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  • The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human by Mukherjee, Siddhartha
    Siddhartha Mukherjee

    The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

    Winner of the 2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences and the 2023 Chautauqua Prize! Named a New York Times Notable Book and a Best Book of the Year by The Economist, Oprah Daily, BookPage, Book Riot, the New York Public...
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  • The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire by Skeie, Tore
    Tore Skeie

    The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire

    "Skeie's account of ruthless conflict, political intrigue, and diplomatic machinations reads like a real-life Game of Thrones--without the dragons. Medieval history buffs will be riveted." --Publishers Weekly Thrilling history provides a new perspective on the Viking-Anglo Saxon conflicts and brings the bloody period vividly...
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  • Lost: A History of Disappearances by Rayborn, Tim
    Tim Rayborn

    Lost: A History of Disappearances

    Go behind the crime scene tape and investigate the mysterious missing persons cases that have left experts baffled with Lost.The Bermuda Triangle. Amelia Earhart. The Mary Celeste. D.B. Cooper. The lost colony of Roanoke. The Lindbergh baby. With puzzling disappearances that bewilder investigators to...
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  • This Day in History: A 365-Day Tour of History's Most Fascinating, Important and Strange Facts and Figures by Cider Mill Press
    Cider Mill Press

    This Day in History: A 365-Day Tour of History's Most Fascinating, Important and Strange Facts and Figures

    From the Ides of March to the 40-minute war and the Great Molasses Flood, discover what extraordinary events took place from January 1 to December 31 with This Day in History.Have you ever wondered what happened on your birthday hundreds of years ago? This...
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  • Athens: City of Wisdom by Clark, Bruce
    Bruce Clark

    Athens: City of Wisdom

    A sweeping narrative history of Athens, telling the three-thousand-year story of the birthplace of Western civilization. Even on the most smog-bound of days, the rocky outcrop on which the Acropolis stands is visible above the sprawling roof-scape of the Greek capital. Athens presents one...
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  • Western Civilization in a Global Context: The Modern Age: Sources and Documents by Campbell, Kenneth L.
    Kenneth L. Campbell

    Western Civilization in a Global Context: The Modern Age: Sources and Documents

    Western Civilization in a Global Contextis a source collection that introduces a comparative element to the study of Western civilization, offering students an opportunity to explore non-Western perspectives. An interesting and provocative set of readings are included, from a range of primary sources, including...
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  • Classical World: All That Matters by Blanshard, Alastair
    Alastair Blanshard

    Classical World: All That Matters

    Modern Western European culture would have been impossible without the civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome. The disciplines of philosophy, drama, history, and science all owe an immense debt to these two Mediterranean cultures. At the same time, there are aspects of this legacy...
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  • Panorama of the Classical World by Spivey, Nigel
    Nigel Spivey

    Panorama of the Classical World

    Here is a new and imaginative approach to the era in which Western civilization was born. "Panorama of the Classical World is a thorough-and thoroughly accessible--synthesis of the Greek, Roman, and Etruscan worlds, spanning the period from Late Geometric Greece (ca. 700 B.C) to...
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  • Order and History, Volume 4 (Cw17): The Ecumenic Age Volume 17 by Voegelin, Eric
    Eric Voegelin

    Order and History, Volume 4 (Cw17): The Ecumenic Age Volume 17

    Order and History, Eric Voegelin's five-volume study of how human and divine order are intertwined and manifested in history, has been widely acclaimed as one of the great intellectual achievements of our age.In the fourth volume, The Ecumenic Age, Voegelin breaks with the course...
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  • Japan Awakens: Woodblock Prints of the Meiji Period (1868-1912) by Till, Barry
    Barry Till

    Japan Awakens: Woodblock Prints of the Meiji Period (1868-1912)

    During the brief Meiji period, Japan underwent an astonishing metamorphosis from feudal state to modern industrial and military power. The nation's policy of isolationism, sakoku (closed country) initiated in 1639, was abruptly challenged in 1853 when Commodore Matthew C. Perry sailed into Tokyo Bay...
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  • Standard of Ur by Collins, Sarah
    Sarah Collins

