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Books > Sport & Leisure > Humour > Cartoons & comic strips
'So impossibly funny, clever, demented, charming and altogether
wonderful that I was a convert within three pages. Buy it for
everyone you know, regardless of what you think they like.
Brilliant stuff' Lucy Mangan, Stylist Books of the Year 'An
eye-opener... The more I think about this, the higher I esteem it'
- Nicholas Lezard, Guardian Books of the Year *Winner of the
British Book Design and Production Award for Graphic Novels*
*Winner of the Neumann Prize in the History of Mathematics*
*Nominated for the 2016 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album and
Best Writer/Artist* In The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and
Babbage Sydney Padua transforms one of the most compelling
scientific collaborations into a hilarious set of adventures Meet
two of Victorian London's greatest geniuses... Ada Lovelace,
daughter of Lord Byron: mathematician, gambler, and
proto-programmer, whose writings contained the first ever
appearance of general computing theory, a hundred years before an
actual computer was built. And Charles Babbage, eccentric inventor
of the Difference Engine, an enormous clockwork calculating machine
that would have been the first computer, if he had ever finished
it. But what if things had been different? The Thrilling Adventures
of Lovelace and Babbage presents a delightful alternate reality in
which Lovelace and Babbage do build the Difference Engine and use
it to create runaway economic models, battle the scourge of
spelling errors, explore the wider realms of mathematics and, of
course, fight crime - for the sake of both London and science.
Extremely funny and utterly unusual, The Thrilling Adventures of
Lovelace and Babbage comes complete with historical curiosities,
extensive footnotes and never-before-seen diagrams of Babbage's
mechanical, steam-powered computer. And ray guns.
The beginning of the gospel of Jeremiah, as it is written...
Since his unforeseen resurrection from the tepid ashes of the Labour Party in 2015, Jeremy Corbyn has been on a seemingly unstoppable upward trajectory. And one of Britain's best-loved political cartoonists, Steve Bell, has been with him every step of the way.
In Corbyn: The Resurrection, Bell has compiled an unmissable selection of his caustically witty cartoons charting the Labour leader's ascension amid the country's best attempts to tear itself apart. From an unforgettable Star Wars pastiche depicting Jez-Bi-Wan Conorbyn's leadership saga, to Bell's savagely gleeful account of the 2017 snap election and beyond, the result is an endlessly entertaining chronicle of Corbyn's path from the 'unelectable' to 'the prime-minister-in-waiting'.
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