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Aeschylus. THE COMPLETE AESCHYLUS, VOLUME I: The Oresteia. Edited by Peter Burian & Alan Shapiro. Oxford. $12.95, paper.
Anderson, David L., editor. THE COLUMBIA HISTORY OF THE VIETNAM WAR. Columbia. $65.00.
Andrew, Christopher. DEFEND THE REALM: The Authorized History of M15. Vintage. $27.50, paper.
Apollinaire, Guillaume. LETTERS TO MADELEINE. Edited by Laurence Campa. Translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith. Seagull. $30.00.
Arenson, Adam. THE GREAT HEART OF THE REPUBLIC: St. Louis and the Cultural Civil War. Harvard. $35.00.
Ashbery, John. PLANISPHERE: New Poems. Ecco. $16.99, paper.
Athenaeus. THE LEARNED BANQUETERS, BOOKS 13.59-14. Edited & Translated by S. Douglas Olson. Harvard/Loeb. $24.00.
Barkan, Leonard. MICHELANGELO: A Life on Paper. Princeton. $49.50.
Bazant, Jan, et al., editors. THE CZECH READER: History, Culture, Politics. Duke. $26.95, paper.
Beattie, Ann. THE NEW YORKER STORIES. Scribner. $30.00.
THE BELIEVER: The 2010 Art Issue. $10.00, journal.
Bellow, Saul. LETTERS. Edited by Benjamin Taylor. Viking. $35.00.
Bellow, Saul. THE VICTIM. Introduction by Norman Rush. Penguin. $16.00, paper.
Bernstein, J.M., et al. ART AND AESTHETICS AFTER ADORNO. Townsend Center for the Humanities, U.C. Berkeley. $24.95, paper.
Bourne, Sam. THE FINAL SOLUTION: A Novel. Harper. $26.99.
Brakke, David. THE GNOSTICS: Myth, Ritual, and Diversity in Early Christianity. Harvard. $29.95.
The British Library. THE SPOKEN WORD: American Poets. BBC. 3-CD set. $35.00.
The British Library. THE SPOKEN WORD: British Poets. BBC. 3-CD set. $35.00.
Bronte, Charlotte. JANE EYRE. Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition. $16.00, paper.
Capino, Jose B. DREAM FACTORIES OF A FORMER COLONY: American Fantasies, Philippine Cinema. $25.00, paper.
Carter, James. HEART OF BUDDHA, HEART OF CHINA: The Life of Tanxu, a Twentieth-Century Monk. Oxford. $29.95.
Cesaire, Aime. A SEASON IN THE CONGO. Translated by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Introduced by Souleymane Bachir Diagne. Seagull. $17.95.
Chernow, Ron. WASHINGTON: A Life. Penguin. $40.00.
Chu, Seo-Young. DO METAPHORS DREAM OF LITERAL SLEEP? A Science-Fictional Theory of Representation. Harvard. $39.95.
Ciarlo, David. ADVERTISING EMPIRE: Race and Visual Culture in Imperial Germany. Harvard. $49.95.
Coelho, Paolo. THE ALCHEMIST. Graphic Novel. Harper. $22.99.
Cohen, Joshua. THE ARC OF THE MORAL UNIVERSE AND OTHER ESSAYS. Harvard. $39.95.
Coleman, Graham, editor. MEDITATIONS ON LIVING, DYING, AND LOSS: The Essential Book of the Dead. Introductory Commentary by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Penguin. $15.00, paper.
Cooper, James Fenimore. THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS. Introduction by Wayne Franklin. Harvard. $10.95, paper.
Conrad, Joseph. THE SECRET AGENT. Michael Newton, editor. Penguin. $12.00, paper.
Cook, Vivian. ALL IN A WORD: 100 Delightful Excursions into the Uses and Abuses of Words. Melville House. $15.95, paper.
Cornell, Drucilla & Panfilio, Kenneth Michael. SYMBOLIC FORMS FOR A NEW HUMANITY: Cultural and Racial Reconfigurations of Critical Theory. Fordham. $24.00, paper.
Dallek, Robert. JOHN F. KENNEDY. Oxford. $12.95.
Dante. THE DIVINE COMEDY, VOLUME III: PARADISO. Edited & Translated by Robert M. Durling. Introduction by Robert M. Durling. Notes by Ronald L. Martinez & Robert Durling. Oxford. $39.95.
