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Paul Strathern (born 1940) is a British writer and academic. He was born in London, and studied at Trinity College, Dublin, after which he served in the Merchant Navy over a period of two years. He then lived on a Greek island. In 1966 he travelled overland to India and the Himalayas. His novel A Season in Abyssinia won a Somerset Maugham Award in 1972.

Besides five novels, he has also written numerous books on science, philosophy, history, literature, medicine and economics. He is the author of two successful series of short introductory books: Philosophers in 90 Minutes and The Big Idea: Scientists Who Changed the World. His book on the history of chemistry entitled Mendeleyev's Dream (2001) was short-listed for the Aventis Prize, and his works have been translated into over two dozen languages. He is the author of the best-selling 'The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance', 'Napoleon in Egypt', and his most recent work 'The Artist, the Philosopher and the Warrior: Leonardo, Machiavelli and Borgia - a fateful collusion' came out in February 2009.

Strathern was a lecturer at Kingston University where he taught philosophy and science. He lives in London, and has three grandchildren who live in Vienna: Tristan, Julian and Opajoke.

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Total Books: 342
Storia del mondo in dieci imperi
2030 - Storia Del Mondo in Dieci Imperi (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9788842826569
ISBN-10: 8842826561
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The Florentines From Dante to Galileo The Transformation of Western Civilization
2021 - The Florentines From Dante to Galileo the Transformation of Western Civilization [Italian Histories] (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9781643137322
ISBN-10: 1643137328
Genre: History
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Empire A New History of the World
2020 - Empire a New History of the World [Audio CD - Unabridged] (Audio CD)
ISBN-13: 9781515945659
ISBN-10: 1515945650
Genre: History
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The Borgias Power and Fortune
2019 - The Borgias Power and Fortune (Hardcover)Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781643130835
ISBN-10: 1643130838
Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, History
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Mendeleyev's Dream The Quest for the Elements
2019 - Mendeleyev's Dream the Quest for the Elements (Hardcover)Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781643130699
ISBN-10: 1643130692
Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Science & Math
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The Medici Power Money and Ambition in the Italian Renaissance
2017 - The Medici Power Money and Ambition in the Italian Renaissance (Paperback)Hardcover, Audio CD
ISBN-13: 9781681774084
ISBN-10: 1681774089
Genre: History
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Death in Florence The Medici Savonarola and the Battle for the Soul of a Renaissance City
Death in Florence The Medici Savonarola and the Battle for the Soul of the Renaissance City
Death in Florence The Medici Savonorola and the Battle for the Soul of a Renaissance City
The Venetians A New History From Marco Polo to Casanova
2014 - The Venetians a New History From Marco Polo to Casanova (Paperback)Hardcover, Audio CD
ISBN-13: 9781605986593
ISBN-10: 1605986593
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Death in Florence
2012 - Death in Florence (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780099546443
ISBN-10: 0099546442
Genres: Arts & Photography, History, Religion & Spirituality, Christian Books & Bibles
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The Spirit of Venice
2012 - The Spirit of Venice (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780224089791
ISBN-10: 022408979X
Genre: History
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The Artist the Philosopher and the Warrior Da Vinci Machiavelli and Borgia and the World They Shaped
