was a finalist for this year's Man Booker Prize
A thoroughly entertaining and darkly humorous roundup of history’s notorious but often forgotten female con artists and their bold
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This constantly riveting account unveils the nature of crime in today's world but it also offers profound insights into the pitfalls of globalisation where the rules dividing the legal from the illegal are often far from clear
Why Beauty Is Truth: The History of Symmetry, Ian Stewart anthology was a finalist for thisAt the heart of relativity theory, quantum mechanics, string theory, and much of modern cosmology lies one concept: symmetry. In Why Beauty Is Truth, world famous mathematician Ian Stewart narrates the history of the emergence of this remarkable area of study. Stewart introduces us to such characters as the Renaissance Italian genius, rogue, scholar, and gambler Girolamo Cardano, who stole the modern method of solving cubic equations and published it