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Front Table: Paperbacks
(Week of July 8th, 2012)
July 11th, 2012 by Front Table
Walter Benjamin: An Introduction to His Work and Thought
Steiner, Uwe ; Winkler, Michael (Translator)
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-08-15
¤ Paperback ( 248 pages )
¤ Category: Critical Theory & Marxism
Ends of Enlightenment
Bender, John
¤ Stanford University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-08-08
¤ Paperback ( 312 pages )
¤ Category: Literary Criticism
Alfred Kazin’s Journals
Cook, Richard M.
¤ Yale University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-08-07
¤ Paperback ( 632 pages )
¤ Category: Literary Criticism
To Promote the General Welfare: The Case for Big Government
Conn, Steven
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
¤ Publication Date: 2012-08-02
¤ Paperback ( 256 pages )
¤ Category:
The Firm: The Inside Story of the Stasi
Bruce, Gary
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
¤ Publication Date: 2012-08-01
¤ Paperback ( 272 pages )
¤ Category:
Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship
Bishop, Claire
¤ Verso
¤ Publication Date: 2012-07-24
¤ Paperback ( 390 pages )
¤ Category:
How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival
Kaiser, David
¤ W. W. Norton & Company
¤ Publication Date: 2012-07-16
¤ Paperback ( 416 pages )
¤ Category:
Essays in Ancient and Modern Historiography
Momigliano, Arnaldo ; Grafton, Anthony (Foreword by)
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-07-15
¤ Paperback ( 406 pages )
¤ Category: History: Historiography
The Holocaust in Italian Culture, 1944-2010
Gordon, Robert
¤ Stanford University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-07-11
¤ Paperback ( 296 pages )
¤ Category: History: European
The Absolutist
Boyne, John
¤ Other Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-07-10
¤ Paperback ( 320 pages )
¤ Category:
Haiti After the Earthquake
Farmer, Paul
¤ PublicAffairs
¤ Publication Date: 2012-07-10
¤ Paperback ( 480 pages )
¤ Category: History: Latin American
The Devil All the Time
Pollock, Donald Ray
¤ Anchor
¤ Publication Date: 2012-07-10
¤ Paperback ( 320 pages )
¤ Category:
Conquistadora
Santiago, Esmeralda
¤ Vintage
¤ Publication Date: 2012-07-10
¤ Paperback ( 432 pages )
¤ Category:
Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness?: What It Means to Be Black Now
Touré
¤ Free Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-07-10
¤ Paperback ( 288 pages )
¤ Category: African American Studies
Zone One
Whitehead, Colson
¤ Anchor
¤ Publication Date: 2012-07-10
¤ Paperback ( 336 pages )
¤ Category:
Death of a Pirate: British Radio and the Making of the Information Age
Johns, Adrian
¤ W. W. Norton & Company
¤ Publication Date: 2012-07-09
¤ Paperback ( 336 pages )
¤ Category:
My American Unhappiness
Bakopoulos, Dean
¤ Mariner Books
¤ Publication Date: 2012-07-03
¤ Paperback ( 288 pages )
¤ Category: Literature
Not Working: People Talk About Losing a Job and Finding Their Way in Today’s Changing Economy
Gibson, DW
¤ Penguin Books
¤ Publication Date: 2012-07-03
¤ Paperback ( 480 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
The Expendable Man
Hughes, Dorothy B. ; Mosley, Walter
¤ NYRB Classics
¤ Publication Date: 2012-07-03
¤ Paperback ( 264 pages )
¤ Category: Mysteries
American Gypsy: A Memoir
Marafioti, Oksana
¤ FSG Originals
¤ Publication Date: 2012-07-03
¤ Paperback ( 384 pages )
¤ Category:
An Anatomy of Addiction: Sigmund Freud, William Halsted, and the Miracle Drug, Cocaine
Markel, Howard
¤ Vintage
¤ Publication Date: 2012-07-03
¤ Paperback ( 336 pages )
¤ Category: Psychology
Beijing Welcomes You: Unveiling the Capital City of the Future
Scocca, Tom
¤ Riverhead Trade
¤ Publication Date: 2012-07-03
¤ Paperback ( 432 pages )
¤ Category: History: East Asia
The Music Instinct: How Music Works and Why We Can’t Do Without It
Ball, Philip
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
¤ Publication Date: 2012-07-01
¤ Paperback ( 464 pages )
¤ Category: Music
Life and Death are Wearing Me Out: A Novel
Yan, Mo ; Goldblatt, Howard (Translator)
¤ Arcade Publishing
¤ Publication Date: 2012-07-01
¤ Paperback ( 552 pages )
¤ Category: Literature
Dublinesque
Vila-Matas, Enrique ; Harvey, Rosalind (Translator) ; McLean, Anne (Translator)
¤ New Directions
¤ Publication Date: 2012-06-27
¤ Paperback ( 320 pages )
¤ Category:
The Black Child-Savers: Racial Democracy and Juvenile Justice
Ward, Geoff K.
