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Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962

Jisheng Yang

From Bookforum Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962 is methodical and factual, and it amounts to a...

Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away

Rebecca Goldstein

From Booklist *Starred Review* Plato lives! Brilliantly re-creating Plato’s philosophic dialogues, Goldstein...

How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon

Rosa Brooks

“A dynamic work of reportage, punctuated by savory details… It delights. The author is a chipper field guild and...

The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again

Robert D. Putnam

Ambitious. . . .xa0Putnam and Garrett are rewriting the political history of the twentieth century here.xa0. . .xa0[A]...

It's Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle-Blower

Michela Wrong

“Wrong’s book is packed with detail and solid sourcing and tells its story clearly.” --Jeffrey Gettleman — New...

Las brujas no se quejan: Un manual de sabiduría concentrada

Jean Shinoda Bolen

About the Author Jean Shinoda Bolen is a Jungian analyst, clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of...

The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good

William Russell Easterly

From Publishers Weekly No one who attacks the humanitarian aid establishment is going to win any popularity contests,...

Work: A Deep History, from the Stone Age to the Age of Robots

James Suzman

“Magisterial.” — The Nation “His book meticulously charts the evolution of labour over 300,000 years, a...

Seward: Lincoln's Indispensable Man

Walter Stahr

“[A] masterly new biography . . . [of] one of the most influential and polarizing American politicians of the...

Sometimes Amazing Things Happen: Heartbreak and Hope on the Bellevue Hospital Psychiatric Prison Ward

Elizabeth Ford

Elizabeth Ford, MD , is the chief of psychiatry for Correctional Health Services for New York City's Health and...

Witsec: Inside the Federal Witness Protection Program

Pete Earley

From the Inside Flap For decades no law enforcement program has been as cloaked in controversy and mystery as the...

The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty

Nina Munk

Recipient of Foreign Policy's 2013 Albie AwardBloomberg "Best Books of 2013"Forbes "Best Books of 2013"The Spectator...

Les secrets de l'aura

Tuesday Lobsang Rampa

Les pouvoirs de télépathie ou de clairvoyance ne sont pas uniquement l'apanage des Grands Maîtres. A condition de...

Human Game: The True Story of the 'Great Escape' Murders and the Hunt for the Gestapo Gunmen

Simon Read

“In the summer of 1945, British investigator Francis McKenna and his team began a trek across post-war Europe to...

Ghosts of Manila: The Fateful Blood Feud Between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier

Mark Kram

“Kram’s book has the punch of historical truth written in poetic combinations by a reporter who was there.”...

Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got to Be So Hated

Gore Vidal

From Publishers Weekly In this collection of essays, noted novelist and critic Vidal turns his acerbic wit on the...

The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World

Adrian Wooldridge

Erudite, thoughtful and magnificently entertaining book." --James Marriott, The Times (London) "Unfailingly...

Supervision of Police Personnel

Marvin D. Iannone

About the Author About our authors Dr. Jeff Bernstein is President of Bernstein & Associates, Inc. He is a consulting...

The Devil That Danced on the Water: A Daughter's Quest

Aminatta Forna

From Publishers Weekly Forna saw her father for the last time on July 30, 1974; she was 10 years old. In this harrowing...

The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory

Jesse Walker

From Booklist This is a remarkably comprehensive, wide-ranging look at the way American culture, politics, religion,...

Art for God's Sake: A Call to Recover the Arts

Philip Graham Ryken

Review Theologically rich and remarkably readable, this book offers sound biblical reasons to cultivate a sense of...

A People's History of the Supreme Court: The Men and Women Whose Cases and Decisions Have Shaped Our Constitution: Revised Edition

Peter H. Irons

Silver Gavel Award Honorary Mention (American Bar Association) "...xa0a history of the Supreme Court that breathes life...

The Dark Horse: The Surprise Election and Political Murder of President James A. Garfield

Kenneth D. Ackerman

From Publishers Weekly Several hundred pages of text on Garfield and the politics of his day may seem a stretch, given...

Dark Star Rising: Magick and Power in the Age of Trump

Gary Lachman

Lachman has written a fascinating analysis of how esoteric and occult ideas have had political consequences, without...