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  • Knowing What We Know

    The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic

    par Simon Winchester ...
    “A delightful compendium of the kind of facts you immediately want to share with anyone you encounter . . . . Simon Winchester has firmly earned his place in history . . . as a promulgator of knowledge of every variety, perhaps the last of the famous explorers who crisscrossed the now-vanished British Empire and reported what they found to an astonished world.” — New York TimesFrom the creation of ... En savoir plus

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Professor and the Madman

    A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

    par Simon Winchester ...
    A New York Times Notable BookThe Professor and the Madman is an extraordinary tale of madness, genius, and the incredible obsessions of two remarkable men that led to the making of the Oxford English Dictionary—and literary history.The making of the OED was one of the most ambitious projects ever undertaken. As definitions were collected, the overseeing committee, led by Professor James Murray, ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Pacific

    Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers

    par Simon Winchester ...
    One of Library Journal’s 10 Best Books of 2015Following his acclaimed Atlantic and The Men Who United the States, New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester offers an enthralling biography of the Pacific Ocean and its role in the modern world, exploring our relationship with this imposing force of nature.As the Mediterranean shaped the classical world, and the Atlantic connected Europe to ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Breath of the Gods

    The History and Future of the Wind

    par Simon Winchester ...
    “As our climate changes, the force of the wind is set to grow. By looking to the past and the future, Winchester examines the twinned possibilities alive in this bluster: the power of the wind to tear our world apart and its ability to help us travel farther and do more.” — The Washington Post"Epic . . . . A splendidly written account of an unseeable force." — Kirkus Reviews</e... ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • A Crack in the Edge of the World

    America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906

    par Simon Winchester ...
    The international bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa vividly brings to life the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake that leveled a city symbolic of America's relentless western expansion. Simon Winchester has also fashioned an enthralling and informative informative look at the tumultuous subterranean world that produces earthquakes, the planet's most sudden and destructive ... En savoir plus

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Perfectionists

    How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World

    par Simon Winchester ...
    “Another gem from one of the world’s justly celebrated historians specializing in unusual and always fascinating subjects and people.” — Booklist (starred review)The revered New York Times bestselling author traces the development of technology from the Industrial Age to the Digital Age to explore the single component crucial to advancement—precision—in a superb history that is both an homage and ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • Los perfeccionistas

    Cómo la precisión creó el mundo moderno

    par Simon Winchester ...
    La perfección no existe, pero los desconocidos ingenieros que se han empeñado en alcanzarla han tenido más importancia en nuestra vida de lo que pensamos.A través de anécdotas y ejemplos, teje la historia de la ingeniería de precisión y hace comprensibles sus inestimables aportaciones: el avión, la lente de una cámara Leica, las máquinas de rayos X, el telescopio Hubble, el microchip, el ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Men Who United the States

    America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible

    par Simon Winchester ...
    “Simon Winchester never disappoints, and The Men Who United the States is a lively and surprising account of how this sprawling piece of geography became a nation. This is America from the ground up. Inspiring and engaging.” —Tom BrokawSimon Winchester, acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Atlantic and The Professor and the Madman, delivers his first book about America: a fascinating ... En savoir plus

    $13.99 CAD

  • Atlantic

    Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms,and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories

    par Simon Winchester ...
    "Variably genial, cautionary, lyrical, admonitory, terrifying, horrifying and inspiring…A lifetime of thought, travel, reading, imagination and memory inform this affecting account." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Blending history and anecdote, geography and reminiscence, science and exposition, New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester tells the breathtaking saga of the Atlantic Ocean ... En savoir plus

    $13.99 CAD

  • The End of the River

    par Simon Winchester ...
    When it comes to climate-change-inspired threats, it is rising sea levels we hear most about. But if the oceans are, as Herman Melville put it, “the tide-beating heart of the earth,” rivers are its circulatory system. In the United States, there is no river more storied, symbolic, and vital than the Mississippi, and none, to use Mark Twain’s word, more lawless. The struggle to control it has been ... En savoir plus

    $4.99 CAD

  • Outposts

    Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire

    par Simon Winchester ...
    The New York Times bestselling author of Krakatoa and The Professor and the Madman takes readers on a quirky and charming tour of the last outpost of the British empireOutposts is Simon Winchester's journey to find the vanishing empire, "on which the sun never sets." In the course of a three-year, 100,000 mile journey—from the chill of the Antarctic to the blue seas of the Caribbean, from the ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Alice Behind Wonderland

    par Simon Winchester ...
    On a summer's day in 1858, in a garden behind Christ Church College in Oxford, Charles Dodgson, a lecturer in mathematics, photographed six-year-old Alice Liddell, the daughter of the college dean, with a Thomas Ottewill Registered Double Folding camera, recently purchased in London. Simon Winchester deftly uses the resulting image--as unsettling as it is famous, and the subject of bottomless ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD