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Science and Government

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Product Description: 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 Lindemann (Lord Cherwell), a physicist from the University of Oxford...read more

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9780674072374 | Harvard Univ Pr, March 11, 2013, cover price $16.50 | About this edition: Science and Government is a gripping account of one of the great scientific rivalries of the twentieth century.

The Two Cultures

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Analyzes the problems and consequences of the lack of communication between scientists and non-scientists in the modern world

By Stefan Collini (introduced by) and C. P. Snow

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9781107606142 | Reissue edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, March 26, 2012), cover price $19.99

9780521457309 | Reissue edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, July 30, 1993), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Analyzes the problems and consequences of the lack of communication between scientists and non-scientists in the modern world

A Mathematician's Apology

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By C. P. Snow (foreword by)

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9781107604636 | Reissue edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, March 26, 2012), cover price $16.99

The 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 the secret group of young men and women known as the 'Core'. When the group's activities land them in terrible trouble, no one guesses that the consequences will lead to a death and more.

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9780684128122 | Scribner, May 1, 1972, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Thomas Freer is a prosperous solicitor who is also the Registrar, responsible for his cathedral's legal business.

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9781842324332 | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2000, cover price $14.95

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Product Description: 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 become enemies as the election looms.

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9780684147444 | Macmillan Pub Co, September 1, 1976, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Lewis Eliot is among the thirteen fellows of his Cambridge college vying for the prestigious position of Master

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9781842324233 | House of Stratus Ltd, July 1, 2001, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The fourth in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series begins with the dying Master of a Cambridge college.

9780684718972 | Macmillan Pub Co, September 1, 1982, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Lewis Eliot is among the thirteen fellows of his Cambridge college vying for the prestigious position of Master

Product Description: 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 fellow at Cambridge he embarks on love affairs and searches for love at the same time as career success...read more

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9780848806330 | Reprint edition (Amereon Ltd, February 1, 2001), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: This story told in the first person starts with a child's interest in the night sky.

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9781842324301, titled "The Search" | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2000, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: This story told in the first person starts with a child's interest in the night sky.

Conscience of the Rich

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9780684105628 | Scribner, June 1, 1958, cover price $6.95

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9781842324264, titled "The Conscience of the Rich" | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2001, cover price $19.95

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Product Description: An account of Trollope's early life: his pitiable childhood, an unwanted encumbrance to his parents; his shabby and miserable adolescence at Harrow and Winchester. C.P. Snow is also the author of "Strangers and Brothers"

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9781842324356 | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2001, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: An account of Trollope's early life: his pitiable childhood, an unwanted encumbrance to his parents; his shabby and miserable adolescence at Harrow and Winchester.

9781561310340 | Reprint edition (New Amsterdam Books, October 1, 1991), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: This remarkable biography of Trollope was published in 1975, and is now being reissued in a handsome paperback, with all of the original illustrations, both color and black and white.

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Product Description: 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 affected by it. Hiroshima also causes mixed personal reactions.

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9781842324240 | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2001, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: It is the onset of World War II in the fifth in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series.

Light and the Dark

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Product Description: 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 career of a childhood friend. Roy Calvert is a brilliant but controversial linguist who is about to be elected to a fellowship...read more

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9780684148410 | Reissue edition (Macmillan Pub Co, May 1, 1977), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: A young Cambridge scholar, while apparently leading a full and interesting life, is burdened by self-doubt and alcoholism

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9781842324295, titled "The Light and the Dark" | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2000, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The Light and the Dark' is the second in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series.

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Product Description: 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 End play, describes a miscarriage of justice in the same Cambridge college which served as a setting for 'The Masters'...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780684153179, titled "Affair" | Scribner, June 1, 1960, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: 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.

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9781842324271 | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2000, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: 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.

The Sleep of Reason

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Product Description: 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 involve torture and sadism.

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9781842324318 | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2000, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The penultimate novel in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series takes Goya's theme of monsters that appear in our sleep.

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9781842324257 | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2000, cover price $19.95

Death Under Sail

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Product Description: 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 heart, all six fall under suspicion in this, C P Snow's first novel.

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9780684167350 | Scribner, February 1, 1981, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: When the host of a party of seven friends spending a fortnight sailing on a small boat is abruptly murdered, a diligent amateur detective and a comic detective-sergeant slowly uncover the murderer's identity

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9781842324202 | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2000, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Roger Mills, a Harley Street specialist, is taking a sailing holiday on the Norfolk Broads.

9780684174310 | Macmillan Pub Co, March 1, 1982, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: When the host of a party of seven friends spending a fortnight sailing on a small boat is abruptly murdered, a diligent amateur detective and a comic detective-sergeant slowly uncover the murderer's identity

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Product Description: 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 leaving only ironic tolerance. His son Charles takes up his father's burdens and like his father, he is involved in the struggles of class and wealth, but he challenges the Establishment, risking his future in political activities...read more

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9781842324325 | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2000, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The last in the Strangers and Brothers series has Sir Lewis Eliot's heart stop briefly during an operation.

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Presents the inside story of the creation of the atomic bomb in terms understandable to the layman, and discusses the crisis of conscience following the demonstration of the bomb's destructive effects on Hiroshima

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9780316802215 | Little Brown & Co, September 1, 1981, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Presents the inside story of the creation of the atomic bomb in terms understandable to the layman, and discusses the crisis of conscience following the demonstration of the bomb's destructive effects on Hiroshima

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9781842324363 | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2000, cover price $13.95

In Their Wisdom

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Product Description: 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 way of life. Against this background is set a court struggle over a disputed will that escalates into an almighty battle...read more

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9780684139418 | Encore Editions, June 1, 1974, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Economic storm clouds gather as bad political weather is forecast for the nation.

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9781842324349 | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2000, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Economic storm clouds gather as bad political weather is forecast for the nation.

Corridors of Power

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Product Description: 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 ban-the-bomb campaign from his seat in the Cabinet and his office at the Ministry...read more

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9781842324196 | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2000, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The corridors and committee rooms of Whitehall are the setting for the ninth in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series.

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9781842324226 | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2000, cover price $18.95

A Coat of Varnish

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Product Description: 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 ten days to enjoy her new lease of life. And then she is found murdered.

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9780684163154, titled "Coat of Varnish" | Macmillan Pub Co, February 1, 1981, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Humphrey Leigh, retired resident of Belgravia, pays a social visit to an old friend, Lady Ashbrook.

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9781842324905 | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2000, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Humphrey Leigh, retired resident of Belgravia, pays a social visit to an old friend, Lady Ashbrook.

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9780684153155 | Macmillan Pub Co, June 1, 1961, cover price $20.00

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9781842324288 | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2000, cover price $19.95

C.P. Snow: Strangers and Brothers : The Masters, the New Men, Homecomings, the Affair

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9780026121965 | Macmillan Pub Co, August 1, 1992, cover price $80.00

C.P. Snow: Strangers and Brothers : Corridors of Power, the Sleep of Reason, Last Things

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9780026121972 | Macmillan Pub Co, August 1, 1992, cover price $80.00

C.P. Snow: Strangers and Brothers : Time of Hope, George Passant, the Conscience of the Rich, the Light and Dark

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9780026121958 | Macmillan Pub Co, August 1, 1992, cover price $80.00

A Coat of Varnish: A Mystery

A brutal murder shakes the tranquility of Aylestone Square, an upperclass section of London

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9780684190143 | Reprint edition (Scribner, September 1, 1988), cover price $5.95 | About this edition: A brutal murder shakes the tranquility of Aylestone Square, an upperclass section of London

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