Understanding the Present

Understanding the Present Science and the Soul of Modern Man

Main Market Ed.

Hardback (08 May 1992)

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Publisher's Synopsis

This book aims to make the wider issues and principal ideas of our age understandable to all. The book refers to all spheres - culture, philosophy and politics - and is split into five sections: facts, analysis, connections, perceptions and thesis, and begins with an analysis of the growth of science. Bryan Appleyard is the author of "The Culture Club" and in 1986 he was General Feature Writer in the British Press Awards.

About the Publisher

Picador

Picador

Picador publishes outstanding international writing, fiction and non-fiction, in both hardback and paperback, and has numerous prize winners on its list. Picador has established a reputation for literary fiction with a broad commercial appeal, groundbreaking non-fiction, (particularly, reportage, literary biography and memoir) and a formidable poetry list, which has consistently won many of the major prizes.

Book information

ISBN: 9780330320122
Publisher: Macmillan
Imprint: Picador
Pub date:
Edition: Main Market Ed.
DEWEY: 501
DEWEY edition: 20
Language: English
Number of pages: 283
Weight: 528g
Height: 222mm
Width: 145mm
Spine width: 25mm