Mary Shelley
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In the summer of 1816, aged nineteen, Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein. A pioneering work of science...
Mental Healers: Mesmer, Eddy and Freud
Stefan Zweig, Paul Cedar, Eden Paul and Man Ray
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Stefan's Zweig Mental Healers is a triple biography of Franz Mesmer, Mary Baker Eddy and Sigmund...
Michael Foot: A Life
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The authorised - but not uncritical - life of one of the great parliamentarians and orators of our...
And He Will Take Your Daughters...': Woman Story and the Ethical Evaluation of Monarchy in the David Narrative
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April Westbrook explores the intentional inclusion of woman stories (those displaying significant...
Critical Muslim 04: Pakistan?
Ziauddin Sardar and Robin Yassin-Kassab
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Ziauddin Sardar questions the question mark that is always placed in front of Pakistan, Robin...
The Book of Numbers
Jiu Ding and Tianxing Cai
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Natural numbers are the oldest human inventions. This volume describes their nature, laws, history...
American Smoke: Journeys to the End of the Light
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In American Smoke, Iain Sinclair hits the road to America in the tracks of the Beats. On the trail...
Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life
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A luminous memoir from the award-winning author of The Vagrants and A Thousand Years of Good Prayers...
biography psychology
Insomniac Dreams: Experiments with Time
Vladimir Nabokov and Gennady Barabtarlo
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Nabokov's dream diary, published for the first time--and placed in biographical and literary context...
biography psychology
The Ice House
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From a writer who’s been praised for her “intelligence, heart, wit” (Richard Russo, Pulitzer...
literary fiction