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Released: June 1, 2013
"While the legal principles presented remain sound, the commentary on controversies that were topical in the 1980s and '90s too often sounds dated and suggests that Abrams is largely serving warmed-over material from an illustrious past."
Vigorous, principled defenses of freedom of expression from a long career in the legal trenches.
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Released: June 1, 2013
"Carlson tends to academic dryness and to a fondness for the smallest of details. Though Tesla deserves such serious treatment, his book is likelier to appeal to specialists than general readers."
A scholarly, critical, mostly illuminating study of the life and work of the great Serbian inventor.
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Released: June 1, 2013
"A cute memoir of living in India with some advice for expatriates as well."
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Released: June 1, 2013
"Fast-paced and wildly chaotic."
Mezrich (
Sex on the Moon: The Amazing Story Behind the Most Audacious Heist in History, 2011, etc.) returns with a breakneck retelling of how a bunch of closely knit fraternity brothers built an online poker empire and how fate's final hand dealt them all a wicked blow.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 30, 2013
"People are willing to do anything about Latin America other than read about it, or so it's been said. This is one book about Latin America that merits attention."
Mexico-born U.S. journalist Corchado frames a portrait of a torn nation within an account of escaping his own murder.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 28, 2013
"Carlson has taken full advantage of abundant material to deliver a vivid chronicle of two working Civil War reporters and their spectacular odyssey."
A rollicking story of imprisonment and escape during the Civil War seems a stretch, but journalist Carlson accomplished a similar feat with a Soviet premier in
K Blows Top: A Cold War Comic Interlude Starring Nikita Khrushchev, America's Most Unlikely Tourist (2009), and this is another entertaining, occasionally gruesome account.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 28, 2013
"Useful, perceptive advice on life found through the practice of karate."
NONFICTION
Released: May 28, 2013
"Essential for fans but fascinating for those new to Brunetti's work as well."
NONFICTION
Released: May 27, 2013
"A welcome new edition of a classic."
NONFICTION
Released: May 22, 2013
"A poetic tale of a personal medical crisis."
Memoirist, essayist and novelist Gallagher (
The Sacred Meal, 2009, etc.) explores the series of events set into motion by the startling diagnosis that she suffered from a condition causing blindness.
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Released: May 21, 2013
"A charmingly conversational tale of devotion--to each other and to the science and art of medicine."
Two brothers, both doctors, reflect on a remarkable journey from their childhood in newly independent India to their success and renown in Obama's America.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 21, 2013
"Well-balanced, though not likely to sway either detractors or admirers one way or another. We look forward to the planned sequel, covering the years of Thatcher's political decline."
The authorized, remarkably evenhanded biography of the grimly divisive, late Iron Lady of Britain.
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