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-06-27
¤ Paperback ( 344 pages )
¤ Category:
Abraham’s Children: Liberty and Tolerance in an Age of Religious Conflict
Clark, Kelly James
¤ Yale University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-06-26
¤ Paperback ( 312 pages )
¤ Category: Anthropology
Rules of Civility: A Novel
Towles, Amor
¤ Penguin Books
¤ Publication Date: 2012-06-26
¤ Paperback ( 352 pages )
¤ Category:
The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States
Wood, Gordon S.
¤ Penguin Books
¤ Publication Date: 2012-06-26
¤ Paperback ( 400 pages )
¤ Category:
Hawking Incorporated: Stephen Hawking and the Anthropology of the Knowing Subject
Mialet, Helene
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-06-25
¤ Paperback ( 272 pages )
¤ Category:
Hip Figures: A Literary History of the Democratic Party
Szalay, Michael
¤ Stanford University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-06-20
¤ Paperback ( 336 pages )
¤ Category: Literary Criticism
Diary
Gombrowicz, Witold ; Vallee, Lillian (Translator)
¤ Yale University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-06-19
¤ Paperback ( 800 pages )
¤ Category: Literature
Pigeon English
Kelman, Stephen
¤ Mariner Books
¤ Publication Date: 2012-06-19
¤ Paperback ( 288 pages )
¤ Category: Literature
Ride a Cockhorse
Kennedy, Raymond ; Powers, Katherine A.
¤ NYRB Classics
¤ Publication Date: 2012-06-19
¤ Paperback ( 328 pages )
¤ Category: Literature
Miss New India
Mukherjee, Bharati
¤ Mariner Books
¤ Publication Date: 2012-06-19
¤ Paperback ( 336 pages )
¤ Category: Literature
The Great Accelerator
Virilio, Paul
¤ Polity
¤ Publication Date: 2012-06-19
¤ Paperback ( 100 pages )
¤ Category: Critical Theory & Marxism
Trials of the Diaspora: A History of Anti-Semitism in England
Julius, Anthony
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
¤ Publication Date: 2012-06-18
¤ Paperback ( 912 pages )
¤ Category: Judaic Studies
Interventions
Russo, Richard ; Russo, Kate (Illustrator)
¤ Down East Books
¤ Publication Date: 2012-06-16
¤ Paperback ( 196 pages )
¤ Category: Literature
Socrates and the Fat Rabbis
Boyarin, Daniel
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-06-15
¤ Paperback ( 408 pages )
¤ Category: Judaic Studies
Measuring the New World: Enlightenment Science and South America
Safier, Neil
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-06-14
¤ Paperback ( 408 pages )
¤ Category: Science
Jamrach’s Menagerie: A Novel
Birch, Carol
¤ Vintage
¤ Publication Date: 2012-06-12
¤ Paperback ( 304 pages )
¤ Category:
Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present
Madrick, Jeff
¤ Vintage
¤ Publication Date: 2012-06-12
¤ Paperback ( 480 pages )
¤ Category:
The Moral Neoliberal: Welfare and Citizenship in Italy
Muehlebach, Andrea
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-06-12
¤ Paperback ( 288 pages )
¤ Category: Anthropology
The Cat’s Table
Ondaatje, Michael
¤ Vintage
¤ Publication Date: 2012-06-12
¤ Paperback ( 288 pages )
¤ Category: Literature
The Book of Khalid
Rihani, Ameen ; Fine, Todd ; Fine, Todd (Afterword)
¤ Melville House
¤ Publication Date: 2012-06-12
¤ Paperback ( 320 pages )
¤ Category:
The Optimism Bias: A Tour of the Irrationally Positive Brain
Sharot, Tali
¤ Vintage
¤ Publication Date: 2012-06-12
¤ Paperback ( 272 pages )
¤ Category:
Divas in the Convent: Nuns, Music, and Defiance in Seventeenth-Century Italy
Monson, Craig A.
