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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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Ana Lucia Araujo
Humans in Shackles

"Ana Lucia Araujo's Humans in Shackles is an Atlantic cultural history of slavery in the Americas that sets out to redress the imbalances of existing general histories of slavery by centering on the …

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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

"In this book, Arthur Bahr takes a fresh look at a much-studied, unique object in English literature: the four poems and many illustrations contained in the so-called "Pearl-Manuscript" (Br…

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Keith Michael Baker
Jean-Paul Marat

A landmark biography of one of the most notorious and controversial protagonists of the French Revolution--Jean-Paul Marat.Who better to pen an authoritative biography of Jean-Paul Marat (1743-93) than pr…

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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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Greg Barnhisel
Code Name Puritan

"Norman Holmes Pearson was a scholar and a spy. His scholarship brought him close to poets like Hilda Doolittle, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and W. H. Auden. But he also was close to the CIA…

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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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Martin A Berger
Inventing Stereotype

"How do we know if a painting, play, or novel contains stereotypes? Most of us think we recognize them when we see them, but this book reveals that the matter is far more complex. Inventing Stereotyp…

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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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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 cloak…

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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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John W Boyer
The University of Chicago

"This institutional history of the University of Chicago, as told by the longtime dean of the college, thoroughly engages with the history and the lived politics of the university. Boyer is both swee…

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Brian Callaci
Chains of Command

A surprising look at the big business of owning small businesses and what America's franchise economy means for its workers.Walk into a McDonald's anywhere in the United States, and it will be identical t…

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Albert Camus,
Travels in the Americas

Albert Camus's lively journals from his eventful visits to the United States and South America in the 1940s, available again in a new translation.In March 1946, the young Albert Camus crossed from Le Havr…

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Maggie M Cao
Painting Us Empire

"This book is the first to offer a synthetic account of art and US imperialism in the nineteenth century. Maggie M. Cao offers revisionist readings of history paintings of the colonial past, landscap…

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