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Front Table: Paperbacks(Week of November 4th, 2012)
November 3rd, 2012 by Front Table
The Game of Probability: Literature and Calculation from Pascal to Kleist
Campe, Rudiger
¤ Stanford University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2013-01-09
¤ Paperback ( 504 pages )
¤ Category: Literary Criticism
A Systems Theory of Religion (Cultural Memory in the Present)
Luhmann, Niklas
¤ Stanford University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2013-01-09
¤ Paperback ( 320 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
The One-State Condition: Occupation and Democracy in Israel/Palestine (Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and I)
Azoulay, Ariella ; Ophir, Adi
¤ Stanford University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-11-28
¤ Paperback ( 328 pages )
¤ Category: History: Middle East
Political Philosophy (The Open Yale Courses Series)
Smith, Steven B.
¤ Yale University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-11-27
¤ Paperback ( 296 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
Depression: A Public Feeling
Cvetkovich, Ann
¤ Duke University Press Books
¤ Publication Date: 2012-11-26
¤ Paperback ( 296 pages )
¤ Category: Queer Studies
Time in the Shadows: Confinement in Counterinsurgencies
Khalili, Laleh
¤ Stanford University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-11-21
¤ Paperback ( 368 pages )
¤ Category:
Microscripts
Walser, Robert
¤ New Directions
¤ Publication Date: 2012-11-21
¤ Paperback ( 160 pages )
¤ Category: Literature
Holy Bones, Holy Dust: How Relics Shaped the History of Medieval Europe
Freeman, Charles
¤ Yale University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-11-20
¤ Paperback ( 324 pages )
¤ Category: History: Medieval
Bilingual: Life and Reality
Grosjean, François
¤ Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-11-19
¤ Paperback ( 304 pages )
¤ Category: Linguistics
The Myth of Choice: Personal Responsibility in a World of Limits
Greenfield, Kent
¤ Yale University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-11-13
¤ Paperback ( 256 pages )
¤ Category:
His Majesty’s Opponent: Subhas Chandra Bose and India’s Struggle against Empire
Bose, Sugata
¤ Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-11-12
¤ Paperback ( 448 pages )
¤ Category: History: South Asian
The Illusion of Free Markets: Punishment and the Myth of Natural Order
Harcourt, Bernard E.
¤ Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-11-12
¤ Paperback ( 336 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
The Long Divergence: How Islamic Law Held Back the Middle East
Kuran, Timur
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-11-11
¤ Paperback ( 424 pages )
¤ Category:
Why the Law Is So Perverse
Katz, Leo
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-11-06
¤ Paperback ( 256 pages )
¤ Category: Legal Theory
After Evil: A Politics of Human Rights (Columbia Studies in Political Thought / Political History)
Meister, Robert
¤ Columbia University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-11-06
¤ Paperback ( 544 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
On Being Ill: with Notes from Sick Rooms by Julia Stephen
Woolf, Virginia ; Lee, Hermione ; Hussey, Mark ; Charon, Rita
¤ Paris Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-11-06
¤ Paperback ( 160 pages )
¤ Category: Lives & Letters
The Great Image Has No Form, or On the Nonobject through Painting
Jullien, FranCois
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-11-05
¤ Paperback ( 288 pages )
¤ Category: Art
American Nietzsche: A History of an Icon and His Ideas
Ratner-Rosenhagen, Jennifer
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-11-05
¤ Paperback ( 464 pages )
¤ Category: History: United States
Israel/Palestine and the Queer International
Schulman, Sarah
¤ Duke University Press Books
¤ Publication Date: 2012-11-05
¤ Paperback ( 208 pages )
¤ Category: History: Middle East
Questioning Secularism: Islam, Sovereignty, and the Rule of Law in Modern Egypt (Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning)
Agrama, Hussein Ali
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-11-02
¤ Paperback ( 288 pages )
¤ Category: History: Middle East
The Deaths of Others: The Fate of Civilians in America’s Wars
Tirman, John
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
¤ Publication Date: 2012-11-01
¤ Paperback ( 416 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
On Making Sense: Queer Race Narratives of Intelligibility
Martinez, Ernesto
¤ Stanford University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-31
¤ Paperback ( 216 pages )
¤ Category: Queer Studies
The Islands of Benoit Mandelbrot: Fractals, Chaos, and the Materiality of Thinking (Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design & Culture)
Brevern, Jan von ; Bruhn, Matthias ; Koss, Juliet ; Pratschke, Margarete ; Pratschke, Margarete (Contribution by)
¤ Bard Center
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-30
