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The Lamp of Experience: Whig History and the Intellectual Origins of the American Revolution
$64.95I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging the future but by the past. - Patrick Henry Written as an intellectual history, The Lamp of Experience explores how Colonialists studied the past, employed […] -
Reversal of Fortune
$89.95"This case has everything," declared the prosecutor. "It has money, sex, drugs; it has Newport, New York and Europe; it has nobility; it has maids, butlers, a gardener. Clarendon Court [the mansion where the critical events took place] has a big gate. Most people can't see inside." The trial of […] -
Insanity in Ancient and Modern Life
$74.95Daniel Tuke’s book discusses the prevalence as well as causes of insanity in various ancient cultures such as The Prehistoric Period, Egyptian, Jewish, Greek, and Roman. In modern causes of insanity Tuke looks at various facets in regard to everyday life: working classes, agricultural districts, defective nourishment and so on. […] -
Government by Judiciary
$74.95Raoul Berger was an attorney as well as professor at Harvard University Law School and University of California Berkeley. In his book Government by Judiciary he argues that the U.S. Supreme Court is continuing to "revise" the Constitution based on the appearance of interpretation and abuses of the fourteenth Amendment. […] -
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The Assassination of President Lincoln and The Trial of The Conspirators
$64.95On April 15, 1865 President Abraham Lincoln succumbed to a gunshot wound from the evening before. The Assassination of President Lincoln and The Trial of The Conspirators is a detailed description compiled by Benn Pitman, the official reporter to the tribunal conducting the trial, of the events leading up to […] -
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The Construction of the Wonderful Canon of Logarithms
$59.95John Napier is best known as the discoverer of Logarithms. In the late sixteenth century, further advances in science demanded a less complex method of numerical computation. In response, the Scottish mathematician John Napier (1550-1617) developed “a small table by the use of which we can obtain a knowledge of all geometrical […] -
Crime and Punishment in American History
$74.95In a panoramic history of our criminal justice system from Colonial times to today, one of our foremost legal thinkers shows how America fashioned a system of crime and punishment in its own image. -
My Own Words
$79.95The first book from Ruth Bader Ginsburg since becoming a Supreme Court Justice in 1993 - a collection of writings and speeches from the woman who has had a powerful and enduring influence on law, women’s rights, and popular culture. This book’s sampling is selected by Justice Ginsburg and her authorized […] -
The War with Hannibal 2 vol set
$139.90The Second Punic War remains one of the most important and famous military conflicts in the history of the Western World. The combatants, Carthage and Rome, were the two most powerful Mediterranean powers of the time, and their conflict shaped, and made possible, the modern world. Led by the military […] -
The Common Law
$64.95Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. is regarded as a giant of American jurisprudence. He was appointed to the Supreme Court by Theodore Roosevelt in 1902 and would serve for the next three decades. The Common Law, written in 1881, has achieved the status of a classic, and has suffered the classic's fate […] -
The Aphorisms of Hippocrates
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Fear God and Take Your Own Part
$79.95Theodore Roosevelt was, in every respect, a true and great American. He faithfully served his country as a loyal citizen, dutiful soldier, and active President. His Fear God and Take Your Own Part is a stirring work infused with patriotic fervor; it is an appeal to his fellow Americans to […]
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Atlas of the Pathological Anatomy of the Eyeball
$89.95Pagenstecher and Genth's 'Atlas of the Pathological Anatomy of the Eyeball', published in 1875, is one of the most magnificent, historically important, and difficult-to-obtain works in ophthalmics. This beautiful, oversized leather volume is part of our Classics of Ophthalmology Library. It is bound in genuine top-grain pigskin leather and is […] -
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The Anatomy of the Brain and Nerves
$89.95As Sir Charles Sherrington pointed out, "Thomas Willis practically re-founded the anatomy and physiology of the brain and nerves," and "put the brain and nervous system on their modern footing." At the Patronal Festival for Thomas Willis in 1915, Sir William Osler commented that "Willis is remembered particularly by the […] -
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The History and Treatment of the Diseases of the Teeth
$89.95This beautiful, oversized leather volume is a reprint of the original 1806 edition of the work for our Classics of Dentistry Library. It is bound in genuine top-grain pigskin leather and is stamped in 22-karat gold. It includes a number of sketches at the end of the book. Only a […] -
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The Nervous System of the Human Body
$89.95This beautiful, oversized volume is a reprint of the 1830 edition of the work. Includes a number of sketches by Charles Bell of various parts of the nervous system. Only a few books left!
