The collection

From the shelves

Mathematics

• Tensor Analysis on Manifolds, Richard L. Bishop & Samuel I. Goldberg — Dover
• Differential Forms, Henri Cartan — Dover
• Abstract Algebra, David S. Dummit & Richard M. Foote — 3rd ed., Wiley
• Deep Learning, Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio & Aaron Courville — MIT Press
• Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas Hofstadter
• Introduction to Differentiable Manifolds, Serge Lang — 2nd ed., Springer Universitext
• Ricci Flow and the Poincaré Conjecture, John Morgan & Gang Tian — Clay Mathematics Monographs, vol. 3
• Differential Harnack Inequalities and the Ricci Flow, Reto Müller
• Gödel's Proof, Ernest Nagel & James R. Newman
• Foundations of Probability, Alfréd Rényi — Dover
• Real and Complex Analysis, Walter Rudin — 3rd ed., McGraw-Hill
• Calculus on Manifolds, Michael Spivak — Benjamin
• Real Analysis, Elias M. Stein & Rami Shakarchi — Princeton Lectures in Analysis III
• What's Next? The Mathematical Legacy of William P. Thurston, Dylan P. Thurston, ed. — Annals of Mathematics Studies 205
• Foundations of Differentiable Manifolds and Lie Groups, Frank W. Warner — Springer GTM 94
• Essential Results of Functional Analysis, Robert J. Zimmer — Chicago Lectures in Mathematics

Philosophy

• Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle — Library of Liberal Arts
• Politics, Aristotle — Oxford
• At the Existentialist Café, Sarah Bakewell
• The Republic and The Laws, Cicero — Oxford
• Democracy and Education, John Dewey — Free Press
• Human Nature and Conduct, John Dewey — Modern Library
• Kant and Skepticism, Michael N. Forster — Princeton
• Nietzsche's New Seas, Michael Allen Gillespie & Tracy B. Strong, eds. — Chicago
• The History of Philosophy, A. C. Grayling — Penguin
• The Aesthetics of Mimesis, Stephen Halliwell — Princeton
• Phenomenology of Spirit, G. W. F. Hegel — Miller translation
• Basic Writings, Martin Heidegger — Harper Perennial
• Being and Time, Martin Heidegger — Macquarrie & Robinson translation, Harper Perennial
• Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics, Martin Heidegger — Indiana
• Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger — vols. 1–2, HarperOne
• Sculpture, Johann Gottfried Herder — Chicago
• Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes — Hackett
• Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, David Hume — 2nd ed., Hackett
• Nietzsche, Karl Jaspers
• Critique of Pure Reason, Immanuel Kant — Guyer & Wood translation, Cambridge
• Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist, Walter Kaufmann — Princeton
• Either/Or, Part I, Søren Kierkegaard — Princeton
• Fear and Trembling / Repetition, Søren Kierkegaard — Princeton
• Philosophical Fragments, Søren Kierkegaard — Princeton
• Two Treatises of Government, John Locke — Cambridge
• The Prince, Niccolò Machiavelli
• The Prince and The Discourses, Niccolò Machiavelli — Modern Library
• Selected Writings, Karl Marx — Hackett
• On Liberty and Other Essays, John Stuart Mill — Oxford
• On the Genealogy of Morality, Friedrich Nietzsche — Clark & Swensen translation, Hackett
• The Portable Nietzsche, Friedrich Nietzsche — Kaufmann translation, Viking
• Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche — Kaufmann translation, Modern Library
• The Will to Power, Friedrich Nietzsche — Barnes & Noble
• On What Matters, Derek Parfit — vols. 1–2
• The Republic, Plato — Bloom translation, Basic Books
• The Discourses and Other Early Political Writings, Jean-Jacques Rousseau — Cambridge
• The Social Contract, Jean-Jacques Rousseau — Hackett
• The Social Contract and Other Later Political Writings, Jean-Jacques Rousseau — Cambridge
• Being and Nothingness, Jean-Paul Sartre
• We Have Only This Life to Live: Selected Essays 1939–1975, Jean-Paul Sartre — NYRB
• Hermeneutics and Criticism, Friedrich Schleiermacher — Cambridge
• Bubbles, Peter Sloterdijk — Spheres, vol. 1, Semiotext(e)
• The Bounds of Sense, P. F. Strawson — Routledge
• Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville — Harper Perennial
• The Old Regime and the French Revolution, Alexis de Tocqueville — Anchor
• The Marx-Engels Reader, Robert C. Tucker, ed. — Norton
• Charisma and Disenchantment: The Vocation Lectures, Max Weber — Searls translation, NYRB
• John Dewey and American Democracy, Robert B. Westbrook — Cornell
• Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy, Bernard Williams — Harvard
• Philosophical Investigations, Ludwig Wittgenstein — 3rd ed.
• Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Ludwig Wittgenstein — Barnes & Noble

