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Hardcover : $28.00 Buy	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,...

Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	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. "Glowing . . . A masterful book."—*New York Times Book Revie*w

Hardcover : $28.00 Buy	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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Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	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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Trade Paperback : $15.99 Buy	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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Paper Over Board : $27.99 Buy	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

Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	The Old Way A Story of the First People Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Picador "Heartbreaking and gorgeously observed . . . The Old Way is not only a timely work, but also a timeless one—a last look back before we decide how to go forward."—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 Loot is the most instructive as well as the most intelligent (and the most entertaining) guide through the labyrinth of antiquity and the ways in which the claims of the departed intersect with the rights of the living.”—Christopher Hitchens author of God Is Not Great and 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 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology

"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, The Seattle Times

Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize - Nominee - Pacific Rim Nonfiction

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