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    Spellbound: The Surprising Origins and Astonishing Secrets of English Spelling

    James Essinger

    Welcome to the illogical, idiosyncratic, outrageous linguistic phenomenon known as the English language. In this eye-opening, fabulously entertaining book, Essinger unlocks the mysteries that have confounded linguists and scholars for…

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    Rollercoaster: a 1970s comedy thriller for the 21st century!

    James Essinger

    A comedy thriller set in 1979

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    Josh Moonford and the Lost City of Cantia

    James Essinger

    Young Adult thriller

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    Frankie: How One Woman Prevented a Pharmaceutical Disaster

    James Essinger

    Now, in this first ever biography, the fascinating and unlikely hero is portrayed in full detail. Read about the quiet, matter-of-fact woman who stood up to a major pharmaceutical company…

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    Ada’s Algorithm: How Lord Byron’s Daughter Launched the Digital Age Through the Poetry of Numbers

    James Essinger

    How Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron’s daughter, became the world’s first computer programmer in 1842 and would have started the digital age.

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    Writing Fiction - a user-friendly guide

    James Essinger

    Self-help guide to writing fiction to a professional standard

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    Jacquard’s Web: How a hand-loom led to the birth of the information age

    James Essinger

    Jacquard’s Web tells one of the greatest untold stories of science: how a hand loom invented in Napoleonic France led to the birth of the modern computer age. James Essinger…

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    Charles and Ada: The Computer’s Most Passionate Partnership

    James Essinger

    The first book to reveal the intensity of the relationship between Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace; an outstanding contribution to historical STEM literature

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    A Woman of Quality Sarah Vinke, ‘the Divine Sarah’, and the Quest for the Origin of Robert Pirsig’s Metaphysics of Quality,: The Quest for the Origin of Robert Pirsig’s Metaphysics of Quality, in His Book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance .

    Henry Gurr,James Essinger

    The Mystery … The Mystique … The Enigma … of Sarah Vinke has only increased with time, since the brilliant beyond belief .. work of a genius , historic arrival…

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    Frankie: The Woman Who Saved Millions from Thalidomide

    James Essinger,Sandra Koutzenko

    The story of the one woman who, against all odds, stopped Thalidomide in its tracks because it poisoned a nation

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