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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.
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An impersonation
1972
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Philosophy in an Hour
2001
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2006
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1998
2005
The Age of Reason from Descartes to Peter the Great
2024
1999
The Medici, Savonarola, and the Battle for the Soul of a Renaissance City
2011
1997
1996
2002
2004
A Brief History of Economic Genius
2001
1997
A New History of the World
2020
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1995
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1996
Philosophy in an Hour
1997
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2003
1992
The Quest for the Elements
2001
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1995
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1997