21 -day Shape Up Programme for Men and Women

Marjorie Craig

Weidenfeld & N.

Milestones of History: Ancient Empires, 3000 B.C.- A.D.70 v. 1

Laughter in the Dark

History

vladimir-nabokov

Europe

The nuclear age has morphed into the information age. Information is a cool, sexy word: using it makes you feel smart. It proves that you are plugged in and technologically sophisticated. Al Gore cruises along the information highway, while media gurus ventilate about the information explosion and hucksters tout information technology. Information is unquestionably in. But what is information? Is it a scientifically useful concept? The slow emergence of the notion of information during the past half-century contrasts sharply with the birth of the energy concept a century-and-a-half ago. Then, in the brief span of twenty years, energy was invented, defined and established as a key element of physics, and more generally of science. We don’t know what energy is, but we can describe it mathematically, measure it accurately, even market, regulate and tax it. In INFORMATION, Professor von Baeyer shows how information is becoming just as robust, and just as central to physics and biology, as energy is today. It is, he says, poised to replace matter as the primary stuff of the universe – stuff that flows out of a tangible object, like a piano or a book or an atom, and, after a tortuous sequence of metamorphoses involving the senses, lodges in the conscious brain. If we can understand the nature of information, we will have taken the first step along the road that leads from objective reality to our understanding of it. We will have found the philosopher’s stone – the key that unlocks the secrets of the universe.

Information: The New Language of Science

Politics & Social Sciences

Hans Christian Von Baeyer

Social Sciences

Marching Season Pb

Literature & Fiction

Silva, Daniel

Genre Fiction

<p>Peru wears its ancient cultures wrapped around in layers, like one of the mummified bodies so well preserved by the nitrates of its deserts. After his acclaimed book on the Incas, The White Rock, Hugh Thomson unwraps those layers to show how civilisation emerged so early and so spectacularly in this toughest and most arid of terrains. Many of the extraordinary cultures of Ancient Peru, from the lines of Nasca to the temple-cult of Chavin, buried in the mountains, and the great pyramids of the coast, have only started to give up their secrets and antiquity in just the last few years. As one archaeologist put it: 'Imagine if all the discoveries of Ancient Egypt had been made so recently - the finding of Tutankhamen's tomb, of the Great Pyramid of Cheops, of Abu Simbel - and you have some idea of the great excitement at what has been happening in Peru.' Hugh Thomson has been at the forefront of some of these discoveries himself, having made headlines with his work near Machu Picchu. Now he takes the reader on a journey back from the world of the Incas to the first dawn of Andean civilisation, to give an immensely personal and accessible guide to the wonders that have been revealed.</p>

Cochineal Red

Hugh Thomson

Americas

<p>For five years the author led his team through thirty four countries and followed the course of more than 30,000 miles of ancient Roman roads, the first systematic study of the system since the third century. Illustrated with B&amp;W and Colour photographs. Illustrated / decorative end papers.</p>

Roads That Led to Rome

VON HAGEN, Victor W.

Buildings of Belfast

Charles Edward Bainbridge Brett

The 8th edition of this textbook is completely revised. The theory is fully illustrated with modern applied examples, drawn from international events. It features new material on modern theory, further applications sections illustrating the theory covered, more references to policy issues, and up-to-date coverage of the international institutional environment. In addition, the text has been designed to increase students' understanding: it uses colours to illustrate graphs and important points in the text; and makes full use of boxes and tables to provide associated material and case studies. Algebraic explanations are retained in the book, to provide for the more advanced student, but are restricted to appendices in order to enable all students to understand the intuitively-based explanations contained in the text.

Introduction to Positive Economics

Business & Money

Richard G. Lipsey

Economics

Behind the Door

A novel about a young Jewish boy's corruption by an opportunistic newcomer to his high school in Ferrara, Italy. Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book.

Giorgio Bassani

Contemporary

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