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"Despite its wickedly subversive premise, Mr. Caplan's book is cheery and intellectually honest... And the bedrock of his argument is solid: Modern parenting is insane."--Wall Street Journal

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A history of the Kerner Commission, whose revelatory findings on race and urban unrest reshaped American politics and our debates about race and inequality

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The groundbreaking examination of the construction of sexual identity -- now updated to reflect the latest research

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A "gripping and poignant" account of the coming of the American Civil War, showing the crucial role of slaves who escaped to Mexico (Wall Street Journal).

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The classic work on the rules of sex, still as provocative as the day it was published, updated for a new generation.

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From a prominent young historian, the untold story of the rich variety of gay life in America in the 1970s

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The definitive history of the powerful and brutal East German Secret Police

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A new history of Black Liberation, told through the intertwined story of two grassroots organizers

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"A timely new book... Anyone who wants to understand how this new world came into being needs to read Mr. Caryl's excellent book."-The Economist

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"Provocative... a clear-eyed, sharp-tongued assessment of this hinge moment in time, when the world's centre of gravity is shifting'from the West to the East.'"-Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the Scopes 'Monkey' Trial and the battle over evolution and creationism in America's schools, now updated with a new afterword

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The epic story of the quest to uncover a fully unified theory of physics, revised to reflect the possible discovery of the Higgs Boson.

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A veteran film critic offers a lively, opinionated guide to thinking and talking about movies--from Casablanca to Clueless

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A history of Southern segregationists' long war against interracial relationships, and the 150-year fight to restore the freedom to love, marry, and inherit

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"Beautiful.... A fascinating tale of science and religion, one that provides further perspective on the plight of Islamic science today."- The New Republic

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How the idea of the West drove twentieth-century US foreign policy, how it fell from favor, and why it is worth saving

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From Wall Street Journal columnist and Manhattan Institute senior fellow Jason L. Riley, a contrarian argument that racial preferences have done more harm than good for black Americans

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A panoramic new history of the revolutionary decades between 1760 and 1825, from North America and Europe to Haiti and Spanish America, showing how progress and reaction went hand in hand

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The long history of one of physics' craziest and most enticing ideas: that the universe we know isn't the only one

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An eminent scholar unearths the captivating history of the two-lobed heart symbol, shedding light on how we have expressed love since antiquity

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For the first time in paperback, the only annotated edition of Edwin Abbott's classic mind-bending tale of an alternate, two-dimensional universe presented side-by-side with mathematician Ian Stewart's revealing commentary and analysis.

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Investigates the mode and effect of Hebrew poetry in the Bible. This title presents three major concepts in biblical poetry (parallelism; narrative vs delineation; and, intensification), delving into an illuminating textual analysis using many examples from the Bible.

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A veteran art critic helps us make sense of modern and contemporary art

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Written over 2000 years ago, Sun-tzu's "Art of War" embodies the Eastern tradition of strategy. This translation, written in simple language, is intended to be of equal value to both military historians and students of business strategy.