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Front Table: Paperbacks(Week of January 20th, 2013)
January 19th, 2013 by Front Table
The Last Resistance
Rose, Jacqueline
¤ Verso
¤ Publication Date: 2013-02-12
¤ Paperback ( 256 pages )
¤ Category: Literary Criticism
Media, Erotics, and Transnational Asia
Mankekar, Purnima
¤ Duke University Press Books
¤ Publication Date: 2013-02-11
¤ Paperback ( 392 pages )
¤ Category: Anthropology
Manufacturing Possibilities: Creative Action and Industrial Recomposition in the United States, Germany, and Japan
Herrigel, Gary
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
¤ Publication Date: 2013-02-07
¤ Paperback ( 296 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
Changing Lives: Gustavo Dudamel, El Sistema, and the Transformative Power of Music
Tunstall, Tricia
¤ W. W. Norton & Company
¤ Publication Date: 2013-02-04
¤ Paperback ( 336 pages )
¤ Category: Music
The Zelmenyaners: A Family Saga
Kulbak, Moyshe ; Senderovich, Sasha
¤ Yale University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2013-01-29
¤ Paperback ( 304 pages )
¤ Category:
The Utopia of Film: Cinema and Its Futures in Godard, Kluge, and Tahimik (Film and Culture Series)
Pavsek, Christopher
¤ Columbia University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2013-01-29
¤ Paperback ( 304 pages )
¤ Category:
Rome and Rhetoric: Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar
Wills, Garry
¤ Yale University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2013-01-29
¤ Paperback ( 200 pages )
¤ Category: Literary Criticism
Sinophone Studies: A Critical Reader
Shih, Shu-mei
¤ Columbia University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2013-01-22
¤ Paperback ( 472 pages )
¤ Category: History: East Asia
Critique of Instrumental Reason (Radical Thinkers)
Horkheimer, Max
¤ Verso
¤ Publication Date: 2013-01-16
¤ Paperback ( 180 pages )
¤ Category: Critical Theory & Marxism
African Intellectuals and Decolonization (Ohio RIS Africa Series)
Creary, Nicholas M.
¤ Ohio University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2013-01-15
¤ Paperback ( 160 pages )
¤ Category:
Revolution 2.0: The Power of the People Is Greater Than the People in Power: A Memoir
Ghonim, Wael
¤ Mariner Books
¤ Publication Date: 2013-01-15
¤ Paperback ( 320 pages )
¤ Category: History: Middle East
Barack Obama: The Story
Maraniss, David
¤ Simon & Schuster
¤ Publication Date: 2013-01-15
¤ Paperback ( 672 pages )
¤ Category:
The Age of Miracles: A Novel
Walker, Karen Thompson
¤ Random House Trade Paperbacks
¤ Publication Date: 2013-01-15
¤ Paperback ( 304 pages )
¤ Category: Literature
Foundations of Modern International Thought
Armitage, David
¤ Cambridge University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2013-01-14
¤ Paperback ( 311 pages )
¤ Category: International Relations
Talibanistan: Negotiating the Borders Between Terror, Politics and Religion
Bergen, Peter ; Tiedemann, Katherine
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
¤ Publication Date: 2013-01-14
¤ Paperback ( 528 pages )
¤ Category: History: Middle East
How It Began: A Time-Traveler’s Guide to the Universe
Impey, Chris
¤ W. W. Norton & Company
¤ Publication Date: 2013-01-14
¤ Paperback ( 448 pages )
¤ Category: Science
What Is Happening to News: The Information Explosion and the Crisis in Journalism
Fuller, Jack
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: 2013-01-11
¤ Paperback ( 232 pages )
¤ Category: Media Studies
Better Doctors, Better Patients, Better Decisions: Envisioning Health Care 2020 (Strüngmann Forum Reports)
Gigerenzer, Gerd
¤ The MIT Press
¤ Publication Date: 2013-01-11
¤ Paperback ( 416 pages )
¤ Category: Health & Medicine
Bourdieu and Historical Analysis (Politics, History, and Culture)
Gorski, Philip S.
