John Postgate: 3 books

John Postgate describes this autobiography as essentially ‘a book about doing science’, and while it is an entertaining account of his life in the UK and abroad as he rose to international prominence in microbiology, it is also a book about playing and listening to his beloved jazz. Away from lab...

After spending half a century focused on Greek and Latin scholarship, the author shares his experiences and opinions on such translation subjects as fidelity, misrepresentation, translations posing as originals, sham originals, “libertine” translations, translation of verse and prose, and many more. Includes examples from Horace, Plato, Martial, Milton, and Shakespeare.

After her woeful honeymoon, Katherine becomes an ardent suffragist and imposes household duties on Petruchio, who submits tamely to petticoat government. At a meeting of the women, man’s doom as a political or domestic power is announced, but Katherine, Mariana, Viola, Desdemona and Lady Macbeth hark...