Brought this for alot more than for sale here, from high street store. Grrrr! Anyway got to say Bruce is a legend and its a perfect crimbo present!
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Frank`s autobiography was my favourite book, I have read it 3 times.
This book is fantastic and is as good as if not better than his first, The way Frank talks to the reader is a talent, very rarely found in these kind of books. The way he describes his new watch that monitors his heart and the way he used it, made me crack up.
Frank in my opinion is a hugely talented bloke and a legend in comedy circles,he gets a bit of bad press from the new comedy fans of acts like Russell Howard whose comedy style is to not be funny and just talk bollocks.
Frank is a bit old school and thats no bad thing, I am surprised that a comic of Frank`s standing and wealth still gets hurt and annoyed if he feels the odd person does ... Read More:
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Quantum is the unfinished story of the development of quantum mechanics. Unfinished? Yes, because the question which lies at the centre of the book is not yet resolved.
The story starts in late Victorian times when classic physics seems close to completion, to being able to explain the world fully. There seem to be just a few loose ends to be tied up. However, it is those few loose ends inside the atom, explaining the nature of the electron, being able to account for light behaving both like a particle and a wave etc which lead to the unravelling (at the atomic level) of previous world views.
Through the lives of Planck, Bohr, Einstein, Schroedinger, Heisenberg, Pauli, De Broglie and others we see how diferent strands ... Read More:
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What a wonderful book! It is full of the querky ways in which people think to make choices in their lives. This book has really been an eye-opener, and has given me so many invaluable ideas when setting up my business. You don't want to let this one slip by!
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I picked up this book because it looked so pretty and I thought it would probably make a good beach read and yes, it was! However it has a deeper side to it asking "Just what makes you happy?" I had been feeling a bit low recently and, after reading this, I made my own list and realised that it really is the everyday things around me that I take for granted that make me happy. The book is beautifully written and presented and a great travel guide for some of the most fascinating cities in the world. The author is warm and witty and the beauty tips are fantastic not to mention the recipe for scones! Fabulous book, I highly recommend! :0)
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The two rather breathy reviews above are a little excessive. Yes, the writing is good albeit with Rankin throwing in some words that are straight out of the darkest corners of the most obscure dictionaries. However, the content is lacking; short on Maskelyne and even Operation Mincemeat gets only a passing discussion. There are also lengthy passages about the personal politics behind the protagonists, where I would have preferred a more in depth treatment of what they did. Finally, the epilogue where Rankin speculates about 'our generation' and implied deception leading us into Iraq and Afghanistan: out of context and speculative. Nice cover though - it will look good on the bookshelf.
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Really intresting and inspiring information on her recent and not so recent work.
Definatly worth buying if you like her work- i bought it as im a photography student. Its useful to know how great photographers of today started out and what they have achieved.
Not a large variety of pictures in this book, it is more written therefore if you want bright and bold pictures buy her other book which is also really invaluble and inspiring
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Richard Holmes is well known as a military historian who can not only make the details of military campaigns intelligible, but can recognise the human stories beneath. There is little in terms of campaign detail. There is not that much that is especially original, either. But these are trivial matters compared with the book's place as in my opinion one of the best annotated photo albums about WW1. Enormous knowledge is worn lightly; the choice of photos is without exception excellent, with most them having appeared rarely if at all before. The greatest strength is that Holmes teaches us (without seeming to do so) how to read photos of WW1 and probably all conflicts, drawing us into the detail of the picture with warmth and humanity. Highly recommended even at full price.
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Richard Holmes is well known as a military historian who can not only make the details of military campaigns intelligible, but can recognise the human stories beneath. There is little in terms of campaign detail. There is not that much that is especially original, either. But these are trivial matters compared with the book's place as in my opinion one of the best annotated photo albums about WW1. Enormous knowledge is worn lightly; the choice of photos is without exception excellent, with most them having appeared rarely if at all before. The greatest strength is that Holmes teaches us (without seeming to do so) how to read photos of WW1 and probably all conflicts, drawing us into the detail of the picture with warmth and humanity. Highly recommended even at full price.
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Wonderful book, couldn't put it down. Absolutely fascinating. The only criticism I would have is of the final chapter, dealing with the most recent developments. It jars with the rest of the book in assuming knowledge and introducing new people without any sort of background. The assumptions are probably fair, but it jars with the storytelling of the rest of the book.
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