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Names: Bakewell, Sarah, author.
Title: Humanly possible : seven hundred years of humanist freethinking, inquiry, and hope / Sarah Bakewell.
Description: New York : Penguin Press, 2023. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2022037286 (print) | LCCN 2022037287 (ebook) | ISBN 9780735223370 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780735223387 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Humanistic ethics—History. | Humanistic ethics. | Humanism.
Classification: LCC BJ1360 .B36 2023 (print) | LCC BJ1360 (ebook) | DDC 171/.2—dc23/eng/20220928
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022037286
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022037287
Cover design: Kaitlin Kall
Cover images: (top to bottom, left to right) Zora Neale Hurston, Courtesy of the Library of Congress, LC-USZ62-62394; Frederick Douglass, Courtesy of the Library of Congress, LC-DIG-PPMSCA-69249; Voltaire, Lebrecht Music & Arts / Alamy Stock Photo; E.M. Forster, Hulton Deutsch / Getty Images; Bertrand Russell, Archive PL / Alamy Stock Photo; Desiderius Erasmus, Bettmann / Getty Images
Designed by Amanda Dewey, adapted for ebook by Cora Wigen
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