Hardcover

Descendants of Cyrus: Travels through Everyday Iran

ByChristopher P. Thornton

1 Reader

Women Travelers: A Century of Trailblazing Adventures 1850-1950

ByAlexandra Lapierre

2007 • 1 Reader

Magic and Mystery in Tibet

ByAlexandra David-Néel

1929 • 3 Readers • 320 pages • 4

Ladies of the Field: Early Women Archaeologists and Their Search for Adventure

ByAmanda Adams

2010 • 2 Readers

#2 of 2 in Trilogy of the West

The Year of Decision 1846

ByBernard DeVoto

1943 • 3 Readers • 576 pages

The Insanity Defense and the Mad Murderess of Shaker Heights

True Crime History

The Insanity Defense and the Mad Murderess of Shaker Heights: Examining the Trial of Mariann Colby

ByWilliam L. Tabac

1 Reader

Long Way Home

ByCameron Douglas

2 Readers • 387 pages • 3

Arcadia

ByTom Stoppard

1993 • 41 Readers • 97 pages • 4.1

Beyond the Trees: A Journey Alone Across Canada's Arctic

ByAdam Shoalts

2019 • 2 Readers • 320 pages

Reconstruction: A Concise History

ByAllen C. Guelzo

2018 • 1 Reader

Circulating Literacy: Writing Instruction in American Periodicals, 1880-1910

ByAlicia Brazeau

1 Reader

The Business of Literary Circles in Nineteenth-Century America

ByDavid Dowling

2011 • 1 Reader

3 Bois Sauvage

Sing, Unburied, Sing

ByJesmyn Ward

2017 • 299 Readers • 285 pages • 4

The Brethren

ByBob Woodward,Scott Armstrong

1979 • 16 Readers • 592 pages • 4.8

Selected Letters

ByAndrew Kahn(Translator),Kelsey Rubin-Detlev(Translator),+1 more

1 Reader

Word for Nature

Word for Nature: Four Pioneering Environmental Advocates, 1845-1913

ByRobert L. Dorman,Janice Ed. Dorman

1998 • 1 Reader

Saving America's Cities : Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age

ByLizabeth Cohen

2019 • 2 Readers • 560 pages

American Political Thought

ByMichael S. Cummings(Editor)

2014 • 1 Reader

Powerful Teaching

ByPooja K. Agarwal,Patrice M. Bain

2019 • 5 Readers • 352 pages

Start Finishing

ByCharlie Gilkey

2019 • 16 Readers • 272 pages • 3

What The Economy Needs Now

ByAbhijit V. Banerjee,Gita Gopinath,+2 more

1 Reader

80,000 Hours

ByBenjamin Todd

2016 • 24 Readers • 4

Utilitarianism

ByKatarzyna de Lazari-Radek,Peter Singer

2017 • 3 Readers • 169 pages • 4

Relic: How Our Constitution Undermines Effective Government--and Why We Need a More Powerful Presidency

ByWilliam G. Howell,Terry M. Moe

2016 • 1 Reader

The Monarchy of Fear

ByMartha C. Nussbaum

2018 • 4 Readers • 272 pages

Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems

ByAbhijit V. Banerjee,Esther Duflo

2019 • 105 Readers • 432 pages • 4.1

The Writer Writing

ByFrancis-Noel Thomas

1992 • 1 Reader

History in English Words

ByOwen Barfield

1926 • 3 Readers • 220 pages

What Coleridge Thought

ByOwen Barfield

1971 • 1 Reader

Doing Good Better

ByWilliam MacAskill

2015 • 42 Readers • 272 pages • 3.9

Poetic Diction: A Study in Meaning

ByOwen Barfield

1928 • 2 Readers

The Public Square

Not for Profit

ByMartha C. Nussbaum

2010 • 7 Readers • 158 pages

Clear and Simple as the Truth

ByMark Turner,Francis-Noël Thomas

1996 • 3 Readers • 238 pages

The Good University: What Universities Actually Do and Why It’s Time for Radical Change

