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    The Periodic Table: Introduction by Neal Ascherson

    Primo Levi

    One of Italy’s leading men of letters, a chemist by profession, writes about incidents in his life in which one or another of the elements figured in such a way…

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    The Polish August

    Neal Ascherson

    What has happened in Poland? Poland has erupted four times in the last 25 years, but only the events of 1980 have had comprehensive media coverage. As a result, many…

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    Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland

    Neal Ascherson

    Scotland has a new Parliament and it has North Sea oil, but is it yet an independent, self-sustaining democracy? Is it a true nation? In Stone Voices, Neal Ascherson launches…

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    Black Sea

    Neal Ascherson

    This title is a homage to the ocean and its shores, and a meditation on Eurasian history from the earliest times to the present. It evokes the culture, history and…

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    Games with Shadows

    Neal Ascherson

    NealAscherson is the most unusual political essayist writing in Britain today.

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    The Death of the Fronsac: A Novel

    Neal Ascherson

    An unforgettable recreation of life in wartime, and of the tragic fate of Poland in the 20th century. A novel about sabotage, betrayal and the terrible sadness of exile.

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    Black Sea: Coasts and Conquests: From Pericles to Putin

    Neal Ascherson

    Black Sea is a homage to an ocean and its shores and a meditation on Eurasian history, from the earliest times to the present. the growth of Russian power across…

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    Stone Voices: The Search For Scotland

    Neal Ascherson

    This is the story of Neal Ascherson’s return to his native Scotland. It is an exploration of Scottish identity as Ascherson weaves together a story of the deep past with…

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    The Emperor

    Ryszard Kapuscinski

    After the deposition of Haile Selassie in 1974, which ended the ancient rule of the Abyssinian monarchy, Ryszard Kapuscinski travelled to Ethiopia and sought out surviving courtiers to tell their…

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    The Other

    Ryszard Kapuscinski

    The master of literary reportage reflects on the West’s encounters with the non-European.

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    Memoirs of an Italian Terrorist

    Antony Giorgio

    In candid and grim detail, Giorgio tells of his transition to living underground. He coldly narrates his mundane routine that prefigures the methods of al-Quaeda. He describes the succession of…

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