Leonardo Da Vinci
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'In this painting of Leonardo's there was a smile so pleasing that it seemed divine rather than...
Art
The Magic of Birds
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Birds have captured people's imagination since earliest times, with their fascinating plumage,...
Vibrator Nation: How Feminist Sex-Toy Stores Changed the Business of Pleasure
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In the 1970s a group of pioneering feminist entrepreneurs launched a movement that ultimately...
The Robber Bridegroom
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'Then she began to run, and she ran over the sharp stones and through the thorns, and the wild...
The Homegrown Preschooler
Kathy H. Lee and Lesli M. Richards
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This book helps you transform your home into a learning environment that rivals the best preschool...
A Spot of Bother
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At fifty-seven, George is settling down to a comfortable retirement, building a shed in his garden,...
How to Use Your Enemies
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'Better mad with the crowd than sane all alone' In these witty, Machiavellian aphorisms, unlikely...
It Was Snowing Butterflies
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'The vessel drove before her bows two billows of liquid phosphorus.' It is a selection of Darwin's...
The Fall of Icarus
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'Drawn on by his eagerness for the open sky, he left his guide and soared upwards...' Ovid tells the...
The Maldive Shark
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'No voice, no low, no howl is heard; the chief sound of life here is a hiss.' Stories and poems by...
