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How to be Well Read: A guide to 500 great novels and a handful of literary curiosities

By Sutherland, John

Cynicism And The Evolution Of The American Dream

By Caldwell, Wilber W.

Humanism (The New Critical Idiom)

By Davies, Tony

A Pragmatist's Progress?: Richard Rorty and American Intellectual History

By John Pettegrew

Art, Enterprise, and Ethics: The Life and Works of William Morris

By Charles Harvey, Jon Press

Quentin Skinner: History, Politics, Rhetoric

By Kari Palonen

Bedworth in Old Photographs

By John Burton

The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America

By Menand, Louis

Twilight of the Belle Epoque: The Paris of Picasso, Stravinsky, Proust, Renault, Marie Curie, Gertrude Stein, and Their Friends Through the Great War

By Mary Sperling McAuliffe

Fools Are Everywhere: The Court Jester Around the World

By Beatrice K. Otto

Glimpses of the Wonderful: The Life of Philip Henry Gosse

By Thwaite, Ann

Theatre at the Crossroads of Culture

By Patrice Pavis

Holding Up a Mirror: How Civilizations Decline

By Anne Glyn-Jones

The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea

By John Micklethwait, Adrian Wooldridge

Philip Matyszak's Classical Compendium: A Miscellany of Scandalous Gossip, Bawdy Jokes, Peculiar Facts, and Bad Behavior from the Ancient Greeks and Romans

By Philip Matyszak

American Sociology and Pragmatism: Mead, Chicago Sociology, and Symbolic Interaction

By J. David Lewis, Richard L. Smith

Ideas of Human Nature: An Historical Introduction

By Trigg

The Theatres of War: Performance, Politics, and Society, 1793-1815

By Gillian Russell, Lecturer in the Department of English Gillian Russell

The Renaissance in the Fields: Family Memoirs of a Fifteenth-century Tuscan Peasant

By Duccio Balestracci

The First Moderns: Profiles in the Origins of Twentieth-Century Thought

By William R. Everdell

The British Abroad: The Grand Tour in the Eighteenth Century

By Jeremy Black

Literature and Society in Eighteenth-century England, 1680-1820: Ideology, Politics and Culture

By William Arthur Speck

Family Life in Shakespeare's England: Stratford-upon-Avon, 1570-1630

By Jeanne Jones

The Tibetans: A Struggle to Survive

By Steve Lehman, Robert Coles, Robert Barnett

Great British Railway Journeys

By Charlie Bunce, Michael Portillo

America Past and Present

By Robert A. Divine

The Sugar Girls of Love Lane

By Duncan Barrett, Nuala Calvi

History in the House: Some Remarkable Dons and the Teaching of Politics, Character and Statecraft

By Richard Davenport-Hines

The Colour of Time: A New History of the World, 1850-1960

By Jones, Dan, Amaral, Marina

No Country for a Woman: The Adventurous Life of Lady Dorothy Mills, Explorer and Writer

By JANE. DISMORE