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The Mighty Dead: Why Homer Matters

The Mighty Dead: Why Homer Matters

Longlisted for the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction (now the Bailie Gifford) ‘A thrilling...
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Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality

Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality

The New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • A poet, a physicist, and a philosopher explor...
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Up from the Depths: Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times

Up from the Depths: Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography   Up from the Depths tells the in...
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On Niccolo Machiavelli: The Bonds of Politics

On Niccolo Machiavelli: The Bonds of Politics

Five hundred years after his death, Niccolò Machiavelli still draws an astonishing range of contradi...
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Aesop’s Animals: The Science Behind the Fables

Aesop’s Animals: The Science Behind the Fables

Turns a critical eye on Aesop's Fables to ask whether there is any scientific truth to Aesop's portr...
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Blemished Kings: Suitors in the Odyssey, Blame Poetics, and Irish Satire

Blemished Kings: Suitors in the Odyssey, Blame Poetics, and Irish Satire

Each of the suitors in the Odyssey is eager to become the king of Ithaca by marrying Penelope and di...
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The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper

The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper

Diaries, sketchbooks, common-places, notebooks, ledgers and ships' logs: how the blank book changed...
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Vergil: The Poet's Life

Vergil: The Poet's Life

A biography of Vergil, Rome’s greatest poet, by the acclaimed translator of the Aeneid “Ms. Ruden ha...
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Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe, 40th Anniversary Edition

Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe, 40th Anniversary Edition

This penetrating analysis of eight classic nineteenth-century thinkers explains how historians use l...
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Aldus Manutius: The Invention of the Publisher

Aldus Manutius: The Invention of the Publisher

A fresh reading of Aldus Manutius, pre-eminent in the history of the printed book. Aldus Manuti...
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The Book at War: Libraries and Readers in an Age of Conflict

The Book at War: Libraries and Readers in an Age of Conflict

Propaganda, pulp fiction, spies and censorship: the fascinating and action-packed story of books in...
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How Women Became Poets: A Gender History of Greek Literature

How Women Became Poets: A Gender History of Greek Literature

When Sappho sang her songs, the only word that existed to describe a poet was a male one—aoidos, or...
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The Iliad

The Iliad

The greatest literary landmark of classical antiquity masterfully rendered by the most celebrated tr...
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The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem

The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem

** Chosen as a New Statesman, Financial Times, Observer and Sunday Times Book of the Year ** A rive...
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Imaginary Languages: Myths, Utopias, Fantasies, Illusions, and Linguistic Fictions

Imaginary Languages: Myths, Utopias, Fantasies, Illusions, and Linguistic Fictions

An exploration of the practice of inventing languages, from speaking in tongues to utopian schemes o...
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