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Released: Feb. 1, 2013
"A distressing but important read."
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Released: Feb. 1, 2013
"A good choice for those who look for expert advice in finding more adventurous choices for their global journeys."
Hearst Magazines president Clinton's first nonphotography book (
American Portraits, 2010, etc.) mixes travel guide and travel diary.
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Released: Feb. 1, 2013
"A slim book that takes readers on a mind-expanding journey."
A delightful, enlightening book that employs islands as jumping-off points for essays on a wide range of topics from A(nthropology) to Z(oology).
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Released: Jan. 29, 2013
"Not intended as an exposé, but as an overview, the book strikes at the heart of hot-button issues with an Everyman appeal."
In his debut, journalist and
This American Life contributor Johnson examines aspects of medicine, food and the environment to encourage informed decisions among readers caught between the nature-vs.-technology argument.
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Released: Jan. 29, 2013
"Provocative, smart, densely argued--and deserving of a wide audience and wider discussion."
A tour de force of Big Picture thinking in which the former vice president gets his inner wonk on.
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Released: Jan. 28, 2013
"An upbeat and entertaining survival guide for the end of the world."
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Released: Jan. 28, 2013
"Roberts creates a full portrait of Mawson and does justice to what famed mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary would later call "[t]he greatest survival story in the history of exploration.""
Mountaineer and prolific author Roberts (
Finding Everett Ruess: The Life and Unsolved Disappearance of a Legendary Wilderness Explorer, 2011, etc.) returns with a vivid history of Australian explorer Douglas Mawson (1882–1958) and his 1912 exploration of Antarctica.
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Released: Jan. 22, 2013
"Uneven and mostly bland."
An assortment of essays, reviews, and excerpts from British travel writer and biographer Wheeler (
The Magnetic North: Notes from the Arctic Circle, 2012, etc.).
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Released: Jan. 22, 2013
"A mixed bag with some very good lines (if often spoken by others) jumbled up with some rather stale ephemera."
Assorted opinions on literary and cultural matters by critic and novelist O'Hagan (
The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, and of His Friend Marilyn Monroe, 2007, etc.).
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Released: Jan. 22, 2013
"Grand Central deserves a deep history as good as the World Trade Center got with James Glanz and Eric Lipton's City in the Sky (2003). This isn't it, though railway-history buffs may enjoy this book."
A middling account of the architectural splendor that is Manhattan's Grand Central Station.
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Released: Jan. 15, 2013
"A vivid, moving depiction of a way of life tragically becoming increasingly endangered."
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Released: Jan. 15, 2013
"A rollicking good read for science buffs, armchair adventurers and readers curious about the natural world at its most extreme."
Scientist Walker (
An Ocean of Air: Why the Wind Blows and Other Mysteries of the Atmosphere, 2007, etc.) pens a riveting "natural history of the only continent on Earth that has virtually no human history."
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