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Samuel Smiles’s The Huguenots in France explores persecution, exile, and endurance in French Protestant history.

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A Roman emperor's private reflections on power, mortality, and inner freedom.

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Thomas De Quincey’s strange and influential memoir of addiction, dream-life, and Romantic prose remains one of the nineteenth century’s most uncanny autobiographical classics.

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Harry Best’s The Deaf is a major historical study of deaf education and social position in the United States.

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Benedetto Croce’s classic on aesthetics, expression, and language is presented in a clean DotBooks edition.

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Sabine Baring-Gould’s Cornish Characters and Strange Events gathers local lives, folklore, and unusual incidents from Cornwall.

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A classic culinary history text associated with Apicius, illuminating Roman food, dining, and elite taste.

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Escoffier's landmark manual codified French cuisine into a working system: mother sauces, brigade order, thousands of recipes.

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A working artist's guide to the principles of drawing and design, exploring how line and shape create beauty and meaning.

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A firsthand narrative of three years with the Sixth Corps in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 through the closing of the American Civil War: campaigns, battles, and army life see

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A vivid narrative history of decisive naval battles across the ages, from the ancient Greek triumph at Salamis to the modern clash at Tsushima, charting how sea power has shaped th

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An early treatise setting out the principles of geometry for the student and practitioner.

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A nineteenth-century work of comparative anthropology tracing how marriage and family life were thought to have developed across human societies, written in the confident, sweeping

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Frederick Douglass expands his life story into a powerful autobiographical indictment of slavery, tracing violence, resistance, education, escape, and the making of a public voice.

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Samuel Butler's spirited examination of theories of evolution, championing the earlier evolutionists against Darwin's account of natural selection.

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A gallery of England's oddest characters and strangest doings, gathered from history and legend into an affectionate celebration of misers, hermits, impostors, cranks and curiositi

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A practical nineteenth-century manual that set out to demystify the craft of beekeeping.

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The Victorian household's indispensable companion, a bestselling manual crammed with practical advice on cookery, etiquette, health, games and domestic emergencies, all under the c

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A thorough practical guide to working with wood, covering tools, joints, and the properties of timber.

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A documentary history of Dutch voyages to the great southern land, tracing how the navigators of the Netherlands charted the coasts of Australia long before the British arrived.

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Charles Darwin's vast survey of how humans have reshaped living things through breeding — the evidence, gathered animal by animal and plant by plant, behind his theory of selection

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A classic scientific account of the parasites that afflict human beings, describing their forms, life cycles, and effects for students of medicine and natural history.

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William Strunk Jr.’s compact style guide remains a crisp, practical classic on clarity, usage, and revision.

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The opening volume of James Tod's monumental Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan lays the foundations of his pioneering history of the Rajput states, their origins, chivalry and an

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A lively Victorian travelogue journeying across Finland by horse and cart, observing its landscapes, customs, and people.

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The first volume of a nineteenth-century study of the women who inspired the poets: portraits of the muses and beloveds celebrated in verse, from the age of the troubadours onward.

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A nineteenth-century traveller's account of Peru, journeying from the coast up into the sierra, across the Andes and on into the primeval forest, rich in observation of landscape,

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An early twentieth-century work of frank sex education and advice about women's health and intimate life, written to dispel ignorance and shame at a time when such subjects were ra

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Sidney and Beatrice Webb's pioneering history of the British trade union movement, tracing its rise from early combinations to organised labour.

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Henry Charles Lea extends his monumental study of the Spanish Inquisition beyond Spain itself, tracing how the tribunal operated across Sicily, Naples, Sardinia, Milan, the Canarie

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A scholarly study of the craft and theory of English verse, examining metre, rhythm, rhyme, and poetic form.

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A wide-ranging nineteenth-century medical and cultural history of circumcision across peoples and eras, setting out the moral and physical arguments made for the practice through t

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A wide-ranging Victorian-era survey of Christmas across many centuries: its origins, customs, historical episodes, and the songs, feasts, and festivities that gathered around the m

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A work of Reformed theology examining the biblical practice of covenanting, the solemn binding of a people to God.

