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  • THE COMING GOOD SOCIETY
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    THE COMING GOOD SOCIETY
    WILLIAM F. SCHULZ / SUSHMA RAMAN
    Two authors with decades of experience promoting human rights argue that, as the world changes around us, rights hardly imaginable today will come into being.A rights revolution is under way. Today the range of nonhuman entities thought to deserve rights is exploding—not just animals but ecosystems and even robots. Changes in norms and circumstances require the expansion of rig...

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  • ASSEMBLING THE DINOSAUR
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    ASSEMBLING THE DINOSAUR
    LUKAS RIEPPEL
    Lukas Rieppel shows how dinosaurs gripped the popular imagination and became emblems of America’s industrial power and economic prosperity during the Gilded Age. Spectacular fossils were displayed in museums financed by North America’s wealthiest tycoons, to cement their reputation as both benefactors of science and fierce capitalists. ...

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  • GRAVITY’S CENTURY
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    GRAVITY’S CENTURY
    RON COWEN
    Ron Cowen offers a sweeping account of the century of experimentation that has consistently confirmed Einstein’s general theory of relativity. He shows how we got from Eddington’s pivotal observations of the 1919 eclipse to the Event Horizon Telescope, aimed at starlight wrapping around the black hole at our galaxy’s center. ...

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  • MANNERS BEGIN AT BREAKFAST
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    MANNERS BEGIN AT BREAKFAST
    MARIE-CHANTAL OF GREECE
    “An elegant call to courtesy and decorum—meant not to shame but to encourage” from a royal mother, business woman, and parenting blogger (The Wall Street Journal). Princess, parent, and founder of a successful children’s clothing line, Marie-Chantal of Greece is constantly asked how she manages to do it all—raise her kids and run her business while leading an active social life...

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  • SEEING RED
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    SEEING RED
    NICHOLAS HUMPHREY
    “A brilliantly inventive account of the evolution of consciousness, the best yet” (Paul Broks, Prospect). “Consciousness matters. Arguably it matters more than anything. The purpose of this book is to build towards an explanation of just what the matter is.” Nicholas Humphrey begins this compelling exploration of the biggest of big questions with a challenge to the reader, and ...

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  • THE PRICE OF AID
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    THE PRICE OF AID
    DAVID C. ENGERMAN
    This study of US and Soviet aid efforts in India during the Cold War “makes a major contribution towards a necessary discussion of the politics of aid” (Times Higher Education). Debates over foreign aid are often strangely ahistorical. Economists argue about how to make aid work while critics bemoan money wasted on corruption, ignoring the fundamentally political character of a...

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  • REGULATING INFRASTRUCTURE
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    REGULATING INFRASTRUCTURE
    JOSÉ A. GÓMEZ-IBÁÑEZ
    This wide-ranging study of urban infrastructure “offers a series of fascinating arguments” in favor of market-oriented approaches to regulation (Times Higher Education Supplement). In the 1980s and ‘90s, many countries turned to the private sector to provide infrastructure and utilities—such as gas, telephones, and highways—with the idea that market-based incentives would contr...

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  • SPARTACUS
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    SPARTACUS
    ALDO SCHIAVONE
    “Separate[s] the man from the myth. . . . Both the newcomer and the experienced Roman historian will find a wealth of entertainment and information.” (Publishers Weekly) Spartacus (109?–71 bce) has been a source of endless fascination, the subject of myth-making in his own time, and of movie-making in ours. In this riveting, compact account, Aldo Schiavone rescues Spartacus fro...

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  • THE LOST CHILDREN
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    THE LOST CHILDREN
    TARA ZAHRA
    “This impressive . . . study charts the history of [post WWII] humanitarian relief . . . demonstrating how the institutions of the family became politicized.” (Library Journal)   During the Second World War, an unprecedented number of families were torn apart. As the Nazi empire crumbled, millions roamed the continent in search of their loved ones. The Lost Children tells the s...

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  • THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC
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    THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC
    BRUCE ACKERMAN
    “Audacious . . . offers a fierce critique of democracy’s most dangerous adversary: the abuse of democratic power by democratically elected chief executives.” (Benjamin R. Barber, New York Times bestselling author of Jihad vs. McWorld ) Bruce Ackerman shows how the institutional dynamics of the last half-century have transformed the American presidency into a potential platform ...

