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Notables
By Colette Bancroft, Times Book Editor
Published September 23, 2007
Social studies Three nonfiction books, new in paperback, take unorthodox routes to analyzing culture. The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How It Changed Science, Cities and the Modern World (Riverhead) by Steven Johnson recounts the story of the cholera epidemic that struck London in 1854, two men who struggled to understand it and how their work shaped modern cities and epidemiology. The Man Who Saved Britain: A Personal Journey into the Disturbing World of James Bond (Picador) by Simon Winder is an entertaining examination of the suave fictional spy's role in helping a staggered nation recover from World War II. Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution (Picador) by Caroline Weber deconstructs, frock by frock, the young queen's creative passion for style and its lasting impact on French history and culture.
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