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Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self
For a decade, beginning in 1660, an ambitious young London civil servant kept an astonishingly candid account of his life during one of the most defining periods in British history. In Samuel Pepys, Claire Tomalin offers us a fully realized and richly nuanced portrait of this man, whose inadvertent masterpiece would establish him as the greatest diarist in the English language. Against the backdrop of plague, civil war, and regicide, with John Milton composing diplomatic correspondence for Oliver Cromwell, Christopher Wren drawing up plans to rebuild London, and Isaac Newton advancing the empirical study of the world around us, Tomalin weaves a breathtaking account of a figure who has passed on to us much of what we know about seventeenth-century London. We witness Pepys’s early life and education, see him advising King Charles II before running to watch the great fire consume London, learn about the great events of the day as well as the most intimate personal details that Pepys encrypted in the Diary, follow him through his later years as a powerful naval administrator, and come to appreciate how Pepys’s singular literary enterprise would in many ways prefigure our modern selves. With exquisite insight and compassion, Samuel Pepys captures the uniquely fascinating figure whose legacy lives on more than three hundred years after his death..
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The Olive Leaf: Unequalled Immune Support for Health and Longevity (Nature's Secret for Vibrant Health)
The Olive leaf is Nature's Secret for vibrant health and long life. Medical experts are just now discovering the wonders of Olive Leaf Extract It's a natural, safe and effective herbal with unequalled health-giving properties. Called nature's "smart" germ-killer, Olive Leaf Extract seems to only attack harmful micro-organisms - viruses, bacteria, fungi and parasites - without harming the helpful ones. What an important discovery in a time when a leading cause of death in America comes at the hands of parasitic micro-organisms. In addition, users report increased energy, improved circulation, elimination of heart problems, normalized blood pressure, relief from fatigue and muscle problems, freedom from colds and flus and other health-promoting benefits..
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Erasmus Darwin: A Life of Unequalled Achievement
It has been said of Erasmus Darwin that no one from his day to ours has ever rivalled him in his achievements in such a wide range of fields. The most striking of Darwin's many talents was his extraordinary scientific insight in physics, chemistry, geology, meteorology, and all aspects of biology—his deepest insight being his evolutionary theory of life. Two of his books, the Zoonomia, which made him famous as the leading medical mind of the 1790s, and The Temple of Nature, show that he believed life developed from microscopic specks in primeval seas through fishes and amphibians to "humankind." But he failed to convince the world about biological evolution—that was left to his grandson Charles. Erasmus was the first person to give a full description of how clouds form and of photosynthesis in plants. He was also an obsessive inventor of mechanical devices, among them a speaking machine, a copying machine, and the steering technique used in modern cars. Substantial donations of Darwin family papers, including over 170 letters written by Erasmus Darwin himself, have made it possible for the author to tell much of the enthralling story of his life in Erasmus' own words. .
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