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American Cocktail: A “Colored Girl” in the World	Reynolds, Anita Hutchinson, George	HARDCOVER	02/24/2014	$29.95
The Burden of Female Talent: The Poet Li Qingzhao and Her History in China	Egan, Ronald C.	HARDCOVER	02/17/2014	$59.95
Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life	Eiland, Howard Jennings, Michael W.	HARDCOVER	01/20/2014	$41.00
Emperor Huizong	Ebrey, Patricia Buckley	HARDCOVER	01/06/2014	$52.00
Fire and Ashes: Success and Failure in Politics	Ignatieff, Michael	HARDCOVER	11/19/2013	$25.50
To Free a Family: The Journey of Mary Walker	Nathans, Sydney	PAPERBACK	11/18/2013	$21.50
The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman	Kopenawa, Davi Albert, Bruce Elliott, Nicholas Dundy, Alison	HARDCOVER	11/15/2013	$41.00
Orpheus in the Marketplace: Jacopo Peri and the Economy of Late Renaissance Florence	Carter, Tim Goldthwaite, Richard A.	HARDCOVER	11/04/2013	$57.00
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China	Vogel, Ezra F.	PAPERBACK	10/14/2013	$26.00
Makers of Modern India	Guha, Ramachandra	PAPERBACK	10/14/2013	$26.00
The Keats Brothers: The Life of John and George	Gigante, Denise	PAPERBACK	10/07/2013	$26.00
Eugene Braunwald and the Rise of Modern Medicine	Lee, Thomas H.	HARDCOVER	09/09/2013	$35.00
The Life of Patriarch Ignatius	Nicetas David Smithies, Andrew	HARDCOVER	07/08/2013	$30.00
Adams Family Correspondence, Volume 11: July 1795–February 1797	Adams Family Hogan, Margaret A. Taylor, C. James Martin, Sara Millikan, Neal E. Woodward, Hobson Sikes, Sara B. Lint, Gregg L.	HARDCOVER	07/01/2013	$109.00
Alexander Wilson: The Scot Who Founded American Ornithology	Burtt, Edward H. Davis, William E.	HARDCOVER	06/24/2013	$35.00
The Iron Princess: Amalia Elisabeth and the Thirty Years War	Helfferich, Tryntje	HARDCOVER	06/10/2013	$46.50
The Life of Saint Symeon the New Theologian	Stethatos, Niketas Greenfield, Richard P. H.	HARDCOVER	05/20/2013	$35.00
Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Novelist	Douglas-Fairhurst, Robert	PAPERBACK	05/13/2013	$19.50
The Lius of Shanghai	Cochran, Sherman Hsieh, Andrew	HARDCOVER	04/22/2013	$46.50
Tiger Writing: Art, Culture, and the Interdependent Self	Jen, Gish	HARDCOVER	03/25/2013	$18.95
Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death: Reflections on Memory and Imagination	Kulka, Otto Dov Mandel, Ralph	HARDCOVER	03/19/2013	$23.95
Spartacus	Schiavone, Aldo Carden, Jeremy	HARDCOVER	03/05/2013	$19.95
Diary and Autobiographical Writings of Louisa Catherine Adams, Volumes 1 and 2: 1778–1849	Adams, Louisa Catherine Graham, Judith S. Luey, Beth Hogan, Margaret A. Taylor, C. James	HARDCOVER	02/26/2013	$195.00
Soldier of Christ: The Life of Pope Pius XII	Ventresca, Robert A.	HARDCOVER	01/15/2013	$35.00
Declaring His Genius: Oscar Wilde in North America	Morris, Roy	HARDCOVER	01/07/2013	$26.95
His Majesty’s Opponent: Subhas Chandra Bose and India’s Struggle against Empire	Bose, Sugata	PAPERBACK	11/12/2012	$22.50
How To Do Biography: A Primer	Hamilton, Nigel	PAPERBACK	10/22/2012	$19.50
Nuclear Forces: The Making of the Physicist Hans Bethe	Schweber, Silvan S.	HARDCOVER	06/18/2012	$35.00
Papers of John Adams, Volume 16: February 1784 – March 1785	Adams, John Lint, Gregg L. Taylor, C. James Karachuk, Robert F. Woodward, Hobson Hogan, Margaret A. Millikan, Neal E. Sikes, Sara B. Martin, Sara Georgini, Sara Norton, Amanda Mathews Connolly, James T.	HARDCOVER	06/08/2012	$109.00
Moses Montefiore: Jewish Liberator, Imperial Hero	Green, Abigail	PAPERBACK	05/07/2012	$22.50
The Devil's Wall: The Nationalist Youth Mission of Heinz Rutha	Cornwall, Mark	HARDCOVER	04/09/2012	$46.50
Henry Friendly, Greatest Judge of His Era	Dorsen, David M.	HARDCOVER	03/27/2012	$35.00
The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination	MacCarthy, Fiona	HARDCOVER	02/29/2012	$35.00
Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times	Kelley, Robin D. G.	HARDCOVER	02/27/2012	$24.95
Walter Benjamin: A Philosophical Portrait	Friedlander, Eli	HARDCOVER	01/15/2012	$48.50
Lake Views: This World and the Universe	Weinberg, Steven	PAPERBACK	11/30/2011	$22.50
Capitalist Revolutionary: John Maynard Keynes	Backhouse, Roger E. Bateman, Bradley W.	HARDCOVER	11/15/2011	$25.95
Trotsky: A Biography	Service, Robert	PAPERBACK	10/30/2011	$28.50
Galileo's Muse: Renaissance Mathematics and the Arts	Peterson, Mark Austin	HARDCOVER	10/17/2011	$28.95
Our Fritz: Emperor Frederick III and the Political Culture of Imperial Germany	Müller, Frank Lorenz	HARDCOVER	10/10/2011	$54.50
The Promise of Memory: Childhood Recollection and Its Objects in Literary Modernism	Martens, Lorna	HARDCOVER	10/10/2011	$42.00
The Pursuits of Philosophy: An Introduction to the Life and Thought of David Hume	Baier, Annette C.	HARDCOVER	10/04/2011	$30.50
A Northern Alternative: Xue Xuan (1389–1464) and the Hedong School	Koh, Khee Heong	HARDCOVER	09/19/2011	$39.95
Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings: A Tercentenary Celebration	Johnson, Samuel Martin, Peter	PAPERBACK	05/31/2011	$28.50
Field Notes on Science & Nature	Canfield, Michael R.	HARDCOVER	05/30/2011	$39.95
Shredding the Tapestry of Meaning: The Poetry and Poetics of Kitasono Katue (1902–1978)	Solt, John	PAPERBACK	05/23/2011	$24.95
Early Writings (1910–1917)	Benjamin, Walter Eiland, Howard	HARDCOVER	05/09/2011	$27.95
Prison Blossoms: Anarchist Voices from the American Past	Berkman, Alexander Bauer, Henry Nold, Carl Brody, Miriam Buettner, Bonnie	HARDCOVER	05/05/2011	$26.95
The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China	Taylor, Jay	PAPERBACK	04/30/2011	$23.50
Up from History: The Life of Booker T. Washington	Norrell, Robert J.	PAPERBACK	04/30/2011	$23.50

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