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The Education of Henry Adams
by Henry Adams, Ira Nadel (Editor), Ira Bruce Nadel, Ira Bruce Nadel (Editor)
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The Varieties of Religious Experience
by William James
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Up from Slavery
by Booker T. Washington, William L. Andrews, William L. Andrews (Editor)
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A Room of One's Own
by Virginia Woolf
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Silent Spring
by Rachel Carson
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Selected Essays
by T. S. Eliot
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The Double Helix
by James D. Watson
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Speak, Memory
by Vladimir Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, Brian Boyd, Brian Boyd (Narrator)
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American Language
by H. L. Mencken
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General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
by John Keynes
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The Lives Of A Cell
by Lewis Thomas
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The Frontier in American History
by Frederick Jackson Turner
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Black Boy
by Richard Wright
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Aspects of the Novel
by E. M. Forster
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The Civil War
by Shelby Foote
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The Guns of August
by Barbara W. Tuchman
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The Proper Study of Mankind
by Sir Isaiah Berlin, Henry Hardy, Roger Hausheer
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The Nature and Destiny of Man
by Reinhold Niebuhr, Robin W. Lovin (Introduction by)
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Notes of a Native Son
by James Baldwin
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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
by Gertrude Stein
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The Elements of Style
by William Strunk, E. B. White
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An American Dilemma
by Gunnar Myrdal, Sissela Bok (Introduction by), Bok Sissela (Introduction by)
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Principia Mathematica to 56
by Alfred N. Whitehead, Bertrand Russell
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The Mismeasure of Man
by Stephen Jay Gould
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The Mirror and the Lamp
by M. H. Abrams
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Bonifacio VIII, I Caetani E La Storia Del Lazio
by Richard Gilly Nixon, Fondazione Camillo Caetani
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The Ants
by Bert Holldobler, Edward O. Wilson
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A Theory Of Justice
by John Rawls
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Art and Illusion
by E. H. Gombrich
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The Making of the English Working Class
by E.P. Thompson
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The Souls of Black Folk
by W. E. B. Du Bois
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Principia Ethica
by G.E. Moore, Thomas Baldwin, Thomas Baldwin (Editor)
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Philosophy and Civilization
by Anonymous
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On Growth and Form
by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, John Tyler Bonner (Editor)
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Ideas and Opinions
by Albert Einstein, Carl Seelig
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The Age of Jackson
by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
by Richard Rhodes
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Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
by Rebecca West
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Autobiographies
by W. B. Yeats, William H. O'Donnell, William H. O'Donnell (Editor), Douglas N. Archibald, Douglas N. Archibald (Editor)
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Science and Civilization in China
by Anonymous
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Goodbye to All That
by Robert Graves
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Homage to Catalonia
by George Orwell, Lionel Trilling
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The Autobiography of Mark Twain
by Mark Twain, Charles Neider, Charles Neider (Editor)
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Children of Crisis
by Robert Coles
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A Study of History
by Arnold Joseph Toynbee, Jane Caplan
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The Affluent Society
by John Kenneth Galbraith
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Present at the Creation
by Dean Acheson
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The Great Bridge
by David McCullough
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Patriotic Gore
by Edmund Wilson
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Samuel Johnson
by Walter Jackson Bate
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by Malcolm X, Alex Haley, M. S. Handler (Introduction by)
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The Right Stuff
by Tom Wolfe
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Eminent Victorians
by Lytton Strachey
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Working
by Studs Terkel
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Darkness Visible
by William Styron
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The Liberal Imagination
by Lionel Trilling
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Second World War
by Winston Churchill
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Out of Africa
by Isak Dinesen
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Jefferson & His Time
by Dumas Malone
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In the American Grain
by William Carlos Williams
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Cadillac Desert
by Marc Reisner
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The House of Morgan
by Ron Chernow
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The Sweet Science
by A. J. Liebling
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The Open Society and Its Enemies
by Karl R. Popper
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The Art of Memory
by Yates
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Religion and the Rise of Capitalism
by R. H. Tawney
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A Preface to Morals
by Walter Lippmann
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The Gate of Heavenly Peace
by Jonathan D. Spence
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
by Thomas S. Kuhn
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The Strange Career of Jim Crow
by Comer Vann Woodward
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The Rise of the West
by William H. McNeill
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The Gnostic Gospels
by Elaine Pagels
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James Joyce
by Richard Ellmann
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Florence Nightengale 1820-1910
by Anonymous
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The Great War and Modern Memory
by Paul Fussell, Paul Fussell
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The City in History
by Lewis Mumford
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Battle Cry of Freedom
by James M. McPherson
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Why We Can't Wait
by Martin Luther King, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Copyright Paperback Collection (Library of Congress), Jesse L., (AFT) Jackson, Sr.
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The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
by Edmund Morris
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Studies in Iconology Humanistic Themes in the Art
by E. Panofsky
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The Face of Battle
by John Keegan
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The Strange Death of Liberal England
by George Dangerfield
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Vermeer
by Lawrence Gowing, Johannes Vermeer
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A Bright Shining Lie
by Neil Sheehan
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West With the Night
by Beryl Markham
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This Boy's Life
by Tobias Wolff
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A Mathematician's Apology
by G. H. Hardy
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Six Easy Pieces
by Richard P Feynman, Paul Davies (Introduction by), Robert B Leighton, Robert B Leighton (Editor), Matthew L. Sands, Matthew Sands (Editor)
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
by Annie Dillard
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The Golden Bough
by James George Frazer
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Shadow and Act
by Ralph Ellison
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The Power Broker
by Robert A. Caro
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The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It
by Richard Hofstadter
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Contours of American History
by William Appleman Williams
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The Promise of American Life
by Herbert David Croly
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In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
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The Journalist and the Murderer
by Janet Malcolm
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The Taming of Chance
by Ian Hacking, Tim Hacking
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Operating Instructions
by Anne Lamott
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Melbourne
by David Cecil
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