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Perfektionisterna : precision, ingenjörskonst och den moderna världens tillkomst
NOMINERAD TILL ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRICE 2018»Prosan är elegant och historien om precision är berättad med stor skicklighet. ... Överlag är detta en strålande bok som …
Knowing What We Know
‘A delightful compendium of the kind of facts you immediately want to share with anyone you encounter’ New York Times ‘An ebullient, …
Korea: A Walk Through the Land of Miracles
In the late 1980s, New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester set out on foot to discover the Republic of Korea - from its southern tip to the North Korean border - in …
Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
"Variably genial, cautionary, lyrical, admonitory, terrifying, horrifying and inspiring...A lifetime of thought, travel, reading, imagination and memory inform this affecting …
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
"Another gem from one of the world's justly celebrated historians specializing in unusual and always fascinating subjects and people." -- Booklist (starred review)The revered New …
The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
From the author of the bestselling The Professor and the Madman comes the fascinating story of William Smith, the orphaned son of an English country blacksmith, who became obsessed …
The Men Who United the States: America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible
Simon Winchester, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Atlantic and The Professor and the Madman, delivers his first book about America: a fascinating popular history …
The Meaning of Everything
'The greatest enterprise of its kind in history,' was the verdict of British prime minister Stanley Baldwin in June 1928 when The Oxford English Dictionary was finally published. …
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
"A narrative full of suspense, pathos and humor. . . . In this elegant book Winchester] has created a vivid parable, in the spirit of Nabokov and Borges. There is much truth to be …
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
The compilation of the OxfordEnglish Dictionary was one of the most ambitious and challenging language projects ever undertaken. As definitions were collected, the vast over-seeing …