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Title:
The mystery of things
Author:
Grayling, A. C.
ISBN:
9780753820193
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Publication Information:
London : Phoenix, 2004.
Physical Description:
229 pages ; 20 cm
General Note:
Originally published: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004.
Contents:
A Miscellany of Arts -- Art, War, and Power -- Alberti and the Renaissance -- Art and the East -- Bruegel [sic], Breughel [sic], and Brueghel [sic] -- Art and Nature -- Collecting -- Cities of Eden -- Cities and Buildings -- The City in Modern Culture -- William Burroughs' Last Journals -- The Winter's Tale -- Shakespeare's Genius -- Jane Austen's Emma -- Virgil and the Classics -- Wagner and Philosophy -- G.H. Lewes and Goethe -- The Film Director as Artist -- The Left and High Culture -- Five Women Speaking French -- Simone de Beauvoir -- Louise d'Epinay -- Madame du Deffand -- The Brontes in Belgium -- Aspects of History -- History -- Heritage and History -- The Bible as History -- European Thought before 1914 -- German Resistance to Hitler -- The Fall of Berlin -- Christopher Hill and the English Revolution -- Eric Hobsbawm -- Freud, Moses and Edward W. Said -- Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust -- The Rosetta Stone -- Hannibal and the Alps -- Machiavelli -- The History of Philosophy -- Spectating Science -- Reviewing Science -- Science and Knowledge -- The History of Science -- A Final Theory -- Quantum Possibilities -- The Origins of the Universe -- The Second Edition of A Brief History of Time -- Early Man -- Archaeology and Genetics -- Galileo and the Vatican, Newton and Alchemy -- Marie Curie -- The Human Code -- The Brain -- Consciousness -- Life in the Universe -- Alien Abductions -- Science and Anti-Science -- The Future of Humanity.
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