Robert Kanigel

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YOUNG MAN, MUDDLED

-- A Memoir

HEARING HOMER'S SONG: The Brief Life and Big Idea of Milman Parry

-- The Darwin of Homeric Studies

EYES ON THE STREET: The Life of Jane Jacobs

--The fearless activist, author and champion of big-city life.

ON AN IRISH ISLAND

-- Love and language, happiness and sorrow, on the Great Blasket Island.

FAUX REAL: Genuine Leather and 200 Years of Inspired Fakes

-- A much-loved natural material and its man-made imitators.

HIGH SEASON: How One French Riviera Town Has Seduced Travelers for Two Thousand Years

-- A popular history of tourism through the lens of Nice, France

THE ONE BEST WAY: Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency

-- The man who taught us not to stop and smell the roses

THE MAN WHO KNEW INFINITY: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan

-- A rags to intellectual riches story of genius incarnate.

APPRENTICE TO GENIUS: The Making of a Scientific Dynasty

-- Masters and apprentices among elite scientists

VINTAGE READING: From Plato to Bradbury, a Personal Tour of Some of the World's Best Books

-- Eighty great books

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