These two intriguing books are hard to put down and make memorable gifts for someone you care about. They are packed with good stories revealing insights into what it takes to be A Remarkable person and what a Marvellous Muse is — someone who inspires others to succeed.
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IBN AL-HAYTHAM (ALHAZEN) It is 1017, and the sharpest mind of the age is pretending...
A man hunches over the Paris Café table, finishing a book. It will run to...
History makes sure our love of shortcuts keeps returning to show us the true price....
NICOLAUS COPERNICUS Only a handful of trusted scholars have seen it. Beside his hand lies...
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I create imagined conversations with remarkable people —turning history into something immediate, human, and alive.
A MAN AT SIMONE de BEAUVOIR’S FUNERAL They buried her wearing a silver ring. Not a wedding band, it never […]
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR We are meeting in 1949, when Paris is still emerging from the shadow of war. The river […]
A young man in a torn undershirt walks onto the stage. Then he stops acting. That was the trick. He […]