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1	The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch more books like this by Terry Pratchett add to wishlist Roundworld is in trouble again, and this time it looks fatal. Having created it in the first place, the wizards of Unseen University feel vaguely responsible for its safety. They know the creatures who lived there escaped the impending Big Freeze by inventing the space elevator - they even intervened to rid the planet of a plague of elves, who ... see all copies from $8.53! new only from $8.53! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	The Science of Discworld more books like this by Terry Pratchett add to wishlist When a wizardly experiment goes adrift, the wizards of Unseen University find themselves with a pocket universe on their hands: Roundworld, where neither magic nor common sense seems to stand a chance against logic. The Universe, of course, is our own. And Roundworld is Earth. As the wizards watch their accidental creation grow, we follow the ... see all copies from $8.87! new only from $8.87! \| first editions
3	A Sentimental Journey and Other Writings more books like this by Laurence Sterne, Ian Jack (Editor), Tim Parnell (Editor) add to wishlist Sterne's famous fictional travelogue, published in two volumes a month before his death in 1768, is based on his two journeys abroad in 1762-64 and 1765. Sterne called it his "Work of Redemption," presumably for the sins and errors committed in writing the greatest shaggy-dog story ever told in the form of "Tristram Shandy." Through the amiable ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
4	Collapse of chaos : discovering simplicity in a complex world more books like this by Jack S. Cohen, Ian Stewart add to wishlist Science's traditional answers to the question: "How does complexity arise in nature?" are given at the beginning of this book. It shows how intelligence and human culture can be traced back to atomic structure, reducing the whole of nature to simple laws of fundamental physics. However, the book then proceeds to show that "How does complexity ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.96! \| first editions
5	Figments of Reality: The Evolution of the Curious Mind more books like this by Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen add to wishlist Is the universe around us a figment of our imagination? Or are our minds figments of reality? In this refreshing new look at the evolution of mind and culture, bestselling authors Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen eloquently argue that our minds necessarily evolved inextricably within the context of culture and language. They go beyond conventional ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.50! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	Best of Young American Novelists 2 by Ian Jack (Editor) add to wishlist In 1996, "Granta"Us first issue included Jeffrey Eugenides, Jonathan Franzen, and Lorrie Moore. This special issue features original work by 20 writers under 35 years old who have been selected as the most interesting new voices in American fiction today. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.84! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Collapse of Chaos: 2discovering Simplicity in a Complex World more books like this by Jack Cohen, Ian Stewart add to wishlist This sequel to Ian Stewart's books on chaos ("Does God Play Dice?") and symmetry ("Fearful Symmetry"), explores the wider field of complexity theory, tackling the questions of how complexity arises in nature, and how life overcomes chaos and entropy to create developing order. Co-written with biologist Jack Cohen, this layman's guide ranges across ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.29! \| first editions
8	Life's Like That more books like this by Jack Ian (Editor) add to wishlist Like what exactly? Like always ready to surprise you on the stairs, like wishing you had only known; like wanting it to go on for rather longer. This issue of Granta contains lessons drawn from the muddle of experience. With Simon Gray on smoking, absent friends, smoking, getting old and why Gary Cooper walked the way he did; Lynn Barber on the ... see all copies from $3.84! new only from $9.13!
9	Film and Television Acting: From Stage to Screen more books like this by Ian Bernard, Jack Lemmon (Foreword by) add to wishlist "Film and Television Acting" offers solid techniques for creating a natural, believable performance for film and television. The reader will discover techniques for listening and reacting, blocking and business, character, focus, the close-up, and comedy as they pertain to acting in front of a camera. The book analyzes the differences between ... see all copies from $15.99! new only from $29.80! \| SVS
10	Wheelers more books like this by Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen add to wishlist In 2270, archaeologist Prudence Odingo returns to Earth with news of a bizarre discovery of hundreds of ancient wheeled artifacts beneath the icy surface of Callisto, the eighth moon of Jupiter. The "wheelers" come to life just as several of Jupiter's moons change orbit, causing a comet to hurtle toward Earth. An expedition reveals that Jupiter is ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
11	A Sentimental Journey with the Journal to Eliza and a Political Romance more books like this by Laurence Sterne, Ian Robert James Jack (Editor) add to wishlist This book is far removed from the conventional travel book, and is fiction rather than reportage. Sterne travelled extensively in the 1760s, and drew on his experiences to write the narrative of Mr Yorick, the Sentimental traveller. The Journal to Eliza and A Political Romance both demonstrate the rare early satire which marked the beginning of ... see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Heaven more books like this by Dr. Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen add to wishlist A collaborative novel from two scientists turned writers that pits two disparate protagonists against the background of age old cosmic disunity. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.50! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Granta 87: Jubilee!: The 25th Anniversary Issue more books like this by Ian Jack (Editor) add to wishlist "Granta 87" is a special anniversary issue of the magazine. It features new writing from the writers who made its reputation, including Richard Ford, Martin Amis, Amit Chaudhuri, Julian Barnes, Blake Morrison, Joyce Carol Oates, and others. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
