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As China Goes, So Goes the World
How Chinese Consumers Are Transforming Everything

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In this revelatory examination of the most overlooked force that is changing the face of China, the Oxford historian and scholar of modern Asia Karl Gerth...
  
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The Yugo
The Rise and Fall of the Worst Car in History

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Six months after its American introduction in 1985, the Yugo was a punch line; within a year, it was a staple of late-night comedy. By 2000, NPR’s Car Talk...
  
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
An American Life

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a brilliant activist-intellectual. That nearly all of her ideas—that women are entitled to seek an education, to own property, to...
  
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Understanding China [3rd Edition]
A Guide to China's Economy, History, and Political Culture

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After ten years, John Bryan Starr has thoroughly revised and updated his classic introduction to the background of, the data about, and the issues at stake in...
  
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Gaming the Vote
Why Elections Aren’t Fair (and What We Can Do About It)

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At least five U.S. presidential elections have been won by the second most popular candidate, but these results were not inevitable. In fact, such an unfair...
  
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Sarah Johnson's Mount Vernon
The Forgotten History of an American Shrine

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Sarah Johnson’s Mount Vernon brilliantly restores the lives and contributions of African Americans to the legacy of Mount Vernon. Digging beneath the...
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The Struggle for Black Equality

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The Struggle for Black Equality is a dramatic, memorable history of the civil rights movement. Harvard Sitkoff offers both a brilliant interpretation of the...
  
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Yemen Chronicle
An Anthropology of War and Mediation

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In 1979, Steven C. Caton went to a remote area of Yemen to do fieldwork on the famous oral poetry of its tribes. The recent hostage crisis in Iran made life...
  
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Naming Names
With a New Afterword by the Author

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With a New Afterword by the Author “An astonishing work concerning personal honor and dishonor, shame and shamelessness. A book of stunning insights...
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Beggars and Choosers
How the Politics of Choice Shapes Adoption, Abortion, and Welfare in the United States

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An impassioned argument for reproductive rights In the late 1960s and early 1970s, advocates of legal abortion mostly used the term rights when describing...
  

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