English is the collective work of millions of people throughout the ages. It is democratic, ever-changing and ingenious in its assimilation of other cultures. English runs through the heart of world finance, medicine and the Internet, and it is understood by around two thousand million people across the world. Yet it …
Twelve Books That Changed the World is a book by Melvyn Bragg, published in 2006. The twelve books listed were: Principia Mathematica — Isaac Newton Married Love — Marie Stopes Magna Carta Book of Rules of Association Football On the Origin of Species — Charles Darwin On the Abolition of the Slave Trade — William …
On Giants' Shoulders was written in 1998 by Melvyn Bragg. The book was assembled after a series of interviews Bragg had with current scientists about the world's greatest scientists such as Archimedes, Isaac Newton and Einstein. Bragg, who brands himself as a "non-scientist", conducted these interviews on BBC Radio 4 …