¤ Paperback ( 176 pages )
¤ Category: Mathematics
Crossbones: A Novel
Farah, Nuruddin
¤ Penguin Books
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-30
¤ Paperback ( 400 pages )
¤ Category: Literature
Civilization: The West and the Rest
Ferguson, Niall
¤ Penguin Books
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-30
¤ Paperback ( 432 pages )
¤ Category: History: Historiography
The Confidant: A Novel
Gremillon, Helene
¤ Penguin Books
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-30
¤ Paperback ( 256 pages )
¤ Category: Literature
The Language Wars: A History of Proper English
Hitchings, Henry
¤ Picador
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-30
¤ Paperback ( 416 pages )
¤ Category: Linguistics
How to Change the World: Reflections on Marx and Marxism
Hobsbawm, Eric
¤ Yale University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-30
¤ Paperback ( 480 pages )
¤ Category: Critical Theory & Marxism
Rome: A Cultural, Visual, and Personal History (Vintage)
Hughes, Robert
¤ Vintage
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-30
¤ Paperback ( 512 pages )
¤ Category: History: Classical
Life Goes On: A Novel
Keilson, Hans
¤ Farrar, Straus and Giroux
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-30
¤ Paperback ( 272 pages )
¤ Category: Literature
Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark
Kellow, Brian
¤ Penguin Books
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-30
¤ Paperback ( 432 pages )
¤ Category: Film Studies
Mr g: A Novel About the Creation
Lightman, Alan
¤ Vintage
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-30
¤ Paperback ( 224 pages )
¤ Category: Literature
Reading Films: My International Cinema
Messerli, Douglas
¤ Green Integer
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-30
¤ Paperback ( 640 pages )
¤ Category: Film Studies
The Enlightened Economy: An Economic History of Britain 1700-1850 (The New Economic History of Britain seri)
Mokyr, Joel
¤ Yale University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-30
¤ Paperback ( 550 pages )
¤ Category: Economics
The Moral Foundations of Politics (The Open Yale Courses Series)
Shapiro, Ian
¤ Yale University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-30
¤ Paperback ( 304 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
How to Be Black
Thurston, Baratunde
¤ Harper Paperbacks
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-30
¤ Paperback ( 272 pages )
¤ Category: African American Studies
Charles Dickens: A Life
Tomalin, Claire
¤ Penguin Books
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-30
¤ Paperback ( 576 pages )
¤ Category: Literary Criticism
Selected Stories
Walser, Robert ; Sontag, Susan (Foreword by)
¤ Farrar, Straus and Giroux
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-30
¤ Paperback ( 208 pages )
¤ Category: Literature
Plato’s Philosophers: The Coherence of the Dialogues
Zuckert, Catherine H.
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-30
¤ Paperback ( 896 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
Illuminations
Rimbaud, Arthur
¤ W. W. Norton & Company
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-29
¤ Paperback ( 176 pages )
¤ Category: Poetry
Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries
Vendler, Helen
¤ Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-29
¤ Paperback ( 560 pages )
¤ Category: Poetry
Finding Oneself in the Other
Cohen, G. A. ; Otsuka, Michael
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-28
¤ Paperback ( 240 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
What Is Meaning? (Soochow University Lectures in Philosophy)
Soames, Scott
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-28
¤ Paperback ( 144 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
How Old Is the Universe?
Weintraub, David A.
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-28
¤ Paperback ( 384 pages )
¤ Category: Science
Georges Bataille: Phenomenology and Phantasmatology
Gasche, Rodolphe
¤ Stanford University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-24
¤ Paperback ( 352 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
In the Self’s Place: The Approach of Saint Augustine (Cultural Memory in the Present)
Marion, Jean-Luc
¤ Stanford University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-24
¤ Paperback ( 448 pages )
¤ Category: Christian Theology
Paradox: The Nine Greatest Enigmas in Physics
Al-Khalili, Jim
¤ Broadway
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-23
¤ Paperback ( 256 pages )
¤ Category:
Hush Hush: Stories
Barthelme, Steven
¤ Melville House
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-23
¤ Paperback ( 208 pages )
¤ Category:
A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France (P.S.)
Moorehead, Caroline
¤ Harper Perennial
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-23
¤ Paperback ( 400 pages )
¤ Category:
Debating the End of History: The Marketplace, Utopia, and the Fragmentation of Intellectual Life (Critical American Studies)
Noble, David W.
