Books & authors

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2010

Catching Fire How Cooking made us Human

Richard Wrangham

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2009

Lords of Finance 1929, The Great Depression, and The Bankers Who Broke The World

Liaquat Ahamed

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2009

Bad Science

Ben Goldacre

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2009

The Lost City of Z

David Grann

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2009

The Age of Wonder How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science

Richard Holmes

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2009

Quantum Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate about the Nature of Reality

Manjit Kumar

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2008

Blood River A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart Tim Butcher

Tim Butcher

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2008

Crow Country

Mark Cocker

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2008

The Whisperers

Orlando Figes

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2008

The World Is What It Is The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul

Patrick French

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2008

The Rest is Noise Listening to the Twentieth Century

Alex Ross

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2007

Murder in Amsterdam

Ian Buruma