Song for the Blue Ocean: encounters along the world's coasts and beneath the seas
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Voyage of the Turtle: in pursuit of the Earth's last dinosaur
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Nothing Is Quite Forgotten in Brooklyn
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Closed Minds? Politics and Ideology in American Universities
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Experiments in Ethics
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The Lemon Tree: an Arab, a Jew, and the heart of the Middle East
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Passionate Uprisings: Iran's Sexual Revolution
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Towards a Philosophy of Photography
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The Meaning of Photography
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Photography: a Very Short Introduction
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Literature and Photography
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A Soldier of the Great War
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How to Be Good
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All poetry, all the time recommendations:
Book of Psalms: a translation with commentary
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Öyvind Fahlström: Another Space for Painting
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Reading in the Dark
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Nothing to Be Frightened Of
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Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology
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Pronged ants, horned humans, a landscape carved on a fruit pit--some of the displays in David Wilson's Museum of Jurassic Technology are hoaxes. But which ones? As he guides readers through an intellectual hall of mirrors, Lawrence Weschler revisits the 16th-century "wonder cabinets" that were the first museums and compels readers to examine the imaginative origins of both art and science.
The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property
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A Fine Balance
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Theories of Everything
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Laughter: a Scientific Investigation
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The Tunnel: Selected Poems
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What Is the What
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In a heartrending and astonishing novel, Eggers illuminates the history of the civil war in Sudan through the eyes of Valentino Achak Deng, a refugee now living in the United States. We follow his life as he's driven from his home as a boy and walks, with thousands of orphans, to Ethiopia, where he finds safety -- for a time. Valentino's travels, truly Biblical in scope, bring him in contact with government soldiers, janjaweed-like militias, liberation rebels, hyenas and lions, disease and starvation -- and a string of unexpected romances. Ultimately, Valentino finds safety in Kenya and, just after the millennium, is finally resettled in the United States, from where this novel is narrated. In this book, written with expansive humanity and surprising humor, we come to understand the nature of the conflicts in Sudan, the refugee experience in America, the dreams of the Dinka people, and the challenge one indomitable man faces in a world collapsing around him.
Everyone should read this.
Free Enterprise: a novel of Mary Ellen Pleasant
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A wonderful reimagining of a piece of American history. The novel blends the real character of Mary Ellen Pleasant, an extremely successful black businesswoman from California, with the raid on Harper's Ferry, and a Jamaican abolitionist, and...it's great!
Symmetry: a Journey in the Patterns of Nature
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Dreams of a Final Theory: a Scientist’s Search for the Ultimate Laws
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Dreams from My Father: a Story of Race and Inheritance
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In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father--a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man--has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey7first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother's family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his father's life, and at last reconciles his divided inheritance.
Out of Sight : The Rise of African American Popular Music, 1889-1895
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Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints
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Two about Brooklyn
Motherless Brooklyn
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It's a detective novel, but the main character has Tourette's. Not good for meeting with mafia Dons!
Low Company
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Sounding Art: eight literary excursions through electronic music
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Both Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln celebrate 200th birthday on 12 Feb -- or, rather, we should celebrate their joint birthday by reading stuff by and about them.
Reluctant Mr Darwin
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The Voyage of the Beagle
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