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Whistling in the Pentagon

The Pentagonists: An Insider's View of Waste, Mismanagement, and Fraud in Defense Spending

by A. Ernest Fitzgerald

New Weapons, Old Politics: America's Military Procurement Muddle

by Thomas L. McNaugher


Balancing Act

A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters

by Julian Barnes


The Secret Agent

Territory of Lies: The Exclusive Story of Jonathan Jay Pollard: The American Who Spied On His Country for Israel and How He was Betrayed

by Wolf Blitzer


The Narcissistic South

Encyclopedia of Southern Culture

edited by Charles Reagan Wilson, edited by William Ferris


Being and Dying

The Encyclopedia of the Dead

by Danilo Kiš, translated by Michael Henry Heim


Up from Beethoven

Nineteenth-Century Music

by Carl Dahlhaus, translated by J. Bradford Robinson


Stories from the Ice Age

Spring Bamboo: A Collection of Contemporary Chinese Short Stories

compiled and translated by Jeanne Tai, with a foreword by Bette Bao Lord, an introduction by Leo Ou-fan Lee

I Myself Am a Woman: Selected Writings of Ding Ling

edited by Tani E. Barlow, with Gary J. Bjorge

Lapse of Time

by Wang Anyi, introduction by Jeffrey Kinkley

Baotown

by Wang Anyi, translated by Martha Avery


From Hirohito to Heimat

La Mémoire vaine: du crime contre l'humanité

by Alain Finkielkraut

Hotel Terminus

a film by Marcel Ophuls

From Hitler to Heimat: The Return of History as Film

by Anton Kaes

In Hitler's Shadow: West German Historians and the Attempt to Escape From the Nazi Past

by Richard J. Evans

What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?: Growing Up German

by Sabine Reichel

The Other Nuremberg: The Untold Story of the Tokyo War Crimes Trials

by Arnold C. Brackman

Hirohito: Behind the Myth

by Edward Behr

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A Front-Line Classicist

Essays Ancient and Modern

by Bernard Knox


Can South Africa Change?

In the Name of Apartheid: South Africa in the Postwar Period

by Martin Meredith

South Africa: No Turning Back

edited by Shaun Johnson, foreword by Lord Bullock

Inside Apartheid: One Woman's Struggle in South Africa

by Janet Levine

Democratic Liberalism in South Africa: Its History and Prospect

edited by Jeffrey Butler, edited by Richard Elphick, edited by David Welsh

After Apartheid: The Solution for South Africa

by Frances Kendall and Leon Louw, foreword by Samuel Motsuenyane

Uprooting Poverty: The South African Challenge

by Francis Wilson and Mamphela Ramphele

Can South Africa Survive? Five Minutes to Midnight

edited by John D. Brewer

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Success Story

The Triumph of Liberalism: Zürich in the Golden Age, 1830–1869

by Gordon A. Craig


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