There is not just one story of silk. In silk is science, history and mythology. In silk is the future.
Aarathi Prasad’s Silk is a gorgeous new history weaving together the story of a unique material that has fascinated the world for millennia.
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‘An ebullient, irrepressible spirit invests this book. It is erudite and sprightly’Sunday Times
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A powerful, probing book about PTSD.
A groundbreaking investigation of how the Nazis helped German tycoons make billions from the horrors of the Third Reich and World War II – and how the world allowed them to get away with it.
The dramatic inside story of SpaceX ― the world’s leading edge rocket company, whose charismatic and controversial founder now advises the White House
If you want to be a successful leader in today’s business world, you need to think like an activist.
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From Victoria Glendinning, winner of the Duff Cooper Prize, the James Tait Black Prize and (twice) the Whitbread Prize for Biography.
‘It’s Succession in tailcoats and spats … This is a vivid and eye-opening group biography, backgrounded by the rise of supermarket moguls from humble beginnings’ Sunday Times
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