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A valuable look at Kant's life and work by a distinguished philosopher; translated from the German.

Kant: A Revolution in Thinking

Marcus Willaschek

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The Seventy-Five Folios and Other Unpublished Manuscripts

Marcel Proust

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Radicals, decadents, hacks, censors, printers, spies and patrons in the French Enlightenment and Revolution. The distinguished historian's previous book was The Revolutionary Temper: Paris,... read more

The Writer’s Lot: Culture and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France

Robert Darnton

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Devised by FDR in the 1930s, 'national security' was designed to keep Americans safe everywhere. This brilliant study of the militarised, global policy that ensued is very pertinent now.

Total Defense: The New Deal and the Invention of National Security

Andrew Preston

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'The greatest literary biography of the twentieth century' and its intriguing author.

Ellmann’s Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiece and Its Maker

Zachary Leader

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Greed, exploitation and imperialism - the havoc wrought by a single orchid root that arrived in Britain from Brazil - by mistake - in 1818.

The Lost Orchid: A Story of Victorian Plunder and Obsession

Sarah Bilston

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Anyone who read Christopher de Hamel's last book, or Alexandra Lapierre's novel Belle Greene, will know that the letters from Pierpont Morgan's mixed-race librarian/buyer to Berenson will be... read more

Becoming Belle da Costa Greene: A Visionary Librarian Through Her Letters

Deborah Parker

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How did Crusius - a C16th Lutheran clergyman who never left the Black Forest - become the greatest scholar of Greece during the Ottoman period? A deeply fascinating study of both subject and... read more

The Discovery of Ottoman Greece: Knowledge, Encounter, and Belief in the Mediterranean World of Martin Crusius

Richard Calis

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An elegant anthology that tries to encompass India's plurality, from the C6th BC to the C18th, with excerpts of works in Hindi, Kannada, Pali, Panjabi, Persian, Sanskrit, Telugu, and Urdu. P... read more

Ten Indian Classics

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A close examination of 125 years of data, from the late 1890s to the present: this is a remarkable and comprehensive piece of research.

Born to Rule: The Making and Remaking of the British Elite

Aaron Reeves

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A brilliant and accessible introduction to the life and thought of Blaise Pascal, in forty short chapters. Translated from the French.

A Summer with Pascal

Antoine Compagnon

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Explores the history of the translation of classical Greek literature into Latin. Far from being inevitable, as it seems seen from the C21st, the Roman adoption of Hellenic classics was an e... read more

Beyond Greek: The Beginnings of Latin Literature

Denis Feeney

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On Animals, Volume I: Books 1-5

Aelian

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On Animals, Volume II: Books 6-11

Aelian

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On Animals: Volume III

Aelian

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Shinichi Suzuki was a violinist who became more famous as an educator and philosopher; his ideas of language acquisition revolutionised musical training. He also did much to erode occidental... read more

Suzuki: The Man and His Dream to Teach the Children of the World

Eri Hotta

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From the author of the best book on Dreyfus, this is a biography of the Indian monk who inspired Freud, Gandhi, and Tagore and introduced Westerners to yoga and the Vedanta.

Guru to the World: The Life and Legacy of Vivekananda

Ruth Harris

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Explores the interaction of mass-market diamonds and German colonialism in Africa. Or how the new American fashion for diamond engagement rings funded Germany in two world wars.

Blood and Diamonds: Germany’s Imperial Ambitions in Africa

Steven Press

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Considers the Mongols as law givers, economists, diplomats, builders and promoters of religious tolerance, whose legacy remains palpable now across the 2 million square miles of Eurasia tha... read more

The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World

Marie Favereau

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The Armenians of Aintab: The Economics of Genocide in an Ottoman Province

UEmit Kurt

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Metamorphoses, Volume I: Books 1–8

Ovid

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Metamorphoses, Volume II: Books 9–15

Ovid

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Anabasis of Alexander, Volume I: Books 1-4

Arrian

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Anabasis of Alexander, Volume II: Books 5-7. Indica

Arrian

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Cyropaedia, Volume II: Books 5-8

Xenophon

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Cyropaedia, Volume I: Books 1-4

Xenophon

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Lives of the Caesars, Volume I: Julius. Augustus. Tiberius. Gaius. Caligula

Suetonius

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Republic, Volume II: Books 6–10

Plato

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Republic, Volume I: Books 1-5

Plato

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Lives of the Caesars, Volume II: Claudius. Nero. Galba, Otho, and Vitellius. Vespasian. Titus, Domitian. Lives of Illustrious Men: Grammarians and Rhetoricians. Poets (Terence. Virgil. Horace. Tibullu

Suetonius

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The Persian Wars, Volume IV: Books 8-9

Herodotus

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The Persian Wars, Volume III: Books 5-7

Herodotus

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The Persian Wars, Volume II: Books 3-4

Herodotus

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The Persian Wars, Volume I: Books 1-2

Herodotus

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History of the Peloponnesian War, Volume IV: Books 7-8. General Index

Thucydides

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History of the Peloponnesian War, Volume III: Books 5-6

Thucydides

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