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New & Notable Nonfiction: May 2012 (page 3)

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NONFICTION
Released: May 22, 2012
Kirkus Star AMERICA THE PHILOSOPHICAL
by Carlin Romano
"A tour de force--encyclopedic, entertaining and enlightening."
Chronicle of Higher Education critic-at-large Romano (Philosophy and Humanities/Ursinus Coll.) debuts with a comprehensive and certain-to-be controversial diagnosis of the condition of philosophical thinking in America today. Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: May 22, 2012
Kirkus Star THE LAST FULL MEASURE: HOW SOLDIERS DIE IN BATTLE
by Michael Stephenson
"A first-rate addition to the military history canon."
A military history about the central fact of all wars: death in battle. Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: May 22, 2012
Kirkus Star PREDATOR NATION: CORPORATE CRIMINALS, POLITICAL CORRUPTION, AND THE HIJACKING OF AMERICA
by Charles Ferguson
"A deeply argued call to action from a lucid, impassioned polemicist."
A concise, cogent assessment of the 2008 banking disaster and how the fallout has affected the country. Read full book review >