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  • The Republic: A New Translation

    Plato, William C. Scott, Richard W. Sterling

    Paperback

    "I envy the reader who sits in on these conversations for the first time, and with such a readable text."—John Ciardi

  • The Cowboy Encyclopedia

    Richard W. Slatta

    Paperback

    With 450 broad-ranging entries, The Cowboy Encyclopedia is an informative, comprehensive, and entertaining reference to the history and culture of cowboys.

  • The Enlightenment: The Science of Freedom

    Peter Gay

    Volume: 2

    Paperback

    The second volume of Peter Gay's in-depth study of the dawn of the modern world—the Age of Reason.

  • Bond of Iron: Master and Slave at Buffalo Forge

    Charles B. Dew

    Paperback

    A study of African-American workers empowered and partly liberated by their skills.

  • The Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Paganism

    Peter Gay

    Volume: 1

    Paperback

    The eighteenth-century Enlightenment marks the beginning of the modern age, when the scientific method and belief in reason and progress came to hold sway over the Western world.