Historia y biografías
The Ultimate Book of Heroic Failures
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Anyone can be a success, but it takes real and original genius to foul up big time. These are the all-time greats, Gods in our field of study, surreal artists, who spurn mere drab success ( I m a winner, Lord Sugar ) to explore the vast, magical, life-enhancing possibilities of getting it wrong. (...)
The Trouble with Science
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The Syme Papers
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Douglas Pitt is a man obsessed. Laughed at, mocked, and dismissed at every turn, Pitt has dedicated the best part of an unremarkable academic career attempting to prove the genius of Samuel Highgate Syme (b.1794, Baltimore; soldier, geologist, inventor). Pitt's postulation is simple enough: Syme, (...)
The Sunlit Summit
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The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart
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One wintry morning Prudencia Hart, an uptight academic, sets off to attend a conference in Kelso in the Scottish Borders. As the snow begins to fall, little does she know who or what awaits her there. Swept along on an enchanting dream-like journey of self discovery, Prudencia meets with magical (...)
The Storm at the Door
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Just outside Boston, in 1963, Frederick Merrill found himself a patient in the country's premiere mental hospital, a world of structured authority and absolute control - a forced regression to a simpler time even as the pace of the outside world accelerated into modernity. Meanwhile, in a (...)
The Stoning of Sally Kern
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This book is about Sally Kern, District 84 House of Representatives member from Oklahoma, and her desire to see America return to the conservative principles that guided the nation s founders. In January 2008, the pastor s wife and former high school teacher gave a speech to a Republican club in (...)
The Short Sharp Life of T. E. Hulme
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The Secret Life of Poems
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The Secret Life of Poems is a primer which offers a poem - or on occasion an excerpt - succeeding with commentary in which rhythm, form, metre and sources are the order of the day, not ethical commentary or descriptive paraphrase. This brief engagement with forty-seven poems is intended for (...)
The Royal Ballet: 75 Years
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In 1931, Ninette de Valois started a ballet company with just six dancers. Within twenty years, the Royal Ballet - as it became was established as one of the world s great companies. It has produced celebrated dancers, from Margot Fonteyn to Darcey Bussell, and one of the richest repertoires in (...)