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The Sense of Style
Steven Pinker, the best-selling author of The Language Instinct, deploys his gift for explaining big ideas in The Sense of Style - an entertaining writing guide for the 21st century. What is the secret of good prose? Does writing well even matter in an age of instant communication? Should we care? In th...
Memoirs from Beyond the Grave: 1800-1815
The second part of an infamous memoir about life in the time of Napoleon by a rebellious literary celebrity. In 1800, Fran ois-Rene de Chateaubriand sailed from the cliffs of Dover to the headlands of Calais. He was thirty-one and had been living as a political refugee in England for most of a decade, a...
Anaximander: And the Nature of Science
The bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics tells the thrilling story of one of the greatest intellectual leaps of all time Over two millennia ago, a Greek philosopher had a number of wondrous insights that paved the way to cosmology, physics, geography, meteorology and biology, setting in...
The Cloisters: The Secret History for a new generation - an instant Sunday Times bestseller
The Secret History meets Ninth House in this sinister, atmospheric novel . . . the discovery of a mysterious deck of tarot cards lays bare shocking secrets within a close-knit circle of researchers at New York's famed Met Cloisters museum.'Dark and enigmatic . . . The Cloisters captured me from the off....
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