Bøger af Peter Day

"Franco's Friends" tells the little-known true story of how MI6 orchestrated the coup that brought General Franco to power.

Science is the only truly global human activity. Hence as they go about their business its practitioners have a unique opportunity to observe and comment on the places, customs and happenings going on around them. Yet few take advantage of this good fortune by recording aspects of the passing scene as they found it, not from a scientific standpoint as such, but informed by an eye trained in the natural sciences. This book is a unique exception to that generalisation. The author is a distinguished inorganic chemist, pioneer of the burgeoning new field of materials chemistry. Starting from nearby Europe, his career has taken him across continents, encompassing diverse landscapes, history, cultures and customs. The result is not a book about science but a collection of apercus on the wonderfully diverse world we all inhabit. The text will be enhanced by many illustrations, mostly from the author's own collection.

Research on the interactions of plants and phytopathogenic fungi has become one of the most interesting and rapidly moving fields in the plant sciences, the findings of which have contributed tremendously to the development of new strategies of plant protection. This book offers insight into the state of present knowledge. Special emphasis is placed on recognition phenomena between plants and fungi, parasitization strategies employed by the phytopathogenic fungi, the action of phytotoxins, the compatibility of pathogens with host plants and the basic resistance of non-host plants as well as cultivar-specific resistance of host plants. Special attention is paid to the gene-for-gene hypothesis for the determination of race-specific resistance, its molecular models and to the nature of race non-specific resistance as well as the population dynamics of plants and the evolution of their basic resistance.

Peter Day brings to life the world of twentieth-century espionage through the story of one of Britain's most remarkable spies. A contemporary of Arthur Ransome and Sidney Reilly, Hill's life coincided with an age of swashbuckling secret agents, swordsticks and secret assignations with deadly female spies.

This collection of Michael Faraday's writings covers such areas as: the beginning; touring the continent, 1813-1815; way of life and work; colleagues and friends; science at the bench; leaves from a laboratory notebook; science in the lecture theatre; and honour and recognition.