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From 1930 to 1940, A. Irving Hallowell, a professor of anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania,...
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Sandstorm
Penguin Group USA |
May 28, 2013 |
336 pages
An award-winning television journalist describes her witness to the 2011 defeat of Libya's dictator Muammar Gadaffi by his own people, tracing the story of Gadaffi's regime from its early days of popular appeal to the fear and corruption of its final years from the perspectives of five Libyan... More Info
$19.00
Private Empire
Penguin Group USA |
May 28, 2013 |
704 pages
An investigation into the influential and fiercely private corporation traces the period between the Exxon Valdez accident and the Deepwater Horizion spill to profile chief executives Lee Raymond and Rex Tillerson as well as the company's role in violent international incidents. By the Pulitzer... More Info
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The Ocean of Life
Penguin Group USA |
May 28, 2013 |
432 pages
A Silent Spring for oceans—from “the Rachel Carson of the fish world” (The New York Times) The sea feeds and sustains us, but its future is under catastrophic threat. In this powerful and ambitious book Callum Roberts—one of the world's foremost conservation biologists—tells the story of... More Info
$13.50
Food Rules
Penguin Group USA |
December 29, 2009 |
140 pages
The author of The Omnivore's Dilemma and In Defense of Food presents a pocket-sized set of rules for eating wisely in accordance with a variety of ethnic and cultural traditions, sharing guidelines for making grocery choices and dining out. Original. 500,000 first printing.
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Cascade
Penguin Group USA |
April 30, 2013 |
384 pages
Struggling to protect her family's theater from a reservoir plan and married to a man desperate for children, would-be artist Desdemona Hart of 1935 Massachusetts is drawn to creative newcomer Jacob, who is wrongly implicated by anti-Semitic townspeople in the wake of a local murder. A first novel.... More Info
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The Tale of Raw Head and Bloody Bones
Penguin Group USA |
March 26, 2013 |
560 pages
The explosive and controversial debut novel by a major new voice in fiction Meet Tristan Hart, a brilliant young man of means. The year is 1751, and at the age of twenty he leaves home to study medicine at the great hospital of St. Thomas in London. It will be a momentous year for the... More Info
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Escape from Camp 14
Penguin Group USA |
March 26, 2013 |
224 pages
The heartwrenching New York Times bestseller about the only known person born inside a North Korean prison camp to have escaped North Korea's political prison camps have existed twice as long as Stalin's Soviet gulags and twelve times as long as the Nazi concentration camps. No one born and raised... More Info
Glow
Penguin Group USA |
February 26, 2013 |
336 pages
" A breathtaking Georgia-mountain epic about the complex bond of mothers and daughters across a century. In the autumn of 1941, Amelia J. McGee, a young woman of Cherokee and Scotch-Irish descent, and an outspoken pamphleteer for the NAACP, hastily sends her daughter, Ella, alone on a bus home to... More Info
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Pakistan on the Brink
Penguin Group USA |
February 26, 2013 |
256 pages
A leading journalist on Pakistan outlines America's options with Pakistan and Afghanistan in the post-bin Laden years, identifying long-term possibilities and hazards while examining the Taliban's current activities. By the author of Descent into Chaos. 40,000 first printing.
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Thinking the Twentieth Century
Penguin Group USA |
January 29, 2013 |
432 pages
Offers a narrative of the United States' history during the past 100 years, not by discussing the events, but by discussing ideas, and highlighting the thoughts and thinkers that helped shape the century. 75,000 first printing.
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The Silent Oligarch
Penguin Group USA |
January 29, 2013 |
320 pages
Drawing on his decade of experience at the world's largest corporate intelligence firm, Jones leads readers down into the unvarnished realities of our time in the grand tradition of John le Carr. In this debut novel, a London intelligence agent pursues a money launderer to expose the dealings of a... More Info
Nudge
Penguin Group USA |
February 24, 2009 |
312 pages
Offering a groundbreaking study of the application of the science of choice, a guide that uses colorful examples from all aspects of life demonstrates how it is possible to design environments that make it more likely for us to act in our own interests. Reprint.
