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Wrinklies: A Trip Down Memory Lane

By Haskins, Mike, Whichelow, Clive

The Land Before Avocado

By Richard Glover

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

Lost Voices of The Royal Navy

By Max Arthur

The Message

By Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Making of the Crofting Community

By James Hunter

NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and How to Think Smarter About People Who Think Differently

By Steve Silberman, Oliver Sacks

Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution

By Kathleen DuVal

Laundry Bygones

By Pamela Sambrook

Boredom: A Lively History

By Peter Toohey

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

By Heilbroner, Robert L.

First Peoples, First Contact: Native

By J.C.H King

Debunking History: 152 Popular Myths Exploded

By Ed Rayner