¤ Duke University Press Books
¤ Publication Date: 2013-01-11
¤ Paperback ( 448 pages )
¤ Category:
The New Science of the Mind: From Extended Mind to Embodied Phenomenology
Rowlands, Mark
¤ A Bradford Book
¤ Publication Date: 2013-01-11
¤ Paperback ( 264 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
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 Obamians: The Struggle Inside the White House to Redefine American Power
Mann, James
¤ Penguin Books
¤ Publication Date: 2013-01-09
¤ Paperback ( 416 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
On Philosophy: Notes from a Crisis
McCumber, John
¤ Stanford University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2013-01-09
¤ Paperback ( 288 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
Walter Benjamin: Images, the Creaturely, and the Holy
Weigel, Sigrid
¤ Stanford University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2013-01-09
¤ Paperback ( 320 pages )
¤ Category:
Religion for Atheists: A Non-believer’s Guide to the Uses of Religion (Vintage)
Botton, Alain de
¤ Vintage
¤ Publication Date: 2013-01-08
¤ Paperback ( 320 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
The Fat Years
Chan, Koonchung
¤ Anchor
¤ Publication Date: 2013-01-08
¤ Paperback ( 336 pages )
¤ Category: Literature
Power Systems: Conversations on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. Empire
Chomsky, Noam
¤ Metropolitan Books
¤ Publication Date: 2013-01-08
¤ Paperback ( 224 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
Haiti: The Aftershocks of History
Dubois, Laurent
¤ Picador
¤ Publication Date: 2013-01-08
¤ Paperback ( 448 pages )
¤ Category:
Gods Without Men
Kunzru, Hari
¤ Vintage
¤ Publication Date: 2013-01-08
¤ Paperback ( 480 pages )
¤ Category: Literature
Love: A History
May, Simon
¤ Yale University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2013-01-08
¤ Paperback ( 312 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
Testing the Current
McPherson, William ; Max, D.T.
¤ NYRB Classics
¤ Publication Date: 2013-01-08
¤ Paperback ( 352 pages )
¤ Category: Literature
Sometimes There Is a Void: Memoirs of an Outsider
Mda, Zakes
¤ Picador
¤ Publication Date: 2013-01-08
¤ Paperback ( 576 pages )
¤ Category:
The Original of Laura
Nabokov, Vladimir
¤ Vintage
¤ Publication Date: 2013-01-08
¤ Paperback ( 304 pages )
¤ Category: Literature
The Reeducation of Cherry Truong: A Novel
Phan, Aimee
¤ Picador
¤ Publication Date: 2013-01-08
¤ Paperback ( 368 pages )
¤ Category:
The Mathematics of Life
Stewart, Ian
¤ Basic Books
¤ Publication Date: 2013-01-08
¤ Paperback ( 368 pages )
¤ Category: Mathematics
The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt
Wilkinson, Toby
¤ Random House Trade Paperbacks
¤ Publication Date: 2013-01-08
¤ Paperback ( 656 pages )
¤ Category:
The Reenactments: A Memoir
Flynn, Nick
¤ W. W. Norton & Company
¤ Publication Date: 2013-01-07
¤ Paperback ( 320 pages )
¤ Category: Lives & Letters
The Illicit Happiness of Other People: A Novel
Joseph, Manu
¤ W. W. Norton & Company
¤ Publication Date: 2013-01-07
¤ Paperback ( 352 pages )
¤ Category: Literature
Pleasure in Ancient Greek Philosophy (Key Themes in Ancient Philosophy)
Wolfsdorf, David
¤ Cambridge University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2013-01-07
¤ Paperback ( 322 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
How Philosophy Became Socratic: A Study of Plato’s “Protagoras,” “Charmides,” and “Republic”
Lampert, Laurence
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: 2013-01-05
¤ Paperback ( 452 pages )
¤ Category:
Leo Strauss’s Defense of the Philosophic Life: Reading “What Is Political Philosophy?”
Major, Rafael
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: 2013-01-04
¤ Paperback ( 232 pages )
¤ Category:
History’s Babel: Scholarship, Professionalization, and the Historical Enterprise in the United States, 1880 - 1940
Townsend, Robert B.
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: 2013-01-04
¤ Paperback ( 272 pages )
¤ Category:
The Origins of the World’s Mythologies
Witzel, E.J. Michael
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
¤ Publication Date: 2013-01-04
¤ Paperback ( 688 pages )
¤ Category:
A Hunt for Optimism
Shklovsky, Viktor
¤ Dalkey Archive Press
¤ Publication Date: 2013-01-03
¤ Paperback ( 160 pages )
¤ Category:
Death Comes to Pemberley
James, P.D.
¤ Vintage
¤ Publication Date: 2013-01-01
¤ Paperback ( 304 pages )
¤ Category:
Home
Morrison, Toni
¤ Vintage
¤ Publication Date: 2013-01-01
¤ Paperback ( 160 pages )
¤ Category:
Warfare State: World War II Americans and the Age of Big Government
Sparrow, James T.
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
¤ Publication Date: 2013-01-01
¤ Paperback ( 344 pages )
¤ Category: History: United States
Hope: A Tragedy: A Novel
Auslander, Shalom
¤ Riverhead Trade
¤ Publication Date: 2012-12-31
¤ Paperback ( 368 pages )
¤ Category: Literature
Vietnam at War
Bradley, Mark Philip
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
¤ Publication Date: 2012-12-29
¤ Paperback ( 256 pages )
¤ Category:
After Herder: Philosophy of Language in the German Tradition
Forster, Michael N.
