Biography

SOCRATES

Life&Times
by Sean Sheehan

Socrates (470–399 BC), the most famous Ancient Greek philosopher, was sentenced to death by the Athenian assembly in 399 BC for atheism and corrupting the young men of the city. The question of why a thinker who has been revered for millennia afterwards should have met such a fate is but one of the ‘Socrates problems’ addressed in this enlightening study.

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Mr Hitchcock


by Quentin Falk

The undisputed ‘Master of Suspense’, Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980) was at the forefront of cinema almost from its very beginnings, yet throughout his long career he remained a thoroughly ‘modern’ filmmaker with a singular grasp of the technology and an affinity with his stars.

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C L R James

Cricket’s Philosopher King
by Dave Renton

Known as ‘The Cricketing Marxist’, Cyril Lionel Robert James (1901–89) was one of the leading black intellectuals of the 20th century, a Marxist theorist of the first rank, and also one of the finest writers on cricket, with his legendary book 'Beyond a Boundary'.

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MARCO POLO

Life&Times
by Jonathan Clements

Marco Polo (1254–1324), the son of a Venetian merchant family, left Europe with his father and uncle in 1271 on a trading mission to the court of the Mongol Emperor of China, Khubilai Khan. The man who returned 24 years later was unrecognisable, but soon accepted as Marco by his family when he showed them the jewels he had brought back from the East. Captured by the Genoese in a later battle, he dictated his memoirs to his cellmate. The result was 'A Description of the World', more misleadingly known as the 'Travels'.

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CURIE

Life&Times
by Sarah Dry

Marie Curie was not only the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, she won two - in 1903 and 1911. Though her work was neglected by the scientific establishment in Paris, she made pioneering discoveries in the field of radioactivity and discovered two elements, Radium and Polonium, the latter having acquired new notority over one hundred years after Curie’s discovery, when she named it in honour of her native Poland.

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