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Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military

Нил Деграсс Тайсон

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In this fascinating foray into the centuries-old relationship between science and military power, acclaimed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and writer-researcher Avis L...

Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy

Heather Ann Thompson

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The first definitive account of the infamous 1971 Attica prison uprising, the state’s violent response, and the victims' decades-long quest for justice including informati...

Da Vinci's Bicycle

Guy Davenport

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Esteemed writer and translator Guy Davenport's brilliant story collection, first published in 1979, is recognized today as a classic of American fiction. Written with trem...

Quichotte

Salman Rushdie

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In a tour-de-force that is both an homage to an immortal work of literature and a modern masterpiece about the quest for love and family, Booker Prize-winning, internation...

The Unfortunate Fursey

Mervyn Wall

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"In Ireland anything may happen to anyone anywhere and at any time, and it usually does." - Abbot Marcus The forces of evil have launched a determined offensive on the ...

Persuasion and Rhetoric

Carlo Michelstaedter

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This translation of Carlo Michelstaedter’s Persuasion and Rhetoric brings the powerful and original work of a seminal cultural figure to English-language readers for the f...

God Save Texas: A Journey Into the Soul of the Lone Star State

Lawrence Wright

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With humor and the biting insight of a native, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower explores the history, culture, and politics of Texas, while holding t...

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

Julian Jaynes

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At the heart of this book is the revolutionary idea that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution. Rather, Jaynes presents consciousness as a learned...

Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Henri Frédéric Amiel

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<p>The Intimate Journal of Henri-Frédéric Amiel, a Swiss philosopher, poet & critic, published after his death & translated into English by British novelist. Mary ...

The De Soto Chronicles Vol 1 2: The Expedition of Hernando de Soto to North America in 1539-1543

Lawrence Clayton

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1993 Choice Outstanding Academic Book, sponsored by Choice Magazine. The De Soto expedition was the first major encounter of Europeans with North American Indians in th...

Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time

Carroll Quigley

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TRAGEDY AND HOPE shows the years 1895-1950 as a period of transition from the world dominated by Europe in the nineteenth century to the world of three blocs in the twenti...

A Naked Singularity

Sergio De La Pava

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Casi is a hotshot public defender working on the front line of America's War on Drugs. So far he's on the winning side. He's never lost a case. But nothing lasts forever, ...

The Evenings: A Winter's Tale

Герард Реве

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Twenty-three-year-old Frits - office worker, daydreamer, teller of inappropriate jokes - finds life absurd and inexplicable. He lives with his parents, who drive him mad. ...

Rama and the Dragon

Edwar al-Kharrat

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Rama and the Dragon, a multi-layered novel about the depths of human experience and the struggle between polarities, on the surface presents a love story of unrequited pas...

River of Fire

Qurratulain Hyder

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Never before available in English, River of Fire, originally published as Aag ka Darya in 1959, is without question the most important novel of 20th-century Urdu literatur...

Boys & Murderers: Collected Short Fiction

Hermann Ungar

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From the author of The Maimed, this complete collection of Ungar's short fiction is translated for the first time into English. Known as the Moravian Dostoevsky for his an...

Role Models

Джон Уотерс

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Here, from the incomparable John Waters, is a paean to the power of subversive inspiration that will delight, amuse, enrich--and happily horrify readers everywhere. Rol...

Moment of Freedom: The Heiligenberg Manuscript

Йенс Бьёрнебу

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In its apocalyptic view of mankind and in its haunting, devastating portrayal of justice, Moment of Freedom reminds one of Revelation and Kafka's The Trial. Living high in...

Growing Things and Other Stories

Paul G. Tremblay

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A chilling anthology featuring nineteen pieces of short fiction from the multiple award-winning author of the national bestseller The Cabin at the End of the World and A H...

The Enormous Room

E. E. Cummings

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In 1917 young Edward Estlin Cummings went to France as a volunteer with a Red Cross ambulance unit on the western front. But his free-spirited, insubordinate ways soon got...