From the Bible to Simon Schama, a huge investigation of how the writing of history influences the record of human experience, and therefore its development.
Making History: 2,500 Years of Shaping the Past
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Ex Libris: 100+ Books to Read and Reread
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Gorgeous colour images, as well as translations and commentary on these celebrated Persian poems. Both manuscripts date from the C15th and are exquisitely illustrated. This will be ravishing... read more
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Translation and interpretation are not straightforward, and never were... With matchless scholarship and sensitivity, Dr Barton compares multiple readings to reveal their ambiguities and int... read more
The Word: On the Translation of the Bible
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A labour of love and scholarship, this is a study of the extraordinary Royal Library of Dom Joao V (1706-1750) of Portugal that was destroyed in 1755 in the Lisbon earthquake. The library co... read more
The Lost Library of the King of Portugal
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