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The Age of Conversation (paperback) By Benedetta Craveri Translated by Teresa Waugh An award-winning look at French salons and the women who presided over them. Price: $15.16 (20% off) |
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Alone! Alone! By Rosemary Dinnage In the course of over thirty years of writing about psychology, child development, biography, and fiction, Rosemary Dinnage has encountered a variety of outstanding women, all of whom, in one way or another, felt powerfully alone. Price: $11.96 (20% off) |
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America Goes Backward By Stanley Hoffmann "Wrong assumptions, immoderate and confused ends, served by a mixture of counterproductive, inadequate, mismanaged, and, at times, scandalous means": Stanley Hoffmann's verdict on the US invasion of Iraq carries an uneasy echo of his view of the US failure in Vietnam. Price: $7.16 (20% off) |
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Animal Liberation By Peter Singer "Singer's documentation is unrhetorical and unemotional, his arguments tight and formidable, for he bases his case on neither personal nor religious nor highly abstract philosophical principles, but on moral positions most of us already accept."—The New York Times Book Review Price: $15.96 (20% off) |
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A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays By Mary McCarthy Edited and with an introduction by A.O. Scott "Fierce, provocative, and lovely, a collection of small masterpieces, by one of the twentieth century's most dazzling minds." —Katie Roiphe Price: $19.96 (20% off) |
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Bush's Fringe Government By Garry Wills Preface by James Carroll One of America's foremost historians looks at the state of American democracy and the influence of the Catholic Church. Price: $6.36 (20% off) |
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China's New Rulers (paperback) By Andrew J. Nathan Bruce Gilley China's New Rulers contains the first insights into matters of great importance to the West: who will lead China, what changes they may bring to their country, and how they may act as international partners and competitors. Price: $13.56 (20% off) |
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The Company They Kept Edited by Barbara Epstein Robert B. Silvers Our most remarkable writers share what has influenced them the most: each other. Price: $19.96 (20% off) |
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The Company They Kept (paperback) Edited by Barbara Epstein Robert B. Silvers Now in paperback. Our most remarkable writers share what has influenced them the most: each other. "These wonderful reminiscences will renew readers' appreciation for those unpredictable joys shared between all close friends." —Booklist Price: $15.96 (20% off) |
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The Consequences to Come Edited by Robert B. Silvers This collection of essays from The New York Review of Books looks back at the legacy of Bush, Cheney, and Rove, and ahead to the challenges and opportunities that will face America during the next administration. Contributors include Mark Danner, Joan Didion, Jonathan Freedland, Peter Galbraith, Joseph Lelyveld, Jonathan Raban, Frank Rich, Arthur Schlesinger Jr, and Michael Tomasky. Price: $11.96 (20% off) |
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Doing It: Five Performing Arts Edited by Robert B. Silvers In these essays, five of our most accomplished artists and critics explore questions of technique and interpretation in the performing arts. Price: $15.96 (20% off) |
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Fear and Loathing in George W. Bush's Washington By Elizabeth Drew Preface by Russell Baker Russell Baker in his preface writes: "In Washington an age of moral and philosophical sterility is deeply entrenched, and as Elizabeth Drew's reporting attests, the result is not pretty. " Price: $6.36 (20% off) |
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The First and the Last By Isaiah Berlin Tributes by Noel Annan, Stuart Hampshire, Aileen Kelly, Avishai Margalit, and Bernard Williams vividly recall Berlin as conversationalist, music lover, philosopher, and friend. The perfect introduction to Berlin's ideas. Price: $15.96 (20% off) |
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The First Anthology Edited by Barbara Epstein Rea S. Hederman Robert B. Silvers Published in conjunction with The New York Review's 30th anniversary, this striking compendium features some of the world's most distinguished writing on literature, politics, history, and culture. Price: $22.00 (20% off) |
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Five Performing Arts Edited by Robert B. Silvers In these essays, five of our most accomplished artists and critics explore questions of technique and interpretation in the performing arts. Price: $11.20 (20% off) |