    Standard of Ur

    The Standard of Ur is one of the most famous objects to be discovered from ancient Mesopotamia. It was unearthed in a tomb in 1927 by Leonard Woolley during his archaeological excavations of the 'Royal Cemetery' of Ur located in present-day Iraq.Ur, one of...
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  • Century of Collapse - Why Civilizations Fall by Strom, Andrew
    Andrew Strom

    Century of Collapse - Why Civilizations Fall

    IN THIS BOOK YOU WILL LEARN: Why a "century of collapse" is baked in the cake for our civilization over the next 100 years. Why climate change is not even needed to bring about our demise. (Any climate issues come on top of what...
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  • How to Survive History: How to Outrun a Tyrannosaurus, Escape Pompeii, Get Off the Titanic, and Survive the Rest of History's Deadliest Catast by Cassidy, Cody
    Cody Cassidy

    How to Survive History: How to Outrun a Tyrannosaurus, Escape Pompeii, Get Off the Titanic, and Survive the Rest of History's Deadliest Catast

    A detailed guide to surviving history's most challenging threats, from outrunning dinosaurs to making it off the Titanic alive History is the most dangerous place on earth. From dinosaurs the size of locomotives to meteors big enough to sterilize the planet, from famines to...
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  • Mongol Empire: The Man Behind the Mongol Empire (The History and Legacy of the Mongol Empire's Capital): A Captivating Guide to an It by Corbett, Janet
    Janet Corbett

    Mongol Empire: The Man Behind the Mongol Empire (The History and Legacy of the Mongol Empire's Capital): A Captivating Guide to an It

    Genghis Khan is one of history's immortals: a leader of genius, driven by an inspiring vision for peaceful world rule. Believing he was divinely protected, Genghis united warring clans to create a nation and then an empire that ran across much of Asia.Under his...
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  • Vandemonians: The Repressed History of Colonial Victoria by McCalman, Janet
    Janet McCalman

    Vandemonians: The Repressed History of Colonial Victoria

    It was meant to be 'Victoria the Free, ' uncontaminated by the convict stain. Yet they came in their tens of thousands as soon as they were cut free or able to bolt. More than half of all those transported to Van Diemen's Land...
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  • Knife Bible: History & Modern Knowledgevolume 1 by Gis, A. J. Cardenal Ict
    A. J. Cardenal Ict Gis

    Knife Bible: History & Modern Knowledge Volume 1

    "Humans are vulnerable creatures by nature. A willingness to survive, to fight, not flee... is what drove to us to create the knife. Knives gave us the ability to become warriors, to conquer fear, and establish ourselves as the dominant species on this planet....
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  • The World: A Family History of Humanity by Montefiore, Simon Sebag
    Simon Sebag Montefiore

    The World: A Family History of Humanity

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A magisterial world history unlike any other that tells the story of humanity through the one thing we all have in common: families - From the author of The Romanovs A Best Book of the Year: The New Yorker,...
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  • Imagining Atlantis by Ellis, Richard
    Richard Ellis

    Imagining Atlantis

    Ever since Plato created the legend of the lost island of Atlantis, it has maintained a uniquely strong grip on the human imagination. For two and a half millennia, the story of the city and its catastrophic downfall has inspired people--from Francis Bacon to...
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  • Interurban Knowledge Exchange in Southern and Eastern Europe, 1870-1950 by Gantner, Eszter
    Eszter Gantner

    Interurban Knowledge Exchange in Southern and Eastern Europe, 1870-1950

    Around 1900 cities in Southern and Eastern Europe were persistently labeled "backward" and "delayed." Allegedly, they had no alternative but to follow the role model of the metropolises, of London, Paris or Vienna. This edited volume fundamentally questions this assumption. It shows that cities...
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  • An International Rediscovery of World War One: Distant Fronts by McCormick, Robert B.
    Robert B. McCormick

    An International Rediscovery of World War One: Distant Fronts

    International contributors from the fields of political science, cultural studies, history, and literature grapple with both the local and global impact of World War I on marginal communities in China, Syria, Europe, Russia, and the Caribbean. Readers can uncover the neglected stories of this...
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  • The Humanities in Transition from Postmodernism into the Digital Age by Raab, Nigel A.
    Nigel A. Raab