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A regimental history of the Second Battalion, Royal Dublin Fusiliers, in the South African War of 1899 to 1902: the marches, battles, and service of one Irish battalion through the

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A collection of essays surveying the richness of Jewish literary and cultural history, from the scholarly pen of Gustav Karpeles.

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A military surgeon's firsthand account of wound treatment during the South African War, recording the injuries, methods and hard-won lessons of the battlefield.

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A classic, clear-eyed manual on the craft of binding books and keeping them well.

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A stirring nineteenth-century narrative of faith put into practice, recounting a life and ministry sustained, its author held, entirely through prayer.

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A traveller-observer's account of South Africa near the close of the nineteenth century, surveying its peoples, its politics and its landscape at a moment poised on the edge of gre

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A lively popular-science account of astronomy's wonders and the myths that have gathered around the heavens.

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The gathered notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, a dazzling record of one of history's greatest minds at work.

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A Victorian naval memoir of anti-piracy patrols along the Borneo coast, entwined with the extraordinary career of James Brooke, the English adventurer who became Rajah of Sarawak.

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Alice Morse Earle's richly detailed portrait of everyday life in early America — the homes, food, work, and customs of colonial households.

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A scholarly history of the turbulent early years of King Henry III of England, when a boy king inherited a realm in crisis and others governed in his name during his minority.

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A rich and comprehensive dictionary of nautical terms from the age of sail, gathering the vast working vocabulary of ships and seamen into one authoritative and endlessly browsable

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Frank R.

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A collection of literary and historical essays, ranging across authors, ideas, and eras with the reflective breadth of a cultivated critical mind.

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A detailed history of Britain's fraught relationship with the American Civil War, examining diplomacy, public opinion and the tensions that nearly drew the two nations into open co

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A first-person memoir told in the author's own voice, recounting a remarkable life and the struggles, convictions, and events that shaped it.

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The second volume of a life told largely through the letters of a leading Royal Navy commander of the Napoleonic wars.

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A collection of short stories about Pennsylvania, originally prepared for publication in the state's leading daily newspapers, offering brief tales drawn from its people, places an

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Cardinal Gibbons's enduring explanation and defense of Catholic belief, written in plain, generous prose for believers, seekers, and the simply curious alike.

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Henri Bergson’s major philosophical work rethinks life, mind, time, and change through a bold critique of mechanism and a dynamic account of evolution.

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An inviting introduction to philosophical thinking, written to lead newcomers past jargon and into the real questions.

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William James's landmark study of religion as lived personal experience, examining conversion, mysticism, saintliness, and the inner life of faith with the eye of a pioneering psyc

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Baldassare Castiglione's Renaissance dialogue imagines the perfect courtier over four candlelit evenings at Urbino, weighing grace, wit, love and virtue with the ease of good compa

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William Graham Sumner's influential study of how customs, habits, and mores shape human societies.

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Charles Darwin's world-changing 1859 work, laying out the theory of evolution by natural selection with patient evidence and cautious brilliance.

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A classic Spanish-language reader assembling passages for students of the language and of Spanish American life and letters.

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Jonathan Swift's intimate letters to Esther Johnson, written from London during his years at the heart of politics.

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A scholarly survey of the institutions of ancient Rome, its magistrates, assemblies, senate, and law, explaining how the Republic and Empire were actually governed.

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A distinguished collection of essays surveying what the modern world owes to ancient Greece, from philosophy and science to art, literature, and religion.

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Hudson Stuck's vivid record of winter journeys by dog sled across Alaska, a missionary-explorer's account of the far North, its trails, peoples and unforgiving cold.

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The famous Anglo-Indian glossary that traces how words like bungalow, shampoo, curry and pyjama passed from India into English, part dictionary, part treasure-house of colonial enc

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A vivid gallery of frontier types drawn from the border life of the American West, sketching the settlers, adventurers and originals who peopled a raw and changing land.

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Camille Flammarion's beloved introduction to the night sky, written to make the heavens accessible to anyone willing to look up.

