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All Measures Short of War: The Contest for the Twenty-First Century and the Future of American Power by Thomas Wright
Category: History
A groundbreaking look at the future of great power competition in an age of globalization and what the United States can do in response The two decades after the Cold War saw unprecedented cooperation between the major powers as the world converged on a model of liberal international order. Now, great p ...Show more
Circulation: William Harvey's Revolutionary Idea by Thomas Wright
Category: Biography
"What I am really anxious to hear is the final cause of your monstrous fiction. For your false invention seems to have no purpose. What reason can you give me for the circulation of the blood?" William Harvey's theory of circulation was as controversial in its day as Copernicus' idea that the earth revo ...Show more
Circulation: William Harvey's Revolutionary Idea by Thomas Wright
Category: Science
For a man of such diminutive stature, William Harvey had a huge impact on anatomy and modern biology. Arguably the greatest Englishman in the history of science after Newton and Darwin, Harvey's obsessive quest to understand the movement of the blood overturned beliefs held by anatomists and physicians ...Show more
London by Peter Ackroyd (Editor); Thomas Wright (Editor)
Category: Travel | Series: A\Traveller's Companion Ser.
Loved and hated in equal measure, London was for centuries the world's greatest city. Its streets, teeming with history, have always worn a variety of influences, reflecting the diverse crowds who have walked them. Its citizens have witnessed everything from pilgrimages, celebrations, acts of heroism an ...Show more
Oscar's Books by Thomas Wright
Category: Biography
A fresh and delightful examination of the character of Oscar Wilde by looking at him through the prism of the books he read. An entirely new kind of biography, Oscar's Books explores the personality of Oscar Wilde through his reading. It argues that reading exercised a formative influence on Wilde's cha ...Show more
Oscar's Books - A Journey around the Library of Oscar Wilde by Thomas Wright
Category: Biography
An entirely new kind of biography, "Oscar's Books" explores the personality of Oscar Wilde through his reading. For Wilde, as for many people, reading could be as powerful and transformative an experience as falling in love. He referred to the volumes that radically altered his vision of the world as hi ...Show more
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