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The titanic clash of wills between Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs in the 1960s and how their dueling perspectives helped to define contemporary urban life

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A novel of rural Ireland: "Furious, raging, passionate and . . . very, very funny."--"Boston Globe." "At once a rueful elegy to a vanished spirit and a comic celebration. For those who wear the green, this book will provide a bounty of tears and laughs."--"Publishers Weekly."

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With "The Change I Believe In," Heuvel challenges the limits of the downsized political debate, arguing that timid incrementalism and the forces of money and establishment power that debilitate American politics will be overcome only by independent organizing, strategic creativity, bold ideas, and determined idealism.

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A new edition of the award-winning expose of leading GOP presidential contender Rudy Guiliani

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A legendary journalist exposes how the very architects of our financial calamity now engineer the recovery program

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The inspiring story of a young Palestinian man who rejected his militant past to become the leader of a peace movement

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"Marwan Bishara's The Invisible Arab is the single most perceptive and accessible book I've read about the roots of revolt in the Middle East and the brave, chaotic, exciting and frightening new world they have begun to create." -Christopher Dickey, Newsweek/The Daily Beast

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A landmark collection that spans the career of one of the leading thinkers and writers of our time.

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A new edition of the provocative New York Times bestseller that influenced a generation, with a new introduction by Jonathan Franzen and an afterword by the author

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A twist on the assassination of JFK explores the life and times of Richard Nagell, a man who insisted that he had been hired to kill Oswald and then spent years in prison trying to prove that he was sane.

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An award-winning journalist shatters the myth of Ronald Reagan

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"Lingeman's discussion of films is never less than interesting, and he understands the paradox of a politically repressive period leading to some of the most inventive films ever made." -New York Times Book Review

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First published in 1934, this novel tells the compelling story of a remarkable German Jewish family confronted by Hitler's rise to power. Three generations of this well-established Berlin family face discrimination, deceit, betrayal, and a tragedy that history has proved to be as true as this novel's tale.

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Rabon provides an "unsentimental portrait of Eastern European Jewish life, with none of the Shubert Alley schmaltz of "Fiddler on the Roof" or the mythopoetic grandeur of Isaac Bashevis Singer's fictions" ("New York Newsday"). The eerie power of this book lies in its unerringly accurate depiction of human frailty.

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The ABCs of everyone's favourite fantasy-a hip and informative guide for tri-curious men and women

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The authors of the New York Times-bestselling THE 9/11 REPORT: A GRAPHIC ADAPTATION movingly depict the revelatory Senate Intelligence Committee's report on CIA torture

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A sensational expose of diplomatic malfeasance that challenges the myth that the US and Israel made the Palestinians "a generous offer."

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Combining the personal with the political, bestselling writer Walter Mosley draws from his own addictions to explore the forms that oppression takes in our everyday lives.

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The Nation's Washington correspondent John Nichols shows how the controversy over Governor Scott Walker's efforts to strip collective bargaining rights from public sector workers spurred a popular uprising that has had national consequences.

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In a harrowing tale of misadventure, a ruthless industrialist and a seaman down on his luck set out on an Arctic safari that confronts them with not only the perils of the polar seas, but also a horrifying moral disaster. "A crackling good read".--"Chicago Tribune".

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The most brilliant political satire of the last decade " made into a classic film by Barry Levinson - now back in print!

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"Wandering Souls is an important, moving, utterly compelling, and wonderfully open-hearted book, one that will become a touchstone in America's literature about the aftershocks of our terrible misadventure in Vietnam."-Tim O' Brien, author of The Things They Carried

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An extraordinary new literary voice brings together the comic milieu of David Sedaris with the spot on perceptions of Adam Haslett's You Are Not a Stranger Here.

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A Pulitzer Prize-winning and New York Times best-selling author charts the dramatic and disturbing rise of a post-literate America that craves fantasy, ecstasy, and illusion.