Astronomy 336: Week 1

A Universe from Nothing uses bestselling author and acclaimed physicist Lawrence Krauss's characteristic wry humor and wonderfully clear explanations to take us back to the beginning of the beginning, presenting the most recent evidence for how our universe evolved--and the implications for how it's going to end. This is a game-changing look at the most basic underpinning of existence and a powerful antidote to outmoded philosophical, religious, and scientific thinking.

The notion that our society, its education system and its intellectual life, is characterised by a split between two cultures - the arts or humanities on one hand, and the sciences on the other - has a long history. But it was C. P. Snow's Rede lecture of 1959 that brought it to prominence and began a public debate that is still raging in the media today.

The notion that our society, its education system and its intellectual life, is characterised by a split between two cultures - the arts or humanities on one hand, and the sciences on the other - has a long history. But it was C. P. Snow's Rede lecture of 1959 that brought it to prominence and began a public debate that is still raging in the media today. Includes its successor piece, A Second Look, in which Snow responded to the controversy four years later.

Except for a brief prologue and epilogue (in which the two cultures caveat is reaffirmed), all of the Snow material collected here has been published previously, e.g., The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution (1959), Science and Government (1960), The State of Siege (1968). A welcome gathering of some of Lord Snow's more important public statements.

Frederick R. Karl has made a thorough and illuminating analysis of all of Snow's fiction, from his detective story of 1932 (Death Under Sail) to the latest volumes in the Strangers and Brothers series. And for that series Mr. Karl has compiled an interesting table of events, paralled by one which lists the principal facts of C.P. Snow's own life.

With a preface by Harry T. Moore. Frederick R. Karl has made a thorough and illuminating analysis of all of Snow's fiction, from his detective story of 1932 (Death Under Sail) to the latest volumes in the Strangers and Brothers series. And for that series Mr. Karl has compiled an interesting table of events, paralled by one which lists the principal facts of C.P. Snow's own life.

With a bibliography by Bernard Stone

Thale's boomerang essay, designed to demonstrate Snow's literary art, offers in evidence significant passages from the Strangers and Brothers series; they make one think of Wilson's verdict: "almost.... unreadable."... Thale offers some sensible commentary on the conflict between love and power, on the administrative ethos, [and] the pragmatic temper. (Kirkus Reviews)

Volume 115 of Bibliographical series of supplements to British book news on writers and their work

Leavis’s attack on Snow’s celebrated philippic against the ignorance of science displayed by “literary intellectuals” is unsparing. And although he protested that his response to Snow contained “no personal animus,” it is undeniably ad hominem—lavishly so. Nonetheless, Leavis has important and enduring things to say about the mechanics of intellectual celebrity and the relationship between disinterested academic research and economic growth.

Jay A. Labinger and Harry Collins have gathered together some of the world's foremost scientists and sociologists of science to exchange opinions and ideas rather than insults. The contributors find surprising areas of broad agreement in a genuine conversation about science, its legitimacy and authority as a means of understanding the world, and whether science studies undermines the practice and findings of science and scientists.

Science and Government is a gripping account of one of the great scientific rivalries of the twentieth century. The antagonists are Sir Henry Tizard, a chemist from Imperial College, and Frederick Lindemann (Lord Cherwell), a physicist from the University of Oxford. The scientist-turned-novelist Charles Percy Snow tells a story of hatred and ambition at the top of British science, exposing how vital decisions were made in secret and sometimes with little regard to truth or the prevailing scientific consensus.