The Decline of the West
by Oswald Spengler | 
Happiness
by Darrin M. McMahon | 
A Little History of Philosophy
by Nigel Warburton | 
A Treasury of Deception
by Michael Farquhar | 
The Passion of the Western Mind
by Richard Tarnas | 
The Seekers
by Daniel J. Boorstin | 
What the Butler Saw
by E. S. Turner | 
Descartes' Bones
by Russell Shorto |
Love Stories
by Jonathan Ned Katz | 
The Modern Mind
by Peter Watson |
Napoleon's Privates
by Tony Perrottet |
Captain Bligh's Portable Nightmare
by John Toohey | 
A History of Knowledge
by Charles Van Doren | 
The Wright Brothers
by David McCullough | 
The Philosophy Book
by Will Buckingham |
1492
by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto | 
Empire of the Summer Moon
by S. C. Gwynne | 
The Professor and the Madman
by Simon Winchester | 
Mobituaries
by Mo Rocca | 
Gandhi
by Mahatma Gandhi |
A wise and witty compendium of the greatest thoughts, greatest minds, and greatest books of all time -- listed in accessible and succinct form -- by one of the world's greatest scholars.