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Life Is Short…

A compelling portrait of our rushed, desensitized society, this Pulitzer Prize-winning work reaches far beyond its title story of the acclaimed concert violinist ignored in a subway station.

Bachelor Girl

Betsy Israel

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All the Single Ladies…

A fascinating examination of the cultural stereotypes assigned to single women for decades, in light of their growing successes & sense of mystique in popular culture.

The Paradox of Choice

Barry Schwartz

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The Ultimate Paradox...

Schwartz investigates with elucidatory detail why the freedom of choice - the fundamental aspect of American society - may also be our downfall.

Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion

Gregory Boyle

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Business of Compassion...

The story of Homeboy Industries & the priest whose kindness penetrated a gang-infested neighborhood, bringing about reform, respect & awesome t-shirts.

The Story of Stuff: How Our Obsession with Stuff Is Trash...

Annie Leonard

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Beyond the Documentary...

Both a study & a call to action, Leonard's unflinching look at our drive to accumulate, consume & dispose of stuff reveals our environmental impact & calls for change.

The Mole People: Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City

Jennifer Toth

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Shocking & Surprising...

Follow Toth underground to meet the transients who call the subterranean depths home in this shocking & surprising account of a truly alternative lifestyle.

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Very Much a Lady: The Untold Story of Jean Harris and Dr....

Shana Alexander

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Oh No She Didn't: The Top 100 Style Mistakes Women Make a...

Clinton Kelly

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Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in...

Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

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Savage Grace: The True Story of Fatal Relations in a Rich...

Steven M. L. Aronson , Natalie Robins

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Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black In Nazi Germany

Hans Massaquoi

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Disinformation Book of Lists

Russ Kick

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Green River, Running Red: The Real Story of the Green Riv...

Ann Rule

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Every Breath You Take: A True Story of Obsession, Revenge...

Ann Rule

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Geisha: A Life

Mineko Iwasaki , Rande Brown

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Dead by Sunset: Perfect Husband, Perfect Killer?

Ann Rule

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Cycle of Lies: The Fall of Lance Armstrong

Juliet Macur

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The Fiddler in the Subway: The Story of the World-Class V...

Gene Weingarten

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Stolen Innocence

Elissa Wall , Lisa Pulitzer

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If I Am Missing or Dead: A Sister's Story of Love, Murder...

Janine Latus

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A Stolen Life: A Memoir

Jaycee Dugard

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She Wanted It All: A True Story of Sex, Murder, and a Tex...

Kathryn Casey

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The Wardrobe Wakeup: Your Guide to Looking Fabulous at An...

Lois Joy Johnson

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But I Trusted You: Ann Rule's Crime Files #14

Ann Rule

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Fiend: The Shocking True Story Of Americas Youngest Seria

Harold Schechter

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Evil Beside Her

Kathryn Casey

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Church of Lies

Flora Jessop , Paul T. Brown

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Bestial: The Savage Trail of a True American Monster

Harold Schechter

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Mafia: The Government's Secret File on Organized Crime

HarperCollins

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Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and...

S. C. Gwynne

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American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unli...

Craig Ferguson

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Die, My Love

Kathryn Casey

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A Descent Into Hell

Kathryn Casey

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Heart Full of Lies: A True Story of Desire and Death

Ann Rule

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The Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the ...

Edward Dolnick

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Without Pity: Ann Rule's Most Dangerous Killers

Ann Rule

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Visions of the Future

Our Final Hour: A Scientist's Warning

Martin Rees

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The End of Sex: How Hookup Culture is Leaving a Generatio...

Donna Freitas

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The Ripple Effect: The Fate of Fresh Water in the Twenty-...

Alex Prud'homme

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Travels To The Nanoworld

Michael Gross

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The Future of Power

Joseph S. Nye, Jr. , Joseph S. Nye

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The End of Business As Usual: Rewire the Way You Work to ...

Brian Solis

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Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think

Peter H. Diamandis , Steven Kotler

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The End of Influence: What Happens When Other Countries H...

J. Bradford DeLong , J.Bradford DeLong

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The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Chu...

Moises Naim

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The End of Money: Counterfeiters, Preachers, Techies, Dre...

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Sherlock meets Gladwell...

