Generalissimo jacket
THE GENERALISSIMO
Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China
JAY TAYLOR
“[In this] lucid biography...Taylor does not conceal Chiang's brutality and diplomatic failures, but he is an admirer who makes a good case that Chiang governed an almost ungovernable country with reasonable skill and understood his enemies better than American advisers did.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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Selling Sounds jacket
SELLING SOUNDS
The Commercial Revolution in American Music
DAVID SUISMAN
“Virgin's music emporium will soon become a thing of the past: Like so many other retail music stores of late, it has announced that it is going out of business. The story of Selling Sounds, then, is especially timely.”
—Wall Street Journal
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Failure of Capitalism Jacket
A FAILURE OF CAPITALISM
The Crisis of ’08 and the Descent into Depression
RICHARD A. POSNER
The financial and economic crisis that began in 2008 is the most alarming of our lifetime because of the warp-speed at which it is occurring. Posner presents a concise and non-technical examination of this mother of all financial disasters and of the, as yet, stumbling efforts to cope with it.
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Fresh jacket
FRESH
A Perishable History
SUSANNE FREIDBERG
“Fresh is an engagingly original way of looking at food history, both thought-provoking and entertaining.”
—Mark Kurlansky, author of The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell
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Mothers and Others jacket
MOTHERS AND OTHERS
The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding
SARAH BLAFFER HRDY
“For as long as she's been a sociobiologist, Sarah Hrdy has been playfully dismantling traditional notions of motherhood and gender relations...Now Hrdy is back with another book, Mothers and Others, and another big idea.”
—Julia Wallace, Salon
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Origin of Stories jacket
ON THE ORIGIN OF STORIES
Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction
BRIAN BOYD
“A searching, free-wheeling book that sets forth a Darwinian view of narrative's place in human history.”
—National Post
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