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The Quiet Room - Lori Schiller; Amanda Bennett
At seventeen Lori Schiller was the perfect child -- the only daughter of an affluent, close-knit family. Six years later she made her first suicide attempt, then wandered the stree... -
The Myth of Mental Illness - Thomas S. Szasz
50th Anniversary Edition With a New Preface and Two Bonus EssaysThe most influential critique of psychiatry ever written, Thomas Szasz's classic book revolutionized thinking about ... -
The Chomsky Reader - Noam Chomsky
From Library JournalFrom the 1960s to the present, linguist Chomsky has been a prominent critic of American foreign policy, influential in radical and scholarly circles. This colle... -
The Ayn Rand reader - Ayn Rand; Gary Hull; Leonard Pe
SUMMARY: The Fountainhead, which became one of the most influential and widely read philosophical novels of the twentieth century, made Ayn Rand famous. An impassioned proponent of... -
Sweet Poison - David Roberts
It is August 1935 and the Duke of Mersham is hosting one of his influential parties, bringing together public figures interested in improving Anglo-German relations. One of his gue... -
Spook Country - William Gibson
Amazon.com ReviewNow that the present has caught up with William Gibson's vision of the future, which made him the most influential science fiction writer of the past quarter centu... -
Pauline Kael - Brian Kellow
The first biography of The New Yorker's influential, powerful, and controversial film critic.A decade after her death, Pauline Kael remains the most important figure in film critic... -
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez; Gregory
SUMMARY: One of the most influential literary works of our time, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a dazzling and original achievement by the masterful Gabriel García Márquez, winne... -
One Billion Customers - James McGregor
James McGregor is everybody's go-to guy on China, providing strategic advice to top political leaders and Fortune 500 CEOs, serving as an insightful and influential China commentat... -
Man in the Middle - Brian Haig
SUMMARY: For newly promoted Army lieutenant colonel Sean Drummond, his latest assignment starts off simply enough: find out if the death of one of D.C.'s most influential defense o...