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Joel Stein’s Quest to Become a Man’s Man
He’s been punched, kicked and shot at, but TIME Magazine columnist and admittedly unmanly man Joel Stein may finally be ready to conduct a convincing game of catch with his 3-year-old son Laszlo when the time comes. read more
After ‘The Last Lecture’: Jai Pausch’s ‘Dream New Dreams’
In 2006, Jai Pausch's husband Randy, a professor of computer science and human-computer interaction and design at Carnegie Mellon, was stricken with pancreatic cancer at the age of 46. read more
Human Rights Play Central Role in ‘Oblivion’
In the opening pages of Héctor Abad’s memoir Oblivion we meet Abad’s father, Héctor Abad Gómez. He is a warm man, affectionate. Perhaps a little too so—when he hugs him in front of his friends it’s so very embarrassing. read more
Augusten Burroughs, Telling It Like It Is
A decade after the publication of his debut memoir Running with Scissors, Augusten Burroughs has produced a tough-love take on the self-help genre with his recent book of advice, This is How. read more
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Kenneth Brower
Pub Date 5/17/2012
A tribute to David Brower (1912–2000), father of the modern environmental movement, on what would have been his 100th ...
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Mike Scotti
Pub Date 5/15/2012
Unflinchingly honest account of an ex-Marine's struggle to re-acclimate to civilian life after returning from Operation Iraqi Freedom.
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Christopher de Bellaigue
Pub Date 5/15/2012
Economist Tehran correspondent De Bellaigue (Rebel Land: Unraveling the Riddle of History in a Turkish Town, 2010, etc.) uses plenty ...
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James Donovan
Pub Date 5/15/2012
A popular historian revisits the most stirring siege in American history.
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Bob Reiss
Pub Date 5/15/2012
An on-the-ice view of the struggle over offshore oil exploration in Alaska.
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Bob Massie
Pub Date 5/15/2012
Born with hemophilia, Massie's childhood combined bouts of intense pain and disappointment with unabashed joy and lavish family affection ...
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Lisa Wong
Pub Date 5/20/2012
With the assistance of playbill.com founder Viagas (I'm the Greatest Star: Broadway's Top Musical Legends from 1900 ...
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Fawaz A. Gerges
Pub Date 5/22/2012
Gerges (Middle Eastern Politics/London School of Economics; The Rise and Fall of Al-Qaeda, 2011, etc.) succinctly traces the history ...
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Dan Zevin
Pub Date 5/22/2012
This occasionally humorous volume is the latest addition to a rapidly growing selection of books by--and about and for--the post-hipster ...
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Michael Stephenson
Pub Date 5/22/2012
A military history about the central fact of all wars: death in battle.
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Brian Clegg
Pub Date 5/22/2012
Although by far the feeblest of the four universal forces, gravity is the only one we experience continuously. Every inquisitive ...
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Tom Doctoroff
Pub Date 5/22/2012
A primer on Chinese consumers.
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