Derrida, Jacques. ATHENS, STILL REMAINS: The Photographs of Jean-Francois Bonhomme. Translated by Pascale-Anne Brault & Michael Naas. Fordham. $17.00, paper.
Dilger, Bradley & Rice, Jeff, editors. FROM A TO A: Keywords of Markup. Minnesota. $25.00, paper.
Dochuk, Darren. FROM BIBLE BELT TO SUN BELT: Plain-Folk Religion, Grassroots Politics, and the Rise of Evangelical Conservatism. Norton. $35.00.
Dong, Lan. MULAN’S LEGEND AND LEGACY IN CHINA AND THE UNITED STATES. Temple. $26.95, paper.
Doueihi, Milad. AUGUSTINE & SPINOZA. Translated by Jane Marie Todd. Harvard. $29.95.
Duncan, Robert. THE H.D. BOOK. Edited & with an Introduction by Michael Boughn & Victor Coleman. California. $49.95.
Eggers, Dave, editor. THE BEST AMERICAN NONREQUIRED READING 2010. Houghton Mifflin. $14.95, paper.
Eliot, George. SILAS MARNER. Edited and with Notes by David Carroll. Penguin. $8.00, paper.
Espedal, Tomas. TRAMP. Translated by James Anderson. Seagull. $21.95.
Euripides. THE COMPLETE EURIPIDES, VOLUME V: Medea and Other Plays. Oxford. $12.95, paper.
Flaming, Matthew. THE KINGDOM OF OHIO. Berkeley. $15.00, paper.
Foley, Barbara. WRESTLING WITH THE LEFT: The Making of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man. Duke. $29.95, paper.
Franklin, Tom. CROOKED LETTER, CROOKED LETTER. William Morrow. $24.99.
Freeman, Elizabeth. TIME BINDS: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories. Duke. $22.95, paper.
Frisch, Max. ZURICH TRANSIT. Translated by Birgit Schreyer Durarte. Seagull. $14.95.
Gautier, Theophile. SELECTED LYRICS. Translated by Norman R. Shapiro. Yale. $35.00.
Goldsmith, Ben & Lealand, Geoff, editors. DIRECTORY OF WORLD CINEMA: Australia & New Zealand. Intellect. $25.00, paper.
Gorz, Andre. THE IMMATERIAL. Translated by Chris Turner. Seagull. $19.95.
Grafton, Anthony & Weinberg, Joanna. “I HAVE ALWAYS LOVED THE HOLY TONGUE”: Isaac Casaubon, the Jews, and a Forgotten Chapter in Renaissance Scholarship. Harvard. $35.00.
Gregg, Melissa & Seigworth, Gregory J., editors. THE AFFECT THEORY READER. Duke. $24.95, paper.
Grossberg, Lawrence. CULTURAL STUDIES IN THE FUTURE TENSE. Duke. $24.95, paper.
Guston, Philip. COLLECTED WRITINGS, LECTURES, AND CONVERSATIONS. Edited by Clark Coolidge. Introduction by Dore Ashton. California. $29.95, paper.
Hakuin. HAKUIN’S PRECIOUS MIRROR CAVE: A Zen Miscellany. Edited & Translated by Norman Waddell. Counterpoint. $17.95, paper.
Handke, Peter. TILL DAY YOU DO PART OR A QUESTION OF LIGHT. Translated by Mike Mitchell. Seagull. $12.00.
Hohn, Maria & Moon, Seungsook, editors. OVER THERE: Living with the U.S. Military Empire from World War Two to the Present. Duke. $29.95, paper.
James, Henry. THE TURN OF THE SCREW. Penguin Classics Edition. $6.00, paper.
James, Henry. WHAT MAISIE KNEW. Edited & with an Introduction and Notes by Christopher Ricks. Penguin. $13.00, paper.
Jerng, Mark C. CLAIMING OTHERS: Transracial Adoption and National Belonging. Minnesota. $25.00, paper.
Jing Tsu. SOUND AND SCRIPT IN CHINESE DIASPORA. Harvard. $45.00.
Johnson, Adriana Michele Campos. SENTENCING CANUDOS: Subalternity in the Backlands of Brazil. Pittsburgh. $25.95, paper.
Kateb, George. HUMAN DIGNITY. Harvard. $22.95.
