American Pests: The Losing War on Insects from Colonial Times to DDT
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Klezmer America: Jewishness, Ethnicity, Modernity
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Strategic Intuition: The Creative Spark in Human Achievement
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Chronicles of My Life: An American in the Heart of Japan
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The Journey Abandoned: The Unfinished Novel
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The Song of Everlasting Sorrow: A Novel of Shanghai
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The Politics of Chaos in the Middle East
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When Principles Pay: Corporate Social Responsibility and the Bottom Line
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Kitchen Mysteries: Revealing the Science of Cooking
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There a Petal Silently Falls: Three Stories by Ch'oe Yun
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Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era
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View a slideshow of images from South Street
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Hollywood's Censor: Joseph I. Breen and the Production Code Administration
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One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each: A Translation of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu
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Eurasian Crossroads: A History of Xinjiang
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Representing Atrocity in Taiwan: The 2/28 Incident and White Terror in Fiction and Film
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The Politics of Inequality: A Political History of the Idea of Economic Inequality in America
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Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters
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Hollywood Science: Movies, Science, and the End of the World
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Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language
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Memories of Life in Lhasa Under Chinese Rule
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Wars of Position: The Cultural Politics of Left and Right
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Administration of Torture: A Documentary Record from Washington to Abu Ghraib and Beyond
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Kitchen Mysteries: Revealing the Science of Cooking
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Strategic Intuition: The Creative Spark in Human Achievement
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Women as Weapons of War: Iraq, Sex, and the Media
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Tough Liberal: Albert Shanker and the Battles Over Schools, Unions, Race, and Democracy
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The Art of War: Sun Zi's Military Methods
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Hollywood Science: Movies, Science, and the End of the World
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Mountains Painted with Turmeric
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