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  • Luke O´Neill: To Boldly Go Where No Book Has Gone Before. A Joyous Journey Through All of Science

    Science is a serious business, right? Wrong. Scientists have been participants in the best reality show of all time, with…

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  • Katsushika Hokusai: Hokusai’s Fuji

    A wonderfully illustrated exploration of one of Hokusai’s key motifs: Mount Fuji. Katsushika Hokusai’s Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji and…

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  • Wolfram Eilenberger: Frihetens lågor : filosofins räddning i en mörk tid 1933–1943. Simone de Beauvoir, Simone Weil, Hannah Arendt, Ayn Rand

    Wolfram Eilenbergers ”Frihetens lågor” låter oss följa fyra filosoferande och skrivande kvinnor under de mörka åren 1933–1943: Simone de Beauvoir,…

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  • Paul Auster: Baumgartner

    The life of Sy Baumgartner – noted author, and soon-to-be retired philosophy professor – has been defined by his deep,…

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  • Stephanie Barczewski: How the Country House Became English

    The story of how the country house, historically a site of violent disruption, came to symbolize English stability during the…

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  • Secessions. Klimt – Stuck – Liebermann (redaktörer: Ralph Gleis, Ursula Storch)

    ”The new alliances of artists in the Secession meant the abandonment of traditional artists’ associations and old-fashioned structures, and a…

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  • John Molesworth: A History of Dangerous Assumptions

    A History of Dangerous Assumptions features over two hundred illuminating and intriguing case-studies of this fascinating subject, including some of…

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  • Ian Kershaw: Personality and Power: Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe

    ”One of the great historians of our age asks: how far can a single leader alter the course of history?…

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  • Helen Czerski: Blue Machine. How the Ocean Shapes Our World

    Earth is home to a huge story that is rarely told – that of our ocean. Not the fish or…

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  • Mary Beard: Emperor of Rome. Ruling the Ancient Roman World

    In her international bestseller SPQR, Mary Beard told the thousand-year story of ancient Rome, from its slightly shabby Iron Age…

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