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Collapse_ How Societies Choose - Jared Diamond
"A magisterial effort packed with insight and written with clarity and enthusiasm. It's also the deal of the year---the equivalent of a year's college course by an engaging, brilli... -
Clarkson on Cars - Jeremy Clarkson
SUMMARY: Jeremy Clarkson is the second-best motoring writer in Britain. For twenty years, he's been driving cars, writing about them and occasionally voicing his opinions about the... -
China's Trapped Transition_ The - Minxin Pei
ReviewMinxin Pei is unquestionably one of this country's best informed and most insightful analysts of contemporary Chinese politics. This well-written, provocative book-a soberin... -
Chango's Beads and Two-Tone Sho - William Kennedy
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ironweed, a dramatic novel of love and revolution from one of America's finest writers. When journalist Daniel Quinn meets Ernest Hemingw... -
Carved in Bone - Jefferson Bass
From Publishers WeeklyThe pseudonymous Bass makes a successful first foray into fiction. The author is actually the writing team of Dr. Bill Bass, the forensic anthropologist who f... -
Cam Jansen and the Mystery Writ - David A. Adler
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Cabin - Lou Ureneck
Inspired by his From the Ground Up New York Times blog, a beautifully written memoir about building and brotherhood.Confronted with the disappointments and knockdowns that can come... -
Business Networking and Sex_ No - Ivan Misner; Hazel M. Walker; F
About the AuthorDr. Ivan Misner is the Founder and Chairman of BNI, the world’s largest business networking organization. He has written fifteen books including three ... -
Bungalow 2 - Danielle Steel
From Publishers WeeklyIn Steel's latest, 42-year-old Tanya Harris loves her life as a mother of three, wife of a dashing San Francisco lawyer and moderately successful writer of sh... -
Broca's Brain - Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan, writer and scientist, returns from the frontier to tell us about how the world works. In his delightfully down-to-earth style, he explores and explains a mind-boggling ...