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-06-08
¤ Paperback ( 296 pages )
¤ Category: History: European
How We Think: Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis
Hayles, N. Katherine
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-06-05
¤ Paperback ( 296 pages )
¤ Category: Literary Criticism
Living, Thinking, Looking: Essays
Hustvedt, Siri
¤ Picador
¤ Publication Date: 2012-06-05
¤ Paperback ( 400 pages )
¤ Category: Literary Criticism
All Men Are Liars
Manguel, Alberto ; France, Miranda (Translator)
¤ Riverhead Trade
¤ Publication Date: 2012-06-05
¤ Paperback ( 224 pages )
¤ Category: Literature
Ethical Wisdom: The Search for a Moral Life
Matousek, Mark
¤ Anchor
¤ Publication Date: 2012-06-05
¤ Paperback ( 272 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Created the Worst Financial Crisis of Our Time
Morgenson, Gretchen ; Rosner, Joshua
¤ St. Martin’s Griffin
¤ Publication Date: 2012-06-05
¤ Paperback ( 368 pages )
¤ Category: Economics
Signs and Wonders
Ohlin, Alix
¤ Vintage
¤ Publication Date: 2012-06-05
¤ Paperback ( 272 pages )
¤ Category: Literature
Herself When She’s Missing: A Novel
Rosenblum, Sarah Terez
¤ Soft Skull Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-06-05
¤ Paperback ( 240 pages )
¤ Category: Literature
Truth and Revolution: A History of the Sojourner Truth Organization, 1969-1986
Staudenmaier, Michael ; Jr., John H. Bracey
¤ AK Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-06-05
¤ Paperback ( 304 pages )
¤ Category:
Unseen Hand: Poems
Zagajewski, Adam ; Cavanagh, Clare (Translator)
¤ Farrar, Straus and Giroux
¤ Publication Date: 2012-06-05
¤ Paperback ( 128 pages )
¤ Category:
Once Upon a River: A Novel
Campbell, Bonnie Jo
¤ Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
¤ Publication Date: 2012-06-04
¤ Paperback ( 352 pages )
¤ Category: Literature
The Argumentative Turn Revisited: Public Policy as Communicative Practice
Fischer, Frank ; Gottweis, Herbert (Editor)
¤ Duke University Press Books
¤ Publication Date: 2012-06-04
¤ Paperback ( 400 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
Writings on Medicine
Canguilhem, Georges ; Geroulanos, Stefanos (Translator) ; Meyers, Todd (Translator)
¤ Fordham University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-06-01
¤ Paperback ( 128 pages )
¤ Category: Health & Medicine
Loaded Words
Garber, Marjorie
¤ Fordham University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-06-01
¤ Paperback ( 304 pages )
¤ Category: Literary Criticism
Stanley Cavell and the Education of Grownups
Saito, Naoko ; Standish, Paul (Editor)
¤ Fordham University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-06-01
¤ Paperback ( 288 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
The Sense of an Ending [Deckle Edge]
Barnes, Julian
¤ Vintage
¤ Publication Date: 2012-05-29
¤ Paperback ( 176 pages )
¤ Category: Literature
Witness the Night: A Novel
Desai, Kishwar
¤ Penguin Books
¤ Publication Date: 2012-05-29
¤ Paperback ( 256 pages )
¤ Category: Literature
The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
Deutsch, David
¤ Penguin Books
¤ Publication Date: 2012-05-29
¤ Paperback ( 496 pages )
¤ Category: Science
Blue Nights
Didion, Joan
¤ Vintage
¤ Publication Date: 2012-05-29
¤ Paperback ( 208 pages )
¤ Category: Lives & Letters
Bullfighting: Stories
Doyle, Roddy
¤ Penguin Books
¤ Publication Date: 2012-05-29
¤ Paperback ( 224 pages )
¤ Category: Literature
