Susan Sontag: The Making of an Icon
Carl Rollyson and Lisa Paddock
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This first biography of Susan Sontag (1933-2004) is now fully revised and updated, providing an even...
Berlin for Jews: A Twenty-First-Century Companion
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What is it like to travel to Berlin today, particularly as a Jew, and bring with you the baggage of...
Days of Twilight, Nights of Frenzy: A Memoir
Anthea Bell, Werner Schroeter and Claudia Lenssen
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Werner Schroeter was a leading figure of New German Cinema. In more than forty films made between...
From Main Street to Mall: The Rise and Fall of the American Department Store
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The geography of American retail has changed dramatically since the first luxurious department...
Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World
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There's little doubt that most humans today are better off than their forebears. Stunningly so, the...
Monkeytalk: Inside the Worlds and Minds of Primates
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Monkey see, monkey do or does he? Can the behavior of non-human primates their sociality, their...
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...
Experiencing Other Minds in the Courtroom
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Sometimes the outcome of a legal case can depend upon sensory evidence known only to the person who...
Salesman
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Selected by the Library of Congress as one of the most significant American films ever made,...