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“If you are a teacher, a parent, or a taxpayer, Push Has Come to Shove is a must read!”

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Would you consider getting a tattoo that looks as if Hieronymus Bosch had painted it?

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“Who knew that buildings had so much to say? All we had to do was listen—and Isabel Hill absolutely speaks the mysterious language of buildings.”

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“Unless you have been hiding under a rock, you have probably noticed that canning; preserving, jamming, pickling—or whatever you want to call it—is making a big comeback.”

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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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