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Released: Dec. 12, 2012
"Alan Moore at his Mooriest: inscrutable yet compelling."
A comic-book legend and an acclaimed photographer team up to present a visceral biographical sketch of author and occultist Steve Moore.
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Released: Nov. 13, 2012
"An outstanding biography that reveals an overlooked steeliness at Jefferson's core that accounts for so much of his political success."
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Released: Nov. 13, 2012
"Citizenship, leadership and service combine in this memoir of a full political life."
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Released: Nov. 13, 2012
"An informative and moving book that raises profound issues regarding the nature of love, the value of human life and the future of humanity."
National Book Award–winning journalist Solomon (
The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, 2001, etc.) uses issues raised by disability to examine the nature of parenthood, the definition of disability and the ability to control reproduction to create designer children.
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Released: Nov. 13, 2012
"A fascinating exercise in futurology."
A pioneering developer of optical character recognition and text-to-speech software explores the possibility of creating a synthetic neocortex that could surpass the human mind.
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Released: Nov. 13, 2012
"A valiant attempt to recount a mostly forgotten experience, though the many questions that remain may prove frustrating to some readers."
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Released: Nov. 8, 2012
"An examination that escapes the dangers of overgeneralization to provide provocative information presented compellingly."
A mother and daughter examine the millennials, children born in the United States from 1980 through 1990.
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Released: Nov. 6, 2012
"A riveting look inside the human brain and its quirks."
Acclaimed British neurologist Sacks (Neurology and Psychiatry/Columbia Univ.;
The Mind's Eye, 2010, etc.) delves into the many different sorts of hallucinations that can be generated by the human mind.
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Released: Nov. 1, 2012
"Entertaining and somewhat informative, but readers should take it with a grain of salt."
Action-packed accounts of the missions of one of the world's most effective and mysterious intelligence services, Israel's Mossad.
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Released: Nov. 1, 2012
"Vonnegut's most human of hearts beats on every page."
Selected and edited letters by the author of
Cat's Cradle,
Slaughterhouse-Five and other enduringly popular novels, letters that reveal Vonnegut's passions, annoyances, loves, losses, mind and heart.
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Released: Nov. 1, 2012
"Thankfully, King's book is an impressive work of restoration--the author helps readers see this painting for the first time."
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Released: Oct. 30, 2012
"A thoroughly engaging examination of the irreversible changes emerging from a year when the nation's very survival remained in doubt."
A historian zeroes in on the year Lincoln found his footing as president and set the country on a bold new course.
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Released: Oct. 23, 2012
"An ambitious but overlong historical study."
In this historical overview, Morris (
The Sages: Warren Buffett, George Soros, Paul Volcker, and the Maelstrom of Markets, 2009, etc.) asserts that American industry in its early days was far more concerned with growth and large-scale mass production than was Great Britain.
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Released: Oct. 22, 2012
"Alternately sad, defiant, carefree and understated, this journey into a world hidden in plain sight is well worth taking."
A journalist ingratiates himself with a band of day laborers on the mean streets of Delhi, India.
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Released: Oct. 16, 2012
"Incisive, reflective and unfailingly stimulating. It wouldn't hurt Mendelsohn to occasionally pass up an opportunity to remind readers he's the smartest guy in the room, but then again, he almost always is."
Another top-notch collection of previously published criticism from Mendelsohn (
How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken, 2008, etc.).
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Released: Oct. 16, 2012
"Beautifully constructed reflections and careful sifting of Jefferson's thoughts and deeds."
A well-rendered yet deeply unsettling look behind the illusion of the happy slaves of Monticello.
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Released: Oct. 9, 2012
"Lucent prose illuminates a man obscured for years in history's shadows."
New York Times Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Egan (
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America, 2009, etc.) returns with the story of the astonishing life of Edward Curtis (1868–1952), whose photographs of American Indians now command impressive prices at auction.
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Released: Sept. 18, 2012
"Essential reading for anyone interested in justice or memoir."
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Released: Sept. 11, 2012
"A great starting point for readers interested in exploring the intersecting issues of gender, family and employment."
Atlantic senior editor Rosin (
God's Harvard: A Christian College on a Mission to Save America, 2007), co-founder of
Slate's women's section, DoubleX, argues that women are more likely than men to succeed in the modern workforce.
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Released: Sept. 11, 2012
"A thorough, refreshing biography by an independent-minded historian."
A sympathetic, evenhanded reappraisal of President Lincoln's secretary of state as a statesman who practiced effective preventive strategies.
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