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Melville the Great

Melville: His World and Work

by Andrew Delbanco


Determined Spirit

Vincent Van Gogh: The Drawings

Catalog of the exhibition by Colta Ives, Susan Alyson Stein, Sjraar van Heughten, and Marije Vellekoop


Inside the Madrasas

Islamic Education and Conflict: Understanding the Madrassahs of Pakistan

by Saleem H. Ali

Globalized Islam: The Search for a New Ummah

by Olivier Roy

The War for Muslim Minds: Islam and the West

by Gilles Kepel, translated from the French by Pascale Ghazaleh

Understanding Terror Networks

by Marc Sageman

Landscapes of the Jihad: Militancy, Morality and Modernity

by Faisal Devji

Bastions of the Believers: Madrasas and Islamic Education in India

by Yoginder Sikand

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What Art Does

The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa

by Michael Kimmelman


The Horrors of War

Kaputt

by Curzio Malaparte, translated from the Italian by Cesare Foligno, with an afterword by Dan Hofstadter


The Chinese Shadow: II

Three Billion New Capitalists: The Great Shift of Wealth and Power to the East

by Clyde Prestowitz

China, Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World

by Ted C. Fishman

China's Urban Transition

by John Friedmann

Made in China: Women Factory Workers in a Global Workplace

by Pun Ngai

The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge to China's Future

by Elizabeth C. Economy


Arguing with God

Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine

by Harold Bloom

The Life of David

by Robert Pinsky


New World Symphony

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

by Charles C. Mann


The Warrior Children

Children at War

by P.W. Singer

They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky: The True Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan

by Alephonsion Deng, Benson Deng, and Benjamin Ajak

The Lost Boys of Sudan: An American Story of the Refugee Experience

by Mark Bixler


Top Doc

Harvey Cushing: A Life in Surgery

by Michael Bliss


The Boss

Boss Tweed: The Rise and Fall of the Corrupt Pol Who Conceived the Soul of Modern New York

by Kenneth D. Ackerman


The First Feminist

Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft

by Lyndall Gordon


The Irish Indian Chief

White Savage: William Johnson and the Invention of America

by Fintan O'Toole


Proust’s Way?

Swann's Way

by Marcel Proust, translated from the French by Lydia Davis

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