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Edward Said has long been considered one of the world s most compelling public intellectuals, taking on a remarkable array of topics with his many ...
Written just after the heat of the battle and in the language of the time, this is the personal account of an ordinary soldier's ...
Following the hugely successful hardback, this extraordinary tale of the father of modern geology looks set to be the non fiction paperback for 2002. Hidden ...
In 1856 eighteen-year-old English chemist William Perkin accidentally discovered a way to mass-produce color. In a "witty, erudite, and entertaining" (Esquire) style, Simon Garfield explains ...
Eating right has been an obsession for longer than we think. Renaissance Europe had its own flourishing tradition of dietary advice. Then, as now, an ...
An engaging and witty cultural history that traces the evolution of the mirror from antiquity to the present day, illustrating its journeys from wondrous object ...
Now in paperback, the fascinating, quirky, highly acclaimed book about that indispensable object, the pencil. Petroski traces its origins back to ancient Greece and Rome ...
