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Around the World in Eighty Days
Having assured the members of London's exclusive Reform Club that he will circumnavigate the world in 80 days, Fogg - stiff, repressed, English - starts by joining forces with an irrepressible Frenchman, Passepartout, and then with a ravishing Indian beauty, Aouda. Together they slice through jungles, over snowbound passes, even across an entire isthmus - only to get back five minutes late. Fogg faces despair and suicide, but Aouda makes a new man of him, able to face even the Reform Club again. Around the World in Eighty Days (1872) contains a strong dose of post-Romantic reality plus extensive borrowing from the author's own Journey to England and Scotland - but not a shred of science fict...
The Scientific Outlook
'A scientific opinion is one which there is some reason to believe is true; an unscientific opinion is one which is held for some reason other than its probable truth.' - Bertrand Russell One of Russell's most important books, this early classic on science illuminates his thinking on the promise and threat of scientific progress. Russell considers three questions fundamental to an understanding of science: the nature and scope of scientific knowledge, the increased power over nature that science affords, and the changes in the lives of human beings that result from new forms of science. With customary wit and clarity, Russell offers brilliant discussions of many major scientific figures, including Aristotle, Galileo, Newton and Darwin. With a new introduciton by David Papineau, King's College, London.
The Royal Kalendar and Court and City Register for England, Scotland, Ireland, and the Colonies for the Year ...
Vols. for 1837-52 include the Companion to the Almanac, or Year-book of general information.
Treasures: The Special Collections of the University of Wales Trinity Saint David
Many of the selected volumes are extremely rare, and in some cases believed to be unique survivors. The selected volumes cover over seven hundred years of the ‘history of the book’. It is published to mark the bicentenary of the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 1822-2022.
