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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

Rochester Roundabout: Story of High Energy Physics

By J. C. Polkinghorne

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

By Ed Regis

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)

Sounds and Sweet Airs: The Forgotten Women of Classical Music

By Anna Beer

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

By Fried

The Middle Class: A History

By Lawrence James, James, Lawrence

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

By Deborah J. Milly

Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers

By Cheryl Misak (University of Toronto)

The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

By Annette Gordon-Reed (Harvard University)

Empire and Sexuality

By Ronald Hyam

Snapshot Poetics: A Photographic Memoir of the Beat Era

By Allen Ginsberg

A Century of Women

By Sheila Rowbotham

African Art in Detail

By Chris Spring