ByRaewyn W. Connell

1 Reader

How to Die

BySeneca

2018 • 23 Readers • 256 pages • 3.5

Wolf Whistle Politics

Wolf Whistle Politics: The New Misogyny in America Today

ByDiane Wachtell(Editor),Naomi Wolf(Introduction)

2017 • 2 Readers

Why the Germans? Why the Jews?: Envy, Race Hatred, and the Prehistory of the Holocaust

ByGötz Aly

2011 • 2 Readers

Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny

ByKate Manne

2017 • 65 Readers • 369 pages • 4.2

Dark Feelings, Grim Thoughts: Experience and Reflection in Camus and Sartre

ByRobert C. Solomon

2006 • 2 Readers • 171 pages

Guest House for Young Widows

ByAzadeh Moaveni

2019 • 10 Readers • 352 pages • 4.5

The Slow Professor

The Slow Professor: Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy

ByMaggie Berg,Barbara Seeber

2013 • 1 Reader

The Sovereignty of Good

ByIris Murdoch

1970 • 5 Readers

#1 of 5 in Emperor

The Gates of Rome

ByConn Iggulden

2002 • 57 Readers • 370 pages • 3.8

So it Goes: Travels in the Aran Isles, Xian and Places In Between

ByNicolas Bouvier,Robyn Marsack(Translator)

1 Reader

The Unexpected Way

The Unexpected Way: On Converting from Buddhism to Catholicism

ByPaul Williams

2002 • 1 Reader

Reading Autobiography: A Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives

BySidonie Smith,Julia Watson

2001 • 3 Readers • 394 pages

The Literary Vocation of Henry Adams

ByWilliam Merrill Decker

1990 • 1 Reader

The Claims of Experience: Autobiography and American Democracy

ByNolan Bennett

1 Reader

Seeing and Being: The Plight of the Participant Observer in Emerson, James, Adams, and Faulkner

ByCarolyn Porter,Pete Gomez

1981 • 1 Reader

Youth

ByTove Ditlevsen

9 Readers • 4.3

The Story of Rufino: Slavery, Freedom, and Islam in the Black Atlantic

ByJoão José Reis,Flávio dos Santos Gomes,+2 more

2020 • 1 Reader

New Grub Street

ByGeorge Gissing

1891 • 24 Readers • 576 pages • 4

Second Nature

ByMichael Pollan

1991 • 30 Readers • 258 pages • 4

Jefferson's Muslim Fugitives: The Lost Story of Enslaved Africans, their Arabic Letters, and an American President

ByJeffrey Einboden

2020 • 1 Reader

The Private Jefferson: Perspectives from the Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society

ByPeter S. Onuf,Andrea Wulf,+1 more

1 Reader

The Biography of Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua

The Biography of Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua: His Passage from Slavery to Freedom in Africa and America

ByRobin Law(Editor),Paul E. Lovejoy(Editor)

2001 • 1 Reader

Seward: Lincoln's Indispensable Man

ByWalter Stahr

2012 • 2 Readers

The Mayor of Mogadishu

ByAndrew Harding

2016 • 4 Readers • 304 pages

Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race

ByThomas Chatterton Williams

2019 • 4 Readers • 192 pages

The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

ByWendell Berry

2002 • 11 Readers • 327 pages

Strike Your Heart

ByAmélie Nothomb,Alison Anderson(Translator)

2017 • 8 Readers • 93 pages • 4.3

A Year Without a Name: A Memoir

ByCyrus Grace Dunham

2019 • 13 Readers • 176 pages • 3.8

#3 of 3 in The Copenhagen Trilogy

Gift

ByTove Ditlevsen

2015 • 7 Readers • 144 pages • 4.3

Charles Willson Peale

Charles Willson Peale: Art and Selfhood in the Early Republic

ByDavid C. Ward

2004 • 1 Reader

Ouidah

ByRobin Law

1 Reader

Thomas Jefferson's Granddaughter in Queen Victoria's England: The Travel Diary of Ellen Wayles Coolidge, 1838–1839

