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Antisemitism

Part One of The Origins of Totalitarianism

by Hannah Arendt
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012

The first volume of Arendt’s celebrated three-part study of the philosophical origins of the totalitarian mind. This volume focuses on the rise of antisemitism in Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Index.

Off Course

Inside the Mad, Muddy World of Obstacle Course Racing

by Erin Beresini
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014

**“Beresini uncovers the growing sport’s most compelling characters and provides the most authoritative insiders’ guide to date.” —Outside “Obstacle course racing has taken the endurance world by storm, and in Off Course Erin Beresini gives us an insider perspective into the conflict...
by Penelope Fitzgerald
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 1997

**NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING EMILY MORTIMER, BILL NIGHY, AND PATRICIA CLARKSON Short-listed for the Booker Prize “A beautiful book, a perfect little gem.” — BBC Kaleidoscope “A marvelously piercing fiction.” —** Times Literary Supplement In 1959 Florence Green, a...
by James Oswald
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013

A young girl's mutilated body is discovered in a room that has lain sealed for the last sixty years. Her remains are carefully arranged in what seems to have been a macabre ritual. For newly appointed Edinburgh Detective Inspector Tony McLean, this baffling cold case ought to be a low priority,...
by Virginia Woolf
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2006

The author received three separate requests for a gift of one guinea-one for a women’s college building fund, one for a society promoting the employment of professional women, and one to help prevent war and “protect culture, and intellectual liberty.” This book is a threefold answer to these requests-and a statement of feminine purpose.
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Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012

The Best American Series® First, Best, and Best-Selling The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume’s series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. A special...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017

For a quarter century, the annual Best American Sports Writing has showcased the greatest sports journalism of the previous year. This year’s guest editor, acclaimed author Howard Bryant, continues the tradition, seeking out writing that best captures the unpredictable journey of sports. Triumphantly...

Arnie and Jack

Palmer, Nicklaus, and Golf's Greatest Rivalry

by Ian O'Connor
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2009

Surprisingly, one of sport’s most contentious, complex, and defining clashes played out not in the boxing ring or at the line of scrimmage but on the genteel green fairways of the world’s finest golf courses. Arnie and Jack. Palmer and Nicklaus. Their fifty-year duel, in both the clubhouse and...

The Cheating Culture

Why More Americans Are Doing Wrong to Get Ahead

by David Callahan
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007

You're standing at an ATM. It can't access account information but allows unlimited withdrawals. Do you take more than your balance? David Callahan thinks most of us would. While there have always been those who cut corners, he shows that cheating on every level—from the highly publicized corporate...

The Politics of Upheaval

1935-1936, The Age of Roosevelt, Volume III

by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2003

The Politics of Upheaval, 1935-1936, volume three of Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and biographer Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.’s Age of Roosevelt series, concentrates on the turbulent concluding years of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first term. A measure of economic recovery revived political conflict...

The Prize

Who's in Charge of America's Schools?

by Dale Russakoff
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015

A New York Times Bestseller Mark Zuckerberg, Chris Christie, and Cory Booker were ready to reform our failing schools. They got an education. When Mark Zuckerberg announced to a cheering Oprah audience his $100 million pledge to transform the downtrodden schools of Newark, New Jersey,...

The Best American Travel Writing 2011

The Best American Series

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Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011

The Best American Series® First, Best, and Best-Selling The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume’s series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites . A special guest...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015

In his introduction, guest editor Andrew McCarthy says that the best travel writing is “the anonymous and solitary traveler capturing a moment in time and place, giving meaning to his or her travels.” The stories in The Best American Travel Writing 2015 demonstrate just that spirit, whether it...

The Unbanking of America

How the New Middle Class Survives

by Lisa Servon
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017

“[A] startling and absorbing exposé . . . Required reading for fans of muckraking authors like Barbara Ehrenreich.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review “Exceptional . . . thorough, and even gut-wrenching. A significant contribution.”—American Prospect Why Americans are fleeing...
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