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Thinking About Almost Everything: New Ideas to Light up Minds
Thinking About Almost Everything brings together original thinking on a staggering range of topics across the sciences, arts and humanities, grouped into nine imaginative and sometimes startling thematic categories. Entries on terror, the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and climate change are juxtaposed in the '(Un)settlement' section, while 'Presences' brings together plant genetics, race, humans and animals, music theology, and the Willmore Conjecture.
The short (often just one-page) essays are written in a lively and accessible style, and the book is illustrated with original and challenging images. Thinking About Almost Everything shows how even the most intricate and complex knowledge can enliven public curiosity and spark new thinking on issues either known or yet to be discovered.
The short (often just one-page) essays are written in a lively and accessible style, and the book is illustrated with original and challenging images. Thinking About Almost Everything shows how even the most intricate and complex knowledge can enliven public curiosity and spark new thinking on issues either known or yet to be discovered.
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288 pages, Paperback
First published September 1, 2009
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February 22, 2016
Having already wasted enough of my life reading this book, I most certainly am not going to waste much more of it reviewing it too.
I don't give many 'one star' ratings and so this book must have been truly dire for me to do this.
The biggest problem for me is that I feel cheated by what it says on the box: "New Ideas to Light up Minds". There are no new ideas in this book at all - not even one.
Maybe that's because I read widely and have come across all if this under different covers - but wait a minute - even then - 'new' means not under any different cover - surely!
This is an advert for the thinking power of one particular university. Basically, it is a selection of short articles written by people that are either teaching or studying at this university (Durham I think). That said - if I were looking for a University to align myself with - it would not be this one.
Not
One
Single
New
Idea.
'Nuff said.
I don't give many 'one star' ratings and so this book must have been truly dire for me to do this.
The biggest problem for me is that I feel cheated by what it says on the box: "New Ideas to Light up Minds". There are no new ideas in this book at all - not even one.
Maybe that's because I read widely and have come across all if this under different covers - but wait a minute - even then - 'new' means not under any different cover - surely!
This is an advert for the thinking power of one particular university. Basically, it is a selection of short articles written by people that are either teaching or studying at this university (Durham I think). That said - if I were looking for a University to align myself with - it would not be this one.
Not
One
Single
New
Idea.
'Nuff said.
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