What does your stuff say about you? An award-winning psychologist explores the unconscious trails we leave and what they say about our personalities. Gosling’s style is equal parts Sherlock Holmes & Malcolm Gladwell.

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The Design of Everyday Life

Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transf...

Mark Pendergrast

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America and the Pill: A History of Promise, Peril, and Li...

Elaine Tyler May

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Three Squares: The Invention of the American Meal

Abigail Carroll

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The Perfect Swarm: The Science of Complexity in Everyday ...

Len Fisher

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For God, Country, and Coca-Cola

Mark Pendergrast

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Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat

Bee Wilson

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The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smalle...

Marc Levinson

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The Battery: How Portable Power Sparked a Technological R...

Henry Schlesinger

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The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persist...

Brandt

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Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

Chuck Klosterman

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The Language Instinct: How The Mind Creates Language

Steven Pinker

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Crispin: The Cross of Lead (Avi)

Nat Reed

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The Partly Cloudy Patriot

Sarah Vowell

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Papillon

Henri Charriere

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The Book of Five Rings

Miyamoto Musashi

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Assassination Vacation

Sarah Vowell

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What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox H...

Daniel Pool

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The Abolition of Man

C. S. Lewis

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The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World O

Samuel P. Huntington

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Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. S...

Ben Mezrich

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History of Western Philosophy

Russell , Bertrand Russell

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Black Like Me: The Definitive Griffin Estate Edition

John Howard Griffin

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The Beauty Myth

Naomi Wolf

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The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time

Hunter S. Thompson

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Kierkegaard's Writings, XIX: Sickness Unto Death: A Chris...

Søren Kierkegaard , Sren Kierkegaard

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The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

Eric Hoffer

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Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dange...

Chuck Klosterman

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The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Be...

Francis S. Collins

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Generation of Swine: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Jour...

Hunter S. Thompson

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The Water Is Wide

Pat Conroy

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Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story

Chuck Klosterman

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Bowling Alone

Robert D. Putnam

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This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can ...

Marilyn Johnson

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End of History and the Last Man

Francis Fukuyama

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Geisha: A Life

Mineko Iwasaki , Rande Brown

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The Human Condition: Second Edition

Hannah Arendt

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A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide

Samantha Power

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Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got T...

David Brooks

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Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream

H. G. Bissinger

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Editor's Choice

Get off that wait list...

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City Life

Heart of the City: Nine Stories of Love and Serendipity o...

Ariel Sabar

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The Archaeology of Home: An Epic Set on a Thousand Square...

Katharine Greider

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Detroit: A Biography

Scott Martelle

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The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo

Saskia Sassen

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The Secular City: Secularization and Urbanization in Theo...

Harvey Cox

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Chicago: A Biography

Dominic A. Pacyga

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Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto

Shawn Micallef , Marlena Zuber

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Comeback Cities: A Blueprint For Urban Neighborhood Revival

Paul Grogan , Tony Proscio

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Ghetto at the Center of the World: Chungking Mansions, Ho...

Gordon Mathews

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On Looking: A Walker’s Guide to the Art of Observation

Alexandra Horowitz

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A City for Children: Women, Architecture, and the Charita...

Marta Gutman

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Mastering the Rockefeller Habits: What You Must Do to Inc...

Verne Harnish

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Climbing Parnassus: A New Apologia for Greek and Latin

Tracy Lee Simmons

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The Blooding

Joseph Wambaugh

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The Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for C...

Albert O. Hirschman

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If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer

The Goldman Family , O. J. Simpson

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Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A.

Luis J. Rodríguez

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Who Killed My Daughter?

Lois Duncan

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Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration

David Wojnarowicz

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Smart Moves: Why Learning Is Not All In Your Head, Second...

Carla Hannaford

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Genesis

Eduardo Galeano

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Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist

Walter Kaufmann

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The Secular City: Secularization and Urbanization in Theo...

Harvey Cox

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Body Language

Julius Fast

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Coroner

Joseph DiMona , Thomas T. Noguchi

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White Mischief: The Murder of Lord Erroll

James Fox

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Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem

Gloria Steinem

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A Rumor of Angels: Modern Society and the Rediscovery of ...

Peter L. Berger

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Martin Heidegger

George Steiner

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Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape

Susan Brownmiller

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Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader (Third Edition)

Alix Kates Shulman

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Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Mon...

