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Cezanne: Masters of Art

By Roberta Bernabei

The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice

By Christopher Hitchens

Circle of Quiet

By Madelaine L'Engle

A.J. Ayer: A Life

By Ben Rogers

Out of My Later Years: The Scientists, Philosophe, and Man Portrayed through His Own Words

By Albert Einstein

Gordon Welchman: Bletchley Park's Architect of Ultra Intelligence

By Joel Greenberg

Adventures of a Mathematician

By S. M. Ulam, Daniel Hirsch, William G. Mathews, Francoise Ulam, Jan Mycielski

The Magicians: Great Minds and the Central Miracle of Science

By Chown, Marcus

Breakthrough: Spectacular stories of scientific discovery from the Higgs particle to black holes

By Marcus Chown

Emily Wilding Davison

By Lucy Fisher

Gentleman Jack: The Real Anne Lister The Official Companion to the BBC Series

By Wainwright, Sally, Choma, Anne

God's Callgirl

By Van Raay, Carla

"Are You Strong, Lass?": "You'll Need to be Working Here...: Memoirs from a 1970s Yorkshire Classroom

By Kath Padgett

Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America

By Michael Eric Dyson

A Life of H.L.A. Hart: The Nightmare and the Noble Dream

By Nicola Lacey, FBA (Professor of Criminal Law, London School of Economics; Adjunct Professor of Social and Political Theory, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University)

Derrida: A Very Short Introduction

By Simon Glendinning (Reader in European Philosophy, European Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science)

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: 40th Anniversary Edition

By Robert Pirsig

31 Songs

By Nick Hornby

Hope Lies in the Proles: George Orwell and the Left

By John Newsinger

Confessions of a GP (The Confessions Series)

By Daniels, Benjamin

Questioning The Millennium

By Gould, Stephen Jay

Leadership: Lessons from a Life in Diplomacy

By Simon McDonald

A Century of Wisdom: Lessons from the Life of Alice Herz-Sommer, Holocaust Survivor

By Caroline Stoessinger

Personal Writings

By Albert Camus, Justin O'Brien

I Belong to No One: Abused, afraid and alone. A young girl forced to make the ultimate sacrifice for her survival.

By Gwen Wilson

Jesus: The Man Who Changed History

By Meryl Doney

My Land and My People

By The Dalai Lama

Lives and Legends of the Saints

By Armstrong, Carole

Women's Room

By Marilyn French

The Diversity Illusion: How Immigration Broke Britain and How to Solve it

By Ed West