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The Longing for Total Revolution: Philosophic Sources of Social Discontent from Rousseau to Marx and Nietzsche

By Bernard Yack

The Solitary Self: Jean-Jacques Rousseau in Exile and Adversity

By Maurice Cranston, Sanford Lakoff

The Political Thought of John Locke: An Historical Account of the Argument of the 'Two Treatises of Government'

By John Dunn

On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life

By Friedrich Nietzsche, Peter Preuss

The Serge Trotsky Papers: Correspondence and Other Writings Between Victor Serge and Leon Trotsky

By David Cotterill

Alasdair MacIntyre: Critic of Modernity

By Peter Martin McMylor

Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century

By Mark Leonard

The Grassling

By Elizabeth-Jane Burnett

Forman's Games: The Dark Underside of the London Olympics

By Lance Forman

Just Capital

By Adair Turner

Traces Of Guilt

By Neil Barrett

Dark Night of the Soul: A Masterpiece in the Literature of Mysticism by St. John of the Cross

By E. Allison Peers

Luck: A Fresh Look At Fortune

By Ed Smith

Knight's Cross: A Life of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel

By Fraser, David

Talks for Children

By Surtees, Beatrice, Macleod, Ian

Empress Of Ireland

By Robbins, Christopher

Insider: Gerry Bradley's Life in the IRA

By Gerry Bradley, Brian Feeney

Composition in Black and White

By Kathryn M. Talalay

Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources

By Lings, Martin

Work Hard. Be Nice.: How Two Inspired Teachers Created the Most Promising Schools in America

By Jay Mathews

Joni Eareckson Tada: Swimming Against the Tide

By Catherine MacKenzie

Peter Winch

By Colin Lyas

The Vision of Wittgenstein

By Henry Le Roy Finch

Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Memoir

By Norman Malcolm

The Long Gray Line

By Rick Atkinson

Intellectuals

By Paul Johnson

Standing on the Shoulders: Incredible Heroes and How They Inspire Us

By Dan Walker, Jr.

John Napier: Logarithm John

By Lynne Gladstone-Millar

Victor Two: Inside Iraq - The Successful SAS Mission

By Peter Crossland

Behind Closed Doors

By Tomlin, Jenny