W. Andrew Robinson est un auteur britannique et ancien rédacteur de journaux dont l'engagement profond envers la culture indienne, en particulier les œuvres de Rabindranath Tagore et Satyajit Ray, informe son écriture. Ancien rédacteur littéraire et maintenant écrivain à temps plein, Robinson explore des thèmes culturels et littéraires avec une précision qui reflète sa formation académique et journalistique. Son travail se caractérise par un dévouement à la compréhension et à la transmission de la richesse du patrimoine culturel indien. Il apporte une perspective unique, façonnée par ses voyages approfondis et ses études dédiées.
Le livre présente clairement les plus belles découvertes d'Einstein, et explique en quoi ses idées continuent à influencer la science. Il aborde également la vie, les activités d'Einstein en dehors de ses recherches, telles ses rencontres avec de brillantes personnalités, son amour de la musique, sa vie familliale tourmentée.La trame narrative est enrichie de onze essais écrits par des scientifiques et des érudits. Le point de vue d'Einstein est présent grâce à de nombreux extraits de ses écrits et allocutions.Le livre est publié avec l'agrément de la fondation Einstein de Jérusalem.
Covers the literary and cultural background to the films, their production,
their music composed by Ravi Shankar, their aesthetic value, and their complex
critical reception in the East and the West, from 1955 up to the present day.
The enigmatic Garak—Cardassian-in-exile on space station Deep Space Nine—refers to himself as just a simple tailor, but everyone knows that there's more to him than that. Why was he banished from his home planet? And why does he choose exile on Deep Space Nine?
Undeciphered scripts have long tantalized the public, whether it's the possibility of hearing the voices of ancient peoples or the puzzle solver's taste for the challenges posed by breaking codes. Here, Andrew Robinson investigates the most famous examples, beginning with the stories of three great decipherments: Egyptian hieroglyphs, Maya glyphs, and the Minoan Linear B clay tablets. He then covers the important scripts that have yet to be cracked, such as the Etruscan alphabet and Rongorongo from Easter Island.
Tells the remarkable lives of the pioneers of science from Galileo and Newton,
Faraday and Darwin, Pasteur and Marie Curie, to Einstein, Freud, Turing, and
Crick and Watson. This title features articles that offer an account of the
lives and personalities behind the greatest scientific breakthroughs of all
time.
Satyajit Ray's films include the Apu trilogy, The Music Room, Charulata, Days
and Nights in the Forest, The Chess Players and The Stranger. This is a
biography of this movie giant, based on interviews with Ray, his actors and
collaborators and a deep knowledge of Bengali culture. schovat popis
Strange visitor from another world who can change the course of mighty rivers, bend steel in his bare hands ... and who, as the champion of the common worker, fights a never-ending battle for Stalin, Socialism, and the international expansion of the Warsaw Pact.In this Elseworlds tale, a familiar rocketship crash-lands on Earth carrying an infant who will one day become the most powerful being on the planet. But his ship doesn't land in America. He is not raised in Smallville, Kansas. Instead, he makes his new home on a collective in the Soviet Union!Collecting SUPERMAN: RED SON #1-3.
Beijing and Jakarta, Tehran and Tokyo, Istanbul and Los Angeles are among the
more than 60 large cities at risk from an earthquake. This book describes
major earthquakes and their effects on societies around the world, as well as
the ways in which cultures have mythologized earthquakes through religion, the
arts and popular culture.
“Highly readable . . . a fitting tribute to the quiet outsider who taught the professionals their business and increased our knowledge of the human past.”—Archaeology Odyssey More than a century ago, in 1900, one of the great archaeological finds of all time was made in Crete. Arthur Evans discovered what he believed was the palace of King Minos, with its notorious labyrinth, home of the Minotaur. As a result, Evans became obsessed with one of the epic intellectual stories of the modern era: the search for the meaning of Linear B, the mysterious script found on clay tablets in the ruined palace. Evans died without achieving his objective, and it was left to the enigmatic Michael Ventris to crack the code in 1952. This is the first book to tell not just the story of Linear B but also that of the young man who deciphered it. Based on hundreds of unpublished letters, interviews with survivors, and other primary sources, Andrew Robinson’s riveting account takes the reader through the life of this intriguing and contradictory man. Stage by stage, we see how Ventris finally achieved the breakthrough that revealed Linear B as the earliest comprehensible European writing system.