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A historically revealing survey of Indian society and religion, best read today with attention to its missionary-colonial perspective.

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The short, incendiary pamphlet by Marx and Engels that reframed history as a struggle between classes.

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Thornton Burgess's charming natural-history storybook, introducing young readers to the birds and mammals of the American wild through the gentle lessons of Mother Nature and her w

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A contemporary account of the catastrophic 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire, gathering the terrible events into a single dramatic record.

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The most famous word-finder in the English language: Peter Mark Roget's great map of meaning, grouping the tongue's riches by idea rather than alphabet.

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A witty gallery of English character sketches from the early seventeenth century, portraying types high and low with sharp observation and dry humour.

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Plato’s compact defense of Socrates joins courtroom speech to enduring questions about philosophy and conscience.

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Solomon Northup's searing 1853 memoir: a free Black man from New York, lured south and kidnapped into slavery in Louisiana, endures twelve years in bondage before his desperate str

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Robert Boyle's landmark 1661 dialogue challenges the old doctrines of the alchemists and Aristotelians, pressing the questions that would help turn alchemy into modern chemistry.

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Seneca Fiction, Legends, and Myths: Thirty-Second Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology; 1910-1911 is a polished DotBooks classic tale collection for readers who want w

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Bill Nye’s illustrated satirical history turns major episodes of the American past into brisk, deadpan comic sketches.

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George Saintsbury's sweeping survey of the golden age of English writing, from its poets and dramatists to its prose.

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Catharine Esther Beecher’s influential nineteenth-century manual blends household management, health guidance, moral instruction, and practical advice for domestic life and educati

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First-person testimony of enslaved and formerly enslaved people, preserving in their own words the experience of bondage, resistance and the long reach toward freedom in America.

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Louise Imogen Guiney's A Little English Gallery gathers graceful literary portraits of Lady Danvers, Henry Vaughan, George Farquhar, Beauclerk and Langton, and William Hazlitt.

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A popular history of the fighting ship, tracing how vessels of war evolved across the ages.

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A scholarly inquiry into where poetry comes from, tracing verse back to song, ritual and the communal life of early peoples.

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A collection of the great love stories of history, retelling the famous romances and attachments of kings, queens, and celebrated figures.

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A pioneering argument that folklore, the tales, customs, and beliefs of a people, can be read as genuine historical evidence.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson's founding essay of American Transcendentalism, arguing that the natural world is the visible face of spirit.

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James Fergusson's monumental survey of the architecture of India and the East, tracing temples, monuments, and building traditions across centuries.

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A landmark anthology of speeches and orations by Black Americans, gathering the great voices of abolition, uplift, and civil rights in a testament to African American eloquence and

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Annie Besant's Theosophical reading of Christianity as a repository of hidden, mystical truths, arguing that behind the familiar faith lies an ancient wisdom meant for the spiritua

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Thomas Carlyle's admiring life of the great German poet and dramatist Friedrich Schiller, with a searching study of his plays, poetry, and thought.

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A survey of geology in its practical and economic dimension, examining how the earth's minerals, ores, fuels and materials underpin industry, wealth and the workings of a modern ec

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A vivid archaeological journey through the Eternal City as it passed from pagan antiquity to Christianity, tracing the temples, tombs, and monuments where two worlds met and merged

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The trial record of the notorious 1814 Stock Exchange fraud, in which Lord Cochrane and others stood accused of spreading false news to manipulate the markets: a landmark case of f

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A compact single-volume reference of general knowledge, the Nuttall Encyclopaedia offers brief, wide-ranging entries on people, places, ideas and events, a snapshot of learning fro

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A nineteenth-century polemical travel narrative journeying from the Alps to Rome, arguing a critical case about the influence of the Roman Catholic Church on commerce, law and lear

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William Hone's beloved Every-Day Book, an almanac of British customs, festivals, folklore and popular amusements arranged through the calendar year, this first volume brimming with

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Booker T.

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The firsthand record of one of history's great expeditions, as Meriwether Lewis and William Clark cross the North American continent, charting rivers, peoples, wildlife and landsca

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Nietzsche's swift, incendiary late work, a philosophy delivered with a hammer.

