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Empire and Honor

Empire and Honor

W E B Griffin & William E. Butterworth IV

A Sting in the Tale

A Sting in the Tale

The Kindness of Strangers

The Kindness of Strangers

Skip Langdon (6)

A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush

A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush

The Road to Character

The Road to Character

Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age

Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age

When It Was Just a Game: Remembering the First Super Bowl

When It Was Just a Game: Remembering the First Super Bowl

Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction

Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction

Philip E. Tetlock & Dan Gardner

The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins

The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of ...

Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family

Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family

Anne-Marie Slaughter

Practicing Oral History in Historical Organizations

Practicing Oral History in Historical Organizations

Barbara W. Sommer

Practical Oral History Series (1)

Getting Screwed: Sex Workers and the Law

Getting Screwed: Sex Workers and the Law

The Making of Asian America: A History

The Making of Asian America: A History

Tales of the Ex-Apes: How We Think About Human Evolution

Tales of the Ex-Apes: How We Think About Human Evolution

Lean Out: The Struggle for Gender Equality in Tech and Start-Up Culture

Lean Out: The Struggle for Gender Equality in Tech and Start-Up ...

Elissa Shevinksy

The Village of Waiting

The Village of Waiting

The New York Nobody Knows

The New York Nobody Knows

William B. Helmreich

The Devil's Pleasure Palace: The Cult of Critical Theory and the Subversion of the West

The Devil's Pleasure Palace: The Cult of Critical Theory and ...

The Disaster Profiteers: How Natural Disasters Make the Rich Richer and the Poor Even Poorer

The Disaster Profiteers: How Natural Disasters Make the Rich ...

An Economy Is Not a Society

An Economy Is Not a Society

The Art of Natural Cheesemaking: Using Traditional, Non-Industrial Methods and Raw Ingredients to Make the World's Best Cheeses

The Art of Natural Cheesemaking: Using Traditional, Non-Industrial ...

Intelligent Disobedience: Doing Right When What You're Told to Do Is Wrong

Intelligent Disobedience: Doing Right When What You're Told ...

One Righteous Man: Samuel Battle and the Shattering of the Color Line in New York

One Righteous Man: Samuel Battle and the Shattering of the Color ...

A Short History of Disease: From the Black Death to Ebola

A Short History of Disease: From the Black Death to Ebola

The Misfit Economy: Lessons in Creativity From Pirates, Hackers, Gangsters and Other Informal Entrepreneurs

The Misfit Economy: Lessons in Creativity From Pirates, Hackers, ...

Alexa Clay & Kyra Maya Phillips

The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities, and Meaning of Table Manners

The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities, ...

Margaret Visser

Between the World and Me

Between the World and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Martyr's Curse

The Martyr's Curse

Adios, America: The Left's Plan to Turn Our Country Into a Third World Hellhole

Adios, America: The Left's Plan to Turn Our Country Into a Third ...

Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life

Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and ...

William Deresiewicz

After Snowden: Privacy, Secrecy, and Security in the Information Age

After Snowden: Privacy, Secrecy, and Security in the Information ...

Ronald Goldfarb & Hodding Carter, Iii & David Cole & Thomas S. Blanton & Jon Mills & Barry Siegel & Edward Wasserman

The Roughest Riders: The Untold Story of the Black Soldiers in the Spanish-American War

The Roughest Riders: The Untold Story of the Black Soldiers ...

Jerome Tuccille

The Happiness Industry: How the Government and Big Business Sold Us Well-Being

The Happiness Industry: How the Government and Big Business ...

A Lucky Life Interrupted: A Memoir of Hope

A Lucky Life Interrupted: A Memoir of Hope

Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything?: How the Famous Sell Us Elixirs of Health, Beauty & Happiness

Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything?: How the Famous Sell ...

Timothy Caulfield

When to Rob a Bank: ...And 131 More Warped Suggestions and Well-Intended Rants

When to Rob a Bank: ...And 131 More Warped Suggestions and Well-Intended ...

Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner

The Effective Altruism Handbook

The Effective Altruism Handbook

Headscarves and Hymens

Headscarves and Hymens

Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic

Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic

Faithful Republic: Religion and Politics in Modern America

Faithful Republic: Religion and Politics in Modern America

Andrew Preston & Bruce J. Schulman & Julian E. Zelizer

Evil: Inside Human Violence and Cruelty

Evil: Inside Human Violence and Cruelty

Roy F. Baumeister

Exodus: How Migration Is Changing Our World

Exodus: How Migration Is Changing Our World

Coffee: The Epic of a Commodity

Coffee: The Epic of a Commodity

American Ghost: A Family's Haunted Past in the Desert Southwest

American Ghost: A Family's Haunted Past in the Desert Southwest

Hannah Nordhaus

Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes: The Story of Women in the 1950s

Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes: The Story of Women in the 1950s

Virginia Nicholson

Princes of the Yen: Japan's Central Bankers and the Transformation of the Economy

Princes of the Yen: Japan's Central Bankers and the Transformation ...

Gambling With the Myth of the American Dream

Gambling With the Myth of the American Dream

Aaron M. Duncan

Spring Chicken: Stay Young Forever (Or Die Trying)

Spring Chicken: Stay Young Forever (Or Die Trying)

This Is What You Just Put in Your Mouth?: From Eggnog to Beef Jerky, the Surprising Secrets of What's Inside Everyday Products

This Is What You Just Put in Your Mouth?: From Eggnog to Beef ...

Patrick Di Justo

The Forgotten Holocaust

The Forgotten Holocaust

Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs

Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs

Where the Dead Pause, and the Japanese Say Goodbye: A Journey

Where the Dead Pause, and the Japanese Say Goodbye: A Journey

Marie Mutsuki Mockett

Culture Crash: The Killing of the Creative Class

Culture Crash: The Killing of the Creative Class

The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet

The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in ...

The Occupiers: The Making of the 99 Percent Movement

The Occupiers: The Making of the 99 Percent Movement

Michael A. Gould-Wartofsky

Blessing the Hands That Feed Us: Lessons From a 10-Mile Diet

Blessing the Hands That Feed Us: Lessons From a 10-Mile Diet

Black Leaders on Leadership: Conversations With Julian Bond

Black Leaders on Leadership: Conversations With Julian Bond

Phyllis Leffler

Palgrave Studies in Oral History (1)

African Americans of Tampa

African Americans of Tampa

Ersula Knox Odom

The American Dream and the Power of Wealth: Choosing Schools and Inheriting Inequality in the Land of Opportunity

The American Dream and the Power of Wealth: Choosing Schools ...

Heather Beth Johnson

Bottlenecks: A New Theory of Equal Opportunity

Bottlenecks: A New Theory of Equal Opportunity

The Resilience Dividend: Being Strong in a World Where Things Go Wrong

The Resilience Dividend: Being Strong in a World Where Things ...

Chop Suey, USA: The Story of Chinese Food in America

Chop Suey, USA: The Story of Chinese Food in America

Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans

Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle ...

The Lost Tribe of Coney Island: Headhunters, Luna Park, and the Man Who Pulled Off the Spectacle of the Century

The Lost Tribe of Coney Island: Headhunters, Luna Park, and ...

Claire Prentice