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

436p first edition hardback with illustrated brown dustjacket, one smallish closed tear to top of jacket and a little edgewear, name in ink, otherwise very good

Against all reason

Geoffrey Moorhouse

First World War Atlas

History

Martin. Gilbert

Military

Fan's Notes

Literature & Fiction

F Exley

Literary

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

SILVA, DANIEL

Genre Fiction

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.

Cochineal Red

Hugh Thomson

Americas

The first volume of Chris Bonington’s memoirs, I Chose to Climb, was published in 1966 and told of his initiation into mountaineering, from schoolboy beginnings, culminating in the British ascent of the North Face of the Eiger and his decision to turn professional. The Next Horizon picks up where that volume left off and relates his subsequent adventures as a mountaineer, photographer, journalist and expedition leader. The book opens with a journey to Chile to climb the Central Tower of Paine in 1962 and it ends in the summer of 1972 with preparations for the autumn Everest expedition which in the event only just failed to put a British climber on top of the world’s highest mountain for the first time. Here we learn more of the charismatic generation of climbing personalities with whom he travelled as well as the development of Chris Bonington into the devoted family man and celebrity he is today.

The Next Horizon

BONINGTON, Chris

Joel Kotkin’s short book is an account of the city through history, from its prehistoric precursors to its future. It examines how the urban form has evolved over the course of its history, and places particular emphasis on the timeless role of the city as the crossroads of peoples and cultures, as a locus of trade, and as an artistic centre.

City : A Global History

Joel Kotkin

World

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