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

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Review: I'm not a scientist. I have only a passing interest in the history of science. However, I'm c250 pages in and I am gripped. Holmes has the narrative skill of a great novelist, conjuring worlds and characters out of what could have so easily have been dry facts. Sta....

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The American Future: A History

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Review: A simplistic review of some facets of American history---no real analysis --- I've read about half the book and I am very disappointed, I may put it down-- He quotes that the naming of a town "Columbus" was done after someone had finished reading Washington Irvin....

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A Short History of Nearly Everything

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Description: What on earth is Bill Bryson doing writing a book of popular science--A Short History of Almost Everything? Largely, it appears, because this inquisitive, much-travelled writer realised, while flying over the Pacific, that he was entirely ignorant of the processes ....

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Masters and Commanders: The Military Geniuses Who Led the West to Victory in World War II: How Roosevelt, Churchill, Marshall and Alanbrooke Won the War in the West

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Review: How Churchill and a few others (to make up the numbers) won the war and defeated fascism is the idiots guide to WW2, and an addition to the neoconservatives library (now sadly redundant). Andrew Roberts is a historian with a particular agenda that seeks to perpetua....

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Henry: Virtuous Prince

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Review: I was really looking forwards to this book, I am an avid reader of anything to do with Tudor history and the wars of the roses and as there is relatively little written on the early years of Henry VIII I was keen to discover more about his personality, his friendsh....

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The Selfish Gene

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Review: This is Professor Dawkins' finest piece of work. Not only does he provide his own knowledge and ingenious thinking, but he also ties together the works of Darwin, Hamilton, Fisher, Trivers, and many other great revolutionary Evolutionary Biologists. As a Geneticist....

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Amazon

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Review: Brought this for alot more than for sale here, from high street store. Grrrr! Anyway got to say Bruce is a legend and its a perfect crimbo present! ....

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Shots from the Front: The British Soldier 1914-18

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Review: Richard Holmes is well known as a military historian who can not only make the details of military campaigns intelligible, but can recognise the human stories beneath. There is little in terms of campaign detail. There is not that much that is especially original, ....

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The Complete Maus

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Review: Somewhat of a cliché to say but this book truly was what made me thing of a comic a something other than a mode of communicating with pre-pubescent children. Though the illustrations may not be spectacular the story certainly is and perhaps less simple illustratio....

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Innocent Traitor

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Review: I loved this book all the way through. I have read quite a lot of historical novels and this was just as good as all the others I have read. I love the tudor period especially. The only thing that I feel could have been left out were the modern day swear words an....

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