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  • THE UNTOLD JOURNEY
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    THE UNTOLD JOURNEY
    NATALIE ROBINS
    A biography of a famed 20th century, Jewish New York author and literary and social critic who struggled in the shadow of her husband. Diana Trilling's life with Columbia University professor and literary critic Lionel Trilling was filled with secrets, struggles, and betrayals, and she endured what she called her "own private hell" as she fought to reconcile competing duties an...

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  • INVENTING ENGLISH
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    INVENTING ENGLISH
    SETH LERER
    A history of English from the age of Beowulf to the rap of Eminem, "written with real authority, enthusiasm and love for our unruly and exquisite language" ( The Washington Post).    Many have written about the evolution of grammar, pronunciation, and vocabulary, but only Seth Lerer situates these developments within the larger history of English, America, and literature. This ...

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  • A REVOLUTION IN EATING
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    A REVOLUTION IN EATING
    JAMES E. MCWILLIAMS
    A colorful, spirited tour of culinary attitudes, tastes, and techniques throughout colonial America.   Confronted by unfamiliar animals, plants, and landscapes, settlers in the colonies and West Indies found new ways to produce food. Integrating their British and European tastes with the demands and bounty of the rugged American environment, early Americans developed a range of...

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  • THE OTHER CATHOLICS
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    THE OTHER CATHOLICS
    JULIE BYRNE
    "An excellent study of churches on the fringe that incubate new ideas and shed new light on mainstream religion."— Times Higher Education   Independent Catholics are not formally connected to the pope in Rome. They practice apostolic succession, seven sacraments, and devotion to the saints. But without a pope, they can change quickly and experiment freely—with some affirming co...

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  • A SURVIVAL GUIDE TO THE MISINFORMATION AGE
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    A SURVIVAL GUIDE TO THE MISINFORMATION AGE
    DAVID J. HELFAND
    Learning how to tell news from fake news from fake fake news: An "important and timely" book on protecting ourselves, and society, from the infodemic ( Library Journal).   We have billions of bytes of data at our fingertips. But how much of it is misinformation—or even disinformation? A lot of it is, and your search engine can't tell the difference.   As a result, an avalanche ...

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  • THE CON MEN
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    THE CON MEN
    TERRY WILLIAMS / TREVOR B. MILTON
    This ethnography of NYC's scammers presents "a revealing portrait of a critical but little known element of city life…timely, incisive, and poignant" (Elijah Anderson, author of  Code of the Street).   This vivid account of hustling in New York City explores the sociological reasons why con artists play their game and the psychological tricks they use to win it. Sociologists Te...

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  • CREATING A LEARNING SOCIETY
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    CREATING A LEARNING SOCIETY
    JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ / BRUCE C. GREENWALD
    "A superb new understanding of the dynamic economy as a learning society, one that goes well beyond the usual treatment of education, training, and R&D."—Robert Kuttner, author of  The Stakes: 2020 and the Survival of American Democracy   Since its publication  Creating a Learning Society has served as an effective tool for those who advocate government policies to advance scie...

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  • POPE FRANCIS AMONG THE WOLVES
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    POPE FRANCIS AMONG THE WOLVES
    MARCO POLITI
    A behind-the-scenes view of the power struggles within the Vatican and "a look inside the byzantine halls of the institutional Catholic Church."— Publishers Weekly   A journalist who has long covered the Vatican, Marco Politi takes us deep inside the struggle roiling the Roman Curia and the Catholic Church worldwide, beginning with Benedict XVI, the pope who famously resigned i...

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  • HAPPINESS AND GOODNESS
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    HAPPINESS AND GOODNESS
    STEVEN M. CAHN / CHRISTINE VITRANO
    "A phenomenal book that offers innovative and penetrating insights into the most fundamental questions of human concern . . . vivid and enjoyable."—Dov Weiss, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign   How should we evaluate the success of each person's life? Countering the prevalent philosophical perspective on the subject, Steven M. Cahn and Christine Vitrano defend the vie...

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    "IT'S THE PICTURES THAT GOT SMALL"
    CHARLES BRACKETT
    "Brackett's diaries read like a funnier, better-paced version of Barton Fink." — Newsweek   Screenwriter Charles Brackett is best remembered as the writing partner of director Billy Wilder, who once referred to the pair as "the happiest couple in Hollywood," collaborating on such classics as The Lost Weekend and Sunset Boulevard. He was also a perceptive chronicler of the enter...

