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Released: Feb. 28, 2012
"A frank, exhaustive, marvelously readable study."
A sharp, clear, deeply researched examination of the consistent application of the founding religious principles to American foreign policy, from the colonists' sense of a Protestant exceptionalism to President Barack Obama's "Good Niebuhr Policy."
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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 21, 2012
"Attentive foodies may already know much of the information, but on the whole, McMillan provides an eye-opening account of the route much of American food takes from the field to the restaurant table."
NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 14, 2012
"A highly creative, illuminating, genre-resisting history."
The strange, sad, hilarious story of the Soviet Union's blind pursuit of a Communist paradise, told through a mix of history and fiction, using both to get to the truth.
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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 14, 2012
"A winning combination of good writers, good science and serious broader concerns."
Edge.org founder and publisher Brockman (
Culture: Leading Scientists Explore Civilizations, Art, Networks, Reputation, and the Online Revolution, 2011, etc.) asks a group of eminent scientists and writers their views on the question, "What Scientific Concept Would Improve Everybody's Cognitive Toolkit?"
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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 14, 2012
"A poignant memoir that bears comparison to the bestselling Running With Scissors--but better written and far darker."
Grim, well-told memoir of a boyhood among the much-maligned Romany Gypsy "travelers" of Britain.
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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 14, 2012
"A sober, monumental and unflinchingly critical account of a problematic institution."
Drawing on thousands of pages of recently declassified documents and oral histories, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Weiner (
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA, 2008, etc.) delivers an authoritative and often frightening history of what has been, in effect, America's secret police.
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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 14, 2012
"An expert journalist compresses the culture class of nations into one palatable sports season."
A unique, engaging way to view the Americanization of China: through the introduction of an NBA coach to a professional Chinese basketball team.
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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 13, 2012
"A mesmerizing interplay of lives and socio-historical contexts."
A richly detailed biographical study of a group of early-20th-century intellectuals whose shared love for a dying insular culture helped save it from extinction.
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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 7, 2012
"A provocative, intellectually rigorous book written clearly and with an admirable lack of hatred."
A well-reported study of disaffected groups who hate other groups whose members look or think differently than the haters.
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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 7, 2012
"A fascinating, persuasive case for demythologizing yoga and recognizing its true value to mind and body."
NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 7, 2012
"The best book yet written on India in the throes of a brutal transition."
In her debut, Pulitzer Prize–winning
New Yorker staff writer Boo creates an intimate, unforgettable portrait of India's urban poor.
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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 1, 2012
"An elegant tour de force that combines neuropsychology with liberal references to Shakespeare and Homer."
Edelman (Psychology/Cornell Univ.;
Computing the Mind: How the Mind Really Works, 2008, etc.) asks readers to discard the "familiar ‘computer metaphor' that halfheartedly likens the brain to a computer," and accept his argument that "the mind is computational in the literal sense."
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