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Released: May 26, 2013
"A dispassionate, academic account supported by reasoned facts in place of political passions."
Two University of Washington political science professors offer a rigorous scholarly investigation of the tea party.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 27, 2013
"You'll still need an anatomy textbook to grasp all the body's parts, but this book is a lovely, lively complement."
NONFICTION
Released: May 27, 2013
"A welcome new edition of a classic."
NONFICTION
Released: May 28, 2013
"Perhaps too detailed, but a useful contribution to an already rich literature."
A thoroughgoing, sometimes plodding account of the first major federal bailout of New York, one met with happier tidings than the equivalent of that old headline reading, "Ford to City: Drop Dead."
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NONFICTION
Released: May 28, 2013
"Guengerich enriches his book with specific human elements drawn from his pastoral career, making it accessible and even evocative. However, he is simply following in the footsteps of thinkers across time who yearned for spirituality but rejected the world of the spirit."
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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Released: May 28, 2013
"Scholarly essays packed with closely reasoned arguments from the author and fellow academics, plus extensive historical analyses of thinkers from Aristotle to Spinoza to Malcolm Gladwell. Patient readers with a taste for philosophy will find that reading this book is a stimulating experience."
Why do some people behave honorably and others badly? This has been a core question since the dawn of philosophy, and Ravven (Religious Studies/Hamilton Coll.; co-editor:
Jewish Themes in Spinoza's Philosophy, 2002) discusses the possibilities.
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Released: May 28, 2013
"A wonderfully engaging study executed with a lot of heart."
Before the Greatest Generation, there was the Forgotten Generation of World War I, the remaining members of which are depicted in this gloriously colorful swan song.
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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
"Perhaps too textually dense for general readers, but the book raises and clarifies a variety of significant issues about the many decisions translators must contend with."
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Released: May 28, 2013
"A frustrating mixture of incontrovertible facts and dubious speculation. Proceed with caution."
A nationally syndicated conservative columnist explores the extent and impact of the Soviet Union's penetration of the United States government.
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Released: May 28, 2013
"Emmerson largely confines himself to history and national concerns with only a passing look at international politics on the verge of the Great War, but this is an intelligent picture of our world exactly 100 years ago."
Most books about the year 1913 deal with the run-up to World War I. Emmerson (
The Future History of the Arctic, 2010), fellow of the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London, casts his net more widely, depicting life in two dozen great cities on the eve of the event that either ushered in the modern world or didn't (historians still debate this).
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