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The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: How a Remarkable Woman Crossed Seas and Empires to Become Part of World History

By Linda Colley

Spliffs 3: The Last Word in Cannabis Culture?

By Tim Pilcher

The Women's Suffrage Movement

By Molly Housego, Neil R. Storey

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

The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism

By Joyce Appleby (UCLA)

The Vikings and their Origins: Scandinavia in the First Millennium

By David M. Wilson

The Industrious Revolution: Consumer Behavior and the Household Economy, 1650 to the Present

By Jan de Vries (University of California, Berkeley)

Clocks and Culture: 1300-1700

By Carlo M. Cipolla

Economics of Good and Evil: The Quest for Economic Meaning from Gilgamesh to Wall Street

By Tomas Sedlacek

The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics

By Christopher Lasch

Science And Philosophy: Past And Present (Pelican S.)

By Gjertsen, Derek

A Historical Introduction to the Philosophy of Science (OPUS)

By Losee, John, John Losee

Knowledge and Error: Sketches on the Psychology of Enquiry

By Ernst Mach, B.F. McGuinness

The Fontana History of the Human Sciences

By Roger Smith

The Challenge of Affluence: Self-Control and Well-Being in the United States and Britain since 1950

By Avner Offer (, Chichele Professor of Economic History, University of Oxford, Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and Fellow of the British Academy)

Franklin's Thrift: The Lost History of an American Virtue

By David Blankenhorn, Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, Sorcha Brophy-Warren

Science Wars

By Andrew Ross (Director, American Studies Program, New York University, USA)

Wild Life in a Southern County (Nature Classics Library)

By Richard Jefferies, C. F. Tunnicliffe, Richard Mabey

Tomorrow Perhaps the Future: Following Writers and Rebels in the Spanish Civil War

By Sarah Watling

The Idea of a University (Rethinking the Western Tradition)

By Newman, John Henry

The History of the Yorkshire Museum and Its Geological Collections

By P.J. Pyrah

Men among the Mammoths

By A. Bowdoin Van Riper

The Naturalist in Britain: A Social History

By David Elliston Allen

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

By Martin Polley

Pearls before Poppies: The Story of the Red Cross Pearls

By Rachel Trethewey

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

By Gilbert, Alan D.

Hume's Philosophical Politics

By Duncan Forbes

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

By William Whewell