Subjects
- Philosophy: Primary Sources:
- Ackrill, J. L., ed. A New Aristotle Reader.
- Barkley, Russell A. ADHD and the Nature of Self-Control .
- Benedict, Ruth. Patterns of Culture.
- Bergson, Henri. Creative Evolution.
- Cassirer, Ernst. Essay on Man: An Introduction to a Philosophy of Human Culture.
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius. The Nature of the Gods and On Divination.
- Crescas, Hasdai. The Light of the Lord.
- Davies, Paul. About Time.
- Descartes, Rene. A Discourse on Method.
- Eliot, T. S. On Poetry and Poets.
- Haldane, J. B. S. Science and Everyday Life.
- Hayakawa, S. I. Language in Thought and Action.
- Heath, Thomas, ed. The Thirteen Books of Euclid's Elements.
- Heschel, Abraham Joshua. Man Is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion.
- Ikeda, Daisaku. Glass Children and Other Essays.
- James, William. Pragmatism and Other Writings.
- James, William. The Varieties of Religious Experience: a Study in Human Nature: Being the Gifford Lectures on Natural Religion Delivered at Edinburgh in 1901-1902.
- Johnson, Paul. The Quest for God: A Personal Pilgrimage.
- Maimonides, Moses. A Guide for the Perplexed.
- Mead, Margaret. Male and Female: A Study of the Sexes in a Changing World.
- Montaigne, Michel de. Essays.
- Montesquieu, Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de. The Persian Letters.
- Muller, Herbert J. The Uses of the Past: Profiles of Former Societies.
- Murakami, Haruki. The Wind-up Bird Chronicle.
- Nietzsche, Friedrich. Beyond Good and Evil.
- Nietzsche, Friedrich. The Birth of Tragedy.
- Pascal, Blaise. The Provincial Letters.
- Ratey, John J. and Johnson, Catherine. Shadow Syndromes.
- Rosner, Fred, ed. Maimonides' Medical Writings, v. 4: Moses Maimonides' Three Treatises on Health.
- Saadiah Gaon. The Book of Beliefs and Opinions.
- Sacks, Oliver W. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, and Other Clinical Tales.
- Sacks, Oliver. Migraine.
- Santayana, George. The Sense of Beauty.
- Sartre, Jean-Paul. Anti-Semite and Jew.
- Savitt, Steven F., ed. Time's Arrow Today: Recent Physical and Philosophical Work on the Direction of Time.
- Soyinka, Wole. Ake: The Years of Childhood.
- Soyinka, Wole. Isara: A Voyage Around Essay.
- Spinoza, Benedict de. The Ethics.
- Spinoza, Benedict de. A Theologico-Political Treatise.
- Thoreau, Henry David. Walden.
- Voltaire (Francois-Marie Arouet). Candide.
- Philosophy: Secondary Sources:
- Barrow, John D., and Silk, Joseph. The Left Hand of Creation: The Origin and Evolution of the Expanding Universe.
- Clark, William R. At War Within: The Double-Edged Sword of Immunity.
- Coomaraswamy, Ananda. The Dance of Shiva: Fourteen Indian Essays.
- Fallding, Harold. The Sociology Of Religion: An Explanation Of The Unity And Diversity In Religion.
- Ferm, Vergilius T. A., ed. A History of Philosophical Systems.
- Frazer, James G. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion.
- Gombrich, Ernst Hans. Norm and Form: Studies in the Art of the Renaissance.
- Gordis, Robert. The Book of God and Man: A Study of Job.
- Grayling, A. C., ed. Philosophy: A Guide Through the Subject.
- Katz, Steven T., ed. Jewish Philosophers.
- Kline, Morris. Mathematics in Western Culture.
- Medawar, Peter. Pluto's Republic: incorporating the Art of the Soluble and Induction and Intuition in Scientific Thought.
- Miles, Jack. God: A Biography.
- Sacks, Oliver. An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales.
- Scholem, Gershom. Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism.
- Solomon, R. C. and Higgins, K. M. A Short History of Philosophy.
