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Richard Cohen takes us around the world to illuminate our relationship with the star that gives us life in this erudite, anecdotal, and beautifully illustrates history. He reports from locations in 18 different countries and he also finds the sun in ancient religions and emperor's emblems, in Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and Nabokov's Lolita, and in a string of scientific discoveries that led to duplicating the sun in the hydrogen bomb.

Random House, 2010; 574 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w & col; hb

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That Shook the Literary World
Selected by an international panel of writers, academics, and critics, the 1000 entries in this review form and accessible and intelligent look at literary history and criticism over the past century, from the publication of H.G. Wells' The Time Machine
to Orhan Pamuk's winning of the Nobel Prize in 2006.
Cassell, 2007; 800 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w & col; pb

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Albert Einstein thought and wrote extensively not just on the most difficult problems in physics, but also in politics.

St. Martin's Press, 2009; 334 pp.; EN; index; hb

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Idealized by her fans, denounced by her political opponents, and forever shadowed by controversy and scandal, novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand was a powerful thinker whose views on government and markets shaped the conservative movement from its earliest days. With unprecedented access to Rand's private papers and unedited journals, Jennifer Burns offers this reassessment of Rand, examining her life, her ideas, and her impact on conservative political thought.

Oxford, 2009; 369 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; hb

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Over the course of his 60 years, English American author, essayist and journalist Christopher Hitchens was both a socialist opposed to the war in Vietnam and a supporter of the US war against Islamic extremism in Iraq. He was both a a foreign correspondent in some of the world's most dangerous places and a legendary bob vivant. In other words, Hitchens contains multitudes. He sees all sides of an argument, and he believed the personal is political.

Twelve, 2010; 435 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; hb

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Marcel Proust was an authority on how to live a richer, happier and more successful life - although rarely happy himself. De Botton gives an elegant and humorous biographical sketch of this brilliant novelist, and a witty exercise in literary criticism.

Picador; 216 pp.; EN; ills. b/w; pb

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When Irene Nemirovky's Suite Francaise, a tale of occupied France, was published for the first time in 2004, it caused a sensation and launched a literary revival. Here is the tragic story of this best-selling French author of Russian Jewish descent in a well-sourced, detailed, analytical, and beautifully written biography saturated with Nemirovsky's own bracing candour and penetrating insights.

Knopf, 2010; 448 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; hb

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Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer Jonathan Weiner offers this fast-paced and astonishing scientific adventure story -has the long-sought secret of youth at last been found. Weiner traces the fascinating history of the quest for longevity in art, science, and literature, and meets with leading intellectuals in the field who view aging as a curable disease.

Ecco, 2010; 310 pp.; EN; index; hb

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From the private papers of the Empress Josephine and Mary Wordsworth to those of Emily Dickinson and Queen Victoria, Love Letters of Great Women is an anthology of some of the most romantic letters in history.

St. Martin's, 2009; 159 pp.; EN; hb

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Twelve great authors offer their top tips on gardening, from Sylvia Plath's struggles with autumn bulbs to J.D. Salinger's helpful hints on growing from seed. In Cormac McCarthy's hands a landowner's trip to the potting shed becomes a right of passage. Zola's striking miner finds life on the allotment more brutal than anything he imagined at the coal face. Inspired, botanically-accurate, and utterly hilarious, Machiavelli's Lawn will appeal to green-fingered book lovers anywhere.

Granta, 2011; 111 pp.; EN; ills. b/w & col; S; hb

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