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Guitar Zero
Penguin Group USA |
December 24, 2012 |
288 pages
On the eve of his 40th birthday, a professor of no discernible musical talentlearns to play the guitar and investigates how anyone of any age might mastera new skill.
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Collapse
Penguin Group USA |
January 1, 2006 |
575 pages
A study of the downfall of some of history's greatest civilizations, written by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel, includes coverage of such cultures as the Anasazi, the Maya, and the Viking colony on Greenland, tracing patterns of environmental damage, climate change,... More Info
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Storyteller
Penguin Group USA |
September 25, 2012 |
259 pages
A collection of stories focuses on contemporary Native American concerns--white injustice, the fragmenting of the Indian community, and the loss of tribal identity--and recalls Indian legends and tribal stories.
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A Field Guide to Radiation
Penguin Group USA |
July 31, 2012 |
258 pages
An accessible explanation of how radiation affects everyday life illuminates the history, meaning and health implications of radiation through 100 lighthearted essays that cover everything from x-rays and cell phones to nuclear energy and exposure risks. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A... More Info
White Heat
Penguin Group USA |
July 31, 2012 |
380 pages
Investigating the murder of an adventurist under her watch, half-Inuit Arctic guide Edie Kiglatuk teams up with police sergeant Derek Palliser when she realizes that the victim's tour group was searching for something specific. A first novel by the award-winning author of The Long Exile. 20,000... More Info
Hector and the Search for Lost Time
Penguin Group USA |
July 31, 2012 |
225 pages
Hector, a young French psychiatrist, confronts the inevitable progression of time while helping his patients resolve their fears and becomes increasingly aware of his own evolving adulthood, observations he addresses while traveling the world.
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The Borrower
Penguin Group USA |
May 29, 2012 |
336 pages
In this delightful, funny, and moving first novel, a librarian and a young boy obsessed with reading take to the road. The odd pair embarks on a crazy road trip from Missouri to Vermont, with ferrets, an inconvenient boyfriend, and an upsetting family history thrown in their path.
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Civilization
Penguin Group USA |
October 30, 2012 |
432 pages
A history of Western civilization's rise to global dominance offers insight into contributing factors and the development of such specific concepts as competition, modern medicine and the work ethic, arguing that Western dominance is being lost to cultures who are more productively utilizing... More Info
The Kid
Penguin Group USA |
June 26, 2012 |
384 pages
From the bestselling author of "Push," a story of survival and awakening--and one young man's remarkable strength "The Kid" brings us deep into the interior life of Abdul Jones, son of Sapphire's unforgettable heroine, Precious. Left alone by his mother's death to navigate in a world where love and... More Info
Crossbones
Penguin Group USA |
October 30, 2012 |
385 pages
Jeebleh returns to Mogadiscio to discover that it is being rigidly controlled by white-robed oppressors; while Ahl searches for his missing stepson, who he fears has been recruited for a religious insurgency.
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The Odds
Penguin Group USA |
September 25, 2012 |
179 pages
Struggling with job losses, the imminent foreclosure of their home and a floundering marriage, Art and Marion Fowler liquidate their savings and reserve the bridal suite at a ritzy Niagara Falls casino, where they make high-risk roulette wheel bets in the hopes of fixing their finances. By the... More Info
On Canaan's Side
Penguin Group USA |
August 28, 2012 |
256 pages
The Man Booker Prize short-listed author of The Secret Scripture presents the tragic story of youngest daughter Lilly Bere, who after fleeing Ireland under threat of death from the IRA survives heartache, a midlife pregnancy and the challenges of the Great Depression and multiple wars.
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Instant City
Penguin Group USA |
September 25, 2012 |
284 pages
A host of NPR's Morning Edition analyzes the rapidly growing metropolis of Karachi, Pakistan, providing coverage of such topics as the importance of regional stability to American security interests, the 2009 terrorist bombing of a Shia religious procession and the city's challenging religious,... More Info
American Nations
Penguin Group USA |
September 25, 2012 |
371 pages
A history of North America's 11 rival cultural regions challenges popular perceptions about the red state-blue state conflict, tracing lingering tensions stemming from disparate intranational values that have shaped every major event in history. By the author of Ocean's End. 25,000 first printing.
