
Terry Jones' Medieval Lives
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Was medieval England full of knights on horseback rescuing fainting damsels in distress? Were the...

The Monster of Florence
Douglas Preston and Mario Spezi
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In 2000, Douglas Preston fulfilled a dream to move his family to Italy. Then he discovered that the...

Architectural History Retold
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How much do you know about Greek architecture? Roman? Gothic? The Renaissance? Modernism? Perhaps...

Everything is Happening: Journey into a Painting
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Michael Jacobs was haunted by Velazquez's enigmatic masterpiece Las Meninas from first encountering...

All Growed Up: What Breadboy Did at University
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It's Belfast, 1982, and an eighteen-year-old boy wearing Hai Karate aftershave has a date with...

Swimming with Sharks: Inside the World of the Bankers
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'It's not the people who are bad, it's the culture.' 'Friends turned on me, on my wife.' 'This job...

The Firm: The Inside Story of Mckinsey, the World's Most Controversial Management Consultancy
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They helped invent the bar code. They revolutionized business schools and created the corporate...

The Intelligent Investor
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The classic bestseller by Benjamin Graham, "The Intelligent Investor" has taught and inspired...