 | The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age (Routledge Classics) by Frances Yates
Buy new: £8.06 / Used from: £6.87 Very readable. The perfect introduction to a fascinating cast of Renaissance personalities.
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 | Cosmos, Chaos and the World to Come (Yale Nota Bene) by N Cohn
Buy new: £9.09 / Used from: £10.12 Enlightening, to say the least, jam-packed with information.
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 | The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages by Norman Cohn
Buy new: £9.97 / Used from: £6.99 This is on my wish list. But I just KNOW I want to read it.
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 | The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
Buy new: £13.16 / Used from: £7.77 Ambrose Bierce was quick-witted, a sharp thinker with a flair for political incorrectness.
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 | The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman
Buy new: £10.16 / Used from: £9.00 This is one comic book you cannot do without. At times it comes so close to home it is painful.
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 | Religion Explained: The Human Instincts That Fashion Gods, Spirits and Ancestors by Pascal Boyer
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £4.61 Highly insightful! And what's more, it pays due tribute to science.
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 | The Ukrainians: Unexpected Nation (Yale Nota Bene) by A Wilson
Buy new: £10.99 / Used from: £4.62 Great writing. Makes you want to know more. Ukraine is really interesting.
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 | Nature and Selected Essays (Penguin Classics) by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Buy new: £6.07 / Used from: £3.25 This is the great American sage that will never cease to inspire me.
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 | Walden and Civil Disobedience: (American Library) by Henry David Thoreau
Buy new: £5.72 / Used from: £0.21 Give Thoreau a try. Emerson's ebullient friend!
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 | Leaves of Grass (Oxford World's Classics) by Walt Whitman
Buy used from: £0.35 And to round off your Transcendentalist readings nicely, wash down Thoreau with a little Whitman.
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 | The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.47 Possibly the best SF book I have ever read. It is profound.
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 | On the Nature of the Psyche (Routledge Classics) by C.G. Jung
Buy new: £8.04 / Used from: £5.76 To the unitiated, the opening pages may seem a little daunting (they were to me). But read on and reap rewards!
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 | One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society (Routledge Classics) by Herbert Marcuse
Buy new: £8.78 / Used from: £7.50 Need a theoretical justification for your personal critique of the workaday? Marcuse will provide.
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 | Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
Buy used from: £8.79 A remarkable range of emotion. Darkness and Light vying for supremacy.
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