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  • A CONEY ISLAND READER
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    A CONEY ISLAND READER
    PARASCANDOLA, LOUIS J. / PARASCANDOLA, JOHN
    This literary anthology celebrates the history and romance of Coney Island with works by some of the 19th and 20th centuries' greatest authors and poets.   Featuring a stunning gallery of portraits by the world's finest poets, essayists, and fiction writers--including Walt Whitman, Stephen Crane, José Martí, Maxim Gorky, Federico García Lorca, Isaac Bashevis Singer, E. E. Cummi...

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  • MORAL HAZARD IN HEALTH INSURANCE
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    MORAL HAZARD IN HEALTH INSURANCE
    AMY FINKELSTEIN
    Addressing the challenge of covering heath care expenses—while minimizing economic risks.   Moral hazard—the tendency to change behavior when the cost of that behavior will be borne by others—is a particularly tricky question when considering health care. Kenneth J. Arrow's seminal 1963 paper on this topic (included in this volume) was one of the first to explore the implicatio...

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  • THE NEW CENSORSHIP
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    THE NEW CENSORSHIP
    JOEL SIMON
      An examination of how the media is under fire and how to safeguard journalists and the information they seek to share with the public. Journalists are being imprisoned and killed in record numbers. Online surveillance is annihilating privacy, and the Internet can be brought under government control at any time. Joel Simon, the executive director of the Committee to Protect Jo...

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  • NOTE-BY-NOTE COOKING
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    NOTE-BY-NOTE COOKING
    HERVÉ THIS
    A renowned chemist and cooking pioneer breaks down the properties and benefits of cooking with molecular gastronomy. 1-Octen-3-ol, which has a scent of wild mushrooms; limonene, a colorless liquid hydrocarbon that has the smell of citrus; sotolon, whose fragrance at high concentrations resembles curry and at low concentrations, maple syrup or sugar; tyrosine, an odorless but fl...

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  • VITAL CONVERSATIONS
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    VITAL CONVERSATIONS
    DENNIS ROSEN
    "Engaging . . . provides patients tools they can use to improve dialogue with their doctors and, ultimately, improve their ultimate medical outcomes."—The Times of Israel   The health-care system in the United States is by far the most expensive in the world, yet its outcomes are decidedly mediocre in comparison with those of other countries. Poor communication between doctors ...

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  • THE 7/7 LONDON UNDERGROUND BOMBING, NOT SO HOMEGROWN
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    THE 7/7 LONDON UNDERGROUND BOMBING, NOT SO HOMEGROWN
    BRUCE HOFFMAN
    An analysis of the suicide attacks against London transportation targets that killed 56 people and injured hundreds, by the author of Inside Terrorism.   It was among the most important operations directed by core al Qaeda leaders in years following the events of September 11, 2001. Initially, the incident was dismissed by the authorities, pundits, and the media as the work of ...

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  • THE WRONG CARLOS
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    THE WRONG CARLOS
    JAMES S. LIEBMAN / THE COLUMBIA DELUNA PROJECT
    A Columbia Law School team's in-depth examination of one man's 1989 wrongful conviction and execution for murder.   In 1989, Texas executed Carlos DeLuna, a poor Hispanic man with childlike intelligence, for the murder of Wanda Lopez, a convenience store clerk. His execution passed unnoticed for years until a team of Columbia Law School faculty and students chose to investigate...

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  • THE WINEMAKER'S HAND
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    THE WINEMAKER'S HAND
    NATALIE BERKOWITZ
    More than 40 vintners from across America and around the world reveal their winemaking secrets in this collection of fascinating interviews.   In  The Winemaker's Hand, professional winemakers from Napa Valley to the Finger Lakes and from Chile to Italy share their personal approach to the ancient—yet constantly evolving—craft of winemaking. In candid discussions, they reveal h...

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  • THE CUSTOM-MADE BRAIN
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    THE CUSTOM-MADE BRAIN
    JEAN-DIDIER VINCENT / PIERRE-MARIE LLEDO
    Two leading neuroscientists examine how the brain is in flux and how this applies to addressing neurological, cognitive, and emotional health.   Beginning with a survey of the fundamental scientific developments that led to our current understanding of the regenerative mind, the authors elucidate the breakthrough neurobiological studies that paved the way for our present unders...

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  • WHAT IS RELATIVITY?
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    WHAT IS RELATIVITY?
    JEFFREY BENNETT
    A renowned astrophysicist's approachable introduction to Albert Einstein's theory of relativity and its application in our daily lives.   It is commonly assumed that if the Sun suddenly turned into a black hole, it would suck Earth and the rest of the planets into oblivion. Yet, as prominent author and astrophysicist Jeffrey Bennett points out, black holes don't suck. With that...

