Books by University Authors
Inorganic Materials
Dr Richard Walton, from the Department of Chemistry has co-edited a series of five books Inorganic Materials, alongside Duncan W. Bruce and Dermot O'Hare. The Inorganic Materials series contains five volumes, based on the physical properties of each material: Molecular Materials; Low-Dimensional Solids; Porous Materials; Functional Oxides; Energy Materials
How Science Works: Evolution: A Student Primer
Biological Sciences Emeritus Professor John Ellis, FRS has recently had published a book, titled: How Science Works: Evolution: A Student Primer
Slow-Tech: Manifesto For An Overwound World
Andrew Price, Professorial Fellow in the Department of Biological Sciences, authors an alternative vision for life in the twenty-first century.
Slow-Tech explains how the ‘inessential’ and ‘unproductive’ protect us from the consequences of our obsession with efficiency.
Why Beauty Is Truth: The History of Symmetry
At the heart of relativity theory, quantum mechanics, string theory, and much of modern cosmology lies one concept: symmetry. In Why Beauty Is Truth, world-famous mathematician Ian Stewart narrates the history of the emergence of this remarkable area of study.
Galdós and Darwin
Despite the fact that Darwinian theory was perhaps the big idea of the nineteenth century, most critics in the past have assumed that Benito Pérez Galdós would have remained unaffected by this scientific and philosophical revolution.