It is difficult to overestimate the importance of Friedrich Nietzsche for our present epoch. His extraordinary insights into human psychology, morality, religion and power seem quite clairvoyant today: existentialism, psychoanalysis, semiotics and postmodernism are plainly anticipated in his writings - which are famously enigmatic and often contradictory."Introducing Nietzsche" is the perfect guide to this exhilarating and oft-misunderstood philosopher.
One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century - amazingly, he was an almost unknown, and certainly unqualified, speech therapist called Lionel Logue, whom one newspaper in the 1930s famously dubbed 'The Quack who saved a King'. Logue wasn't a British aristocrat or even an Englishman - he was a commoner and an Australian to boot. Nevertheless it was the outgoing, amiable Logue who single-handedly turned the famously nervous, tongue-tied , Duke of York into the man who was capable of becoming King.
A thoughtful companion volume to the earlier Surely You Are Joking Mr. Feynman!.
Perhaps the most intriguing parts of the book are the behind-the-scenes
descriptions of science and policy colliding in the presidential
commission to determine the cause of the Challenger space shuttle
explosion; and the scientific sleuthing behind his famously elegant
O-ring-in-ice-water demonstration. Not as rollicking as his other
memoirs, but in some ways more profound.