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A Victorian teaching text by G.

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A nineteenth-century treasury of true and traditional tales about dogs, gathered to celebrate their loyalty, courage, and uncanny intelligence.

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An account of one of America's great public universities, its founding, growth and character.

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A vivid contemporary account of the 1889 Johnstown Flood, when a failed dam sent a wall of water through a Pennsylvania valley and killed thousands.

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A scholarly and affectionate history of angling in the ancient world, tracing how the peoples of antiquity fished the rivers and seas.

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The foundational text of geometry, presenting Euclid's first six books of the Elements with their definitions, propositions and proofs.

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John Stuart Mill's foundational treatise on reasoning, evidence, and the methods of science.

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Three of Cicero's great philosophical works together, the Tusculan Disputations on how to live and die well, On the Nature of the Gods on religion, and On the Commonwealth on the j

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On War by Carl von Clausewitz is the monumental modern classic on strategy, uncertainty, politics, friction, and the enduring logic of armed conflict.

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Francis Bacon's celebrated Essays paired with his Wisdom of the Ancients, gathering some of the shrewdest prose in English.

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Bertrand Russell's classic short introduction to philosophy, a lucid, invigorating guide to the deepest questions about knowledge, reality and the limits of what we can be sure we

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Sir Walter Scott's private journal, printed from the manuscript at Abbotsford, is one of the great diaries in English, candid, courageous and moving as the celebrated novelist face

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The private meditations of the Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher, written for himself alone.

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Edward MacDowell's lectures on music, delivered at Columbia University, in which the celebrated American composer reflects on the history and meaning of his art with a practitioner

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A comprehensive survey of the great writers of ancient Rome, from Plautus and Cicero to Virgil, Horace, and Ovid, tracing the rise and flowering of Latin literature.

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A biography of Charles Frohman, the great American theatrical producer who shaped Broadway and the London stage before his death aboard the Lusitania.

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A foundational chemistry textbook by William McPherson and William Edwards Henderson, introducing the elements, reactions, and laws of the science to beginning students.

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A concise survey of English literature from the medieval age to the Victorian era, tracing its major writers and movements across five centuries.

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A volume of careful, warm-hearted biblical exposition covering Second Corinthians, Galatians, Philippians, Colossians, and the letters that follow: scripture opened passage by pass

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Mark Twain circles the globe on a lecture tour, notebook in hand, turning ocean crossings, colonial outposts and human folly into wry, watchful travel writing edged with anger.

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Emile Cammaerts's sweeping history of Belgium, tracing the fortunes of a small but pivotal European land from ancient times to the modern era.

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A guide to education for parents, teachers and the young themselves — setting out principles for the forming of mind and character in a spirit of broad instruction.

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D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson's landmark work reveals the mathematics and physics behind the shapes of living things, uniting biology, geometry, and beauty.

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A study of alcohol, its nature, effects, and place in human life.

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An early twentieth-century educational text linking good citizenship with public and personal health.

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A history of the Choctaw Freedmen, formerly enslaved by the Choctaw Nation, and the founding of Oak Hill Industrial Academy to educate their children.

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Frederick Jackson Turner's landmark essays advancing the frontier thesis, arguing that the moving edge of settlement shaped American democracy and character.

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A survey of American composers of its era, offering portraits of the musicians shaping the nation's serious music.

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Nietzsche's daring first book, which finds the origins of Greek tragedy in the clash between the Apollonian and the Dionysian.

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A stirring retelling of the great heroic legends of Britain, from Beowulf to the deeds of Arthur and beyond.

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Alexander van Millingen's classic survey walks the great land walls of Constantinople stone by stone, tracing the defences that guarded the Byzantine capital for a thousand years a

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Blaise Pascal's unfinished masterpiece: fragments toward a defence of faith by one of history's great mathematical minds.

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A narrative history of Paris, tracing the city's growth from its origins through the centuries of its splendour.

