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Socrates in Love: The Making of a Philosopher

Socrates in Love: The Making of a Philosopher

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An Impeccable Spy: Richard Sorge, Stalin’s Master Agent

An Impeccable Spy: Richard Sorge, Stalin’s Master Agent

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Walter Gropius: Visionary Founder of the Bauhaus

Walter Gropius: Visionary Founder of the Bauhaus

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The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China

The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China

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The Perfect Fascist: A Story of Love, Power, and Morality in Mussolini’s Italy

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Machiavelli: His Life and Times

Machiavelli: His Life and Times

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Heinrich Himmler

Heinrich Himmler

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The Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin

The Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin

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Making Oscar Wilde

Making Oscar Wilde

Witty, inspiring, and charismatic, Oscar Wilde is one of the Greats of English literature. Today, hi...
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Bauman: A Biography

Bauman: A Biography

Global thinker, public intellectual and world-famous theorist of ‘liquid modernity’, Zygmunt Bauman...
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The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age

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

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Napoleon and de Gaulle: Heroes and History

Napoleon and de Gaulle: Heroes and History

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Dante’s Bones: How a Poet Invented Italy

Dante’s Bones: How a Poet Invented Italy

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Talaat Pasha: Father of Modern Turkey Architect of Genocide

Talaat Pasha: Father of Modern Turkey Architect of Genocide

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This is Shakespeare: How to Read the World's Greatest Playwright

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