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The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell : Volume Two : 1914 - 1944: v. 2

By Russell, Bertrand

Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History

By Milton, Giles, Giles Milton

Lord Melbourne, 1779-1848

By Mitchell, L. G.

The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science

By Holmes, Richard

William Holmes McGuffey: Schoolmaster of the Nation

By Sullivan, Dolores P.

The Bachelor Duke: A Life of William Spencer Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire, 1790-1858

By JAMES LEES-MILNE

LACAN (Fontana Modern Masters)

By Bowie

Whitman the Political Poet

By Betsy Erkkila (Professor of English, Professor of English, Northwestern University)

Oscar Wilde: An Exquisite Life

By Stephen Calloway, David Colvin

Draw: The Greatest Gunfights of the American West

By James Reasoner

Wellington at Walmer

By Gregory Holyoake

George Eliot: The Last Victorian

By Hughes, Kathryn

River of Darkness: The Deadly First Voyage Through The Amazon

By Buddy Levy

Introducing Sartre: A Graphic Guide

By PHILIP THODY, Howard Read

John Newton: From Disgrace to "Amazing Grace"

By Jonathan Aitken

Dickens's Women: His Great Expectations

By Anne Isba

The Great Belzoni: The Circus Strongman Who Discovered Egypt's Ancient Treasure

By Stanley Mayes

Gale Force 10: The Life and Legacy of Admiral Beaufort

By Nicholas Courtney

The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals

By Dorothy Wordsworth, Pamela Woof

Scientist, Soldier, Statesman, Spy: Count Rumford - The Extraordinary Life of a Scientific Genius

By G. I. Brown

Faraday

By G.N. Cantor, David Gooding, Frank James

The Shakespeare Companion

By Rhiannon Guy

Mighty Healer: Thomas Holloway's Victorian Patent Medicine Empire

By Verity Holloway

Wellington: The Iron Duke

By Richard Holmes

The Herectic: A Study In The Life Of John William Colenso 1814-1883

The Great Philosophers: Descartes

By John Cottingham

William Blake vs the World

By John Higgs

Peg Plunkett: Memoirs of a Whore

By Julie Peakman

Simon Bolivar (Simon Bolivar): A Life

By John Lynch

A Thing in Disguise: The Visionary Life of Joseph Paxton

By Kate Colquhoun