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World War Z

Tue, 21 Oct 2025 17:57:57 +0000

World War Z by Max Brooks is a 2006 apocalyptic horror novel presented as an oral history of a global zombie pandemic. The story unfolds through a series of interviews conducted by a fictionalized Max Brooks, who works for the United Nations Postwar Commission. The narrative covers the outbreak’s origins in China, its rapid global spread, initial government denial and failures, and the eventual military and societal efforts to survive and reclaim the world. The novel explores themes of survivalism, political and social collapse, and human resilience during an extended worldwide crisis. It details various individual experiences and global responses, including military strategies, quarantine measures, and the psychological impacts on survivors. The work is notable for its realistic approach and broad scope, showing humanity’s endurance amid chaos and rebuilding after devastation.

Through Two Doors at Once: The Elegant Experiment that Captures the Enigma of our Quantum Reality: The Enigmatic Story of our Quantum Reality

Mon, 20 May 2024 17:49:46 +0000

How can matter behave both like a particle and a wave? Does a particle exist before we look at it or does the very act of looking bring it into reality? Many of science’s greatest minds have grappled with these questions embodied by the simple yet elusive double-slit experiment. With his extraordinary gift for making the complicated comprehensible, Anil Ananthaswamy travels around the world and through history, down to the smallest scales of physical reality that we can fathom to provide the clearest, most accessible explanation yet of the amazing world of quantum mechanics. ***PRAISE FOR THROUGH TWO DOORS AT ONCE*** A Forbes Best Book of the Year A Kirkus Best Book of the Year A Smithsonian Favourite Book of the Year ‘An excellent addition to the ‘quantum physics for the rest of us’ shelf.’ Brian Clegg, author of The Quantum Age ‘Offers beginners the tools they need to seriously engage with the philosophical questions that likely drew them to quantum mechanics.’ Science ‘Treats a nineteenth-century light experiment as a sprawling intellectual adventure story… accessible and illuminating.’ Publishers Weekly, Top 10 Science Books of the Year ‘A fascinating read and a must for anyone who would like to find out the latest experimental advances made in this most fundamental of quantum experiments.’ Physics World

Truth and Other Enigmas

Wed, 19 Oct 2022 13:36:02 +0000

Hardcover with Dust Jacket, Condition Good (some text underlined). This collection of Michael Dummett’s philosophical essays, spanning more than twenty years, ranges in topic from time to the philosophy of mathematics, but is unified by a steady philosophical outlook. The essays are, in one way or another, informed by Dummett’s concern with metaphysical questions and his belief that the correct approach to them is via the theory of meaning. Reflected here is Dummett’s conviction that the concept of truth is of central importance both for the theory of meaning and for metaphysics. As he sees it, an adequate elucidation of the concept of truth requires nothing less than the construction of a satisfactory theory of meaning. At the same time, resolution of the traditional problems of metaphysics turns critically upon the way in which the concept of truth applies to each of various large ranges of statements, and especially upon whether the statements in each such range satisfy the principle that every statement must be true or false. The book includes all Dummett’s philosophical essays that were published or given as public lectures before August 1976, with the exception of a few he did not think it worthwhile to reprint and of the two entitled “What Is a Theory of Meaning?” One essay appears here for the first time in English and two have not been previously published. In an extensive preface, Dummett comments on the essays and seeks to relate them to the philosophical background against which they were written.

Beyond Celts, Germans and Scythians

Thu, 13 May 2021 17:59:45 +0000

Archaeology and Identity in Iron Age Europe