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    “Rob Hopkins combines cutting-edge process model analysis with modern scientific data using a pleasantly conversational mode.”

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    The urgent task is to rapidly reclaim and amplify the best of ourselves, and this book is a step on that journey.”

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    “Schuller has produced a work of impressive scholarship and research, from which many readers and students will benefit, though the rich and complex material she has assembled seems to dema

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    “Rather than theological bickering or ‘irrelevant moral imperatives,’ Wathey reminds us of our humanism and our hubris.”

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    Newspaper editor John O’Sullivan is generally credited with the development of, if not necessarily coining, the expression Manifest Destiny, the notion or idea that the United States of America sho

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    “Some readers will find this a fascinating labyrinth while others will long for wider vistas and fresher air.”

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    Americans should pay close attention to Malcolm Nance.

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    “Riley’s book is both an incisive examination of Sowell’s ideas and a tribute to a man of courage, brilliant intellect, fierce independence, and scholarly integrity.”

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    “Take our inner demons and our gooeyness for loss-aversion, add to it an ideology like nationalism (which manifest like an epidemic), and give it military high-tech and you have a dangerous

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    The War on Alcohol retells the story of Prohibition with a cocktail of case studies, legal analysis, and a broad scope.”

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    Since the days of Athenian democracy two and a half millennia ago, the idea of “rule of the people” has acquired many versions.

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    George W. Bush’s Decision Points is a memoir of his eight-year presidency.

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    “an eclectic, evolving, engaging compendium of remarkable art assignments.”

    Is a great artist made or taught? If taught, by whom? In what way?

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    “The story of Winston Churchill’s secretaries and literary assistants has been told before, but not in such a focused and complete manner as in Cita Stelzer’s book Working with Winston

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    The Pale King, David Foster Wallace’s posthumous, unfinished novel is a study in ambiguity, anchored in the trivial precision of personal statistical descriptions and the apparent precisio

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    “In today’s trauma-focused society, PTSD: A Short History is a volume as brave as it is wise.”

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    "The Path to a Livable Future may be the most serious and thought-provoking new book on climate change available.