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Goodbye Descartes: End of Logic and the Search for a New Cosmology of the Mind

By Keith J. Devlin

Meditations

By John Gough Nichols, Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of

Remarkable Mathematicians: From Euler to von Neumann

By Ioan James (University of Oxford)

A Voice in the Wilderness: A Pioneering Biologist Explains How Evolution Can Help Us Solve Our Biggest Problems

By Joseph L Graves Jr

The Pursuit of Power: Europe, 1815-1914

By Richard J. Evans

A Dangerous Method: The Story of Jung, Freud and Sabina Spielrein

By John Kerr

The Essential Epicurus: Letters, Principal Doctrines, Vatican Sayings, and Fragments

By Epicurus, Eugene M. O'Connor

Because They Hate: A Survivor of Islamic Terror Warns America

By Brigitte Gabriel

What is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics

By Adam Becker

Intimate Sex Lives of Famous People

By Irving Wallace, etc.

Einstein: The Passions of a Scientist

By Barry R. Parker

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