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Vincent River

Vincent River

Philip Ridley

Ridley has a cult status among many young theater goers and a strong cult following.
Nature via Nurture: Genes, experience and what makes us human

Nature via Nurture: Genes, experience and what makes us human

Matt Ridley

Acclaimed author Matt Ridley's thrilling follow-up to his bestseller Genome.
Down to Earth: A Contrarian View of Environmental Problems

Down to Earth: A Contrarian View of Environmental Problems

Matt Ridley

This volume brings together a selection of 30 of Dr Ridley's 'Down to Earth' columns which appeared in The Sunday Telegraph.
The Freemasons: A History of the World's Most Powerful ...

The Freemasons: A History of the World's Most Powerful ...

Jasper Ridley

Though not a mason himself, Jasper Ridley nonetheless refutes many of the outrageous allegations made against Freemasonry, while at the same time acknowledging the masons’ shortcomings: their clannishness, misogyny, obsession with secrecy ...
The Origins of Virtue

The Origins of Virtue

Matt Ridley

What are the reasons for altrusim? Matt Ridley explains how the human mind has evolved a special instinct for social exchange, offering a lucid and persuasive argument about the paradox of human benevolence.
Maximilian and Juarez

Maximilian and Juarez

Jasper Ridley

"Jasper Ridley has written a riveting account of an episode which is exciting throughout and tragic at the end; it is also essential reading to understand the history of the United States today."--Antonia Fraser.
The Birth of Tragedy

The Birth of Tragedy

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

I would like to thank the following people for their advice and help in the course of completing this translation: Saskia Brown, Toby Deller, Peter Haugh, Ian James, Philip Johnston, Catherine O'Beirne, Tony Phelan, Hugh Ridley. I am also ...
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters

Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters

Matt Ridley

By picking one newly discovered gene from each of the 23 pairs of human chromosomes, and telling its story, Matt Ridley recounts the history of our species and its ancestors from the dawn of life to the brink of future medicine.
Thomas Cranmer

Thomas Cranmer

Jasper Ridley

First published in 1962, Jasper Ridley’s biography of Thomas Cranmer, leader of the English Reformation and Archbishop of Canterbury under Henry VIII, Edward VI and Mary I, examines the attitude of Cranmer’s biographies and critics from ...
The Agile Gene: How Nature Turns on Nurture

The Agile Gene: How Nature Turns on Nurture

Matt Ridley

Armed with extraordinary new discoveries about our genes, acclaimed science writer Matt Ridley turns his attention to the nature-versus-nurture debate in a thoughtful book about the roots of human behavior.
Francis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code

Francis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code

Matt Ridley

In his fascinating biography of the scientific pioneer who uncovered the genetic code—the digital cipher at the heart of heredity that distinguishes living from non-living things—acclaimed bestselling science writer Matt Ridley traces ...
Philip A. Fisher Collected Works, Foreword by Ken Fisher: ...

Philip A. Fisher Collected Works, Foreword by Ken Fisher: ...

Philip A. Fisher

Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits, Paths to Wealth through Common Stocks, Conservative Investors Sleep Well, and Developing an Investment Philosophy Philip A. Fisher. Copyright © 1996, 2003 by Philip A. Fisher. All rights reserved.
A Political Companion to Philip Roth

A Political Companion to Philip Roth

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Aimee Pozorski, “On Philip Roth: Ethics and Elegy after the Holocaust,” Philip Roth, ed. Pozorski (Ipswich, MA: Salem, 2013), 6. 2. “Politics,” in Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014). 3. Ibid. 4. Philip Roth, I Married a ...
The Cody family in America, 1698: descendants of Philip and ...

The Cody family in America, 1698: descendants of Philip and ...

Lydia Sarah Cody

descendants of Philip and Martha, Massachusetts, biographical and genealogical Lydia Sarah Cody, International Cody Association. 293 Sylvester, b. ... 123 NANCY CODY 5 (John 4, Philip 3, Joseph 3, Philip 1), b. Oct. 6, 1786 at Dudley, ...
Critical Mass

Critical Mass

Philip Ball

Philip Ball ... l have been encouraged as ever by the good judgement of my agent Peter Robinson and the support of my wife Julia. Philip Ball London, October 2003 1.1 1.2 2.1 3.1 5.1 Picture credits Thomas Hobbes by Acknowledgements.
The Best Spiritual Writing 2012

The Best Spiritual Writing 2012

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Try to Control Yourself: The Regulation of Public Drinking ...

Try to Control Yourself: The Regulation of Public Drinking ...

Dan Malleck

On normalization, I draw on the work of Philip Corrigan, notably Philip Corrigan and Derek Sayer, The GreatArch: English State Formation as Cultural Revolution (London: Blackwell, 1985), but also Philip Corrigan, “Viewpoint: ...
Walking Dead Omnibus

Walking Dead Omnibus

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Bruce Cooper is just one man—a single cog in the Woodbury machine—but he secretly meant the world to Philip. Other than Gabe, Bruce was the closest thing to a friend Philip had in this world. Philip confided in Bruce, let him see the ...
The Exegesis of Philip K Dick

The Exegesis of Philip K Dick

Philip K. Dick

Based on thousands of pages of typed and handwritten notes, journal entries, letters, and story sketches, The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick is the magnificent and imaginative final work of an author who dedicated his life to questioning the ...

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