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The Idea of a University (Rethinking the Western Tradition)

By Newman, John Henry

Hops and Hop Picking

By Richard Filmer

The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers

By Heilbroner, Robert L.

Debunking History: 152 Popular Myths Exploded

By Ed Rayner

First Peoples, First Contact: Native

By J.C.H King

Africa: Arts and Culture

By John Mack

African Art in Detail

By Chris Spring

A Century of Women

By Sheila Rowbotham

Snapshot Poetics: A Photographic Memoir of the Beat Era

By Allen Ginsberg

Empire and Sexuality

By Ronald Hyam

The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

By Annette Gordon-Reed (Harvard University)

Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers

By Cheryl Misak (University of Toronto)

Poverty, Equality and Growth: The Politics of Economic Need in Postwar Japan

By Deborah J. Milly

The Middle Class: A History

By Lawrence James, James, Lawrence

The Russians are Coming! The Russians are Coming!: Pageantry and Patriotism in Cold War America

By Fried

Sounds and Sweet Airs: The Forgotten Women of Classical Music

By Anna Beer

A History of Modern Political Thought: The Question of Interpretation

By Gary Browning (Professor of Political Philosophy and Associate Dean of Research and Knowledge Exchange, Professor of Political Philosophy and Associate Dean of Research and Knowledge Exchange, Oxford Brookes University)

Who Got Einstein's Office?: Eccentricity and Genius at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study

By Ed Regis

Rochester Roundabout: Story of High Energy Physics

By J. C. Polkinghorne

Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy in England and Additional Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy

By William Whewell

Hume's Philosophical Politics

By Duncan Forbes

The Making of Post-Christian Britain: History of the Secularization of Modern Society

By Gilbert, Alan D.

Pearls before Poppies: The Story of the Red Cross Pearls

By Rachel Trethewey

The British Olympics: Britain's Olympic Heritage 1612-2012

By Martin Polley

The Naturalist in Britain: A Social History

By David Elliston Allen

Men among the Mammoths

By A. Bowdoin Van Riper

The History of the Yorkshire Museum and Its Geological Collections

By P.J. Pyrah

Central Park, An American Masterpiece: A Comprehensive History of the Nation's First Urban Park

By Sara Cedar Miller

The Warren House Tales: A Social History Since 1863

By Vicky Good

A Theory of Everything: An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science and Spirituality

By Ken Wilber