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Descartes: His Life and Thought

By Genevieve Rodis-Lewis, Jane Marie Todd

Sabbatai Sevi: The Mystical Messiah, 1626-1676 (Bollingen Series (General))

By Scholem, Gershom Gerhard, Werblowsky, R. J. Zwi

Renaissance Thinkers: Erasmus, Bacon, More and Montaigne (Past Masters S.)

By McConica, James, etc., Quinton, Lord Anthony, Kenny, Sir Anthony, Burke, Peter, Thomas, Sir Kenneth

Recent Philosophers

By Passmore, John Arthur

William Shakespeare (British Library Writers' Lives) (British Library Writers' Lives S.)

By Dominic Shellard

Son of Africa: The Story of Olaudah Equiano and the Campaign Against the Slave Trade (Faith in Action)

By Hudson, Chris

John Ruskin: No Wealth But Life

By Batchelor, John

Women on the Nile: Writings of Harriet Martineau, Florence Nighttingale and Amelia Edwards

By Professor Joan Rees

Justice Women: The Female Presence in the Criminal Justice System 1800-1970

By Wade, Stephen

The Last Journey of William Huskisson

By Garfield, Simon

Life on the Mississippi (Penguin Classics)

By Twain, Mark, Cox, James

Flagship Historymakers – Disraeli (Flagship Historymakers S.)

By Dicken, Mary, Murphy, Derrick

Disraeli (Reputations)

By Feuchtwanger, Edgar

Darwin: Adrian Desmond & James R. Moore

By Desmond, Adrian, Moore, James R

Nelson: The Man and the Legend

By Coleman, Terry

Letters of a Woman Homesteader

By Stewart

Palmerston: 'The People's Darling'

By Chambers, James

Blake

By Ackroyd, Peter

Napoleon and Josephine:A Love Story

By Aronson, Theo

The Pinecone

By Uglow, Jenny

Admiral Collingwood: Nelson's Own Hero

By Adams, Max

The Nelson Companion

By White, Colin

British Admirals of the Napoleonic Wars: Contemporaries of Nelson

By Fevre, Peter Le

Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King

By Fraser, Lady Antonia

Macaulay: Britain’s Liberal Imperialist

By Masani, Zareer

Above and Under Hatches: The Recollections of James Anthony Gardner (Sailors' Tales)

By Gardner, James Anthony, Hamilton, Sir R.V., Laughton, Sir John Knox

Marshall Hall: A Law unto Himself

By Sally Smith, Clive Anderson

Ecce Homo How To Become What You Are (Oxford World's Classics)

By Nietzsche, Friedrich, Large, Duncan

Robert Browning (Routledge Guides to Literature)

By Hawlin, Stefan

Letters to Lydia: 'Beloved Persis'

By Eaton, Barbara