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Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of WWII's Most Dangerous Spy, Virginia Hall

Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of WWII's Most Dangerous Spy, Virginia Hall

The incredible untold story of Virginia Hall, an American woman with a wooden leg who infiltrated Oc...
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Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen

Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen

The Comma Queen returns with a buoyant book about language, love, and the wine-dark sea.In her New Y...
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A German Officer in Occupied Paris: The War Journals, 1941-1945

A German Officer in Occupied Paris: The War Journals, 1941-1945

Ernst Jünger was one of twentieth-century Germany’s most important—and most controversial—writers. D...
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Martin Buber: A Life of Faith and Dissent

Martin Buber: A Life of Faith and Dissent

The first major biography in English in over thirty years of the seminal modern Jewish thinker Marti...
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Emperor: A New Life of Charles V

Emperor: A New Life of Charles V

Drawing on vital new evidence, a top historian dramatically reinterprets the ruler of the world’s fi...
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Einstein: His Space and Times

Einstein: His Space and Times

A revealing new portrait of Albert Einstein, the world’s first scientific “superstar”The commonly he...
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The Shape of a Life: One Mathematician's Search for the Universe's Hidden Geometry

The Shape of a Life: One Mathematician's Search for the Universe's Hidden Geometry

A Fields medalist recounts his lifelong transnational effort to uncover the geometric shape—the Cala...
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The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age

The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age

Prize-winning biographer Leo Damrosch tells the story of “the Club,” a group of extraordinary writer...
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Primo Levi

Primo Levi

On 11 April 1987 the Italian writer Primo Levi fell to his death in the house where he was born. Mor...
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The Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin

The Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin

An epic story of empire-building and bloody conflict, this ground-breaking biography of one of histo...
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William Godwin: A Political Life

William Godwin: A Political Life

'Government by its very nature counteracts the improvement of original mind' - William GodwinWilliam...
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Einstein's Wife: The Real Story of Mileva Einstein-Maric

Einstein's Wife: The Real Story of Mileva Einstein-Maric

Was Einstein's first wife his uncredited coauthor, unpaid assistant, or his unacknowledged helpmeet?...
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Tim Cook: The Genius Who Took Apple to the Next Level

Tim Cook: The Genius Who Took Apple to the Next Level

'With Steve Jobs's passing, Apple can survive, but it won't prevail.' - Forbes, October 2011In 2011,...
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Harmonies of Disorder: Norbert Wiener - A Mathematician-Philosopher of Our Time

Harmonies of Disorder: Norbert Wiener - A Mathematician-Philosopher of Our Time

This book presents the entire body of thought of Norbert Wiener (1894–1964), knowledge of which is e...
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Frege: A Philosophical Biography

Frege: A Philosophical Biography

Gottlob Frege (1848–1925) is one of the founding figures of analytic philosophy, whose contributions...
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