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Search results: The best new books - Book reviews and excerpts from exceptional books about history, current affairs and science
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Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
by Michael J. Sandel
Hardcover: Sep 2009
Paperback: 17 Aug 2010
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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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Dangerous Games: The Uses and Abuses of History
by Margaret MacMillan
Hardcover: Jul 2009
Paperback: 13 Jul 2010
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| Margaret MacMillan, an acclaimed historian and “great storyteller” (The New York Review of Books), explores here the many ways in which history – its values and dangers – affects us all, including how it is used and abused. |
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K Blows Top: A Cold War Comic Interlude Starring Nikita Khrushchev, America's Most Unlikely Tourist
by Peter Carlson
Hardcover: Jun 2009
Paperback: 6 Jul 2010
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| This hilarious account of Khrushchev's 1959 U.S. tour is also a supremely entertaining evocation of the history and atmosphere of Cold War America |
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Zeitoun
by Dave Eggers
Hardcover: Jul 2009
Paperback: 15 Jun 2010
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| The true story of one family, caught between America’s two biggest policy disasters: the war on terror and the response to Hurricane Katrina. |
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Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
by Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn
Hardcover: Sep 2009
Paperback: 1 Jun 2010
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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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Strength in What Remains: A journey of remembrance and forgiveness
by Tracy Kidder
Hardcover: Aug 2009
Paperback: 4 May 2010
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| Strength in What Remains is a wonderfully written, inspiring account of one man’s remarkable American journey and of the ordinary people who helped him – a brilliant testament to the power of will and of second chances. |
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The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
by Richard Holmes
Hardcover: Jul 2009
Paperback: 2 Mar 2010
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| A riveting history of the men and women whose discoveries and inventions at the end of the eighteenth century gave birth to the Romantic Age of Science. |
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Nine Lives: Mystery, Magic, Death, and Life in New Orleans
by Dan Baum
Paperback: 16 Feb 2010
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| Nines Lives is a multivoiced biography of a dazzling, surreal, and imperiled city, told through the lives of nine unforgettable characters and bracketed by two epic storms. |
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