Charles-Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, Premier Grand Mayaniste de France: 2015
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Two hundred years ago, on September 8, 1814, in the northern French city of Bourbourg, a boy was...
Covert Radar and Signals Interception: The Secret Career of Eric Ackermann
Peter Jackson and David Haysom
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Of German stock dating back to 1530 in Saxony, Eric George Ackermann GM was born on the Isle of...
Dubose Heyward: A Charleston Gentleman and the World of Porgy and BESS
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In 1924 DuBose Heyward (1885-1940) was a businessman absorbed in his Charleston heritage. One year...
Marshal K.K. Rokossovsky: The Red Army's Gentleman Commander
Boris Sokolov and Stuart Britton
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The author Boris Sokolov offers this first objective and intriguing biography of Marshal Konstantin...
No Life Without You
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Dr Nixon has BA, MA. M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees. In view of the diversity of his commitments and...
No Ordinary Woman: The Life of Edith Penrose
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Edith Penrose was a remarkable woman and distinguished scholar who lived through, and witnessed at...
President McKinley: Architect of the American Century
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"A deft character study of a president."--The New York Times Book Review "A valuable education on...
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Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins
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In May 1997, the world watched as Garry Kasparov, the greatest chess player in the world, was...
computing technology science biography
The Wood for the Trees: One Man's Long View of Nature
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From one of our greatest science writers, this biography of a beech-and-bluebell wood through...
The Wood for the Trees: The Long View of Nature from a Small Wood
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From one of our greatest science writers, this biography of a beech-and-bluebell wood through...