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Everyone should speak baseball. There is something about the game that communicates ideas and feelings. The game is more than language. It might be a metaphor for life.

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Empire of Borders provides fundamental, essential information about the current human situation at the borders.”  

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“Block’s book demonstrates the urgent need for some progress . . .”

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“This book could’ve easily run twice as many pages in length. It is a Famous Person reporter’s dream and should be in every classroom.”

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NFL Century serves as a good primer for the league and a jumping off point for those who find the league interesting and would like to know more about its formation and developmen

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“beautifully identifies kindness as an endlessly renewable resource—the light we all can shine on the lives of others and in so doing bathe in its grace ourselves.”

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“Cumming, an art critic, journalist, and author, has a grasp of the language that flows through a number of twists and turns that the story takes.

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“another instance of the dedication and sacrifice made by our Greatest Generation.

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“[T]he best part of White’s book [is] the stories of writers such as Pasternak, Solzhenitsyn, Sinyavsky, Havel, and others who courageously wrote and spoke the truth to power behind the iro

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Here is a wide-ranging history and analysis of a force—migration—that has shaped Europe and continues to do so today.

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"Anthony Everitt's understanding of the world of Alexander the Great does better at solving the mystery of the man than in solving his death."

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"There was a feeling of immersion into a vastness of humanity, of what seemed to some the beginning of a new age."

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"Selig has also given us a book that captures his love for the game. There is goodness here, a transforming goodness."

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"With Rise! Hegedus has elevated the craft of writing, as well as the bar, for all fellow picture book biographers."

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“In Me the People, Nadia Urbinati has produced an exceptional scholarly work on a highly relevant socio-political phenomenon.”

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Poetic culture still grapples with the question, what is the proper subject for poetry?

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"Each chapter in this book becomes not just a separate life and adventure but a different way to learn about the Pilgrim experience."

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“‘We are not the first generation of queer people to have found ourselves trapped in a straight marriage,’ he writes, ‘but please God, let us be the last.’ Books like his will help that pra

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“Jennifer Silva serves as much as an academic scholar as a personal therapist, and a reader has to ask how she could endure the endless suffering experienced by her all-too-honest subjects.

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“This may require rereading to absorb some of the mathematical terms, but the book is fun, and interesting, and a challenge on many levels.”

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“Confessions of a Rogue Nuclear Regulator is short, easy to read, and quickly gets to the point, while avoiding many of the questions any astute reader might raise.

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Imagine that you begin your dream doctoral program and immediately find a professor generous with his mentoring time.

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“If you want a crash course in the evolution of postmodern capitalism over the last five decades read Kochland.”

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“Harjo evokes images, emotions, and places in a poetic biography of family perseverance. She proves sentiment.”

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Sister Helen Prejean is known for campaigning against the death penalty, reinstated in the US in 1976, responsible for 1, 940 deaths.

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