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The Long March: The True History of Communist China's Founding Myth
by Sun Shuyun
Hardcover: Jun 2007
Paperback: 6 May 2008
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| The Long March is Communist China’s founding myth, the heroic tale that every Chinese child learns in school. Seventy years after the historical march took place, Sun Shuyun set out to retrace the Marchers’ steps and unexpectedly discovered the true history behind the legend. |
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The End of the Line: How Overfishing Is Changing the World and What We Eat
by Charles Clover
Hardcover: Nov 2006
Paperback: 17 Mar 2008
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| "Here is the world’s fishing industry laid bare, gutted and filleted for all to see: the greed, the folly, the waste and destruction. You will never look at a fish supper in the same way again." - The Economist. |
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How Doctors Think
by Jerome Groopman
Hardcover: Mar 2007
Paperback: 12 Mar 2008
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| The renowned Harvard Medical School physician and New Yorker writer Jerome Groopman presents an entirely new way of understanding medicine and medical care to give patients and their families insight into why some doctors succeed in thinking through problems and why some doctors fail. |
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The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring
by Richard Preston
Hardcover: Apr 2007
Paperback: 12 Feb 2008
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| Richard Preston unfolds the spellbinding story of Steve Sillett, Marie Antoine, and the tiny group of daring botanists and amateur naturalists that found a lost world above California, a world that is dangerous, hauntingly beautiful, and unexplored: The world of the largest and tallest organisms the world has ever sustained – the coast redwood trees. |
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Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
by Atul Gawande
Hardcover: Apr 2007
Paperback: 1 Feb 2008
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| The New York Times bestselling author of Complications examines, in riveting accounts of medical failure and triumph, how success is achieved in a complex and risk-filled profession |
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The God Delusion
by Richard Dawkins
Hardcover: Sep 2006
Paperback: 16 Jan 2008
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| The God Delusion makes a compelling case that belief in God is not just wrong but potentially deadly. It also offers exhilarating insight into the advantages of atheism to the individual and society, not the least of which is a clearer, truer appreciation of the universe's wonders than any faith could ever muster. |
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Dangerous Nation: America's Place in the World from Its Earliest Days to the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
by Robert Kagan
Hardcover: Oct 2006
Paperback: 6 Nov 2007
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| From the author of the immensely influential and best-selling Of Paradise and Power—a major reevaluation of America’s place in the world from the colonial era to the turn of the twentieth century. |
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Pigeons: The Fascinating Saga of the World's Most Revered and Reviled Bird
by Andrew D. Blechman
Hardcover: Oct 2006
Paperback: 10 Oct 2007
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| In the tradition of Robert Sullivan’s best-selling Rats comes a whimsical and intimate look into the fascinating world of pigeons and the people they collect. |
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