NONFICTION
Released: Jan. 3, 2012
"A fascinating portrait of a complex figure who ponders the place of man and God in the universe and who still loves the "Eureka moment of discovering something that no one knew before.""
Ferguson (
Pythagoras, 2010, etc.) brilliantly updates her 1991 children's biography of Stephen Hawking for an adult audience.
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NONFICTION
Released: Jan. 3, 2012
"Will the partnership prevail? Stay tuned, but hope for the best--for, they warn, "[i]f urgent steps are not taken to rein in nuclear weapons...a catastrophic attack is virtually inevitable.""
Timely portrait of an alliance, seemingly unlikely, of former Cold War mavens now committed to nuclear disarmament.
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NONFICTION
Released: Jan. 10, 2012
"A rich record of the vicissitudes of publishing during an inimitable time and place."
A dense, detailed, priceless eyewitness account of the making of a literary generation between Paris and New York.
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NONFICTION
Released: Jan. 10, 2012
"An inspiring story of a woman who participated in "one of the greatest revolutions in history"—and is still at the forefront of the struggle."
A searingly honest debut memoir by a leader in the fight for a woman's right to "legally gain and exercise reproductive choice—the power of life and death."
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NONFICTION
Released: Jan. 17, 2012
"A remarkable personal testament that will be cited by future historians of both Facebook and the Arab Spring."
A demonstration of the power of social networking by a Google engineer named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people of 2011.
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NONFICTION
Released: Jan. 17, 2012
"Stately pronouncements from a master of the form."
A wry, mannered retrospective collection of essays by octogenarian Gass (
A Temple of Texts, 2006, etc.).
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