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Paul Strathern (born 1940) is a British writer and academic. He was born in London, and studied at Trinity College, Dublin, after which he served in the Merchant Navy over a period of two years. He then lived on a Greek island. In 1966 he travelled overland to India and the Himalayas. His novel A Season in Abyssinia won a Somerset Maugham Award in 1972. Besides five novels, he has also written numerous books on science, philosophy, history, literature, medicine and economics.
The Age of Reason from Descartes to Peter the Great
2024
2023
From Ancient Metropolis to Modern Megacity
2022
From Dante to Galileo
2021
A New History of the World
2020
A History of the World in Ten Empires
2019
Power and Fortune
2019
The Periodic Table
2015
A New History: From Marco Polo to Casanova
2012
The Medici, Savonarola, and the Battle for the Soul of a Renaissance City
2011
The Intersecting Lives of Da Vinci, Machiavelli, and Borgia and the World They Shaped
2009
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2004
Power, Money, and Ambition in the Italian Renaissance
2003
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2002
The Quest for the Elements
2001
2001
Philosophy in an Hour
2001
A Brief History of Economic Genius
2001
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1998
Philosophy in an Hour
1997
Philosophy in an Hour
1997
