Peter Macinnis Poradie kníh (chronologicky)

"The A Social History" explores the strange coming-together of means, opportunity and motive in the middle of the nineteenth century, and the lasting social changes that followed when the lawn emerged as the dominant feature of the modern built environment. After the lawn, leisure time would never be the same again. This book explains, in fascinating detail, how the lawn mower was the key enabling technology that let grass dominate the environment. And how, the enabling technology that in turn allowed suburbs to exist was commuter transport - as only suburbs gave enough space between and around the houses for lawns to fit. The author goes on to explain how mowers and suburbs would not have been enough to drive the lawn craze if people had not firmly believed that ownership of a lawn was proof that the owner was a person of status and wealth. "The A Social History" takes the reader on a compelling journey that explains the origins of the lawn and how it changed the very way we live. Illustrated with contemporary images, this absorbing exposition on how the lawn, which we all take for granted, has become an integral part of our very existence.

'100 Discoveries' presents, in engaging text and fascinating photographs the crossing of every major intellectual, scientific, geographic and cultural frontier of the past ten millennia.

The Speed of Nearly Everything is a fascinating almanac of facts, statistics and stories about the speed of virtually everything - speed records; comparative speeds; relative speeds; optimal speeds; fastest speeds; slowest speeds; human, animal, mechanical and natural speeds. These are gathered together in an easy-to-follow, original design, and explained in an engaging narrative by leading science writer Peter Macinnis. The statistical element is supported by fascinating discussions, historical anecdotes and speed trivia, both serious and silly.

Fascinujúce čítanie o jedoch rôzneho pôvodu a ich využívaní v prospech iných, alebo naopak zneužívaní v prospech vlastný – a to od dávnej minulosti až po horúcu súčasnosť, okorenené citáciami z literárnych diel a vzácnych herbárov. V medicíne, kozmetike, potravinách, vo vojenskom priemysle, v domácnosti i na pracovisku – všade je možné nájsť nejakú stopu po jede. Ktorý jed bol najpopulárnejší v Starom Ríme? Užíval Jack Rozparovač pravidelne dávku arzénu? Aký jed používali niektorí vrcholoví športovci na zvýšenie svojho výkonu? Odpovede na tieto a mnohé ďalšie otázky nájdete v tejto nesmierne zaujímavej knihe.