¤ Univ Of Minnesota Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-23
¤ Paperback ( 224 pages )
¤ Category:
How the French Invented Love: Nine Hundred Years of Passion and Romance
Yalom, Marilyn
¤ Harper Perennial
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-23
¤ Paperback ( 416 pages )
¤ Category:
Left Behind: Latin America and the False Promise of Populism
Edwards, Sebastian
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-22
¤ Paperback ( 296 pages )
¤ Category: History: Latin American
Teaching What You Don’t Know
Huston, Therese
¤ Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-22
¤ Paperback ( 320 pages )
¤ Category: Education
The Creation and Destruction of Value: The Globalization Cycle
James, Harold
¤ Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-22
¤ Paperback ( 336 pages )
¤ Category: Economics
The Uprising: On Poetry and Finance (Semiotext
Berardi, Franco “Bifo”
¤ Semiotext(e)
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-19
¤ Paperback ( 176 pages )
¤ Category:
Tijuana Dreaming: Life and Art at the Global Border
Kun, Josh
¤ Duke University Press Books
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-19
¤ Paperback ( 424 pages )
¤ Category: History: Latin American
Lightning Rods
DeWitt, Helen
¤ New Directions
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-18
¤ Paperback ( 288 pages )
¤ Category: Literature
The Miracle Cures of Dr. Aira
Aira, César ; Silver, Katherine
¤ New Directions
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-16
¤ Paperback ( 88 pages )
¤ Category: Literature
Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything
Bellos, David
¤ Faber & Faber
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-16
¤ Paperback ( 384 pages )
¤ Category: Linguistics
Crazy Salad and Scribble Scribble: Some Things About Women and Notes on Media
Ephron, Nora
¤ Vintage
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-16
¤ Paperback ( 448 pages )
¤ Category: Women’s Studies
We Are Many: Critical Reflections on Movement Strategy from Occupation to Liberation
Graeber, David ; Graeber, David (Afterword)
¤ AK Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-16
¤ Paperback ( 355 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
World in the Balance: The Historic Quest for an Absolute System of Measurement
Crease, Robert P.
¤ W. W. Norton & Company
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-15
¤ Paperback ( 320 pages )
¤ Category: Science
A New History of Western Philosophy
Kenny, Anthony
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-15
¤ Paperback ( 1088 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
How Language Began: Gesture and Speech in Human Evolution (Approaches to the Evolution of Language)
McNeill, David
¤ Cambridge University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-15
¤ Paperback ( 275 pages )
¤ Category: Linguistics
Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, “Found” Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts
Shields, David
¤ W. W. Norton & Company
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-15
¤ Paperback ( 368 pages )
¤ Category: Anthologies
Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul’s School (Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology)
Khan, Shamus Rahman
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-14
¤ Paperback ( 248 pages )
¤ Category: Education
Facing Fear: The History of an Emotion in Global Perspective
Laffan, Michael
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-14
¤ Paperback ( 288 pages )
¤ Category: History: Historiography
The Emergence of Organizations and Markets
Padgett, John F. ; Powell, Walter W.
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-14
¤ Paperback ( 560 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
Resisting Reality: Social Construction and Social Critique
Haslanger, Sally
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-11
¤ Paperback ( 512 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
Trampling Out the Vintage: Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers
Bardacke, Frank
¤ Verso
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-09
¤ Paperback ( 848 pages )
¤ Category: History: United States
Border Vigils: Keeping Migrants Out of the Rich World
Harding, Jeremy
¤ Verso
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-09
¤ Paperback ( 176 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
Darwin: A Life in Poems
Padel, Ruth
¤ Knopf
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-09
¤ Paperback ( 160 pages )
¤ Category: Poetry
The Undiscovered Dewey: Religion, Morality, and the Ethos of Democracy
Rogers, Melvin L.
¤ Columbia University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-09
¤ Paperback ( 352 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
Cain
Saramago, Jose
¤ Mariner Books
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-09
¤ Paperback ( 176 pages )
¤ Category: Literature
Sewn in the Sweatshops of Marx: Beuys, Warhol, Klein, Duchamp
Duve, Thierry de
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-08
¤ Paperback ( 96 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
Heroines (Semiotext
Zambreno, Kate
¤ Semiotext(e)
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-05
¤ Paperback ( 312 pages )
¤ Category: Literary Criticism
Puppet: An Essay on Uncanny Life
Gross, Kenneth
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-03
¤ Paperback ( 216 pages )
¤ Category: Literary Criticism
Atmosphere, Mood, Stimmung: On a Hidden Potential of Literature
Gumbrecht, Hans
¤ Stanford University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-03
¤ Paperback ( 152 pages )
¤ Category: Literary Criticism
Dominatrix: Gender, Eroticism, and Control in the Dungeon
Lindemann, Danielle J.