    The Humanities in Transition from Postmodernism into the Digital Age

    The Humanities in Transition explores how the basic components of the digital age will have an impact on the most trusted theories of humanists. Over the past two generations, humanists have come to take basic postmodern theories for granted whether on language, knowledge or...
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  • Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing by Goldstein, Jacob
    Jacob Goldstein

    Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing

    The co-host of the popular NPR podcast Planet Money provides a well-researched, entertaining, somewhat irreverent look at how money is a made-up thing that has evolved over time to suit humanity's changing needs.Money only works because we all agree to believe in it. In...
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  • First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human by Desilva, Jeremy
    Jeremy Desilva

    First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human

    Winner of the W.W. Howells Book Prize from the American Anthropological Association and named one of the best science books of 2021 by Science News"DeSilva takes us on a brilliant, fun, and scientifically deep stroll through history, anatomy, and evolution, in order to illustrate...
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  • Civilization In Ancient World: Pre-historic, Egyptian, Chinese, Roman And More: Industrial Revolution 1800-1900 by Pflugradt, Blaine
    Blaine Pflugradt

    Civilization In Ancient World: Pre-historic, Egyptian, Chinese, Roman And More: Industrial Revolution 1800-1900

    A civilization is a complex human society, usually made up of different cities, with certain characteristics of cultural and technological development. In many parts of the world, early civilizations formed when people began coming together in urban settlements.This course was an Occidental College course,...
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  • The Ancient Wisdom & Knowledge: Mysteries Collecting From Priests, Shamans & Occultists: Ancient Civilizations Mythology by Cerbone, Benton
    Benton Cerbone

    The Ancient Wisdom & Knowledge: Mysteries Collecting From Priests, Shamans & Occultists: Ancient Civilizations Mythology

    Navigate your way around the prehistoric world with the book.This brilliant book is an investigation into the original and ages-old knowledge nurtured by priests, shamans and occultists from the earliest times. Dissatisfied with theories of 'Gods from Outer Space' and 'lost Atlantis', the author...
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  • Avalon Of King Arthur: Understanding The Glastonbury's Stories: Glastonbury Festival History Facts by Demartini, Alexis
    Alexis Demartini

    Avalon Of King Arthur: Understanding The Glastonbury's Stories: Glastonbury Festival History Facts

    Legends of King Arthur swirl about Glastonbury like a tantalizing fog from the nearby Somerset marshes. The nearby hill fort at South Cadbury has long been suggested as the location for Camelot. Indeed, excavations of South Cadbury suggest that it was in use during...
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  • The Lucayan Islands by Bethel, Tellis A.
    Tellis A. Bethel

    The Lucayan Islands

    Unearth the Untold History: Journey Through the Lucayan Islands and Uncover the Secrets That Forged the AmericasImmerse yourself in the mesmerizing tapestry woven by "The Lucayan Islands" as Commodore (Ret.d) Tellis A. Bethel takes you on an eye-opening expedition to the heart of the...
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  • The Kingdom of Alashiya: The History and Legacy of the Ancient Trading Kingdom on Cyprus during the Bronze Age by Charles River
    Charles River

    The Kingdom of Alashiya: The History and Legacy of the Ancient Trading Kingdom on Cyprus during the Bronze Age

    *Includes pictures*Includes a bibliography for further readingInternational trade in the ancient world was a more intricate and far-reaching system than many have been led to believe. The Silk Road and the Incense Trade Route have been heavily researched in recent decades, and the Amber...
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  • Nutrition Book: Learning About Health, Exercise, Weight Training, Fitness, And Right Nutrition: Roots Vitamins by Reifel, Cassi
    Cassi Reifel

    Nutrition Book: Learning About Health, Exercise, Weight Training, Fitness, And Right Nutrition: Roots Vitamins

    Food and nutrition are the way that we get fuel, providing energy for our bodies. We need to replace nutrients in our bodies with a new supply every day.This book will answer such questions as: -Why should we stay away from chicken, pork, and...
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  • Byzantium After Byzantium by Iorga, Nicolae
    Nicolae Iorga

