C. P. Snow (1905-1980) va ser un escriptor, científic i polític britànic. Va estudiar a la University College de Leicester i la Universitat de Cambridge. Com a autor, és conegut per la sèrie de novel·les policíaques Strangers and Brothers i l”assaig Les dues cultures, en el qual posa de manifest la separació entre la ciència i les humanitats.
53 Ebook di C. P. Snow
C. P. Snow: Science and Government
Science and Government is a gripping account of one of the great scientific rivalries of the twentieth century. The antagonists are Sir Henry Tizard, a chemist from Imperial College, and Frederick Li …
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€15.44
C.P. Snow: Affair
In the eighth in the Strangers and Brothers series Donald Howard, a young science Fellow is charged with scientific fraud and dismissed from his college. This novel, which became a successful West En …
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€7.60
C.P. Snow: Coat Of Varnish
Humphrey Leigh, retired resident of Belgravia, pays a social visit to an old friend, Lady Ashbrook. She is waiting for her test results, fearing cancer. When Lady Ashbrook gets the all clear she has …
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€7.69
C.P. Snow: Conscience Of The Rich
Seventh in the Strangers and Brothers series, this is a novel of conflict exploring the world of the great Anglo-Jewish banking families between the two World Wars. Charles March is heir to one of th …
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€7.69
C.P. Snow: Corridors Of Power
The corridors and committee rooms of Whitehall are the setting for the ninth in the Strangers and Brothers series. They are also home to the manipulation of political power. Roger Quaife wages his ba …
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€7.62
C.P. Snow: Death Under Sail
Roger Mills, a Harley Street specialist, is taking a sailing holiday on the Norfolk Broads. When his six guests find him at the tiller of his yacht with a smile on his face and a gunshot through his …
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€7.73
C.P. Snow: George Passant
In the first of the Strangers and Brothers series Lewis Eliot tells the story of George Passant, a Midland solicitor’s managing clerk and idealist who tries to bring freedom to a group of people in t …
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€7.70
C.P. Snow: Homecomings
Homecomings is the sixth in the Strangers and Brothers series and sequel to Time of Hope. This complete story in its own right follows Lewis Eliot’s life through World War II. After his first wife’s …
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€7.65
C.P. Snow: In Their Wisdom
Economic storm clouds gather as bad political weather is forecast for the nation. Three elderly peers look on from the sidelines of the House of Lords and wonder if it will mean the end of a certain …
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€7.61
C.P. Snow: Last Things
The last in the Strangers and Brothers series has Sir Lewis Eliot’s heart stop briefly during an operation. During recovery he passes judgement on his achievements and dreams. Concerns fall from him …
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€7.64
C.P. Snow: Light And The Dark
The Light and the Dark is the second in the Strangers and Brothers series. The story is set in Cambridge, but the plot also moves to Monte Carlo, Berlin and Switzerland. Lewis Eliot narrates the care …
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C.P. Snow: Malcontents
Thomas Freer is a prosperous solicitor who is also the Registrar, responsible for his cathedral’s legal business. His son Stephen is one of a secret group of young men and women known as the core. Wh …
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C.P. Snow: New Men
It is the onset of World War II in the fifth in the Strangers and Brothers series. A group of Cambridge scientists are working on atomic fission. But there are consequences for the men who are affect …
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€7.65
C.P. Snow: Physicists
C P Snow’s sketches of famous physicists and explanation of how atomic weapons were developed gives an overview of science often lacking. This study provides us with hope for the future as well as an …
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€7.69
C.P. Snow: Search
This story told in the first person starts with a child’s interest in the night sky. A telescope starts a lifetime’s interest in science. The narrator goes up to King’s College, London to study. As a …
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€7.70