The Magician King: A Novel
Grossman, Lev
¤ Plume
¤ Publication Date: 2012-05-29
¤ Paperback ( 416 pages )
¤ Category: Science Fiction
In Search of First Contact: The Vikings of Vinland, the Peoples of the Dawnland, and the Anglo-American Anxiety of Discovery
Kolodny, Annette
¤ Duke University Press Books
¤ Publication Date: 2012-05-29
¤ Paperback ( 448 pages )
¤ Category: Native American Studies
The Borrower: A Novel
Makkai, Rebecca
¤ Penguin Books
¤ Publication Date: 2012-05-29
¤ Paperback ( 336 pages )
¤ Category: Literature
The Fifth Impossibility: Essays on Exile and Language
Manea, Norman
¤ Yale University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-05-29
¤ Paperback ( 368 pages )
¤ Category: Literary Criticism
Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean
Mansel, Philip
¤ Yale University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-05-29
¤ Paperback ( 480 pages )
¤ Category: History: Middle East
Writing across Cultures: Narrative Transculturation in Latin America
Rama, Angel ; Frye, David (Translator)
¤ Duke University Press Books
¤ Publication Date: 2012-05-29
¤ Paperback ( 264 pages )
¤ Category: History: Latin American
The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War
Roberts, Andrew
¤ Harper Perennial
¤ Publication Date: 2012-05-29
¤ Paperback ( 800 pages )
¤ Category: History: General
Maine
Sullivan, J. Courtney
¤ Vintage
¤ Publication Date: 2012-05-29
¤ Paperback ( 528 pages )
¤ Category: Literature
Confusion
Zweig, Stefan ; Bell, Anthea (Translator) ; Prochnik, George (Introduction)
¤ New York Review Books
¤ Publication Date: 2012-05-29
¤ Paperback ( 176 pages )
¤ Category: Literature
Antigonick
Carson, Anne ; Carson, Anne (Translator) ; Stone, Bianca (Illustrator)
¤ New Directions
¤ Publication Date: 2012-05-28
¤ Hardcover ( 180 pages )
¤ Category: Poetry
Why Everyone
Kurzban, Robert
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-05-27
¤ Paperback ( 288 pages )
¤ Category: Psychology
Race Decoded: The Genomic Fight for Social Justice
Bliss, Catherine
¤ Stanford University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-05-23
¤ Paperback ( 280 pages )
¤ Category: Health & Medicine
Antwerp
Bolaño, Roberto ; Wimmer, Natasha (Translator)
¤ New Directions
¤ Publication Date: 2012-05-23
¤ Paperback ( 96 pages )
¤ Category: Literature
Objectivity: A Very Short Introduction
Gaukroger, Stephen
¤ Oxford University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-05-23
¤ Paperback ( 152 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
Muslim Becoming: Aspiration and Skepticism in Pakistan
Khan, Naveeda
¤ Duke University Press Books
¤ Publication Date: 2012-05-22
¤ Paperback ( 280 pages )
¤ Category: Islamic Studies
The Last Hundred Days: A Novel
McGuinness, Patrick
¤ Bloomsbury USA
¤ Publication Date: 2012-05-22
¤ Paperback ( 384 pages )
¤ Category:
People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo–and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up
Parry, Richard Lloyd
¤ FSG Originals
¤ Publication Date: 2012-05-22
¤ Paperback ( 464 pages )
¤ Category: History: East Asia
The Leftovers
Perrotta, Tom
¤ St. Martin’s Griffin
¤ Publication Date: 2012-05-22
¤ Paperback ( 384 pages )
¤ Category: Literature
Touching Photographs
Olin, Margaret
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-05-21
¤ Paperback ( 288 pages )
¤ Category: Photography
How to Succeed in College (While Really Trying): A Professor’s Inside Advice
Gould, Jon B.