Keegan, John. THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR: A Military History. Vintage. $16.95, paper.
Kundera, Milan. ENCOUNTER. Translated by Linda Asher. Harper. $23.99.
Lawrence, D.H. SONS AND LOVERS. Edited and with Notes by Helen Baron & Carl Baron. Penguin. $12.00, paper.
Mack, Ruth. LITERARY HISTORICITY: Literature and Historical Experience in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Stanford. $21.95, paper.
Macrobius. SATURNALIA, BOOKS 1-2. Harvard/Loeb. $24.00.
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Mallon, Thomas. YOURS EVER: People and Their Letters. Vintage. $15.00, paper.
Martin, Steve. AN OBJECT OF BEAUTY. Grand Central. $26.99.
McClatchy, J.D. SEVEN MOZART LIBRETTOS. A Verse Translation. Norton. $50.00.
MCSWEENEY’S NUMBER FOUR, LATE WINTER, 2000. McSweeney’s. $22.00 (boxed set of fourteen booklets).
Miller, Neil. BANNED IN BOSTON: The Watch and Ward Society’s Crusade against Books, Burlesque, and the Social Evil. Beacon. $26.95.
Morris, Edmund. COLONEL ROOSEVELT. Random House. $35.00.
OCTOBER 134. MIT. $13.00, journal.
Morrison, Donald R., editor. THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO SOCRATES. Cambridge. $37.50, paper.
Newton, Tim, translator, compiler, introduction by. THE FORGOTTEN GOSPELS: Life and Teachings of Jesus Supplementary to the New Testament. Counterpoint. $15.95, paper.
Nugent, Christopher M.B. MANIFEST IN WORDS, WRITTEN ON PAPER: Producing and Circulating Poetry in Tang Dynasty China. Harvard. $39.95.
Pelaud, Isabelle Thuy. THIS IS ALL I CHOOSE TO TELL: History and Hybridity in Vietnamese American Literature. Temple. $21.95, paper.
Philliou, Christine M. BIOGRAPHY OF AN EMPIRE: Governing Ottomans in an Age of Revolution. California. $24.95, paper.
Plautus. AMPHITRYON, THE COMEDY OF ASSES, THE POT OF GOLD, THE TWO BACCHISES, THE CAPTIVES. Edited & Translated by Wolfgang de Melo. Harvard/Loeb. $24.00.
Plutarch. ROME IN CRISIS. Translated by Ian Scott-Kilvert & Christopher Pelling. Introduction & Notes by Christopher Pelling. Penguin. $16.00, paper.
POSTCARDS FROM PENGUIN. One Hundred Book Covers in One Box. Penguin. $25.00.
Rice, Condoleezza. EXTRAORDINARY, ORDINARY PEOPLE: A Memoir of Family. Crown. $27.00.
Robinson, Dave & Garratt, Chris. INTRODUCING DESCARTES: A Graphic Guide. Totem. $9.95, paper.
Rockmore, Tom. KANT & PHENOMENOLOGY. Chicago. $45.00.
Rodgers, Daniel T. AGE OF FRACTURE. Harvard. $29.95.
Roebuck, Valerie J., translator. THE DHAMMAPADA. Penguin. $12.00, paper.
Rubenstein, Mary-Jane. STRANGE WONDER: The Closure of Metaphysics and the Opening of Awe. Columbia. $26.50, paper.
Sacco, Joe. FOOTNOTES IN GAZA. Metropolitan. $23.00, paper.
Sartre, Jean-Paul. CRITICAL ESSAYS. Translated by Chris Turner. Seagull. $30.00.
Schlink, Bernhard. THE GORDIAN KNOT. Vintage. $15.95, paper.
Schneemann, Carolee. CORRESPONDENCE COURSE: An Epistolary History of Carolee Schneemann and Her Circle. Edited by Kristine Stiles. Duke. $29.95, paper.
Seymour-Jones, Carole. A DANGEROUS LIAISON: A Revelatory New Biography of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre. Overlook. $19.95, paper.
Silverman, Kenneth. BEGIN AGAIN: A Biography of John Cage. Knopf. $40.00.
Simonson, Helen. MAJOR PETTIGREW’S LAST STAND. Random House. $15.00, paper.
Smith, Barbara Clark. THE FREEDOMS WE LOST: Consent and Resistance in Revolutionary America. New Press. $25.95.