C.P. Snow: Sleep Of Reason
The penultimate novel in the Strangers and Brothers series takes Goya’s theme of monsters that appear in our sleep. The sleep of reason here is embodied in the ghastly murders of children that involv …
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€7.71
C.P. Snow: Time Of Hope
Time of Hope is the third in the Strangers and Brothers series and tells the story of Lewis Eliot’s early life. As a child he is faced with his father’s bankruptcy. As a young man, he finds his caree …
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C. P. Snow: Les dues cultures
Una reflexió essencial sobre el divorci entre la literatura i la ciència. Per primer cop en català, la importantíssima reflexió de l’escriptor Charles P. Snow sobre el divorci entre les ‘dues culture …
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€3.99
C. P. Snow & F. R. Leavis: Las dos culturas
En 1959 el físico y novelista C.P. Snow dictó una conferencia en la Universidad de Cambridge que nunca pensó que causaría tanto revuelo ‘Las dos culturas’, en la que deja claro el clivaje que existe …
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C P Snow: Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution
This is the publication of the influential 1959 Rede Lecture by British scientist and novelist C. P. Snow. Its thesis was that "the intellectual life of the whole of western society" was sp …
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€1.27
C. P. Snow: Death Under Sail
Roger Mills, a Harley Street specialist, is taking a sailing holiday on the Norfolk Broads. When his six guests find him at the tiller of his yacht with a smile on his face and a gunshot through his …
EPUB
Inglese
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€11.56
C.P. Snow: Affair
In the eighth in the Strangers and Brothers series Donald Howard, a young science Fellow is charged with scientific fraud and dismissed from his college. This novel, which became a successful West En …
PDF
Inglese
DRM
€7.70
C.P. Snow: Conscience Of The Rich
Seventh in the Strangers and Brothers series, this is a novel of conflict exploring the world of the great Anglo-Jewish banking families between the two World Wars. Charles March is heir to one of th …
PDF
Inglese
DRM
€7.61
C.P. Snow: Corridors Of Power
The corridors and committee rooms of Whitehall are the setting for the ninth in the Strangers and Brothers series. They are also home to the manipulation of political power. Roger Quaife wages his ba …
PDF
Inglese
DRM
€7.67
C.P. Snow: Death Under Sail
Roger Mills, a Harley Street specialist, is taking a sailing holiday on the Norfolk Broads. When his six guests find him at the tiller of his yacht with a smile on his face and a gunshot through his …
PDF
Inglese
DRM
€7.64
C.P. Snow: George Passant
In the first of the Strangers and Brothers series Lewis Eliot tells the story of George Passant, a Midland solicitor’s managing clerk and idealist who tries to bring freedom to a group of people in t …
PDF
Inglese
DRM
€7.71
C.P. Snow: Homecomings
Homecomings is the sixth in the Strangers and Brothers series and sequel to Time of Hope. This complete story in its own right follows Lewis Eliot’s life through World War II. After his first wife’s …
PDF
Inglese
DRM
€7.70
C.P. Snow: In Their Wisdom
Economic storm clouds gather as bad political weather is forecast for the nation. Three elderly peers look on from the sidelines of the House of Lords and wonder if it will mean the end of a certain …
PDF
Inglese
DRM
€7.68
C.P. Snow: Last Things
The last in the Strangers and Brothers series has Sir Lewis Eliot’s heart stop briefly during an operation. During recovery he passes judgement on his achievements and dreams. Concerns fall from him …
PDF
Inglese
DRM
€7.67
C.P. Snow: Light And The Dark
The Light and the Dark is the second in the Strangers and Brothers series. The story is set in Cambridge, but the plot also moves to Monte Carlo, Berlin and Switzerland. Lewis Eliot narrates the care …
PDF
Inglese
DRM
€7.69
C.P. Snow: Malcontents
Thomas Freer is a prosperous solicitor who is also the Registrar, responsible for his cathedral’s legal business. His son Stephen is one of a secret group of young men and women known as the core. Wh …
PDF
Inglese
DRM
€7.71
C.P. Snow: New Men
It is the onset of World War II in the fifth in the Strangers and Brothers series. A group of Cambridge scientists are working on atomic fission. But there are consequences for the men who are affect …
PDF
Inglese
DRM
€7.68
C.P. Snow: Physicists