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-05-18
¤ Paperback ( 160 pages )
¤ Category: Education
Moral Combat: Good and Evil in World War II
Burleigh, Michael
¤ Harper Perennial
¤ Publication Date: 2012-05-15
¤ Paperback ( 672 pages )
¤ Category: History: Historiography
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
Eagleman, David
¤ Vintage
¤ Publication Date: 2012-05-15
¤ Paperback ( 304 pages )
¤ Category: Cognitive Science
The Ballad of Bob Dylan: A Portrait
Epstein, Daniel Mark
¤ Harper Perennial
¤ Publication Date: 2012-05-15
¤ Paperback ( 528 pages )
¤ Category: Music
The Ball: Discovering the Object of the Game
Fox, John
¤ Harper Perennial
¤ Publication Date: 2012-05-15
¤ Paperback ( 400 pages )
¤ Category: Sports & Games
Death
Kagan, Shelly
¤ Yale University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-05-15
¤ Paperback ( 392 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris
McCullough, David
¤ Simon & Schuster
¤ Publication Date: 2012-05-15
¤ Paperback ( 576 pages )
¤ Category: History: United States
Wanted: Elevator Man
Peterson, Joseph G.
¤ Northern Illinois University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-05-15
¤ Paperback ( 178 pages )
¤ Category:
Memorial Mania: Public Feeling in America
Doss, Erika
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-05-14
¤ Paperback ( 480 pages )
¤ Category: Art
Great Contemporaries: Churchill Reflects on FDR, Hitler, Kipling, Chaplin, Balfour, and Other Giants of His Age
Churchill, Winston ; Muller, James W. (Editor)
¤ Intercollegiate Studies Institute
¤ Publication Date: 2012-05-11
¤ Paperback ( 400 pages )
¤ Category:
Images in Spite of All: Four Photographs from Auschwitz
Didi-Huberman, Georges ; Lillis, Shane B. (Translator)
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-05-09
¤ Paperback ( 248 pages )
¤ Category: Photography
The New Gilded Age: The Critical Inequality Debates of Our Time
Grusky, David ; Kricheli-Katz, Tamar (Editor)
¤ Stanford University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-05-09
¤ Paperback ( 312 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
Testing the Limit: Derrida, Henry, Levinas, and the Phenomenological Tradition
Sebbah, FranCois-David ; Barker, Stephen (Translator)
¤ Stanford University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-05-09
¤ Paperback ( 336 pages )
¤ Category:
The Sly Company of People Who Care: A Novel
Bhattacharya, Rahul
¤ Picador
¤ Publication Date: 2012-05-08
¤ Paperback ( 288 pages )
¤ Category: Literature
The Courage of Truth: The Government of Self and Others II; Lectures at the Collège de France, 1983–1984
Foucault, Michel ; Davidson, Arnold I. I. ; Burchell, Graham (Translator)
¤ Picador
¤ Publication Date: 2012-05-08
¤ Paperback ( 384 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure
Harford, Tim
¤ Picador
¤ Publication Date: 2012-05-08
¤ Paperback ( 352 pages )
¤ Category: Economics
The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust
Henriques, Diana B.
