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Ghosts

Standard Operating Procedure

a film directed by Errol Morris

Standard Operating Procedure

by Philip Gourevitch and Errol Morris


The Jim Webb Story

A Time to Fight: Reclaiming a Fair and Just America

by Jim Webb


Virgil Lives!

The Virgilian Tradition: The First Fifteen Hundred Years

edited by Jan M. Ziolkowski and Michael C.J. Putnam


In Love with Duras

Wartime Writings: 1943–1949

by Marguerite Duras, edited by Sophie Bogaert and Olivier Corpet, and translated from the French by Linda Coverdale

The War: A Memoir

by Marguerite Duras,translated from the French by Barbara Bray

The North China Lover

by Marguerite Duras, translated from the French by Leigh Hafrey


India: The Place of Sex

Chola: Sacred Bronzes of Southern India

catalog of the 2007 exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, edited by Vidya Dehejia

The Book of Love: The Story of the Kamasutra

by James McConnachie

Kamasutra: A New, Complete English Translation of the Sanskrit Text

by Wendy Doniger and Sudhir Kakar

Kiss of the Yogini: "Tantric Sex" in Its South Asian Contexts

by David Gordon White


Holy Restlessness

The Religious Case Against Belief

by James P. Carse


The UN and the Race Against Death

A Billion Lives: An Eyewitness Report from the Frontlines of Humanity

by Jan Egeland


Garibaldi’s Gift

Garibaldi: Citizen of the World

by Alfonso Scirocco, translated from the Italian by Allan Cameron


Jefferson & Betrayal

Friends of Liberty: Thomas Jefferson, Tadeusz Kosciuszko, and Agrippa Hull: A Tale of Three Patriots, Two Revolutions, and a Tragic Betrayal of Freedom in the New Nation

by Gary B. Nash and Graham Russell Gao Hodges

Freedom's Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers

by Richard S. Newman


Melville’s Second Act

Melville: The Making of the Poet

by Hershel Parker

Exiled Royalties: Melville and the Life We Imagine

by Robert Milder


Casting a Lifeline

In Ma Jian’s lyrical, unexpectedly humorous novel ‘Beijing Coma,’ the narrator gradually realizes he is in a coma, having been shot in the head during the 1989 demonstration-massacre in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square.

Beijing Coma

by Ma Jian, translated from the Chinese by Flora Drew


England: The Big Change

A Mad, Bad, and Dangerous People? England 1783–1846

by Boyd Hilton


How Willing Were They?

Life and Death in the Third Reich

by Peter Fritzsche

Ghettostadt: Lodz and the Making of a Nazi City

by Gordon J. Horwitz


How the Mind Works: Revelations

The Physiology of Truth: Neuroscience and Human Knowledge

by Jean-Pierre Changeux, translated from the French by M.B. DeBevoise

Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors: From Molecular Biology to Cognition

by Jean-Pierre Changeux and Stuart J. Edelstein

Conversations on Mind, Matter, and Mathematics

by Jean-Pierre Changeux and Alain Connes, translated from the French by M.B. DeBevoise

What Makes Us Think? A Neuroscientist and a Philosopher Argue about Ethics, Human Nature, and the Brain

by Jean-Pierre Changeux and Paul Ricoeur, translated from the French by M.B. DeBevoise

Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind

by V.S. Ramachandran and Sandra Blakeslee, with a foreword by Oliver Sacks

Mirrors in the Brain: How Our Minds Share Actions and and Emotions

by Giacomo Rizzolatti and Corrado Sinigaglia, translated from the Italian by Frances Anderson

A Universe of Consciousness: How Matter Becomes Imagination

by Gerald M. Edelman and Giulio Tononi

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