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Nonfiction, November 2006
- Bell, Jim
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The first photographic tour of the surface of another planet reveals a vivid, beautiful portrait of what it is like to take a stroll on Mars.
- Borneman, Walter R.
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This narrative history of the 18th century wilderness battles and pre-Revolutionary rumblings of independence presents the triumphs and tragedies of this frontier struggle.
- Bray, Kingsley M.
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Bray's authoritative biography offers a complete portrait of the man who defeated General Custer at Little Bighorn and a fuller understanding of his place in American Indian and United States history.
- Clover, Charles
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In this vivid, eye-opening book — first published in the UK to wide acclaim and now revised for an American audience — environmental journalist Charles Clover argues that our passion for fish is unsustainable.
- Crane, David
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With full access to all family papers and to the voluminous diaries and records of key participants in the Antarctic expeditions, this illuminating biography of Robert Falcon Scott is a portrait of a complicated hero.
- Crick, Mark
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Literary ventriloquist Mark Crick presents recipes in the voices of famous writers, from Homer to Virginia Woolf to Raymond Chandler.
- Crystal, David
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Whether looking at the whistle languages of the Canary Islands, or describing the layout of the human throat; whether assessing the importance of eyebrow flashes in conversation, or showing how the way we speak betrays who we want to be — this intriguing book is the ultimate guide to the mysteries of the language we all use every day.
- Dyson, Freeman J.
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This collection of essays by a Nobel Prize-winning scientist offers fresh and often unexpected perspectives on the history, methods and ethics of science, as well as informative and accessible ways of thinking about current debates on the relations between science, religion, literature and society.
- Edwards, John
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From the former senator comes an inspiring mosaic on the meaning of home and how it collectively defines us as a nation.
- Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe
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In this insightful history of world exploration, Fernandez-Armesto tracks the pathfinders who, over the last five millennia, laid down the routes of contact that drew together the farthest reaches of the world.
- Frankfurt, Harry G.
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Having outlined a theory of bullshit and falsehood, Frankfurt turns to what lies beyond them: the truth, a concept not as obvious as some might expect.
- Gabler, Neal
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Given complete access to the Disney Archives, Gabler paints an illuminating portrait of a legendary visionary.
- Gallagher, Winifred
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A seasoned cultural critic offers this illustrated history of the handbag — its history, its current cult status and its incredible lure.
- Gayford, Martin
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This chronicle of the two months in 1888 when Paul Gauguin shared a house in France with Vincent Van Gogh describes not only how these two hallowed artists painted and exchanged ideas, but also the texture of their everyday lives. Includes 60 black and white reproductions of the artists' paintings and drawings from the period.
- Guiliano, Mireille
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For readers who devoured French Women Don't Get Fat, this guide reveals how to add some "joie" to one's "vie" — and to the table — every day of the year. Included are 100 new recipes plus the author's stories about life in Paris, New York and all points westward.
- Hampl, Patricia
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Just out of college, Patricia Hampl was mesmerized by a Matisse painting she saw in the Art Institute of Chicago: an aloof woman gazing at goldfish in a bowl, a mysterious Moroccan screen behind her. In Blue Arabesque Hampl explores the allure of that woman, immersed in leisure, so at odds with the increasing rush of the modern era. Her meditation takes readers to the Cote d'Azur and North Africa, from cloister to harem, pondering figures as diverse as Eugene Delacroix, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Katherine Mansfield.
- Jenkins, Jane
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Two of the top casting directors in the business offer an insider's tour of their crucial craft — spotting stars in the making — in this lively memoir, full of the kind of backroom detail loved by movie fans and aspiring actors alike.
- Kershaw, Alex
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From the author of The Bedford Boys and The Longest Winter comes the never-before-told story of the American pilots — idealists, adventurers, romantics — who joined the RAF before America entered the war in order to fight Hitler and save Britain.
- Lange, Dorothea
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Presenting 119 images originally censored by the U.S. Army — the majority of which have never been published — this volume evokes the horror of a community uprooted in the early 1940s and the stark reality of the internment camps.
- Marton, Kati
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The story of the journey of nine extraordinary men from Budapest to the New World, what they experienced along their dangerous route, and how they changed America and the world.
- Peterson, Dale
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Peterson details not only how Jane Goodall revolutionized the study of primates, but how she helped set radically new standards and a new intellectual style in the study of animal behavior.
- Rennison, Nicholas
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Melding genuine Victorian history with episodes from Doyle's original stories, Rennison adopts the popular conceit that Holmes and Watson actually existed, and uses the few clues from the canon to reconstruct the sleuth's ancestry and upbringing.
- Richardson, Robert D.
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Prize-winning biographer Richardson has written a moving portrait of William James — pivotal member of the Metaphysical Club and author of The Varieties of Religious Experience.
- Sagan, Carl
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In his down-to-earth voice, the late astronomer Carl Sagan discusses the relationship between religion and science and describes his own personal search to understand the nature of the sacred in the vastness of the cosmos.
- Simon, James F.
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The clashes between President Abraham Lincoln and Chief Justice Roger B. Taney over slavery, secession and the president's constitutional war powers are brought to life in this compelling story of the momentous tug-of-war between these two men during the worst crisis in American history.
- Talen, Bill
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The Church of Stop Shopping was founded by "Reverend Billy" Talen to protest the modern culture of commercialization and consumption. This short and powerful book is designed to entertain, to convince the skeptical and inspire the converted.
- Thomas, Evan
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Drawing on oral histories, diaries, correspondence, postwar testimony from both American and Japanese participants, and interviews with survivors, Thomas provides a riveting account of the Battle of Leyte Gulf in 1944, the culminating battle of the war in the Pacific.
- Traub, James
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Traub recounts the dramatically entwined history of Kofi Annan and the U.N. from 1992 to the present. In Annan he sees a conscientious idealist given too little credit for advancing causes like humanitarian intervention, an honest broker crushed between American conservatives and Third World opponents, and a U.N. careerist who has absorbed that culture and cannot, in the end, escape its limitations.
- Vidal, Gore
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In this sequel to his memoir Palimpsest, the celebrated novelist, essayist and critic ranges freely over his remarkable life with his signature wit and literary elegance.
- Walter, Chip
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A science writer explores six seemingly unconnected but unique human traits — the big toe, thumbs, pharynx, tears, kissing and laughter. Each trait marks a fork in the evolutionary road where humans went one way and the rest of the animal kingdom went the other.
- Washington, Denzel
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In his debut as an author, Denzel Washington shares his personal story of the mentors who helped guide his life — more than 70 of America's leading personalities in theater, sports, business and politics who in turn tell their life-changing stories of mentorship.
- Werris, Wendy
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Werris reflects upon how she came to embrace the book culture as her singular way of being in the world over the past 30 years.
- Wozniak, Steve
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B-Wo919i 2006The mastermind behind Apple steps forward to tell his story for the first time. From the invention of the first personal computer to the rise of Apple as an industry giant, "iWoz" presents a firsthand account of the inventor who ignited the computer revolution.