Barzun unpacks a lifetime of learning in this comprehensive overview of history and culture. The distinguished historian reexamines major themes in Western civilization from the Renaissance through modern times.
This biography analyzes how Nobel Prize-winning mathematician John Nash's eccentric personality helped him to develop revolutionary mathematical processes, and chronicles the transformation of this prolific eccentricity into a 30-year bout of paranoid schizophrenia and eventual recovery in 1990. Nas ...
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A best-seller in France, this biography by an authority on Proust draws on recently discovered material to tell the story of perhaps the greatest novelist of all time. Tadie illuminates Proust's life and also his art in a definitive critical reading that finds fascinating correspondences between the ...
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Barzun unpacks a lifetime of learning in this comprehensive overview of history and culture. The distinguished historian reexamines major themes in Western civilization from the Renaissance through modern times.