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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time
by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
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In 1993 Greg Mortenson was the exhausted survivor of a failed attempt to ascend K2, an American climbing bum wandering emaciated and lost through Pakistan's Karakoram Himalaya. After he was taken in and nursed back to health by the people of an... ( read more)
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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
by Tracy Kidder
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Beautifully told, and entirely inspiring, Mountains Beyond Mountains is an exceptional look at the heroic life of Dr. Paul Farmer. Providing health care for hundreds of thousands in a remote, impoverished region of Haiti, Farmer's incomparable dedication... ( read more)
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Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone
by Eduardo Galeano
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Throughout his career, Eduardo Galeano has turned our understanding of history and reality on its head. Isabelle Allende said his works “invade the reader’s mind, to persuade him or her to surrender to the charm of his writing and power of... ( read more)
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Marie-Therese, Child of Terror: The Fate of Marie Antoinette's Daughter
by Susan Nagel
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The first major biography of one of France’s most mysterious women—Marie Antoinette’s only child to survive the revolution. Susan Nagel, author of the critically acclaimed biography Mistress of the Elgin Marbles, turns her attention to... ( read more)
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Open Veins of Latin America : Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent (25TH Anniversary Edition) ((Rev)97 Edition)
by Eduardo Galeano
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Since its U.S. debut a quarter-century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cultural narrative of the highest quality, and perhaps the... ( read more)
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The View from Damascus: State, Political Community and Foreign Relations in Twentieth-Century Syria
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Sheds new light on the recent history and current politics and policies of this important Middle Eastern country. Throughout the last hundred years Syria has been a crucial hub of Middle Eastern events: the birth place and 'pulsating heart' of Arab... ( read more)
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The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age
by Simon Schama
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In a brilliantly inventive work, bestselling author Simon Schama explores the enigma of 17th-century Holland, a nation that attained an unprecedented level of affluence, yet lived in constant dread of being corrupted by prosperity. Drawing on a vast... ( read more)
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The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
by Diane Ackerman
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'When Germany invaded Poland, Stuka bombers devastated Warsaw'"and the city's zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski began smuggling Jews into empty cages. Another dozen "guests" hid inside the Zabinskis'... ( read more)
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
by Simon Winchester
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Simon Winchester, New York Times bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman, examines the legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa, which was followed by an immense tsunami that killed nearly forty thousand people. The... ( read more)
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Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America and American in Iran
by Azadeh Moaveni
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A young Iranian-American journalist returns to Tehran and discovers not only the oppressive and decadent life of her Iranian counterparts who have grown up since the revolution, but the pain of searching for a homeland that may not exist.... ( read more)
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Interviews | July 4, 2009
By Jill Owens
 Luis Alberto Urrea is a poet, novelist, journalist, and essayist who has been writing about the relationship between the United States and Mexico,...
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Review-a-Day | June 29, 2009
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Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyang by Ziyang Zhao
Reviewed by Jonathan Mirsky
New York Review of Books
Prisoner of the State is the secretly recorded memoir of Zhao Ziyang, once holder of China's two highest Party and state positions and the architect of the economic reforms that have brought the country to the edge of great-power status.
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Original Essays | June 16, 2009
By Robert Wright
On September 11, 2001, I was scheduled to start teaching a graduate seminar at Penn called "Religion and Human Nature." But religion and human...
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Review-a-Day | June 12, 2009
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American Passage: The History of Ellis Island by Vincent J. Cannato Reviewed by Jonathan Yardley Washington Post Book World Ellis Island, through...
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Review-a-Day | June 11, 2009
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Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America by John Earl Haynes Reviewed by Anne Applebaum The New Republic Online If one were trying to define...
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