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Released: April 23, 2013
"An imperfect but worthwhile addition to the Beatles bookshelf."
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Released: April 23, 2013
"For general readers, the esoteric minutia may overwhelm. For naturalists and butterfly buffs, however, this is an unusual, pinpointed slice of American life enlivened with fragments of correspondence and reproductions of plates from classic books of the period."
An expansive historical account of the 19th-century figures whose enthusiasm and perseverance shaped natural history studies on butterflies.
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Released: April 23, 2013
"Due to the fact that Texas is thriving while much of America struggles, it might be wise to consider what Texas is doing right."
"I wanted to write a book that would help people come to terms with the existence of Texas," writes
Texas Monthly senior editor Grieder of her debut.
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Released: April 22, 2013
"Although the scholarship is stellar, readers may yearn for more attitude and animation from the author."
A scholarly study of the interactions among families--from wealthy landowners to impecunious African and Indian slaves--in New London, Conn., in the 17th and 18th centuries.
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NONFICTION
Released: April 22, 2013
"Historians may question a few dates and events, but for enjoyable historical narratives, this book is a real winner."
A novelistic historical account of the bloodline that "stamped their mark forever on the English imagination."
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NONFICTION
Released: April 22, 2013
"A clarion call for change and more--not less--engagement with Islam."
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Released: April 21, 2013
"A fascinating though occasionally crotchety scholarly presentation of the relationship among biology, genetics and culture. May be difficult going for some general readers."
Lieberman (Emeritus Linguistics/Brown Univ.;
Toward an Evolutionary Biology of Language, 2006, etc.) examines the unique creative potential of the human brain.
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NONFICTION
Released: April 18, 2013
"A valuable contribution to the history of Chicago, worthy of a place alongside William Cronon's Nature's Metropolis (1991)."
A readable, richly detailed history of America's second city--which, laments novelist/historian and Chicagoan Dyja (
Walter White: The Dilemma of Black Identity in America, 2008, etc.), has become a third city, perhaps even less.
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NONFICTION
Released: April 16, 2013
"An excellent choice for bikers and those who appreciate how a city's history can be changed by the simplest of passions."
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Released: April 16, 2013
"A fascinating treatment of both environmentalism and the structure of activism at the time."
The story of how April 22, 1970, began the tradition of Earth Day and helped to create the modern environmental movement.
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Released: April 16, 2013
"A rich excavation of both British and Afghan sources, with gorgeous colored reproductions of Muslim and romantic renderings of the action and characters."
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Released: April 12, 2013
"A generally persuasive, impassioned book-length essay. While his conclusions (and language) sometimes grow repetitive, they nonetheless serve to underscore at every turn an incisive argument buttressed by millennia of evidence."
Historian and editor Cannadine (History/Princeton Univ.;
Mellon, 2006, etc.) constructs a stirring critique of history that questions conventional approaches to narrating the human chronicle.
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