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P.D. Smith

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Greater London, The United Kingdom

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http://www.peterdsmith.com/

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History, Science, Biographies & Memoirs

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Leo Szilard, Albert Einstein, H.G. Wells, J.G. Ballard, Robert Musil, ...more

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April 2012

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P.D. Smith is an independent researcher and writer. His most recent book is City: A Guidebook to the Urban Age, published by Bloomsbury in 2012. His previous book, Doomsday Men: The Real Dr Strangelove and the Dream of the Superweapon (2007, Penguin), was described by the Daily Telegraph as "chilling" and "irresistible".

He regularly reviews non-fiction books for the Guardian, and has also written for the Independent, the Financial Times and the Times Literary Supplement. His interests include genre fiction, cities, the life of Einstein and the way science is explored in literature.

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The City and the World, by Gregor Hens

I’ve very much enjoyed reading The City and the World by Gregor Hens, beautifully translated from German by Jen Calleja.

In this book, Hens is fascinated by “the human being in their urban context, the human among humans, one among many in the environment he has created for himself”. Blending reportage with memoir, dreams and theoretical writings on cities, he takes the reader on a memorable journe

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Average rating: 3.76 · 499 ratings · 73 reviews · 6 distinct works • Similar authors

	City: A Guidebook for the Urban Age 3.61 avg rating — 299 ratings — published 2011 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Doomsday Men: The Real Dr. Strangelove and the Dream of the Superweapon 4.15 avg rating — 120 ratings — published 2007 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Arc 1.2: Post human conditions by Sumit Paul-Choudhury (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Simon Ings (Editor), Nick Harkaway (Goodreads Author) 3.59 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Einstein by Peter D. Smith, P.D. Smith (Goodreads Author) 3.98 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2003 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Doomsday Men: The Real Dr Strangelove and the Dream of the Superweapon 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Doctor Who: Nuclear Time by Smith, Oli hardcover Edition (2010) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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