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
¤ Publication Date: 2012-12-29
¤ Paperback ( 496 pages )
¤ Category:
Metals, Culture and Capitalism: An Essay on the Origins of the Modern World
Goody, Jack
¤ Cambridge University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-12-28
¤ Paperback ( 366 pages )
¤ Category:
The Sources of Social Power: Volume 4, Globalizations, 1945-2011
Mann, Michael
¤ Cambridge University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-12-28
¤ Paperback ( 504 pages )
¤ Category:
Basti
Husain, Intizar ; Farrukhi, Asif
¤ NYRB Classics
¤ Publication Date: 2012-12-26
¤ Paperback ( 258 pages )
¤ Category:
At Last: A Novel
Aubyn, Edward St.
¤ Picador
¤ Publication Date: 2012-12-24
¤ Paperback ( 272 pages )
¤ Category:
Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty
Barry, John M.
¤ Penguin Books
¤ Publication Date: 2012-12-24
¤ Paperback ( 480 pages )
¤ Category:
How to Think More About Sex (The School of Life)
Botton, Alain de
¤ Picador
¤ Publication Date: 2012-12-24
¤ Paperback ( 192 pages )
¤ Category:
Knowledge and Power: Essays on Politics, Culture, and War
Craig, Gordon A.
¤ Society for the Promotion of Science and Scholarship
¤ Publication Date: 2012-12-24
¤ Paperback ( 330 pages )
¤ Category: History: European
Unsimple Truths: Science, Complexity, and Policy
Mitchell, Sandra D.
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-12-21
¤ Paperback ( 160 pages )
¤ Category: Science
How to Live Together: Novelistic Simulations of Some Everyday Spaces
Barthes, Roland
¤ Columbia University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-12-18
¤ Paperback ( 256 pages )
¤ Category:
Finding Mecca in America: How Islam Is Becoming an American Religion
Bilici, Mucahit
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-12-18
¤ Paperback ( 272 pages )
¤ Category:
The Red Book: A Reader’s Edition
Jung, C. G. ; Shamdasani, Sonu
¤ W. W. Norton & Company
¤ Publication Date: 2012-12-17
¤ Hardcover ( 600 pages )
¤ Category: Psychology
The Caliph of Cairo: Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, 996-1021
Walker, Paul E.
¤ The American University in Cairo Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-12-15
¤ Paperback ( 336 pages )
¤ Category:
Concept and Form, Volume 2: Interviews and essays on Cahiers pour l’Analyse (Vol. 2)
Peden, Knox ; Badiou, Alain ; Balibar, Étienne ; Baring, Edward ; Bouveresse, Jacques ; Duroux, Yves
¤ Verso
¤ Publication Date: 2012-12-12
¤ Paperback ( 302 pages )
¤ Category:
New York Diaries: 1609 to 2009
Carpenter, Teresa
¤ Modern Library
¤ Publication Date: 2012-12-11
¤ Paperback ( 512 pages )
¤ Category: Anthologies
Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict (Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare)
Chenoweth, Erica ; Stephan, Maria J.
¤ Columbia University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-12-11
¤ Paperback ( 320 pages )
¤ Category:
Tacit and Explicit Knowledge
Collins, Harry
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-12-11
¤ Paperback ( 200 pages )
¤ Category:
Turing’s Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe (Vintage)
Dyson, George
¤ Vintage
¤ Publication Date: 2012-12-11
¤ Paperback ( 464 pages )
¤ Category: Science
Best American Magazine Writing 2012
Editors, The American Society of Magazine
¤ Columbia University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-12-11
¤ Paperback ( 544 pages )
¤ Category:
Language: The Cultural Tool (Vintage)
Everett, Daniel L.
¤ Vintage
¤ Publication Date: 2012-12-11
¤ Paperback ( 368 pages )
¤ Category: Linguistics
Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms: The Story of the Animals and Plants That Time Has Left Behind
Fortey, Richard
¤ Vintage
¤ Publication Date: 2012-12-11
¤ Paperback ( 384 pages )
¤ Category: Science
Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War (Vintage)
Platt, Stephen R.
¤ Vintage
¤ Publication Date: 2012-12-11
¤ Paperback ( 512 pages )
¤ Category: History: East Asia
The Undead: Organ Harvesting, the Ice-Water Test, Beating-Heart Cadavers–How Medicine Is Blurring the Line Between Life and Death (Vintage)
Teresi, Dick
¤ Vintage
¤ Publication Date: 2012-12-11
¤ Paperback ( 368 pages )
¤ Category: Health & Medicine
Violence and Social Orders: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History
North, Douglass C. ; Wallis, John Joseph ; Weingast, Barry R.