The Artist the Philosopher and the Warrior The Intersecting Lives of Da Vinci Machiavelli and Borgia and the World They Shaped
Napoleon in Egypt
2009 - Napoleon in Egypt (Paperback)Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780553385243
ISBN-10: 0553385240
Genre: History
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Kafka in 90 Minutes
2009 - Kafka in 90 Minutes [Library Philosophers in 90 Minutes] (Audio Cassette)
ISBN-13: 9780786130344
ISBN-10: 0786130342
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
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Dostoevsky in 90 Minutes
2009 - Dostoevsky in 90 Minutes [Library Philosophers in 90 Minutes] (Audio Cassette)
ISBN-13: 9780786130368
ISBN-10: 0786130369
Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Literature & Fiction
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Dostoevsky in 90 Minutes Library
2009 - Dostoevsky in 90 Minutes Library (Audio CD)
ISBN-13: 9780786179404
ISBN-10: 0786179406
Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Literature & Fiction
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D H Lawrence in 90 Minutes
2009 - D H Lawrence in 90 Minutes [Library] (Audio Cassette)Audio CD
ISBN-13: 9781433217579
ISBN-10: 1433217570
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Beckett in 90 Minutes
2009 - Beckett in 90 Minutes [Library Philosophers in 90 Minutes] (Audio Cassette)
ISBN-13: 9781433217654
ISBN-10: 1433217651
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Beckett in 90 Minutes Library
2009 - Borges in 90 Minutes [Philosophers in 90 Minutes] (Audio Cassette)
2008 - Socrates in 90 Minutes [Philosophers in 90 Minutes] (Other)Paperback, Hardcover
2008 - Sartre in 90 Minutes [Philosophers in 90 Minutes] (Other)Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
2008 - Machiavelli in 90 Minutes [Philosophers in 90 Minutes] (Other)Paperback, Hardcover
2008 - Aristotle in 90 Minutes [Philosophers in 90 Minutes] (Other)Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette
2008 - Descartes in 90 Minutes [Philosophers in 90 Minutes] (Other)Paperback, Hardcover
2008 - Nietzsche in 90 Minutes [Philosophers in 90 Minutes] (Other)Paperback, Hardcover
2008 - Plato in 90 Minutes [Philosophers in 90 Minutes] (Other)Paperback
2008 - Kierkegaard in 90 Minutes [Philosophers in 90 Minutes] (Other)Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
2007 - Hume in 90 Minutes [Philosophers in 90 Minutes] (Paperback)Hardcover
2006 - Poe in 90 Minutes [Great Writers in 90 Minutes] (Paperback)Hardcover
2006 - Tolstoy in 90 Minutes [Great Writers in 90 Minutes] (Paperback)
2006 - Confucius in 90 Minutes [Library Edition] (Audio CD)
2006 - Dh Lawrence in 90 Minutes [Great Writers in 90 Minutes] (Hardcover)Paperback
2006 - Bohr Y La Teoria Cuantica [Spanish Edition] (Paperback)
2005 - James Joyce in 90 Minutes [Great Writers in 90 Minutes] (Paperback)Hardcover
2005 - Virginia Woolf in 90 Minutes [Great Writers in 90 Minutes] (Paperback)Hardcover
2005 - Hemingway in 90 Minutes [Great Writers in 90 Minutes] (Paperback)Hardcover
2005 - Nabokov in 90 Minutes [Great Writers in 90 Minutes] (Paperback)
2005 - Aristoteles En 90 Minutos [Spanish Edition] (Paperback)
2005 - Nietszche En 90 Minutos [Spanish Edition] (Paperback)
2005 - Kant En 90 Minutos [Spanish Edition] (Paperback)
2004 - Spinoza En 90 Minutos [Spanish Edition] (Paperback)
2004 - Berkeley En 90 Minutos [Spanish Edition] (Paperback)
2004 - Leibniz En 90 Minutos [Spanish Edition] (Paperback)
2004 - Confucio En 90 Minutos [Spanish Edition] (Paperback)
2003 - Wittgenstein in 90 Minutes [Philosophers in 90 Minutes Audio] (Audio Cassette)Audio CD
2003 - Descartes in 90 Minutes [Philosophers in 90 Minutes Audio] (Audio Cassette)Audio CD
2003 - Kant in 90 Minutes [Philosophers in 90 Minutes Audio] (Audio Cassette)Audio CD
2003 - Aristotle in 90 Minutes [Philosophers in 90 Minutes Audio] (Audio Cassette)Audio CD
2003 - The Essential Hegel [Virgin Philosophers] (Hardcover)
2003 - The Essential Spinoza [Virgin Philosophers] (Paperback)
2003 - The Essential Rousseau [Virgin Philosophers] (Paperback)
