The man on the bridge (A Harvester novel)

Benatar, Stephen

Literature & Fiction

Harvester

The air we breathe (A Harvester novel)

Gabriel Josipovici

Victorian Women: A Documentary Account of Women's Lives in Nineteenth-century England, France and the United States

Hellerstein, Erna Olafson & Leslie Parker Hume & Karen Offen (edits)

In the remarkable opening section of this book, a well-known Cornell astronomer gives precise thumbnail histories of the 43 basic cosmic discoveries—stars, planets, novae, pulsars, comets, gamma-ray bursts, and the like—that form the core of our knowledge of the universe. Many of them, he points out, were made accidentally and outside the mainstream of astronomical research and funding. This observation leads him to speculate on how many more major phenomena there might be and how they might be most effectively sought out in afield now dominated by large instruments and complex investigative modes and observational conditions.  The book also examines discovery in terms of its political, financial, and sociological context—the role of new technologies and of industry and the military in revealing new knowledge; and methods of funding, of peer review, and of allotting time on our largest telescopes. It concludes with specific recommendations for organizing astronomy in ways that will best lead to the discovery of the many—at least sixty—phenomena that Harwit estimates are still waiting to be found.

Cosmic Discovery: Search, Scope and Heritage of Astronomy

Science & Math

HARWIT, Martin

Astronomy & Space Science

Ariel and the police: Michel Foucault, William James, Wallace Stevens

Lentricchia, Frank

Economics: Progression, Stagnation or Degeneration?

Business & Money

Glass, J C & W Johnson

Economics

Who's Who of British Members of Parliament: 1946-79 v. 4

Michael Stenton

The 1930's: Challenge to Orthodoxy

Lucas, John (edit)

Crossroads in the labyrinth

Cornelius Castoriadis

Marxist Theory of Art

Dave Laing

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