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-03
¤ Paperback ( 256 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
The Wandering Falcon
Ahmad, Jamil
¤ Riverhead Trade
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-02
¤ Paperback ( 256 pages )
¤ Category: Literature
The Old Devils
Amis, Kingsley ; Banville, John
¤ NYRB Classics
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-02
¤ Paperback ( 320 pages )
¤ Category: Literature
Lucky Jim
Amis, Kingsley ; Gessen, Keith (Introduction)
¤ NYRB Classics
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-02
¤ Paperback ( 296 pages )
¤ Category: Literature
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2012
Ariely, Dan
¤ Mariner Books
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-02
¤ Paperback ( 352 pages )
¤ Category: Anthologies
The Best American Essays 2012 (The Best American Series
Brooks, David
¤ Mariner Books
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-02
¤ Paperback ( 336 pages )
¤ Category: Anthologies
Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest (Vintage)
Davis, Wade
¤ Vintage
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-02
¤ Paperback ( 688 pages )
¤ Category: History: British & Irish
The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories
DeLillo, Don
¤ Scribner
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-02
¤ Paperback ( 224 pages )
¤ Category: Literature
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012
Eggers, Dave ; Bradbury, Ray (Introduction)
¤ Mariner Books
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-02
¤ Paperback ( 432 pages )
¤ Category: Anthologies
Shock of Gray: The Aging of the World’s Population and How it Pits Young Against Old, Child Against Parent, Worker Against Boss, Company Against Rival, and Nation Against Nation
Fishman, Ted C.
¤ Scribner
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-02
¤ Paperback ( 416 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
River of Smoke: A Novel
Ghosh, Amitav
¤ Picador
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-02
¤ Paperback ( 528 pages )
¤ Category: Literature
Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945 (Vintage)
Hastings, Max
¤ Vintage
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-02
¤ Paperback ( 800 pages )
¤ Category: History: European
Nanjing Requiem: A Novel
Jin, Ha
¤ Vintage
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-02
¤ Paperback ( 320 pages )
¤ Category: Literature
Don’t Shoot: One Man, A Street Fellowship, and the End of Violence in Inner-City America
Kennedy, David M.
¤ Bloomsbury USA
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-02
¤ Paperback ( 336 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress–and a Plan to Stop It
Lessig, Lawrence
¤ Twelve
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-02
¤ Paperback ( 416 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
The Ecstasy of Influence: Nonfictions, Etc.
Lethem, Jonathan
¤ Vintage
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-02
¤ Paperback ( 464 pages )
¤ Category: Literary Criticism
Stealth of Nations: The Global Rise of the Informal Economy
Neuwirth, Robert
¤ Anchor
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-02
¤ Paperback ( 304 pages )
¤ Category: Economics
Damned
Palahniuk, Chuck
¤ Anchor
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-02
¤ Paperback ( 256 pages )
¤ Category: Literature
The Best American Short Stories 2012 (Best American Series)
Perrotta, Tom
¤ Mariner Books
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-02
¤ Paperback ( 384 pages )
¤ Category: Anthologies
Knocking on Heaven’s Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World
Randall, Lisa
¤ Ecco
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-02
¤ Paperback ( 480 pages )
¤ Category: Science
Object Lessons: The Paris Review Presents the Art of the Short Story
Review, The Paris
¤ Picador
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-02
¤ Paperback ( 368 pages )
¤ Category: Anthologies
The Art of Philosophy: Wisdom as a Practice
Sloterdijk, Peter
¤ Columbia University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-02
¤ Paperback ( 120 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
Snyder, Timothy
¤ Basic Books
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-02
¤ Paperback ( 560 pages )
¤ Category: History: European
Five Chiefs: A Supreme Court Memoir
Stevens, John Paul
¤ Back Bay Books
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-02
¤ Paperback ( 304 pages )
¤ Category: Legal Theory
The Other
Tryon, Thomas ; Chaon, Dan
¤ NYRB Classics
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-02
¤ Paperback ( 272 pages )
¤ Category: Literature
Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
Turkle, Sherry
¤ Basic Books
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-02
¤ Paperback ( 384 pages )
¤ Category: Science
Political Theology and Early Modernity
Balibar, Etienne ; Balibar, Etienne (Other)
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-01
¤ Paperback ( 352 pages )
¤ Category: Literary Criticism
Lost Decades: The Making of America’s Debt Crisis and the Long Recovery
Chinn, Menzie D. ; Frieden, Jeffry A.
¤ W. W. Norton & Company
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-01
¤ Paperback ( 304 pages )
¤ Category: Economics
This Is Not Civil Rights: Discovering Rights Talk in 1939 America (Chicago Series in Law and Society)
Lovell, George I.
