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The 400-year-old relationship between China and Russia could best be summarized as incessant "frenemies"—sometimes allies, sometimes adversaries, but always in flux as the relative power between th

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“To 2040 is a visionary collection that challenges readers to transform the natural world into multisensory reflection.”

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“Noah Galuten shares his insights into stocking a pantry, cutting vegetables (even rinsing rice) and cooking everything from simple sauces to sublime gratins with a warm an

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"This isn't an objective interpretation after all, but one bent on proving Ukrainian innocence, even to the extent of defending Nazis as simply fodder for a sensation-seeking media mill."

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“The closing words in Brown’s important and fine book put her in a class with the brilliant women whose life stories she shares.

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A Fever in the Heartland engulfs readers in an early-'20s Indiana where the Klan’s full-tilt coup feels as palpably and terrifyingly real as it does confoundingly implausible.”

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"For [international students] are, indeed, commodities in a larger academic capitalist system that has grown to depend on them for its survival." 

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“we should respect this iconoclastic disobedient Jew, one who used his Jewish sensibilities to pummel and reframe American comedy.”

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“The lessons to be learned from Hitler’s rise to power are legion. Among them are the notion that . . . sociopaths ultimately are self-interested and . . . loyalty is a one-way street.

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“What It Took to Win challenges the reader to think about and understand not just the history of the Democratic Party but also the politics of America in general.

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"part exposé, part spy thriller, both of them true stories, all the more exciting and horrific."

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“Even with its problems, the book is colorful, handy, and good for any budding gardener, scientist, botanist, or biologist.”

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“Manguel introduces the reader to an important thinker who deserves to be far better known. It's a masterly feat . . .”

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The genius of Bruce Chadwick’s oral history of the road to Ft.

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"Picture book magic at its best . . ."

 

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“for anyone who understands the concept that ‘it takes a village to raise a child,’ will understand the concept ‘it takes an Auschwitz to understand a nation.’”

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"Katin is a powerful visual storyteller, deeply honest and personal and sadly, all too relevant."

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“Brightly written and well-researched, this book will appeal immensely to true-crime fans.”

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Fieldwork: A Forager’s Memoir rambles over rough terrain of food and family.

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“Judgment and Mercy makes a compelling case that Irving Kaufman— . . .

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Bagby’s immaculate research, coupled with her keen sense for real-life character development and dramatic arcs, makes for a fascinating and surprisingly quick read on a fo

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“the Oliviers’ recipes are easily accessible for home chefs wanting to recreate the foods South African cuisine without much fuss or difficulty . . .”

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“Liberal bias in the elite media has been prevalent for quite a while, but Ungar-Sargon’s book shows that it has gotten much worse.”

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The Cigar: Carmine Galante, Mafia Terror is more a collection of mob lore and history than an account of a mafia terror, but in those stories we see an aspect of the American mob into whic

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“The message is that there is room for everyone on the wall (or in the display case), and all of humanity needs to be represented in our venerable institutions.”

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