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Michael Faraday · English
Faraday’s experimental papers on electricity, induction, electrochemistry, magnetism, fields, and scientific method.
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Science
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Michael Faraday · English
Faraday’s experimental papers on electricity, induction, electrochemistry, magnetism, fields, and scientific method.
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History
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Bernal Díaz del Castillo · Spanish
Crónica de la conquista de México narrada por Bernal Díaz, testigo de Cortés, guerra, alianza y memoria.
French
Theology
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Jean Calvin · French
Un traité majeur de théologie réformée sur foi, Écriture, grâce, Église, sacrements et vie chrétienne.
English
Economics
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Henry George · English
A major economic reform text on land, rent, inequality, wages, poverty, and the single tax.
English
Education
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John Locke · English
Locke’s practical educational treatise on habit, character, discipline, health, reason, and formation.
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Economics
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John Maynard Keynes · English
Keynes’s influential critique of the Versailles settlement, reparations, Europe’s economy, and postwar instability.
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Military
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Edward Shepherd Creasy · English
A nineteenth-century military history of battles that shaped empire, politics, Europe, and world history.
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Religion
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James George Frazer · English
A comparative study of myth, ritual, magic, kingship, fertility, sacrifice, and religion.
English
History
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James Boswell · English
Boswell’s landmark biography of Samuel Johnson, conversation, literary London, character, wit, and memory.
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Philosophy
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Francis Bacon · English
Bacon’s utopian fiction of Salomon’s House, knowledge, experiment, science, travel, and social order.
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Religion
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Brother Lawrence · English
A brief spiritual classic on prayer, simplicity, inner attention to God, and everyday life.
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Psychology
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William James · English
William James’s landmark psychology text on consciousness, habit, attention, emotion, will, and self.
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Theology
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Richard Baxter · English
A Puritan devotional classic on heavenly rest, meditation, repentance, hope, and disciplined Christian life.
English
Economics
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Thorstein Veblen · English
Veblen’s sharp analysis of conspicuous consumption, status, leisure, wealth, taste, and institutions.
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Religion
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William James · English
A classic study of conversion, mysticism, saintliness, melancholy, pragmatism, and individual religious life.
German
Psychology
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Sigmund Freud · German
Freuds Studie über Fehlleistungen, Versprechen, Vergessen, Erinnerung, unbewusste Motive und Alltag.
English
Literature
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William Godwin · English
A political Gothic novel of pursuit, secrecy, class power, surveillance, and the machinery of justice.
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Literature
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Fanny Burney · English
A social novel of inheritance, guardianship, manners, marriage, money, and Cecilia Beverley’s independence.
French
Literature
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Prosper Mérimée · French
Une nouvelle corse de vendetta, honneur familial, violence contenue et conflit entre loi et coutume.
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Literature
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George Eliot · English
George Eliot’s late novel of Gwendolen Harleth, Daniel Deronda, identity, duty, marriage, and Jewish renewal.
German
Literature
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Sabahattin Ali · German
Raif Efendis stille Liebesgeschichte mit Maria Puder, geprägt von Erinnerung, Einsamkeit, Kunst und verpasster Nähe.
French
Literature
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Madame de La Fayette · French
Un roman classique de passion, devoir, aveu, jalousie et vie de cour sous Henri II.
Portuguese
Literature
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Alexandre Herculano · Portuguese
Narrativas históricas portuguesas de memória medieval, conflito, crença, honra e imaginação romântica.
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Literature
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Stephen Crane · English
A stark Bowery story of poverty, family violence, illusion, social judgment, and urban naturalism.