Stoker, Bram. DRACULA. Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition. $16.00, paper.
Strub, Whitney. PERVERSION FOR PROFIT: The Politics of Pornography and the Rise of the New Right. Columbia. $32.50.
Taleb, Nassim Nicholas. THE BED OF PROCURSTES: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms. Random House. $18.00.
Todorov, Tzvetan. THE LIMITS OF ART: Two Essays. Translated by Gila Walker. Seagull. $15.00.
Trefousse, Hans L. “FIRST AMONG EQUALS”: Abraham Lincoln’s Reputation During His Administration. Fordham. $20.00, paper.
Trungpa, Chogyam. THE HEART OF THE BUDDHA: Entering the Tibetan Buddhist Path. Edited by Judith L. Lief. Shambala. $16.95, paper.
Trungpa, Chogyam. MEDITATION IN ACTION. 40th Anniversary Edition. Afterword by Samuel Bercholz. Shambala. $14.00, paper.
Vaschenko, Alexander & Smith, Claude Clayton, translators & editors. THE WAY OF KINSHIP: An Anthology of Native Siberian Literature. Foreword by N. Scott Momaday. Minnesota. $19.95, paper.
Wallace, David Foster. FATE, TIME, AND LANGUAGE: An Essay on Free Will. Columbia. $19.95, paper.
Ward, Lynd. SIX NOVELS IN WOODCUTS. Edited by Art Spiegelman. Penguin / Library of America. 2 volumes boxed, $70.00.
Warren, Kenneth W. WHAT WAS AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE? Harvard. $22.95.
Welsh, David. THE RISE AND FALL OF APARTHEID. Virginia. $35.00, paper.
Wharton, Edith. HOUSE OF MIRTH. With Notes by Cynthia Griffin Wolff. Penguin. $11.00, paper.
Wheeler-Barclay, Marjorie. THE SCIENCE OF RELIGION IN BRITAIN, 1860-1915. Virginia. $45.00.
Wiesel, Elie, preface by. AN ETHICAL COMPASS: Coming of Age in the 21st Century, The Ethics Prize Essays of the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity. Foreword by Thomas L. Friedman. Yale. $18.00, paper.
Wilde, Oscar. THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY. Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition. $16.00, paper.
Williams, Carolyn. GILBERT AND SULLIVAN: Gender, Genre, Parody. Columbia. $35.00.
WHOLPHIN: DVD Magazine of Rare and Unseen Short Films, No. 12. $19.95.
Yoshizawa, Katsuhiro, with Norman Waddell. THE RELIGIOUS ART OF ZEN MASTER HAKUIN. Counterpoint. $17.95, paper.
Zaleski, Philip, editor. THE BEST SPIRITUAL WRITING 2011. Introduction by Billy Collins. Penguin. $16.00, paper.
Xenophon. THE LANDMARK XENOPHON’S HELLENIKA. Edited by Robert B. Strassler. A New Translation by John Marincola. Introduction by David Thomas. Anchor. $25.00, paper.
Zuckoff, Mitchell. ROBERT ALTMAN: The Oral Biography. Vintage. $18.00, paper.
Zumbrunnen, John G. SILENCE AND DEMOCRACY: Athenian Politics in Thucydides’ History. Penn State. $28.95, paper.
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Berry, Mary Frances & Gottheimer, Josh. POWER IN WORDS: The Stories Behind Barack Obama’s Speeches, from the State House to the White House. Foreword by Ted Sorensen. Beacon. $24.95.
Canada, Geoffrey. FIST STICK KNIFE GUN: A Personal History of Violence. Beacon. $14.00, paper.
Cao, Nanlai. CONSTRUCTING CHINA’S JERUSALEM: Christian’s, Power, and Place in Contemporary Wenzhou. Stanford. $21.95, paper.
Carroll, Leah Anne. VIOLENT DEMOCRATIZATION: Social Movements, Elites, and Politics in Colombia’s Rural War Zones, 1984-2008. Notre Dame. $45.00, paper.
Castro, Fidel. GUANTANAMO: Why the Illegal US Base Should Be Returned to Cuba. Ocean. $14.95, paper.
Charpin, Dominique. READING AND WRITING IN BABYLON. Translated by Jane Marie Todd. Harvard. $29.95.
