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The Black Circle: A Life of Alexandre Kojeve

The Black Circle: A Life of Alexandre Kojeve

Alexandre Kojève (1902–1968) was an important and provocative thinker. Born in Russia, he spent most...
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€24.50
Priests de la Resistance!: The Loose Canons Who Fought Fascism in the Twentieth Century

Priests de la Resistance!: The Loose Canons Who Fought Fascism in the Twentieth Century

A hugely enjoyable, eccentric account of clerical heroism in the face of evil.' Observer‘Comedy and...
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€12.60
The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann

The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann

The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolutiona...
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The Splendid and the Vile: Churchill, Family and Defiance During the Bombing of London

The Splendid and the Vile: Churchill, Family and Defiance During the Bombing of London

‘Every time Churchill took to the airwaves it was as if he were injecting adrenaline-soaked courage...
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Michelangelo, God's Architect: The Story of His Final Years and Greatest Masterpiece

Michelangelo, God's Architect: The Story of His Final Years and Greatest Masterpiece

As he entered his seventies, Michelangelo despaired that his productive years were over. Anguished b...
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Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Space

Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Space

‘Suddenly, every previous biography has been superseded … A spellbinding and completely authoritativ...
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€25.00
Living I Was Your Plague: Martin Luther's World and Legacy

Living I Was Your Plague: Martin Luther's World and Legacy

Martin Luther was a controversial figure during his lifetime, eliciting strong emotions in friends a...
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€28.30
Beethoven: A Life in Nine Pieces

Beethoven: A Life in Nine Pieces

**WINNER of Presto Books' Best Composer Biography**NINE WORKS OF BEETHOVEN, NINE WINDOWS INTO THE LI...
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€21.40
Karl Barth: A Life in Conflict

Karl Barth: A Life in Conflict

From the beginning of his career, Swiss theologian Karl Barth (1886-1968) was often in conflict with...
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€31.40
Reflections of Alan Turing: A Relative Story

Reflections of Alan Turing: A Relative Story

Everyone knows the story of the codebreaker and computer science pioneer Alan Turing. Except … Whe...
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Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Gödel

Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Gödel

A remarkable account of Kurt Gödel, weaving together creative genius, mental illness, political corr...
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€25.00
The Prosecutor: One Man's Pursuit of Justice for the Voiceless

The Prosecutor: One Man's Pursuit of Justice for the Voiceless

The outsider who transformed our justice systemNazir Afzal knows a thing or two about justice. As a...
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€12.60
Ibsen's Kingdom: The Man and His Works

Ibsen's Kingdom: The Man and His Works

A major biography of one of the most important figures in modern drama, evoked through a biographica...
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€39.60
Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said

Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said

Drawing on extensive archival sources and hundreds of interviews, Timothy Brennan's Places of Mind i...
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€31.40
Venizelos: The Making of a Greek Statesman 1864-1914

Venizelos: The Making of a Greek Statesman 1864-1914

Eleftherios Venizelos (1864–1936) was the outstanding Greek statesman of the first half of the twent...
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€32.00

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