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-10-01
¤ Paperback ( 280 pages )
¤ Category: History: United States
Histories of the Dustheap: Waste, Material Cultures, Social Justice
Foote, Stephanie
¤ The MIT Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-09-28
¤ Paperback ( 304 pages )
¤ Category: Environmental Studies
Travels in the Reich, 1933-1945: Foreign Authors Report from Germany
Lubrich, Oliver
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-09-27
¤ Paperback ( 336 pages )
¤ Category: History: European
The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World
Yergin, Daniel
¤ Penguin Books
¤ Publication Date: 2012-09-26
¤ Paperback ( 832 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
Deadline Artists: America’s Greatest Newspaper Columnists
Avlon, John ; Angelo, Jesse ; Louis, Errol
¤ Overlook TP
¤ Publication Date: 2012-09-25
¤ Paperback ( 432 pages )
¤ Category: Anthologies
Columbus: The Four Voyages, 1492-1504
Bergreen, Laurence
¤ Penguin Books
¤ Publication Date: 2012-09-25
¤ Paperback ( 448 pages )
¤ Category: History: General
Feeding on Dreams: Confessions of an Unrepentant Exile
Dorfman, Ariel
¤ Mariner Books
¤ Publication Date: 2012-09-25
¤ Paperback ( 352 pages )
¤ Category: History: Latin American
The Balkans: Nationalism, War, and the Great Powers, 1804-2011
Glenny, Misha
¤ Penguin Books
¤ Publication Date: 2012-09-25
¤ Paperback ( 800 pages )
¤ Category: History: Eastern European
The Theory That Would Not Die: How Bayes’ Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy
McGrayne, Sharon Bertsch
¤ Yale University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-09-25
¤ Paperback ( 360 pages )
¤ Category: Statistics
Scenes from Village Life
Oz, Amos
¤ Mariner Books
¤ Publication Date: 2012-09-25
¤ Paperback ( 192 pages )
¤ Category: Literature
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
Pinker, Steven
¤ Penguin Books
¤ Publication Date: 2012-09-25
¤ Paperback ( 832 pages )
¤ Category: History: General
The Subprime Solution: How Today’s Global Financial Crisis Happened, and What to Do about It (New in Paper)
Shiller, Robert J.
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-09-24
¤ Paperback ( 224 pages )
¤ Category: Economics
Philosophy of Language (Princeton Foundations of Contemporary Philosophy)
Soames, Scott
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-09-24
¤ Paperback ( 200 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
Yinyang: The Way of Heaven and Earth in Chinese Thought and Culture (New Approaches to Asian History)
Wang, Robin R.
¤ Cambridge University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-09-24
¤ Paperback ( 264 pages )
¤ Category: History: East Asia
I Feel So Good: The Life and Times of Big Bill Broonzy
Riesman, Bob ; Guralnick, Peter (Foreword by) ; Townshend, Pete (Contribution by)
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-09-22
¤ Paperback ( 368 pages )
¤ Category: Music
The Warcraft Civilization: Social Science in a Virtual World
Bainbridge, William Sims
¤ The MIT Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-09-21
¤ Paperback ( 256 pages )
¤ Category: Media Studies
The Gift of Freedom: War, Debt, and Other Refugee Passages
Nguyen, Mimi Thi
¤ Duke University Press Books
¤ Publication Date: 2012-09-21
¤ Paperback ( 304 pages )
¤ Category: Critical Theory & Marxism
Shopping for Good (Boston Review Books)
O’Rourke, Dara
¤ The MIT Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-09-21
¤ Hardcover ( 120 pages )
¤ Category: Environmental Studies
The Return
Bolaño, Roberto
¤ New Directions
¤ Publication Date: 2012-09-20
¤ Paperback ( 200 pages )
¤ Category: Literature
The Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of the New India
Deb, Siddhartha
¤ Faber & Faber
¤ Publication Date: 2012-09-18
¤ Paperback ( 272 pages )
¤ Category: History: South Asian
Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right
Frank, Thomas
¤ Picador
¤ Publication Date: 2012-09-18
¤ Paperback ( 240 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
The Critical Pulse: Thirty-Six Credos by Contemporary Critics
J., Jeffrey (edt) Williams
¤ Columbia University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-09-18
¤ Paperback ( 288 pages )
¤ Category: Literary Criticism
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
Massie, Robert K.
¤ Random House Trade Paperbacks
¤ Publication Date: 2012-09-18
¤ Paperback ( 672 pages )
¤ Category: History: Russian
Jerusalem: The Biography (Vintage)
Montefiore, Simon Sebag
¤ Vintage
¤ Publication Date: 2012-09-18
¤ Paperback ( 704 pages )
¤ Category: History: Middle East
Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps
Palast, Greg ; Kennedy, Robert F. (Introduction)
¤ Seven Stories Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-09-18
¤ Paperback ( 304 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
Occupying Language (Occupied Media Pamphlet Series)
Sitrin, Marina ; Azzellini, Dario
¤ Zuccotti Park Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-09-18
¤ Paperback ( 128 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
The Sources of Social Power: Volume 3, Global Empires and Revolution, 1890-1945
Mann, Michael
¤ Cambridge University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-09-17
¤ Paperback ( 520 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method
Boellstorff, Tom ; Nardi, Bonnie ; Pearce, Celia ; Taylor, T. L.
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-09-16
¤ Paperback ( 264 pages )
¤ Category: Anthropology
The Economics of Enough: How to Run the Economy as If the Future Matters
Coyle, Diane
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-09-16
¤ Paperback ( 360 pages )
¤ Category: Economics
The Darwin Economy: Liberty, Competition, and the Common Good [New in Paper]
Frank, Robert H.