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A foundational nineteenth-century treatise on poisons, examining their action, detection, and effects in relation to medical jurisprudence, physiology, and medical practice: a land

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A grand nineteenth-century history of food and its preparation in the ancient world, roaming across the tables of Greece, Rome, and beyond.

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A witty, affectionate celebration of book collecting and the peculiar breed who pursue rare volumes.

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A scholarly reference to the vocabulary of Middle English, glossing the words of Chaucer's age and beyond.

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A volume from the celebrated series of scholarly yet accessible commentaries on the books of the Bible.

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A narrative history of medieval England spanning the reigns from Henry III to Edward III, a formative age of parliaments, wars and the making of the nation's institutions.

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A practical self-instruction manual in mechanical drawing, guiding the beginner from choosing and preparing drawing instruments through the fundamentals of technical draughtsmanshi

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The opening volume of the official British history of the South African War of 1899 to 1902, compiled by government direction: the origins, opening moves, and early campaigns of th

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A wide-ranging comparative study arguing that many biblical stories echo the myths of older and other religions.

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Anna Jameson's pioneering nineteenth-century study of Shakespeare's heroines, examining the women of the plays, from Portia and Juliet to Lady Macbeth, as fully realized characters

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Clara Erskine Clement Waters's accessible survey of the great arts — painting, sculpture and architecture — written to guide beginners through the story of human creativity.

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A thorough treatise on manures and the science of enriching the soil.

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Lucien Biart's account of a boy's natural-history adventures in the wilds of Mexico.

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Peter Mark Roget's landmark thesaurus organises the English language by idea rather than alphabet, an ingenious map of meaning that has helped writers find the right word for well

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Erasmus Darwin's ambitious treatise on the laws of organic life, blending medicine, biology, and bold speculation about how living things change.

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A sensational mid-century exposé of the American capital, pulling back the curtain on politics, power, money and vice in Washington.

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A richly detailed exploration of the lore, legend, and supposed powers of precious stones and amulets.

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A meticulous study of how the Roman Republic actually voted.

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The classic fictionalised memoir of a legendary Wall Street speculator, still revered as one of the wisest books ever written about markets, trading psychology, and the eternal fol

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A practical textbook for students of German, offering theory, examples and exercises in the art of translating English prose into idiomatic German.

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Charles Darwin's world-altering argument that life's endless forms arose through descent with modification and natural selection — the book that remade our understanding of nature

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Emma Goldman's bracing collection of essays on anarchism, freedom, and the questions of her age.

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José Rizal's searching essay on the future of his colonised homeland.

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A practical guide to dance for the stage from the era of vaudeville and the revue, covering technique, training, and the discipline of the professional dancer.

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A late nineteenth century guide to health, marriage, morality, and the facts of life, written to instruct a rising generation.

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The second volume of James Tod's monumental Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan continues his pioneering history of the Rajput states, their ruling houses, chivalry and antiquities

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A clear, practical handbook of the woodworker's essential joints — how each is marked out, cut and fitted, and the tasks for which it is best suited.

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A classic survey of economic thought, tracing the development of theory from the Physiocrats through the great schools of political economy to the modern era.

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William James's spirited defense of the right to believe where evidence runs out, gathered with other essays in his lucid, humane philosophy.

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A Boer general's firsthand account of the South African War, written by a commander who fought the British in the field and lived to set the campaign down in his own plain, unflinc

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A historical study of the long contest over control of the seas, tracing the claims, disputes, and legal battles by which nations asserted dominion over the waters around their coa

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Douglas Hyde's landmark survey of Irish literature from ancient bardic tradition to modern times.

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An illustrated tour of the great royal palaces and gardens of France, from Versailles and Fontainebleau to the châteaux of the Loire.

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A vivid collection of true and legendary crimes from European history, retold with a novelist's flair for drama and character.

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A comprehensive nineteenth-century reference work on the religion, doctrines, rites, and terminology of Islam, arranged for ready consultation.

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Josephus's monumental history of the Jewish people, from the creation of the world through the biblical narrative to the eve of revolt against Rome.

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A clear, systematic guide to the language and design of English coats of arms.

