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The Science Of Discworld II
The Science of Discworld (Related to this series)
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 5 July 2012
- Run Time
- 12 hours 44 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
Critics Review
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Entertaining, instructive and illuminating
New Scientist
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Superb, neatly fulfilling its goal of introducing science without being boring or didactic. This is a genuinely mind-expanding and very funny book.
Good Book Guide
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A book in which the hard science is as gripping as the fiction
The Times
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Superb, neatly fulfilling its goal of introducing science without being boring of didactic. This is a genuinely mind-expanding and very funny book.
Good Book Guide
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Details
- Author
- Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart & Jack Cohen
- Narrator
- Michael Fenton Stevens, Stephen Briggs
- Duration
- 12 hours 44 minutes
- Release Date
- 5 July 2012
- ISBN
- 9781448124176
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Popular science, Evolution / Evolutionary biology, Fiction companion works, Social and cultural history
Synopsis
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)
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