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-09-16
¤ Paperback ( 264 pages )
¤ Category: Economics
Exceptional People: How Migration Shaped Our World and Will Define Our Future
Goldin, Ian ; Cameron, Geoffrey ; Balarajan, Meera
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-09-16
¤ Paperback ( 392 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
Thinking about Leadership
Keohane, Nannerl O.
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-09-16
¤ Paperback ( 312 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
Perfect Order: Recognizing Complexity in Bali (Princeton Studies in Complexity)
Lansing, J. Stephen
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-09-16
¤ Paperback ( 248 pages )
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The Soul of the Greeks: An Inquiry
Davis, Michael
¤ University Of Chicago Press
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Digital Dead End: Fighting for Social Justice in the Information Age
Eubanks, Virginia
¤ The MIT Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-09-14
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Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia (History and Foundations of Information Science)
Jr., Joseph Michael Reagle ; Lessig, Lawrence
¤ The MIT Press
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Helmholtz: From Enlightenment to Neuroscience
Meulders, Michel
¤ The MIT Press
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Dada in Paris
Sanouillet, Michel
¤ The MIT Press
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New Babylonians: A History of Jews in Modern Iraq
Bashkin, Orit
¤ Stanford University Press
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Lempert, Michael ; Silverstein, Michael
¤ Indiana University Press
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Young Man with a Horn
Baker, Dorothy ; Giddins, Gary
¤ NYRB Classics
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Stepping-Stones: A Journey through the Ice Age Caves of the Dordogne
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¤ Yale University Press
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News For All The People: The Epic Story of Race and the American Media
González, Juan ; Torres, Joseph
¤ Verso
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I Married You For Happiness
Tuck, Lily
¤ Grove Press
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A New Anthropology of Islam (New Departures in Anthropology)
Bowen, John R.
¤ Cambridge University Press
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Divine Art, Infernal Machine: The Reception of Printing in the West from First Impressions to the Sense of an Ending (Material Texts)
Eisenstein, Elizabeth L.
¤ University of Pennsylvania Press
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Keynes Hayek: The Clash that Defined Modern Economics
Wapshott, Nicholas
¤ W. W. Norton & Company
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A Tale of Two Cultures: Qualitative and Quantitative Research in the Social Sciences
Goertz, Gary ; Mahoney, James
¤ Princeton University Press
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Of Empires and Citizens: Pro-American Democracy or No Democracy at All?
Jamal, Amaney A.
¤ Princeton University Press
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Essays on Kant
Allison, Henry E.
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
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Sketch for a Systematic Metaphysics
Armstrong, D. M.
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
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Art in Three Dimensions
Carroll, Noel
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
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Galileo
Heilbron, John L.
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
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Contending Economic Theories: Neoclassical, Keynesian, and Marxian
Wolff, Richard D. ; Resnick, Stephen A.
¤ The MIT Press
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Flynn, James R.
¤ Cambridge University Press
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Braided Worlds
Gottlieb, Alma ; Graham, Philip
¤ University Of Chicago Press
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The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism
Baker, Deborah
¤ Graywolf Press
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The Science of Evil: On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty
Baron-Cohen, Simon
¤ Basic Books
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The Prague Cemetery
Eco, Umberto
¤ Mariner Books
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The Age of Austerity: How Scarcity Will Remake American Politics
Edsall, Thomas Byrne
¤ Anchor
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The Garden of Evening Mists
Eng, Tan Twan
¤ Weinstein Books
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The Beauty and the Sorrow: An Intimate History of the First World War (Vintage)
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¤ Vintage
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The Marriage Plot: A Novel
Eugenides, Jeffrey
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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
Greenblatt, Stephen
¤ W. W. Norton & Company
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Love Goes to Buildings on Fire: Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever
Hermes, Will
¤ Faber & Faber
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Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens
Hitchens, Christopher
¤ Twelve
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The Stranger’s Child
Hollinghurst, Alan
¤ Vintage
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The Best American Science Writing 2012
Kaku, Michio ; Cohen, Jesse
¤ Ecco
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American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a Nation (Vintage)
Kazin, Michael
¤ Vintage
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Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World
Lewis, Michael
¤ W. W. Norton & Company
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Blindly
Magris, Claudio
¤ Yale University Press
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Margolick, David
¤ Yale University Press
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Consumption and Its Consequences
Miller, Daniel
¤ Polity
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We Others: New & Selected Stories
Millhauser, Steven
¤ Vintage
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¤ Polity
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¤ Picador
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Louis D. Brandeis: A Life
Urofsky, Melvin
¤ Schocken
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Poetry and the Police: Communication Networks in Eighteenth-Century Paris
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¤ Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
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Age of Fracture
Rodgers, Daniel T.
