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The Moses Legacy

The Moses Legacy

Daniel Klein (1)

Mary Queen of Scots

Mary Queen of Scots

Between Hope and Fear: A History of Vaccines and Human Immunity

Between Hope and Fear: A History of Vaccines and Human Immunity

The Sober Truth: Debunking the Bad Science Behind 12-Step Programs and the Rehab Industry

The Sober Truth: Debunking the Bad Science Behind 12-Step Programs ...

Lance Dodes & Zachary Dodes

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Shaping the Industrial Century: The Remarkable Story of the Evolution of the Modern Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industries

Shaping the Industrial Century: The Remarkable Story of the ...

Alfred D. Chandler Jr.

Scale and Scope: The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism

Scale and Scope: The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism

Alfred D Chandler Jr. & Takashi Hikino

The Last Million: Europe's Displaced Persons From World War to Cold War

The Last Million: Europe's Displaced Persons From World War ...

The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War

The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern ...

Nicholas Mulder

Aeroscopics: Media of the Bird's-Eye View

Aeroscopics: Media of the Bird's-Eye View

Dewey Defeats Truman: The 1948 Election and the Battle for America's Soul

Dewey Defeats Truman: The 1948 Election and the Battle for America's ...

Island of the Lost: An Extraordinary Story of Survival at the Edge of the World

Island of the Lost: An Extraordinary Story of Survival at the ...

The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy

The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi ...

The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931

The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global ...

Statistics and the German State, 1900-1945: The Making of Modern Economic Knowledge

Statistics and the German State, 1900-1945: The Making of Modern ...

The Jungle Grows Back: America and Our Imperiled World

The Jungle Grows Back: America and Our Imperiled World

American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850

American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, ...

Night of the Assassins: The Untold Story of Hitler's Plot to Kill FDR, Churchill, and Stalin

Night of the Assassins: The Untold Story of Hitler's Plot to ...

Hell and Other Destinations: A 21st-Century Memoir

Hell and Other Destinations: A 21st-Century Memoir

Madeleine Albright

The Last American Aristocrat: The Brilliant Life and Improbable Education of Henry Adams

The Last American Aristocrat: The Brilliant Life and Improbable ...

Conquistadores: A New History of Spanish Discovery and Conquest

Conquistadores: A New History of Spanish Discovery and Conquest

Fernando Cervantes

The Limits of Partnership: U.S.-Russian Relations in the Twenty-First Century - Updated Edition

The Limits of Partnership: U.S.-Russian Relations in the Twenty-First ...

Angela E. Stent

Ill Winds: Saving Democracy From Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition, and American Complacency

Ill Winds: Saving Democracy From Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition, ...

What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry

What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped ...

Smashing the Liquor Machine: A Global History of Prohibition

Smashing the Liquor Machine: A Global History of Prohibition

Mark Lawrence Schrad

Hippies, Indians, and the Fight for Red Power

Hippies, Indians, and the Fight for Red Power

Sherry L. Smith

18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics

18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and ...

The Riddle of the Rosetta: How an English Polymath and a French Polyglot Discovered the Meaning of Egyptian Hieroglyphs

The Riddle of the Rosetta: How an English Polymath and a French ...

Jed Z. Buchwald & Diane Greco Josefowicz

Essays and Aphorisms

Essays and Aphorisms

Arthur Schopenhauer

The Great Exception: The New Deal and the Limits of American Politics

The Great Exception: The New Deal and the Limits of American ...

Jefferson Cowie

The Modem World: A Prehistory of Social Media

The Modem World: A Prehistory of Social Media

Tower of Basel: The Shadowy History of the Secret Bank That Runs the World

Tower of Basel: The Shadowy History of the Secret Bank That ...

Disunited Nations: The Scramble for Power in an Ungoverned World

Disunited Nations: The Scramble for Power in an Ungoverned World

Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World

Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World

The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy

The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern ...

Kenneth Pomeranz

The European Miracle: Environments, Economies and Geopolitics in the History of Europe and Asia

The European Miracle: Environments, Economies and Geopolitics ...

The Enlightened Economy: Britain and the Industrial Revolution, 1700-1850

The Enlightened Economy: Britain and the Industrial Revolution, ...

Brand Luther: How an Unheralded Monk Turned His Small Town Into ...

Andrew Pettegree

The Bookshop of the World: Making and Trading Books in the Dutch Golden Age

The Bookshop of the World: Making and Trading Books in the Dutch ...

Andrew Pettegree & Arthur Der Weduwen

Fairness and Freedom: A History of Two Open Societies: New Zealand and the United States

Fairness and Freedom: A History of Two Open Societies: New Zealand ...

David Hackett Fischer

Why Liberalism Failed

Why Liberalism Failed

Patrick J. Deneen

For Common Things: Irony, Trust and Commitment in America Today

For Common Things: Irony, Trust and Commitment in America Today

A Cure for Darkness: The Story of Depression and How We Treat It

A Cure for Darkness: The Story of Depression and How We Treat ...

Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World

Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of ...

Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom

Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom

Thomas E. Ricks

The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought

The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the ...

Dennis C. Rasmussen

The Pragmatic Enlightenment

The Pragmatic Enlightenment

Dennis C. Rasmussen

White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism

White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism

When It Was Just a Game: Remembering the First Super Bowl

When It Was Just a Game: Remembering the First Super Bowl

Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century

Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth ...

J. Bradford DeLong

Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples From Destruction

Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's ...

Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of ...

Culture Crash: The Killing of the Creative Class

Culture Crash: The Killing of the Creative Class

Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World

Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World

Adventurer: The Life and Times of Giacomo Casanova

Adventurer: The Life and Times of Giacomo Casanova

The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age

The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age

The Visionaries: Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil, and the Power of Philosophy in Dark Times

The Visionaries: Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil, and the Power ...

Wolfram Eilenberger

The Expanding Blaze: How the American Revolution Ignited the World, 1775-1848

The Expanding Blaze: How the American Revolution Ignited the ...

Jonathan Israel

Democratic Enlightenment Philosophy Revolution and Human Rights 1750-1790

Democratic Enlightenment Philosophy Revolution and Human Rights ...

Jonathan Israel

Burning Books

Burning Books

Matthew Fishburn

Water for Gotham: A History

Water for Gotham: A History

Gerard T. Koeppel

The Year That Broke America: An Immigration Crisis, a Terrorist Conspiracy, the Summer of Survivor, a Ridiculous Fake Billionaire, a Fight for Florida, and the 537 Votes That Changed Everything

The Year That Broke America: An Immigration Crisis, a Terrorist ...

The Year That Broke Politics: Collusion and Chaos in the Presidential Election of 1968

The Year That Broke Politics: Collusion and Chaos in the Presidential ...

Luke A. Nichter

The Science of Reading: Information, Media, and Mind in Modern America

The Science of Reading: Information, Media, and Mind in Modern ...

The Rise and Fall of the EAST: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline

The Rise and Fall of the EAST: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, ...