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  • CONQUEST
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    CONQUEST
    JULIET BARKER
    This history of the Hundred Years War vividly chronicles the all-but-forgotten period when England ruled a great swath of France at the point of a sword. Following the Battle of Agincourt, Henry V’s second invasion of France in 1417 launched a campaign that would place the crown of France on an English head. By the time of Henry’s premature death in 1422, nearly all of northern...

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  • AFTER THE FACT
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    AFTER THE FACT
    CLIFFORD GEERTZ
    “An unabashedly honest ethnography . . . [from] a founder of ‘symbolic’ anthropology . . . reflections on his fieldwork over a period of . . . forty years. Brilliant.” (Kirkus Reviews)  In looking back on four decades of anthropology in the field, Geertz has created a work that is a personal history as well as a retrospective reflection on developments in the human sciences ami...

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  • NUCLEAR FORCES
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    NUCLEAR FORCES
    SILVAN S. SCHWEBER
    “A highly readable account . . . tracing the future Nobel laureate through his formative years and up to the eve of World War II” (The Wall Street Journal). On the fiftieth anniversary of Hiroshima, Nobel-winning physicist Hans Bethe called on his fellow scientists to stop working on weapons of mass destruction. What drove Bethe, the head of Theoretical Physics at Los Alamos du...

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  • MUSLIM ZION
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    MUSLIM ZION
    FAISAL DEVJI
    “Offers a detailed analysis of the various political and ideological forces that were at play in the buildup to Pakistan’s creation.” (Los Angeles Review of Books) Pakistan is both the embodiment of national ambitions fulfilled and, in the eyes of many observers, a failed state. Muslim Zion cuts to the core of the geopolitical paradoxes entangling Pakistan to argue that India’s...

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  • PRACTICAL MATTER
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    PRACTICAL MATTER
    MARGARET C. JACOB / LARRY STEWART
    “A highly ambitious and provocative survey of the cultural history of science and industry” from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries (Journal of Modern History). In 1687, the publication of Isaac Newton’s Principia Mathematica sparked a profound transformation in the world. From that event in the late-seventeenth century to the Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1851, science...

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  • DIVIDED MEMORY
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    DIVIDED MEMORY
    JEFFREY HERF
    A “valuable” study of how political narratives about the nation’s Nazi past differed in East and West Germany (The Wall Street Journal). A significant new look at the legacy of the Nazi regime, this book exposes the workings of past beliefs and political interests on how—and how differently—the two Germanys recalled the crimes of Nazism, from the anti-Nazi emigration of the 193...

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  • THE BURDENS OF BROTHERHOOD
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    THE BURDENS OF BROTHERHOOD
    ETHAN B. KATZ
    An informative look at the ever-changing relationship between France’s predominant non-Christian immigrant minorities over the course of 100 years. Headlines from France suggest that Muslims have renewed an age-old struggle against Jews and that the two groups are once more inevitably at odds. But the past tells a different story. The Burdens of Brotherhood is a sweeping histor...

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  • THE CROSS
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    THE CROSS
    ROBIN M. JENSEN
    “This erudite history illuminates the social, cultural, as well as theological developments of the cross” through 2000 years of its symbolic evolution (Library Journal). Jesus’s death on the cross posed a dilemma for Saint Paul and the early Church fathers. Crucifixion was a humiliating form of execution reserved for slaves and criminals. How could their messiah and savior have...

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  • UNIVERSE IN CREATION
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    UNIVERSE IN CREATION
    ROY R. GOULD
    “In a unique take on the cosmos, Gould makes the case that the emergence of a great many things are not only pre-ordained, but predictable.” (Forbes) We know the universe has a history, but does it also have a story of self-creation to tell? Yes, in Roy R. Gould’s account. He offers a compelling narrative of how the universe?with no instruction other than its own laws?evolved i...

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  • FATHOMING THE OCEAN
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    FATHOMING THE OCEAN
    HELEN M ROZWADOWSKI
    “[An] amiable, in-depth examination of the most critical era for the development of modern oceanography” (Publishers Weekly). In a history at once scientific and cultural, Helen Rozwadowski shows us how the Western imagination awoke to the ocean's possibilities?in maritime novels, in the popular hobby of marine biology, in the youthful sport of yachting, and in the laying of a ...

