Huxley's Church and Maxwell's Demon: From Theistic Science to Naturalistic Science
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During the Victorian period, the practice of science shifted from a religious context to a...
At Swim Two Birds
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Flann O'Brien's innovative metafictional work, whose unruly characters strike out their own paths in...
Macbeth
William Shakespeare and Robert S. Miola
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The Norton Critical Edition is again based on the First Folio (1623), the only authoritative text of...
Washington: A Life
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A gripping portrait of the first president of the United States from the author of Alexander...
Diarmuid Lynch: A Forgotten Irish Patriot
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On Saturday night 22 April 1916, a tense meeting in Dublin went on into the small hours to decide...
Hornblower's Historical Shipmates: The Young Gentlemen of Pellew's Indefatigable
Heather Noel-Smith and Lorna M. Campbell
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This book sets out the lives of seventeen 'young gentlemen' who were midshipmen under the famous...
Nature's Ghosts: Confronting Extinction from the Age of Jefferson to the Age of Ecology
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The rapid growth of the American environmental movement in recent decades obscures the fact that...
The Lost Prince: The Life & Death of Henry Stuart
Catharine MacLeod, Malcolm Smuts and Timothy Wilks
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This exploration of Henry's life and image, and the extraordinary reaction to his death, transforms...
A Sparrow in Terezin
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Bound together across time, two women will discover a powerful connection through one survivor's...
A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years
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Diarmaid MacCulloch's epic, acclaimed history A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand...