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“The Flag is an exceptional photographic collection.

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“The Maid’s Daughter: Living Inside and Outside the American Dream is a riveting read for both academics and laypersons.

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“This book does what books like this should: provoke thought and conversation in addressing issues that are highly uncomfortable.

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“The evolution and revolution of liberal thought is chronicled in this well-written book about how we got to where we are today. . . .

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“Julie Salamon evokes Wendy Wasserstein herself, filling the printed pages not only with laughter, but also the details of a stranger, sadder, darker side about which it was once said, ‘ben

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“A Talk In The Park is baseball as you’ve never read it—and how you always remembered hearing it.”

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“The premise and prediction of Innovation and Nanotechnology is that in the utopian future nanotechnology will end intellectual property law by making physical objects just like di

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“[Dr. Kornfield] addresses an audience impatient with platitudes, one that understands that the Buddhist path offers no shortcuts.

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Newspaperman is part memoir, part history. . . .

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“‘What does matter is that a lot of people died because I killed them, and I lived. That is what I set out to do and that is what I accomplished . . .

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“David’s Browne book does a nice job of tying The Beatles, James Taylor, CSNY, and Simon and Garfunkel together: who played on which album, who was friends with who, and so on.

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“Marx’s take on analytical concepts such as “use” and “exchange” values is still valid and potentially very useful for understanding how the lack of regulatory intervention has allowed our

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“If there is something [John McWhorter] doesn’t do well, we won’t find it in his new work, What Language Is . . .

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“‘Every new piece of information keeps me on the road to the ever-expanding possibility of the quest, a quest that in the end will still yield only partial knowledge—and will never give me,

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“If the human mind is capable of solving the problems of the human mind, Ned Zeman is living proof of that hypothesis.”

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“Not only is the book exquisitely photographed, but Mr. von Habsburg also offers an education in the times and history of Fabergé . . . . .

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“Its familiarity and comfort level are its greatest strengths. . . . [but] we can’t help wanting more.”

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“Escape is yet another powerful, emotional tug of war from the talented Ms. Delinsky.”

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“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare;
it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.” —Seneca

 

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“. . . paint[s] a colorful and three-dimensional portrait . . . [Ms.

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“Dr. Benkler [presses], convincingly, that cooperation and collaboration represent a truer nature of people not just on a personal level, but also in society and business.”

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“The nine short works are not all theater masterworks, but they are a fair representation of the spectrum of styles and subjects being examined by contemporary playwrights.”

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