    Byzantium After Byzantium

    Although Constantinople fell to the Turks in 1453, bringing an end to the Eastern Roman Empire which had survived its predecessor in the West by nearly one thousand years, this important book argues that Byzantium did not die, but continued to influence European history...
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  • Ten Cities That Led the World: From Ancient Metropolis to Modern Megacity by Strathern, Paul
    Paul Strathern

    Ten Cities That Led the World: From Ancient Metropolis to Modern Megacity

    'A book of ideas [...] Strathern ably guides us through these moments of glory.' -- The Times *** Great cities are complex, chaotic and colossal. These are cities that dominate the world stage and define eras; where ideas flourish, revolutions are born and history...
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  • Ancient Mesopotamia Revealed by Reynolds, Donna
    Donna Reynolds

    Ancient Mesopotamia Revealed

    The oldest civilizations on Earth started in ancient Mesopotamia. There, small settlements grew into large, complex cities. Some were completely forgotten until archaeologists began to dig up their foundations, but the contributions they made to the world live on today. Informative main text is...
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  • Ancient Mesopotamia Revealed by Reynolds, Donna
    Donna Reynolds

    Ancient Mesopotamia Revealed

    The oldest civilizations on Earth started in ancient Mesopotamia. There, small settlements grew into large, complex cities. Some were completely forgotten until archaeologists began to dig up their foundations, but the contributions they made to the world live on today. Informative main text is...
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  • Common and Uncommon Scents: A Social History of Perfume by Stewart, Susan
    Susan Stewart

    Common and Uncommon Scents: A Social History of Perfume

    Pleasant smells have long been associated not only with health, wealth and good hygiene but also sound moral character; bad smells indicate lack of cleanliness, ill health, poverty - and immorality. Throughout history, people have applied scents to their bodies and clothing. They have...
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  • Exploring World History through Geography: From the Cradle of Civilization to A Globalized World by Dunbar, Julie
    Julie Crea Dunbar

    Exploring World History through Geography: From the Cradle of Civilization to A Globalized World

    Exploring World History through Geography: From the Cradle of Civilization to a Globalized World takes readers on a fascinating and unique journey through time from many of the earliest world civilizations right into the 21st century. From the early civilizations of ancient Mesopotamia to...
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  • Plymouth Reflections by Tait, Derek
    Derek Tait

    Plymouth Reflections

    Plymouth has a long and varied history with strong connections to England's most famous mariners including Sir Francis Drake, Sir Walter Raleigh and Sir John Hawkins. In 1588 Drake famously continued his game of bowls on Plymouth Hoe as the Spanish Armada approached, and...
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  • Empires of the Steppes: A History of the Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilization by Harl, Kenneth
    Kenneth Harl

    Empires of the Steppes: A History of the Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilization

    A narrative history of how Attila, Genghis Khan and the so-called barbarians of the steppes shaped world civilization. For readers of The Storm before the Storm, The Silk Road and Ten Caesars. The barbarian nomads of the Eurasian steppes have played a decisive role...
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  • In Defense of Civilization: How Our Past Can Renew Our Present by Bonner, Michael R. J.
    Michael R. J. Bonner

    In Defense of Civilization: How Our Past Can Renew Our Present

    Will our future imitate our past? "The purpose of this book is threefold: to explain what makes civilization civilization what it is; to show what we are in danger of losing in the event of collapse, and to point the way toward renewal."There is...
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  • Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic by Winchester, Simon
    Simon Winchester

    Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic

    "A delightful compendium of the kind of facts you immediately want to share with anyone you encounter . . . . Simon Winchester has firmly earned his place in history . . . as a promulgator of knowledge of every variety, perhaps the last...
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  • Greek Ancient Origins: Stories of People & Civilisation by Flame Tree Studio (Literature and Scienc
    Lindsay Powell