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A pioneering history of the Elizabethan and Jacobean theatres, reconstructing the playhouses where Shakespeare's dramas first came alive, from the Globe to the Fortune and beyond.

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An intimate memoir of the poet Lord Byron by one who knew him closely, drawing on personal memory and the testimony of others who shared his life.

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An early, richly detailed celebration of America's national parks, written to help readers understand and cherish these wild landscapes.

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A thoughtful study of the parables Jesus told, drawing out the meaning and imagery of these short, enduring stories.

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A practical laboratory manual from the era when bacteriology was young, setting out the methods, apparatus and procedures for culturing and studying microorganisms, written to guid

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A hands-on guide introducing young readers to the principles of mechanics and the pleasures of making things.

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton looks back across a long life at the center of the fight for women's rights.

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An engaging history and appreciation of tapestry, tracing the great weavings of Europe and the stories they tell.

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A gathering of stories, verses, and tales drawn from the rich tradition of writing for the young.

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A novel whose title promises a woman and the horses at the center of her life, a story of nerve, devotion, and the bond between rider and animal.

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A nineteenth-century work of botanical science devoted to the abnormal and monstrous forms plants can take.

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Thomas Tusser's celebrated Tudor manual of farming and household wisdom, set out in memorable rhyming verse.

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A nineteenth-century traveller's account of journeys through the North, blending observation, incident, and wry humour.

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A biographical reference gathering the lives of notable Canadians.

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A clear, orderly retelling of the classical myths, from the gods of Olympus to the heroes and their labours, gathering the ancient stories into one accessible volume.

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William Bradford's own history of the Plymouth Colony, printed from his original manuscript, is the foundational eyewitness chronicle of the Pilgrims, their voyage, their first har

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A detailed history of the pivotal 1776 campaign around New York and Brooklyn in the American Revolution, including a full account of the Battle of Long Island: strategy, terrain, a

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Adam Smith's foundational treatise on economics, where the division of labour, free markets, and the famous 'invisible hand' first take shape.

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An account of Lord Milner's controversial career in South Africa, from his arrival in 1897 through the Boer War to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902: administration, empire, and a d

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Mark Twain's uproarious account of his years in the American West, from stagecoach and silver mine to newspaper desk.

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A survey of the great civilisations of the ancient world, written for students.

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A comprehensive survey of European political systems by Frederic Austin Ogg, describing the constitutions, institutions and everyday workings of the continent's governments.

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Mary Rowlandson's gripping first-person account of her capture during King Philip's War and her weeks among her Native captors.

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A gathering of the essays, poems and lectures of Voltairine de Cleyre, one of American anarchism's most eloquent voices.

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The complete diary of Samuel Pepys, an incomparably vivid, gossipy and honest record of London in the 1660s, from plague and Great Fire to the small daily pleasures of an ambitious

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Leibniz's chapter-by-chapter reply to Locke, cast as a philosophical dialogue on the origins and limits of knowledge.

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John Henry Newman's celebrated spiritual autobiography, tracing with candour and eloquence the long development of his religious opinions and his path toward Rome.

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A historian's studies of the Crusader and Latin states of the medieval eastern Mediterranean, examining the Frankish rulers, islands and principalities of a fascinating borderland.

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A scholarly study tracing the threads between the customs, songs and superstitions of modern rural Greece and the beliefs of the ancient world.

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A collection of political pamphlets and parodies, using satire, wit and pointed argument to skewer the issues and figures of their day.

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A classic single-volume dictionary of the English language from the renowned Edinburgh house of Chambers.

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A complete gallery of Gustave Doré's magnificent Bible illustrations, one hundred dramatic engravings with explanatory text.

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Nietzsche's fierce polemic tracing where our ideas of good and evil actually came from.

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A brisk American memoir of enterprise and hard graft, recounting two decades of the itinerant salesman's life — the roads, the deals, the setbacks and the pluck that carried them t

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The ancient Egyptian funerary texts guiding the soul through the perils of the afterlife.

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A comprehensive early twentieth-century handbook of soldiering, covering drill, tactics, equipment and the practical craft of military life.

