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A leading Catholic intellectual argues that the humanist teachings of the highly controversial Second Vatican Council are essential to the future of the Catholic church

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In 1976 twenty-six California children were kidnapped from their school bus and buried alive for motives never explained. All the children survived. This bizarre event signaled the beginning of Lenore Terr's landmark study on the effect of trauma on children. In this book Terr shows how trauma has affected not only the children she's treated but all of us.

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The definitive biography of the Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture, leader of the only successful slave revolt in world history

(Paperback, 2nd edition)

A travel classic, revised after twenty years: a journalist's lyrical account of life in Castro's Cuba.

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The first model for treatment of adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse that takes advantage of a relational approach and that integrates psychoanalytic thinking with the latest findings from the literature on psychological trauma and sexual abuse.

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Why the path from climate change to a habitable future winds through the world's forests

(Hardback)

A celebrated historian recounts Hubert Humphrey's role as a liberal hero of twentieth-century America

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The thinking man's guide to timeless style

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"A wonderful book on the traditional virtues in a world where nothing traditional seems to stand firm."-Nathan Glazer, Harvard University

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An influential economist tackles one of the major economic questions of our time: how can we help the world's developing economies grow

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A dramatic portrait of the innovative Special Forces commanders and FBI agents who wage war against Americas hidden enemies

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An essential guide to the best and most practical survival information available from the American Armed Forces, edited for civilian use by the same packager who brought us The U.S. Armed Forces Survival Manual that sold over 600,000 copies in the 1980s.

(Hardback)

America's leading nutritionist exposes how the food industry corrupts scientific research for profit

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A bold new history of the origins and aftermath of the Texas Revolution, revealing how Indians, Mexicans, and Americans battled for survival in one of the continent's most diverse regions

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How support from foreign superpowers propped up-and pulled down-authoritarian regimes during the Cold War, offering lessons for today's great power competition

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From a Bancroft Prize-winning historian, a biography of the famed poet, courtier, and coloniser, showing how he laid the foundations of the English Empire

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A "marvelous" (Sports Illustrated) portrait of the three men whose lives were forever changed by WWI-era Boston and the Spanish flu: baseball star Babe Ruth, symphony conductor Karl Muck, and Harvard law student Charles Whittlesey

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A theoretical physicist takes readers on an awe-inspiring journey-found in "no other book" (Science)-to discover how the universe generates everything from nothing at all: "If you want to know what's really going on in the realms of relativity and particle physics, read this book" (Sean Carroll, author of The Biggest Ideas in the Universe).

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From singer-songwriter and activist Dar Williams, an examination of the fall and rise of the small American towns she has been visiting on tour over the last two decades

(Hardback)

A rising star in philosophy examines the cultural, social, and scientific interpretations of love to answer one of our most enduring questions

(Hardback)

The next generation of robots will be truly social. How can we make sure that they play well in the sandbox

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Reports of the death of reading are greatly exaggerated

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Renowned linguist George Lakoff pairs with psychologist Rafael Nunez in the first book to provide a serious study of the cognitive science of mathematical ideas.

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From the bestselling author of "The Rise of the Creative Class" comes a brilliant book on the surprising importance of place. "Who's Your City" offers the first available city rankings by life-stage, rating the best places for singles, families, and empty-nesters to reside.