History

• Genesis: Translation and Commentary, Robert Alter — Norton
• A Brief History of the Romans, Mary T. Boatwright, Daniel J. Gargola & Richard J. A. Talbert — Oxford
• The History of the Church, Eusebius — Penguin
• The Portable Greek Historians, M. I. Finley, ed. — Viking
• On Grand Strategy, John Lewis Gaddis — Penguin
• The History, Herodotus — Grene translation, Chicago
• The Muqaddimah, Ibn Khaldun — Rosenthal translation, Dawood ed., Princeton
• Thucydides: The Reinvention of History, Donald Kagan
• The Government of the Roman Empire: A Sourcebook, Barbara Levick — 2nd ed.
• Among Empires, Charles S. Maier — Harvard
• Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found, Suketu Mehta
• The Historians of Ancient Rome, Ronald Mellor — 2nd ed., Routledge
• The Rise of the Roman Empire, Polybius — Penguin Classics
• The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt, Ian Shaw, ed. — Oxford
• The Gulag Archipelago, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• The Amur River: Between Russia and China, Colin Thubron — Harper Perennial
• The Peloponnesian War, Thucydides — Hobbes translation, Chicago
• Hypatia, Edward J. Watts — Oxford
• The Inheritance of Rome, Chris Wickham — Penguin
• The Education of Cyrus, Xenophon — Ambler translation, Cornell

Literature

• Henderson the Rain King, Saul Bellow — Penguin
• Herzog, Saul Bellow — Penguin
• Ravelstein, Saul Bellow
• Nadja, André Breton
• The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov — Picador
• Selected Stories, Anton Chekhov
• Nostromo, Joseph Conrad
• Love in Another Language, Dick Davis — Carcanet
• Berlin Alexanderplatz, Alfred Döblin
• Demons, Fyodor Dostoevsky — Pevear & Volokhonsky translation, Vintage
• The Double and The Gambler, Fyodor Dostoevsky — Pevear & Volokhonsky translation, Vintage
• The Complete Poems and Plays, 1909–1950, T. S. Eliot — Harcourt Brace
• The Waste Land, T. S. Eliot
• The Sorrows of Young Werther, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — Vintage Classics
• The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol, Nikolai Gogol — Pevear & Volokhonsky translation, Vintage
• Dead Souls, Nikolai Gogol — Vintage
• The Western Wind, Samantha Harvey
• The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
• Finnegans Wake, James Joyce
• Ulysses, James Joyce
• My Struggle: Book One, Karl Ove Knausgaard
• Billy Budd, Sailor, Herman Melville
• The Happy Failure, Herman Melville — Hesperus
• Empire of the Stars, Arthur I. Miller — Houghton Mifflin
• Dostoevsky: His Life and Work, Konstantin Mochulsky — Princeton
• August 1914, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn — Farrar, Straus & Giroux
• Cancer Ward, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• The First Circle, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn — Harper & Row
• A Karamazov Companion, Victor Terras — Wisconsin
• Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
• The Death of Ivan Ilyich & Other Stories, Leo Tolstoy — Pevear & Volokhonsky translation, Vintage
• War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
• Dublinesque, Enrique Vila-Matas — New Directions

Sets

• The Harvard Classics, Charles W. Eliot, ed. — 51 vols.
• Great Books of the Western World, Robert Maynard Hutchins, ed. — 54 vols., Britannica