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Joni Eareckson Tada: Swimming Against the Tide

By Catherine MacKenzie

Work Hard. Be Nice.: How Two Inspired Teachers Created the Most Promising Schools in America

By Jay Mathews

Felix Guattari: An Aberrant Introduction

By Gary Genosko

Lincolnshire Women

By John R. Ketteringham

Farewell to Reason

By Paul Feyerabend

From Socrates to Sartre: The Philosophic Quest

By T.Z. Lavine

Our Little Secret

By Fairhurst, Duncan, Duncan Fairhurst

The Trial of Henry Kissinger

By Hitchens, Christopher

The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe

By Charles Nicholl

Benjamin Silliman: A Life in the Young Republic

By Chandos Michael Brown

The Dons: Mentors, Eccentrics and Geniuses

By Annan, Noel

Apologia Pro Vita Sua

By Cardinal John Henry Newman, William Oddie

John von Neumann: The Scientific Genius Who Pioneered the Modern Computer, Game Theory, Nuclear Deterrence, and Much More

By Norman Macrae

Jan Smuts: Unafraid of greatness

By Richard Steyn

Great Minds: Reflections of 111 Top Scientists

By Hargittai, Balazs

Mother Teresa: Her People and Her Work

By Doig, Desmond, Desmond Doig

Lectures and Conversations on Aesthetics, Psychology and Religious Belief

By Ludwig Wittgenstein, Cyril Barret

Confessions of a Philosopher: A Journey Through Western Philosophy

By Magee, Bryan

The World as Will and Representation, Vol. 1

By Arthur Schopenhauer

Feynman's Rainbow: A Search for Beauty in Physics and in Life

By Leonard Mlodinow

The Fractalist: Memoir of a Scientific Maverick

By Benoit Mandelbrot (Yale University Connecticut)

Parmenides

By Plato, Mary Louise Gill, Paul Ryan

Part of My Life

By A. J. Ayer

Why Mahler?: How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed the World

By Norman Lebrecht

I Choose To Live

By Dardenne, Sabine

Bertrand Russell: v. 1: 1872-1920 The Spirit of Solitude

By Ray Monk

Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers

By Cheryl Misak (University of Toronto)

Bertrand Russell: v.2: 1921-70 The Ghost of Madness

By Ray Monk

The Confession of Augustine

By Jean-Francois Lyotard, Richard Beardsworth

The Memoirs of Madame Roland: Witness to the French Revolution

By Marie-Jeanne Roland De La Platiere, Evelyn Shuckburgh