Thinking About Almost Everything

New ideas to light up minds

Professor Ash Amin and Professor Michael O’Neill

ISBN 184668188X

ISBN 13 9781846681882

March 2009

Price £15.00

Paperback, 288 pp.

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Subject: Philosophy

What do layers of waste tell us about the history of civilisation? Is thinking itself determined by chromosomes? How does light illuminate the world?

Thinking About Almost Everything brings together original thinking on a staggering range of topics across the sciences, arts and humanities, grouped into nine imaginative and sometimes startling thematic categories. Entries on terror, the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and climate change are juxtaposed in the ‘(Un)settlement’ section, while ‘Presences’ brings together plant genetics, race, humans and animals, music theology, and the Willmore Conjecture.

The short (often just one-page) essays are written in a lively and accessible style, and the book is illustrated with original and challenging images. Thinking About Almost Everything shows how even the most intricate and complex knowledge can enliven public curiosity and spark new thinking on issues either known or yet to be discovered.