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Read an extract from some recently published and forthcoming books by Andrew Robinson:

1. Cracking the Egyptian Code: The Revolutionary Life of Jean-Francois Champollion
--Click to read the
prologue ('Egyptomania')
a
nd see the jacket and press releaseThe book was published in mid-2012 by Thames & Hudson and Oxford University Press USA. Click to read features based on the book by AR published in Nature and the Lancet.


2. The Scientists: An Epic of Discovery 
--Click to read an unfinished proof 
of the Introduction and the List of Contributorsand to see the jacket. The book will be published by Thames & Hudson (autumn 2012).


3. Earthquake
--Click to read the
opening pages of Chapter 1. The book will be published by Reaktion Books (autumn 2012).


4. Genius: A Very Short Introduction
--The book was published by Oxford University Press in 2011. Click to read
Chapter 1.


5. The Apu Trilogy: Satyajit Ray and the Making of an Epic
--The book was published by I.B. Tauris in 2011. Click to read
Chapter 1.




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