Chu, Julie Y. COSMOLOGIES OF CREDIT: Transnational Mobility and the Politics of Destination in China. Duke. $24.95, paper.
COLLINS PORTUGUESE CONCISE DICTIONARY. 3rd Edition. Harper. $17.99, paper.
Colodny, Len & Shachtman, Tom. THE FORTY YEARS WAR: The Rise and Fall of the Neocons, from Nixon to Obama. With a Foreword by Roger Morris. Harper. $16.99, paper.
Cribb, Robert. DIGITAL ATLAS OF INDONESIAN HISTORY. DVD & paperback book in slipcase. $45.00.
Dorman, Andrew M. & Kaufman, Joyce P. THE FUTURE OF TRANSATLANTIC RELATIONS: Perceptions, Policy and Practice. Stanford. $24.95, paper.
Dworkin, Ronald. JUSTICE FOR HEDGEHOGS. Harvard. $35.00.
Edmonds, Alexander. PRETTY MODERN: Beauty, Sex, and Plastic Surgery in Brazil. Duke. $24.95, paper.
Feldman, Ilana & Ticktin, Miriam, editors. IN THE NAME OF HUMANITY: The Government of Threat and Care. Duke. $24.95, paper.
Filiu, Jean-Pierre. APOCALYPSE IN ISLAM. Translated by M.B. DeBevoise. California. $29.95.
Finlayson, Clive. THE HUMANS WHO WENT EXTINCT: Why Neanderthals Died Out and We Survived. Oxford. $16.95, paper.
Harcourt, Bernard E. THE ILLUSION OF FREE MARKETS: Punishment and the Myth of Natural Order. Harvard. $29.95.
Haspelmath, Martin & Sims, Andrea D. UNDERSTANDING MORPHOLOGY. Second Edition. Hodder Education. $44.50, paper.
Helprin, Mark. DIGITAL BARBARISM: A Writer’s Manifesto. Harper. $14.99, paper.
Hood, Christopher. THE BLAME GAME: Spin, Bureaucracy, and Self-Preservation in Government. Princeton. $39.95.
Hosking, Geoffrey. TRUST: Money, Markets and Society. Seagull. $14.95.
Huffington, Arianna. THIRD WORLD AMERICA: How Our Politicians are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream. Crown. $23.99.
Johnson, Chalmers. DISMANTLING THE EMPIRE: America’s Last Best Hope. Metropolitan. $25.00.
Kim, Eleana J. ADOPTED TERRITORY: Translational Korean Adoptees and the Politics of Belonging. Duke. $23.95, paper.
Kreisman, Jerold J., MD, & Straus, Hal. I HATE YOU—DON’T LEAVE ME: Understanding the Borderline Personality. Completely Revised & Updated. Perigee. $15.00, paper.
Kuran, Timur. THE LONG DIVERGENCE: How Islamic Law Held Back the Middle East. Princeton. $29.95.
Lane, K. Maria D. GEOGRAPHIES OF MARS: Seeing and Knowing the Red Planet. Chicago. $45.00.
Ledbetter, James. UNWARRANTED INFLUENCE: Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Military-Industrial Complex. Yale. $26.00.
Levmore, Saul & Nussbaum, Martha C., editors. THE OFFENSIVE INTERNET. Harvard. $27.95.
Leib, Ethan J. FRIEND V. FRIEND: The Transformation of Friendship—and What the Law Has to Do With It. Oxford. $29.95.
Macey, Jonathan R. CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: Promises Kept, Promises Broken. Princeton. $24.95, paper.
Mandel, Robert. DARK LOGIC: Transnational Criminal Tactics and Global Security. Stanford. $24.95, paper.
Mason, John Edwin, photographs & text by. ONE LOVE, GHOEMA BEAT: Inside the Cape Town Carnival. Virginia. $24.50, paper.
Matasar, Ann B. WOMEN OF WINE: The Rise of Women in the Global Wine Industry. California. $18.95, paper.
McGovern, Patrick E. UNCORKING THE PAST: The Quest for Wine, Beer, and Other Alcoholic Beverages. California. $18.95, paper.
McNally, Richard J. WHAT IS MENTAL ILLNESS? Harvard. $27.95.
Meltzer, David J. FIRST PEOPLES IN A NEW WORLD: Colonizing Ice Age America. California. $19.95, paper.
Middleton, Neil. HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE? Haiti and Beyond. Seagull. $14.95.
