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Faraday’s experimental papers on electricity, induction, electrochemistry, magnetism, fields, and scientific method.

Crónica de la conquista de México narrada por Bernal Díaz, testigo de Cortés, guerra, alianza y memoria.

Un traité majeur de théologie réformée sur foi, Écriture, grâce, Église, sacrements et vie chrétienne.

A major economic reform text on land, rent, inequality, wages, poverty, and the single tax.

Locke’s practical educational treatise on habit, character, discipline, health, reason, and formation.

Keynes’s influential critique of the Versailles settlement, reparations, Europe’s economy, and postwar instability.

A nineteenth-century military history of battles that shaped empire, politics, Europe, and world history.

A comparative study of myth, ritual, magic, kingship, fertility, sacrifice, and religion.

Boswell’s landmark biography of Samuel Johnson, conversation, literary London, character, wit, and memory.

Bacon’s utopian fiction of Salomon’s House, knowledge, experiment, science, travel, and social order.

A brief spiritual classic on prayer, simplicity, inner attention to God, and everyday life.

William James’s landmark psychology text on consciousness, habit, attention, emotion, will, and self.

A Puritan devotional classic on heavenly rest, meditation, repentance, hope, and disciplined Christian life.

Veblen’s sharp analysis of conspicuous consumption, status, leisure, wealth, taste, and institutions.

A classic study of conversion, mysticism, saintliness, melancholy, pragmatism, and individual religious life.

Freuds Studie über Fehlleistungen, Versprechen, Vergessen, Erinnerung, unbewusste Motive und Alltag.

A political Gothic novel of pursuit, secrecy, class power, surveillance, and the machinery of justice.

A social novel of inheritance, guardianship, manners, marriage, money, and Cecilia Beverley’s independence.

Une nouvelle corse de vendetta, honneur familial, violence contenue et conflit entre loi et coutume.

George Eliot’s late novel of Gwendolen Harleth, Daniel Deronda, identity, duty, marriage, and Jewish renewal.

Raif Efendis stille Liebesgeschichte mit Maria Puder, geprägt von Erinnerung, Einsamkeit, Kunst und verpasster Nähe.

Un roman classique de passion, devoir, aveu, jalousie et vie de cour sous Henri II.

Narrativas históricas portuguesas de memória medieval, conflito, crença, honra e imaginação romântica.

A stark Bowery story of poverty, family violence, illusion, social judgment, and urban naturalism.