¤ Cambridge University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-12-10
¤ Paperback ( 344 pages )
¤ Category:
The Atheist’s Guide to Reality: Enjoying Life without Illusions
Rosenberg, Alex
¤ W. W. Norton & Company
¤ Publication Date: 2012-12-10
¤ Paperback ( 368 pages )
¤ Category:
The Accommodated Animal: Cosmopolity in Shakespearean Locales
Shannon, Laurie
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-12-10
¤ Paperback ( 312 pages )
¤ Category:
The Social Citizen: Peer Networks and Political Behavior (Chicago Studies in American Politics)
Sinclair, Betsy
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-12-10
¤ Paperback ( 216 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
Relying on Others: An Essay in Epistemology
Goldberg, Sanford C.
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
¤ Publication Date: 2012-12-05
¤ Paperback ( 228 pages )
¤ Category:
David Foster Wallace: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations
Wallace, David Foster
¤ Melville House
¤ Publication Date: 2012-12-05
¤ Paperback ( 128 pages )
¤ Category: Literary Criticism
Earthly Powers
Burgess, Anthony
¤ Europa Editions
¤ Publication Date: 2012-12-04
¤ Paperback ( 656 pages )
¤ Category:
The Unmaking of Israel
Gorenberg, Gershom
¤ Harper Perennial
¤ Publication Date: 2012-12-04
¤ Paperback ( 336 pages )
¤ Category: History: Middle East
Climates
Maurois, Andre
¤ Other Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-12-04
¤ Paperback ( 400 pages )
¤ Category:
Van Gogh: The Life
Naifeh, Steven ; Smith, Gregory White
¤ Random House Trade Paperbacks
¤ Publication Date: 2012-12-04
¤ Paperback ( 976 pages )
¤ Category: Art
Breakdown: A V.I. Warshawski Novel
Paretsky, Sara
¤ Signet Select
¤ Publication Date: 2012-12-04
¤ Mass Market Paperback ( 496 pages )
¤ Category: Mysteries
The Gate
Soseki, Natsume ; Iyer, Pico
¤ NYRB Classics
¤ Publication Date: 2012-12-04
¤ Paperback ( 256 pages )
¤ Category:
Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff
Trillin, Calvin
¤ Random House Trade Paperbacks
¤ Publication Date: 2012-12-04
¤ Paperback ( 368 pages )
¤ Category:
Queen of America: A Novel
Urrea, Luis Alberto
¤ Back Bay Books
¤ Publication Date: 2012-12-04
¤ Paperback ( 512 pages )
¤ Category:
Blind Spots: Why We Fail to Do What’s Right and What to Do about It
Bazerman, Max H. ; Tenbrunsel, Ann E.
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-12-03
¤ Paperback ( 208 pages )
¤ Category:
Beauty Unlimited
Brand, Peg Zeglin
¤ Indiana University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-12-03
¤ Paperback ( 448 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
Learning While Governing: Expertise and Accountability in the Executive Branch (Chicago Studies in American Politics)
Gailmard, Sean ; Patty, John W.
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-12-01
¤ Paperback ( 336 pages )
¤ Category:
On Intellectual Activism
Collins, Patricia Hill
¤ Temple University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-11-30
¤ Paperback ( 254 pages )
¤ Category:
The Sympathetic State: Disaster Relief and the Origins of the American Welfare State
Dauber, Michele Landis
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-11-30
¤ Paperback ( 378 pages )
¤ Category:
Games and Mathematics: Subtle Connections
Wells, David
¤ Cambridge University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-11-30
¤ Paperback ( 255 pages )
¤ Category:
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
Alibis: Essays on Elsewhere
Aciman, André
¤ Picador
¤ Publication Date: 2012-11-27
¤ Paperback ( 208 pages )
¤ Category:
Present at the Creation: Discovering the Higgs Boson
Aczel, Amir D.
