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Advocacy
Championing Ideas and Influencing Others
Lots of people have good ideas, but very few are ever enacted. What steps can you take to ensure that your own good ideas are realized? When a group of people gather together to generate ideas for solving a...
Restoring the Power of Unions
It Takes a Movement
The labor movement is weak and divided. Some think that it is dying. But Julius Getman, a preeminent labor scholar, demonstrates through examination of recent developments that a resurgent labor movement is possible. He...
The Theory That Would Not Die
How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy
A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice: A vivid account of the generations-long dispute over Bayes' rule, one of the greatest breakthroughs in the history of applied mathematics and statistics
The Courage to Be
Selected as one of the Books of the Century by the New York Public Library"The Courage to Be changed my life. It also profoundly impacted the lives of many others from my generation. Now Harvey...
Auschwitz and After
The memoir of Charlotte Delbo, a French writer sent to Auschwitz for her resistance activities against the Nazi occupation of France and the Vichy government“Delbo’s exquisite and unflinching account of...
JFK
A Photographic Memoir
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Marcel Proust
A Life, with a New Preface by the Author
The extraordinary life and times of Marcel Proust, one of the greatest literary voices of the twentieth century, by "Proust's definitive biographer" (Harold Bloom) Based on a wealth of letters,...
The Message and the Book
Sacred Texts of the World's Religions
A magisterial single-volume guide to the great faiths of the world through their most important writings Grand in its sweep, this survey of the sacred writings of the major religions of the world offers...
The Serpent and the Lamb
Cranach, Luther, and the Making of the Reformation
Together, Cranach's paintings and Luther's powerful oratory created a force field that transformed Germany, Europe, and ultimately the Western world This compelling book retells and revises the story of...
The Arch Conjuror of England
John Dee
Outlandish alchemist and magician, political intelligencer, apocalyptic prophet, and converser with angels, John Dee (1527–1609) was one of the most colorful and controversial figures of the Tudor world. In this fascinating...