- General Linguistics:
- De Beaugrande, Robert. Linguistic Theory: The Discourse of Fundamental Works.
- Haegeman, Liliane, ed. The New Comparative Syntax.
- Jespersen, Otto. Analytic Syntax.
- Jespersen, Otto. Language: Its Nature, Development and Origin.
- Lepschy, Giulio, ed. History of Linguistics: Vol 1., The Eastern Traditions of Linguistics.
- Lewis, C. S. Studies in Words.
- Languages:
- Bryant, Margaret M. Modern English and Its Heritage.
- Bryson, Bill. The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That
Way.
- Friedrich, Johannes. Extinct Languages.
- Holes, Clive. Modern Arabic: Structures, Functions and Varieties.
- Jespersen, Otto. Growth and Structure of the English language.
- Marckwardt, Albert H. American English.
- Mencken, H. L. The American Language.
- Naveh, Joseph. Early History of the Alphabet.
- Pyles, Thomas. Words and Ways of American English.
- Saenz-Badillos, Angel. A History of the Hebrew Language.
- General History and Geography:
- Aries, Philippe. Centuries of Childhood: A Social History of Family Life.
- Armitage, Angus. The World of Copernicus.
- Booth, Martin. Opium: A History.
- Burckhardt, Jacob. The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy.
- Burstein, Daniel and de Keijzer, Arne. Big Dragon: China's Future: What It Means for Business, the Economy and the Global Order.
- Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies.
- Fairbank, John King. China: A New History.
- Fortescue, Winifred. Perfume from Provence.
- Goodden, Christian. Three Pagodas: a Journey Down the Thai-Burmese Border.
- Hobsbawm, Eric J. The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848.
- Johnson, Paul. Intellectuals.
- Johnson, Paul. Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties.
- Johnson, Paul. The Renaissance: A Short History.
- Keown-Boyd, Henry. Boxer Rebellion: The Fists of Righteous Harmony.
- Lapierre, Dominique. The City of Joy.
- Lapierre, Dominique. A Thousand Suns.
- Levine, Hillel. In Search of Sugihara: The Elusive Japanese Diplomat Who Risked His Life to Rescue 10,000 Jews from the Holocaust.
- Lewis, Bernard. Islam in History.
- Massie, Robert K. Nicholas and Alexandra.
- McNeill, William H. Plagues and Peoples.
- Mead, Margaret. Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilization.
- Migot, André. Tibetan Marches.
- Miles, James A. R. The Legacy of Tienanmen: China is Disarray.
- Mitford, Nancy. Madame de Pompadour.
- Morita, Akio, et al. Made in Japan: Akio Morita and Sony.
- Morton, Frederic. The Rothschilds: A Family Portrait.
- Muessen, H. J. How the World Cooks Chicken.
- Naipaul, V. S. Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey.
- Naipaul, V. S. The Middle Passage: Impressions of Five Societies - British, French, and Dutch - in the West Indies and South America.
- Patten, Christopher. East and West: China, Power, and the Future of Asia.
- Peyrefitte, Roger. The Jews: A Fictional Venture into the Follies of Antisemitism.
- Ramati, Alexander. The Assisi Underground: The Priests Who Rescued Jews.
- Ritter, E. A. Shaka Zulu.
- Scharfstein, Ben-Ami. The Mind of China: The Culture, Customs and Beliefs of Traditional China.
- Sun Tzu (Gagliardi, Gary, trans.). The Art of War (in Sun Tzu's Own Words).
- Theroux, Paul. Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Capetown.
- Tocqueville, Alexis de. The Old Regime and the French Revolution.
- Tuchman, Barbara W. The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam.
- Tuchman, Barbara W. The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914.
- Tuchman, Barbara W. Sand Against the Wind: Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45.
- Twain, Mark. Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World.
- Twain, Mark. Innocents Abroad, or the New Pilgrims Progress, Being Some Account of the Steamship Quaker City's Pleasure Excursion to Europe and the Holy Land....
- Waddell, L. Austine. Lhasa and Its Mysteries.
