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How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind Regan Penaluna Lydia Moland
The Call of the Tribe Mario Vargas Llosa, trans. John King David Pryce-Jones
Three Roads Back: How Emerson, Thoreau, and William James Responded to the Greatest Losses of Their Lives Robert D. Richardson Christoph Irmscher
The Tragic Mind: Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power Robert D Kaplan Tunku Varadarajan
As Gods: A Moral History of the Genetic Age Matthew Cobb Adrian Woolfson
So Help Me God Mike Pence Barton Swaim
The Philosophy of Modern Song Bob Dylan Wesley Stace
The Gospel of Wellness: Gyms, Gurus, Goop, and the False Promise of Self-Care Rina Raphael Meghan Cox Gurdon
By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners Margaret A. Burnham David J. Garrow
Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment Brad Snyder Charles S. Dameron
In the Houses of Their Dead: The Lincolns, the Booths, and the Spirits Terry Alford John J. Miller
Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry's Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness Andrew Scull Richard J. McNally
21st Century Monetary Policy: The Federal Reserve from the Great Inflation to Covid-19 Ben S Bernanke Joseph C. Sternberg
Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life Clare Mac Cumhaill Heller McAlpin
The Man Who Understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville Olivier Zunz Barton Swaim
The Premonitions Bureau: A True Account of Death Foretold Sam Knight Brandy Schillace
The Last Days of Roger Federer: And Other Endings Geoff Dyer Joseph Epstein
A Brief History of Equality Thomas Piketty Tunku Varadarajan
The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism Matthew Continetti Barton Swaim
Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped History Vidya Krishnan Kyle Harper
The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: A History, a Philosophy, a Warning Justin E H Smith Christine Rosen
The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War Nicholas Mulder Paul Kennedy
Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media Jacob McHangama Jonathan Marks
Home in the World: A Memoir Amartya Sen Tunku Varadarajan
The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy Christopher Leonard Joseph C. Sternberg
The Transcendentalists and Their World Robert A. Gross Randall Fuller
The Broken Constitution: Lincoln, Slavery, and the Refounding of America Noah Feldman Adam Rowe
Being You: A New Science of Consciousness Anil Seth Julian Baggini
Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters Steven Pinker Andrew Stark
The Authority of the Court and the Peril of Politics Stephen Breyer Bryan A. Garner
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law Mary Roach Julie Zickefoose
What's Eating the Universe?: And Other Cosmic Questions Paul Davies Richard Lea
Bright Star, Green Light: The Beautiful Works and Damned Lives of John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald Jonathan Bate Christoph Irmscher
Dangerous Ideas: A Brief History of Censorship in the West, from the Ancients to Fake News Eric Berkowitz Jonathan Rose
The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History Margalit Fox Edward Kosner
American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850 Alan Taylor Gordon S. Wood
Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Gödel Stephen Budiansky David Edmonds
The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War Louis Menand Edward Rothstein
Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said Timothy Brennan Tunku Varadarajan
The Life of the Mind Christine Smallwood Sam Sacks
Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women's Rights Ayaan Hirsi Ali Tunku Varadarajan
Religion and the Rise of Capitalism Benjamin M. Friedman David Skeel
The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution James Oakes Adam Rowe
Think Least of Death: Spinoza on How to Live and How to Die Steven Nadler Jeffrey Collins
American Contagions: Epidemics and the Law from Smallpox to Covid-19 John Fabian Witt Adam J. White
Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy Stephen Wertheim Paul Kennedy
The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again Robert D. Putnam and Shaylyn Romney Garrett Yuval Levin
The Riddle of the Rosetta: How an English Polymath and a French Polyglot Discovered the Meaning of Egyptian Hieroglyphs Jed Z. Buchwald and Diane Greco Josefowicz Maxwell Carter
The Weirdest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous Joseph Henrich Christopher Levenick
Time of the Magicians: Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger, and the Decade That Reinvented Philosophy Wolfram Eilenberger Julian Baggini
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