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Jeoffry: The Poet's Cat

By Oliver Soden

Livingstone

By Tim Jeal

The Life and Adventures of William Cobbett

By Richard Ingrams

John Rawls: His Life and Theory of Justice

By Thomas Pogge (Department of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Columbia University), Michelle Kosch

Unended Quest: An Intellectual Autobiography

By Popper, Sir Karl

Michael Polanyi: The Art of Knowing

By Mark T. Mitchell

The Secret Diary of Sarah Thomas: A Victorian Lady, 1860-65

By Sarah Thomas, June R. Lewis

How Can One Sell the Air?

By Chief Seattle, Eli Gifford, R. Michael Cook

The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: How a Remarkable Woman Crossed Seas and Empires to Become Part of World History

By Linda Colley

Felix Guattari: An Aberrant Introduction

By Gary Genosko

Richard Owen: Victorian Naturalist

By Nicolaas A. Rupke

Boyle: Between God and Science

By Michael Hunter

The Lives of Michel Foucault

By Macey, David

Mary Warnock: A Memoir - People and Places

By Mary Warnock

The Immortal Dinner: A Famous Evening of Genius And Laughter in Literary London, 1817

By Penelope Hughes-Hallett

Moebius and his Band: Mathematics and Astronomy in Nineteenth-century Germany

By John Fauvel (formerly Lecturer in Mathematics, formerly Lecturer in Mathematics, The Open University (deceased)), Raymond Flood (University Lecturer in Computing and Mathematics, Department for Continuing Education, University Lecturer in Computing and...

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

By Frederick Douglass, Deborah E. McDowell

Jerilderie Letter

By The Jerilderie Letter Ned Kelly

The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought

By Dennis C. Rasmussen

Meister Eckhart , Vol. 2: The Essential Sermons, Commentaries, Treatises and Defense

By Edmund Colledge, Bernard McGinn, Houston Smith

My Dearest, Dearest Albert: Queen Victoria's Life Through Her Letters and Journals

By Karen Dolby

Phylloxera: How Wine was Saved for the World

By Christy Campbell

The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero

By Timothy Egan

Cochrane: The Life and Exploits of a Fighting Captain

By Robert Harvey

Before the King's Majesty: Lancelot Andrewes and His Writings

By Raymond Chapman

Journey into Africa: The Life and Death of Keith Johnston, Scottish Cartographer and Explorer (1844-79)

Encounters with Kierkegaard: A Life as Seen by His Contemporaries

By Soren Kierkegaard, Bruce H. Kirmmse, Virginia R. Laursen

The Tartan Turban: In Search of Alexander Gardner

By John Keay (Author)

John Aubrey: My Own Life

By Ruth Scurr

William Blake vs the World

By John Higgs