Shute: The Engineer Who Became a Prince of Storytellers
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Nevil Shute was a writer whose books were frequently looked down on by literary critics and yet when...
The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought
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The story of the greatest of all philosophical friendships--and how it influenced modern thought...
The Invention of Angela Carter: A Biography
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Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 in The Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, Guardian, Financial Times,...
The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander Von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science
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WINNER OF THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARDWINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2016'A...
The Islamist: Why I Joined Radical Islam in Britain, What I Saw Inside and Why I Left
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Ed Husain's The Islamist is the shocking inside story of British Islamic fundamentalism, told by a...
The J. R. R. Tolkien Companion and Guide
J.R.R. Tolkien, Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull
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Stunning two-volume slipcased set containing the most comprehensive in-depth companion to Tolkien's...
Dictator, the Revolution, the Machine: A Political Account of Joseph Stalin
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It is a commonplace wisdom that from the authoritarian roots of the Bolshevik revolution in 1917...
Driven Toward Madness: The Fugitive Slave Margaret Garner and Tragedy on the Ohio
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The story of Margaret Garner-the runaway slave who, when confronted with capture, slit the throat of...
France, the Soul of a Journey
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France, the Soul of a Journey is a travel memoir that really gets into the veins of France's lush...
Kafka: The Early Years
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How did Kafka become Kafka? This eagerly anticipated third and final volume of Reiner Stach's...