Gloria Steinem

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The Fifties

David Halberstam

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The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of R...

Peter L. Berger

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Deep Ancestry: The Landmark DNA Quest to Decipher Our Dis...

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The Terrorist

Caroline B. Cooney

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The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Soc...

Peter L. Berger , Thomas Luckmann

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Invitation to Sociology: A Humanistic Perspective

Peter L. Berger

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Marx's Concept of Man

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The Powers That Be

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The Science of Food

Pandora's Lunchbox: How Processed Food Took Over the Amer...

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The Taste of Tomorrow: Dispatches from the Future of Food

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On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen

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Food, Inc.: Mendel to Monsanto--The Promises and Perils o...

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The Elements of Cooking: Translating the Chef's Craft for...

Michael Ruhlman

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The Living Gut

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Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking

Michael Ruhlman

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Culinary Reactions: The Everyday Chemistry of Cooking

Simon Quellen Field

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High Tech Harvest: Understanding Genetically Modified Foo...

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No Happy Cows; Dispatches from the Frontlines of the Food...

John Robbins

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Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat

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Food Inc.: A Participant Guide: How Industrial Food is Ma...

Weber

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Genetically Engineered Food: Changing the Nature of Natur...

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The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Lif...

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Science Left Behind: Feel-Good Fallacies and the Rise of ...

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Why Is Milk White?: & 200 Other Curious Chemistry Questions

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Occupying Wall Street: The Inside Story of an Action that...

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The Torture Report: Why the Documents Say About America's...

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In Deep Water: The Anatomy of a Disaster, the Fate of the...

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Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet

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Mad Science: The Nuclear Power Experiment

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Hacking Politics: How Geeks, Progressives, the Tea Party,...

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Autopilot: The Art & Science of Doing Nothing

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Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution

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WikiLeaks and the Age of Transparency

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Why the Olympics Aren't Good for Us, and How They Can Be

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Welcome to the Greenhouse: New Science Fiction on Climate...

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Freeloading: How Our Insatiable Appetite for Free Content...

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Beautiful Trouble: Pocket Edition

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Always in Style

Things I Wish My Mother Had Told Me: A Guide to Living wi...

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The Style Strategy

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You Are What You Wear: What Your Clothes Reveal About You

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100 Unforgettable Dresses

Hal Rubenstein

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The Dress Doctor: Prescriptions for Style, From A to Z

Edith Head

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Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf Goodman

Bergdorf Goodman , Sara James Mnookin

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Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffan...

Sam Wasson

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The Secret of Chanel No. 5: The Intimate History of the W...

Tilar J. Mazzeo

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Diane: A Signature Life

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Dreaming of Dior: Every Dress Tells a Story

Charlotte Smith

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Empress of Fashion: A Life of Diana Vreeland

Amanda MacKenzie Stuart

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Women From the Ankle Down: The Story of Shoes and How The...

Rachelle Bergstein

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The One Hundred

Nina Garcia

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Style Clinic

Paula Reed

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Before You Put That On: 365 Daily Style Tips for Her

Lloyd Boston

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Effortless Style

June Ambrose , Richard Buskin

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1950s American Fashion

Jonathan Walford

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The Essence of Style: How the French Invented High Fashio...

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Ooh La La!: French Women’s Secrets to Feeling Beautiful E...

Jamie Cat Callan

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Tim Gunn's Fashion Bible: The Fascinating History of Ever...

Tim Gunn , Ada Calhoun

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Marilyn in Fashion: The Enduring Influence of Marilyn Monroe

Christopher Nickens , George Zeno

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The Little Black Book of Style

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Style Bible: What to Wear to Work

Lauren A. Rothman

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Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It ...

Tim Gunn

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Secrets of a Fashion Therapist: What You Can Learn Behind...

Betty Halbreich , Sally Wadyka

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The Style Checklist: The Ultimate Wardrobe Essentials for...

Lloyd Boston

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Lessons from Madame Chic: 20 Stylish Secrets I Learned Wh...

Jennifer L. Scott

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A Gentleman Gets Dressed Up Revised & Updated: What to We...

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Ever since the dawn of time, sex has been getting people into trouble. This collection deals with the history, science, and politics of why we get it on, how we get it on, and who we want to get it on with.

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