Confronting Leviathan: A History of Ideas'Bracingly intelligent a wonderful read' Guardian 'Incredibly timely presented [with] wonderful elegance and clarity' Irish Times Based on the History Of Ideas podcast series by Talking Politics host David Runciman, Confronting Leviathan explores some of the most important thinkers and prominent ideas lying behind modern politics from Hobbes to Gandhi, from democracy to patriarchy, and from revolution to lock down. While explaining the most important

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Collected overfour years the diverse stories range from the light-hearted to the heart-stopping and is the first book to use women's own words to both demystify and celebrate this universal female rite of passgae at the same

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The Essential 55 collects together the amazingly effective rules that Ron Clark used to become an extraordinary - and award-winning - teacher

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That's exactly why matriarch Rosomon Hawkspur sends each of her heirs to the far reaches of the nation

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