NONFICTION
Released: June 18, 2013
"An entertaining mixture of erudition, attitude and wit that crackles, spits and sparkles."
A noted linguistics scholar and prolific author asks and answers the question, "Why do we spell words the way we do?"
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NONFICTION
Released: June 18, 2013
"A frisky reminder that usage issues are part convention, part passion."
A copy editor at the
Washington Post returns with his third rant-cum–English usage manual (
Lapsing into a Comma, 2000, etc.).
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NONFICTION
Released: June 18, 2013
"Hilarious to, at worst, mildly amusing glimpses of a comic genius at play. Even the pigeon would agree."
Twenty years of doodles collected in a coffee-table volume, offering a well from which Willems has indeed drawn more than the importunate pigeon starring in many of his seemingly artless, improbably successful children's books.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 15, 2013
"A clever history of how the Tudors ushered England into the medieval age, illustrating the broad influence they exerted both then and now."
Lipscomb (Early Modern History/Univ. of East Anglia;
1536: The Year that Changed Henry VIII, 2009) combines her credentials as historian/TV presenter/author to give us a thorough history/guided tour of the Tudors.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 11, 2013
"Smart, careful reviews covering a reasonably representative swathe of movies past and present."
Multitasking writer/editor O'Brien (
The Fall of the House of Walworth, 2010, etc.) showcases his work over the past decade as a film critic and historian.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 11, 2013
"A thoughtful, deeply personal approach to understanding the Vietnam War for the Americans who fought it."
An argument for rethinking the stereotypes of Vietnam veterans in light of oral histories of ex-servicemen and women from New York City.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 11, 2013
"Don't buy this book to teach your children; take them along as you commit these beautiful speeches to memory."
Don't be fooled by the title. This book is for anyone who wants to brush up on Shakespeare.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 11, 2013
"Lincoln completists will want it, but the content and concepts are covered better elsewhere."
More stories may have been told about Abraham Lincoln than any other U.S. president; here's a representative, somewhat haphazardly chosen batch, showing the popular image of Lincoln as it developed over the years.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 4, 2013
"The world is all chaos, Gray wants us to know, but he has a good time delivering the message."
Another bucket of cold water splashed in the face of idealism by Gray (European Thought/London School of Economics;
Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia, 2007, etc.), this time focused on humankind's stubbornly feral nature.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 28, 2013
"Essential for fans but fascinating for those new to Brunetti's work as well."
NONFICTION
Released: May 28, 2013
"At turns serious and humorous, this multifaceted collection of essays will entertain both longtime Savage fans and new readers."
NONFICTION
Released: May 23, 2013
"A sobering, even startling, view of an academic world that has fundamentally altered and softened in the last half-century."
Edited and translated transcripts of recordings of a university class in English literature taught in the fall of 1966 by the celebrated Argentinian author.
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