On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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Poet Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the...
Driven Toward Madness: The Fugitive Slave Margaret Garner and Tragedy on the Ohio
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The story of Margaret Garner-the runaway slave who, when confronted with capture, slit the throat of...
The Politics of Scale: A History of Rangeland Science
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Rangelands are vast, making up one quarter of the United States and forty percent of the Earth's...
The Supercar Book for Boys: The Complete Guide to the Machines That Make Our Jaws Drop
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Fully illustrated throughout, The Supercar Book for Boys is a sumptuously designed guide full of...
Bad Rabbi: And Other Strange but True Stories from the Yiddish Press
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Stories abound of immigrant Jews on the outside looking in, clambering up the ladder of social...
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The Copyright Wars: Three Centuries of Trans-Atlantic Battle
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Today's copyright wars can seem unprecedented. Sparked by the digital revolution that has made...
The Model T: A Centennial History
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"I will build a car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family, but small...
Words, Works, and Ways of Knowing: The Breakdown of Moral Philosophy in New England Before the Civil War
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Crime writer Sara Paretsky is known the world over for her acclaimed series of mysteries starring...
The Secret Financial Life of Food: From Commodities Markets to Supermarkets
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One morning while reading Barron's, Kara Newman took note of a casual bit of advice offered by famed...
Reading Orientalism: Said and the Unsaid
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The late Edward Said remains one of the most influential critics and public intellectuals of our...