- Wheatcroft, Andrew. The Habsburgs: Embodying Empire.
- Ancient History and Archaeology:
- Albright, William Foxwell. The Archaeology of Palestine.
- Fowden, Garth. The Egyptian Hermes: A Historical Approach to the Late Pagan Mind.
- Fowden, Garth. Empire to Commonwealth: Consequences of Monotheism in Late Antiquity.
- Goodison, Lucy, and Morris, Christine, eds. Ancient Goddesses: The Myths and the Evidence.
- Kenyon, Kathleen M. Archaeology in the Holy Land.
- Mahaffy, John Pentland, with Gilman, Arthur. The Empire of Alexander the Great.
- Moldenke, Harold N. and Moldenke, Alma L. Plants of the Bible.
- Pigott, Stuart. Prehistoric India.
- Rawlinson, George. Ancient History: From the Earliest Times to the Fall of the Western Empire.
- Thompson, John Eric Sidney, Sir. The Rise and Fall of Maya Civilization.
- Medieval History:
- Bede. The Ecclesiastical History of the English People.
- Brooke, Christopher N. L. From Alfred to Henry III, 871-1272.
- Cantor, Norman F. The Civilization of the Middle Ages.
- Coulton, G. G. The Medieval Village.
- Hart, Henry H. Venetian Adventurer: Marco Polo.
- Huizinga, Johan. The Waning of the Middle Ages.
- Polo, Marco. The Travels.
- Sackville-West, Vita. Saint Joan of Arc.
- Tuchman, Barbara W. A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous
14th Century.
- Von Grunebaum, G. E. Classical Islam: 600-1258.
- Ziegler, Philip. The Black Death.
- British and American History:
- Adams, Henry. The Education of Henry Adams.
- Bede. The Ecclesiastical History of the English People.
- Bradlee, Benjamin C. A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures.
- Brooke, Christopher N. L. From Alfred to Henry III, 871-1272.
- Charnwood, G. R. Benson, Baron. Abraham Lincoln.
- Churchill, Winston. A History of the English-Speaking Peoples.
- Defoe, Daniel. A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain.
- Douglass, Frederick. The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass.
- James, Marquis. Andrew Jackson: Portrait of a President.
- Kennedy, John F. Profiles In Courage.
- Kissinger, Henry. Diplomacy.
- Padover, Saul K. Jefferson.
- Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr. The Age of Jackson.
- Sirica, John J. To Set the Record Straight: The Break-In, the Tapes, the Conspirators, the Pardon.
- Strauss, Lewis L. Men and Decisions.
- Tocqueville, Alexis de. Democracy in America.
- Trevelyan, George M.. England in the Age of Wycliffe, 1368-1520.
- Weir, Alison. The Wars of the Roses.
- Artworks:
- Austen, Jane. Mansfield Park.
- Austen, Jane. Northanger Abbey.
- Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice.
- Baudelaire, Charles (Wallace Fowlie, tr.). Flowers of Evil and Other Works / Les Fleurs du Mal Et Oeuvres Choisies: A Dual-Language Book.
- Beckett, Samuel. Waiting for Godot.
- Carmi, T., ed. The Penguin Book of Hebrew Verse.
- Carroll, Lewis. The Annotated Alice: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass.
- Cornwell, Patricia. The Last Precinct.
- Donne, John. (Warnke, Frank J., ed.) John Donne: Poetry and Prose.
- Du Maurier, George. Trilby.
- Eliot, George. Middlemarch.
- Ernst, Bruno. The Magic Mirror of M.C. Escher.
- Escher, Maurits Cornelis. The Graphic Work of M. C. Escher.
- Euripides (William Arrowsmith, tr.). The Bacchae.
- Ferre, Rosario. Eccentric Neighborhoods.
- Flaubert, Gustave. Salammbo.
- Flaubert, Gustave. Three Tales.
- Garcia Lorca, Federico. Three Tragedies of Federico Garcia Lorca.
- Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn. Cranford.
- Goldstein, David, ed. The Jewish Poets of Spain, 900-1250.
