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Kant in 90 Minutes |
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| by Paul Strathern |
| Immanuel Kant taught and wrote prolifically about physical geography yet never traveled further than forty miles from his home in Kvnigsberg.... |
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Kaplan Word Power |
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| by Kaplan |
| You'll never be at a loss for words again... |
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A Brief History of Time (Unabridged) |
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| by Stephen Hawking |
| This landmark book is for those of us who prefer words to equations; this is the story of the ultimate... |
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Kierkegaard in 90 Minutes |
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| by Paul Strathern |
| Kierkegaard wasn't really a philosopher in the academic sense.... |
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A Great Memory |
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| by Robert Montgomery |
| Now you can gain a super-sharp memory, quickly and easily, while you drive, exercise, or relax.... |
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Law in America: A Short History (Unabridged) [Modern Library Chronicles] |
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| by Lawrence M. Friedman |
| Lawrence M. Friedman is Professor of Law at Stanford University and author of 23 books about law and legal history.... |
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A Short History of Nearly Everything |
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| by Bill Bryson |
| In <I>A Short History of Nearly Everything,</I> Bill Bryson takes his ultimate journey... |
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Unabridged) |
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| by Betty Smith |
| A moving coming-of-age story set in the 1900s, <i>A Tree Grows in Brooklyn</i> follows the lives of 11-year-old Francie Nolan.... |
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The Iron Flute |
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| by Nyogen Senzaki and Ruth Strout McCandless |
| <I>The Iron Flute</I>, a classic <I>koan</I> collection with peerless commentaries by masters from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, speaks radiantly to the heart... |
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The John Updike Audio Collection (Unabridged) |
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| by John Updike |
| The extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where.... |
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The Joy of Pi (Unabridged) |
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| by David Blatner |
| No number has captured the attention and imagination of people throughout the ages as much as... |
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The Known World (Unabridged) |
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| by Edward P. Jones |
| Henry Townsend, a black farmer, bootmaker, and former slave, has a fondness for <I>Paradise Lost</I> and an unusual mentor.... |
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The Lessons of History (Unabridged) |
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| by Will and Ariel Durant |
| The authors devoted five decades to the study of world history and philosophy, culminating in the masterful 11-volume <I>Story of Civilization</I>.... |
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The Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt |
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| by William Nothdurft with Josh Smith |
| The date is January 11, 1911. A young German paleontologist, accompanied only by a guide, a cook, and four camels... |
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The Map That Changed the World (Unabridged) |
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| by Simon Winchester |
| In 1793, William Smith, the orphan son of a village blacksmith, made a startling discovery that was to turn the science of geology on its head.... |
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Altering the Blueprint (Unabridged) [Portable Professor] |
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| by Alexander McCall Smith |
| Reproduction is a process fundamental to every known species, so it is no surprise that human beings spend so much time thinking about the implications of creating life anew.... |
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Never Let Me Go (Unabridged) |
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| by Kazuo Ishiguro |
| From the Booker Prize-winning author of <I>The Remains of the Day</I> and <I>When We Were Orphans</I>, comes an unforgettable mystery that is at once heartbreakingly tender and morally courageous.... |
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Nietzsche in 90 Minutes |
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| by Paul Strathern |
| With Friedrich Nietzsche, philosophy was dangerous not only for philosophers but for everyone.... |
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April 1865 (Unabridged) [Portable Professor] |
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| by Jay Winik |
| In April 1865, after nearly five years of bitter civil war, Robert E. Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House.... |
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Aristotle (Unabridged) |
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| by A. E. Taylor |
| Few philosophers have so extensively influenced thought and language as Aristotle. His conception of the universe pervades Christian theology. Knowledge of his thought is necessary to understand Bacon, Galileo... |
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Aristotle for Everybody (Unabridged) |
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| by Mortimer J. Adler |
| Says Mortimer J. Adler, "Almost all of the philosophical truths that I have come to know and understand I have learned from Aristotle."... |
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Aristotle in 90 Minutes |
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| by Paul Strathern |
| Aristotle wrote on everything from the shape of seashells to sterility, from speculations on the nature of the soul to meteorology, poetry, art, and even the interpretation of dreams.... |
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Aristotle's Children (Unabridged) |
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| by Richard E. Rubenstein |
| Best-selling author Richard E. Rubenstein brings the past to life in this engrossing story of social, religious, and scientific revolution during one of the darkest periods in European history.... |
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Art, the Arts, and the Great Ideas (Unabridged) |
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| by Mortimer J. Adler |
| Does a piece of visual or musical art have any content? Do the fine arts have anything at all to say about ideas?... |
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One God, Three Faiths (Unabridged) [Portable Professor] |
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| by F.E. Peters |
| The covenant that God made with the patriarch Abraham forms the basis of the three religions that today enjoy the largest followings in the world: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.... |
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Paris 1919 (Unabridged) |
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| by Margaret MacMillan |
| Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize, renowned historian Margaret MacMillan's best-selling <I>Paris 1919</I> is the story of six remarkable months that changed the world.... |
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Benjamin Franklin (Unabridged) [Portable Professor] |
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| by H.W. Brands |
| As the individual perhaps most widely respected by the generation that founded the United States, Benjamin Franklin can fairly be described as the "Founding Godfather" of America.... |
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Charlie Wilson's War (Unabridged) |
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| by George Crile |
| <I>Charlie Wilson's War</I> is the untold story behind the last battle of the Cold War and how it fueled the rise of militant Islam.... |
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Choosing a College (Unabridged) |
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| by Thomas Sowell |
| Sowell candidly describes the inner and outer workings of scores of American colleges & universities, big & small.... |
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Scientific American Presents Nobel Prize Winners: Physics |
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| by Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, and more |
| <I>Scientific American</I> presents a collection of key scientific essays written by Nobel Prize winners Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, I.I. Rabi, and Leon Lederman... |
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Scientific American Special Report: Preparing for a Flu Pandemic |
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| Scientists and public health officials are warning that a strain of bird flu known as H5N1 has the potential to cause a worldwide pandemic.... |
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Scourge (Unabridged) |
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| by Jonathan B. Tucker |
| Smallpox, the only infectious disease to have been eradicated, was one of the most terrifying of human scourges.... |
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Climate of Uncertainty |
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| by American RadioWorks |
| Not long ago, scientists discovered that the Earth's climate is capable of changing abruptly, as if a switch were flipped, instead of slowly over hundreds or thousands of years.... |
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Seeing in the Dark (Unabridged) |
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| by Timothy Ferris |
| Anyone can get started in astronomy, just by going outside on a dark night with a star chart and learning their way around... |
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Coming of Age in the Milky Way |
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| by Timothy Ferris |
| Humans have long sought to comprehend the enormities of cosmic space and time. Here, best selling... |
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Communism (Unabridged) [Modern Library Chronicles] |
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| by Richard Pipes |
| From the acclaimed Modern Library Chronicles comes an exploration of a promising theory that when put to practice wreaked havoc on the world.... |
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Shakespeare by Another Name |
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| by Mark Anderson |
| Journalist Mark Anderson's biography offers tantalizing proof that Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford was the real "Shakespeare".... |
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Confucius in 90 Minutes (Unabridged) |
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| by Paul Strathern |
| Confucius knew all about life and told us how to behave, but we can't find out precisely what he was up to.... |
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Shalimar the Clown (Unabridged) |
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| by Salman Rushdie |
| Rushdie effortlessly weaves a series of interconnected narratives to form a sweeping and ambitious tale, at once timeless and startlingly modern.... |
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Shaping Justice (Unabridged) [Portable Professor] |
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| by Kermit L. Hall |
| While the U.S. Constitution is the framework for governing the nation, the Supreme Court is the ultimate arbiter of how this framework is implemented.... |
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Six Months That Changed the World [Portable Professor] |
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| by Margaret MacMillan |
| Between January and July 1919 delegates from all over the world converged on Paris to forge a lasting peace in the wake of World War I.... |
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Curran vs. Catholic University (Unabridged) |
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| by Larry Witham |
| The Curran case framed an era about authority and freedom in the Catholic Church.... |
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Smart Reading |
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| by Russell Stauffer and Marcia Reynolds |
| Learn to skim through a book in minutes, pick up dozens of facts and ideas, and recall them with pinpoint accuracy, even months or years later.... |
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Socrates in 90 Minutes (Unabridged) |
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| by Paul Strathern |
| Just a century after it had begun, philosophy entered its greatest age with the appearance of Socrates.... |
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Socrates: The Man and His Thought (Unabridged) |
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| by A. E. Taylor |
| Without question the finest short biography of the world's greatest philosopher, <i>Socrates</i> provides us with an excellent introduction to Socratic thought. Although Socrates himself left no writings... |
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Descartes in 90 Minutes |
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| by Paul Strathern |
| Rene Descartes spent most of his childhood in solitude, a situation that also came to characterize his adult life.... |
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Villages (Unabridged) |
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| by John Updike |
| John Updike's 21st novel, a bildungsroman, follows its hero, Owen Mackenzie, from his birth in the semi-rural Pennsylvania town of Willow to his retirement.... |
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Dialogues of Plato (Unabridged) |
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| by Plato |
| The<I>Dialogues of Plato</I> (427-347 B.C.) rank with the writings of Aristotle as the most important and influential philosophical works in Western thought... |
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Wakefield (Unabridged) |
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| by Andrei Codrescu |
| When the Devil comes to take him, Wakefield, a motivational speaker and architecture buff, isn't ready.... |
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Waking Up (Unabridged) |
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| by Swami Yogeshananda |
| <I>Waking Up</I> is an attempt to answer some of the most profound questions... |
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DNA: The Secret of Life |
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| by James D. Watson with Andrew Berry |
