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Animal Factory
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The New York Times bestselling author of Evidence of Harm comes this dramatic expos of factory farms and the dangerous public-health crisis created by some of the most powerful industries in America.
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At the Edge of the Precipice: Henry Clay and the Compromise That Saved the Union
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A National Book Award-winning historian brilliantly portrays Henry Clays heroic brokering of the Compromise of 1850 with its timely message about bipartisanship in times of crisis.
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The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh
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The oldest surviving fragments of the Babylonian epic we now call Gilgamesh date back to the 18th century—the 18th century before the Christian era, that is, more than 3,700 years ago.
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The Challenge: Hamdan V. Rumsfeld and the Fight Over Presidential Power
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A legal thriller in the spirit of A Civil Action and set against the backdrop of the war on terror, Hamdan v. Rumsfeld is the true inside story of perhaps the most important decision on presidential power and of a brave lawyer who risked his career for justice.
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FDR's Folly
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt is widely respected for having supposedly saved America from the Great Depression. But actually, his New Deal policies prolonged and exacerbated the economic disaster.
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FDR: The First Hundred Days
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Since President-elect Barack Obama mentioned he was reading about the first hundred days of FDRs administration in a 60 Minutes interview, there has been a surge of interest in books on the topic.
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Julip
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In "Julip" a young woman tries to spring her brother from a Florida jail. "The Seven-Ounce Man" continues the adventures of Brown Dog, and "The Beige Dolorosa" is about an academic recovering from a sexual harassment scandal.
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Lincoln's Spymaster: Thomas Haines Dudley and the Liverpool Network
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The Civil War conjures images of blood-soaked battlefields in the United States. Few are aware of the equally important diplomatic and intelligence contest that raged between the North and South in Europe.
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The Making Of Modern Economics
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Here is a bold new history of economics, the dramatic story of how the great economic thinkers built a rigorous social science without peer.
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Murder in the High Himalaya
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The murder of a young Tibetan nun at the hands of Chinese border guards at the rooftop of the world offers a unique parable for the tale of modern Tibet.
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