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  • WORLDS WITHOUT END
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    WORLDS WITHOUT END
    MARY-JANE RUBENSTEIN
    A religion professor elucidates the theory of the multiverse, its history, and its reception in science, philosophy, religion, and literature. Multiverse cosmologies imagine our universe as just one of a vast number of others. Beginning with ancient Atomist and Stoic philosophies, Mary-Jane Rubenstein links contemporary models of the multiverse to their forerunners and explores...

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  • THE WATCHDOG THAT DIDN'T BARK
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    THE WATCHDOG THAT DIDN'T BARK
    DEAN STARKMAN
    The Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter details " how the U.S. business press could miss the most important economic implosion of the past eighty years" (Eric Alterman, media columnist for  The Nation ).   In this sweeping, incisive post-mortem, Dean Starkman exposes the critical shortcomings that softened coverage in the business press during the mortgage era and the years leading...

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  • THAI STICK
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    THAI STICK
    PETER MAGUIRE / MIKE RITTER
    The untold history of the underground marijuana trade in Thailand—from surfers and sailors to pirates. Located on the left bank of the Chao Phya River, Thailand's capital, Krungthep, known as Bangkok to Westerners and "the City of Angels" to Thais, has been home to smugglers and adventurers since the late eighteenth century. During the 1970s, it became a modern Casablanca to a ...

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  • MORTAL RITUALS
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    MORTAL RITUALS
    MATT J. ROSSANO
    A psychology professor examines what the survivors of the airplane crash hailed "The Miracle of the Andes" can show us about human evolution. On December 21, 1972, sixteen young survivors of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 were rescued after spending ten weeks stranded at the crash site of their plane, high in the remote Andes Mountains. The incident made international headlines...

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  • ABOMINABLE SCIENCE!
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    ABOMINABLE SCIENCE!
    DANIEL LOXTON / DONALD R. PROTHERO
    "A sharp analysis of the quest for unreal critters―cryptids, as they are called―and the people who pursue them . . . entertaining and thoroughly documented." — The Wall Street Journal   Throughout our history, humans have been captivated by mythic beasts and legendary creatures. Tales of Bigfoot, the Yeti, and the Loch Ness monster are part of our collective experience. Now com...

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  • THE LIVES OF ERICH FROMM
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    THE LIVES OF ERICH FROMM
    LAWRENCE J. FRIEDMAN / ANKE M. SCHREIBER
    This "brilliantly comprehensive study" explores the influential thinker's contributions to psychology, philosophy and more—"academic biography at its best" ( Kirkus, starred review).   Erich Fromm was a political activist, psychologist, psychoanalyst, philosopher, and one of the most important intellectuals of the twentieth century. Known for his theories of personality and pol...

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  • CREAMY & CRUNCHY
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    CREAMY & CRUNCHY
    JON KRAMPNER
    "A delightful book about America's most popular nut butter and sandwich spread . . . well-written, fast-paced, surprising."—Andrew F. Smith, editor in chief,  The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America   Americans spoon it out of the jar, eat it in sandwiches by itself or with its bread-fellow jelly, and devour it with foods ranging from celery and raisins ("ants on a...

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  • THE MAKING OF LEE BOYD MALVO
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    THE MAKING OF LEE BOYD MALVO
    CARMETA ALBARUS
    "The best explanation I have yet read for the madness that was the Beltway sniper spree can be found in the pages of [this] fascinating new book."— The Atlantic In October of 2002, a series of sniper attacks paralyzed the Washington Beltway, turning normally placid gas stations, parking lots, restaurants, and school grounds into chaotic killing fields. After the spree, ten peop...

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  • THEOS BERNARD, THE WHITE LAMA
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    THEOS BERNARD, THE WHITE LAMA
    PAUL G. HACKETT
    The life and adventures of an American explorer and iconic figure in the 20th century religious counterculture movement. In 1937, Theos Casimir Bernard, the self-proclaimed "White Lama," became the third American in history to reach Lhasa, the capital city of Tibet. During his stay, he amassed the largest collection of Tibetan texts, art, and artifacts in the Western hemisphere...

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  • THE KITCHEN AS LABORATORY
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    THE KITCHEN AS LABORATORY
    CÉSAR VEGA, JOB UBBINK AND ERIK VAN DER LINDEN
    "Provides good perspective on the scientific approach to cooking while reflecting the interests and passions of each essay's author."—Peter Barham, author of  The Science of Cooking In this global collaboration of essays, chefs and scientists advance culinary knowledge by testing hypotheses rooted in the physical and chemical properties of food. Using traditional and cutting-ed...

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