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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures

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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down explores the clash between a small county hospital in California and a refugee family from Laos over the care of Lia...
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Death to the Dictator!
A Young Man Casts a Vote in Iran's 2009 Election and Pays a Devastating Price

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Tehran, June 12, 2009. Mohsen Abbaspour, an ordinary young man in his twenties—not particularly political, or ambitious, or worldly—casts the first vote of his...
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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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Interesting Times
Writings from a Turbulent Decade

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Throughout his career as a journalist, George Packer has always been attuned to the voices and stories of individuals caught up in the big ideas and events of...
  
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Suburban Nation
The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream

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For a decade, Suburban Nation has given voice to a growing movement in North America to put an end to suburban sprawl and replace the last century’s...
  
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The Will of the People
How Public Opinion Has Influenced the Supreme Court and Shaped the Meaning of the Constitution

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In recent years, the justices of the Supreme Court have ruled definitively on such issues as abortion, school prayer, and military tribunals in the war on...
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Justice
What's the Right Thing to Do?

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“For Michael Sandel, justice is not a spectator sport,” The Nation’s reviewer of Justice remarked. In his acclaimed book—based on his legendary Harvard...
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Manifesta [10th Anniversary Edition]
Young Women, Feminism, and the Future

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In the year 2000, girl culture was clearly ascendant. From Lilith Fair to Buffy the Vampire Slayer to the WNBA, it seemed that female pride was the order of...
  
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Dead Aid
Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa

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A national bestseller, Dead Aid unflinchingly confronts one of the greatest myths of our time: that billions of dollars in aid sent from wealthy countries to...
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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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Sophie's World
A Novel About the History of Philosophy

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A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Sophie’s World has fired the imagination of readers...
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The White Album
Essays

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First published in 1979, The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermaths of the 1960s. Examining key events, figures, and trends of the...
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Games for Writing
Playful Ways to Help Your Child Learn to Write

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There is no skill more important for a child to master more than writing - and none more difficult or fraught with anxiety. Peggy Kaye, renowned teacher and...
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God in Search of Man
A Philosophy of Judaism

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Abraham Joshua Heschel was one of the most revered religious leaders of the 20th century, and God in Search of Man and its companion volume, Man Is Not Alone,...
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The Metaphysical Club
A Story of Ideas in America

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The Metaphysical Club is the winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for History. A riveting, original book about the creation of modern American thought. The...
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Games for Learning
Ten Minutes a Day to Help Your Child Do Well in School—From Kindergarten to Third Grade

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In Games for Learning, Peggy Kaye, renowned teacher and author, gives parents more than seventy original, entertaining, and slyly educational ways to help...
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The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy

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The Israel Lobby,” by John J. Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen M. Walt of Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, was one of the...
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Low Life
Lures and Snares of Old New York

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Luc Sante's Low Life is a portrait of America's greatest city, the riotous and anarchic breeding ground of modernity. This is not the familiar saga of...
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Moon in a Dewdrop
Writings of Zen Master Dogen

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Eihei Dogen (1200-1253), among the first to transmit Zen Buddhism from China to Japan and founder of the important Soto School, was not only a profoundly...
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Sidewalk

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An exceptional ethnography marked by clarity and candor, Sidewalk takes us into the socio-cultural environment of those who, though often seen as threatening...
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The Proper Study of Mankind
An Anthology of Essays

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Isaiah Berlin was one of the leading thinkers of our time and one of its finest writers. The Proper Study of Mankind brings together his most celebrated...
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BITCHfest
Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine

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In the wake of Sassy and as an alternative to the more staid reporting of Ms., Bitch was launched in the mid-nineties as a Xerox-and-staple zine covering the...
  
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Straw Dogs
Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals

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The British bestseller Straw Dogs is an exciting, radical work of philosophy, which sets out to challenge our most cherished assumptions about what it means to...
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The Art of Teaching Art to Children
In School and at Home

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An inspiring and comprehensive guide to art education. In this accessibly written guide for classroom and art teachers as well as parents, Nancy Beal shows...