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A comprehensive official veterinary manual on the ailments of the horse, describing their causes, symptoms and treatment for a world that still depended on horsepower in the most l

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A gathering of John Ruskin's lectures and essays on work, wealth, art, and honor.

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William Whewell's landmark survey of how the natural sciences developed, tracing the growth of physics, astronomy, chemistry and more from antiquity to the nineteenth century as a

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A gripping first-person account of a perilous journey into forbidden Tibet, ending in capture, imprisonment, and hardship at the hands of Tibetan authorities: a classic tale of exp

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John Fiske's classic study of the turbulent years between American independence and the Constitution, when the young republic nearly came apart.

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Edward Westermarck's landmark study tracing the origins and development of marriage across human societies.

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The King James Version of the Bible is the landmark 1611 English translation whose language, cadence, and imagery shaped centuries of literature, worship, and public speech.

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A king's own hand, unguarded and impatient: the surviving letters Henry VIII wrote to Anne Boleyn as desire, dynasty, and the fate of a church all began to gather around a single c

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The declassified wartime guide produced by the American OSS, teaching ordinary citizens in occupied Europe how to obstruct the enemy through everyday slowness and mistakes.

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Henry Charles Lea's landmark study of medieval legal procedure, tracing how Europe sought truth through oaths, trial by combat, the ordeal, and torture.

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A detailed early twentieth-century engineering handbook on building with concrete, setting out the practical methods, materials and economics of a material then transforming constr

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A collection of biographical accounts of Jewish people who converted to Christianity, gathering the lives and testimonies of many such figures from across the centuries in one devo

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A witty Victorian send-up of the dry grammar book, teaching the rules of English through humour, satire and comic example, so that the driest of subjects becomes an unexpected sour

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An illustrated study of American mushrooms — edible, poisonous and curious — combining careful description with the naturalist's delight in one of nature's strangest kingdoms.

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A wide-ranging account of the Philippine archipelago — its lands, peoples, and history.

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A remarkably thorough nineteenth-century American reference describing nearly eleven hundred vegetable species and varieties: a gardener's and farmer's encyclopedia of what grew in

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Bernal Díaz del Castillo, an old soldier of Cortés, recounts the conquest of Mexico as he lived it, this first volume opening one of history's great firsthand adventure narratives.

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A biography of Emily Brontë, the fiercely private author of Wuthering Heights, seeking the life and inner world behind one of English literature's most singular and enigmatic imagi

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Epictetus's compact handbook of Stoic wisdom, distilled by his pupil Arrian.

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A curated collection of primary documents tracing the early Christian church from the apostolic age through the great councils.

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The life of José Rizal, the Philippines' national hero, drawn largely from his own words: the memories, reflections and testimony of the writer and patriot whose ideas helped awake

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A narrative portrait of the court, favourites and intrigues of Elizabeth I.

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Oscar Wilde’s long prison letter turns suffering, memory, vanity, love, humiliation, and spiritual reckoning into one of the most searching autobiographical works in English.

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Harriet Jacobs's searing first-person account of enslavement, escape, and seven years hidden in a cramped attic.

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Timothy Dexter's gloriously eccentric self-published tract, famous for its erratic spelling and absent punctuation, which the author supplied by the page for readers to insert them

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A wide-ranging anthology of writing from the American South across more than three centuries, gathering poetry, prose and historical documents to trace the literary voice of a regi

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The private letters of Napoleon Bonaparte to Josephine trace one of history's most famous relationships from passionate ardor to estrangement, offering an intimate view of the empe

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A foundational linguistic study of Tagalog by Leonard Bloomfield: transcribed texts paired with rigorous grammatical analysis.

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A reference resource from the Moby lexical project, gathering lists of common words across multiple languages, a practical trove for linguists, word-lovers, puzzle-makers and anyon

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A substantial devotional study of the life and mission of Jesus, drawing on scripture to present his ministry, teaching and significance.

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John Stuart Mill's landmark defence of individual freedom against the pressure of the state and the crowd.

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Charles Dalton's meticulous roster of the British officers present at Waterloo, with biographical notes on their lives and services.

