BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR
Correpondence of John Tyndall Vol. 8 The Correspondence June 1863-January 1865 Edited by Piers J. Hale, Elizabeth Neswald, Nathan N. Kapoor and Michael D. Barton Series: The Correspondence of John Tyndall
Collected correspondence of John Tyndall. The 318 letters in this volume reveal a great deal about prominent 19th-century Irish physicist John Tyndall’s personality, the development of his career, and his role in attempting to better establish science as a respectable and professional enterprise. Letters in this volume include dramatic accounts of his cousin’s exploits in the American Civil War, details of Tyndall’s mountaineering adventures, and correspondence regarding his joint acquisition of the Reader. University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822945772 • Hardback 229 x 152mm • 448 pages • December 2020 • £115.00
The Correspondence of John Tyndall, Volume 9 The Correspondence, November 1865–March 1868 Edited by Iwan Rhys Morus, Geoffrey Belknap and James C. Ungureanu Series: The Correspondence of John Tyndall
Collected correspondence of John Tyndall. The letters in this volume continue to explore the life and work of prominent 19th-century Irish physicist John Tyndall. Tyndall’s correspondents read like a who’s who of international science, including Michael Faraday, Charles Darwin, Thomas Huxley, Joseph Henry, Rudolf Clausius, and Louis Pasteur. An intense study of his correspondence illuminates themes that individually and collectively played fundamental roles in the development of modern science: the relationship between science and religion, the popularisation and professionalisation of science, and advances in physics, glaciology, climatology, and the germ theory.
University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822946083 • Hardback 229 x 152mm • 448 pages • June 2020 • £115.50
Václav Havel A Biography By David Barton Series: Russian & East European Studies
An intimate portrayal of Václav Havel, the Czech writer, dissident, statesman, and first president of the Czech Republic. Václav Havel (1936-2011), the famous Czech dissident, intellectual, and playwright, was also the first president of the Czech Republic. He was sometimes misunderstood and not always popular, but by the time of his death in 2011, the world recognized Havel as one of the most prominent figures of the twentieth century. This biography is the story of Havel’s inward journey in his underground years and thus the story of how Havel, the outsider, became the ultimate insider as president of the nation. University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822946069 • Hardback • 25 b/w illus. 229 x 152mm • 336 pages • April 2020 • £25.00
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