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The Last Lingua Franca
English Until the Return of Babel
Nicholas Ostler
Walker & Company
English is the world's lingua franca-the most widely spoken language in human history. And yet, as historian and linguist Nicholas Ostler persuasively argues,...
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The Village of Waiting
George Packer
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
Now restored to print with a new Foreword by Philip Gourevitch and an Afterword by the author, this book is a frank, moving, and vivid account of contemporary life in West Africa.
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The Secret Life of Pronouns
What Our Words Say About Us
James W. Pennebaker
Bloomsbury Press
We spend our lives communicating. In the last fifty years, we've zoomed through radically different forms of communication, from typewriters to tablet...
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Catfish and Mandala
A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam
Andrew X. Pham
Picador
"An engaging and vigorously told story . . . a fresh and original look at how proud Vietnamese on the war's losing side reconciled having their identity abruptly hyphenated to Vietnamese-American."—
Gavin Scott,
Chicago Tribune
Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize - Winner - Pacific Rim Nonfiction
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Oregon Book Award - Nominee - Nonfiction
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Blue Clay People
Seasons on Africa's Fragile Edge
William Powers
Bloomsbury USA
“A haunting account of one man’s determination and the struggles of a people living in a deeply troubled country.”—Booklist When William Powers went to...
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Rumspringa
To Be or Not to Be Amish
Tom Shachtman
North Point Press
"Mr. Shachtman's wonderfully rich portrait and history of the Amish as a people and a faith helps to show why one of the strictest religious communities in America is better at holding a flock than some of the most liberal."—
Donna Freitas,
The Wall Street Journal
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Why We Lie
The Evolutionary Roots of Deception and the Unconscious Mind
David Livingstone Smith
St. Martin's Griffin
"This book is an exemplar of interdisciplinary research-drawing on evolutionary biology, cognitive science, philosophy, and history of science."—
Ronald F. White, Ph.D.,
Choice
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Less Than Human
Why We Demean, Enslave, and Exterminate Others
David Livingstone Smith
St. Martin's Press
A revelatory look at why we dehumanize each other, with stunning examples from world history as well as today’s headlines “Brute.” “Cockroach.” “Lice.”...
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The Most Dangerous Animal
Human Nature and the Origins of War
David Livingstone Smith
St. Martin's Griffin
Almost 200 million human beings, mostly civilians, have died in wars over the last century, and there is no end of slaughter in sight. The Most Dangerous...
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Flow
The Cultural Story of Menstruation
Elissa Stein and Susan Kim
St. Martin's Griffin
In this hip, hilarious and truly eye-opening cultural history, menstruation is talked about as never before. Flow spans its fascinating, occasionally wacky and...
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Cultural Consumption in Everyday Life
Cultural Studies in Practice
John Storey
Bloomsbury USA
"Storey has mapped out the terrain of cultural consumption in a clear and useful way . . . Both the expert and novice can appreciate the disparate disciplines brought together under the guise of cultural consumption . . . Serves as a kind of reader's guide that opens up further avenues of study."—
English Literature in Transition 1880-1920
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The Old Way
A Story of the First People
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Picador
"Heartbreaking and gorgeously observed . . .
The Old Way
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Alexandra Fuller,
The New York Times Book Review
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Loot
The Battle over the Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World
Sharon Waxman
Times Books
“Sharon Waxman’s
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The Elgin Marbles: Should They Be Returned to Greece?
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The Whale and the Supercomputer
On the Northern Front of Climate Change
Charles Wohlforth
North Point Press
Winner of the
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Book Prize for Science and Technology
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The Whale and the Supercomputer
skillfully melds two very different worlds: the whaling culture of northern Alaska's Iñupiaq, and the at-times equally mysterious culture and methods of the scientific community. Along the way, he delivers many salient points about real-world impacts of global warming, which is clobbering northern latitudes first and hardest."—
Robert Krier,
The San Diego Union-Tribune
Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize - Nominee - Nonfiction
L.A. Times Book Prize - Winner - Science/Technology
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Asian American Dreams
The Emergence of an American People
Helen Zia
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
"An ambitious blend of personal and cultural history, a primer on Asian America that covers everything from the history of Asian immigration to the turbulence of the past three decades as the community has gone from silent majority to demanding its place in American society."—
Ferdinand M. de Leon
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The Seattle Times
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