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The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes

By Jonathan Rose

The Atlantic Sound

By Caryl Phillips

Negro with a Hat: Marcus Garvey

By Colin Grant

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

Lost Voices of The Royal Navy

By Max Arthur

Truth: A Brief History of Total Bullsh*t

By Tom Phillips

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

Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History

By Nicolson, Adam