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The Extraordinary Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Ettore Majorana, the Troubled Genius of the N
Joao Magueijo
Basic Books
On the night of March 26, 1938, nuclear physicist Ettore Majorana boarded a ship, cash and passport in hand. He was never seen again. In A Brilliant Darkness, theoretical physicist Joao Magueijo tells the story of Majorana and his research …

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The Truth about Bias and the News
Eric Alterman
Basic Books
Widely acclaimed and hotly contested, veteran journalist Eric Alterman's ambitious investigation into the true nature of the U.S. news media touched a nerve and sparked debate across the country. As the question of whose interests the media protects-and how-continues to …

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The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age
David N. Schwartz
Basic Books
The definitive biography of the brilliant, charismatic, and very human physicist and innovator Enrico Fermi In 1942, a team at the University of Chicago achieved what no one had before: a nuclear chain reaction. At the forefront of this breakthrough …

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Interweaving Philosophical And Clinical Dimensions In Psychoanalysis
Robert Stolorow, George Atwood, Donna Orange
Basic Books
The intersubjective perspective regards all psychological processes as emanating from personal interrelatedness. First presented by Robert D. Stolorow in his classic work Faces in a Cloud (1978), it is one of the most powerful concepts to be introduced into the …

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Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive
Julia Serano
Da Capo Press
A transformational approach to overcoming the divisions between feminist communities While many feminist and queer movements are designed to challenge sexism, they often simultaneously police gender and sexuality -- sometimes just as fiercely as the straight, male-centric mainstream does. Some …
Irvin D. Yalom, Ginny Elkin
Basic Books
The many thousands of readers of the best-selling Love's Executioner will welcome this paperback edition of an earlier work by Dr. Irvin Yalom, written with Ginny Elkin, a pseudonymous patient whom he treated -- the first book to share the …
Sarah Jaffe
PublicAffairs
Necessary Trouble is the definitive book on the movements that are poised to permanently remake American politics. We are witnessing a moment of unprecedented political turmoil and social activism. Over the last few years, we've seen the growth of the …
Chelsea Fine
Grand Central Publishing
Sometimes when perfect falls apart, a little trouble fixes everything . . . Twenty-one-year-old Kayla Turner has lost everything. After spending most of her life taking care of her ailing mother, she just wants to spot a glimmer of light …
Jay Sexton
Basic Books
A concise new history of the United States revealing that crises -- not unlike those of the present day -- have determined our nation's course from the start In A Nation Forged by Crisis, historian Jay Sexton contends that our …

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The Crisis of Women in the U.S. Prison System
Silja JA Talvi
Da Capo Press
More and more womenmothers, grandmothers, wives, daughters, and sistersare doing hard prison time all across the United States. Many of them are facing the prospect of years, decades, even lifetimes behind bars. Oddly, there's been little public discussion about the …

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A Journey Through Love and Rebellion in Nepal
Elizabeth Enslin
Da Capo Press
Love and marriage brought American anthropologist Elizabeth Enslin to a world she never planned to make her own: a life among Brahman in-laws in a remote village in the plains of Nepal. As she faced the challenges of married life, …

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Behind the Scenes in the Middle East from the Cold War to the Present
Yevgeny Primakov
Basic Books
Part memoir, part history, Russia and the Arabs reveals the past half-century in the Middle East from a viewpoint seldom seen by Westerners. Yevgeny Primakov, formerly the head of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, Foreign Minister, and Prime Minister of …
Andy Rooney
PublicAffairs
My War is a blunt, funny, idiosyncratic account of Andy Rooney's World War II. As a young, naive correspondent for The Stars and Stripes, Rooney flew bomber missions, arrived in France during the D-Day invasion, crossed the Rhine with the …

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Earth's Climate Crisis & The Fate of Humanity
James Lovelock
Basic Books
In The Revenge of Gaia , bestselling author James Lovelock- father of climate studies and originator of the influential Gaia theory which views the entire earth as a living meta-organism-provides a definitive look at our imminent global crisis. In this …

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Everything A Woman Needs to Know to Start, Run, and Maintain Her Own Business
Emira Mears, Lauren Bacon
Da Capo Press
Female entrepreneurs are a growing force to be reckoned with. Each year, more and more women take the initiative and start their own business ventures-at twice the rate of men. Women continue to reshape the business world with innovative models, …
Calvin C. Clawson
Basic Books
There are two kinds of people: those who can do mathematics, and then there's the rest of us. Math is boring. Females have no facility for mathematics (and really don't need it, anyway).For many people who do not like math, …
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Open Textbook
College Success is adapted from a work produced and distributed under a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-SA) in 2010 by a publisher who has requested that they and the original author not receive attribution. This adapted edition is produced by …
Jan Suzukawa
Dreamspinner Press
Kaminishi: Book OneMichael Holden wakes up in an impossible reality: mid-nineteenth-century Japan, face to face with Shinjiro Kaminishi, a samurai warlord Michael has seen in a dream. Imprisoned by the warlord and interrogated about the future, Michael has no idea …
James Patterson, Brendan DuBois
Little, Brown and Company
When Captain Amy Cornwall's family goes missing, the Army Ranger will do whatever it takes to bring them home in this cinematic thriller that begins with a mysterious phone call and ends with a twist you'll never see coming.In her …
Tenaya Darlington
Little, Brown and Company
The Glides of Fort Cloud, Wisconsin, are a Spectacularly Dysfunctional Family. Rusty and Judy did the best they could when raising their three children, yet nothing turned out the way they planned. The Glide parents have just about resigned themselves …
Michael Redhill
Little, Brown and Company
Redhill conjures up many unexpected twists in ten richly textured stories that range from the darkness of family silences to the hilarity of people caught in their own snares. With his unflinching attention to emotional detail, Redhill proves once again …
James Patterson, Derek Nikitas
Little, Brown and Company
Thanksgiving takes a dark turn in this supernatural thriller where going home for the holidays can be murder.Joanie was dreading Thanksgiving with her family at their strange new house. And that was before she saw her brother Alan standing in …
James Patterson, Rob Hart
Little, Brown and Company
A man accused of murdering three children faces a revenge plot and a strong-willed detective on a quest for the truth . . . but did he do it?Accused of murdering three small children, Thomas Scott is released on bail. …
David Shafer
Little, Brown and Company
Three young adults grapple with the usual thirty-something problems -- boredom, authenticity, an omnipotent online oligarchy -- in David Shafer's darkly comic debut novel. The Committee, an international cabal of industrialists and media barons, is on the verge of privatizing …
James Patterson, Michael Ledwidge
Little, Brown and Company
In this New York Times bestseller, Detective Michael Bennett must race against time to save New York City from chaos by tracking down the source of two mysterious attacks.New Yorkers aren't easily intimidated, but someone is doing their best to …
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