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New and Notable Nonfiction: November 2011

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NOT THE LAST GOODBYE
On Life, Death, Healing, and Cancer
Pub Date: Nov 21, 2011
With poignant simplicity and heartbreaking humility, recently deceased psychiatrist Servan-Schreiber (Anticancer: A New Way of Life, 2008, etc.) recounts the events of the year preceding his final battle with brain cancer.
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WHO'S IN CHARGE?
Free Will and the Science of the Brain
Pub Date: Nov 15, 2011
The more we learn about the human brain, the more puzzling the question of free will becomes.
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KEARNY'S MARCH
The Epic Creation of the American West, 1846-1847
Pub Date: Nov 14, 2011
Manifest Destiny fulfilled: Groom (Vicksburg, 1863, 2009, etc.) spotlights four journeys during two tumultuous years in American history that marked a "stupendous westward shift."
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HOWARD COSELL
The Man, the Myth, and the Transformation of American Sports
Pub Date: Nov 14, 2011
You could make a case that Howard Cosell (1918–1995) was the single most important sports broadcaster ever. You would be right.
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PRINCE
Inside the Music and the Masks
Pub Date: Nov 11, 2011
Did 10 years of researching the enigmatic Prince pay off? You bet.
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THE BEAUTY AND THE SORROW
An Intimate History of the First World War
Pub Date: Nov 11, 2011
The Great War, as experienced by 20 ordinary people.
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