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|author=Edith Hall
|title=The Ancient Greeks: Ten Ways They Shaped the Modern World
|rating= 5
|genre=History
|summary= Reading Edith Hall's book on the Ancient Greeks, develops a deep respect for the power of poetry. No poet was more effective in this regard than Homer recounting the sea adventures contained in the ''The Odyssey''. It shaped the self-definition of a nation and engendered self-confidence. The mariners set out in their beautiful ships across the Aegean and established colonies to the West, in the Mediterranean as far as the Pillars of Hercules, to the East as far as the Levant and built trading cities in natural harbours along the fertile edges of the Black Sea. They were, as Plato wrote in the Phaedo, ''around the sea, like frogs and ants around a pond.'' They were encouraged by Delphic oracles and inspired by the company of diving dolphins.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009958364X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author= Elisa Albert
|summary=Is it any wonder that The Doctor's use of a diary is mentioned merely as a joke? Let alone the fact it would come in whatever time unit (if any) Time Lords actually use, there's the problem of it not ever being chronological, and the fact he would never seem to have the time to fill it in. O tempora, o mores indeed. But if the human observer of ''Doctor Who'' would want a full year book, completely filled in and annotated with everything they would want to know about the Doctor in relation to the human calendar, then they have it at last with this lovely hardback. It's a brick of a book, of course, given the depth of the subject, but well worth the time taken to read it.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785940260</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Paul Kalanithi
|title=When Breath Becomes Air
|rating=4.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=At the age of thirty six Paul Kalanithi seemed to have a glittering career - and life - ahead of him. He had degrees in English literature, human biology and history and philosophy of science and medicine from Stanford and Cambridge universities, as well as the American Academy of Neurological Surgery's top award for research. His reflections on medicine had been published in the ''New York Times''. The ''Washington Post'' as well as the ''Paris Review Daily''. It had been hinted, as he came to the end of ten years training to be a neurosurgeon, that he'd have the pick of the jobs on offer. There was just one nagging problem. Well there was more than one. He had severe back pain and he knew that he was unwell. He had stage four (terminal) lung cancer.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847923674</amazonuk>
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