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How to Create the Perfect Wife
Wendy Moore
A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s
Stephanie Coontz
The Moment of Psycho
David Thomson
A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market
A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market
John Allen Paulos
A More Unbending Battle
Peter Nelson
A Time to Every Purpose: Letters to a Young Jew
A Time to Every Purpose: Letters to a Young Jew
Jonathan D. Sarna
April 4, 1968
April 4, 1968
Michael Eric Dyson
Boys Adrift: Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men
Boys Adrift: Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men
Leonard Sax
Elmer McCurdy
Elmer McCurdy
Mark Svenvold
Ever Is a Long Time: A Journey into Mississippi's Dark Past
Ever Is a Long Time: A Journey into Mississippi's Dark Past
W. Ralph Eubanks
Fixing My Gaze
Susan R. Barry
Girls on the Edge: The Four Factors Driving the New Crisis for Girls
Leonard Sax
I Am My Mother's Daughter: Making Peace with Mom Before It's Too Late
I Am My Mother's Daughter: Making Peace with Mom Before It's Too Late
Iris Krasnow
In Search of Moby Dick: The Quest for the White Whale
In Search of Moby Dick: The Quest for the White Whale
Tim Severin
Ithaka: A Daughter's Memoir of Being Found
Ithaka: A Daughter's Memoir of Being Found
Sarah Saffian
Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democracy
Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democracy
Jean Bethke Elshtain
Just War Against Terror
Just War Against Terror
Jean Bethke Elshtain
Lives of the Planets
Lives of the Planets
Richard Corfield
Locust
Locust
Jeffrey A. Lockwood
Machine Beauty: Elegance and the Heart of Technology
Machine Beauty: Elegance and the Heart of Technology
David Gelernter
Made In Texas
Made In Texas
Michael Lind
Mercy, Mercy Me
Mercy, Mercy Me
Michael Eric Dyson
Mirror, Mirror
Mirror, Mirror
Mark Pendergrast
Pearl Harbor: The Day of Infamy—An Illustrated History
Pearl Harbor: The Day of Infamy—An Illustrated History
Dan Van Freeman
The Assassin's Accomplice
The Assassin's Accomplice
Kate Clifford Larson
The Best Year of Their Lives
The Best Year of Their Lives
Lance Morrow
The Classical World
The Classical World
Robin Lane Fox
The Cornel West Reader
The Cornel West Reader
Cornel West
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
Jonathan Haidt
The Mommy Brain: How Motherhood Makes Us Smarter
The Mommy Brain: How Motherhood Makes Us Smarter
Katherine Ellison
The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Succeeds in the West and Fails Everywhere Else
The Mystery of Capital
Hernando DeSoto
The Old Girls' Network
The Old Girls' Network
The Original Knickerbocker
The Original Knickerbocker
Andrew Burstein
The Overspent American
Juliet B. Schor
The Past is Never Dead
Harry MacLean
The Rise of the Virtual State: Wealth and Power in the Coming Century
The Rise of the Virtual State
Richard Rosecrance
The Vertigo Years
The Vertigo Years
Philipp Blom
Thy Kingdom Come: How the Religious Right Distorts the Faith and Threatens America
Randall Balmer
Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How it Transformed Our World
Uncommon Grounds
Mark Pendergrast
Vaclav Havel: A Political Tragedy in Six Acts
Vaclav Havel: A Political Tragedy in Six Acts
John Keane
Walker Evans
Walker Evans
James R. Mellow
What Would the Founders Do?
What Would the Founders Do?
Richard Brookhiser
Who's Your City?
Who's Your City?
Richard Florida
Why Orwell Matters
Why Orwell Matters
Christopher Hitchens