A K PetersMathematics has long suffered in the public eye through portrayals of mathematicians as socially inept geniuses devoted to an arcane discipline. In this book, Philip J. Davis addresses this image thro... £21.00 + p&p |  |
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Phaidon Press LtdBorn in New York City in 1928, Stanley Kubrick began taking photographs when in high school. At sixteen, he sent a photograph he took of a newsstand after President Roosevelt's death to Look Magazine.... £39.95 + p&p | |
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Harvill SeckerHaving been diagnosed with hysteria in 1878, Blanche Wittman was committed to Salpetriere Hospital for sixteen years. Under the care of the famous M. Charcot she was regularly displayed before a publi... £16.99 + p&p | |
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Granta BooksThe first Tay Bridge collapsed into the sea in 1879 only 18 months after it had opened, drowning 72 people travelling by train to Dundee. Shock reverberated through Britain, and the public demanded an... £20.00 + p&p | |
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McGill-Queen's University PressOne of the great political figures of his day, Louis Barthou was France's Foreign Minister when, in 1934, he suffered a fatal bullet wound during the assassination of Yugoslavia's King Alexander. Bart... £46.00 + p&p | |