling 617-253-2889 or 800-207-8354 (toll-free in the U.S. and Canada). Praise for earlier editions “Financial Modeling belongs on the desk of every finance professional. Its no-nonsense, hands-on approach makes it an indispensable tool.” —Hal R. Varian, Dean, School of Information Management and Systems, University of California, Berkeley “Financial Modeling is highly recommended to readers who are interested in an introduction to basic, traditional approaches to financial modeling and analysis, as well as to those who want to learn more about applying spreadsheet software to financial analysis." —Edward Weiss, Journal of Computational Intelligence in Finance “Benninga has a clear writing style and uses numerous illustrations, which make this book one of the best texts on using Excel for finance that I've seen.” —Ed McCarthy, Ticker Magazine

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

1143

Publisher

MIT Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

026232170X

ISBN 13

9780262321709

Fireworks

Pyrotechnic Arts and Sciences in European History

By: Simon Werrett

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Fireworks

Pyrotechnic Arts and Sciences in European History

By: Simon Werrett

Fireworks are synonymous with celebration in the twenty-first century. But pyrotechnics—in the form of rockets, crackers, wheels, and bombs—have exploded in sparks and noise to delight audiences in Europe ever since the Renaissance. Here, Simon Werrett shows that, far from being only a means of entertainment, fireworks helped foster advances in natural philosophy, chemistry, mathematics, and many other branches of the sciences. Fireworks brings to vibrant life the many artful practices of pyrotechnicians, as well as the elegant compositions of the architects, poets, painters, and musicians they inspired. At the same time, it uncovers the dynamic relationships that developed between the many artists and scientists who produced pyrotechnics. In so doing, the book demonstrates the critical role that pyrotechnics played in the development of physics, astronomy, chemistry and physiology, meteorology, and electrical science. Richly illustrated and drawing on a wide range of new sources, Fireworks takes readers back to a world where pyrotechnics were both divine and magical and reveals for the first time their vital contribution to the modernization of European ideas.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

387

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0226893774

ISBN 13

9780226893778

Cricket's Greatest Rivalry

A History of the Ashes in 10 Matches

By: Simon Hughes

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Cricket's Greatest Rivalry

A History of the Ashes in 10 Matches

By: Simon Hughes

Hughes takes us on a breathless tour through cricket history, the great players, personalities, matches and events. He never slackens pace or dwells on the dry details of the scoreboard.' - The Times From the William Hill Award-Winning author of A Lot of Hard Yakka comes Cricket's Greatest Rivalry: A History of the Ashes in 10 Matches, a fast-paced, distinctive history of the iconic, 135-year-old cricketing rivalry between England and Australia. The new paperback edition is completely revised and updated to include the tumultuous two series of 2013-2014, which saw more more twists and turns in this enthralling contest. No other sport has a fixture like the Ashes. From the early 1880s the rivalry between these two great sporting nations has captured the public imagination and made sporting legends of its stars. Commentator, analyst and award-winning cricket historian Simon Hughes tells the story of the ten seminal series that have become the stuff of sporting folklore. Cricket's Greatest Rivalry places you right at the heart of the action of each pivotal match, explaining the social context of the time, the atmosphere of the crowd and the background and temperaments of the players that battled in both baggy green and blue caps. Simon starts his story at the very birth of the Ashes and tells the tale of the band of Australians that took on the best gentleman and players in the Empire's HQ and beat them on their home turf. That momentous occasion set the tone for some epic contests including: The thrilling 1902 Test at Old Trafford, which was one by a mere three runs. The incredible innings of Hobbs and Sutcliffe in front of a tense and packed Oval in 1926. The legendary 'bodyline' series of Jardine, Larwood, Bradman et al in 1933. The incredible run chase in 1948 that also saw Bradman's last test. England's reprise in the fifth test of 1953 when Lock, Trueman, Bailey and Hutton steered the hosts to a whirlwind victory. The fearsome pace attack from the likes of Lillie and Thompson that transformed the contest in the first Test of 1974 and shaped the Ashes as a tournament for decades to come. Botham's Ashes in 1981 that restored pride in a sports-mad nation. The match up at old Trafford where the magic of one Shane Warne sent shockwaves through the game. And finally the breaking of the Aussie stranglehold in 2005, when Flintoff, Pietersen and Vaughan did the seemingly impossible and re-established the greatest of rivalries. The book also includes complete statistics and records of all the Ashes fixtures and results and much, much more!

