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  In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India

  by Edward Luce

  India remains a mystery to many Americans, even as it is poised to become the world’s third largest economy within a generation, outstripping Japan. It will surpass China in population by 2032 and will have more English speakers than the United States by 2050. In In Spite of the Gods , Edward Luce, a journalist who covered India for many years, makes brilliant sense of India and its rise to global power. Already... (more)
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  Lord of the Flies

  by William Golding

  14.5 Million copies sold to date The classic, startling, and perennially bestselling portrait of human nature-now available as a Premium Edition with a stunning new cover and re-set, easy-to-read text.
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  The Wretched of the Earth

  by Frantz Fanon, Richard Philcox

  A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Frantz Fanon was one of the most important theorists of revolutionary struggle, colonialism, and racial difference in history. Fanon's masterwork is a classic alongside Edward Said's Orientalism or The Autobiography of Malcolm X, and it is now available in a new translation that updates its language for a new... (more)
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  Miriam's Song: A Memoir

  by Miriam Mathabane

  Mark Mathabane first came to prominence with the publication of Kaffir Boy, which became a New York Times bestseller. His story of growing up in South Africa was one of the most riveting accounts of life under apartheid. Mathabane's newest book, Miriam's Song, is the story of Mark's sister, who was left behind in South Africa. It is the gripping tale of a woman -- representative of an entire generation --... (more)
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  We Borrow the Earth : An Intimate Portrait of the Gypsy Shamanic Tradition and Culture

  by Patrick Jasper Lee

  Gypsies have long been a source of both fascinationa and fear.