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The Bone Clocks [Audiobook]
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The Bone Clocks [Audiobook]

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014
David Mitchell is an eloquent conjurer of interconnected tales, a genre-bending daredevil, and a master prose stylist. His hypnotic new novel, The Bone Clocks, crackles with invention and wit - it is fiction at its most spellbinding and memorable.

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Science Year by Year
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Science Year by Year

From the discovery of the wheel to the worldwide web our thirst for innovation is what makes us human. Science Year by Year takes a fascinating look at our heritage of invention and explores how science has shaped the past and how it may shape the future.
 
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The Art of Language Invention: From Horse-Lords to Dark Elves, the Words Behind World-Building
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Audio - The Art of Language Invention: From Horse-Lords to Dark Elves, the Words Behind World-BuildingAudio - The Art of Language Invention: From Horse-Lords to Dark Elves, the Words Behind World-Building

An insider's tour through the construction of invented languages from the best-selling author and creator of languages for the HBO series Game of Thrones and the Syfy series Defiance.
 
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Tags: series, languages, Invention, World-Building, Language, Words, Behind
Enlightenment Invention of the Modern Self
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Enlightenment Invention of the Modern SelfEnlightenment Invention of the Modern Self

You are a product of the Enlightenment. In fact, the philosophy behind so much that has created the modern concept of Self—politics, economics, psychology, science and technology, education, art—was invented as recently as the Enlightenment of the 18th century. In The Enlightenment Invention of the Modern Self, literary scholar Leo Damrosch of Harvard University considers the time when ideas about the self were first considered.
 
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The Invention of Science A New History of the Scientific Revolution
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The Invention of Science A New History of the Scientific RevolutionThe Invention of Science A New History of the Scientific Revolution

A companion to such acclaimed works as The Age of Wonder, A Clockwork Universe, and Darwin’s Ghosts—a groundbreaking examination of the greatest event in history, the Scientific Revolution, and how it came to change the way we understand ourselves and our world.
 
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Tags: Revolution, Scientific, change, history, understand, Invention, History, Science