Roger: 3830 books

Un apasionante paseo por la matemática y la física, y por los hallazgos del pensamiento humano. Durante décadas, los defensores de la inteligencia artificial han mantenido que los ordenadores harán pronto todo lo que la mente humana puede hacer. En su favor, se puede utilizar, por ejemplo,...

An address book of recollections from a writer's life with links to diaries, articles, short stories and videos

Finally, social scientists have begun to attempt to understand religious behavior rather than to discredit it as irrational, ignorant, or foolish—and Rodney Stark and Roger Finke have played a major role in this new approach. Acknowledging that science cannot assess the supernatural side of religion...

Lee and Rob have got hold of a lifelike guy for the Bonfire Night display. But this dummy seems to have a mind of his own. Perhaps he's just a little bit too realistic ... The Mystery Mob series has been created specifically to encourage boys to get reading and to support teachers with paired and guided...

A breathtaking vision of a utopian future on Mars by one of science fiction’s most renowned authors In the middle decades of the twenty-first century, the corporate powers on Earth have established a thriving colony on Mars as an alternative to life on the overpopulated, war-torn, ecologically...

In a deluxe collector's edition hardcover, four classic novels from science fiction's most transformative decade, including the landmark Flowers for Algernon This volume, the first of a two-volume set gathering the best American science fiction from the tumultuous 1960s, opens with Poul Anderson's...

Fifteen short stories ranging from every corner of my rather peculiar mind. From irate aliens to inept vampires. Is the world really as we believe it to be, or a figment of my imagination?

Three bored old men living in New Los Angeles want something to do. Nothing in their lives is interesting or even the slightest bit dangerous. After they discover a time machine buried in the remains of what used to be LA, all this changes. The man who built the machine is not overly impressed, either....

Wouldn't it be funny if you didn't have a nose? The brilliant and clever Roger McGough asks this and other important questions in this marvellous collection. He also tells you exactly when to cut your fingernails, how to have a real pillow fight and what happens when a burp escapes!

Roger Silverstone's compelling new book places the global media at the heart of the moral future of civilisation. It argues that the media (the press, broadcasting, the Internet and increasingly peer-to-peer technologies and networks) have a profound significance for the way in which the world is...

A devoted reader of autobiographies and memoirs, Roger J. Porter has observed in recent years a surprising number of memoirs by adult children whose fathers have led secret lives. Some of the fathers had second families; some had secret religious lives; others have been criminals, liars, or con men....

Great poetry calls into question everything. It dares us to break free from the safe strategies of the cautious mind. It opens us to pain and joy and delight. It amazes, startles, pierces, and transforms us. It can lead to communion and grace. Through the voices of ten inspiring poets and his...

The seventh volume in Roger Housden’s bestselling Ten Poems series of gift poetry anthologies, featuring ten remarkable poems and Housden’s brilliant commentary Features poetry by WS Merwin, Wendell Berry, Ellen Bass, William Stafford, Conrad Aiken, Marie Howe and more Housden’s Ten Poems books have sold over 300,000 copies, many of them in the gift market

In his highly theorised and original book, Roger Ebbatson traces the emergence of conceptions of England and Englishness from 1840 to 1920. His study concentrates on poetry and fiction by authors such as Alfred Lord Tennyson, Richard Jefferies, Thomas Hardy, Q, Rupert Brooke and D.H. Lawrence, reading...