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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,
The Wanderer's Song

Pushkin Classics

A fresh translation of the poetry of German Romantic and polymath Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"Germany's greatest man of letters... and the last true polymath to walk the earth" -- George EliotHer…

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H Glenn Penny
In Humboldt's Shadow

A compelling history of the German ethnologists who were inspired by Prussian polymath and explorer Alexander von HumboldtThe Berlin Ethnological Museum is one of the world's largest and most important an…

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Steven Goodwin
Codes and Ciphers

What is the difference between a code and a cipher? How did Caesar send secret messages? How does RSA end-to-end encryption actually work? In this fascinating little book, packed with numerous helpful ill…

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Jared Diamond
Guns, Germs and Steel

Patterns of Life, Vintage Classics

Jared Diamond is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel , which was named one of TIME ¿s best non-fiction books of all time, the number-one international bestseller Collapse ,and most…

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Javad Tabatabai,
Ibn Khaldun and the Social Sciences

Arabic and European studies of Ibn Khaldun, the great medieval polymath, follow one of two paths. In one direction, scholars interpret his Prolegomena, written in 1377, as the point at which the new socia…

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Javad Tabatabai,
Ibn Khaldun and the Social Sciences

Arabic and European studies of Ibn Khaldun, the great medieval polymath, follow one of two paths. In one direction, scholars interpret his Prolegomena, written in 1377, as the point at which the new socia…

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Mike Batt
The Closest Thing to Crazy

'Fabulously readable' STEPHEN FRY'Wildly entertaining' DAILY EXPRESS'Rollicking ... ebullient ... Christmas present problems are instantly solved' MAIL ON SUNDAYNominated for the 2025 Association for Reco…

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Anna Nygren
Blush / River / Fox

A raw, sweeping debut collection that interrogates the limits of the human animal and confronts the boundary between fear and freedom.The startling English-language debut of Swedish polymath Anna Nygren i…

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Audrey Borowski
Leibniz in His World

A sweeping intellectual biography that restores the Enlightenment polymath to the intellectual, scientific, and courtly worlds that shaped his early life and thoughtDescribed by Voltaire as "perhaps …

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Drogon Chogyal Phakpa, Gorampa Sonam Senge, Jamgon Ameshab
Sakya Pandita

"Sakya Paònòdita Kunga Gyaltsen (1182-1251) was a renowned Tibetan polymath, scholar, statesman, and religious master, and one of the most famous and consequential figures in the history of Tibet. Th…

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Teresa O'Doherty, Liam O'Connor, Tom O'Donoghue
P.W. Joyce and the Educational Shaping of the Emerging Irish Nation, 1827-1914

This book provides an exposition on the professional and cultural life of Patrick Weston Joyce (1827-1914), more popularly known as P. W. Joyce, who lived and worked during the final phase of British rule…

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Timothy Kircher, Leon Battista Alberti,
Theogenius

Leon Battista Alberti (1404--1472) was a fifteenth-century Italian Renaissance polymath, whose creative, humanist energies in art, literature, and science remain influential today. This first English tran…

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Pierre Manent
Challenging Modern Atheism and Indifference

Challenging Modern Atheism and Indifference is the first English translation of Pierre Manent's penetrating engagement with the seventeenth century polymath and apologist for the Christian faith, Blaise P…

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Guy Bourdin for Charles Jourdan

A giant of modern fashion photography, Bourdin lent his surrealist eye to the shoes and fashions of Charles Jourdan. Creating compositions full of movement, color, and sensuality, this pioneering collabor…

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Nicolas Montemolinos
The Humboldt Triangle

In 2019, Alexander von Humboldt was very present in the media, as his 250th birthday was celebrated. Television programs, newspapers, and new books euphorically reported on a man who had achieved superhum…

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Alister Newstead,
Tame Impala's Currents

Tame Impala's psychedelic third album Currents(2015) is emblematic of a cultural shift in music production and consumption in the early days of streaming and a project that cemented its creator, Kevin Par…

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Robert K. Beshara
Transmodern Cinema and Decolonial Film Theory

In this book, Robert K. Beshara applies decolonial film theory to an analysis of Youssef Chahine's (1997) A l-Masir (Destiny).Transmodern Cinema and Decolonial Film Theory is the first book on decolonial …

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Scott Randall Paine
Face to Face with Everything

An introduction to philosophy often approaches the branches of philosophy to describe this particular science, but what about approaching it from the more general and obvious areas of human knowledge? And…

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John Banville
Vengeance

Holt Paperbacks

Quirke finds himself at the center of a deadly intergenerational feud in the latest novel from Booker Prize-winning "literary polymath" (The New York Times ) John Banville Two men go sailing off…

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Alain Badiou,
A Political Life: 1937 - 1985

In this book, the renowned philosopher and polymath Alain Badiou tells the story of the first five decades of his life, from 1937 to 1985, setting it within the political history of the twentieth century.…

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