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The Lesson of the Dreyfus Case

“Another book about the Dreyfus Affair? What could possibly justify loading another volume upon that already over-crowded shelf? The simplest answer is the timelessness of the story. It is a morality tale.”

The Affair: The Case of Alfred Dreyfus

by Jean-Denis Bredin


No Place for Them

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A Triumph of Historical Excavation

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by Martin J.S. Rudwick


Worlds of Wonder

The Bone People

by Keri Hulme

What's Bred in the Bone

by Robertson Davies


Science Turned Upside Down

Revolution in Science

by I. Bernard Cohen


Unspeakable Acts

The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World

by Elaine Scarry

Torture

by Edward Peters


Voice of Exile

The Land of Ulro

by Czeslaw Milosz, translated by Louis Iribarne


Politics as Language

Virtue, Commerce, and History: Essays on Political Thought and History, Chiefly in the Eighteenth Century

by J.G.A. Pocock


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