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1. Civilization and Its Discontents

   Sigmund Freud, Christopher Hitchens, Peter Gay

   Freud’s seminal volume of twentieth-century cultural thought grounded in psychoanalytic theory, now with a new introduction by Christopher Hitchens.More

2. A History of Modern Europe: From the Renaissance to the Present

   John Merriman

   Third Edition / Volume(s): One-Volume

   A classic in its field, loved by instructors and students for its narrative flair, humor, authority, and comprehensive coverage. More than 100,000 copies sold!More

3. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

   Mary Wollstonecraft, Deidre Shauna Lynch

   Third Edition

   Arguably the most original book of the eighteenth century, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman is a pioneering feminist work.More

4. Perspectives from the Past: Primary Sources in Western Civilizations: From the Ancient Near East through the Age of Absolutism

   James M. Brophy, Joshua Cole, Steven Epstein, Et Al.

   Fourth Edition / Volume(s): 1 / Chapters 1-15

   Perspectives from the Past is the most flexible and substantial reader for use in the two-semester Western Civilizations course.More

5. Elizabeth I and Her Age

   Susan M. Felch, Donald V. Stump

   Four centuries after her death, Elizabeth I remains a powerful and fascinating figure.More

6. The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story

   Diane Ackerman

   The New York Times bestseller: a true story in which the keepers of the Warsaw zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands.More

7. Pirates in the Age of Sail

   Robert J. Antony

   Pirates in the Age of Sail takes a global perspective to explore the world of pirates between the early sixteenth and middle nineteenth centuries.More

8. The Writings of St. Paul

   Saint Paul, Wayne A. Meeks, John T. Fitzgerald

   Second Edition

   The Second Edition of this perennially popular Norton Critical Edition is based on the Today’s New International Version of Paul’s letters, a new translation that is heralded for its inclusiveness and accuracy in representation of gender.More

9. The Last Expedition: Stanley's Mad Journey through the Congo

   Daniel Liebowitz, Charles Pearson

   A noble rescue mission descends into a nightmare of cruelty, starvation, and cannibalism, bringing to a close the European exploration of Africa. "Liebowitz and Pearson have written an illuminating saga of the dark days of colonialism."—National Geographic AdventureMore

10. The Battle of Britain: The Greatest Air Battle of World War II

    Richard Alexander Hough, Denis Richards

    A definitive account of the three-month air battle in 1940 between the Royal Air Force and the Luftwaffe.More

11. The Battle That Stopped Rome: Emperor Augustus, Arminius, and the Slaughter of the Legions in the Teutoburg Forest

    Peter S. Wells

    The previously untold story of the watershed battle that changed the course of Western history.More

12. What I Saw: Reports from Berlin 1920-1933

    Joseph Roth, Michael J. Hofmann

    "[Joseph Roth] is now recognized as one of the twentieth century's great writers."—Anthony Heilbut, Los Angeles Times Book ReviewMore

13. Khrushchev: The Man and His Era

    William Taubman

    Reprint

    Shortlisted for the National Books Critics Circle Award: "The book is a gift, as fascinating as it is important."—Robert Legvold, Foreign Affairs
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14. The Pursuit of Oblivion: A Global History of Narcotics

    R. P. T. Davenport-Hines

    A startling account of the history of drug abuse, this book forces us to reconsider many of our views on a controversial issue.More

15. The Victorians

    A. N. Wilson

    A dramatic, revisionist panorama of an age whose material triumphs and spiritual crises prefigure our own.More