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Sovereignty and the Sword: Harrington, Hobbes, and Mixed Government in the English Civil Wars

By Arihiro Fukuda

Knowledge is Power: How Magic, the Government and an Apocalyptic Vision Inspired Francis Bacon to Create Modern Science

By John Henry

John Maynard Keynes

By Robert Skidelsky

Tragicomedy and Contemporary Culture: Play and Performance from Beckett to Shepard

By John Orr

The Life of Adam Smith

By Ross, Ian Simpson

A Propensity to Self-Subversion

By Hirschman, Albert O.

Personal Impressions

By Isaiah Berlin

Thomas Paine Reader

By Thomas Paine

Chamfort: Reflections on Life, Love & Society : Together with Anecdotes and Little Philosophical Dialogues

By Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort

Three Plays of Eugene O'Neill

By Eugene Gladstone O'Neill

Dr. Strangelove's Game: A Brief History of Economic Genius

By Paul Strathern

Sosipatra of Pergamum: Philosopher and Oracle

By Heidi Marx (Professor of Religion, Professor of Religion, The University of Manitoba)

Derrida and the Legacy of Psychoanalysis

By Paul Earlie (Lecturer in French, University of Bristol)

Malthus: A Very Short Introduction

By Donald Winch (Emeritus Professor of Intellectual History at the University of Sussex)

Velazquez: Masters of Art

By Rosa Giorgi

Ostend: Stefan Zweig, Joseph Roth, and the Summer Before the Dark

By Volker Weidermann, Carol Janeway

Up from Slavery

By Booker T. Washington, William L. Andrews (Joyce and Elizabeth Hall Professor of American Literature, Joyce and Elizabeth Hall Professor of American Literature, University of Kansas)

Foucault: A Very Short Introduction

By Gary Gutting (John A. O'Brien Chair in Philosophy (Emeritus), University of Notre Dame)

An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist

By Richard Dawkins

Small Change: Why Business Wont Save the World

By Michael Edwards

Essays (Penguin Classics)

By Michel de Montaigne, John Cohen

Yes We (Still) Can: Politics in the age of Obama, Twitter and Trump

By Dan Pfeiffer

Rousseau: A Very Short Introduction

By Robert Wokler (, formerly Senior Lecturer in Political Science, Yale University)

Why We Can't Wait

By Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Jesse Jackson

Brassey's Encyclopedia of Military History and Biography

By Franklin D. Margiotta, John Keegan

Meister Eckhart, from Whom God Hid Nothing: Sermons, Writings, and Sayings

By David O'Neal, Eckhart

Divisadero

By Michael Ondaatje

Superiority and Social Interest: A Collection of Later Writings

By Alfred adler

The Viceroy Of Ouidah

By Chatwin, Bruce

Lost in the Forest: Notes on Not Belonging from the English Countryside

By Colin Heber-Percy