    Greek Ancient Origins: Stories of People & Civilization

    A striking companion volume to Greek Myths and Legends, exploring the ancient origins of Ancient Greek culture, from its tribal beginnings to its foundational impact on modern life. Gorgeous Collector's Edition. The period of the first Ancient Greek peoples, the Mycenaean civilization, from the...
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  • Egyptian Ancient Origins: The Story of Civilisation by Flame Tree Studio (Literature and Scienc
    Charlotte Booth

    Egyptian Ancient Origins: Stories of People & Civilization

    A striking companion volume to the Myths and Legends title, exploring the ancient origins of Egyptian society and culture. Gorgeous Collector's Edition which brings to life the culture of one of the great founding civilisations. Companion volume to Egyptian Myths & Legends in the...
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  • Magisteria: The Entangled Histories of Science & Religion by Spencer, Nicholas
    Nicholas Spencer

    Magisteria: The Entangled Histories of Science & Religion

    Science and religion have always been at each other's throats, right? Most things you 'know' about science and religion are myths or half-truths that grew up in the last years of the nineteenth century and remain widespread today. 'A deeply researched history of the...
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  • Sasanian Persia: The Rise and Fall of an Empire by Daryaee, Touraj
    Touraj Daryaee

    Sasanian Persia: The Rise and Fall of an Empire

    Of profound importance in late antiquity, the Sasanian Empire is virtually unknown today, except as a counterpoint to the Roman Empire. In this highly readable history, Touraj Daryaee fills a significant gap in our knowledge of world history. He examines the Sasanians' complex and...
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  • A History of Seeing in Eleven Inventions by Wade, Susan Denham
    Susan Denham Wade

    A History of Seeing in Eleven Inventions

    In 2015 #thedress captured the world's imagination. Was the dress in the picture white and gold or blue and black? It inspired the author to ask: if people in the same time and place can see the same thing differently, how did people in...
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  • Culture: The Story of Us, from Cave Art to K-Pop by Puchner, Martin
    Martin Puchner

    Culture: The Story of Us, from Cave Art to K-Pop

    What good are the arts? Why should we care about the past? For millennia, humanity has sought to understand and transmit to future generations not just the "know-how" of life, but the "know-why"--the meaning and purpose of our existence, as expressed in art, architecture,...
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  • Urban Jungle: The History and Future of Nature in the City by Wilson, Ben
    Ben Wilson

    Urban Jungle: The History and Future of Nature in the City

    In this exhilarating look at cities, past and future, Ben Wilson proposes that, in our world of rising seas and threatening weather, the natural world may prove the city's savior "Illuminating...Wilson leaves readers with hope about the future of efforts to preserve the ecosystems...
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  • Mediterranean Europe(s): Rethinking Europe from its Southern Shores by D'Auria, Matthew
    Matthew D'Auria

    Mediterranean Europe(s): Rethinking Europe from its Southern Shores

    This book investigates how ideas of and discourses about Europe have been affected by images of the Mediterranean Sea and its many worlds from the nineteenth century onwards. Surprisingly, modern scholars have often neglected such an influence and, in fact, in most histories of...
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  • Colonialism: A Global History by Veracini, Lorenzo
    Lorenzo Veracini

    Colonialism: A Global History

    Colonialism: A Global History interprets colonialism as an unequal relationship characterised by displacement and domination, and reveals the ways in which this relationship has been constitutive of global modernity. The volume focuses on colonialism's dynamism, adaptability, and resilience. It appraises a number of successive...
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  • The History and Legacy of America's Most Unusual Riots in the Late 19th Century by Charles River
    Charles River

    The History and Legacy of America's Most Unusual Riots in the Late 19th Century

    Riots are an aspect of American history that do not show up much in history textbooks, except for famous disturbances like the Boston Tea Party or the infamous New York City draft riots of 1863. The reality is that the country has experienced thousands...
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  • The Outlaw John Locke: & why liberalism is worth fighting for by Watkins, John Macbeath
    John Macbeath Watkins

    The Outlaw John Locke: & why liberalism is worth fighting for

    Liberalism has produced the largest, most successful Utopian experiment of all time. Yet, most people don't realize how radical liberalism was at its inception or how radical it still is. Thinkers like John Locke proposed an entirely new basis for the legitimacy of governments,...
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