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Dewey Decimal Number: 600 EAN: 9780091888053 ISBN: 0091888050 Label: Ebury Press Manufacturer: Ebury Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 384 Publication Date: 2003-05 Publisher: Ebury Press Studio: Ebury Press Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: The acclaimed Science of Discworld centred around an original Pratchett story about the Wizards of Discworld. In it they accidentally witnessed the creation and evolution of our universe, a plot which was interleaved with a Cohen & Stewart non-fiction narrative about Big Science. In The Science of Discworld II our authors join forces again to see just what happens when the wizards meddle with history in a battle against the elves for the future of humanity on Earth. London is replaced by a dozy Neanderthal village. The Renaissance is given a push. The role of fat women in art is developed. And one very famous playwright gets born and writes The Play. Weaving together a fast-paced Discworld novelette with cutting-edge scientific commentary on the evolution and development of the human mind, culture, language, art, and science, this is a book in which 'the hard science is as gripping as the fiction'. (The Times) Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Not Free SF ReaderThe second Science of Discworld book, as the title suggests, narrows its focus. While the first took a lot at the cosmological and astronomical overview, this one changes to a focus on the actual planet, and how it formed and developed. This means in both a discworld sense, and the actual real world science behind our planet, in this simplified form. Rating: - HmmmmI thought this was one of the supplemental materials. It is, but in the form of a story. Rating: - Not quite one or the other, but still worth readingA short but entertaining Discworld story alternating with entertaining science writing. Both sides of this book are a bit light, but it's still a good read. Would make pretty good supplementary reading for a science course. Of special interest to parents, teachers, and students. Rating: - Homo Narrans ExplainedThe goal, I suppose, is to make science more attractive to readers. The approach is for Terry Pratchett to write a chapter and then for Stewart and Cohen to write a chapter explicating science principles out of Pratchett's story. The science in this case is sociology, psychology, anthropology, linguistics and, heaven help us, sociobiology. You'll note those are soft sciences. Pratchett's premise is that the evil Elves have invaded Roundworld, using it to their nasty ends. It's up to ... Read More Rating:  - The emergence of the storytelling apeTry enlivening a party with this question: "What's on your mind?" When the babble has become truly raucous, ask another: "How did it get in there?" This book is about those questions, how we came to consider them, and how we've tried to learn to understand them. Interleaving a fantasy story with analyses of scientific thinking about thinking carries certain risks. In the hands of this trio, however, the balance is successfully achieved. Don't be deceived by the name of Terry Pratchett as lead author ... Read More 
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