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McKnight shows how the experts' best efforts to rebuild and revitalize communities can actually destroy them and celebrates the ability of neighborhoods to heal from within.

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"Everyone today, from big corporate players to day traders, from hedge fund managers to personal investors, deals on some level with China. Here Edward Tse, chairman for greater China at the management consulting firm Booz & Company, aims to provide a playbook for working with the world's fastest-growing economy." --Smart Money

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"American power and a pervasive globalization are the central realities of today's world, and the source of its thorniest dilemmas. Yet while America's unprecedented might should be the source of globa"

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The widely acclaimed, award-winning history of the cigarette.

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According to Edward Pauly, education reformers have looked everywhere except the classroom, where education really takes place. Drawing on in-depth interviews, this brilliant book shows that, more than anything else, it is the give-and-take between students and teachers that determines what is actually taught and learned.

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The world's response to climate change has been deeply flawed. The Climate Fix is where we begin to get it back on track, as science policy expert Roger Pielke, Jr. dissects the disastrous climate debate and offers a solution: expanding energy access and increasing energy security while lowering costs through technological innovation.

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"Commentary by Jake McKee, J.P. Rangaswami, and Dan Gillmor"--Cover.

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A 1976 forecast that predicts a radically altered social structure, within thirty to fifty years, by which a more sophisticated technology is employed to harness science toward more instrumental purposes.

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"A collection of important, well-told stories about the contradictions, inequities and possibilities of American capitalism."--New York Times

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An anthology of the best work of an always compelling, often controversial, and absolutely essential philosopher of the modern American Experience.

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"A short, masterful, information-packed examination, a book that is thoroughly trustworthy, and spot-on."-Michael Novak, National Review

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A strikingly fresh and revisionist explanation for the rise of Anglo-America as the dominant cultural and political force in the world today by the bestselling author of The Politics of Rich and Poor

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A Nobel Laureate physicist argues that ours is not an age of information but an age of disinformation and ignorance, where access to knowledge is becoming increasingly restricted and even criminalized.

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From one of the leaders of the search for extrasolar planets, a riveting account of the next breakthrough: the imminent discovery of planets similar to Earth.

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The winner of the first Basic Prize in History of Science is a controversial study of the rise of medicine in Australia and its relation to racial thinking

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A leading libertarian scholar explains why the coming age of molecular medicine will dramatically revolutionize our lives-but only if we confront the out-of-date regulatory system that threatens to derail it.

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How should the courts decide custody cases that involve adoption, divorce, and single parenting Drawing on a wealth of legal cases and research, Mary Ann Mason presents a bold programme for reform that aims to change the terms of debate about child custody cases.

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"A must read for every opponent of totalitarianism and partisan of a chastened or mature liberalism."-- The New Criterion

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James Hunter has a talent for writing important books...With The Death of Character he has done it again.--Wilfred M. McClay, University of Tennessee

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A research psychologist offers a sweeping new theory of depression grounded in the evolution of mood

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An award-winning scholar challenges the intellectuals of the baby boom generation to shake off a decade's worth of complacency and reclaim the mantle of social justice

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A veteran White House reporter asks, Can a president's private life be separated from his performance in office

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A Harvard Medical School psychiatrist and neuroscientist shows how dream science draws on psychology and neurobiology to provide new insight into the nature of the human mind.

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Focuses on little-known moments in history when two cultures--previously unknown or little known to each other--met, and altered the course of history.