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Paul Strathern
Author · 70 books

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.

Series

Books

Darwin and Evolution book cover

Darwin and Evolution

1999

Schopenhauer in 90 Minutes book cover

Schopenhauer in 90 Minutes

1998

Newton and Gravity book cover

Newton and Gravity

1997

Kierkegaard book cover

Kierkegaard

Philosophy in an Hour

1997

Einstein and Relativity book cover

Einstein and Relativity

1997

The Medici book cover

The Medici

Power, Money, and Ambition in the Italian Renaissance

2003

Kafka in 90 Minutes book cover

Kafka in 90 Minutes

2004

The Florentines book cover

The Florentines

From Dante to Galileo

2021

Poe in 90 Minutes book cover

Poe in 90 Minutes

2006

Napoleon in Egypt book cover

Napoleon in Egypt

2007

Kant in 90 Minutes book cover

Kant in 90 Minutes

1996

Socrates book cover

Socrates

Philosophy in an Hour

1997

Leibniz in 90 Minutes book cover

Leibniz in 90 Minutes

2000

Spinoza in 90 Minutes book cover

Spinoza in 90 Minutes

1996

The Venetians book cover

The Venetians

A New History: From Marco Polo to Casanova

2012

Tolstoy in 90 Minutes book cover

Tolstoy in 90 Minutes

2006

Galileo and the Solar System book cover

Galileo and the Solar System

1998

Confucius in 90 Minutes book cover

Confucius in 90 Minutes

1996

A Brief History of Economic Genius book cover

A Brief History of Economic Genius

2002

Hawking and Black Holes book cover

Hawking and Black Holes

1997

Hegel in 90 Minutes book cover

Hegel in 90 Minutes

1995

Crick, Watson and DNA book cover

Crick, Watson and DNA

1997

The Knowledge book cover

The Knowledge

The Periodic Table

2015

The Other Renaissance book cover

The Other Renaissance

2023

Locke in 90 Minutes book cover

Locke in 90 Minutes

2003

Rousseau in 90 Minutes book cover

Rousseau in 90 Minutes

2002

Turing and the Computer book cover

Turing and the Computer

1997

Heidegger in 90 Minutes book cover

Heidegger in 90 Minutes

1997

Pythagoras And His Theorem book cover

Pythagoras And His Theorem

1997

Curie and Radioactivity book cover

Curie and Radioactivity

1998

A season in Abyssinia; book cover

A season in Abyssinia;

An impersonation

1972

James Joyce in 90 Minutes book cover

James Joyce in 90 Minutes

2005

Bertrand Russell in 90 Minutes book cover

Bertrand Russell in 90 Minutes

2001

The Borgias book cover

The Borgias

Power and Fortune

2019

Dostoevsky in 90 Minutes book cover

Dostoevsky in 90 Minutes

2004

St. Augustine in 90 Minutes book cover

St. Augustine in 90 Minutes

1997

Thomas Aquinas in 90 Minutes book cover

Thomas Aquinas in 90 Minutes

1999

Bohr and Quantum Theory book cover

Bohr and Quantum Theory

1997

Archimedes And The Fulcrum book cover

Archimedes And The Fulcrum

1998

Borges in 90 Minutes book cover

Borges in 90 Minutes

2006

The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior book cover

The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior

The Intersecting Lives of Da Vinci, Machiavelli, and Borgia and the World They Shaped

2009

Nabokov in 90 Minutes book cover

Nabokov in 90 Minutes

2004

J.S. Mill in 90 Minutes book cover

J.S. Mill in 90 Minutes

2002

Descartes in 90 Minutes book cover

Descartes in 90 Minutes

1996

Dewey in 90 Minutes book cover

Dewey in 90 Minutes

2002

Rise and Fall book cover

Rise and Fall

A History of the World in Ten Empires

2019

Garcia Marquez in 90 Minutes book cover

Garcia Marquez in 90 Minutes

2004

Ten Cities that Led the World book cover

Ten Cities that Led the World

From Ancient Metropolis to Modern Megacity

2022

Oppenheimer and the Bomb book cover

Oppenheimer and the Bomb

1998

Machiavelli in 90 Minutes book cover

Machiavelli in 90 Minutes

1992

Mendeleyev's Dream book cover

Mendeleyev's Dream

The Quest for the Elements

2001

Dark Brilliance book cover

Dark Brilliance

The Age of Reason from Descartes to Peter the Great

2024

Wittgenstein in 90 Minutes book cover

Wittgenstein in 90 Minutes

1996

Berkeley in 90 Minutes book cover

Berkeley in 90 Minutes

2000

Beckett in 90 Minutes book cover

Beckett in 90 Minutes

2004

Foucault in 90 Minutes book cover

Foucault in 90 Minutes

2000

Derrida in 90 Minutes book cover

Derrida in 90 Minutes

1997

Sartre in 90 Minutes book cover

Sartre in 90 Minutes

1998

Death in Florence book cover

Death in Florence

The Medici, Savonarola, and the Battle for the Soul of a Renaissance City

2011

Dr. Strangelove's Game book cover

Dr. Strangelove's Game

A Brief History of Economic Genius

2001

Bertrand Russell book cover

Bertrand Russell

Philosophy in an Hour

2001

Nietzsche in 90 Minutes book cover

Nietzsche in 90 Minutes

1996

Empire book cover

Empire

A New History of the World

2020

Hemingway in 90 Minutes book cover

Hemingway in 90 Minutes

2005

A Brief History of Medicine book cover

A Brief History of Medicine

2005

Aristotle in 90 Minutes book cover

Aristotle in 90 Minutes

1996

Hume in 90 Minutes book cover

Hume in 90 Minutes

1999

Plato in 90 Minutes book cover

Plato in 90 Minutes

1995

Virginia Woolf in 90 Minutes book cover

Virginia Woolf in 90 Minutes

2005

D.H. Lawrence in 90 Minutes book cover

D.H. Lawrence in 90 Minutes

2005

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