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Eric Hobsbawm is considered by many to be our greatest living historian. Robert Heilbroner, writing about Hobsbawm's The Age of Extremes 1914-1991 said, "I know of no other account...
ReviewMark Lowenthal's Intelligence: From Secrets to Policy, now in its fourth edition, is the go-to book for the most comprehensive overview on the U.S. intelligence community. In...
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EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Four of today's hottest urban fantasy writers together for the first time! ** From today's most provocative authors come four tales of urban fantasy and paranor...
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. This stimulating and bruising sequel to Scottish author Duncan's neo-Joycean_ Vellum_ (2006) projects the endless battle between good and evi....
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A penetrating survey of this tormented continent by one of the literary heavyweights of our age. In 1964 V.S. Naipaul published An Area of Darkness, his semi-autobiographical accou...
SUMMARY: Peter, twenty-seven and unemployed, embarks on this journey to avoid his family, while Evelyn, a fifty-year-old biology professor, comes in search of a more visceral life....
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