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Popular biography of C.S. Lewis (1898-1963), the Oxford academic who wrote THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE

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This study emphasizes the local context of De Stijl and explores its relationship to Dutch modernism. It examines how the debates concerning abstraction in painting and spatiality in architecture were connected to developments in urban planning, advertising, interior and exhibition design.

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In all his years on the force, Detective Chief Inspector Pendragon has never seen a murder quite like this one. It isn't the bizarre arrangement of the body, found in a London art gallery, that has Pendragon and his team reeling; it's the meticulous arrangement of an apple in the hole where the corpse's face used to be.

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Builders dig up an ancient skeleton in London. On the skeleton's finger is an emerald ring that once belonged to Lucrezia Borgia, the most evil woman of the Renaissance. Hours later the skeleton has vanished and one man is dead. With two more deaths in quick succession, it's clear to DCI Jack Pendragon there's a killer with a deadly compulsion.

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In the crypt of the Medici Chapel in Florence, scientist Edie Granger and her Uncle Carlin Mackenzie are examining the mummified remains of one of the most powerful families in Renaissance Italy. They have some serious doubts about the true identity of at least two of the 500- year-old bodies meshing past and present into gripping thriller.

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Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) was a mystic, philosopher and scientist whose ideas were decades ahead of their time. After almost eight years' imprisonment and torture at the hands of the Inquisition, Bruno was burned at the stake for his beliefs. His life and martyrdom are the subjects of this book.

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Groundbreaking biography of Galileo, one of the greatest scientists and religious heretics in history

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This book is both a revelatory biography and an accessible study of Leonardo's life and work as a scientist and engineer. It covers all aspects of his life but is also a re-interpretation of the voluminous evidence, painting an original picture of Leonardo da Vinci not only as the archetypal polymath, but as the first true scientist.

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* In this carefully researched account, acclaimed biographer, Michael White tells the story of Machiavelli's life and reveals how his ideas have been misunderstood and his name misappropriated as a result.

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When journalist Mark Bretton is asked to write an article on Professor Abigail Marchant, who has been denounced by the American Psychology Association for her belief that rebirth is a genuine phenomenon, he's more than a little sceptical about the assignment.

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