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When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America, Paperback - Ira Katznelson

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Tender Hooks: Poems, Paperback - Beth Ann Fennelly

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American Smooth: Poems, Paperback - Rita Dove

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Daddy Cool, Paperback - Donald Goines

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The Future of Spacetime, Paperback - Stephen W. Hawking

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All Other Nights, Paperback - Dara Horn

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On the Bus with Rosa Parks: Poems, Paperback - Rita Dove

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The Catalans, Paperback - Patrick O'Brian

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Xavier is a tragic figure, damned by what he perceives as a lack of feeling; Madeleine is to be his salvation. Unfortunately she does not return hi...

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The Writer's Voice, Paperback - A. Alvarez

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Last Days of the Dog-Men: Stories, Paperback - Brad Watson

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Halo Parade: A Harpur & Iles Mystery, Paperback - Bill James

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Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference, Paperback - Cordelia Fine

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The Undressing: Poems, Paperback - Li-Young Lee

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Einstein's Monsters: The Life and Times of Black Holes, Paperback - Chris Impey

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Invisible Hands: The Businessmen's Crusade Against the New Deal, Paperback - Kim Phillips-Fein

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The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977, Paperback - Adrienne Rich

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How Poems Get Made, Paperback - James Longenbach

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Each of the twelve chapters of How Poems Get Made examines a specific aspect of the poetic medium: diction, syntax, rhythm, echo, figure, repetitio...

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Energy for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines, Paperback - Richard A. Muller

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Dance Dance Revolution: Poems, Paperback - Cathy Park Hong

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Aroused: The History of Hormones and How They Control Just about Everything, Paperback - Randi Hutter Epstein

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Metabolism, behavior, sleep, mood swings, the immune system, fighting, fleeing, puberty, and sex: these are just a few of the things our bodies con...

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The Art of Voice: Poetic Principles and Practice, Paperback - Tony Hoagland

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DescriptionIn this accessible and distilled craft guide, acclaimed poet Tony Hoagland approaches poetry through the frame of poetic voice, that mys...

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Strange Defeat: A Statement of Evidence Written in 1940, Paperback - Marc Bloch

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Marc Bloch wrote Strange Defeat during the three months following the fall of France, after he returned home from military service. In the midst of...

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Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth, Paperback - Adam Frank

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The Leafcutter Ants: Civilization by Instinct, Paperback - Bert Holldobler

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Making Babies: Stumbling Into Motherhood, Paperback - Anne Enright

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Soon after publication on September 30, 1868, Little Women became an enormous bestseller and one of America's favorite novels. Its popularity quick...

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The Fall Guy, Paperback - James Lasdun

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The Lost World of the Old Ones: Discoveries in the Ancient Southwest, Paperback - David Roberts

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The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life, Paperback - Nick Lane

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New Guinea Tapeworms and Jewish Grandmothers: Tales of Parasites and People, Paperback - Robert S. Desowitz

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Are We There Yet?: The American Automobile Past, Present, and Driverless, Paperback - Dan Albert

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Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare, Paperback - Stephen Greenblatt

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Totem and Taboo, Paperback - Sigmund Freud

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Skagboys, Paperback - Irvine Welsh

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Among the Living and the Dead: A Tale of Exile and Homecoming, Paperback - Inara Verzemnieks

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Nuclear Disaster in the Urals, Paperback - Zhores Medvedev

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Maria: Or, the Wrongs of Woman, Paperback - Mary Wollstonecraft

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The Woman Who Watches Over the World: A Native Memoir, Paperback - Linda Hogan

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Magnificence, Paperback - Lydia Millet

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The Analects of Confucius, Paperback - Confucius

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New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis, Paperback - Sigmund Freud

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Pacific Rift: Why Americans and Japanese Don't Understand Each Other, Paperback - Michael Lewis

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A Grossery of Limericks, Paperback - Isaac Asimov

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Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas, Paperback - Stephen Jay Gould

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Dreamland: Adventures in the Strange Science of Sleep, Paperback - David K. Randall

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Reducere. InDreamland, Randall explores the research that is investigating those dark hours that make up nearly a third of our lives. Taking readers from mil...

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The Study of Counterpoint: From Johann Joseph Fux's Gradus Ad Parnassum, Paperback - Johann Joseph Fux

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Dragonfish, Paperback - Vu Tran

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Huck Out West, Paperback - Robert Coover

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Reducere. At the end of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, on the eve of the Civil War, Huck and Tom Sawyer decide to escape ``sivilization`` and ``light out for...

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