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- Angels and ages, a short book about Darwin, Lincoln, and modern life, Adam Gopnik
- Mythomania, tales of our times, from Apple to ISIS, Peter Conrad
- Sprezzatura, 50 ways Italian genius shaped the world, Peter D'Epiro and Mary Desmond Pinkowish
- Connections, British Broadcasting Corporation and Time-Life Film ; produced by Mick Jackson and David Kennard, 9-10
- Connections, British Broadcasting Corporation and Time-Life Film ; produced by Mick Jackson and David Kennard, 5-6
- The western intellectual tradition, from Leonardo to Hegel, J. Bronowski, Bruce Mazlish
- Anthropology confronts the problems of the modern world, Claude Lévi-Strauss ; foreword by Maurice Olender ; translated by Jane Marie Todd
- A philosophy for our time, Bernard M. Baruch ; with an introduction by Buell G. Gallagher ; foreward by Thomas L. Norton
- The evolution of everything, how new ideas emerge, Matt Ridley
- Intellectuals
- Today in history, a day-by-day review of world events
- Connections 1, British Broadcasting Corporation and Time-Life Films ; produced by Mick Jackson and David Kennard ; written and presented by James Burke
- The dragons of expectation, reality and delusion in the course of history, Robert Conquest
- Smells, a cultural history of odours in early modern times, Robert Muchembled ; translated by Susan Pickford
- A Guide to art, edited by Sandro Sproccati
- Civilized to death, the price of progress, Christopher Ryan
- A (brief) history of vice, how bad behavior built civilization, Robert Evans
- Sources of the self, the making of the modern identity, Charles Taylor
- Intellectuals, Paul Johnson
- The Western intellectual tradition, from Leonardo to Hegel, [by] Jacob Bronowski [and] Bruce Mazlish
- Why the west rules---for now, [the patterns of history, and what they reveal about the future], Ian Morris
- The 7th day humbling of mankind, December 21, 2012: the beginning of the end of the age, Ron L. Harmon
- Deep truth, igniting the memory of our origin, history, destiny, and fate, Gregg Braden
- Homo deus by Yuval Noah Harari, a brief history of tomorrow
- Numbers don't lie, 71 stories to help us understand the modern world, Vaclav Smil
- The cunning of history, mass death and the American future, Richard L. Rubenstein
- Angels and ages, a short book about Darwin, Lincoln, and modern life, Adam Gopnik
- The swerve, how the world became modern, Stephen Greenblatt
- A short history of celebrity, Fred Inglis
- Why the west rules-- for now, the patterns of history, and what they reveal about the future, Ian Morris
- Portrait of a decade, the 1960's, by Trevor Fisher
- A brief history of vice, how bad behavior built civilization, Robert Evans
- Civilisation, a personal view by Lord Clark : the complete series, produced by Michael Gill, Peter Montagnon ; written by Kenneth Clark ; directed by Michael Gill, Peter Montagnon, Ann Turner
- The evolution of everything, how new ideas emerge, Matt Ridley
- The Greek achievement, the foundation of the western world, Charles Freeman
- Powaqqatsi, Life in transformation, a Golan-Globus production ; Cannon Group ; a Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas presentation ; writers, Godrey Reggio, Ken Richards ; directed by Godfrey Reggio ; produced by Mel Lawrence, Godfrey Reggio, Lawrence Taub
- Deep truth, igniting the memory of our origin, history, destiny, and fate, Gregg Braden
- Knowledge and decisions, Thomas Sowell
- National Geographic almanac of world history, Patricia S. Daniels and Stephen G. Hyslop ; foreword by Douglas Brinkley
- Experiments against reality, the fate of culture in the postmodern age, Roger Kimball
- National Geographic almanac of world history, Patricia S. Daniels and Stephen G. Hyslop ; foreword by Douglas Brinkley
- Harry's last stand, how the world my generation built is falling down, and what we can do to save it, Harry Leslie Smith
- Age of anger, a history of the present, Pankaj Mishra
- The evolution of everything, how new ideas emerge, Matt Ridley
- Countries and their cultures, Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember, editors
- Adrift, how our world lost its way, Amin Maalouf
- Culture, Terry Eagleton
- Art, politics, and will, essays in honor of Lionel Trilling, Quentin Anderson, Stephen Donadio, and Steven Marcus, editors
- The governor listeth, a book of inspired political revelations, William F. Buckley, Jr
- Freedom in the modern world, Herbert J. Muller