C P Snow’s sketches of famous physicists and explanation of how atomic weapons were developed gives an overview of science often lacking. This study provides us with hope for the future as well as an …
PDF
Inglese
DRM
€7.70
C.P. Snow: Search
This story told in the first person starts with a child’s interest in the night sky. A telescope starts a lifetime’s interest in science. The narrator goes up to King’s College, London to study. As a …
PDF
Inglese
DRM
€7.61
C.P. Snow: Time Of Hope
Time of Hope is the third in the Strangers and Brothers series and tells the story of Lewis Eliot’s early life. As a child he is faced with his father’s bankruptcy. As a young man, he finds his caree …
PDF
Inglese
DRM
€7.68
C.P. Snow: Coat Of Varnish
Humphrey Leigh, retired resident of Belgravia, pays a social visit to an old friend, Lady Ashbrook. She is waiting for her test results, fearing cancer. When Lady Ashbrook gets the all clear she has …
PDF
Inglese
DRM
€7.69
C.P. Snow: Sleep Of Reason
The penultimate novel in the Strangers and Brothers series takes Goya’s theme of monsters that appear in our sleep. The sleep of reason here is embodied in the ghastly murders of children that involv …
PDF
Inglese
DRM
€7.65
C.P. Snow: Masters
The fourth in the Strangers and Brothers series begins with the dying Master of a Cambridge college. His imminent demise causes intense rivalry and jealousy amongst the other fellows. Former friends …
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€7.69
C. P. Snow: Science and Government
Science and Government is a gripping account of one of the great scientific rivalries of the twentieth century. The antagonists are Sir Henry Tizard, a chemist from Imperial College, and Frederick Li …
EPUB
DRM
€15.31
C.P. Snow: Light and the Dark
A gifted young academic in 1930s England falls prey to a dangerous mindset in this novel by “a master craftsman” (The New York Times). Roy Calvert is young, well-liked, and financially se …
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€23.06
C.P. Snow: Time of Hope
A young man resolves to rise above his humble beginnings in the series praised as a “masterwork . . . a panorama of middle and upper-middle class English society” (The New …
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€22.97
C.P. Snow: George Passant
A wise, moving novel about a mentor and his protégé: “The central character . . . is immensely appealing . . . a peculiarly haunting and sympathetic …
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€23.10
C.P. Snow: Conscience of the Rich
An emotional gulf forms between a young Jewish barrister and his father in a “wise, beautifully controlled and deeply moving novel” set in prewar England (The New York Times Book Review). …
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€23.10
C.P. Snow: Masters
Winner of the James Tait Black Prize: An “engrossing” novel of power, politics, and academic rivalry in 1930s England (The New York Times). In 1937, the dark cloud of Nazi Germany hangs o …
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€23.09
C.P. Snow: New Men
Winner of the James Tait Black Prize: Two brothers find themselves at odds amid Britain’s quest for an atomic weapon, in this vivid historical novel. As the Second World War begins to rage, Bri …
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€23.21
C.P. Snow: Homecomings
An emotionally devastated widower is drawn to a married woman in this “impressive” novel set in wartime England (Kirkus Reviews). Lewis Eliot has lost his deeply troubled wife, Sheila, un …
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€23.10
C.P. Snow: Affair
An academic is accused of fraud in this novel set in 1950s England by “an extremely shrewd observer of men and society” (Commentary). At Lewis Eliot’s Cambridge college, Dr. Donald …
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€23.11
C.P. Snow: Corridors of Power
This novel of 1950s Britain offers “a sound reading of the political, moral, ideological temper of the times; a substantial achievement” (Kirkus Reviews). An ambitious MP and cabinet mini …
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€22.94
C.P. Snow: Sleep of Reason
With England on the brink of disruptive social change, a man revisits his past—and confronts a monstrous crime—in this novel of “clarity and perceptiveness” (The Atlantic). In …
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€23.10
C.P. Snow: Last Things
A brush with death may finally bring a father and son together, in the conclusion to the award-winning, decades-spanning series. Sir Lewis Eliot has made his way from a deprived childhood to knightho …
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€23.06