¤ St. Martin’s Griffin
¤ Publication Date: 2012-05-08
¤ Paperback ( 464 pages )
¤ Category: Economics
My Struggle: Book One
Knausgaard, Karl ; Bartlett, Don
¤ Archipelago Books
¤ Publication Date: 2012-05-08
¤ Paperback ( 250 pages )
¤ Category: Literature
State of Wonder: A Novel
Patchett, Ann
¤ Harper Perennial
¤ Publication Date: 2012-05-08
¤ Paperback ( 384 pages )
¤ Category: Literature
Arab Spring, Libyan Winter
Prashad, Vijay
¤ AK Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-05-08
¤ Paperback ( 168 pages )
¤ Category: History: African
Luminarium
Shakar, Alex
¤ Soho Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-05-08
¤ Paperback ( 432 pages )
¤ Category: Literature
A Journey with Two Maps: Becoming a Woman Poet
Boland, Eavan
¤ W. W. Norton & Company
¤ Publication Date: 2012-05-07
¤ Paperback ( 288 pages )
¤ Category:
The Cambridge Companion to Modern Indian Culture
Dalmia, Vasudha
¤ Cambridge University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-05-07
¤ Paperback ( 326 pages )
¤ Category: History: South Asian
Muhammad and the Believers: At the Origins of Islam
Donner, Fred M.
¤ Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-05-07
¤ Paperback ( 304 pages )
¤ Category: Islamic Studies
Moses Montefiore: Jewish Liberator, Imperial Hero
Green, Abigail
¤ Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-05-07
¤ Paperback ( 560 pages )
¤ Category: Judaic Studies
The Offensive Internet: Speech, Privacy, and Reputation
Levmore, Saul ; Nussbaum, Martha C. (Editor)
¤ Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-05-07
¤ Paperback ( 312 pages )
¤ Category: Legal Theory
A New Literary History of America
Marcus, Greil ; Sollors, Werner (Editor)
¤ Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-05-07
¤ Paperback ( 1128 pages )
¤ Category: Literary Reference
The Berlin-Baghdad Express: The Ottoman Empire and Germany’s Bid for World Power
McMeekin, Sean
¤ Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-05-07
¤ Paperback ( 496 pages )
¤ Category: History: Middle East
Selling Sounds: The Commercial Revolution in American Music
Suisman, David
¤ Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-05-07
¤ Paperback ( 368 pages )
¤ Category: Music
Prefaces to Shakespeare
Tanner, Tony ; Heath, Stephen (Foreword by)
¤ Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-05-07
¤ Paperback ( 848 pages )
¤ Category: Literary Criticism
Pope and Devil: The Vatican’s Archives and the Third Reich
Wolf, Hubert ; Kronenberg, Kenneth (Translator)
¤ Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-05-07
¤ Paperback ( 336 pages )
¤ Category: History: European
Look, A White!: Philosophical Essays on Whiteness
Yancy, George
¤ Temple University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-05-06
¤ Paperback ( 228 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life
Ahmed, Sara
¤ Duke University Press Books
¤ Publication Date: 2012-05-04
¤ Paperback ( 192 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
The Chicago Companion to Tocqueville’s Democracy in America
Schleifer, James T.
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-05-04
¤ Paperback ( 216 pages )
¤ Category:
The Sexual Life of English: Languages of Caste and Desire in Colonial India
Chandra, Shefali
¤ Duke University Press Books
¤ Publication Date: 2012-05-02
¤ Paperback ( 288 pages )
¤ Category: History: South Asian
The Art of Fielding: A Novel
Harbach, Chad
¤ Back Bay Books
¤ Publication Date: 2012-05-01
¤ Paperback ( 544 pages )
¤ Category: Literature
Then Again
Keaton, Diane
¤ Random House Trade Paperbacks
¤ Publication Date: 2012-05-01
¤ Paperback ( 336 pages )
¤ Category: Film Studies
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin
Larson, Erik
¤ Broadway
¤ Publication Date: 2012-05-01
¤ Paperback ( 480 pages )
¤ Category: History: General
Small Memories
Saramago, Jose ; Costa, Margaret Jull (Translator)
¤ Mariner Books
¤ Publication Date: 2012-05-01
¤ Paperback ( 176 pages )
¤ Category:
Manual of Painting and Calligraphy
Saramago, Jose ; Pontiero, Giovanni (Translator)
¤ Mariner Books
¤ Publication Date: 2012-05-01
¤ Paperback ( 256 pages )
¤ Category: Literature
Memoirs of a Revolutionary
Serge, Victor ; Sedgwick, Peter (Translator) ; Hochschild, Adam (Foreword by) ; Paizis, George (Translator) ; Greeman, Richard (Editor)
¤ NYRB Classics
¤ Publication Date: 2012-05-01
¤ Paperback ( 576 pages )
¤ Category: History: Russian
