Simon Winchester

La perfección no existe, pero los desconocidos ingenieros que se han empeñado en alcanzarla han tenido más importancia en nuestra vida de lo que pensamos.A través de anécdotas y ejemplos, teje la historia de la ingenieria de precision y hace comprensibles sus inestimables aportaciones: el avion, la lente de una camara Leica, las maquinas de rayos X, el telescopio Hubble, el microchip, el smartphone...Simon Winchester, venerado autor de bestsellers internacionales, hasta ahora no se habia publicado en español."Hipnotizante y fascinante. El Sr. Winchester es un maestro de la narracion, y todos los individuos, lugares y eventos sobre los que escribe apasionadamente cobran vida con exquisito detalle"New York Journal of Books

In the nineteenth century, two distinguished clever men become friends. But they come from very different backgrounds, one is a brilliant academic, the other is a madman and murderer. In spite of this they work together on one of the greatest works in the English language. An intriguing tale about the compilation of the Oxford English Dictionary.

This volume celebrates the most dramatic and often the most dangerous places on the planet. It is divided into four chapters: earth, fire, air and water. Each section celebrates the natural world's most astonishing phenomena from the most active volcano to the driest desert.

A delightful compendium of the kind of facts you immediately want to share with anyone you encounter New York Times An ebullient irrepressible spirit invests this book It is erudite and sprightly

No empire in history built so variously as the British empire in India. The buildings there attest to the richness of an imperial presence that lasted--from the first trading settlement to the end of the Raj--some three hundred years. The attitude of the British to India was compounded partly of arrogance, but partly also of homesickness, and it shows in their constructions. Georgian terraces were adapted to tropical conditions, Victorian railway stations were elaborately orientalized, seaside villas were adjusted to suit Himalayan conditions, and everywhere the fundamental ambivalence of the British empire, a baffling mixture of good and evil, was mirrored in the imperial architecture. This book, now reissued with an introduction by Simon Winchester, was the first to describe the whole range of British constructions in India. The text and photographs illustrate these buildings not simply as physical objects, but as reflections of an empire's mingled emotions. Stones of Empire charts an enterprise in architecture, engineering, and social adaptation unique in human history. `Review from previous edition '...magical prose and marvellous photographs'' Sunday Times

La perfección no existe, pero los desconocidos ingenieros que se han empeñado en alcanzarla han tenido más importancia en nuestra vida de lo que pensamos. A través de anécdotas y ejemplos, teje la historia de la ingenieria de precision y hace comprensibl