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

331

Publisher

Cassell

Published Date

ISBN 10

1844037614

ISBN 13

9781844037612

Strategic Environmental Assessment in International and European Law

A Practitioner's Guide

By: Simon Marsden

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Strategic Environmental Assessment in International and European Law

A Practitioner's Guide

By: Simon Marsden

Strategic environmental assessment (SEA) is a regulatory requirement for development across Europe, North America, Australasia and elsewhere, yet understanding the legal aspects is challenging. This comprehensive guide provides that understanding in a clear and straightforward way.The introduction considers SEA and the law, explaining what SEA is, why it is needed, how it works and why it is required, as well as examining the role of the law. Part One provides an overview of international law, environmental impact assessment (EIA) and international law, including treaties, customary international law and 'soft law' relevant to SEA. It analyses the Kiev SEA Protocol and related UNECE conventions, the Espoo Convention on EIA in a Transboundary Context and the Aarhus Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters. It also analyses the role of SEA in conservation conventions.Part Two considers how the European legal system works, including an overview of the current status of European law. It examines the EIA Directive and SEA Directive together with other relevant directives and regulations, such as the Habitats and Wild Birds Directives, the Water Framework Directive, the Public Participation for Plans and Programmes Directive, and the Structural Funds Regulations. Finally the volume draws conclusions about the relationship and comparisons between international and European law generally, and in regulating SEA.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

347

Publisher

Earthscan

Published Date

ISBN 10

1849772665

ISBN 13

9781849772662

Restructuring Education

Innovations and Evaluations of Alternative Systems

By: Simon Hakim,Daniel Ryan,Judith C. Stull

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Restructuring Education

Innovations and Evaluations of Alternative Systems

By: Simon Hakim,Daniel Ryan,Judith C. Stull

American education is undergoing rapid change. Concern over poor student performance, the ability and motivation of teachers, and the inefficiency of school bureaucracy have led to numerous recommendations for changing the structure of American education. These vary from small changes in the current structure to wholesale privatization of public schools. The contributions in this book discuss a wide range of proposals, including greater school choice, charter schools, promoting contact with the business community, public-private partnerships, and more. Several chapters assess the current research on choice and restructuring. Overall the consensus is that proposed reforms have a good chance of yielding significant benefits.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

285

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published Date

ISBN 10

0313022313

ISBN 13

9780313022319

The Science Magpie

A Miscellany of Paradoxes, Explications, Lists, Lives and Ephemera from the Wonderful World of Science

By: Simon Flynn

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Science Magpie

A Miscellany of Paradoxes, Explications, Lists, Lives and Ephemera from the Wonderful World of Science

By: Simon Flynn

From the Large Hadron Collider rap to the sins of Isaac Newton, The Science Magpie is a compelling collection of scientific curiosities. Expand your knowledge as you view the history of the Earth on the face of a clock, tremble at the power of the Richter scale and learn how to measure the speed of light in your kitchen. Skip through time with Darwin’s note on the pros and cons of marriage, take part in an 1858 Cambridge exam, meet the African schoolboy with a scientific puzzle named after him and much more.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

196

Publisher

Icon Books

Published Date

ISBN 10

1848314310

ISBN 13

9781848314313

Braving The Elements

By: Harry B. Gray,John D. Simon,William C. Trogler

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Braving The Elements

By: Harry B. Gray,John D. Simon,William C. Trogler

This text provides a non-mathematical descriptive approach to key concepts and contemporary topics in the sciences. Chapters on chemical bonding, biochemistry, cancer and the atmosphere are interspersed with such chapters as The Alchemist's Dream, Newsworthy Molecules and Wall Street Chemistry. The book employs a historical story-line through the text. For example, the Hindenberg serves to amplify the subtle, yet catastrophic, differences between helium and hydrogen.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

