A graphic celebration of Bertrand Russell's life and work.
John Theophilus Desaguliers made his mark on the eighteenth century in several diverse ways. He was an assistant to Sir Isaac Newton and later elucidated the difficult concepts of Newtonian physics in private lectures. He was a member of the Royal Society, and was presented with…
The first volume of a biography that seeks to describe Russell'd intellectual achievements, his political work and his tortured emotional life in a single narrative. This covers the period from 1872 until 1921.
Born in 1872, the third child of Viscount Amberley, heir to the Russell earldom, Bertrand Russell was to become the most influential philosopher of the twentieth century. His early masterpiece Principia Mathematica, written with Alfred North Whitehead, set the course for the mod…
"John Venn is remembered today as the inventor of the famous "Venn diagram." The postmortem fame of the namesake diagram has until now eclipsed Venn's own status as one of the most accomplished logicians in his day. Praised by John Stuart Mill as a "highly successful thinker" wi…
The first comprehensive history of John Venn's life and work. John Venn (1834-1923) is remembered today as the inventor of the famous Venn diagram. The postmortem fame of the diagram has until now eclipsed Venn's own status as one of the most accomplished logicians of his day. P…
Introducing Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell changed Western philosophy forever. He tackled many puzzles: how our minds work, how we experience the world, and what the true nature of meaning is. In "Introducing Bertrand Russell" we meet a passionate eccentric, active in world politics, who had outspoken vi…
Introducing Bertrand Russell: a graphic guide
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A graphic celebration of Bertrand Russell's life and work.
"This is not a pastel reverie, but a work in which the author, an English philosopher, feminist, and Marxist, not only bares her soul but carefully dissects it ... Rose develops by contrast her notion of love's work: the obligation to go on thinking and caring in spite of the ce…