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The Subtle Body
The Story of Yoga in America

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In The Subtle Body, Stefanie Syman tells the surprising story of yoga’s transformation from a centuries-old spiritual discipline to a multibillion-dollar...
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Gilded Youth
Three Lives in France's Belle Époque

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They were the children of France’s most celebrated men of nineteenth-century letters and science, the celebrity heirs and heiresses of their day. Their lives...
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Pakistan
Deep Inside the World's Most Frightening State

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No nation is more critical to U.S. foreign policy than nuclear-armed Pakistan. Wedged between India and Afghanistan, it is the second largest country in the...
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A World of Trouble
The White House and the Middle East--from the Cold War to the War on Terror

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The White House and the Middle East—from the Cold War to the War on Terror The Middle East is the beginning and the end of U.S. foreign policy: events there...
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Prague in Danger
The Years of German Occupation, 1939-45: Memories and History, Terror and Resistance, Theater and Jazz, Film and Poetry, Politics and War

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A dramatic account of life in Czechoslovakia’s great capital during the Nazi Protectorate With this successor book to Prague in Black and Gold, his...
  
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Danube

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In this acclaimed international bestseller, Claudio Magris tracks the Danube River, setting his finger on the pulse of Central Europe, the crucible of a...
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The Dirt on Clean
An Unsanitized History

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The question of cleanliness is one every age and culture has answered with confidence. For the first-century Roman, being clean meant a two-hour soak in baths...
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Crescent and Star
Turkey Between Two Worlds

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“A sharp, spirited appreciation of where Turkey stands now, and where it may head.” —Carlin Romano, The Philadelphia Inquirer In the first edition of this...
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I've Got a Home in Glory Land
A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad

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It was the day before Independence Day, 1833. As his bride, Lucie, was about to be sold down the river, Thornton Blackburn planned a daring—and...
  
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Troublesome Young Men
The Rebels Who Brought Churchill to Power and Helped Save England

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A riveting history of the daring politicians who challenged the disastrous policies of the British government on the eve of World War II On May 7, 1940,...
  

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The Theory and Practice of Hell
The German Concentration Camps and the System Behind Them

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By the spring of 1945, the Second World War was drawing to a close in Europe. Allied troops were sweeping through Nazi Germany and discovering the atrocities...
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Son of the Morning Star
Custer and The Little Bighorn

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Custer's Last Stand is among the most enduring events in American history--more than one hundred years after the fact, books continue to be written and people...
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The River of Lost Footsteps
A Personal History of Burma

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What do we really know about Burma and its history? And what can Burma’s past tell us about its present and even its future? For nearly two decades Western...
  
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Five Germanys I Have Known

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The “German question” haunts the modern world: How could so civilized a nation be responsible for the greatest horror in Western history? In this unusual...
  
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Lose Your Mother
A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route

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In Lose Your Mother, Saidiya Hartman traces the history of the Atlantic slave trade by recounting a journey she took along a slave route in Ghana. Following...
  
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The Village of Waiting

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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...
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Divided by God
America's Church-State Problem--and What We Should Do About It

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A brilliant and urgent appraisal of one of the most profound conflicts of our time Even before George W. Bush gained reelection by wooing religiously devout...
  
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Messages From My Father
A Memoir

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Calvin Trillin, the celebrated New Yorker writer, offers a rich and engaging biography of his father, as well as a literate and entertaining fanfare for the...
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American Ground
Unbuilding the World Trade Center

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Selected as one of the best books of 2002 by The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, and Chicago Sun-Times Within...
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A Severed Wasp
A Novel

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Katherine Forrester Vigneras, in a continuation of her story from The Small Rain, returns to New York City from Europe to retire. Now in her seventies, she...
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The Terror
The Merciless War for Freedom in Revolutionary France

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For two hundred years, the Terror has haunted the imagination of the West. The descent of the French Revolution from rapturous liberation into an orgy of...
  
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Redemption
The Last Battle of the Civil War

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“An arresting piece of popular history.” —Sean Wilentz, The New York Times Book Review Nicholas Lemann opens this extraordinary book with a riveting...
  
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The Man Who Would Be King
The First American in Afghanistan

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The riveting story that inspired Kipling's classic tale and a John Huston movie The true story of Josiah Harlan, a Pennsylvania Quaker and the first...
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The Idea of India

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The key book on India in the postnuclear era, with a new Introduction by the author.Our appreciation of the importance of India can only increase in light of...