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The Americans: The Colonial Experience
Winner of the Bancroft Prize
In this brilliantly original book, written for the general reader, the American past becomes richly meaningful to the present.
Our Inner Conflicts: A Constructive Theory of Neurosis
Here Karen Horney develops a dynamic theory of neurosis centered on the basic conflict among attitudes of "moving forward" "moving against," and "moving away from" people. Unlike Freud, Horney does...
The Rooster House: A Ukrainian Family Memoir
A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK ' Wild Swans for Ukraine ... rich and magnificent' Bookseller 'A paean to hope and home. I loved it and it will haunt...
Soul Survivor: How My Faith Survived the Church
Overexposed to the distortions and hypocrisies of Christian churches, Philip Yancey set out in search of a life enhanced by faith instead of diminished by religion. Having struggled to forge...
The Godless Boys
If you were forced to live with faith, or without, which would you choose? England. 1986. The Church controls the country, and all members of the Secular Movement have been...
Harry: Love, Loss, and Life
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From his earliest public appearances as a mischievous redheaded toddler, Prince Harry has captured the hearts of royal enthusiasts around the world. In Harry , Britain's leading expert on the...
Royal Survivor: The Life of Charles II
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When Charles I was beheaded, Charles II escaped to Europe where he lived a life of incredible poverty, bedded a wide variety of women and sparred with his mother before...
Every Day
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A BOOKLIST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST YOUNG ADULT BOOK OF THE CENTURY Celebrate all the ways love makes us...
The Innocent: A Vanessa Michael Munroe Novel
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Vanessa Michael Munroe-the fearless heroine of the New York Times bestseller The Informationist-returns in a gripping new thriller. Eight years ago, five-year old Hannah was spirited out of school and...
In Search Of England
From the travel writer whom Jan Morris has called "the much-loved master of the genre, often imitated but never matched." H. V. Morton peerlessly evokes the sights, the splendors, and...
Tragic Drama and the Family: Psychoanalytic Studies from Aeschylus to
One of the most important characteristics of tragic drama-as of psychoanalysis- is the focus on the family. Dr. Bennett Simon here provides a psychoanalytic reading of Aeschylus' Oresteia, Euripedes' Medea,...
The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a
This is Jurgen Habermas's most concrete historical-sociological book and one of the key contributions to political thought in the postwar period. It will be a revelation to those who have...
The New Men of Power: America's Labor Leaders
When C. Wright Mills published The New Men of Power in 1948, he thought labor leaders a new strategic elite and the unions a set of vanguard organizations that were...
Over Sharing: The hilarious and sharply written new novel from the
THE QUEEN OF THE REVENGE COMEDY is back with a sharp, funny novel about the perfect life on social media Iris is happy- decent job, good friends, her own flat....
Exploring the Sky by Day: The Equinox Guide to Weather and the
Winner of the Children's Roundtable Literature Information Book Award. Ideal for inquisitive children and adults alike, astronomer Terence Dickinson's classic guide Exploring the Sky by Day offers fascinating insight into...
On Justice
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The aim of this book is to give a single coherent account of the concept of justice. The Theory of Games is used to reveal the rationale of justice, and...
Choral Masterworks: A Listener's Guide
Michael Steinberg's highly successful listener's guides--The Symphony and The Concerto--have been universally praised for their blend of captivating biography, crystal clear musical analysis, and delightful humor. Now Steinberg follows these...
White Collar: The American Middle Classes, Fiftieth Anniversary
In print for fifty years, White Collar by C. Wright Mills is considered a standard on the subject of the new middle class in twentieth-century America. This landmark volume demonstrates...
Authors in Context
Authors in Context examines the work of major authors in relation to their own times and to the present day. Combining history with lively literary discussion, each volume provides comprehensive...
Was Einstein Right?
This book is an examination of the way in which Einstein's general theory of relativity - the theory of gravitation and of space-time, has held up under today's exacting scrutiny...
Rise of the Heroes
Surfing the net during a lightning storm has amazing consequences for a group of teenage friends. Superhero powers are theirs at the click of a mouse! Trouble is, they don't...
Blood Year: The Unraveling of Western Counterterrorism
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In 2014, a resurgent and bellicose Russia took over Crimea and fueled a civil war in Eastern Ukraine; post-Saddam Iraq lost a third of its territory to an army of...
Eden
Australian author Candice Fox has taken the crime-writing world by storm in the last few years and become a #1 bestselling author in the US and UK. Eden is the...
Jake Bailey: What cancer taught me
Teenager Jake Bailey's inspirational account of overcoming cancer. 'None of us get out of life alive, so be gallant, be great, be gracious, and be grateful for the opportunities you...
Rendezvous with Destiny: How Franklin D. Roosevelt and Five
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"A fascinating and well-written account of a little-known chapter that was crucial to the course of World War II and to America's global leadership." -Henry A. Kissinger In the dark...
On China
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" Fascinating, shrewd . . . The book deftly traces the rhythms and patterns of Chinese history. " -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "No one can lay claim to...
The Paper Moon
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"You either love Andrea Camilleri or you haven't read him yet. Each novel in this wholly addictive, entirely magical series, set in Sicily and starring a detective unlike any other...
The Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer: And the Birth of the Modern Arms
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In a groundbreaking book that recasts the history of the Cold War, bestselling author Priscilla J. McMillan exposes, for the first time, the truth behind J. Robert Oppenheimer's 1954 trial...
Logic Made Easy: How to Know When Language Deceives You
LOGIC MADE EASY is filled with anecdotal histories detailing the often muddy relationship between language and logic. Designed with dozens of visual examples, the book guides readers through those hair-raising...
Around the World in Eighty Days
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Jules Verne's career as a novelist began in 1863, when he struck a new vein in fiction - stories that combined popular science and exploration. In "Around the World in...
Sir Vidia's Shadow: A Friendship Across Five Continents
The Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy Since 1938
This is a classic survey of US foreign policy from 1938 to President Clinton's second term, now fully revised.
Asking for Trouble: The Autobiography of a Banned Journalist
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Salman Rushdie's first, breathtaking novel The extraordinary literary debut of Salman Rushdie Flapping Eagle is a young Axona Indian gifted with immortal life after drinking an elixir from his wayward...
The Return Of The Dancing Master
'Mankell is by far the best writer of police mysteries today. He is in the great tradition of those whose works transcend their chosen genre to become thrilling and moral...
Must-Have: The Hidden Instincts Behind Everything We Buy
Acclaimed psychologist Geoffrey Miller uses evolutionary psychology to reveal how the dizzying, brand-saturated world of modern consumerism really works. Why do we buy? What is it that governs our choice...