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  Bowling Alone

  The Collapse and Revival of American Community

  by Robert D. Putnam

  Once we bowled in leagues, usually after work -- but no longer. This seemingly small phenomenon symbolizes a significant social change that Robert Putnam has identified in this brilliant volume, Bowling Alone, which The Economist hailed as "a prodigious achievement." Drawing on vast new data that reveal Americans' changing behavior, Putnam shows how we have become increasingly disconnected from one another... (more)
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  Tropical Classical

  Essays from Several Directions

  by Pico Iyer

  In Tropical Classical the author of Video Nights in Katmandu and The Lady and the Monk visits a holy city in Ethiopia, where hooded worshippers practice a Christianity that has remained unchanged since the Middle Ages. He follows the bewilderingly complex route of Bombay's dabbawallahs , who each day ferry 100,000 different lunches to 100,000 different workers. Iyer chats with the Dalai Lama and assesses... (more)
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  Bruce Chatwin: A Biography

  by Nicholas Shakespeare

  Award-winning novelist Nicholas Shakespeare has written the definitive biography of one of the most influential literary figures of our time: Bruce Chatwin, whose works’ strangely compelling combination of research, first-hand experience, myth, and mystification may have been the real substance of his seemingly contradictory life. Chatwin’s first book, In Patagonia , became an international bestseller, revived... (more)
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  The Riddle and the Knight: In Search of Sir John Mandeville, the World's Greatest Traveller

  by Giles Milton

  Giles Milton's first book, The Riddle and the Knight , is a fascinating account of the legend of Sir John Mandeville, a long-forgotten knight who was once the most famous writer in medieval Europe. Mandeville wrote a book about his voyage around the world that became a beacon that lit the way for the great expeditions of the Renaissance, and his exploits and adventures provided inspiration for writers such as... (more)
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  Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure

  by Michael Palin

  A look at the life of Ernest Hemingway follows the author of Pole to Pole as he retraces Hemingway's life, from fly fishing in Northern Michigan all the way to Cuba, with 175 color photographs illustrating the journey. TV tie-in. 35,000 first printing. Tour.
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  Albion

  The Origins of the English Imagination

  by Peter Ackroyd

  With his characteristic enthusiasm and erudition, Peter Ackroyd follows his acclaimed London: A Biography with an inspired look into the heart and the history of the English imagination. To tell the story of its evolution, Ackroyd ranges across literature and painting, philosophy and science, architecture and music, from Anglo-Saxon times to the twentieth-century. Considering what is most English about artists... (more)
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  Things My Mother Never Told Me

  by Blake Morrison

  Following the acclaimed memoir And When Did You Last See Your Father,? Blake Morrison sets out to discover the many things he never knew about his mother's past. Through a series of letters from his parents' passionate World War II courtship, he uncovers a startling, touching story: a mysterious name change, a religious conundrum, and a frustrated career. Evocative and candid, Things My Mother Never Told Me paints... (more)
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  Dictionary of Theories

  by Jennifer Bothamley

  different theories of philosophy
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  The Twentieth-Century Mind: History, Ideas and Literature in Britain: History, Ideas and Literature in Britain. In Three Volumes

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  The Discovery of Happiness (Discovery)

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  The Pill Book (14th Edition): New and Revised 14th Edition

  by Harold M. Silverman, Ian Ginsberg

  THE CONSUMER’S GUIDE TO PILLS—COMPLETELY REVISED 14th EDITION FOR 2010 WITH MORE THAN 20 IMPORTANT NEW DRUGS AND DOZENS OF NEW BRAND NAMES   For more than three decades, millions of consumers have trusted The Pill Book to provide official, FDA-approved information on more than 1,800 of the most commonly prescribed drugs in the United States with guidelines from leading pharmacists. Each drug is profiled in a... (more)