Avid Reader: A Life
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A spirited and revealing memoir by the most celebrated editor of his time After editing The...
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Sex and World Peace
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Sex and World Peace unsettles a variety of assumptions in political and security discourse,...
Under the Volcano
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One of the twentieth century's great undisputed masterpieces, Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano...
The Ordinary Spaceman: From Boyhood Dreams to Astronaut
Clayton C. Anderson and Nevada Barr
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What's it like to travel at more than 850 MPH, riding in a supersonic T-38 twin turbojet engine...
The Sarashina Diary: A Woman's Life in Eleventh-century Japan
Sugawara no Takasue no Musume, Sonja Arntzen and Moriyuki Ito
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A thousand years ago, a young Japanese girl embarked on a journey from the wild East Country to the...
What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars
Jim Paul, Brendan Moynihan and Jack D. Schwager
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Jim Paul's meteoric rise took him from a small town in Northern Kentucky to governor of the Chicago...
Field Notes from Elsewhere: Reflections on Dying and Living
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In the fall of 2005, Mark C. Taylor, the controversial public intellectual and widely respected...
Love Letters from Golok: A Tantric Couple in Modern Tibet
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Love Letters from Golok chronicles the courtship between two Buddhist tantric masters, Tare Lhamo...
Endangered Economies: How the Neglect of Nature Threatens Our Prosperity
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In the decades since Geoffrey Heal began his field-defining work in environmental economics, one...
Class Clowns: How the Smartest Investors Lost Billions in Education
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The past thirty years have seen dozens of otherwise successful investors try to improve education...