A Rum Affair (Allen Lane Science)

Biographies & Memoirs

Karl Sabbagh

Historical

Penguin Books, Ltd.

In May 1994, the Tate Gallery in London announced that it was going to create a huge modern art gallery in London. This book tells the inside story of how the new gallery was built at Bankside power station. It looks at: how and why the architect was chosen; how the design evolved; how well the Tate team - unused for the most part to behaving like developers - guided the design and construction process; how the building was gutted and prepared for the massive amount of new construction; how the decisions were made about what to put in the gallery and where; how the local community was kept happy; and how the landscaping was designed.

Power into Art

Arts & Photography

Architecture

21st Century Jet: Making of the Boeing 777

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

Pan Books

, xix, 332 pages, index at the rear, section of colour photographs at the centre

Power into art

Allen Lane.

Britain's role in the peace negotiations after the First World War gave her the opportunity to control  -  and eventually change the nature of  -  Palestine, a country with a 90% Arab population, which some Jews in the west wanted to make into a Jewish state.  This book describes how that transformation came about, by Britain ignoring the rights of the majority of citizens of Palestine and setting in motion laws and policies which allowed hundreds of thousands of Jews from the rest of the world to colonise Palestine, leading to conflict, violence and eventually war, creating a problem which still festers in the Middle East 65 years later.

Britain in Palestine: The Story of British Rule in Palestine 1917-1948

Central Books

Authors examine the nature of relationships between patients and the people who treat them. A closer look at the claims made for both medical science and alternative therapies reveals the chasm separating the promise and the reality.

Magic or Medicine? An Investigation of Healing & Healers

Dr. Robert Buckman

Key Porter Books

Science is full of surprises: the peculiar peepshow beginnings of baby incubators; the unexpected positive fallout from the H-bomb; the dinosaurs that caused sonic booms; the irrational nature of the number pi; the fifth taste sensation lurking in everyone's taste buds which nobody knew about (except for the Japanese). Whilst shedding light on these conundrums, Karl Sabbagh shows that seemingly trivial queries or assumptions lead to a deeper understanding of how science works. Who would have thought that scientists would turn to the hypothesis 'All swans are white' to determine the stability of the entire universe? Or that if we choose to spend our hard-earned money on other people it might make us happier than if we spend it on ourselves?

The Hair of the Dog: And Other Scientific Surprises by Sabbagh, Karl (2009) Hardcover

Science & Math

Essays & Commentary

Hodder Hb

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