| Fifty years ago, James D. Watson, then just 24, helped launch the greatest ongoing scientific quest of our time... |
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Don't Know Much About the Universe (Unabridged) |
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| by Kenneth C. Davis |
| From the ancients who charted the stars, to Jules Verne and Flash Gordon, to <i>The X-Files, Apollo 13,</i> and <i>Armageddon</i>, people through the ages... |
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When We Were Orphans (Unabridged) |
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| by Kazuo Ishiguro |
| Christopher Banks, an English boy born in early-20th-century Shanghai, is orphaned at age nine when both his mother and father disappear under suspicious circumstances.... |
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Wittgenstein in 90 Minutes |
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| by Paul Strathern |
| "If we accept Wittgenstein's word for it," Paul Strathern writes, "he is the last philosopher.... |
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London: A History (Unabridged) [Modern Library Chronicles] |
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| by A. N. Wilson |
| This entertaining volume provides a concise history of one of the world's premiere cities.... |
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Zero (Unabridged) |
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| by Charles Seife |
| The Babylonians invented it, the Greeks banned it, the Hindus worshipped it, and the Church used it to ward off heretics. Zero - infinity's twin - is not like other numbers. It is both nothing and everything... |
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Man's Search for Meaning (Unabridged) |
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| by Viktor E. Frankl |
| Internationally renowned psychiatrist, Viktor E. Frankl, endured years of unspeakable horror in Nazi death camps.... |
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The Age of Napoleon (Unabridged) [Modern Library Chronicles] |
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| by Alistair Horne |
| Alistair Horne is a leading scholar of French history.... |
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The Age of Shakespeare (Unabridged) [Modern Library Chronicles] |
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| by Frank Kermode |
| Britain's most esteemed scholar of 16th and 17th century literature, Frank Kermode is also a noted author and professor.... |
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Marion Winik Live |
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| by Marion Winik |
| Marion Winik, one of the country's best-known personal essayists, believes in telling the truth. Her award-winning personal essays tell secrets about herself.... |
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The American Revolution (Unabridged) [Modern Library Chronicles] |
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| by Gordon S. Wood |
| Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Gordon S. Wood discusses the character and consequences of the revolution.... |
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The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin (Unabridged) |
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| by Gordon S. Wood |
| Central to America's idea of itself is the character of Benjamin Franklin.... |
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The Americas (Unabridged) [Modern Library Chronicles] |
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| by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto |
| Felipe Fernandez-Armesto is a world-renowned scholar, professor of history and geography at Queen Mary, University of London, and a member of the Faculty of Modern History of Oxford University.... |
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Marx in 90 Minutes (Unabridged) |
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| by Paul Strathern |
| Karl Marx's devastating critique of capitalism, and his proposal of communism as the answer to the failings of the capitalist system, bore their greatest fruits in the twentieth century.... |
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The Balkans (Unabridged) [Modern Library Chronicles] |
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| by Mark Mazower |
| In this fascinating work, winner of the Wolfson Prize for History Mark Mazower uncovers the history of the Balkans with detail and clarity.... |
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Memoirs of a Geisha (Unabridged) |
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| by Arthur Golden |
| Nitta Sayuri tells us in a voice at once haunting and startlingly immediate of her life as a geisha... |
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Men in Black (Unabridged) |
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| by Mark R. Levin |
| The Supreme Court endorses terrorists' rights, flag burning, and importing foreign law.... |
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Mind Wide Open (Unabridged) |
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| by Steven Johnson |
| Brilliantly exploring today's cutting edge brain research, <I>Mind Wide Open</I> allows readers to understand themselves and the people in their lives as never before.... |
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Mindfulness (Unabridged) |
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| by Ellen J. Langer |
| Ellen J. Langer, Harvard professor of psychology, determines that the mindless following of routine and other automatic behaviors lead to much error, pain, and a predetermined course of life.... |
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The Boys' Crusade (Unabridged) [Modern Library Chronicles] |
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| by Paul Fussell |
| From the acclaimed Modern Library Chronicles comes an exploration of a promising theory that when put to practice wreaked havoc on the world.... |
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The Catholic Church (Unabridged) [Modern Library Chronicles] |
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| by Hans Kung |
| In 1979 the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith withdrew Hans Kung's missio canonica.... |
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Gilead (Unabridged) |
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| by Marilynne Robinson |
| In 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son, an account of himself and his forebears.... |
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Goof-Proof Grammar |
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| by Margaret M. Bynum and Debra C. Giffen |
| At last! A no-nonsense grammar guide that gives you just the skills you need.... |
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For the New Intellectual (Unabridged) |
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| by Ayn Rand |
| This is Ayn Rand's challenge to the prevalent philosophical doctrines of our time and the "atmosphere of guilt, of panic, of despair, of boredom, and of all-pervasive evasion" that they create.... |
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Healing Anxiety and Depression |
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| by Daniel G. Amen and Lisa C. Routh |
| For the 38 million Americans who suffer from anxiety and/or depression (and for those who treat them), Dr. Daniel G. Amen has liberating news.... |
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Hegel in 90 Minutes (Unabridged) |
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| by Paul Strathern |
| With Hegel, philosophy became very di | | | |
