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“No matter how much you think you know about Harvey Weinstein, this book will make you realize how much bigger—and more interesting—the story is.”

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“Zhuqing Li’s Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden tells the heartrending, beautifully written, remarkable story of two sisters—Li’s aunts, inseparable as young girls—that circu

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“an important book brimming with essential insights about what it means to be a nation at war.”    

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“In his 99th year, Henry Kissinger . . . continues to contribute to our understanding of the world.”

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“Lytle Hernández makes the provocative argument that it was a lesser-known figure, radical transformationalist Ricardo Flores Magó

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Besson’s analysis of the role of information technology in the new economy is an interesting one and worth reading.”

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Why We Fight is a tour de force of superb social science.”

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My depression competed with my mania.

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“a fascinating and compelling story of a tragic hero and the fields on which he lived and played.”

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“Neanderthals belong to a distant past of hundreds of thousands of years but studying them is a rapidly developing race to the future of scientific exploration.

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“Patrick Radden Keefe’s collection Rogues is a tantalizing dirty dozen—enlightening, entertaining, and thought provoking.”

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“an important analysis and catalogue of a genius at work with a smirk on his never-seen face. The aggregate of his art is Banksy’s validation and legacy.

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“Alford tells the remarkable story of spiritualism as it affected the lives of the members of the respective families of Abraham Lincoln and his assassin John Wilkes Booth.”

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“James Horn has put together an incredible lost history of an important figure whose life decided the future of America and all that has entailed since.”

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Fifty-seven-year-old Diana Goetsch, formerly Doug Goetsch, made the decision at 50 to surrender to the transition process and become a full-blooded transgender woman after decades of heartache. 

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Challenges to Darwin’s view of the sexes are no longer a minority sport, though like all challenges to received opinion they have difficulty being heard in the Establishment they wish to rock.

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The pogroms of Russia have long served as the backdrop to bigger stories.

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“Every science classroom would benefit from having a copy of Up Your Nose.

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“Butler offers a fascinating history that includes appraisals of the work of actors most associated with The Method.

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“so important to an understanding of American thought and the landscape that formed it.”

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“Brendan Simms and Steven McGregor in their new gripping account of the battle, The Silver Waterfall, show that while luck played a part in the battle’s outcome, victory a

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"In music, impact comes from steady improvement, pruning, intensifying, through intelligence, sensitivity."

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