A Splendor of Letters: The Permanence of Books in an Impermanent World
9 best books like A Splendor of Letters: The Permanence of Books in an Impermanent World (Nicholas A. Basbanes): The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World, Tidelands, The Ambassadors, The Yellow Birds, Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change, The Spies of Shilling Lane, The Magic Circle of Rudolf II: Alchemy and Astrology in Renaissance Prague, Giordano Bruno: Philosopher/Heretic, Ancient Philosophy
The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World
The Clockwork Universe is the story of a band of men who lived in a world of dirt and disease but pictured a universe that ran like a perfect machine. A meld of history and science, this book is a group portrait of some of the greatest minds who ever lived as they wrestled with nature’s most sweeping mysteries....
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England 1648. A dangerous time for a woman to be different . . .
Midsummer’s Eve, 1648, and England is in the grip of civil war between renegade King and rebellious Parliament. The struggle reaches every corner...
| Author | Henry James |
| ISBN | 0140432337 |
Graham Greene and E.M. Forster marvelled at it, but F.R. Leavis considered it to be 'not only not one of his great books, but to be a bad one.' As for the author, he held The Ambassadors as the favorite among all his novels.
Sent from Massachusetts by the formidable Mrs. Newsome to recall her son,...
| Author | Kevin Powers |
| ISBN | 0316219363 |
With profound emotional insight, especially into the effects of a hidden war on mothers and families at home, The Yellow Birds is a groundbreaking novel about the costs of war that is destined to become a classic.
"The war tried to kill us in the spring," begins this breathtaking account of friendship...
| Author | William R. Catton Jr. |
| ISBN | 0252009886 |
I've been reading books on “the Problem of Civilization” for several years now. I'm constantly seeking to refine my conceptualization of the way humans interact with each other and their environment. Contrary to what one reviewer says (that most of Catton's book is “common knowledge for any...
The Spies of Shilling Lane
Mrs. Braithwaite, self-appointed queen of her English village, finds herself dethroned, despised, and dismissed following her husband’s selfish divorce petition. Never deterred, the threat of a family secret being revealed sets her hot-foot to London to find the only person she has left—her...
The Magic Circle of Rudolf II: Alchemy and Astrology in Renaissance Prague
| Author | Peter Marshall |
| ISBN | 0802715516 |
Rudolf II—Habsburg heir, Holy Roman Emperor, king of Hungary, Germany, and the
Romans—is one of history's great characters, and yet he remains largely an unknown figure. His reign (1576–1612) roughly mirrored that of Queen Elizabeth I of England, and while her famous court is widely recognized...
| Author | Ingrid D. Rowland |
| ISBN | 0809095246 |
Giordano Bruno is one of the great figures of early modern Europe, and one of the least understood. Ingrid D. Rowland’s pathbreaking life of Bruno establishes him once and for all as a peer of Erasmus, Shakespeare, and Galileo, a thinker whose vision of the world prefigures ours.
By the time...
| Author | Anthony Kenny |
| ISBN | 0198752725 |
Sir Anthony Kenny here tells the fascinating story of the birth of philosophy and its remarkable flourishing in the ancient Mediterranean world. This is the initial volume of a four-book set in which Kenny will unfold a magisterial new history of Western philosophy, the first major single-author...