¤ Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
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What Was African American Literature?
Warren, Kenneth W.
¤ Harvard University Press
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Threads and Traces: True False Fictive
Ginzburg, Carlo
¤ University of California Press
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The Intellectual Origins of the Global Financial Crisis
Berkowitz, Roger
¤ Fordham University Press
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Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement
Brown-Nagin, Tomiko
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
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Exorbitant Privilege: The Rise and Fall of the Dollar and the Future of the International Monetary System
Eichengreen, Barry
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
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Democracy and the Left: Social Policy and Inequality in Latin America
Huber, Evelyne ; Stephens, John D.
¤ University Of Chicago Press
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Deep History: The Architecture of Past and Present
Shryock, Andrew
¤ University of California Press
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John Stuart Mill: A Biography
Capaldi, Nicholas
¤ Cambridge University Press
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The Jews in Medieval Normandy: A Social and Intellectual History
Golb, Norman
¤ Cambridge University Press
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Losing It: In which an Aging Professor laments his shrinking Brain…
Miller, William Ian
¤ Yale University Press
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George F. Kennan: An American Life
Gaddis, John Lewis
¤ Penguin Books
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The Song of Achilles: A Novel
Miller, Madeline
¤ Ecco
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Freud’s Sister: A Novel
Smilevski, Goce
¤ Penguin Books
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A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus’s Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich
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¤ W. W. Norton & Company
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Burgess, John P.
¤ Princeton University Press
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Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us about Morality
Churchland, Patricia S.
¤ Princeton University Press
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Collaborative Governance: Private Roles for Public Goals in Turbulent Times
Donahue, John D. ; Zeckhauser, Richard J.
¤ Princeton University Press
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Life among the Anthros and Other Essays
Geertz, Clifford
¤ Princeton University Press
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Who Are the Criminals?: The Politics of Crime Policy from the Age of Roosevelt to the Age of Reagan (New in Paper)
Hagan, John
¤ Princeton University Press
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Liberal Leviathan: The Origins, Crisis, and Transformation of the American World Order (Princeton Studies in International History and Politics)
Ikenberry, G. John
¤ Princeton University Press
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Empire for Liberty: A History of American Imperialism from Benjamin Franklin to Paul Wolfowitz
Immerman, Richard H.
¤ Princeton University Press
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The End of the West: The Once and Future Europe (New in Paper) (The Public Square)
Marquand, David
¤ Princeton University Press
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Social Trends in American Life: Findings from the General Social Survey since 1972
Marsden, Peter V.
¤ Princeton University Press
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France’s New Deal: From the Thirties to the Postwar Era
Nord, Philip
¤ Princeton University Press
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The Great Brain Race: How Global Universities Are Reshaping the World (New in Paper)
Wildavsky, Ben
¤ Princeton University Press
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Cassandra at the Wedding
Baker, Dorothy ; Eisenberg, Deborah
¤ NYRB Classics
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Marx and Freud in Latin America: Politics, Psychoanalysis, and Religion in Times of Terror
Bosteels, Bruno
¤ Verso
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A Partial History of Lost Causes: A Novel
DuBois, Jennifer
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China in Ten Words
Hua, Yu
¤ Vintage
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The Price of Civilization: Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity
Sachs, Jeffrey D.
¤ Random House Trade Paperbacks
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The Myth of the Muslim Tide: Do Immigrants Threaten the West? (Vintage)
Saunders, Doug
¤ Vintage
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Why Geography Matters: More Than Ever
Blij, Harm de
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
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Game Theory and the Humanities: Bridging Two Worlds
Brams, Steven J.
¤ The MIT Press
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Without Criteria: Kant, Whitehead, Deleuze, and Aesthetics (Technologies of Lived Abstraction)
Shaviro, Steven
¤ The MIT Press
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Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens: Frank Oppenheimer and His Astonishing Exploratorium
Cole, K. C. ; Gell-Man, Murray (Foreword by)
¤ University Of Chicago Press
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Walter Benjamin: An Introduction to His Work and Thought
Steiner, Uwe
¤ University Of Chicago Press
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Class Warfare: Inside the Fight to Fix America’s Schools
Brill, Steven
¤ Simon & Schuster
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The Meaning of Freedom: And Other Difficult Dialogues (City Lights Open Media)
Davis, Angela Y. ; Kelley, Robin D.G.
¤ City Lights Publishers
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Explaining Long-Term Trends in Health and Longevity
Fogel, Robert W.
