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The Fire within the Eye: A Historical Essay on the Nature and Meaning of Light

By David Park

Calm the F**k Down (A No F*cks Given Guide)

By Knight, Sarah

Passionate Declarations: Essays on War and Justice

By Zinn Ph.D., Howard

The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States

By Wood, Gordon S

Self and History: A Tribute to Linda Nochlin

By D'Souza, Aruna

On Modern American Art: Selected Essays

By Rosenblum, Robert

Victories Never Last: Reading and Caregiving in a Time of Plague

By Zaretsky, Robert

Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II

By Blackmon, Douglas A

Of This Our Country: Essays from some of Nigeria’s greatest writers, including Ayobami Adebayo, Inua Ellams, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Helon Habila, Chigozie Obioma, Bolu Babalola and more

The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million

By Mendelsohn, Daniel

The Wordy Shipmates

By Vowell, Sarah

Fifty Years of the Supreme Court of India: Its Grasp and Reach

By Indian Law Institute

Granta 32: History (The Magazine of New Writing)

By Buford, Bill

Speeches That Changed the World — The Stories and Transcripts of the Moments That Made History

By Simon Sebag Montefiore

Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions: The Inspiring Guide to Raising a Feminist

By Ngozi Adichie, Chimamanda

The German Trauma: Experiences and Reflections 1938-2001

By Sereny, Gitta

Progressive Historians: Turner, Beard, Parrington

By Richard Hofstadter

Collected Works

By Queen Elizabeth I, Leah S. Marcus, Janel M. Mueller, Mary Beth Rose

Men Who March Away : Poems of The First World War

By Parsons, I.M.

Quartered Safe Out Here

By Fraser, George MacDonald

Down and Out in Paris and London (Penguin Modern Classics)

By Orwell, George

The Man Napoleon

By Marco Regali Nai, William Henry Hudson

The Modernist Period 1900 to 1945

By Patrick Lee-Browne

Cricketers of My Time: Heroes to Remember

By E.W. Swanton

The Challenge of Things: Thinking Through Troubled Times

By Professor A. C. Grayling

Speeches That Changed the World

By Sebag Montefiore, Simon, Cambridge Editorial Partners

Idiot Proof: A Short History of Modern Delusions

By Francis Wheen

Europe and Ethnicity: The First World War and Contemporary Ethnic Conflict

By Seamus Dunn, T.G. Fraser

Boy in the Blitz: The 1940 Diary of Colin Perry

By Colin Perry

George Cross Heroes: Incredible True Stories of Bravery Beyond the Battlefield

By Michael Ashcroft