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Scientist, Soldier, Statesman, Spy: Count Rumford - The Extraordinary Life of a...by: G.I. Brown
A scientific biography of Count Rumford, the founder of the Royal Institution, who arrived in England in 1776, and invented methods for improved heating, lighting and cooking, through his discovery of how heat was made. |
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Stephen Hawking: A Life in Scienceby: Michael White
Born in 1942, Stephen Hawking is no ordinary scientist. With a career that began over thirty years ago at Cambridge University, he has managed to do more than perhaps any other physicist to broaden our basic understanding of the universe. This skilful portrait of an indefatigable genius traces... |
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Darwin's Origin of the Species: A Biographyby: Janet Browne
To book has changed our conception of ourselves more than Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species. It caused a sensation on its publication in 1859, selling out its entire print run in one day, and went on to become an international best seller. The idea that living things, including humans,... |
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3:59.4: The Quest to Break the 4 Minute Mileby: John Bryant
The years 1953-54 were marked by the conquests of two unattainable peaks - Mount Everest and the Four Minute Mile. But the dream of setting a new track record for this distance started as early as the 1880s, by the American Lon Myers, a stick-thin hypochondriac who was sick before and after every... |
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Lawrence of Lucknowby: John Lawrence
Henry Lawrence is best known as the commanding officer at the siege of Lucknow, where he died protecting the British Garrison during the Indian Mutiny in 1857. This biography by his great-grandson tells of his life, and of India in the 19th century. |
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Gandhi in His Time and Ours: The Global Legacy of His Ideasby: David Hardiman
Gandhi was the creator of a radical style of politics which has proved effective in fighting insidious social divisions within India and, at times, elsewhere in the world. How did this new form of politics come about? David Hardiman shows that it was based on a larger vision of an alternative... |
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Gandhi: The Man, His People and the Empireby: Rajmohan Gandhi
This monumental biography of one of the most intriguing figures of the 20th century, written by his grandson, is the first to give a complete and balanced account of Gandhi's remarkable life, full of contrasts and contradictions: the westernised Middle Temple lawyer who wore the clothes of... |
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Superior Person: A Portrail of Curzon and His Circleby: Kenneth Rose
In 1898, before he was 40, George Nathaniel Curzon, first and last Marquess of Curzon of Kedleston, was appointed Viceroy of India. It was a role for which he had consciously trained himself since his schooldays. Englishmen still believed robustly in the civilizing mission of the British Empire,... |
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Lives in the Wilderness: Three Classic Indian Autobiographies. Jim Corbett: My India;...by: Jim Corbett
This volume comprises the autobiographical works of three men who had a special relationship with the Indian jungles - Jim Corbett, Verrier Elwin, and Salim Ali. This omnibus edition includes an Introduction by Ramachandra Guha. |
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My Year Offby: Robert McCrum
In 1995, Robert McCrum suffered a stroke, the result of a blood clot in his brain. This book is both an examination of a life interrupted in mid-flow, and a guide for stroke sufferers and their friends and families. |
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