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The Unmysterious East

A Passage to India

a film, written and directed by David Lean


The Alchemist

The Periodic Table

by Primo Levi, translated by Raymond Rosenthal


How Khomeini Made It

The Reign of the Ayatollahs: Iran and the Islamic Revolution

by Shaul Bakhash


Love of Flying

“Today it is marvelous indeed to watch on television the rings of Saturn close; and to speculate on what we may yet find at galaxy’s edge. But in the process, we have lost the human element; not to mention the high hope of those quaint days when flight would create ‘one world.’”

The Winged Gospel: America's Romance with Aviation, 1900–1950

by Joseph J. Corn


The Charms of Certitude

How Democracies Perish

by Jean-François Revel, with the assistance of Branko Lazitch, translated by William Byron


The Sweet Swan of Oxford?

The Mysterious William Shakespeare: The Myth and the Reality

by Charlton Ogburn


Spreading the News

Slavery and Human Progress

by David Brion Davis


How Nuclear War Could Start

The Command and Control of Nuclear Forces

by Paul Bracken


The Passions of Géricault

Géricault: His Life and Work

by Lorenz E.A. Eitner


The New New Spanish History

Fascism from Above: The Dictatorship of Primo de Rivera in Spain, 1923–1930

by Shlomo Ben-Ami

Revolution and War in Spain, 1931–1939

edited by Paul Preston

La Encrucijada Vasca: Una vivisección sobre la crisis de convivencia en Euskadi

by Ricardo García Damborenea


Et tu, Hugo

Victor Hugo and the Visionary Novel

by Victor Brombert


Our Town

A Place in Time: Middlesex County, Virginia, 1650–1750

by Darrett B. and Anita H. Rutman

A Place in Time: Explicatus

by Darrett B. and Anita H. Rutman


Ten Years of Animal Liberation

Modern Meat: Antibiotics, Hormones, and the Pharmaceutical Farm

by Orville Schell

Farm Animals: Husbandry, Behavior, and Veterinary Practice

by Michael W. Fox

Of Mice, Models, and Men: A Critical Evaluation of Animal Research

by Andrew N. Rowan

Victims of Science: The Use of Animals in Research

by Richard D. Ryder

Man and Mouse: Animals in Medical Research

by William Paton

All That Dwell Therein: Animal Rights and Environmental Ethics

by Tom Regan

The Case for Animal Rights

by Tom Regan

Animals and Why They Matter: A Journey Around the Species Barrier

by Mary Midgley

Rights, Killing, and Suffering: Moral Vegetarianism and Applied Ethics

by R.G. Frey

Interests and Rights: The Case Against Animals

by R.G. Frey

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