Mittermaier, Amira. DREAMS THAT MATTER: Egyptian Landscapes of the Imagination. California. $21.95, paper.
Mullen, Ann L. DEGREES OF INEQUALITY: Culture, Class, and Gender in American Higher Education. Johns Hopkins. $50.00.
Nelson, Lisa S. AMERICA IDENTIFIED: Biometric Technology and Society. MIT. $32.00.
Nguyen, Vinh-Kim. THE REPUBLIC OF THERAPY: Triage and Sovereignty in West Africa’s Time of AIDS. Duke. $22.95, paper.
Ntarangwi, Mwenda. REVERSED GAZE: An African Ethnography of American Anthropology. Illinois. $20.00, paper.
Orr, Marion & Rogers, John, editors. PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION: Joining Forces to Revitalize Democracy and Equalize Schools. Stanford. $24.95, paper.
Reid-Henry, S.M. THE CUBAN CURE: Reason and Resistance in Global Science. Chicago. $39.00.
Richardson, Peter. A BOMB IN EVERY ISSUE: How the Short, Unruly Life of Ramparts Magazine Changed America. New Press. $17.95, paper.
Shapiro, Ian. THE REAL WORLD OF DEMOCRATIC THEORY. Princeton. $24.95, paper.
Shapiro, Scott J. LEGALITY. Harvard. $39.95.
Sharpsteen, Bill. THE DOCKS. California. $27.50.
Simons, Suzanne. MASTER OF WAR: Blackwater USA’s Erik Prince and the Business of War. Harper. $15.99, paper.
Renard, Jules. NATURE STORIES. Translated by Douglas Parmee. Illustrated by Pierre Bonnard. New York Review of Books. $14.95, paper.
Shirk, Susan L., editor. CHANGING MEDIA, CHANGING CHINA. Oxford. $19.95, paper.
Spyer, Jonathan. THE TRANSFORMING FIRE: The Rise of the Israel-Islamist Conflict. Continuum. $29.95.
Steiner, Philippe. DURKHEIM AND THE BIRTH OF ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY. Princeton. $45.00.
Stocking, George W., Jr. GLIMPSES INTO MY OWN BLACK BOX: An Exercise in Self-Deconstruction. Wisconsin. $24.95, paper.
Taylor, Lance. MAYNARD’S REVENGE: The Collapse of Free Market Macroeconomics. Harvard. $39.95.
Walljasper, Jay. ALL THAT WE SHARE: A Field Guide to the Commons. With an Introduction by Bill McKibben. New Press. $18.95, paper.
Winne, Mark. FOOD REBELS, GUERRILLA GARDENERS, AND SMART-COOKIN’ MAMAS: Fighting Back in an Age of Industrial Agriculture. Beacon. $24.95.
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Arnold, Daniel. EARLY DAYS IN THE RANGE OF LIGHT: Encounters with Legendary Mountaineers. Counterpoint. $24.95, paper.
Brown, Mike. HOW I KILLED PLUTO AND WHY IT HAD IT COMING. Spiegel & Grau. $25.00.
de Duve, Christian. GENETICS OF ORIGINAL SIN: The Impact of Natural Selection on the Future of Humanity. Yale. $26.00.
Ellis, Richard. ON THIN ICE: The Changing World of the Polar Bear. Vintage. $18.95, paper.
Gibbs, Lois Marie. LOVE CANAL. Updated Edition. Island. $29.50, paper.
Gorman, Michael E., editor. TRADING ZONES AND INTERACTIONAL EXPERTISE: Creating New Kinds of Collaboration. MIT. $30.00, paper.
Hart, Roger. THE CHINESE ROOTS OF LINEAR ALGEBRA. Johns Hopkins. $65.00.
Hecht, Susanna & Cockburn, Alexander. THE FATE OF THE FOREST: Developers, Destroyers, and Defenders of the Amazon. Updated Edition. Chicago. $22.50, paper.
Henderson, Carrol L. MAMMALS, AMPHIBIANS, AND REPTILES OF COSTA RICA: A Field Guide. Foreword by Winnie Hallwachs. Texas. $29.95, paper.
Holland, Barbara. SECRETS OF THE CAT: Its Lore, Legend, and Lives. With a New Introduction. Harper. $13.99, paper.
