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Aratus,
The Sky Is Our Song

"An ancient Greek guide to the heavens, translated in a new accessible modern English edition. A poetic guide to the heavens, the Phaenomena of Aratus--dating from around 270 BCE--was widely known ac…

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Maneesh Arora
Parties and Prejudice

"Anti-minority rhetoric in American politics has grown more overt. What were once fringe comments on Stormfront have now become typical campaign appeals from many mainstream politicians. This is the …

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Nicole C Bourbonnais
The Gospel of Family Planning

"Over the course of the twentieth century, family planning took the world by storm. Starting in the 1930s, activists, international aid organizations, and government agencies embraced the notion that…

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Arthur Bahr
Chasing the Pearl-Manuscript

A unique study of the only physical manuscript containing Sir Gawain and the Green Knight as both a material and literary object.In this book, Arthur Bahr takes a fresh look at the four poems and twelve i…

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Peter Balakian
New York Trilogy

"New York Trilogy is comprised of three, long, multi-sequence poems ("A-Train/Ziggurat/Elegy," "Ozone Journal," and "No Sign") that first appeared in Peter Balakian's la…

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Edward Baring
Vulgar Marxism

Offers a transformative reading of the Marxist tradition by uncovering its connections to the institutions and practices of worker education. For the past hundred years, "vulgar Marxism" has bee…

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Alison Bashford
The Huxleys

A New Yorker and Economist Best Book of the YearTwo hundred years of modern science and culture told through one family history. This momentous biography tells the story of the Huxleys: the Victorian natu…

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David Bather Woods
Arthur Schopenhauer

An engaging biography of one of the most influential Western philosophers and a thought-provoking exploration of how to live with Arthur Schopenhauer's pessimism.Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) almost was…

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Jesse Bering
The Incredible Afterlives of Dr. Stevenson

The untold story of an iconoclastic scientist: a psychiatrist who dedicated his career to documenting consciousness after death.While Ian Stevenson (1918-2007) was an academic psychiatrist with a serious …

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Jillian Berman
Sunk Cost

"Student loan horror stories are seemingly endless. And yet, since research continually shows that the clearest road to financial stability is a college degree, Americans continue to make the optimis…

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Jeffrey M Berry, James M Glaser, Deborah J Schildkraut
Everyday Democracy

"How the everyday habits and attitudes of ordinary liberals and conservatives shape the health of American democracy. In Everyday Democracy, Jeffrey M. Berry, James M. Glaser, and Deborah J. Schildkr…

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Gurminder Kaur Bhogal
Sikh Kirtan and Its Journeys

"An unprecedented portrait of Sikh devotional music demonstrating how musical traditions shift to meet changing needs. Kirtan-the sung expression of sacred verses-spans the Indian subcontinent, but i…

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Fannie Bialek
Love in Time

"Love cannot be everlasting, much as we might desire it to be so. So, what is love in a life that begins and ends? How does it feel to love as a finite being, imperfectly as we may? In Western philos…

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Jeremy Black
A History of the Railroad in 100 Maps

"From their origins in eighteenth-century England, railroads spread across the globe, changing everything in their path, from where and how people grew and made things to where and how they lived and…

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Ruth Bloch Rubin
Divided Parties, Strong Leaders

"For decades, legislative scholars have viewed divided parties as a critical constraint on congressional leadership. The more a party's rank and file agree with one another, the stronger their leader…

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Brad Bolman
Lab Dog

Tracing over a century of transformation in the relationship between humans and our "best friend," from hunting companion to laboratory commodity to modern pet.Intrepid, docile, and cloaked in c…

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Pierre Boulez,
Music Lessons

Now in paperback to celebrate the centenary of Pierre Boulez's birth in 2025. A groundbreaking group of writings by French composer Pierre Boulez, his yearly lectures prepared for the Collège de France.Mu…

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Clémence Boulouque
On the Edge of the Abyss

A history of the unconscious in public discourse before Freud and its significance for Jewish emancipation.When Sigmund Freud published his theory of the unconscious, in 1899, he popularized an idea that …

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Robert K Brigham
This Is a True War Story

A personal account by a war historian and adoptee who discovers his biological father was a famous Marine combat photographer in Vietnam.Robert K. Brigham has had a substantial career as a historian of th…

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Shira Brisman
The Goldsmith's Debt

Reveals how art shaped the economy, social order, and legal claims during the rise of capitalism.In the sixteenth century, German goldsmiths played a unique role in articulating property claims and social…

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