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This biography analyzes how Nobel Prize-winning mathematician John Nash's eccentric personality helped him to develop revolutionary mathematical processes, and chronicles the transformation of this prolific eccentricity into a 30-year bout of paranoid schizophrenia and eventual recovery in 1990. Nas... Read more

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A new poetry collection, concerned with themes of irony and temporariness. ... Read more

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Dorothy Bliss, having buried her husband Ted, spends her remaining years in a condominium overlooking Florida's Biscyane bay. Her character is illuminated not with action and plot twists, but rather with the mundane quotidian details of her life as an 80-year-old widow in the final stages of her own... Read more

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Newbery Award-winning writer Paula Fox recollects the tragedy of her upbringing in this woeful memoir. With an alcoholic father and a mother who aggressively rejected her, Fox was raised by a collection of diversely irresponsible parties whose eccentricities and cruelties she had to find ways to ove... Read more

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A two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and author of the best-selling Ghost Wars traces the Bin Laden family's rise to power and privilege, describes the diverse lifestyles of the generation to which Osama bin Laden belongs, and discusses their attempts to recover from the effects of September 11. ... Read more

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Oscar Wao is an overweight Dungeons & Dragons-playing geek living in a Dominican-American ghetto whose dreams are cut short by the 500-year curse that has plagued his family and his people, "The Curse of the New World." In his first novel since his universally revered collection of sho... Read more

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British historian Simon Schama provides a fresh historical perspective as he tells how and why many American slaves chose to fight on the British side during the American Revolution. Decrying the misinformation spread at the time by the American side, Schama explains the British views on slavery, in... Read more

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Named one of the best books of the year by the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, Business Week, and GQ, THE CHIEF: THE LIFE OF WILLIAM RANDLOPH HEARST is "an absorbing and ingeniously organized biography . . . of the most powerful publisher America has ever known"... Read more

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This renowned poet's 11th collection is populated by an eclectic cast including eminent figures of the Greek Pantheon, Godzilla, W. E. B. Du Bois, Rodin, and Darwin's finches. Though the dramatis personae are diverse, the form of the poems--always four unrhymed quatrains--provides an even grid to su... Read more

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Ariel Sabar grew up ashamed of his idiosyncratic father, Yona, a Kurdish Jew from a tiny Iraqi village. Impelled by a mid-life desire to understand him, Sabar investigates the lost world in which his father grew up, retracing the family's expulsion from Iraq, their abysmal period in Israel, and thei... Read more

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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, this brilliantly reported and beautifully crafted book explores the clash between a medical center in California and a Laotian refugee family over their care of a child--and the lack of understanding that led to tragedy. ... Read more

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Journalist Dexter Filkins provides a long view of the conflict with Islamofascism, before and after 9/11. Filkins reports on the rise of the Taliban in the '90s, the attacks of September 11, the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, and their aftermath. He covers a great deal of territory, reporting fr... Read more

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Twenty-one-year-old Joyce Johnson, an aspiring novelist and a secretary at a New York literary agency, fell in love with Jack Kerouac on a blind date arranged by Allen Ginsberg nine months before the publication of On the Road made Kerouac an instant celebrity. While Kerouac traveled to Tangiers, Sa... Read more

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Rembrandt, Houdini, Barnum, and the Hardy Boys gather in this collection of poems by Goldberg in which the drive of his storytelling is met by the erudition of his imagination. Family, identity, and salvation are pondered in poems that are, by turns, witty and grave. ... Read more

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In BROWN, Rodriguez explores the impact of Hispanics in the U.S. today, points out that while Hispanics become Americanized, the U.S. itself gets Latinized, and in effect argues for a rethinking of the national complexion. A New York Times Notable Book of 2002. ... Read more

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From her birth in rural Manitoba, to her journey with her father to southern Indiana, to her years as a wife, mother, and widow, to her old age, Daisy Stone Goodwill struggles to find a place for herself in her own life. ... Read more

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In this study of race, medicine, and history, Harriet A. Washington provides an in-depth account of three centuries of medical experimentation on African Americans by the medical community, and the ideas that lay behind it all. Carried out without the knowledge or consent of the subjects, this so-ca... Read more

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We think of Stanley as a cruel imperialist who connived with King Leopold II of Belgium in horrific crimes against the people of the Congo--and the journalist who conducted the most legendary celebrity interview in history, opening with, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" But these perc... Read more

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A colorful history of modern music is set against the backdrop of the events, personalities, social institutions, and cultural movements of the twentieth century, chronicling the evolution of mass culture and mass politics, technological innovation, revolution, social experiments, and more in terms ... Read more

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