NONFICTION
Released: June 5, 2012
"Superbly crafted tale of Cold War America's dark underside."
A harrowing account of Colorado's Rocky Flats plutonium plant by a woman who grew up nearby.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 5, 2012
"At once stimulating and warmhearted, with sentences of drop-dead beauty and acuity on nearly every page."
Another superb essay collection from novelist Hustvedt (
The Summer without Men, 2011, etc.).
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NONFICTION
Released: June 5, 2012
"A work of vast research, depth and insight--perhaps too vast for some readers."
Beevor (
D-Day, 2009, etc.) joins the ranks of other contemporary British historians to tackle the entire war in one volume--e.g., Andrew Roberts (
The Storm of War) and Gordon Corrigan (
The Second World War).
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NONFICTION
Released: June 5, 2012
"In each chapter, Blackwell finds he loves the polluted places for all the ways they aren't ruined. With great verve, and without sounding preachy, he exposes the essence and interconnectedness of these environmental problems."
Humor and dry wit lighten a travelogue of the most polluted and ravaged places in the world.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 7, 2012
"A superb examination of the never-ending effort to enhance life, as well as the commensurate refusal to ever let it go."
A sharp, illuminating history of ideas showing how America has wrestled with birth, childhood, work, marriage, old age and death.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 11, 2012
"An impassioned argument backed by rigorous economic analysis."
From one of the world's leading economists, a political call to action in defense of equality and human rights.
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