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The Language of War

The Language of War

When everyday life becomes a state of emergency, how can yesterday’s words suffice?   ‘We were so...
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Looking for Theophrastus: Travels in Search of a Lost Philosopher

Looking for Theophrastus: Travels in Search of a Lost Philosopher

Who is Theophrastus, and why should we care? Once, he was the equal of Plato and Aristotle. Togethe...
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Why Beethoven: A Phenomenon in 100 Pieces

Why Beethoven: A Phenomenon in 100 Pieces

Without Beethoven, music as we know it wouldn’t exist. Who was this titan of world culture?   ‘You...
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Andreas Vesalius: Anatomy and the World of Books

Andreas Vesalius: Anatomy and the World of Books

A new perspective on the innovative Renaissance anatomist and physician Andreas Vesalius. In 15...
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Piero di Cosimo: Eccentricity and Delight

Piero di Cosimo: Eccentricity and Delight

An original, accessible survey of Florentine painter Piero di Cosimo. The singular Florentine p...
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Geoffrey Chaucer: Unveiling the Merry Bard

Geoffrey Chaucer: Unveiling the Merry Bard

A chronicle of Geoffrey Chaucer’s life, accomplishments and roles outside poetry. This is a new...
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Eliot After The Waste Land

Eliot After The Waste Land

The second volume of Robert Crawford's magisterial biography of the revolutionary modernist, visiona...
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Freud : An Intellectual Biography

Freud : An Intellectual Biography

The life and work of Sigmund Freud continue to fascinate general and professional readers alike. Joe...
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A Summer with Pascal

A Summer with Pascal

From an eminent scholar, a spirited introduction to one of the great polymaths in the history of...
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Charles De Gaulle: Futurist of the Nation

Charles De Gaulle: Futurist of the Nation

In this study of De Gaulle, the author offers an indictment of the shallowness of contemporary polit...
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Rivals in the Storm: How Lloyd George Seized Power, Won the War and Lost his Government

Rivals in the Storm: How Lloyd George Seized Power, Won the War and Lost his Government

A vivid biography in cinematic snapshots of David Lloyd George, one of the world's greatest statesme...
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Zhou Enlai: A Life

Zhou Enlai: A Life

The definitive biography of Zhou Enlai, the first premier and preeminent diplomat of the People’...
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Byron: A Life in Ten Letters

Byron: A Life in Ten Letters

Lord Byron was the most celebrated of all the Romantic poets. Troubled, handsome, sexually fluid, di...
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Zelensky: A Biography

Zelensky: A Biography

Three years after the political novice Volodymyr Zelensky was elected to Ukraine’s highest office, h...
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I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition

I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition

'Powerful' LIT HUB'Absorbing' KIRKUS'Poignant, arresting and ultimately affirming' BOOKLISTLucy Sant...
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