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Culture War

The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific

by Gananath Obeyesekere

How 'Natives' Think, About Captain Cook, for Example

by Marshall Sahlins


A God’s Life

God: A Biography

by Jack Miles


Italy’s Dirty Linen

Getting the Boot: Italy's Unfinished Revolution

by Matt Frei

The Crisis of the Italian State: From the Origins of the Cold War to the Fall of Berlusconi

by Patrick McCarthy


Victoria’s Secret

When Passion Reigned: Sex and the Victorians

by Patricia Anderson

The Naked Heart

by Peter Gay


The Myth of Barry Goldwater

Barry Goldwater

by Robert Alan Goldberg

Goldwater: The Man Who Made A Revolution

by Lee Edwards

Turning Right in the Sixties: The Conservative Capture of the GOP

by Mary C. Brennan


Man’s Next-Best Friend

The Company of Wolves

by Peter Steinhart

The Wolf Almanac

by Robert H. Busch


The Perfectionist

William Morris: A Life for Our Time

by Fiona MacCarthy

The Collected Letters of William Morris

edited by Norman Kelvin

Vol. I, 1848–1880

Vol. II, Part A, 1881–1884

Vol. II, Part B, 1885–1888

Vols. III and IV forthcoming

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Extravaganza in Progress

The Manuscript Found in Saragossa

by Jan Potocki, translated by Ian Maclean


Genes, Memes, & Minds

Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life

by Daniel C. Dennett


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