¤ Broadway
¤ Publication Date: 2012-11-27
¤ Paperback ( 288 pages )
¤ Category:
The Third Reich: A Novel
Bolaño, Roberto
¤ Picador
¤ Publication Date: 2012-11-27
¤ Paperback ( 288 pages )
¤ Category: Literature
Vanished Kingdoms: The Rise and Fall of States and Nations
Davies, Norman
¤ Penguin Books
¤ Publication Date: 2012-11-27
¤ Paperback ( 848 pages )
¤ Category: History: General
Gossip: The Untrivial Pursuit
Epstein, Joseph
¤ Mariner Books
¤ Publication Date: 2012-11-27
¤ Paperback ( 256 pages )
¤ Category:
Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk: A Novel
Fountain, Ben
¤ Ecco
¤ Publication Date: 2012-11-27
¤ Paperback ( 320 pages )
¤ Category: Literature
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
Graeber, David
¤ Melville House
¤ Publication Date: 2012-11-27
¤ Paperback ( 544 pages )
¤ Category:
The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America’s War in Afghanistan
Hastings, Michael
¤ Plume
¤ Publication Date: 2012-11-27
¤ Paperback ( 432 pages )
¤ Category:
How It All Began: A Novel
Lively, Penelope
¤ Penguin Books
¤ Publication Date: 2012-11-27
¤ Paperback ( 240 pages )
¤ Category: Literature
A Man of Parts: A Novel
Lodge, David
¤ Penguin Books
¤ Publication Date: 2012-11-27
¤ Paperback ( 448 pages )
¤ Category:
The Paris Wife: A Novel
McLain, Paula
¤ Ballantine Books
¤ Publication Date: 2012-11-27
¤ Paperback ( 352 pages )
¤ Category: Literature
Parallel Stories: A Novel
Nádas, Péter
¤ Picador
¤ Publication Date: 2012-11-27
¤ Paperback ( 1152 pages )
¤ Category:
Political Philosophy (The Open Yale Courses Series)
Smith, Steven B.
¤ Yale University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-11-27
¤ Paperback ( 296 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
Daniel Stein, Interpreter: A Novel
Ulitskaya, Ludmila
¤ Overlook TP
¤ Publication Date: 2012-11-27
¤ Paperback ( 416 pages )
¤ Category: Literature
Verdi’s Shakespeare: Men of the Theater
Wills, Garry
¤ Penguin Books
¤ Publication Date: 2012-11-27
¤ Paperback ( 240 pages )
¤ Category:
Dante in Love
Wilson, A. N.
¤ Picador
¤ Publication Date: 2012-11-27
¤ Paperback ( 400 pages )
¤ Category:
Lifeworlds: Essays in Existential Anthropology
Jackson, Michael
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-11-22
¤ Paperback ( 360 pages )
¤ Category:
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
Through the Window: Seventeen Essays and a Short Story
Barnes, Julian
¤ Vintage
¤ Publication Date: 2012-11-20
¤ Paperback ( 272 pages )
¤ Category:
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
Best European Fiction 2013
Hemon, Aleksandar ; Banville, John
¤ Dalkey Archive Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-11-20
¤ Paperback ( 500 pages )
¤ Category: Anthologies
A Natural History of the Piano: The Instrument, the Music, the Musicians–from Mozart to Modern Jazz and Everything in Between
Isacoff, Stuart
¤ Vintage
¤ Publication Date: 2012-11-20
¤ Paperback ( 384 pages )
¤ Category: Music
The End of Sacrifice: Religious Transformations in Late Antiquity
Stroumsa, Guy G.
¤ University Of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-11-20
¤ Paperback ( 154 pages )
¤ Category:
Bilingual: Life and Reality
Grosjean, François
¤ Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-11-19
¤ Paperback ( 304 pages )
¤ Category: Linguistics
Blessed Are the Organized: Grassroots Democracy in America
Stout, Jeffrey
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-11-19
¤ Paperback ( 368 pages )
¤ Category:
The Civil Contract of Photography
Azoulay, Ariella
¤ Zone Books
¤ Publication Date: 2012-11-16
¤ Paperback ( 586 pages )
¤ Category: Photography
Wild Unrest: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Making of “The Yellow Wall-Paper”
Horowitz, Helen Lefkowitz
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
¤ Publication Date: 2012-11-15
¤ Paperback ( 272 pages )
¤ Category:
A Motor-Flight Through France
Wharton, Edith
¤ Northern Illinois University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-11-15
¤ Paperback ( 253 pages )
¤ Category: Travel Literature
The Ideology of Hatred: The Psychic Power of Discourse
Yanay, Niza
¤ Fordham University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-11-14
¤ Paperback ( 168 pages )
¤ Category:
My Song: A Memoir of Art, Race, and Defiance (Vintage)
Belafonte, Harry ; Shnayerson, Michael
¤ Vintage
¤ Publication Date: 2012-11-13
¤ Paperback ( 480 pages )
¤ Category:
Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution
Gabriel, Mary
¤ Back Bay Books
¤ Publication Date: 2012-11-13
¤ Paperback ( 784 pages )
¤ Category:
The Pursuit of Italy: A History of a Land, Its Regions, and Their Peoples
Gilmour, David
¤ Farrar, Straus and Giroux
¤ Publication Date: 2012-11-13
¤ Paperback ( 480 pages )
¤ Category:
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:
The Trouble is the Banks: Letters to Wall Street (N+1 Research Branch Small Books)
Greif, Mark
¤ n+1 Foundation, Inc.
