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View book details for The Knights Templar
The History and Myths of the Legendary Military Order
Basic Books
This book is an essential exploration into the history of a legendary group of Crusaders, which are prominently featured in Dan Brown's recent best seller, The Da Vinci Code. The Knights Templar rose from humble beginnings to become the most …
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How to Be a Brilliant Bridesmaid without Breaking the Bank
Da Capo Press
Bridesmaids today face an average expense of more than $3,000 when they accept the invitation to be in a bridal party. Add in the cost of travel and lodgingwhich is increasingly becoming necessary, with the growing popularity of destination weddingsand …
Basic Books
John Allen Paulos is a master at shedding mathematical lights on our everyday world:What exactly did Lani Guinier say about quotas?What is the probability of identifying a murderer through DNA testing?Which are the real risks to our health and which …
View book details for How Art Made the World
A Journey to the Origins of Human Creativity
Basic Books
In the late nineteenth century, the first discoveries of prehistoric painting were greeted with incredulity. How could there have been such deft and skillful artists in the world over 30,000 years ago? Noted art historian Nigel Spivey begins with this …
View book details for Local Knowledge
Further Essays In Interpretive Anthropology
Basic Books
In essays covering everything from art and common sense to charisma and constructions of the self, the eminent cultural anthropologist and author of The Interpretation of Cultures deepens our understanding of human societies through the intimacies of "local knowledge." A …
View book details for Same Difference
How Gender Myths Are Hurting Our Relationships, Our Children, and Our Jobs
Basic Books
From respected academics like Carol Gilligan to pop-psych gurus like John Gray, and even the controversial Harvard President Lawrence Summers, the message has long been the same: Men and women are fundamentally different, and trying to bridge the gender gap …
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Women and Addiction
Da Capo Press
Having an addiction can follow the path of a great relationship that goes sour: theres the first blush of romance, the seduction (you know you want to), and the downward spiral into either obsession or breaking free.Jill Talbot is no …
Grand Central Publishing
The bestselling author of "Those Who Walk in Darkness" delivers the second book of his action-packed series, featuring top LAPD mutant-hunter Soledad O'Roark, who teams up with rival Eddi Aoki when a vigilante starts killing metanormals without mercy. Original.
View book details for What I Found in a Thousand Towns
A Traveling Musician's Guide to Rebuilding America's Communities-One Coffee Shop, Dog Run, and Open-Mike Night at a Time
Basic Books
A beloved folk singer presents an impassioned account of the fall and rise of the small American towns she cherishes. Dubbed by the New Yorker as "one of America's very best singer-songwriters," Dar Williams has made her career not in …
View book details for Not Buying It
Stop Overspending and Start Raising Happier, Healthier, More Successful Kids
Da Capo Press
Most parents will do just about anything to secure happy lives and bright futures for their kids. Add in competition with other parents and near-constant pressure, their drive to give their kids the best of everything can backfire, setting back …
View book details for The Myth of the Strong Leader
Political Leadership in the Modern Age
Basic Books
From one of the world's preeminent political historians, a magisterial study of political leadership around the world from the advent of parliamentary democracy to the age of Obama. All too frequently, leadership is reduced to a simple dichotomy: the strong …
View book details for The New Education
How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World In Flux
Basic Books
A leading educational thinker argues that the American university is stuck in the past -- and shows how we can revolutionize it for our era of constant change Our current system of higher education dates to the period from 1865 …
View book details for The Courage To Be Catholic
Crisis, Reform And The Future Of The Church
Basic Books
The Catholic Church in America is in a state of crisis. Yet few understand what the crisis really is, why it happened, or how the Church must respond to it. As no other commentator or critic has done, George Weigel …
View book details for The Mind's New Science
A History Of The Cognitive Revolution
Basic Books
The first full-scale history of cognitive science, this work addresses a central issue: What is the nature of knowledge?
View book details for War in 140 Characters
How Social Media Is Reshaping Conflict in the Twenty-First Century
Basic Books
A leading foreign correspondent looks at how social media has transformed the modern battlefield, and how wars are fought Modern warfare is a war of narratives, where bullets are fired both physically and virtually. Whether you are a president or …
View book details for A Land Gone Lonesome
An Inland Voyage Along the Yukon River
Basic Books
In his square-sterned canoe, Alaskan author Dan O'Neill set off down the majestic Yukon River, beginning at Dawson, Yukon Territory, site of the Klondike gold rush. The journey he makes to Circle City, Alaska, is more than a voyage into …
View book details for Vaclav Havel
A Political Tragedy In Six Acts
Basic Books
This authorized biography of Havel, based on unrestricted access to him, his circle, and even his enemies, is not only the first definitive account of one of the modern world's great moral and political leaders but also a vivid panorama …
View book details for Animal Underworld
Inside America's Black Market for Rare and Exotic Species
PublicAffairs
A vast and previously undisclosed underground economy exists in the United States. The products bought and sold: animals. In Animal Underworld, veteran investigative journalist Alan Green exposes the sleazy, sometimes illegal web of those who trade in rare and exotic …
View book details for Get Opinionated
A Progressive's Guide to Finding Your Voice (and Taking a Little Action)
Da Capo Press
For those who like their politics blunt, raw, and uncompromising comes Get Opinionateda guide to the issues you care about: environmentalism, reproductive rights and access, taxes and public wealth, GLBTQ rights, health care, the War on Terror, the War on …
Grand Central Publishing
Everyone in the world, it seems, is either prettier or thinner (or both) than Beauty Marie Zavala. And the only thing "B" resents more than her name is the way others judge her for the extra 40 pounds she can't …
Little, Brown and Company
When Daphne du Maurier wrote The du Mauriers she was only thirty years old and had already established herself as both a biographer and a novelist. She wrote this epic biography during a vintage period in her career, between two …
View book details for I Love Mondays
And Other Confessions from Devoted Working Moms
Da Capo Press
A growing number of women today are fortunate enough to enjoy both parenting and having a meaningful career. These moms look forward to going back to work on Mondays (even if they dont admit it aloud), and many consider their …
View book details for By the Rivers of Water
A Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Odyssey
Basic Books
In early November 1834, an aristocratic young couple from Savannah and South Carolina sailed from New York and began a strange seventeen year odyssey in West Africa. Leighton and Jane Wilson sailed along what was for them an exotic coastline, …
View book details for Barrelhouse Blues
Location Recording and the Early Traditions of the Blues
Basic Books
In the 1920s, Southern record companies ventured to cities like Dallas, Atlanta, and New Orleans, where they set up primitive recording equipment in makeshift studios. They brought in street singers, medicine show performers, pianists from the juke joints and barrelhouses. …
View book details for Bourgeois Utopias
The Rise And Fall Of Suburbia
Basic Books
A noted urban historian traces the story of the suburb from its origins in nineteenth-century London to its twentieth-century demise in decentralized cities like Los Angeles.
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