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The Lumumba Plot
A spellbinding work of history that reads like a Cold War spy thriller--about the U.S.-sanctioned plot to assassinate the democratically elected leader of the newly independent …
Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties
A fascinating look at Hollywood's most turbulent decade and the demise of the studio system--set against the boom of the post-World War II years, the Cold War, and the atomic …
Easily Slip into Another World
An autobiography of one of the towering figures of contemporary American music and a powerful meditation on history, race, capitalism, and art. Henry Threadgill has had a singular …
The Money Kings
The incredible saga of the German-Jewish immigrants--with now familiar names like Goldman and Sachs, Kuhn and Loeb, Warburg and Schiff, Lehman and Seligman--who profoundly …
Feeling and Knowing
From one of the world's leading neuroscientists--a succinct, illuminating, wholly engaging investigation of the phenomenon of consciousness. In recent decades, many philosophers …
The Landmark Xenophon's Anabasis
The ancient classic--also known as The March of the Ten Thousand or The March Up Country--now in an elegantly designed, newly translated, definitive edition that features …
What Is It All but Luminous
From the golden-haired, curly-headed half of Simon & Garfunkel, a memoir (of sorts)--moving, lyrical impressions, interspersed throughout a narrative, punctuated by poetry, …
How Can I Help?
Provides support and inspiration for us in our efforts as members of the helping professions. We learn to find strength, clarity, and wisdom for those times when we are called on …
The Gift of Southern Cooking
Edna Lewis — author of the American classic The Taste of Country Cooking — and Alabama-born chef Scott Peacock join forces in this remarkable collection of 225 recipes and …
The Source of Self-Regard
The Source of Self-Regard is brimming with all the elegance of mind and style, the literary prowess and moral compass that are Toni Morrison's inimitable hallmark. It is divided …
Interview with the Vampire
The time is now.We are in a small room with the vampire, face to face, as he speaks--as he pours out the hypnotic, shocking, moving, and erotically charged confessions of his first …
Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs
A wild, humane, and hilarious meditation on post-privacy America--from the acclaimed author of Thrown "Riveting and darkly funny and, in all senses of the word, unclassifiable... …