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Life Under Augusto Pinochet
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Augusto Pinochet was the most important Third World dictator of the Cold War, and perhaps the most ruthless. In The Dictator's Shadow, United Nations Ambassador Heraldo Munoz takes advantage of his unmatched set of perspectives -- as a former revolutionary …
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What Happens to Kids When They Age Out of the Foster Care System
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Each year, as many as 25,000 teenagers "age out" of foster care, usually when they turn eighteen. For years, a government agency had made every important decision for them. Suddenly, they are on their own, with no one to count …
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How the Great Books of Feminism Changed My Life
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When Stephanie Staal first read The Feminine Mystique in college, she found it "a mildly interesting relic from another era." But more than a decade later, as a married stay-at-home mom in the suburbs, Staal rediscovered Betty Friedan's classic work …
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A History Of The Human Love Affair With Reflection
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Of all human inventions, the mirror is perhaps the one most closely connected to our own consciousness. As our first technology for contemplation of the self, the mirror is arguably as important an invention as the wheel. Mirror Mirror is …
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Nelson Mandela stands out as one of the most admired political figures of the twentieth century. It was his leadership and moral courage above all that helped to deliver a peaceful end to apartheid in South Africa after years of …
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Women's True Tales of Life Abroad
Da Capo Press
It's one thing to travel abroadto stay in charming hotels and deliberate over whether to visit this museum or relax at that cafe even to head off the beaten track for a glimpse of "real" lifeand another thing altogether to …
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A History of Modern Psychoanalytic Thought
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The classic, in-depth history of psychoanalysis, presenting over a hundred years of thought and theories Sigmund Freud's concepts have become a part of our psychological vocabulary: unconscious thoughts and feelings, conflict, the meaning of dreams, the sensuality of childhood. But …
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A True Story of Love and Race and Happily Ever After
Da Capo Press
Diane FarrNumb3rs star, Loveline veteran, and FunnyorDie.com contributoralways took for granted that she could love anybody she chose. But when she, a white woman, fell in love with a Korean-American man, she quickly learned a tough lesson: When it comes …
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My Unorthodox Search for Something to Believe In
Da Capo Press
Anjali Kumar, a pragmatic lawyer for Google, was part of a rapidly growing population in America: highly spiritual but religiously uncommitted. But when her daughter was born, she became compelled to find God -- or at least some kind of …
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How Main Street Capitalism Can Create an Economy for Everyone
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The experts say that America's best days are behind us, that mediocre long-term economic growth is baked in the cake, and that politically, socially, and racially, the United States will continue to tear itself apart. But David Smick-hedge fund strategist …
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How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class-and What We Can Do About It
Basic Books
In recent years, the young, educated, and affluent have surged back into cities, reversing decades of suburban flight and urban decline. And yet all is not well, Richard Florida argues in The New Urban Crisis. Florida, one of the first …
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A Young Woman's Guide to Why Feminism Matters
Da Capo Press
Newly revised and updated, the #1 must-read book for a new generation of feminists who refuse to accept anything less than equality and justice for all women Now in its updated second edition, Full Frontal Feminism embodies the forward-looking messages …
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The Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments
Da Capo Press
For all of you humming I Will Survive while watching the political debacles gracing the evening news, when getting an earful from your Limbaugh-loving brother-in-law, or as youre ducking into the bathroom to avoid the date espousing the wisdom of …
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How to Build a Twenty-first Century Political Movement
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Underneath today's elections is a fierce battle for power driven not by the country's elected officials, but by organizations and people you have never heard of. Since the 1964 Goldwater defeat, conservative philanthropists have built a set of ideologically-aligned institutions …
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The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe
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"Sarah Gristwood has written a masterpiece that effortlessly and enthrallingly interweaves the amazing stories of women who ruled in Europe during the Renaissance period." -- Alison Weir Sixteenth-century Europe saw an explosion of female rule. From Isabella of Castile, and …
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My Life with a Transgender Husband
Da Capo Press
Helen Boyd's husband, who had long been open about being a cross-dresser, was considering living as a woman full time. Suddenly, Boyd was confronted with the reality of what it would mean if her husband were actually to become a …
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The Devastating Rise and Mysterious Disappearance of the Insect that Shaped the American Frontier
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Throughout the nineteenth century, swarms of locusts regularly swept across the continent, turning noon into dusk, demolishing farm communities, and bringing trains to a halt as the crushed bodies of insects greased the rails. In 1876, the U.S. Congress declared …
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An Erotic Memoir
Da Capo Press
Krissy Kneen loves sex . . . and shes not afraid to talk about it. In this sometimes hilarious, sometimes poignant, and sometimes terrifying memoir, she traces the arc of her sexual life from her childhood in a sexless household …
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The Crime Spree that Gripped Belle Epoque Paris
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The thrilling story of the Bonnot Gang, a band of anarchist bank robbers whose crimes terrorized Belle A?oque Paris, and whose escapades reflected the fast-paced, dizzyingly modern, and increasingly violent period on the eve of World War I. For six …
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Political Paranoia and the Creation of the Modern State, 1789-1848
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For the ruling and propertied classes of the late eighteenth century, the years following the French Revolution were characterized by intense anxiety. Monarchs and their courtiers lived in constant fear of rebellion, convinced that their power-and their heads-were at risk. …
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In ruling against the controversial historian David Irving in his libel suit against the American historian Deborah Lipstadt, last April 2000, the High Court in London labeled him a falsifier of history. No objective historian, declared the judge, would manipulate …
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Exploring the Ocean to Discover Climate
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In To Follow the Water, critically acclaimed author Dallas Murphy artfully recasts the story of human expansion and cultural development with the ocean playing the central role. Applying a novelist's eye for detail and a historian's drive for perspective, he …
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UNITAID, Innovative Financing, and the Quest for Massive Good
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The story of UNITAID begins with two world leaders but quickly becomes a lesson in popular philanthropy, involving millions of people each making a small contribution to a program aimed at treating and ultimately eliminating the threat of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis …
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Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World without Rape
Da Capo Press
This groundbreaking feminist classic dismantles the way we view rape in our culture and replaces it with a genuine understanding and respect for female sexual pleasure. In the original edition, feminist, political, and activist writers alike presented their ideas for …
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Sun Tzu/sun Pin
Basic Books
Sun Tzu's Art of War is the most famous, and the most thought-provoking, work of strategy ever written. The profound insights of this book have endured for over two thousand years, and they continue to reward careful study. The Military …
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