Another Freedom: The Alternative History of an Idea
Boym, Svetlana
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-04-30
¤ Paperback ( 376 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
The Norman Maclean Reader
Maclean, Norman ; Weltzien, O. Alan ; Weltzien, O. Alan (Introduction)
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-04-30
¤ Paperback ( 320 pages )
¤ Category:
Law and the Limits of Reason
Vermeule, Adrian
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
¤ Publication Date: 2012-04-27
¤ Paperback ( 220 pages )
¤ Category: Legal Theory
IN & OZ: A Novel
Tomasula, Steve
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-04-25
¤ Paperback ( 152 pages )
¤ Category:
Caleb’s Crossing: A Novel
Brooks, Geraldine
¤ Penguin Books
¤ Publication Date: 2012-04-24
¤ Paperback ( 336 pages )
¤ Category: Literature
Ticket Masters: The Rise of the Concert Industry and How the Public Got Scalped
Budnick, Dean
¤ Plume
¤ Publication Date: 2012-04-24
¤ Paperback ( 400 pages )
¤ Category: Music
A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter
Deresiewicz, William
¤ Penguin Books
¤ Publication Date: 2012-04-24
¤ Paperback ( 288 pages )
¤ Category: Literary Criticism
Why Marx Was Right
Eagleton, Terry
¤ Yale University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-04-24
¤ Paperback ( 272 pages )
¤ Category: Critical Theory & Marxism
On China
Kissinger, Henry
¤ Penguin Books
¤ Publication Date: 2012-04-24
¤ Paperback ( 624 pages )
¤ Category: History: East Asia
The Compass of Pleasure: How Our Brains Make Fatty Foods, Orgasm, Exercise, Marijuana, Generosity, Vodka, Learning, and Gambling Feel So Good
Linden, David J.
¤ Penguin Books
¤ Publication Date: 2012-04-24
¤ Paperback ( 240 pages )
¤ Category: Cognitive Science
The Filter Bubble: How the New Personalized Web Is Changing What We Read and How We Think
Pariser, Eli
¤ Penguin Books
¤ Publication Date: 2012-04-24
¤ Paperback ( 304 pages )
¤ Category: Science
The Folded Earth: A Novel
Roy, Anuradha
¤ Free Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-04-24
¤ Paperback ( 288 pages )
¤ Category: Literature
Salvage the Bones: A Novel
Ward, Jesmyn
¤ Bloomsbury USA
¤ Publication Date: 2012-04-24
¤ Paperback ( 288 pages )
¤ Category: Literature
Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II
Zuckoff, Mitchell
¤ Harper Perennial
¤ Publication Date: 2012-04-24
¤ Paperback ( 432 pages )
¤ Category: History: General
Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle ; Bartlett, Robert C. (Translator) ; Collins, Susan D. (Translator)
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-04-23
¤ Paperback ( 368 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
The Restless Anthropologist: New Fieldsites, New Visions
Gottlieb, Alma
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-04-20
¤ Paperback ( 208 pages )
¤ Category:
A Naked Singularity: A Novel
Pava, Sergio De La
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-04-19
¤ Paperback ( 688 pages )
¤ Category: Literature
The Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life
Bloom, Harold
¤ Yale University Press
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¤ Harvard University Press
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¤ Harvard University Press
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¤ Oxford University Press, USA
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¤ Columbia University Press
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The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume I
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¤ University Of Chicago Press
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¤ University Of Chicago Press
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The Fantasy of Feminist History
Scott, Joan Wallach
¤ Duke University Press Books
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¤ Autonomedia
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¤ University Of Chicago Press
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Bowersock, G.W.
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
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¤ Columbia University Press
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The Ideological Origins of American Federalism
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¤ Harvard University Press
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