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Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes
: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
by
Daniel
L.
Everett
Hardcover: Nov 2008
Paperback: 3 Nov 2009
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| A riveting account of the astonishing experiences and discoveries made by linguist Daniel Everett while he lived with the Pirahã, a small tribe of Amazonian Indians in central Brazil. |
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American Lightning
: Terror, Mystery, the Birth of Hollywood, and the Crime of the Century
by
Howard
Blum
Hardcover: Sep 2008
Paperback: 6 Oct 2009
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| Simultaneously offering the absorbing reading experience of a can’t-put-it-down thriller and the perception-altering resonance of a story whose reverberations continue even today, American Lightning is a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction. |
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The Pattern in the Carpet
: A Personal History with Jigsaws
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Margaret
Drabble
Hardcover: 16 Sep 2009
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| An original and brilliant work. Margaret Drabble weaves her own story into a history of games, in particular jigsaws, which have offered her and many others relief from melancholy and depression |
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Justice
: What's the Right Thing to Do?
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Michael
J.
Sandel
Hardcover: 15 Sep 2009
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| Michael J. Sandel’s “Justice” course is one of the most popular and influential at Harvard. Up to a thousand students pack the campus theater to hear Sandel relate the big questions of political philosophy to the most vexing issues of the day. Justice offers readers the same exhilarating journey that captivates Harvard students. |
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Airlift to America
: How Barack Obama, Sr., John F. Kennedy, Tom Mboya, and 800 East African Students Changed Their World and Ours
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Tom
Shachtman
Hardcover: 15 Sep 2009
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| This is the long-hidden saga of how a handful of Americans and Kenyans fought the British colonial government, the U.S. State Department, and segregation to "airlift" to U.S. universities, between 1959 and 1963, nearly 800 young East African men and women who would go on to change the world. |
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The Irregulars
: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington
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Jennet
Conant
Hardcover: Sep 2008
Paperback: 15 Sep 2009
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| An extraordinary tale of deceit, double-dealing, and moral ambiguity - an insider's view of the counterintelligence game played by the British in Washington during the early days of World War II. |
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Half the Sky
: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
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Nicholas
D.
Kristof
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Sheryl
WuDunn
Hardcover: 8 Sep 2009
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| From two of our most fiercely moral voices, a passionate call to arms against our era’s most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women and girls in the developing world. |
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The Hemingses of Monticello
: An American Family
by
Annette
Gordon-Reed
Hardcover: Sep 2008
Paperback: 8 Sep 2009
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| This epic work tells the story of the Hemingses, an American slave family whose close blood ties to our President Jefferson had been systematically expunged from American history until very recently. |
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