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Fixed Ideas: America Since 9.11 By Joan Didion Preface by Frank Rich Joan Didion describes how, since September 11, 2001, there has been a determined effort by the administration to promote an imperial America—a "New Unilateralism"—and how, in many parts of America, there is now a "disconnect" between the government and citizens. Price: $6.36 (20% off) |
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From Heaven to Arcadia By Ingrid D. Rowland In these essays, most of them originally published in The New York Review of Books, Ingrid Rowland explores topics in the art and culture of Renaissance Italy. Price: $19.96 (20% off) |
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From Heaven to Arcadia (paperback) Written and with a new preface by Ingrid D. Rowland "Ingrid Rowland's amazing essays are over the top and down the other side. They pop, they sparkle, they inform, and they add up to a rich and vivid mosaic of Renaissance culture, its ancient sources, and its contemporary interpreters. Above all, they show us why deep scholarship and high style matter so much in this gray age of the world's history."—Anthony Grafton Price: $14.36 (20% off) |
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Glory and Terror By Steven Weinberg Preface by Anthony Lewis Steven Weinberg, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist, writes that America today "has an unprecedented opportunity to begin to escape from the risk of nuclear annihilation." But, he warns, President Bush is not only letting this opportunity slip away, he is, in some respects, moving in the wrong direction. Price: $6.36 (20% off) |
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Hidden Histories of Science Edited by Robert B. Silvers "Robert Silvers, the editor, has inspired a rewarding collection of good writing. Even where the substance inflames, the literary excellence assuages."—Walter Gratzer, Nature Price: $15.96 (20% off) |
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Hidden Histories of Science (paperback) Edited by Robert B. Silvers These essays demonstrate that science is, in the words of Oliver Sacks, "a human enterprise through and through, an organic, evolving, human growth, with sudden spurts and arrests, and strange deviations, too." Price: $11.96 (20% off) |
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India: A Mosaic Introduction by Arundhati Roy Edited by Barbara Epstein Robert B. Silvers Nine essays on India, all originally published in The New York Review of Books. Price: $19.96 (20% off) |
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Intelligence Wars (Revised and Expanded Edition) By Thomas Powers No one outside the intelligence services knows more about their culture than Thomas Powers. In this book he tells stories of shadowy successes, ghastly failures, and, more often, gripping uncertainties. Price: $15.16 (20% off) |
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It Ain't Necessarily So By Richard C. Lewontin "Though challenging for the layman, his book will reward persistent readers with a better understanding of the most controversial scientific issues of our day." —Christine Kenneally, The New York Times Book Review Price: $19.96 (20% off) |
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It Ain't Necessarily So (paperback) By Richard C. Lewontin "Though challenging for the layman, his book will reward persistent readers with a better understanding of the most controversial scientific issues of our day." (Christine Kenneally, The New York Times Book Review) Price: $11.96 (20% off) |
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Justice at War By David Cole David Cole takes a critical look at John Ashcroft, Alberto Gonzales, John Yoo, and David Addington, the men who made the decisions that shaped America's war on terror. Cole argues that America can prevail against the threat of terror not by dismantling the checks and balances that guarantee the fairness of our justice system, but by restoring them. Price: $11.96 (20% off) |
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The Legacy of Isaiah Berlin (paperback) Edited by Mark Lilla Robert B. Silvers Ronald Dworkin The papers given at the New York Institute for the Humanities conference collected in this volume concentrate on three aspects of Berlin's concept of pluralism. Price: $11.96 (20% off) |
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The Legacy of Isaiah Berlin Edited by Mark Lilla Robert B. Silvers Ronald Dworkin The two days of discussion preserved here demonstrate the continuing vitality and relevance of Isaiah Berlin's thought in today's social and political debates. Price: $18.36 (20% off) |
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Looking Back By Russell Baker In these eleven essays, all originally published in The New York Review of Books, Russell Baker looks back on a group of iconic public figures from his own past. Price: $15.96 (20% off) |
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Looking Back (paperback) By Russell Baker In these eleven essays, all originally published in The New York Review of Books, Russell Baker looks back on a group of iconic public figures from his own past. Price: $10.36 (20% off) |