14 view cover	Granta 83: This Overheating World more books like this by Ian Jack (Editor) add to wishlist The world we were born into has gone. We shall never completely recapture its climate, its seasons, the way its plants grew and its animals lived. This is not a wild-eyed prediction, a man on the street with a placard ("THE END IS NIGH"). Respectable science knows it and says it. Nine of the world's ten warmest years since records were kept have ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.20! \| first editions
15 view cover	Hidden Histories more books like this by Ian Jack (Editor) add to wishlist Repressed personal experiences, neglected battles, forgotten civilizations are offered in Granta 85--an issue that excavates the unfairly buried event, the secret life, the overlooked war. With Diana Athill on losing her baby, Amit Chaudhuri on the Indian tailor who became the face of a riot, Giles Foden on the origins of "The African Queen," plus ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Granta 89: The Factory more books like this by Ian Jack (Editor) add to wishlist Britain invented the factory, and some say America perfected it. Where are factories now, and what happened to the world of work that went with them? Features reports and dispatches from the scene of making things all over the world, including new writing by Isabel Hilton, Eric Schlosser, and Robert Sullivan; a report on Bhopal 20 years after the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.13! \| SVS
17 view cover	Granta 88: Mothers: The Magazine of New Writing more books like this by Ian Jack (Editor) add to wishlist "Granta 88" features John McGahern on his mother's struggle for health and happiness in Catholic Ireland; Edmund White on his mother's battle with the girdle in Texas; Alexandra Fuller on bearing a child in Africa; and Paul Theroux on an American matriarchy. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.00! \| SVS
18 view cover	Granta 56 by Ian Jack (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.99! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Over There: How America Sees the World more books like this by Ian Jack (Editor) add to wishlist The USA is the worlds newest, greatest, and only empire. Some would say it is the worlds most insular state as well as the most powerful, never troubling to correct its ignorance of the people and places beyond its borders. Is it a slander? In this issue of Granta, American writers describe their encounters abroad and how they were affected by ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.91! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Women and Children First more books like this by Ian Jack (Editor), J M Coetzee, Professor Edward W Said add to wishlist How do we cope with the public and private disaster? Jasmina Tesanovic on being bombed in Belgrade -- "The Diary of a Political Idiot"; Ian Jack on good behavior aboard the Titanic; Joy Williams on the necessary death of her dog Hawk; Edward Said on the shame of his body; James Buchan inside Saddam's Iraq. Plus: Edmund White, and the debut of a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
21 view cover	The Assassin more books like this by Ian Jack (Editor) add to wishlist In a powerful piece of imagination, Henk van Woerden reconstructs the strange, affecting history of Demetrios Tsafendas -- the man who assassinated Hendrik Verwoerd, South African premier and architect of apartheid. Also in this issue: Diana Athill on the need to like V. S. Naipaul; Richard Williams on the search for a long-lost jazz trumpeter; ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Best of Young British Novelists more books like this by Ian Jack (Editor) add to wishlist Contributors to the first two volumes in the "Granta" series include six Booker Award winners and nine recipients of the Whitbread Award. This is a collection of their writings. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.97! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	God's Own Countries: Are You Living in One? more books like this by Ian Jack (Editor) add to wishlist The politics of religion around the world, featuring John McGahern, A. L. Kennedy, Richard Mabey, Simon Gray, Geoff Dyer, Jackie Kay, Pankaj Mishra, Nell Freudenberger, and more on their personal experiences--close, baffling, acrimonious, or nonexistent-- of the divine. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.99! \| SVS
24 view cover	Granta 62 more books like this by Ian Jack (Editor) add to wishlist The newest GRANTA annual features an interview with Martha Gellhorn on the subject of marriage; civil war and economic collapse in Indonesia; a photographic essay on Jakarta's last boom; a humorous piece by Todd McEwen on the fetish of high heels; a look at the Northern soul (opposite the Southern soul?); and a timely article entitled "The ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Granta 58 more books like this by Ian Jack (Editor) add to wishlist More than 140,000 readers around the world savor the fiction, reportage, polemics, autobiography, history, and travel writing presented in GRANTA. Contributors such as Jeff Eugenides, James Fenton, and Mona Simpson deliver writing that is controversial and thought-provoking, powerful and urgent, making GRANTA the "best literary magazine in the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions

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