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Frankie: The Woman Who Saved Millions from Thalidomide (Paperback): James Essinger, Sandra Koutzenko Frankie: The Woman Who Saved Millions from Thalidomide (Paperback)
James Essinger, Sandra Koutzenko; Foreword by Harold Evans
R515 R413 Discovery Miles 4 130 Save R102 (20%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Thalidomide: patented in Germany as a non-toxic cure-all for sleeplessness and morning sickness. A wonder drug with no side effects. We know differently now. Today, thalidomide is a byword for tragedy and drug reform - a sign of what happens when things aren't done 'the right way'. But when it was released in the 1950s, it was the best thing since penicillin - something that doctors were encouraged to prescribe to all of their patients. Nobody could anticipate what it actually did: induce sleeping, prevent morning sickness, and drastically harm unborn children. But, whilst thalidomide rampaged and ravaged throughout most of the West, it never reached the United States. It landed on the desk of Dr Frances Kelsey, and there it stayed as she battled bureaucracy, patriarchy, and the Establishment in an effort to prove that it was dangerous. Frankie is her story.

Writing Fiction - a user-friendly guide (Paperback): James Essinger Writing Fiction - a user-friendly guide (Paperback)
James Essinger
R296 R267 Discovery Miles 2 670 Save R29 (10%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

`I am sure this slim volume will constitute an invaluable aide to anyone seeking to set out on our stony path' - Frederick Forsyth CBE, author of 'The Day of the Jackal' and many other international bestsellers `Writing Fiction is a little pot of gold... Screenplay by Syd Field for film, Writing Fiction by James Essinger for fiction. It's that simple.' William Osborne, novelist and screenwriter Writing Fiction - a user-friendly guide is a must-read if you want to write stories to a professional standard. It draws on the author's more than thirty years of experience as a professional writer, and on the work and ideas of writers including: * Anthony Burgess * Joseph Conrad * George Eliot * Ken Follett * Frederick Forsyth * Dan Harmon * Ernest Hemingway * David Lodge * Norman Mailer * John Milton * Ben Parker * J.K. Rowling * William Shakespeare * Martin Cruz Smith * J.R.R. Tolkien The twenty-four chapters cover every important matter you need to know about, including: devising a compelling story, creating and developing characters, plotting, `plants', backstory, suspense, dialogue, `show' and `tell', and how to make your novel more real than reality. Also featuring special guest advice from legendary screenwriter Bob Gale, who wrote the three immortal `Back to the Future' movies (1985, 1989 and 1990), and novelist and screenwriter William Osborne, whose many screen credits include the co-writing of the blockbuster `Twins' (1988), this highly entertaining book gives you all the advice and practical guidance you need to make your dream of becoming a published fiction writer come true.

Ada's Algorithm - How Lord Byron's Daughter Launched the Digital Age Through the Poetry of Numbers (Paperback): James... Ada's Algorithm - How Lord Byron's Daughter Launched the Digital Age Through the Poetry of Numbers (Paperback)
James Essinger
R333 R302 Discovery Miles 3 020 Save R31 (9%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Through the infamous divorce of her parents, Ada Lovelace became the most talked-about child in Georgian Britain. This riveting biography tells the extraordinary yet little known story of her life and times-when mathematics was as fashionable as knitting among women and Ada became the world's first computer programmer. But for her era's view on gender, Ada would single-handedly have started the digital age more than two centuries ago.

Charles and Ada - The Computer's Most Passionate Partnership (Paperback): James Essinger Charles and Ada - The Computer's Most Passionate Partnership (Paperback)
James Essinger; Foreword by Lisa Noel Babbage
R511 R409 Discovery Miles 4 090 Save R102 (20%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The partnership of Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace was one that would change science forever. They were an unlikely pair - one the professor son of a banker, the other the only child of an acclaimed poet and a social-reforming mathematician - but perhaps that is why their work was so revolutionary. They were the pioneers of computer science, creating plans for what could have been the first computer. They each saw things the other did not: it may have been Charles who designed the machines, but it was Ada who could see their potential. But what were they like? And how did they work together? Using previously unpublished correspondence between them, Charles and Ada explores the relationship between two remarkable people who shared dreams far ahead of their time.

Jacquard's Web - How a hand-loom led to the birth of the information age (Paperback, New ed): James Essinger Jacquard's Web - How a hand-loom led to the birth of the information age (Paperback, New ed)
James Essinger
R496 Discovery Miles 4 960 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Jacquard's Web is the story of some of the most ingenious inventors the world has ever known, a fascinating account of how a hand-loom invented in Napoleonic France led to the development of the modern information age. James Essinger, a master story-teller, shows through a series of remarkable and meticulously researched historical connections (spanning two centuries and never investigated before) that the Jacquard loom kick-started a process of scientific evolution which would lead directly to the development of the modern computer. The invention of Jacquard's loom in 1804 enabled the master silk-weavers of Lyons to weave fabrics 25 times faster than had previously been possible. The device used punched cards, which stored instructions for weaving whatever pattern or design was required; it proved an outstanding success. These cards can very reasonably be described as the world's first computer programmes. In this engaging and delightful book, James Essinger reveals a plethora of extraordinary links between the nineteenth-century world of weaving and today's computer age: to give just one example, modern computer graphics displays are based on exactly the same principles as those employed in Jacquard's special woven tableaux. Jacquard's Web also introduces some of the most colourful and interesting characters in the history of science and technology: the modest but exceptionally dedicated Jacquard himself, the brilliant but temperamental Victorian polymath Charles Babbage, who dreamt of a cogwheel computer operated using Jacquard cards, and the imaginative and perceptive Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron's only legitimate daughter.

A Woman of Quality Sarah Vinke, 'the Divine Sarah', and the Quest for the Origin of Robert Pirsig's Metaphysics... A Woman of Quality Sarah Vinke, 'the Divine Sarah', and the Quest for the Origin of Robert Pirsig's Metaphysics of Quality, - The Quest for the Origin of Robert Pirsig's Metaphysics of Quality, in His Book "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". (Paperback)
Henry Gurr; Illustrated by Karyn Sealy Bland; James Essinger
R379 Discovery Miles 3 790 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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