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Arrian's Anabasis of Alexander, the most trusted ancient account of Alexander the Great's campaigns, follows the Macedonian conqueror from Greece to the edge of India in discipline

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A study of how the ancient Greeks commemorated their victorious athletes in sculpture and monument, tracing the meeting point of sport, religion and art in the classical world.

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A collection of colour images sent back from the surface of Mars by NASA's twin rovers, Spirit and Opportunity.

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A practical word book and writer's reference, gathering synonyms, related terms and shades of meaning to help anyone choose language with more precision, variety and care.

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One of the first slave narratives written by a formerly enslaved African, Equiano's 1789 memoir carried a captive from West Africa across the Atlantic to freedom, print, and the fi

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A classic edition of the Goetia, first book of the Lesser Key of Solomon, the notorious grimoire cataloguing seventy-two spirits with their seals, offices and the rites of their co

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Saint Ambrose of Milan's early Christian guide to moral conduct, reworking the classical ideal of duty into a pastoral handbook for those who serve the Church.

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A foundational survey of Britain's prehistoric stone tools, weapons, and ornaments, richly illustrated and carefully classified by type and period.

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A landmark history of the principal drugs of vegetable origin, tracing the plants that became medicines across cultures and centuries.

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The intimate letters of the pioneering feminist Mary Wollstonecraft to her American lover Gilbert Imlay.

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The ancient Sanskrit classic attributed to Vatsyayana, presented in the famous Victorian translation.

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Frederick Douglass's electrifying account of his life in bondage and his fight to be free.

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A nineteenth-century traveler's account of a journey across the Sahara, recording the landscapes, peoples, and hardships of the great desert.

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The foundational essays by Hamilton, Madison and Jay, written to defend the proposed United States Constitution.

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Benjamin Franklin's classic account of his own life, from humble beginnings to fame as a printer, inventor, and statesman.

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The collected writings of a formidable seventeenth-century Scottish divine, a leading voice at the Westminster Assembly.

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Mark Twain's rich memoir of learning the great river as a steamboat pilot, then returning years later to find both the Mississippi and America transformed.

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Thomas Hobbes's landmark of political philosophy, arguing that only a strong sovereign can lift humanity out of the violent chaos of the state of nature.

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Henry David Thoreau's two great works together: the record of his experiment in simple living by Walden Pond, and his ringing argument for conscience over unjust law.

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The 2006 edition of the celebrated global almanac, profiling every nation's geography, people, government and economy in one clear reference.

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A rigorous scholarly reconstruction of pre-Roman Britain and Caesar's two expeditions across the Channel.

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A comprehensive almanac of the world's nations as they stood in 2003, gathering geography, population, government, economy and more into one indispensable reference.

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A practical treasury of ready-made phrases and expressions, gathered to help writers and speakers reach for the apt word with grace, precision and a little more colour.

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The official Warren Commission report on the assassination of President John F.

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The life of one of the most fearless reformers of his age, a champion of free thought and free speech who fought his way into public life.

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A sweeping study of where our sense of right and wrong comes from, drawing on custom, law, and belief across many peoples.

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Machiavelli’s concise and unsettling guide to power, statecraft, fear, reputation, and political survival.

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Plato’s enduring dialogue on justice, education, political order, and the shape of the good life.

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The Art of War by Sun Tzu is the classic strategy text on planning, discipline, deception, leadership, and winning through intelligence rather than brute force.

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Jamaica Kincaid's blistering book-length essay turns the tourist's gaze back on itself, laying bare the wreckage of colonialism and corruption in her native Antigua with unforgetta

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Maggie Nelson's genre-crossing memoir braids queer love, pregnancy and gender transition with sharp philosophical inquiry, making a fierce, tender case for a life that refuses easy

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In 'Civil Disobedience,' Thoreau’s impassioned essay challenges readers to question authority and act on conscience.

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Thoreau's 'Walden' is a quiet rebellion against the noise of civilization, a year spent in deliberate solitude by a pond where time bends to the rustle of leaves and the call of lo

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