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In this analysis of developing nations, investment, and global business expansion, Peter Marber identifies the risks and rewards of investing in emerging markets, and reveals new sources of conflict as value systems clash in a game of global economic integration.

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A scathing indictment of the growing role of junk science in our courtrooms. Peter W. Huber shows how time and again lawyers have used,and the courts have accepted,spurious claims by so-called expert witnesses to win astronomical judgments that have bankrupted companies, driven doctors out of practice, and deprived us all of superior technologies and effective, life-saving therapies.

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"Elegant and deeply researched... a powerful antidote to overly gloomy assessments of development aid...Charles Kenny shines a light on the real successes of aid, and he shows us the benefits that additional smart investment can bring."-Bill Gates, Wall Street Journal

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"In Getting Beyond Race, Richard Payne takes the practical approach that race relations are ultimately about ordinary people interacting with each other. Payne argues that confrontation, blaming, and d"

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From the master of the form, Phillip Lopate, a selection of essays that together trace the arc of his life and career

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A practical and inspiring guide to moving up in your job and your career.

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Winner examines the latest scientific evidence about the biological basis of giftedness as well as the role played by parents and schools in fostering exceptional abilities. In this fascinating book, she uncovers and explores nine myths about giftedness, and shows us what gifted children are really like.

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In late 1944, a large number of Americans were captured or surrendered during the Battle of the Bulge and elsewhere. The story of what these men endured has been a well-guarded secret...Until now.

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"Balanced without being bland, lucid in the telling, Thomas Kidd's chronicle corrects the excesses both of those who overstate the degree to which America was founded as a 'Christian nation' and of those who seek to minimize the formative role of religion in the new nation's character."--Christianity Today

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From a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, a biography of the American anarchist Lucy Parsons

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These pieces reflect the hardships faced by African Americans. Through allegorical stories and fictional encounters, dreams and dialogues, they present new perspectives on issues that concern Blacks. With a theme of Christian love, they offer African Americans hope in a racist world.

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Democrats and Republicans have two very different visions of America. Which one will make us happier

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Expanding on David Spiegel's discovery that a shared intimacy with mortality creates very different concerns in the patient from those that apply in conventional settings, this guide for mental health professionals introduces the tools needed for groups coping with existential crises.

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With Hard Bargain, Robert Shogan offers an account of one of World War II's chapters-the story of how Franklin D. Roosevelt secretly brokered a deal to provide the destroyers Winston Churchill needed to save Britain from destruction.

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A strongly-argued critique of environmentalism from the right - the conservative's answer to Al Gore's Earth in the Balance.

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Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl remains the most-read woman's slave narrative of all time. Jean Fagan Yellin recounts the experiences that shaped Incidents-the years Jacobs

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ed by a host of "unknown others" in the militia movements of rural America.

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Two leading experts on hate crime reassess the threat of violence based on difference--whether in sexual orientation, race, gender, ethnicity, or citizenship-- to help us better understand and ultimately prevent such acts from occurring in the future

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Zigler, who has been a consultant to every administration since he helped found Head Start in the sixties, tells the behind-the-scenes story of the program's rocky course, from its beginnings as Project Rush-Rush" to today.

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Based in a decade-long study of nearly five thousand workers, this pathbreaking book identifies a clear connection between work-related illness and workers' lack of control.

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An acclaimed historian presents a dual biography of Theodore Roosevelt and New York City, showing how Roosevelt's identity and politics were forged in the booming city of his birth.

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An accessible and well-informed tour through a little-known, important aspect of race in American history

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Explains how scientists who study complexity are convinced that certain constant processes are at work in all kinds of unrelated complex systems.

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The most impressive idea to emerge from the recent World Economic Summit in Davos, Switzerland: a new approach to identifying and managing the world's twenty most pressing problems