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Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities

by Martha C. Nussbaum

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Henry VIII and Francis I: The Final Conflict, 1540-1547 (History of Warfare)

by David Potter

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The Modern Mind: An Intellectual History of the 20th Century

by Peter Watson

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