Benjamin Woolley Bücher

In the mid-seventeenth century, England faced unprecedented turmoil marked by civil war, devastating famine, and epidemics rivaling the Black Death, leading to staggering infant mortality rates. Amidst this chaos emerged Nicholas Culpeper's Herbal, a highly influential publication. Culpeper, an outcast from birth, rejected a life dictated by his tyrannical grandfather and the church, abandoning his university studies after a failed elopement. Disinherited, he sought refuge in London, where he found his calling in revolutionary ideas. At that time, London's medical landscape was dominated by the College of Physicians, led by the eminent William Harvey, who had discovered blood circulation. Operating within an underground network of religious sects and unlicensed apothecaries, Culpeper challenged this powerful institution at its zenith, ultimately contributing to the revolution that dismantled the monarchy. Benjamin Wooley vividly recounts these significant struggles, exploring the origins of contemporary concerns regarding medical science, professional authority, and government power. The narrative portrays Culpeper as a medical rebel who confronted the establishment and faced the consequences of his defiance.

In Virtual Worlds, Benjamin Woolley examines the reality of virtual reality. He looks at the dramatic intellectual and cultural upheavals that gave birth to it, the hype that surrounds it, the people who have promoted it, and the dramatic implications of its development. Virtual reality is not simply a technology, it is a way of thinking created and promoted by a group of technologists and thinkers that sees itself as creating our future. Virtual Worlds reveals the politics and culture of these virtual realists, and examines whether they are creating reality, or losing their grasp of it. 12 photographs.

This title forms part of the completely new Mathematics for the IB Diploma series. This highly illustrated coursebook, available in both print and e-book formats, has been written to specifically cover the new IB Standard Level syllabus. Based on the new group 5 aims, the progressive approach encourages cumulative learning. Features include: a dedicated chapter exclusively for combined exercises; plenty of worked examples; questions colour-coded according to grade; exam-style questions; feature boxes of hints and tips. The print book includes a CD-ROM providing a complete e-version of the book, extension worksheets, prior learning sheets, calculator skills sheets and fill-in proofs. These additional materials are also included in the e-book version.