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A New Newton

Isaac Newton

by James Gleick


The Don of Dons

When Hollywood Had a King: The Reign of Lew Wasserman, Who Leveraged Talent into Power and Influence

Connie Bruck


Secret Geometry

Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Man, the Image and the World

with essays by Philippe Arbaïzar, Jean Clair, Claude Cookman, Robert Delpire, Peter Galassi, Jean-Noël Jeanneney, Jean Leymarie, and Serge Toubiana, and with translations from the French by Jane Brenton


Which Way to Mecca? Part II

Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam

by Gilles Kepel

Militant Islam Reaches America

by Daniel Pipes

The Two Faces of Islam: The House of Sa'ud from Tradition to Terror

by Stephen Schwartz

Terror and Liberalism

by Paul Berman

The Future of Political Islam

by Graham E. Fuller

After Jihad: America and the Struggle for Islamic Democracy

by Noah Feldman

Faithlines: Muslim Conceptions of Islam and Society

by Riaz Hassan

The Ulama in Contemporary Islam: Custodians of Change

by Muhammad Qasim Zaman

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The Cambodia Obsession

The Gate

by François Bizot, translated from the French by Euan Cameron, with a foreword by John le Carré


After the Fall

Oryx and Crake

by Margaret Atwood


A Lost World

Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies

by Elizabeth McHenry


Mysteries of Growth

Why Economies Grow: The Forces That Shape Prosperity and How We Can Get Them Working Again

by Jeff Madrick


Algeria’s Failed Revolution

La Sale Guerre

by Habib Souaïdia

The Battlefield: Algeria, 1988–2002, Studies in a Broken Polity

by Hugh Roberts

Double Blanc

by Yasmina Khadra

Time for Reckoning: Enforced Disappearances in Algeria

by The Human Rights Watch


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