¤ Cambridge University Press
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Ends of Enlightenment
Bender, John
¤ Stanford University Press
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Four New Messages
Cohen, Joshua
¤ Graywolf Press
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Penelope
Harrington, Rebecca
¤ Vintage
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Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War
Horwitz, Tony
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The Orphan Master’s Son: A Novel
Johnson, Adam
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Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire
Kumar, Deepa
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Hedy’s Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World (Vintage)
Rhodes, Richard
¤ Vintage
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Ladies and Gentlemen
Ross, Adam
¤ Vintage
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The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies—How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths
Shermer, Michael
¤ St. Martin’s Griffin
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Diving Belles: And Other Stories
Wood, Lucy
¤ Mariner Books
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Machiavelli’s God
Viroli, Maurizio
¤ Princeton University Press
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Black and Blue: The Bruising Passion of Camera Lucida, La Jetée, Sans soleil, and Hiroshima mon amour
Mavor, Carol
¤ Duke University Press Books
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The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin, 1910-1940
Benjamin, Walter
¤ University Of Chicago Press
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The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture
Hazony, Yoram
¤ Cambridge University Press
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Local Elections and the Politics of Small-Scale Democracy
Oliver, J. Eric
¤ Princeton University Press
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Lost Memory of Skin
Banks, Russell
¤ Ecco
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Be Realistic: Demand the Impossible
Davis, Mike
¤ Haymarket Books
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How to Be a Woman
Moran, Caitlin
¤ Harper Perennial
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How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival
Kaiser, David
¤ W. W. Norton & Company
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Math Goes to the Movies
Polster, Burkard ; Ross, Marty
¤ The Johns Hopkins University Press
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Essays in Ancient and Modern Historiography
Momigliano, Arnaldo ; Grafton, Anthony (Foreword by)
¤ University Of Chicago Press
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Theater of the Mind: Imagination, Aesthetics, and American Radio Drama
Verma, Neil
¤ University Of Chicago Press
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Zone One
Whitehead, Colson
¤ Anchor
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Johns, Adrian
¤ Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
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Copeland, B. Jack
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
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Arendt and Adorno: Political and Philosophical Investigations
Rensmann, Lars
¤ Stanford University Press
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The Man of Numbers: Fibonacci’s Arithmetic Revolution
Devlin, Keith
¤ Walker & Company
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Red Summer: The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America
McWhirter, Cameron
¤ St. Martin’s Griffin
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Sinning in the Hebrew Bible: How The Worst Stories Speak for Its Truth
Segal, Alan F.
¤ Columbia University Press
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The Emperor of Lies: A Novel
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¤ Picador
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Ando, Clifford
¤ Edinburgh University Press
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Abraham’s Children: Liberty and Tolerance in an Age of Religious Conflict
Clark, Kelly James
¤ Yale University Press
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The Little Blue Book: The Essential Guide to Thinking and Talking Democratic
Lakoff, George ; Wehling, Elisabeth
¤ Free Press
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The Rule of Law and the Measure of Property (The Hamlyn Lectures)
Waldron, Jeremy
¤ Cambridge University Press
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Ride a Cockhorse
Kennedy, Raymond ; Powers, Katherine A.
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Miss New India
Mukherjee, Bharati
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Thomas, Paul
¤ Reaktion Books
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A World on Fire: Britain’s Crucial Role in the American Civil War
Foreman, Amanda
¤ Random House Trade Paperbacks
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Divas in the Convent: Nuns, Music, and Defiance in Seventeenth-Century Italy
Monson, Craig A.
¤ University Of Chicago Press
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The Life of an Unknown Man: A Novel (Lannan Translation Selection
Makine, Andreï
¤ Graywolf Press
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Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Created the Worst Financial Crisis of Our Time
Morgenson, Gretchen ; Rosner, Joshua
¤ St. Martin’s Griffin
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Refracting Vision : Essays on the writings of Michael Fried
Beaulieu, Jill ; Roberts, Mary ; Ross, Toni
¤ Power Publications
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The Sense of an Ending [Deckle Edge]
Barnes, Julian
¤ Vintage
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Kahn, Paul W.
¤ Columbia University Press
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Why Everyone (Else) Is a Hypocrite: Evolution and the Modular Mind
Kurzban, Robert
¤ Princeton University Press
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The Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America (Expanded Paperback Edition)
Ngai, Mae
¤ Princeton University Press
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Zimmerman, Andrew
¤ Princeton University Press
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We, the Drowned
Jensen, Carsten
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Train Dreams: A Novella
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¤ Picador
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Gould, Jon B.
¤ University Of Chicago Press
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Death (The Open Yale Courses Series)
Kagan, Shelly
¤ Yale University Press
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Wanted: Elevator Man
Peterson, Joseph G.
¤ Northern Illinois University Press
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Arab Spring, Libyan Winter
Prashad, Vijay
¤ AK Press
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Muhammad and the Believers: At the Origins of Islam
Donner, Fred M.
¤ Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
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The Art of Fielding: A Novel
Harbach, Chad
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In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin
Larson, Erik
¤ Broadway
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The Norman Maclean Reader
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