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So how does music work? In this age of instant gratification, most of us do not care how music works, so long as it does.

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“It’s often been said that ugly people craft and attractive people have sex,” writes Amy Sedaris in the introduction to her new book Simple Times: Crafts for Poor People.

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Would the ideas Tim Wu espouses in The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires have been published if we weren’t still picking through the wreckage caused by the financial

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When The Great Recession hit, Americans returned to their kitchens and the classics started to make a comeback.

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In Possessed: The Life of Joan Crawford, author Donald Spoto spends a good deal of time detailing Crawford’s life as an actress and defending her beauty, talent, and poise.

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One of the ongoing mysteries of physics is why stuff weighs what it does.

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At almost 4 ½ pounds, the heft of Sarabeth’s Bakery suggests serious satisfaction for the sweet tooth.

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He modestly calls himself “both a physician and a storyteller.” Renowned neurologist and psychiatrist Dr.

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The Envoy is Alex Kershaw’s testimonial to Raul Wallenberg and his campaign to save the Jews of Hungary from extermination by Nazi Germany in 1944.

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If you are one of the people who have not yet read SuperFreakonomics (the original, unillustrated version), this is your chance to pick up an even more entertaining version of the original

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Mr. Gerval is moderately more successful in this volume than he was with Fashion: Concept to Catwalk due to the fact that, quite simply, this book is not about clothing per se.

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This is the first of Lorraine Heath’s latest series, featuring three brothers dubbed “the greatest lovers in England.” In Passions of a Wicked Earl, she certainly makes her case for Morgan

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Described as “an insider’s guide to the fascinating and fast moving world of the fashion trade,” this scholarly endeavor reads far more like a textbook or how-to manual rather than any sort of guid

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If “one-pot dishes” makes you think just of soups and stews, One-Pot Dishes for Every Season aims to widen your horizons.

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Some say the book is dead.

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“I was born into the century in which novels lost their stories . . .”

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Webster’s dictionary defines the word icon as an object of uncritical devotion.

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These verses come from the earliest surviving Buddhist texts.

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Obama’s Wars is the first real, living history of the Obama Administration as told by many White House insiders: including the President himself.

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Once upon a time, in the Old Country known as Italy, the Pattis from Sicily and the LuPones from Abruzzo both moved, quite separately, to the United States of America and to the Empire State of New

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Bill Bryson provides the introduction to this wonderful book written for the 350th anniversary of the Royal Society, founded in 1660 in London.

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For an introduction to Italian wine, Vino Italiano: The Regional Wines of Italy, by Joseph Bastianich and David Lynch, is a good choice.

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Critics have been lamenting the decline of French cooking for years.

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This is a very interesting book, albeit with a misleading title. Perhaps the title was a ploy to attract readers of popular science, when in fact this is a book for readers of serious science.

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We can carve journalism into two distinct cuts: the tough, chewy chuck of reporting and recording events and facts, and the sirloin of narrative.

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