¤ Publication Date: 2012-11-13
¤ Paperback ( 232 pages )
¤ Category:
The Map and the Territory
Houellebecq, Michel
¤ Vintage
¤ Publication Date: 2012-11-13
¤ Paperback ( 288 pages )
¤ Category: Literature
Meme Wars: The Creative Destruction of Neoclassical Economics
Lasn, Kalle
¤ Seven Stories Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-11-13
¤ Paperback ( 400 pages )
¤ Category:
When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship with God (Vintage)
Luhrmann, T.M.
¤ Vintage
¤ Publication Date: 2012-11-13
¤ Paperback ( 464 pages )
¤ Category:
Frantz Fanon: A Biography (Second Edition)
Macey, David
¤ Verso
¤ Publication Date: 2012-11-13
¤ Paperback ( 672 pages )
¤ Category: History: African
The Flame Alphabet
Marcus, Ben
¤ Vintage
¤ Publication Date: 2012-11-13
¤ Paperback ( 304 pages )
¤ Category:
History of a Pleasure Seeker
Mason, Richard
¤ Vintage
¤ Publication Date: 2012-11-13
¤ Paperback ( 320 pages )
¤ Category:
The Healing
Odell, Jonathan
¤ Anchor
¤ Publication Date: 2012-11-13
¤ Paperback ( 352 pages )
¤ Category:
Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the Bloody Fight for His Empire (Vintage)
Romm, James
¤ Vintage
¤ Publication Date: 2012-11-13
¤ Paperback ( 416 pages )
¤ Category:
In-Flight Entertainment: Stories
Simpson, Helen
¤ Vintage
¤ Publication Date: 2012-11-13
¤ Paperback ( 176 pages )
¤ Category:
Deadly Monopolies: The Shocking Corporate Takeover of Life Itself–And the Consequences for Your Health and Our Medical Future
Washington, Harriet A.
¤ Anchor
¤ Publication Date: 2012-11-13
¤ Paperback ( 448 pages )
¤ Category:
The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy
Cooley, Alison E.
¤ Cambridge University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-11-12
¤ Paperback ( 554 pages )
¤ Category:
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
In the Shadow of Violence: Politics, Economics, and the Problems of Development
North, Douglass C.
¤ Cambridge University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-11-12
¤ Paperback ( 376 pages )
¤ Category:
Are You Alone Wise?: The Search for Certainty in the Early Modern Era (Oxford Studies in Historical Theology)
Schreiner, Susan
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
¤ Publication Date: 2012-11-12
¤ Paperback ( 500 pages )
¤ Category:
The Cambridge Companion to Deleuze (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy)
Smith, Daniel W.
¤ Cambridge University Press
¤ Publication Date: 2012-11-12
¤ Paperback ( 392 pages )
¤ Category:
Going to the Dogs: The Story of a Moralist
Kastner, Erich ; Livingstone, Rodney
¤ NYRB Classics
¤ Publication Date: 2012-11-06
¤ Paperback ( 280 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
The Undefeated Mind: On the Science of Constructing an Indestructible Self
MD, Alex Lickerman
¤ HCI
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Meister, Robert
¤ Columbia University Press
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Moranthology
Moran, Caitlin
¤ Harper Perennial
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Seldes, Gilbert ; Marcus, Greil
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Stealing History
Stern, Gerald
¤ Trinity University Press
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On Being Ill: with Notes from Sick Rooms by Julia Stephen
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¤ Paris Press
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[sic]: A Memoir
Cody, Joshua
¤ W. W. Norton & Company
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Cvetkovich, Ann
¤ Duke University Press Books
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Line in the Sand: A History of the Western U.S.-Mexico Border (America in the World)
John, Rachel St.
¤ Princeton University Press
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The Great Image Has No Form, or On the Nonobject through Painting
Jullien, FranCois
¤ University Of Chicago Press
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The Joy of Secularism: 11 Essays for How We Live Now
Levine, George
¤ Princeton University Press
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American Nietzsche: A History of an Icon and His Ideas
Ratner-Rosenhagen, Jennifer
¤ University Of Chicago Press
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The Inner Life of Empires: An Eighteenth-Century History
Rothschild, Emma
¤ Princeton University Press
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White, Jenny
¤ Princeton University Press
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Agrama, Hussein Ali
¤ University Of Chicago Press
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The Deaths of Others: The Fate of Civilians in America’s Wars
Tirman, John
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
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Democrat and Diplomat: The Life of William E. Dodd
Dallek, Robert
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
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On Making Sense: Queer Race Narratives of Intelligibility
Martinez, Ernesto
¤ Stanford University Press
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Nietzsche, Friedrich
¤ Stanford University Press
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Bourdain, Anthony
¤ Ecco
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Harrison, Jim
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¤ Yale University Press
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¤ Vintage
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And the Pursuit of Happiness
Kalman, Maira
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Life Goes On: A Novel
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Kellow, Brian
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Lightman, Alan
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¤ Yale University Press
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The Moral Foundations of Politics (The Open Yale Courses Series)
Shapiro, Ian
¤ Yale University Press
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Plato’s Philosophers: The Coherence of the Dialogues
Zuckert, Catherine H.
