Krakatoa by Simon WinchesterRequirements: .MP3 reader, 251 MBOverview: The legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa — the name has since become a by-word for a cataclysmic disaster — was followed by an immense tsunami that killed nearly 40,000 people. Beyond the purely physical horrors of an event which has only very recently […]
The Perfectionists by Simon WinchesterRequirements: .MP3 reader, 323 MBOverview: The rise of manufacturing could not have happened without an attention to precision. At the dawn of the Industrial Revolution in eighteenth-century England, standards of measurement were established, giving way to the development of machine tools—machines that make machines. Eventually, the application of precision tools and […]
The Alice Behind Wonderland by Simon Winchester Requirements: .MP3 reader, 65 mbOverview: In the summer of 1858, in a garden behind Christ Church in Oxford, Charles Dodgson–better known by his pseudonym Lewis Carroll–dressed the six-year-old Alice Liddell in ragamuffin’s clothes, draped the folds of cloth low enough to expose her bare chest, asked her to […]
The Man Who Loved China by Simon WinchesterRequirements: .MP3 reader, 310 MBOverview: In sumptuous and illuminating detail, Simon Winchester, the bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman (“Elegant and scrupulous”—New York Times Book Review) and Krakatoa (“A mesmerizing page-turner”—Time) brings to life the extraordinary story of Joseph Needham, the brilliant Cambridge scientist who unlocked the most closely held […]
Exactly by Simon WinchesterRequirements: .MP3 reader, 324 MBOverview: SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2018Bestselling author Simon Winchester writes a magnificent history of the pioneering engineers who developed precision machinery to allow us to see as far as the moon and as close as the Higgs boson.Precision is the key to everything. It […]