When Jennings' new diary is made public, the thought of his most private thoughts being made public spur him to invent a secret language. Will anyone be able to decode it? And how does...
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Auteur: Broers, MichaelSommaire:All previous biographies of Napoleon have relied more on the memoirs of others than on his own uncensored words. This is the first that makes full use of his newly released personal correspondence...
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Auteur: Porter, RoySommaire:In this portrait of eighteenth-century England, Roy Porter defines a nation from its princes to its paupers, covering diet, housing, prisons, rural festivals, bordellos, plays, paintings, and work...
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Auteur: Sabatini, RafaelSommaire:With swordfights and romance, adventure and treachery set against the backdrop of the French Revolution, this is the book that made Rafael Sabatini famous. André-Louis Moreau has good...
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Auteur: Turner, SteveSommaire:
Music journalist and Beatles expert Steve Turner investigates in detail the enormous changes that took place in the Beatles' lives and work during 1966. He looks at the historical events that...
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Auteur: Stewart, IanSommaire:
Life is full of uncertainty, scientific advances indicate that the universe might be fundamentally inexact, and humans are terrible at guessing. When asked to predict the outcome of a chance event...
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Auteur: Trollope, AnthonySommaire:Trollope examines the Victorian woman and her predicament. "What should a woman do with her life?" asks Alice Vavasor, who vacillates between two suitors, and each woman has her own answer.
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Auteur: Benson, Robert HughSommaire:Secular humanism has triumphed. Everything the late Victorians believed would bring human happiness has been achieved, but what has been created is a sterile world of crass materialism. And now it...
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Auteur: De Botton, AlainSommaire:Alain de Botton examines the origins of status anxiety--the universal anxiety about what others think of us--and reveals ingenious ways in which people have been able to overcome their worries in...
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Auteur: De Botton, AlainSommaire:One of the great, but often unmentioned, causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kinds of chairs, walls, buildings, and streets that surround us. And yet, a...
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Auteur: De Botton, AlainSommaire:Alain de Botton draws on the work of six of the world's most uncommonly brilliant thinkers to offer this panoply of accessible, entertaining wisdom to guide us through our most common...
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Auteur: Al-Khalili, JimSommaire:British-Iraqi physicist Jim Al-Khalili here unveils the Arabic legacy of science and philosophy--a legacy that has long been hidden from the West.
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Auteur: Cherry-Garrard, ApsleySommaire:
This gripping story of courage and achievement is an account of Robert Falcon Scott's last fateful expedition to the Antarctic, as told by surviving expedition member Apsley Cherry-Garrard....
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Auteur: Lewis, C. S.Sommaire:
This definitive collection of short fiction explores enduring spiritual and science fiction themes such as space, time, reality, fantasy, God, and the fate of humankind.
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Auteur: Alan Moore and David LloydSommaire:In a near-future Britain ruled by a totalitarian regime, Evey is rescued from certain death by a masked vigilante calling himself "V," a beguiling and charismatic figure who launches a...