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The Man Who Loved China LP: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom

by Simon Winchester

Published: 2008-06-01

Paperback: 496 pages

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In sumptuous and illuminating detail, Simon Winchester, the bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman ("Elegant and scrupulous"?New York Times Book Review) and Krakatoa ("A mesmerizing page-turner"?Time) brings to life the extraordinary story of Joseph Needham, the brilliant Camb...

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The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom (P.S.)

by Simon Winchester

Published: 2009-05-01

Paperback: 352 pages

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In sumptuous and illuminating detail, Simon Winchester, bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman, brings to life the extraordinary story of Joseph Needham?the brilliant Cambridge scientist, freethinking intellectual, and practicing nudist who unlocked the most closely held secre...

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The Man Who Loved Jane Austen

by Sally Smith O'Rourke

Published: 2006-04-01

Paperback: 291 pages

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The Man Who Loved Pride and Prejudice: A modern love story with a Jane Austen twist

by Abigail Reynolds

Published: 2010-05-04

Paperback: 439 pages

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A modern love story with a Jane Austen twist.. . Marine biologist Cassie Boulton has no patience when a modern-day Mr. Darcy appears in her lab on Cape Cod. Proud, aloof Calder Westing III is the scion of a famous political family, while Cassie's success is hard-won in spite of a shameful ...

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The Man Who Made Lists

by Joshua Kendall

Published: 2008-03-13

Hardcover: 304 pages

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The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales

by Oliver Sacks

Published: 1998-04-02

Paperback: 256 pages

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In his most extraordinary book, “one of the great clinical writers of the twentieth century” (The New York Times) recounts the case histories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders.Oliver Sacks’s The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat ...

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The Man Who Outgrew His Prison Cell: Confessions of a Bank Robber

by Joe Loya

Published: 2005-10-01

Paperback: 384 pages

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Joe Loya's idyllic childhood came to an abrupt end when his mother was diagnosed with a terminal illness. In the two years before her death, Joe's extremely religious father became increasingly violent toward his two young sons-a contradiction that haunted Joe for years. Then, at age sixte...

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The Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch

by Michael Wolff

Published: 2008-12-02

Hardcover: 464 pages

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If Rupert Murdoch isn?t making headlines, he's busy buying the media outlets that generate the headlines. His News Corp. holdings?from the New York Post, Fox News, and most recently The Wall Street Journal, to name just a few?are vast, and his power is unrivaled. So what makes a man like ...

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Man Who Rained the Air Exp

by Shaw Ali

Published: 2012-01-01

Paperback: 304 pages

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When Elsa's father is killed in a tornado, all she wants is to escape - from New York, her job, her boyfriend - to somewhere new, anonymous, set apart. For some years she has been haunted by a sight once seen from an aeroplane: a tiny, isolated settlement called Thunderstown. Thunderstown has received...

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The Man Who Tasted Shapes (Bradford Books)

by Richard E. Cytowic

Published: 2003-08-11

Paperback: 296 pages

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In 1980, Richard Cytowic was having dinner at a friend's house, when his host exclaimed, "Oh, dear, there aren't enough points on the chicken." With that casual comment began Cytowic's journey into the condition known as synesthesia.The te...