¤ University Of Chicago Press
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Fit: An Architect’s Manifesto
Geddes, Robert
¤ Princeton University Press
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The Promise of Salvation: A Theory of Religion
Riesebrodt, Martin
¤ University Of Chicago Press
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Georges Bataille: Phenomenology and Phantasmatology
Gasche, Rodolphe
¤ Stanford University Press
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In the Self’s Place: The Approach of Saint Augustine (Cultural Memory in the Present)
Marion, Jean-Luc
¤ Stanford University Press
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Paradox: The Nine Greatest Enigmas in Physics
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¤ Broadway
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My Escape: An Autobiography
Groult, Benoite
¤ Other Press
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¤ Polity
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A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France (P.S.)
Moorehead, Caroline
¤ Harper Perennial
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Noble, David W.
¤ Univ Of Minnesota Press
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How the French Invented Love: Nine Hundred Years of Passion and Romance
Yalom, Marilyn
¤ Harper Perennial
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Left Behind: Latin America and the False Promise of Populism
Edwards, Sebastian
¤ University Of Chicago Press
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Peculiar Institution: America’s Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition
Garland, David
¤ Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
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Teaching What You Don’t Know
Huston, Therese
¤ Harvard University Press
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The Creation and Destruction of Value: The Globalization Cycle
James, Harold
¤ Harvard University Press
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The Long Divergence: How Islamic Law Held Back the Middle East
Kuran, Timur
¤ Princeton University Press
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¤ Princeton University Press
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Lightning Rods
DeWitt, Helen
¤ New Directions
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The Miracle Cures of Dr. Aira
Aira, César ; Silver, Katherine
¤ New Directions
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Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything
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Crazy Salad and Scribble Scribble: Some Things About Women and Notes on Media
Ephron, Nora
¤ Vintage
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We Are Many: Reflections on Movement Strategy from Occupation to Liberation
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¤ AK Press
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Levy, Deborah
¤ Bloomsbury USA
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And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut: A Life
Shields, Charles J.
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World in the Balance: The Historic Quest for an Absolute System of Measurement
Crease, Robert P.
¤ W. W. Norton & Company
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How Language Began: Gesture and Speech in Human Evolution (Approaches to the Evolution of Language)
McNeill, David
¤ Cambridge University Press
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Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, “Found” Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts
Shields, David
¤ W. W. Norton & Company
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Storycraft: The Complete Guide to Writing Narrative Nonfiction
Hart, Jack
¤ University Of Chicago Press
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Israel/Palestine and the Queer International
Schulman, Sarah
¤ Duke University Press Books
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Resisting Reality: Social Construction and Social Critique
Haslanger, Sally
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
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When Half Is Whole: Multiethnic Asian American Identities
Murphy-Shigematsu, Stephen
¤ Stanford University Press
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Trampling Out the Vintage: Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers
Bardacke, Frank
¤ Verso
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Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend
Orlean, Susan
¤ Simon & Schuster
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Cain
Saramago, Jose
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Finding Oneself in the Other
Cohen, G. A. ; Otsuka, Michael
¤ Princeton University Press
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Sewn in the Sweatshops of Marx: Beuys, Warhol, Klein, Duchamp
Duve, Thierry de
¤ University Of Chicago Press
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Debtor Nation: The History of America in Red Ink (Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century America)
Hyman, Louis
¤ Princeton University Press
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After Art (Point: Essays on Architecture)
Joselit, David
¤ Princeton University Press
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New Impressions of Africa
Roussel, Raymond
¤ Princeton University Press
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What Is Meaning? (Soochow University Lectures in Philosophy)
Soames, Scott
¤ Princeton University Press
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How Old Is the Universe?
Weintraub, David A.
¤ Princeton University Press
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Dominatrix: Gender, Eroticism, and Control in the Dungeon
Lindemann, Danielle J.
¤ University Of Chicago Press
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The Wandering Falcon
Ahmad, Jamil
¤ Riverhead Trade
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Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest
Davis, Wade
¤ Vintage
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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
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River of Smoke: A Novel
Ghosh, Amitav
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The Journals of Spalding Gray (Vintage)
Gray, Spalding
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Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945 (Vintage)
Hastings, Max
¤ Vintage
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Nanjing Requiem: A Novel
Jin, Ha
¤ Vintage
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Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress–and a Plan to Stop It
Lessig, Lawrence
¤ Twelve
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The Ecstasy of Influence: Nonfictions, Etc.