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Wendy and the Lost Boys
Penguin Group USA |
July 31, 2012 |
460 pages
The best-selling author of The Christmas Tree presents an authorized portrait of the Pulitzer Prize- and first woman Tony Award-winning playwright that includes coverage of the private tragedies that overshadowed her high-achieving family, the premature birth of her fatherless daughter and her... More Info
A map of home
Penguin Group USA |
August 25, 2009 |
292 pages
Nidali, the rebellious daughter of an Egyptian-Greek mother and a Palestinian father, narrates her story from her childhood in Kuwait, her early teenage years in Egypt, to her family's last flight to Texas.
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The Dharma Bums
Penguin Group USA |
May 25, 1976 |
244 pages
During the 1950s the search for Buddhist truths takes two young Bohemians through a series of bizarre experiences in California
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Big Sur
Penguin Group USA |
May 25, 1992 |
241 pages
Retiring to a seaside cabin near San Francisco, Jack Duluoz looks for tranquility, but finds only horror and despair
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Travels With Charley
Penguin Group USA |
January 1, 1980 |
277 pages
Steinbeck records his emotions and experiences during a journey of rediscovery in his native land.
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Neighbors
Penguin Group USA |
October 29, 2002 |
214 pages
Documents the brutal 1941 massacre of 1,600 Jewish men, women, and children by their own neighbors in the Polish town of Jedwabne, offering additional examinations of the period's Jewish-Polish relations, the Holocaust, and human responses to occupation and totalitarianism.
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The Filter Bubble
Penguin Group USA |
April 24, 2012 |
256 pages
Pariser delivers an eye-opening account of how the hidden rise of personalization on the Internet is controlling--and limiting--the information we consume.
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1939
Penguin Group USA |
September 27, 2011 |
176 pages
"Overy's book is easily the best account of Europe's descent into...death and destruction." --Evening Standard (London) A brilliantly concise narrative of the days leading to the outbreak of history's greatest conflagration, 1939 takes readers hour by hour through the nail-biting decisions that... More Info
True Wealth
Penguin Group USA |
August 30, 2011 |
258 pages
A groundbreaking statement about ecological decline, suggesting a radical change in how we think about consumer goods, value, and ways to live. In True Wealth , economist Juliet B. Schor rejects the sacrifice message, with the insight that social innovations and new technology can simultaneously... More Info
The Shawnees and the War for America
Penguin Group USA |
June 24, 2008 |
216 pages
An account of early American settler efforts to claim Shawnee territories in Ohio, Kentucky, and other states traces how the Shawnee tribe and its allies temporarily met American forces on equal terms before being forced to fight in order to salvage its cultural and political independence. Reprint.
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Blessed Unrest
Penguin Group USA |
April 1, 2008 |
342 pages
The environmentalist author of Natural Capitalism traces the contributions of a diverse, worldwide grassroots humanitarian movement through which conscientious individuals and organizations are dedicating their efforts to restoring the environment and fostering social justice. Reprint.
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Equiano, the African
Penguin Group USA |
January 30, 2007 |
436 pages
This definitive biography tells the story of the former slave Olaudah Equiano (1745?-97), who in his day was the English-speaking world's most renowned person of African descent. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.
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A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
Penguin Group USA |
March 28, 2006 |
294 pages
Japanese edition of A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian. Two sisters attempt to stop their wealthy widowed father from marring a big-breasted girl trying to get an easy luxurious life, and along the way make new discoveries about their lives. In Japanese. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.
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A short history of financial euphoria
Penguin Group USA |
July 1, 1994 |
113 pages
World-renowned economist Galbraith, the bestselling author of The Affluent Society, reviews great speculative booms of the last three centuries, including the junk-bond follies of the 1980s. With wisdom and wit, he shows how the lessons of history can help us avoid financial calamity. "Entertaining... More Info
Street Gang
Penguin Group USA |
October 27, 2009 |
379 pages
Traces the story of the landmark children's television show, from its origins at a dinner party by co-founder Joan Ganz Cooney and the creative achievements of Jim Henson to the Nixon administration's efforts to stop its funding and the advent of Elmo.
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