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For the Love of Animals: The Rise of the Animal Protection Movement
by Kathryn Shevelow  Publisher Comments The engaging story of how an unlikely group of extraordinary people laid the foundation for the legal protection of animals In eighteenth-century England—where cockfighting and bullbaiting drew large crowds, and the abuse of animals was routine...
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Death of a Dissident: The Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko and the Return of the KGB
by Alex Goldfarb Publisher Comments The assassination of former Russian intelligence officer Alexander "Sasha" Litvinenko in November 2006 -- poisoned by the rare radioactive element polonium -- caused an international sensation. Within a few short weeks, the fit forty-three-year-old lay...
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Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right: How One Side Lost Its Mind and the Other Lost Its Nerve
by Bernard Goldberg Publisher Comments "New York Times" bestselling author Goldberg is at it again, this time skewering both sides of the cultural and political debate in America: the lunatic liberals on the left and the spineless Republicans on the right....
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Last Harvest: From Cornfield to New Town
by Witold Rybczynski Publisher Comments When Witold Rybczynski first heard about New Daleville, it was only a developer's idea, attached to ninety acres of cornfield an hour and a half west of Philadelphia. Over the course of five years, Rybczynski met and talked to everyone involved in the...
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Dead Lucky: Life After Death on Mount Everest
by Lincoln Hall Publisher Comments The amazing story of Australian mountain climber Lincoln Hall's rescue following a night spent near the summit of Mount Everest, where he had been left for dead by the other members of his expedition. Lincoln Hall likes to say that on the evening of May...
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Class (UK Edition)
by Jilly Cooper Publisher Comments Re-issue of Jilly Cooper's humorous expose of the English class system....
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Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era
by Houston A., Jr. Baker Publisher Comments Houston A. Baker Jr. condemns those black intellectuals who, he believes, have turned their backs on the tradition of racial activism in America. These individuals choose personal gain over the interests of the black majority, whether they are espousing...
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Members Only: Elite Clubs and the Process of Exclusion
by Diana Elizabeth Kendall Synopsis Members Only addresses how exclusive private clubs maintain and perpetuate class-based privilege and racial/ethnic and religious segregation, and how such patterns of social exclusion heighten social inequality. Members Only continues Kendall's study of...
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Creators: From Chaucer and Durer to Picasso and Disney (P.S.)
by Paul M Johnson Publisher Comments Kingsley Amis described Paul Johnson's "Intellectuals" as "a valuable and entertaining Rogues' Gallery of "Adventures of the Mind,"" Now the celebrated journalist and historian offers "Creators," a companion volume of essays that examines a host of...
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Roots Too: White Ethnic Revival in Post-Civil Rights America
by Matthew Fr Jacobson Publisher Comments In the 1950s, America was seen as a vast melting pot in which white ethnic affiliations were on the wane and a common American identity was the norm. Yet by the 1970s, these white ethnics mobilized around a new version of the epic tale of plucky...
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China's Great Train: Beijing's Drive West and the Campaign to Remake Tibet
by Abrahm Lustgarten Publisher Comments A vivid account of China’s unstoppable quest to build a railway into Tibet, and its obsession to transform its land and its people In the summer of 2006, the Chinese government fulfilled a fifty-year plan to build a railway into Tibet. Since Mao...
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In Defense of Globalization
by Jagdish Bhagwati Publisher Comments 'In the passionate debate that currently rages over globalization, critics have been heard blaming it for a host of ills afflicting poorer nations, everything from child labor to environmental degradation and cultural homogenization. Now Jagdish Bhagwati,...
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The Powers to Lead
by Joseph S. Nye Publisher Comments What qualities make a leader succeed in business or politics? In an era when the information revolution has dramatically changed the playing field, when old organizational hierarchies have given way to fluid networks of contacts, and when mistrust of...
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The Taste of Conquest: The Rise and Fall of the Three Great Cities of Spice
by Michael Krondl Publisher Comments The smell of sweet cinnamon on your morning oatmeal, the gentle heat of gingerbread, the sharp piquant bite from your everyday peppermill. The tales these spices could tell: of lavish Renaissance banquets perfumed with cloves, and flimsy sailing ships...
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Amalia's Tale: A Poor Peasant, an Ambitious Attorney, and a Fight for Justice
by David I Kertzer Publisher Comments This quintessential David-and-Goliath saga tells the story of a wholly unexpected triumph of the poor against the rich and of a crusading city attorney who fought on behalf of an impoverished peasant. Amalia Bagnacavalli, an illiterate young peasant from...
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The Trouble with Diversity: How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality
by Walter Benn Michaels Publisher Comments A brilliant assault on our obsession with every difference except the one that really matters—the difference between rich and poor If there’s one thing Americans agree on, it’s the value of diversity. Our corporations vie for slots...
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The Toothpick: Technology and Culture
by Henry Petroski Publisher Comments Like "The Pencil," Petroskis "The Toothpick" is a celebration of a humble yet elegant device. As old as mankind and as universal as eating, this useful and ubiquitous tool finally gets its due in this wide-ranging and compulsively readable book....
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The White Cascade: The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche
by Gary Krist Publisher Comments Centered on the astonishing spectacle of Americas deadliest avalanche, "The White Cascade" is the masterfully told story of a never-before-documented tragedy....
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Four Days in November: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
by Vincent Bugliosi Publisher Comments Four Days in November is an extraordinarily exciting, precise, and definitive narrative of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, by Lee Harvey Oswald. It is drawn from Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John...
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All Things Must Fight to Live: Stories of War and Deliverance in Congo
by Bryan Mealer Publisher Comments A foreign correspondent’s gripping account of his experiences in Congo, told through the long scope of the country’s dark and brutal history. After covering a brutal war that claimed four million lives, journalist Bryan Mealer takes readers...
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