Koller, Dov. THE RESTLESS PLANT. Edited by Elizabeth Van Volkenburgh. Harvard. $39.95.
Krimsky, Sheldon & Simoncelli, Tania. GENETIC JUSTICE: DNA Data Banks, Criminal Investigations, and Civil Liberties. Columbia. $29.95.
Leonard, Annie. THE STORY OF STUFF: How Our Obsession with Stuff is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and Our Health—and a Vision for Change. Free Press. $26.00.
Lieberman, Daniel E. THE EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN HEAD. Harvard. $39.95.
Masten, James, Ph.D., LCSW. AGING WITH HIV: A Gay Man’s Guide. Oxford. $17.95, paper.
Rothery, David A. PLANETS: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford. $11.95, paper.
Stewart, John, et al., editors. ENACTION: Toward a New Paradigm for Cognitive Science. MIT. $40.00.
Waldbauer, Gilbert. FIREFLIES, HONEY, AND SILK. California. $17.95, paper.
Weintraub, David A. HOW OLD IS THE UNIVERSE? Princeton. $29.95.
White, Augustus A. III, M.D. SEEING PATIENTS: Unconscious Bias in Health Care. Harvard. $27.95.
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Ahern, Cecelia. THE GIFT. Harper. $19.99.
THE BELIEVER, SEVENTY-FIFTH ISSUE: Straight Talk. McSweeney’s. $8.00, journal.
Anderson, Patrick. SO MUCH WASTED: Hunger, Performance, and the Morbidity of Resistance. Duke. $21.95, paper.
Arsic, Branka & Wolfe, Cary, editors. THE OTHER EMERSON. Afterword by Stanley Cavell. Minnesota. $27.50, paper.
Ashmore, Robert. THE TRANSPORT OF READING: Text and Understanding in the World of Tao Qian (365-427). Harvard University Asia Center. $39.95.
Atlan, Henri. THE SPARKS OF RANDOMNESS, VOLUME I: Spermatic Knowledge. Translated by Lenn J. Schramm. Stanford. $24.95, paper.
Ballard, J.G. THE COMPLETE STORIES OF J.G. BALLARD. Introduction by Martin Amis. Norton. $24.95, paper.
Bashkin, Orit. THE OTHER IRAQ: Pluralism and Culture in Hashemite Iraq. Stanford. $24.95, paper.
Baski, Kurdo. STIEG LARSSON: Our Days in Stockholm: A Memoir of a Friendship. Pegasus. $22.00.
Beiner, Ronald. CIVIL RELIGION: A Dialogue in the History of Political Philosophy. Cambridge. $43.50, paper.
Bell, Madison Smartt. DEVIL’S DREAM. Vintage. $15.95, paper.
Bender, Courtney & Klassen, Pamela E., editors. AFTER PLURALISM: Reimagining Religious Engagement. Columbia. $29.50, paper.
Berger, Dan, editor. THE HIDDEN 1970S: Histories of Radicalism. Rutgers. $26.95, paper.
Berglund, Barbara. MAKING SAN FRANCISCO AMERICAN: Cultural Frontiers in the Urban West, 1846-1906. Kansas. $19.95, paper.
Biale, David. NOT IN THE HEAVENS: The Tradition of Jewish Secular Thought. Princeton. $35.00.
Black, Candice. GHOSTS OF THE BLACK CHAMBER: Experimental, Dada & Surrealist Photography 1918-1948. Solar Books. $29.95, paper.
Blom, Philipp. THE VERTIGO YEARS: Europe, 1900-1914. Basic Books. $18.95, paper.
Bolton, Andrew. ANNA SUI. Preface by Jack White. Foreword by Anna Sui. Introduction by Steven Meisel. Chronicle Books. $60.00.
Boswell, James. LONDON JOURNAL 1762-1763. Introduction & Notes by Gordon Turnbull. Penguin. $17.00, paper.
Botto, Antonio. THE SONGS OF ANTONIO BOTTO. Translated by Fernando Pessoa. Edited & with an Introduction by Josiah Blackmore. Minnesota. $17.95, paper.
Botwinick, Aryeh. MICHAEL OAKESHOTT’S SKEPTICISM. Princeton. $35.00.
Brenner, Aaron, et al., editors. REBEL RANK AND FILE: Labor Militancy and Revolt from Below During the Long 1970s. Verso. $29.95, paper.
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