If you happen to be near a body of water (salt, fresh, chlorinated or otherwise), here are the books you’ll need. By Elisabeth Egan It was all about self-improvement for the actress, who was born a ...

First published in the United States by W.W.Norton and Company, on March 1 1997, Guns, Germs and Steel was initially subtitled ‘The Fates of Human Societies.’ Within a few months, this subtitle had ...

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