Ray Monk: 4 books

Robert Oppenheimer was among the most brilliant and divisive of men. As head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, he oversaw the successful effort to beat the Nazis in the race to develop the first atomic bomb—a breakthrough that was to have eternal ramifications for mankind and that made Oppenheimer the...

Met zijn scherpe denken veranderde Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) de koers van de twintigste eeuw voorgoed. Dat laat de Britse filosoof Ray Monk zien in zijn veel geprezen biografie, die inmiddels de status van een klassieker heeft. Monk bestudeerde hiervoor niet alleen de geschriften en correspondentie...

Bertrand Russell 1872-1970 Bertrand Russell discovered mathematics at the age of eleven. It was, he recalled, a transporting experience: 'as dazzling as first love.' From that moment on, he would pursue his passion with undying devotion and all but erotic fervour. Mathematics might succeed,...

From a funeral procession in Asia to an ancestral estate deep in the heart of a vaguely Victorian forest to a carriage accident in the vast universe of The Runelords, Unnatural Worlds takes readers on a journey to the far side of the imagination. Funny, heartbreaking, frightening, but most importantly,...