Physics in a Mad World
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This book tells captivating stories of misadventures of two renowned theoretical physicists in the...
Queer Saint: The Cultured Life of Peter Watson
Adrian Clark and Jeremy Dronfield
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When Peter Watson was murdered in his bath by a jealous boyfriend in 1956, the art world lost one of...
Turing: Pioneer of the Information Age
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Alan Turing is regarded as one of the greatest scientists of the 20th century. But who was Turing,...
Priam's Gold: Schliemann and the Lost Treasures of Troy
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Troy: one of the most captivating and mysterious stories of antiquity...But was Troy an actual place...
Resistance Heroism and the End of Empire: The Life and Times of Madeleine Riffaud
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This book introduces an English-speaking public to the life of Madeleine Riffaud - one of the last...
Revolt in the Desert: The Abridged Edition of 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom'
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The Arab Revolt of 1916-1918, when the disparate tribes of Arabia rose up as one great force to...
Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
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Instantly heralded for its "masterful" and "thrilling" portrayal (Boston Globe), Shirley Jackson...
Sylvia Plath in Devon: A Year's Turning
Elizabeth Sigmund and Gail Crowther
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Sylvia Plath in Devon: A Year's Turning is part memoir, part biography focusing on the fifteen...
Technoscientific Imaginaries: Conversations, Profiles and Memoirs
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What is it like to be a scientist at the end of the 20th century? How have shifts in power and in...
The Jordan Automobile: A History
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The subject of one of the great advertising campaigns of the early 20th century, the "Somewhere West...