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  • THE TRANSATLANTIC CONSTITUTION
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    THE TRANSATLANTIC CONSTITUTION
    MARY SARAH BILDER
    “One of the more significant recent pieces of scholarship in this area . . . essential reading for all students of early America.” —Journal of American History  Departing from traditional approaches to colonial legal history, Mary Sarah Bilder argues that American law and legal culture developed within the framework of an evolving, unwritten transatlantic constitution that lawy...

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  • MACHIAVELLI
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    MACHIAVELLI
    CHRISTOPHER S. CELENZA
    “Explores why . . . The Prince . . . continues to enthrall readers and . . . can help enrich the way we understand [the statesman]. . . . A compelling portrait” (Kirkus Reviews). The man whose name is shorthand for all that is ugly in politics was more nuanced than his reputation suggests. Christopher Celenza’s portrait of Machiavelli removes the varnish to reveal not just the ...

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  • MARVELLOUS THIEVES
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    MARVELLOUS THIEVES
    PAULO LEMOS HORTA
    “A fascinating work of cultural and literary history . . . An insightful examination of [the Arabian Nights] and the fraught complexities of translation.” —Kirkus Reviews Although many of its stories originated centuries ago in the Middle East, the Arabian Nights is regarded as a classic of world literature by virtue of the seminal French and English translations produced in th...

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  • INSIDE THE VATICAN
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    INSIDE THE VATICAN
    THOMAS S.J. REESE
    A comprehensive examination of the world’s most complex religious organization. There are one billion Catholics in the world today, spread over every continent, speaking almost every conceivable language, and all answering to a single authority. The Vatican is a unique international organization, both in terms of its extraordinary power and influence, and in terms of its endura...

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  • THE TINKERER'S ACCOMPLICE
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    THE TINKERER'S ACCOMPLICE
    J. SCOTT TURNER
    A physiologist presents a provocative and scientifically rigorous new perspective on Darwinism, design, and why the living world works so well. When they contemplate nature, they see evidence of design at work. So it is jarring when biologists insist that this perception is all wrong. What most people see as design, they say—purposeful, directed, even intelligent—is only an ill...

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  • GALILEO'S TELESCOPE
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    GALILEO'S TELESCOPE
    MASSIMO BUCCIANTINI / MICHELE CAMEROTA / FRANCO GIUDICE
    An innovative exploration of the development of a revolutionary optical device and how it changed the world. Between 1608 and 1610 the canopy of the night sky changed forever, ripped open by an object created almost by accident: a cylinder with lenses at both ends. Galileo’s Telescope tells the story of how an ingenious optical device evolved from a toy-like curiosity into a pr...

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  • BEFORE ORTHODOXY
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    BEFORE ORTHODOXY
    SHAHAB AHMED
    “The most systematic, critical study of an especially important tradition from early Islamic history, the so-called incident of the Satanic verses.” —Choice One of the most controversial episodes in the life of the Prophet Muhammad concerns an incident in which he allegedly mistook words suggested by Satan as divine revelation. Known as the Satanic verses, these praises to the ...

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  • LIVING WITH ROBOTS
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    LIVING WITH ROBOTS
    PAUL DUMOUCHEL / LUISA DAMIANO
    From artificial intelligence to artificial empathy, “a timely and well-written volume that addresses many contemporary and future moral questions” (Library Journal). Today’s robots engage with human beings in socially meaningful ways, as therapists, trainers, mediators, caregivers, and companions. Social robotics is grounded in artificial intelligence, but the field’s most prob...

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  • LATINO PENTECOSTALS IN AMERICA
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    LATINO PENTECOSTALS IN AMERICA
    GASTÓN ESPINOSA
    This “excellent study” of the Latino Pentecostal movement is “an important resource for understanding the future of Christianity in North America” (Choice). Every year an estimated 600,000 U.S. Latinos convert from Catholicism to Protestantism, a transformation spearheaded by the Pentecostal movement and Assemblies of God. Latino Assemblies of God leaders—and their 2,400 church...

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  • THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE TALKING BOOK
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    THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE TALKING BOOK
    MATTHEW RUBERY
    A history of audiobooks, from entertainment & rehabilitation for blinded World War I soldiers to a twenty-first-century competitive industry. Histories of the book often move straight from the codex to the digital screen. Left out of that familiar account are nearly 150 years of audio recordings. Recounting the fascinating history of audio-recorded literature, Matthew Rubery tr...

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