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New & Notable Nonfiction: June 2012 (page 3)

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NONFICTION
Released: June 5, 2012
Kirkus Star FULL BODY BURDEN: GROWING UP IN THE NUCLEAR SHADOW OF ROCKY FLATS
by Kristen Iversen
"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. Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: June 5, 2012
Kirkus Star LIVING, THINKING, LOOKING: ESSAYS
by Siri Hustvedt
"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.). Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: June 5, 2012
THE SECOND WORLD WAR
by Antony Beevor
"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). Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: June 4, 2012
Kirkus Star AS TEXAS GOES...: HOW THE LONE STAR STATE HIJACKED THE AMERICAN AGENDA
by Gail Collins
"A timely portrait of Texas delivered with Collins' unique brand of insightful humor."
New York Times political columnist Collins (When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present, 2009, etc.) zeroes in on what makes Texas so important and why the rest of the country needs to know and care about what's happening there. Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: June 1, 2012
Kirkus Star TUBES: A JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE INTERNET
by Andrew Blum
"A fascinating and unique portrait of the Internet not as "a physical world or a virtual world, but a human world.""
Captivating behind-the-scenes tour of how (and where) the Internet works. Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: June 1, 2012
Kirkus Star CITY: A USER'S GUIDE TO THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OF URBAN LIFE
by P.D. Smith
"As exciting, sprawling and multifarious as a shining city on a hill."
Smith (Doomsday Men: The Real Dr. Strangelove and the Dream of the Superweapon, 2007, etc.) composes a polyphonic paean to our urban past, present and future. Read full book review >