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The Torchlight List: Around the World in 200 Books
9781877551185
by Jim Flynn
1 July 2012
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'One of the best books of the year' - The Sunday Star-Times
'From F. Scott Fitzgerald to Robert Fisk, Haruki Murakami to Janet Frame ... 200 books to be discovered and enjoyed' - The Southland Time...
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Author Biography
Jim Flynn is Emeritus Professor of Politics at the University of Otago, an Honorary Doctor of Science, recipient of a Gold Medal for Distinguished Career Research, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. He has been profiled in Scientific American for his research on human intelligence, and is the author of How to Defend Humane Ideals (2000), What is Intelligence? (2007), and Where Have All the Liberals Gone? (2008).