- Harmon, William, ed. The Classic Hundred Poems.
- O Henry. O Henry's New York.
- Ibsen, Henrik (Archer, William, tr.). The Last Plays.
- Jones, Guy Pearce and Constance Bridges. Peabody's Mermaid.
- Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man.
- Khayyam, Omar (Fitzgerald, Edward, trans.). Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
- Kipling, Rudyard. Limits and Renewals.
- Lafayette, Marie-Madeleine de (Madame de La Fayette). The Princess of Cleves.
- Lamartine, Alphonse de. Meditations Poetiques.
- Lang, Cecil, ed. The Pre-Raphaelites and Their Circle.
- Malraux, Andre. Man's Fate (La Condition Humaine).
- Mann, Thomas. Joseph and His Brothers.
- Mantel, Hilary. Fludd.
- Marguerite de Navarre. The Heptameron.
- Marlowe, Christopher. Dr. Faustus.
- Maugham, W. Somerset. Cakes and Ale.
- Merimee, Prosper. Carmen and Other Stories.
- Nerval, Gerard de. Aurelia and Other Writings.
- Peyrefitte, Roger. The Jews: A Fictional Venture into the Follies of Antisemitism.
- Plath, Sylvia. The Bell Jar.
- Poe, Edgar Allan. The Gold-Bug and Other Tales.
- Prévost, Antoine-François (Abbé Prévost). Manon Lescaut.
- Proust, Marcel. Swann's Way (In Search of Lost Time, Vol 1).
- Richardson, Samuel. Pamela.
- Rushdie, Salman. The Satanic Verses.
- Sand, George. La Mare au Diable.
- Scott, Sir Walter. Ivanhoe.
- Sévigné, Marie de (Madame de Sévigné). Selected Letters.
- Troyes, Chretien de. Perceval: The Story of the Grail.
- Whitman, Walt. (Van Doren, Mark, and Cowley, Malcolm, eds. The Portable Walt Whitman.
- Wieder, Laurance. King Solomon's Garden: poems and art inspired by the Old Testament.
- Wolfram, Eddie, and Larkin, David, eds. Magritte.
- Woolf, Virginia. Mrs Dalloway.
- Yourcenar, Marguerite. The Abyss.
- Zeromski, Stefan. The Faithful River.
- Literary Criticism:
- Altick, Richard Daniel. The Scholar Adventurers.
- Austen, Jane (Le Faye, Deirdre, ed.). Jane Austen's Letters.
- Baudelaire, Charles. The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays.
- Benjamin, Walter. Illuminations.
- Bloom, Harold. The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages.
- Brooks, Cleanth. The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry.
- Burnshaw, Stanley, ed. The Poem Itself.
- Claudel, Paul. Poetic Art.
- Cole, Toby, ed. Playwrights on Playwriting: The Meaning and Making of Modern Drama from Ibsen to Ionesco.
- Empson, William. Seven Types of Ambiguity.
- Flaubert, Gustave, et al. Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour; A Narrative Drawn from Gustave Flaubert's Travel Notes & Letters.
- Ford, Boris, ed. The Pelican Guide to English Literature: The Age of Chaucer.
- Huxley, Aldous. Texts and Pretexts: An Anthology of Poetry with Commentaries.
- Kundera, Milan. The Art of the Novel.
- Leakey, F. W. Baudelaire: Les Fleurs Du Mal (Landmarks of World Literature).
- Nabokov, Vladimir. Lectures on Literature.
- Pater, Walter. The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry.
- Ransom, John Crowe. Poems and Essays: Selected, Edited, and Arranged by the Author.
- Richards, I. A. Practical Criticism.
- Shaw, George Bernard. The Quintessence of Ibsenism.
- Shaw, George Bernard. Shaw on Theatre.
- Staël, Germaine de (Madame de Staël). On Germany.
- Steiner, George. Language and Silence: Essays on Language, Literature, and the Inhuman.
- Tomalin, Claire. Jane Austen: A Life.
- Tucker, George Holbert. Jane Austen, The Woman: Some Biographical Insights.