Lethem, Jonathan
¤ Vintage
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Knocking on Heaven’s Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World
Randall, Lisa
¤ Ecco
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Object Lessons: The Paris Review Presents the Art of the Short Story
Review, The Paris
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The Art of Philosophy: Wisdom as a Practice
Sloterdijk, Peter
¤ Columbia University Press
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Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
Snyder, Timothy
¤ Basic Books
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Five Chiefs: A Supreme Court Memoir
Stevens, John Paul
¤ Back Bay Books
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Lost Decades: The Making of America’s Debt Crisis and the Long Recovery
Chinn, Menzie D. ; Frieden, Jeffry A.
¤ W. W. Norton & Company
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This Is Not Civil Rights: Discovering Rights Talk in 1939 America (Chicago Series in Law and Society)
Lovell, George I.
¤ University Of Chicago Press
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The Gift of Freedom: War, Debt, and Other Refugee Passages
Nguyen, Mimi Thi
¤ Duke University Press Books
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Awakening to Race: Individualism and Social Consciousness in America
Turner, Jack
¤ University Of Chicago Press
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Histories of the Dustheap: Waste, Material Cultures, Social Justice
Foote, Stephanie
¤ The MIT Press
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Travels in the Reich, 1933-1945: Foreign Authors Report from Germany
Lubrich, Oliver
¤ University Of Chicago Press
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Narcopolis: A Novel
Thayil, Jeet
¤ Penguin Books
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Yergin, Daniel
¤ Penguin Books
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Message to the Movement (Occupied Media Pamphlet Series) (English and Spanish Edition)
Abu-Jamal, Mumia ; Walker, Alice
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Deadline Artists: America’s Greatest Newspaper Columnists
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¤ Overlook TP
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Lazarus is Dead
Beard, Richard
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Glenny, Misha
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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
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Scenes from Village Life
Oz, Amos
¤ Mariner Books
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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
Pinker, Steven
¤ Penguin Books
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Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul’s School (Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology)
Khan, Shamus Rahman
¤ Princeton University Press
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Facing Fear: The History of an Emotion in Global Perspective
Laffan, Michael
¤ Princeton University Press
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The Emergence of Organizations and Markets
Padgett, John F. ; Powell, Walter W.
¤ Princeton University Press
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Yinyang: The Way of Heaven and Earth in Chinese Thought and Culture (New Approaches to Asian History)
Wang, Robin R.
¤ Cambridge University Press
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I Feel So Good: The Life and Times of Big Bill Broonzy
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¤ University Of Chicago Press
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The Warcraft Civilization: Social Science in a Virtual World
Bainbridge, William Sims
¤ The MIT Press
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Nature All Around Us: A Guide to Urban Ecology
Beisner, Beatrix
¤ University Of Chicago Press
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The Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of the New India
Deb, Siddhartha
¤ Faber & Faber
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Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right
Frank, Thomas
¤ Picador
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Jerusalem: The Biography (Vintage)
Montefiore, Simon Sebag
¤ Vintage
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Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps
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¤ Seven Stories Press
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The Critical Pulse: Thirty-Six Credos by Contemporary Critics
Williams, Jeffrey J.
¤ Columbia University Press
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Zweig, Stefan
¤ Pushkin Press
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Tijuana Dreaming: Life and Art at the Global Border
Kun, Josh
¤ Duke University Press Books
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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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Push Comes to Shove: New Images of Aggressive Women
Lavin, Maud
¤ The MIT Press
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Helmholtz: From Enlightenment to Neuroscience
Meulders, Michel ; Garey, Laurence
¤ The MIT Press
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Dada in Paris
Sanouillet, Michel ; Ganguly, Sharmila
¤ 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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Creatures of Politics: Media, Message, and the American Presidency
Lempert, Michael ; Silverstein, Michael
¤ Indiana University Press
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Empires in Collision in Late Antiquity (The Menahem Stern Jerusalem Lectures)
Bowersock, G. W.
¤ Brandeis
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Stepping-Stones: A Journey through the Ice Age Caves of the Dordogne
Desdemaines-Hugon, Christine ; Tattersall, Ian (Foreword by)
¤ 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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In Search of a New Image of Thought: Gilles Deleuze and Philosophical Expressionism
Lambert, Gregg
¤ Univ Of Minnesota Press
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A New Anthropology of Islam (New Departures in Anthropology)
Bowen, John R.
¤ Cambridge University Press
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Keynes Hayek: The Clash that Defined Modern Economics
Wapshott, Nicholas
¤ W. W. Norton & Company
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Guesstimation 2.0: Solving Today’s Problems on the Back of a Napkin
Weinstein, Lawrence
¤ Princeton University Press
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Essays on Kant
Allison, Henry E.
¤ 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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Are We Getting Smarter?: Rising IQ in the Twenty-First Century
Flynn, James R.
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