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Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Goedel

By Stephen Budiansky

Faust in Copenhagen: A Struggle for the Soul of Physics

By Gino Segre

Early Greek Thinking: The Dawn of Western Philosophy

By Martin Heidegger, D.F. Krell, F.A. Capuzzi

Silent Sisters

By Tomlin, Jenny

The Great Cities in History

By John Julius Norwich, Norwich, John Julius

Remember Nelson: The Life of Sir William Hoste

By Tom Pocock

Piltdown Man

By Miles Russell

Playing in the Dark

By Rosie Dunn, Siobhan Kennedy-McGuinness

Escape from Camp 14: One man's remarkable odyssey from North Korea to freedom in the West

By Blaine Harden

Fire Strike 7/9

By Paul Grahame, Damien Lewis

Slaves in the Family

By Edward Ball

Between Existentialism and Marxism

By Sartre, Jean-Paul

The Follies of Globalisation Theory: Polemical Essays

By Justin Rosenberg

Schopenhauer: A Very Short Introduction

By Christopher Janaway (, Birkbeck College, University of London)

A Daughter's Tale: The Memoir of Winston and Clementine Churchill's youngest child

By Mary Soames

Manifold in Perception: Theories of Art from Kant to Hildebrand

By Michael Podro

Silent Sisters

By Tomlin, Jenny

Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew

By John Felstiner

Idiotie (Prix Medicis 2018) (Figures)

By Guyotat, Pierre

Breaking Out of the Box: The Biography of Edward De Bono

By Piers Dudgeon

Climbing the Mountain: The Scientific Biography of Julian Schwinger

By Jagdish Mehra, Kimball Milton (, Department of Physics, University of Oklahoma)

Journey Through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics

Ramanujan: The Man & the Mathematician

By S. R. Ranganathan

John Stewart Bell and Twentieth-Century Physics: Vision and Integrity

By Andrew Whitaker (Professor of Physics, Professor of Physics, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland)

Poincare's Prize: The Hundred-Year Quest to Solve One of Math's Greatest Puzzles

By George G. Szpiro

Imperial War Museum Book of Victory in Europe

By JULIAN THOMPSON

Gimme Some Truth: The John Lennon FBI Files

By Jon Wiener

Reflections on Kurt Goedel

By Hao Wang

Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court

By John Wooden

Racing for the Bomb: General Leslie R.Groves, the Manhattan Project's Indispensable Man

By Robert S. Norris