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Enliven your mind and enrich your daily conversation with The Untranslatables, a sublime and witty lexicon of fascinatingly precise phras...

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From the bestselling author Simon Winchester, a human history of land around the world: who mapped it, owned it, stole it, cared for it, ...

The author of The Professor and the Madman and The Perfectionists explores the notion of property—our proprietary relationship with the l...

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