ByEllen Wayles Coolidge

2011 • 1 Reader

Invasive Aliens: The Plants and Animals From Over There That Are Over Here

ByDan Eatherley

3 Readers

Among Muslims: Meetings at the Frontiers of Pakistan

ByKathleen Jamie

1992 • 1 Reader • 256 pages

For Solo Violin: A Jewish Childhood in Fascist Italy

ByAldo Zargani

1995 • 1 Reader

Alexis de Tocqueville

ByJoseph Epstein

2006 • 2 Readers • 227 pages • 5

Religion in North America

The White Buddhist: The Asian Odyssey of Henry Steel Olcott

ByStephen R. Prothero

1996 • 1 Reader

The invention of fire

ByBruce W. Holsinger

6 Readers • 3.5

Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism

ByBenedict Anderson

12 • 79 Readers • 160 pages • 4.3

Tough Enough: Arbus, Arendt, Didion, McCarthy, Sontag, Weil

ByDeborah Nelson

2017 • 1 Reader

The Two Princes of Calabar: An Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Odyssey

ByRandy J. Sparks

2004 • 2 Readers • 176 pages

The Gifted School

ByBruce Holsinger

2019 • 53 Readers • 464 pages • 3.9

#1 of 1 in John Gower

A Burnable Book

ByBruce Holsinger

2014 • 31 Readers • 3.5

Being Caribou

ByKarsten Heuer

2005 • 2 Readers • 3

The Origin of Sorrow

ByRobert Mayer

2010 • 1 Reader

The Political Thought of Abdullah Öcalan: Kurdistan, Women's Revolution and Democratic Confederalism

ByAbdullah Öcalan

2017 • 3 Readers • 144 pages • 0.5

A Death: Notes of a Suicide

ByZalman Shneour

1909 • 2 Readers

Make Your Home Among Strangers

ByJennine Capo Crucet

2015 • 16 Readers • 388 pages • 3.8

Older Brother

ByMahir Guven,Tina A. Kover(Translator)

2017 • 3 Readers • 256 pages • 5

Bird Relics: Grief and Vitalism in Thoreau

ByBranka Arsić

2016 • 1 Reader

Legacy: Trauma, Story, and Indigenous Healing

BySuzanne Methot

2019 • 2 Readers

Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age

ByDarrel J. McLeod

2018 • 3 Readers • 240 pages

Thomas Jefferson's Scrapbooks

Thomas Jefferson's Scrapbooks: Poems of Nation, Family and Romantic Love Collected by America's Third President

ByJonathan Gross(Editor)

2006 • 1 Reader

The Light That Failed

ByRudyard Kipling,John Lyon

1891 • 2 Readers

We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast

ByJonathan Safran Foer

2019 • 59 Readers • 272 pages • 3.7

Collegiate Republic: Cultivating an Ideal Society in Early America

ByMargaret Sumner

2014 • 1 Reader

Maggie-Now

ByBetty Smith

1950 • 2 Readers

"Most blessed of the patriarchs"

ByAnnette Gordon-Reed

5 Readers • 4

The Man Who Played with Fire: Stieg Larsson's Lost Files and the Hunt for an Assassin

ByJan Stocklassa

2018 • 28 Readers • 4

Thomas Jefferson's Creme Brulee: How a Founding Father and His Slave James Hemings Introduced French Cuisine to America

ByThomas J. Craughwell

2012 • 3 Readers • 234 pages

The Road to Monticello

The Road to Monticello: The Life and Mind of Thomas Jefferson

ByKevin J. Hayes

2008 • 2 Readers

The Diary of a Nobody

ByGeorge Grossmith,Weedon Grossmith

1889 • 40 Readers • 176 pages • 3.5

We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights

ByAdam Winkler

2018 • 10 Readers • 3

The Gates of the Alamo

ByStephen Harrigan

2000 • 6 Readers • 5

The Winter Soldier

ByDaniel Mason

2018 • 19 Readers • 323 pages • 3.8

Writing Wild: Forming a Creative Partnership with Nature

ByTina Welling

2014 • 3 Readers

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