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Cultures of the Jews, Volume 2: Diversities of Diaspora

By Biale, David

Cultures of the Jews, Volume 1: Mediterranean Origins

By Biale, David

Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira De Mello and the Fight to Save the World

By Power, Samantha

The Perfect Wagnerite (Dover Books on Music: Composers)

By George Bernard Shaw, Shaw, George Bernard

Spy Princess: The Life of Noor Inayat Khan

By Shrabani Basu

Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson

By Mitch Albom

Starting with Wittgenstein

By Tejedor, Chon

The Worlds of Existentialism: A Critical Reader

By Friedman, Maurice S.

Ernest Gellner: An Intellectual Biography

By John Hall

From Natural History to the History of Nature: Readings from Buffon and His Critics

By Lyon, John, Sloan, Phillip R.

What Darwin Really Said (What They Really Said Series)

By Farrington, Benjamin

Autobiography

By Russell, Bertrand

Descartes: His Life and Thought

By Genevieve Rodis-Lewis, Jane Marie Todd

Descartes - An Intellectual Biography

By Gaukroger, Stephen

Frege: An Introduction to the Founder of Modern Analytic Philosophy (Penguin philosophy)

By Anthony Kenny, Kenny, Anthony

Frege (Past Masters Series)

By Weiner, Joan

Karl Marx: Philosophy and Revolution (Jewish Lives)

By Shlomo Avineri

Elusive Prophet: Ahad Ha'Am and the Origins of Zionism

By Zipperstein, Steven J.

Ethics into Action: Henry Spira and the Animal Rights Movement

By Singer, Peter

Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism

By Scholem, Gershom

Francis Bacon (Past Masters S.)

By Quinton, Anthony

Outlines of Pyrrhonism (Great Books in Philosophy)

By Empiricus, Sextus

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

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

By Pirsig, Robert M

Empiricists: Locke: Concerning Human Understanding; Berkeley: Principles of Human Knowledge & 3 Dialogues; Hume: Concerning Human Understanding & Concerning Natural Religion

By John Locke, etc.

Autobiography (Oxford Paperbacks)

By Mill, John Stuart, Stillinger, Jack

The British Empiricists: Locke, Berkeley, Hume (Past Masters S.)

By Dunn, John, Urmson, J.O., Ayer, A. J.

Recent Philosophers

By Passmore, John Arthur

Fifty Major Philosophers: A Reference Guide

By Collinson, Diane

One Hundred Twentieth-Century Philosophers

By Brown, Stuart