One of the few things most of us remember from that long-ago high school chemistry class is the periodic table, with the elements laid out like cards in a game of solitaire, the alkali metals running down the left-hand side, the noble gases down...
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Paul Strathern, Author . Texere $27.95 (328p) ISBN 978-1-58799-128-8
Strathern is best known for his 39 short biographies of philosophers and scientists. This book is condensed one further level. For example, one chapter is an abridged version of his Marx in 90 Minutes. When the author does not synopsize his own...
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Paul Strathern, Author . Bantam $30 (480p) ISBN 978-0-553-80678-6
In 1797, eight years after the French Revolution, an obscure general, Napoleon Bonaparte, became a national hero after a brilliant campaign in Italy. Equally impressed with his own genius, he formed the idea of conquering Egypt and, like his idol,...
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Paul Strathern, Author . Bantam $30 (480p) ISBN 978-0-553-80752-3
Despite the convoluted title, this latest from award-winning British novelist and historian Strathern (Napoleon in Italy
) is simply a good, straightforward history of Renaissance Italy during the turbulent decade around 1500, with emphasis on...
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Paul Strathern. Pegasus, $27.95 (354p) ISBN 978-1-60598-489-6
The names imparted by his subtitle may be notable, but they’re not the most intriguing characters in this study, as Strathern (Napoleon in Egypt) grasps the opportunity to introduce readers to figures mostly lost to history. Thus he offers the...
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Paul Strathern. Pegasus, $29.95 (456p) ISBN 978-1-60598-826-9
Eschewing a one-sided approach, Strathern (The Venetians) fashions an engrossing portrayal of the two legendary 15th-century figures who shaped Renaissance Florence: Lorenzo (the Magnificent) de’ Medici and Girolamo Savonarola. Lorenzo, self-indulgen
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Paul Strathern. Pegasus, $28.95 (448p) ISBN 978-1-60598-966-2
In this absorbing follow-up to his beautiful Death in Florence: The Medici, Savonorola, and the Battle for the Soul of a Renaissance City, Strathern chronicles the legendarily farsighted banking family, offering a cautionary tale of arrogant and...
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Paul Strathern. Pegasus, $28.95 (384p) ISBN 978-1-64313-083-5
In this accessible look behind the curtain, novelist and historian Strathern (The Medici: Power, Money, and Ambition in the Italian Renaissance) lays out the history of the infamous Italian clan, whose members included popes and political leaders...
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Paul Strathern. Pegasus, $28.95 (400p) ISBN 978-1-64313-732-2
Novelist and historian Strathern (The Borgias) paints an accessible portrait of Renaissance-era Florence as a city of “revolutionary” ideas where geography, a burgeoning banking industry, and luck contributed to the evolution of humanism, artistic...
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Paul Strathern. Pegasus, $35 (416p) ISBN 978-1-63936-797-9
The “age of reason” that kicked off the Enlightenment was really “an age of unreason” so chaotic it prompted exceptional minds to seek out order amid the disorder, according to this panoramic account. Philosopher Strathern (The Florentines) depicts...
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