436

Publisher

University Science Books

Published Date

ISBN 10

0935702342

ISBN 13

9780935702347

The Center Holds

The Power Struggle Inside the Rehnquist Court

By: James F. Simon

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Center Holds

The Power Struggle Inside the Rehnquist Court

By: James F. Simon

The Center Holds provides an intimate look at who the Supreme Court justices are, how they have made critical decisions, and why, ultimately, the Rehnquist Revolution failed. Focusing on four key areas of civil rights and liberties—racial discrimination, abortion, criminal law, and First Amendment freedoms—The Center Holds provides an in-depth look at the Supreme Court documents that illustrate the battle between the old liberal order and emerging conservative majority, beginning in the early 1980s. James F. Simon, a former Time correspondent and contributing editor, ex-dean of New York Law School, and nationally recognized scholar of constitutional law, examines key decisions on civil rights and civil liberties in a readable, intimate look at some key Supreme Court Cases and includes absorbing descriptions of confidential memos and drafts gleaned from sources from within the court.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

342

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published Date

ISBN 10

1439143250

ISBN 13

9781439143254

The Last 10 Seconds

A Thriller

By: Simon Kernick

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Last 10 Seconds

A Thriller

By: Simon Kernick

Tina Boyd discovers that the work of the Night Creeper, a serial killer arrested two years prior, is part of a much larger criminal conspiracy.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

368

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published Date

ISBN 10

1476706204

ISBN 13

9781476706207

A Charm of Magpies

An ebook bundle of The Science Magpie, The Antiques Magpie and The Nature Magpie

By: Daniel Allen,Marc Allum,Simon Flynn

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

A Charm of Magpies

An ebook bundle of The Science Magpie, The Antiques Magpie and The Nature Magpie

By: Daniel Allen,Marc Allum,Simon Flynn

The Science Magpie is Simon Flynn's bestselling collection of enthralling facts, stories, poems and more from science's history, from the Large Hadron Collider rap to the sins of Isaac Newton. With Antiques Roadshow regular Marc Allum as your guide, go in search of stolen masterpieces, explore the first museums, learn the secrets of the forgers and brush up on your auction technique with The Antiques Magpie . And with acclaimed nature writer Daniel Allen, join naturalists, novelists and poets as they explore the most isolated parts of the planet and discover which plants can be used to predict the weather in The Nature Magpie .

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

657

Publisher

Icon Books

Published Date

ISBN 10

1848317417

ISBN 13

9781848317413

Leviathan and the Air-Pump

Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life

By: Steven Shapin,Simon Schaffer

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Leviathan and the Air-Pump

Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life

By: Steven Shapin,Simon Schaffer

Leviathan and the Air-Pump examines the conflicts over the value and propriety of experimental methods between two major seventeenth-century thinkers: Thomas Hobbes, author of the political treatise Leviathan and vehement critic of systematic experimentation in natural philosophy, and Robert Boyle, mechanical philosopher and owner of the newly invented air-pump. The issues at stake in their disputes ranged from the physical integrity of the air-pump to the intellectual integrity of the knowledge it might yield. Both Boyle and Hobbes were looking for ways of establishing knowledge that did not decay into ad hominem attacks and political division. Boyle proposed the experiment as cure. He argued that facts should be manufactured by machines like the air-pump so that gentlemen could witness the experiments and produce knowledge that everyone agreed on. Hobbes, by contrast, looked for natural law and viewed experiments as the artificial, unreliable products of an exclusive guild. The new approaches taken in Leviathan and the Air-Pump have been enormously influential on historical studies of science. Shapin and Schaffer found a moment of scientific revolution and showed how key scientific givens--facts, interpretations, experiment, truth--were fundamental to a new political order. Shapin and Schaffer were also innovative in their ethnographic approach. Attempting to understand the work habits, rituals, and social structures of a remote, unfamiliar group, they argued that politics were tied up in what scientists did, rather than what they said. Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer use the confrontation between Hobbes and Boyle as a way of understanding what was at stake in the early history of scientific experimentation. They describe the protagonists' divergent views of natural knowledge, and situate the Hobbes-Boyle disputes within contemporary debates over the role of intellectuals in public life and the problems of social order and assent in Restoration England. In a new introduction, the authors describe how science and its social context were understood when this book was first published, and how the study of the history of science has changed since then.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