2003 - The Essential Locke [Virgin Philosophers] (Paperback)
2003 - The Essential Socrates [The Virgin Philosophers Series] (Paperback)
2003 - The Essential Derrida [Virgin Philosophers] (Paperback)
2003 - San Agustin En 90 Minutos [Spanish Edition] (Paperback)
2003 - Russell En 90 Minutos [Spanish Edition] (Paperback)
2003 - Marx En 90 Minutos [Spanish Edition] (Paperback)
2003 - Bertrand Russell Em 90 Minutos [Em Portugues do Brasil] (Paperback)
2002 - Js Mill in 90 Minutes [Philosophers in 90 Minutes] (Paperback)Hardcover
2002 - The Essential Aristotle [Virgin Philosophers] (Hardcover)
2002 - The Essential Sartre [Virgin Philosophers] (Hardcover)
2002 - The Essential Kant [Virgin Philosophers] (Hardcover)
2002 - The Essential Wittgenstein [Virgin Philosophers] (Hardcover)
2002 - The Essential Foucault [Virgin Philosophers] (Paperback)
2002 - The Essential Marx [Virgin Philosophers] (Paperback)
2002 - The Essential Nietzsche [Virgin Philosophers] (Paperback)Paperback
2002 - The Essential Confucius [Virgin Philosophers] (Paperback)
2002 - The Essential Machiavelli [Virgin Philosophers] (Paperback)
2002 - The Essential Hume [Virgin Philosophers] (Paperback)
2002 - The Essential Plato [Virgin Philosophers] (Paperback)
2002 - The Essential Descartes [Virgin Philosophers] (Paperback)
2002 - Foucault En 90 Minutos [Historia - Spanish Edition] (Paperback)
2002 - Derrida En 90 Minutos [Spanish Edition] (Paperback)
2001 - Bertrand Russell in 90 Minutes [Philsophers in 90 Minutes] (Hardcover)
2001 - Crick Watson E O Dna Em 90 Minutos [Em Portugues do Brasil] (Paperback)
2000 - Leibniz in 90 Minutes [Philosophers in 90 Minutes] (Hardcover)
2000 - Curie E a Radioatividade Em 90 Minutos [Em Portugues do Brasil] (Paperback)
1999 - Locke in 90 Minutes [Philsophers in 90 Minutes Hardcover] (Hardcover)
1999 - Crick Watson and Dna the Big Idea [Strathern, Paul, Big Idea.] (Paperback)
1999 - Curie and Radioactivity the Big Idea [Strathern, Paul, Big Idea.] (Paperback)
1999 - Crick Watson and Dna [The Big Idea Series] (Other)
1999 - Pitagoras Y Su Teorema [Spanish Edition] (Paperback)
1999 - Crick Watson Y El Adn [Spanish Edition] (Paperback)
1999 - Hawking Y Los Agujeros Negros [Spanish Edition] (Paperback)
1999 - Sartre En 90 Minutos [Spanish Edition] (Paperback)
1999 - Tomas De Aquino En 90 Minutos [Spanish Edition] (Paperback)
1999 - Curie Y La Radioactividad [Spanish Edition] (Paperback)
1999 - Galileo Y El Sistema Solar [Spanish Edition] (Paperback)
1999 - Einstein Y La Relatividad [Spanish Edition] (Paperback)
1999 - Kierkegaard En 90 Minutos [Spanish Edition] (Paperback)
1999 - Maquiavelo En 90 Minutos [Spanish Edition] (Paperback)
1999 - Arquimides Y La Palanca [Spanish Edition] (Paperback)
1999 - Oppenheimer Y La Bomba Atomica [Spanish Edition] (Paperback)
1999 - Touring Y El Ordenador [Spanish Edition] (Paperback)
1999 - Bohr E a Teoria Quantica Col 90 Minutos [Em Portugues do Brasil] (Paperback)
1998 - Newton and Gravity the Big Idea [Big Idea Series] (Paperback)
1998 - Thomas Aquinas in 90 Minutes [Philosophers in 90 Minutes] (Hardcover)Paperback
1998 - Platon En 90 Minutos [Spanish Edition] (Paperback)
1998 - Descartes En 90 Minutos [Spanish Edition] (Paperback)
1998 - Hume En 90 Minutos [Spanish Edition] (Paperback)
1998 - Whittgenstein En 90 Minutos [Spanish Edition] (Paperback)
1998 - Locke En 90 Minutos [Spanish Edition] (Paperback)
1997 - Florida [Versatile Guides] (Paperback)
1997 - Australia [Versatile Guides] (Paperback)
1997 - St Augustine in 90 Minutes [Philosophers in 90 Minutes] (Paperback)Hardcover
1997 - Hegel in 90 Minutes [Philosophers in 90 Minutes] (Hardcover)Paperback, Audio CD
1997 - Newton and Gravity [BIG IDEA] (Paperback)
1996 - Greece and the Greek Islands [Versatile Guides] (Paperback)Paperback
1995 - Turkey 1995 [Versatile Guides] (Paperback)
1993 - Exploration By Land [Silk & Spice Routes] (Hardcover)
1993 - Exploration By Land the Silk and Spice Routes [Silk and Spice Routes Series] (Paperback)
Socrates En 90 Minutos [Spanish Edition] (Paperback)
Hegel En 90 Minutos [Spanish Edition] (Paperback)