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Magdalena: River of Dreams

By Wade Davis

I object: Ian Hislop's search for dissent

By Ian Hislop, Tom Hockenhull

Magdalena: River of Dreams

By Wade Davis

St. Marks Is Dead: The Many Lives of America's Hippest Street

By Ada Calhoun

Europe 1600-1789

By Anthony Upton

Lascivious Bodies

By Julie Peakman

The Hats that Made Britain: A History of the Nation Through its Headwear

By David Long

The English. A Portrait of a People

By Paxman, Jeremy, Jeremy Paxman

Lady Fanshawe's Receipt Book: An Englishwoman's Life During the Civil War

By Lucy Moore

Radical Wordsworth: The Poet Who Changed the World

By Jonathan Bate

The Mistresses of Cliveden: Three Centuries of Scandal, Power and Intrigue in an English Stately Home

By Natalie Livingstone

Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy

By Kip S. Thorne, Stephen Hawking

Documenting America, 1935-1943

By Carl Fleischhauer, Beverly W. Brannan, Lawrence Levine, Alan Trachtenberg

Space Race: The Battle to Rule the Heavens

By Cadbury, Deborah

Shadowlands: A Journey Through Lost Britain

By Matthew Green

The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World

By Melinda Gates

The German War: A Nation Under Arms, 1939-45

By Nicholas Stargardt

Karl Marx

By Wheen, Francis

Lifting the Latch

By Sheila Stewart

A. J. Ayer: A Life

By Rogers, Ben

The Lost Pilots: The Spectacular Rise and Scandalous Fall of Aviation's Golden Couple

By Corey Mead

The Co-Op's Got Bananas

By Hunter Davies

At Home with the Queen: Life Through the Keyhole of the Royal Household

By Brian Hoey

Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built the World

By Kate Mosse

Soul of the Age: The Life, Mind and World of William Shakespeare

By Sir Jonathan Bate

The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct

By Szasz, Thomas S.

Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation

By Kris Manjapra

Mongrel Firebugs and Men of Property: Capitalism and Class Conflict in American History

By Steve Fraser

Am I Normal?: The 200-Year Search for Normal People (and Why They Don't Exist)

By Sarah Chaney

Classical Cookbook

By a Dalby