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What's Liberal about the Liberal Arts?: Classroom Politics and Bias in Higher Education
by Michael Berube  
Publisher Comments Berube offers a definitive rebuttal to conservative activists' most incendiary claims that America's universities have been infected by liberal bias, while arguing the case for liberalism itself--for human rights, free and unfettered inquiry, and the...
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Matisse the Master: A Life of Henri Matisse: The Conquest of Colour: 1909-1954
by Hilary Spurling
Publisher Comments "If my story were ever to be written down truthfully from start to finish, it would amaze everyone," wrote Henri Matisse. It is hard to believe today that Matisse, whose exhibitions draw huge crowds worldwide, was once almost universally reviled and...
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The Reagan Diaries
by Ronald Reagan
Publisher Comments During his two terms as the fortieth president of the United States, Ronald Reagan kept a daily diary in which he recorded, by hand, his innermost thoughts and observations on the extraordinary, the historic, and the routine day-to-day occurrences of his...
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Up in Honey's Room: A Novel
by Elmore Leonard
Publisher Comments The odd thing about Walter Schoen, German born but now running a butcher shop in Detroit, he's a dead ringer for Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS and the Gestapo. They even share the same birthday. Honey Deal, Walter's American wife, doesn't know...
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Knots
by Nuruddin Farah
Publisher Comments A new novel from one of the world's great writers-an extraordinary work set in Mogadiscio, Somalia-that both breaks new ground and brings him back to his literary roots. A strong, self-reliant woman who was born in Somalia but brought up in North America,...
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A Love Like No Other: Stories from Adoptive Parents
by Pamela Kruger
Publisher Comments Adoption now affects more American families than ever before-1.5 million adopted children live in the United States today, and 60 percent of Americans report some kind of personal connection to adoption. Happily, this surge has coincided with an...
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A Photographer's Pilgrimage: Thirty Years of Great Reportage
by Kazuyoshi Nomachi
Synopsis Part photo essay and part travel diary, this moving book reflects Kazuyoshi Nomachi's own spiritual quest and his interest in pilgrimages, or, as he calls them, "prayer routes." Here, through dramatic images that distill the essence of our humanity, the...
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The Essence of Style: How the French Invented High Fashion, Fine Food, Chic Cafes, Style, Sophistication, and Glamour
by Joan Dejean
Publisher Comments What makes fashionistas willing to pay a small fortune for a particular designer accessory -- a luxe handbag, for example? Why is it that people all over the world share the conviction that a special occasion only becomes really special when a champagne...
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Two Lives
by Vikram Seth
Publisher Comments A heartrending new book -- the story of a marriage and the story of two lives -- from the author of the international bestselling novel A Suitable Boy Shanti Behari Seth was born on the eighth day of the eighth month in the eighth year of the twentieth...
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Love and Ghost Letters
by Chantel Acevedo
Publisher Comments On the outside, Josefina Navarro’s life seems fortunate enough—she lives with her father and her nursemaid, Regla, who raises her after the death of her mother in a luxurious home in Vedado, one of Cuba’s wealthiest districts. She...
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Innocents Lost: When Child Soldiers Go to War
by Jimmie Briggs
Publisher Comments More than 250,000 children have fought in three dozen conflicts around the world, but growing exploitation of children in war is staggering and little known. For the last seven years, the author has been talking to, writing about, and researching the...
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Ideas : History of Thought and Invention, From Fire To Freud (05 Edition)
by Peter Watson
Publisher Comments In this hugely ambitious and stimulating book, Peter Watson describes the history of ideas, from deep antiquity to the present day, leading to a new way of understanding our world and ourselves. The narrative begins nearly two million years ago with the...
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Inside Hamas: The Untold Story of the Militant Islamic Movement
by Zaki Chehab
Publisher Comments The radical Islamist movement Hamas shocked the world when it won a landslide election victory in January 2006 in the Palestinian occupied territories. One of the few journalists not to be surprised by this outcome was Zaki Chehab who has developed an...
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Bernard Maybeck at Principia College: The Art and Craft of Building
by Robert M. Craig Publisher Comments "Your architect very evidently not only had an interesting job but he also loved it because you can see countless evidences of personal attention in various details throughout. Beautiful as are the dormitories, the Chapel, however, is simply perfect in...
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Edmund Wilson: A Life in Literature
by Lewis Dabney
Publisher Comments From the Jazz Age through the McCarthy era, Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) stood at the center of the American cultural scene. In this biography, Dabney shows why Wilson was and has remained a model for young writers and intellectuals, as well as the favorite...
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The Inheritance of Loss
by Kiran Desai Publisher Comments Kiran Desai's first novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, was published to unanimous acclaim in over twenty-two countries. Now Desai takes us to the northeastern Himalayas where a rising insurgency challenges the old way of life. In a crumbling...
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Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel
by Jane Smiley
Publisher Comments Over an extraordinary twenty-year career, Jane Smiley has written all kinds of novels: mystery, comedy, historical fiction, epic. "Is there anything Jane Smiley cannot do?" raves Time magazine. But in the wake of 9/11, Smiley faltered in her hitherto...
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Prayer: A History
by Philip Zaleski
Publisher Comments "This is the most stunning book on prayer that I have ever read. It will become the benchmark for every other work on the subject, present or future. The Zaleskis' massive scholarship, catholicity of interests, and clarity of presentation make this a...
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Mary Magdalene: A Biography
by Bruce Chilton Publisher Comments After 2,000 years of flawed history, here at last is a magnificent new biography of Mary Magdalene that draws her out of the shadows of history and restores her to her rightful place of importance in Christianity. Throughout history, Mary Magdalene has...
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River of Doubt Theodore Roosevelts Darke
by Candice Millard
Publisher Comments At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, The River of Doubt is the true story of Theodore Roosevelt’s harrowing exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth. The River of Doubt—it is a...
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