Secondhand Science & Ideas Bargain Book Box SP2873

Secondhand Science & Ideas Bargain Book Box SP2873

The best popular science thinking of the twentieth century gathered in one box — from Attenborough on the living world to Gould on geological time, with Martin Gardner's sceptical intelligence running through it like a thread.

1. Montaigne — Peter Burke (Past Masters, OUP) — a concise introduction to the great French essayist and his enduring relevance.
2. Homer — Jasper Griffin (Past Masters, OUP) — a brilliant short study of Homer and the world of the Homeric epics.
3. Life on Earth — David Attenborough — companion to the landmark BBC television series on the evolution of life.
4. The Ambidextrous Universe: Left, Right, and the Fall of Parity — Martin Gardner — a classic exploration of symmetry and handedness in nature and physics.
5. Introduction to Logical Theory — P.F. Strawson (University Paperbacks) — a foundational text in modern analytic philosophy and formal logic.
6. Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time — Stephen Jay Gould — Gould's elegant study of how deep time was imagined and understood.
7. Ockham's Razor — (ABC Radio's Science Series) — essays from the long-running Australian public radio science programme.
8. Words from the Myths — Isaac Asimov — Asimov traces the roots of everyday language in classical mythology.
9. The Human Zoo — Desmond Morris — Morris's provocative study of human behaviour in urban environments.
10. Betrayers of the Truth: Fraud and Deceit in Science — William Broad and Nicholas Wade — a rigorous and unsettling investigation into scientific misconduct.
11. The Sacred Beetle and Other Great Essays in Science — chosen and introduced by Martin Gardner — an outstanding anthology including Asimov, Gould, Einstein, Huxley, and others.
12. Use and Abuse of Statistics — W.J. Reichmann (Pelican) — a clear-headed guide to statistical thinking for the general reader.
13. Dawn of a Millennium: Beyond Evolution and Culture — Erich Harth — a wide-ranging inquiry into consciousness, evolution, and the future of human culture.
14. Ockham's Razor 2 — (ABC Radio's Science Series) — the second collection from the popular science radio series.
15. Planet Word — J.P. Davidson (BBC) — a lively history of language from earliest communication to the digital age, companion to the television series.
16. Science: Good, Bad and Bogus — Martin Gardner — Gardner's rigorous and entertaining examination of pseudoscience and the limits of legitimate inquiry.
17. Francis Bacon — Anthony Quinton (Past Masters, OUP) — a lucid introduction to the philosopher of empiricism and the scientific method.
18. Science of Mythology: Essays on the Myth of the Divine Child and the Mysteries of Eleusis — C.G. Jung and C. Kerényi — a landmark collaboration on archetype and myth.
19. The Making of English — Henry Bradley, revised by Simeon Potter — a classic study of how the English language took its present shape.
20. The Beginnings of Modern Psychology — W.M. O'Neil (Penguin Science of Behaviour) — traces the emergence of psychology as a scientific discipline.
21. Intelligence and Personality — Alice Heim (Pelican) — a lucid account of how intelligence and personality are defined, measured, and related.