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The Invention of Oscar Wilde
“One should either wear a work of art, or be a work of art,” Oscar Wilde once declared. In The Inven...
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John Donne: In the Shadow of Religion
John Donne: In the Shadow of Religion explores the life of one of the most significant figures of th...
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Hogarth: Life in Progress
A major new biography of one of Britain's best-loved artists On a late spring night in 1732, a bo...
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Albert O. Hirschman: An Intellectual Biography
One of the most original social scientists of the twentieth century, Albert O. Hirschman led an unco...
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Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX
The dramatic inside story of the first four historic flights that launched SpaceX—and Elon Musk—from...
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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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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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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
As he entered his seventies, Michelangelo despaired that his productive years were over. Anguished b...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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