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Nature
HomeGround
Barry Lopez (ed.)
Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape
Politics
AudacityofHope
Barack Obama
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
Psychology
PracticalPsychoanalysis
Owen Renik
Practical Psychoanalysis for Therapists & Patients
Cooking
StartingwithIngredients
Aliza Green
Starting With Ingredients: The Quintessential Recipes for the Way We Really Cook
Art
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Virgil
The Aeneid
The new translation by Robert Fagles
U.S. History
RiseAmericanDemocracy
Sean Wilentz
The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln
Now in paper!
Science
TroublewithPhysics
Lee Smolin
The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science, & What Comes Next
Science
SingularityisNear
Ray Kurzweil
The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
Now in paper!
American Studies
HumboldtCurrent
Aaron Sachs
The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration & the Roots of American Envionmentalism
African American Studies
WaitingTilMidnight
Peniel Joseph
Waiting ‘Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America
Cooking
LifeisMeals
James & Kay Salter
Life Is Meals: A Food Lover’s Book of Days
Art
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Jonathan Harr
The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece
Now in paper!

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