Why do living things and physical phenomena take the form they do? D'Arcy Thompson's classic On Growth and Form looks at the way things grow and the shapes they take. Analysing biological processes in their mathematical and physical aspects, this historic work, first published i…
"Why do living things and physical phenomena take the form they do? D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson's classic On Growth and Form looks at the way things grow and the shapes they take. Analysing biological processes in their mathematical and physical aspects, this historic work, first …
by Thompson, D'Arcy Wentworth, Bonner, John Tyler
fromCanto classics
by Thompson, D'Arcy Wentworth, Bonner, John Tyler
fromCanto classics
D'Arcy Thompson's classic On Growth and Form looks at the way things grow and the shapes they take.
For decades, people have been studying Shakespeare's life and times and in recent years there has been a renewed surge of interest in aspects of his language. So how can we better understand Shakespeare? David Crystal provides a lively and original introduction to Shakespeare's …
For decades, people have been studying Shakespeare's life and times, and in recent years there has been a renewed surge of interest into aspects of his language. So how can we better understand Shakespeare? How did he manipulate language to produce such an unrivalled body of wor…
For decades, people have been studying Shakespeare's life and times and in recent years there has been a renewed surge of interest in aspects of his language. So how can we better understand Shakespeare? David Crystal provides a lively and original introduction to Shakespeare's …
An introduction to Shakespeare's language. The book shows how examining the five main dimensions of language structure - writing system, pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary and conversational style - can help us achieve a greater appreciation of Shakespeare's linguistic creativit…
For decades, people have been studying Shakespeare's life and times and in recent years there has been a renewed surge of interest in aspects of his language. So how can we better understand Shakespeare? David Crystal provides a lively and original introduction to Shakespeare's …
"Nations and Nationalism since 1780" is Eric Hobsbawm's widely acclaimed and highly readable enquiry into the question of nationalism. Events in the late twentieth century in Eastern Europe and the Soviet republics have since reinforced the central importance of nationalism in t…