- Watt, Ian P. The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding.
- Wilson, Edmund. The Bit Between My Teeth: A Literary Chronicle of 1950-1965.
- Wilson, Edmund. Classics and Commercials.
- Wright, Andrew H. Jane Austen's Novels: A Study in Structure.
- Judaica:
- Du Maurier, George. Trilby.
- Johnson, Paul. A History of the Jews.
- Lewis, Bernard W. The Jews of Islam.
- Nochlin, Linda and Garb, Tamar, eds. The Jew in the Text: Modernity and the Construction of Identity.
- Quiros, Felipe Torroba Bernaldo de. The Spanish Jews.
- Ramati, Alexander. The Assisi Underground: The Priests Who Rescued Jews.
- Roth, Cecil. Dona Gracia of the House of Nasi.
- Roth, Cecil. History of the Jews in Venice.
- Roth, Cecil. The House of Nasi: The Duke of Naxos.
- Roth, Cecil. The Jews in the Renaissance.
- Scholem, Gershom. Sabbatai Sevi, The Mystical Messiah: 1626-1676.
- Scott, Sir Walter. Ivanhoe.
- Everything Else:
- Alexopoulos, C. J., et al. Introductory Mycology.
- Baudelaire, Charles. The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays.
- Becker, Marion Rombauer, et al. The All New, All Purpose Joy of Cooking.
- Berlinski, David. A Tour of the Calculus.
- Bloch, Konrad. Blondes in Venetian Paintings, the Nine-Banded Armadillo, and Other Essays in Biochemistry.
- Carroll, Lewis. The Annotated Alice: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass.
- Chute, Marchette. Shakespeare of London.
- Clunas, Craig. Art in China.
- Eccles, John C. The Physiology of Synapses.
- Fifield, William. Modigliani: The Biography.
- Fry, Roger. Vision and Design.
- Gamow, George. Gravity.
- Gaunt, William. The Pre-Raphaelite Dream.
- Grandin, Temple. Thinking in Pictures and other reports from my life with autism.
- Grieve, Mrs. M. A Modern Herbal: The Medicinal, Culinary, Cosmetic and Economic Properties, Cultivation and Folk Lore of Herbs, Grasses, Fungi, Shrubs & Trees with All Their Modern Scientific Uses.
- Grosser, Maurice. The Painter's Eye.
- Hawkins, Gerald S., and White, John B. Stonehenge Decoded.
- Hogben, Lancelot. Mathematics for the Million.
- Humphries, Patrick. The Boy in the Bubble: A Biography of Paul Simon.
- Kitani, K., et al., eds. Pharmacological Intervention in Aging and Age-Associated Disorders.
- Lorentz, H. A., Einstein, Albert, et al. The Principle of Relativity.
- Martin, Russell. Beethoven's Hair: An Extraordinary Historical Odyssey and a Scientific Mystery Solved.
- McCormick, Joseph, et al. Level 4: Virus Hunters of the CDC.
- Pater, Walter. The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry.
- Pauling, Linus. General Chemistry.
- Preston, Richard. The Hot Zone.
- Protter, Eric, ed. Painters on Painting.
- Renoir, Jean. Renoir, My Father.
- Sacks, Oliver. Awakenings.
- Salmon, Andre. Modigliani.
- Schweitzer, Albert. On the Edge of the Primeval Forest.
- Sears, F. W., Zemansky, Mark, and Young, H. D. College Physics.
- Sontag, Susan. On Photography.
- Stein, Gertrude. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.
- Thomson, Belinda. Impressionism: Origins, Practice, Reception.
- Townsend, Sue. Public Confessions of a Middle-aged Woman.
- Tregear, Mary. Chinese Art.
- Vollard, Ambroise. Renoir: An Intimate Record.
- Ward, Laura. Bad Press: The Worst Critical Reviews Ever.
- Warnke, Frank J., ed. John Donne: Poetry and Prose.
- Weinberg, Steven. The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe.
- Wilenski, R. H. Modern French Painters.
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