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Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman
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Science in Traditional China: A Comparative Perspective
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December 17, 1981 issue
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Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman
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Short Reviews
Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War
by William Manchester
The Wolf: A Species in Danger
by Erik Zimen, translated by Eric Mosbacher
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A Just Measure of Pain: The Penitentiary in the Industrial Revolution 1750-1850
by Michael Ignatieff
Elusive Victory: The Arab-Israeli Wars, 1947-1974
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The Dionne Years: A Thirties Melodrama
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Visions of Glory: A History and a Memory of Jehovah's Witnesses
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The Horse of Pride: Life in a Breton Village
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The Pesticide Conspiracy
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The Crime and Punishment of I.G. Farben
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Of Wolves and Men
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Acting Out: Coping with Big City Schools
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Golden Bats and Pink Pigeons
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Spooks: The Haunting of America
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by Jim Hougan
Leon Trotsky
by Irving Howe
The Year of the Ant
by George Ordish
The History of Australia: The Twentieth Century, 1901-1975
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Sun, Moon and Standing Stones
by John Edwin Wood
September 28, 1978 issue
Short Reviews
The Lowell Offering: Writings by New England Mill Women, 1840-1845
edited by Benita Eisler
Twilight of the Old Order
by Claude Manceron
February 9, 1978 issue
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The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
by David McCullough
July 14, 1977 issue
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The Fox of the North: The Life of Kutuzov
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by Roger Parkinson
Joseph Smith: The First Mormon
by Donna Hill
April 14, 1977 issue
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The Man Who Lost China
by Brian Crozier, with the collaboration of Eric Chou
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Short Reviews
The Loyal Blacks
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Song of Protest
by Pablo Neruda, translated by Miguel Algarin
June 24, 1976 issue
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A New Life of Anton Chekhov
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The Lives of Roger Casement
by B. L. Reid
Penguins: Past and Present, Here and There
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The Year the Big Apple Went Bust
by Fred Ferretti
The Search for J.F.K.
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June 10, 1976 issue
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Eagle and Sword: The Federalists and the Creation of the Military Establishment in America, 1783-1802
by Richard H. Kohn
The Long Thirst: Prohibition in America: 1920-1933
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October 16, 1975 issue
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Phenomenology and Art
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Russia Under the Old Regime
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April 17, 1975 issue
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In Praise of Darkness
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Lost Chance in China: The World War II Despatches of John S. Service
edited by Joseph W. Esherick
The Fearful Void
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Bright Eyes: The Story of Susette La Flesche, an Omaha Indian
by Dorothy Clarke Wilson
Confessions of a Bird Watcher
by Roger Barton
April 4, 1974 issue
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Ten Lost Years 1929-1939: Memories of Canadians Who Survived the Depression
by Barry Broadfoot
Dummy
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Remaking Asia: Essays on the American Uses of Power
edited by Mark Selden
All Our Kin: Strategies for Survival in a Black Community
by Carol Stack
March 21, 1974 issue
Short Reviews
My Belief: Essays on Life and Art
by Hermann Hesse, translated by Denver Lindley
Three Faces of Marxism: The Political Concepts of Soviet Ideology, Maoism, and Humanist Marxism
by Wolfgang Leonhard, translated by Ewald Oser
The Invisible China: The Overseas Chinese and the Politics of Southeast Asia
by Garth Alexander
Xingu: The Indians, Their Myths
by Orlando Villas Boas and Claudio Villas Boas, edited by Kenneth S. Brecher, translated by Susana Hertelendy Rudge
March 7, 1974 issue
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