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  • NECROPOLIS
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    NECROPOLIS
    VLADISLAV KHODASEVICH
    In this unique literary memoir,  "the greatest Russian poet of our time"  pays tribute to the major authors of Russian Symbolist movement  (Vladimir Nabokov). In  Necropolis, the poet Vladislav Khodasevich turns to prose to memorializes some of the greatest writers of late 19th and early 20th century Russia. In the process, he delivers an insightful and intimate eulogy of the e...

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  • THE MAN WHO COULDN'T DIE
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    THE MAN WHO COULDN'T DIE
    OLGA SLAVNIKOVA
    In 1990s Russia, the wife and stepdaughter of a paralyzed veteran conceal the Soviet Union's collapse from him in order to keep him—and his pension—alive. Olga Slavnikova's  The Man Who Couldn't Die tells the story of how two women try to prolong a life—and the means and meaning of their own lives—by creating a world that doesn't change, a Soviet Union that never crumbled. Afte...

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  • A NEW FOREIGN POLICY
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    A NEW FOREIGN POLICY
    JEFFREY D. SACHS
    In this sobering analysis of American foreign policy under Trump, the award-winning economist calls for a new approach to international engagement.   The American Century began in 1941 and ended in 2017, on the day of President Trump's inauguration. The subsequent turn toward nationalism and "America first" unilateralism did not made America great. It announced the abdication o...

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  • ALEXANDER HAMILTON ON FINANCE, CREDIT, AND DEBT
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    ALEXANDER HAMILTON ON FINANCE, CREDIT, AND DEBT
    RICHARD SYLLA / DAVID J. COWEN
    "A treasure trove for financial and public policy geeks . . . will also help lay readers go beyond the hit musical in understanding Hamilton's lasting significance." — Publishers Weekly   While serving as the first treasury secretary from 1789 to 1795, Alexander Hamilton engineered a financial revolution. He established the treasury debt market, the dollar, and a central bank, ...

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  • RESCUING RETIREMENT
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    RESCUING RETIREMENT
    TERESA GHILARDUCCI / TONY JAMES
    Retirement shouldn't be just for the rich: "Finally, a practical plan to address Americans' lack of adequate retirement savings."—Michael Bloomberg   Everyone deserves to be able to retire with dignity, but this core feature of the social contract is in jeopardy. Companies have swerved away from pensions, and most of the workforce has woefully inadequate retirement savings. If ...

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  • SISTERS OF THE CROSS
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    SISTERS OF THE CROSS
    ALEXEI REMIZOV
    The first English translation of a remarkable masterpiece of early modernist fiction from 1910 by an influential member of the Russian Symbolist movement.   Thirty-year-old Piotr Alekseevich Marakulin lives a contented, if humdrum life as a financial clerk in a Petersburg trading company. He is jolted out of his daily routine when, quite unexpectedly, he is accused of embezzlem...

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  • SEX TRAFFICKING
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    SEX TRAFFICKING
    SIDDHARTH KARA
    " The best book ever written on human trafficking for sexual exploitation "—the basis for the feature film,  Trafficked, starring Ashley Judd ( Kevin Bales, president of Free the Slaves ).   Every year, hundreds of thousands of women and children are abducted, deceived, seduced, or sold into forced prostitution. These trafficked sex slaves form the backbone of one of the world'...

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  • CITY FOLK AND COUNTRY FOLK
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    CITY FOLK AND COUNTRY FOLK
    SOFIA KHVOSHCHINSKAYA
    " This scathingly funny comedy of manners" by the rediscovered female Russian novelist "will deeply satisfy fans of 19th-century Russian literature " ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).   City Folk and Country Folk is a seemingly gentle yet devastating satire of the aristocratic and pseudo-intellectual elites of 1860s Russia. Translated into English for the first time, the no...

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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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  • BETWEEN DOG & WOLF
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    BETWEEN DOG & WOLF
    SASHA SOKOLOV
    This "intricate and rewarding" novel by the renowned author of  A School for Fools is "a Russian  Finnegan's Wake" finally available in English translation ( Vanity Fair).   One of contemporary Russia's greatest novelists, Sasha Sokolov is celebrated for his experimental, verbally playful prose. Written in 1980, his novel  Between Dog and Wolf has long been considered impossibl...

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  • RETREAT FROM A RISING SEA
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    RETREAT FROM A RISING SEA
    ORRIN H. PILKEY / LINDA PILKEY-JARVIS / KEITH C. PILKEY
    This sobering examination of climate-change and the disastrous effects of rising sea levels explains what must be done to avoid the worst outcomes. By the end of this century, hundreds of millions of people living at low elevations along coasts will be forced to retreat to higher and safer ground. Because of sea-level rise, major storms will inundate areas farther inland and wi...

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  • THE COMPLETE REVIEW GUIDE TO CONTEMPORARY WORLD FICTION
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    THE COMPLETE REVIEW GUIDE TO CONTEMPORARY WORLD FICTION
    M.A. ORTHOFER
    A user-friendly reference for English-language readers who are eager to explore contemporary fiction from around the world. Profiling hundreds of titles and authors from 1945 to today, with an emphasis on fiction published in the past two decades, this guide introduces the styles, trends, and genres of the world's literatures, from Scandinavian crime thrillers and cutting-edge ...

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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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  • SENTIMENTAL TALES
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    SENTIMENTAL TALES
    MIKHAIL ZOSHCHENKO
    "Dralyuk's new translation of  Sentimental Tales, a collection of Zoshchenko's stories from the 1920s, is a delight that brings the author's wit to life."— The Economist Mikhail Zoshchenko's  Sentimental Tales are satirical portraits of small-town characters on the fringes of Soviet society in the first decade of Bolshevik rule. The tales are narrated by one Kolenkorov, a write...

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  • BUILDING THE NEW AMERICAN ECONOMY
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    BUILDING THE NEW AMERICAN ECONOMY
    JEFFREY D. SACHS
    The influential economist offers a persuasive strategy for a more just and sustainable economy—with a forward by Bernie Sanders.   The New York Times has said that Jeffrey D. Sachs is "probably the most important economist in the world." Now, in a book that combines impassioned manifesto with a plan of action, Sachs charts a path to move America toward sustainable development. ...

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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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  • WHAT KIND OF CREATURES ARE WE?
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    WHAT KIND OF CREATURES ARE WE?
    NOAM CHOMSKY
    The renowned philosopher and political theorist presents a summation of his influential work in this series of Columbia University lectures.   A pioneer in the fields of modern linguistics and cognitive science, Noam Chomsky is also one of the most avidly read political theorist of our time. In this series of lectures, Chomsky presents more than half a century of philosophical ...

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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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