446

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1400838495

ISBN 13

9781400838493

Foreign Bodies

Pandemics, Vaccines, and the Health of Nations

By: Simon Schama

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Foreign Bodies

Pandemics, Vaccines, and the Health of Nations

By: Simon Schama

A vibrant cultural history investigating the tangled and complex history of pandemics and vaccines, by bestselling author and historian Simon Schama Cities and countries engulfed by panic and death, desperate for vaccines but fearful of what inoculation may bring. This is what the world has just gone through with Covid-19. But as Simon Schama shows in his epic history of vulnerable humanity caught between the terror of contagion and the ingenuity of science, it has happened before. Characteristically, Schama’s message is delivered through gripping, page-turning stories set in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: smallpox strikes London; cholera hits Paris; plague comes to India. Threading through the scenes of terror, suffering and hope – in hospitals and prisons, palaces, and slums – are an unforgettable cast of characters: a philosopher-playwright burning up with smallpox in a country chateau; a vaccinating doctor paying house calls in Halifax; a woman doctor in south India driving her inoculator-carriage through the stricken streets as dead monkeys drop from the trees. But we are also in the labs when great, life-saving breakthroughs happen, in Paris, Hong Kong, and Mumbai. At the heart of it all is an unsung hero: Waldemar Haffkine, a gun-toting Jewish student in Odesa turned microbiologist at the Pasteur Institute, hailed in England as “the saviour of mankind” for vaccinating millions against cholera and bubonic plague in British India while being cold-shouldered by the medical establishment of the Raj. Creator of the world’s first mass production line of vaccines in Mumbai, he is tragically brought down in an act of shocking injustice. Foreign Bodies crosses borders between east and west, Asia and Europe, the worlds of rich and poor, politics and science. Its thrilling story carries with it the credo of its author on the interconnectedness of humanity and nature; of the powerful and the people. Ultimately, Schama says, as we face the challenges of our times together, “there are no foreigners, only familiars.”

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

567

Publisher

HarperCollins

Published Date

ISBN 10

1328975312

ISBN 13

9781328975317

Philosophy as Disability & Exclusion

By: Simon Hayhoe

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Philosophy as Disability & Exclusion

By: Simon Hayhoe

Philosophy as Disability and Exclusion examines the history of ideas on arts in the education of people who are blind in England, from 1688 to 2010. This book also examines a number of the earlier influences on the enlightenment, and the international context of this topic. The two hypotheses on which this study is based are: (1) Our understanding of blindness in English intellectual culture is less to do with homologous physical characteristics. Instead it is more to do with an ethical philosophy of human capacity. (2) The arts education of people who are blind through touch tells us much about our psychology of mythologies and the intellectual construction of human thought. Furthermore, the myth that people who are blind are incapable of visual arts and have an enhanced capacity for the musical arts is one of the most engrained modern folklores. It is part of our cultural, intellectual and philosophical conscience. In the process of investigating these hypotheses, this book argues that philosophies have linked immorality, intelligence and physical ability. These have become connected in ways that are unrelated to eyesight in order to fulfill broader cultural processes of developing social theory. In this book, the process of knowledge creation is termed passive exclusion and is analyzed through an epistemological model of examining disability and exclusion.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

189

Publisher

IAP

Published Date

ISBN 10

1681232359

ISBN 13

9781681232355

Better Brother

By: Simon Gravatt

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Better Brother

By: Simon Gravatt

Michael Merriweather's carefully planned life is blown off course when he receives a call to tell him that his father has cremated himself. Michael then learns from a small-town lawyer that he stands to inherit a small fortune he previously knew nothing about, but only if he sacrifices his accountancy career to take over the family funeral business with his brother, Jack, whom he despises.Sucked back into the small provincial world and the family funeral firm he has rejected, Michael can no longer avoid his loathsome sibling. Jack Merriweather has no idea what he's done to deserve his brother's hostility, but he's about to suffer the consequences. Then, when his patience finally breaks, he will exact delicious revenge.The Better Brother is a darkly comic tale of sibling rivalry laced with the power, passion, revenge and everyday friction of family business. It explores what happens when two warring brothers are forced to work together. Will Michael and Jack learn to love and respect each other? Or will their acrimony escalate? If so, who will come out on top? Who is the better brother?

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

233

Publisher

eBook Partnership

Published Date

ISBN 10

191519413X

ISBN 13

9781915194138

Book's by Simon Boyle

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email