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Hamid Dabashi
Persian Parables

A major reassessment of the parable in Persian literature and its contribution to philosophical and creative thinkingIn this book, Hamid Dabashi offers a radical reconsideration of the parable in Persian …

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Krista N. Dalton
How Rabbis Became Experts

"How rabbinic expertise was socially constructed, performed, and defended in Roman Palestine at the turn of the common era. The Jewish communities of Roman Palestine saw the organization of a small g…

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Edwidge Danticat
Create Dangerously

A New York Times Notable Book A Miami Herald Best Book of the YearA moving and deeply personal account of art and exile from Edwidge Danticat, winner of two National Book Critics Circle Awards---now with …

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Charles Darwin,
The Descent of Man

"The first annotated edition of the book that shocked the Victorian world and continues to generate controversy today"-- Provided by publisher.

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Charles Darwin,
The Quotable Darwin

"If anyone ever asks me which figure from history I'd invite to a dinner party, my instant answer will be Charles Darwin. This book of quotations is one long argument for his profundity, warmth, char…

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Indraneil Das
A Field Guide to the Reptiles of Borneo

A richly illustrated, easy-to-use identification guide to all of Borneo's reptilesBorneo is home to a marvellous array of crocodiles, turtles, lizards and snakes. This comprehensive field guide covers the…

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Andreas W Daum,
Alexander Von Humboldt

An engaging account of the life and work of the legendary polymath Alexander von HumboldtIn this lucid biography, Andreas Daum offers a succinct and novel interpretation of the life and oeuvre of Alexande…

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Joshua Clark Davis
Police Against the Movement

A bold retelling of the 1960s civil rights struggle through its work against police violence-and a prehistory of both the Black Lives Matter and Blue Lives Matter movements that emerged half a century lat…

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Arthur der Weduwen
The Last Invasion of England

An electrifying narrative history that reframes Britain's constitutional revolution as a full-scale Dutch invasionIn popular accounts of the Glorious Revolution of 1688, the autocratic Catholic King James…

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Owen Deutsch, Michael J Parr
Birds of the Tropical Andes

A spectacular photographic guide to the birds and biodiversity of the tropical AndesSpanning much of the western part of South America, the Andes are home to some of the world's most magnificent birds, fr…

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Jeff Deutsch
In Praise of Good Bookstores

From a devoted reader and lifelong bookseller, an eloquent and charming reflection on the singular importance of bookstoresDo we need bookstores in the twenty-first century? If so, what makes a good one? …

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Klaas-Douwe B Dijkstra
Dragonflies and Damselflies of the World

A richly illustrated guide to the incredible diversity of dragonflies and damselflies around the world.

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Carsten F Dormann, Aaron M Ellison
Statistics by Simulation

An accessible guide to understanding statistics using simulations, with examples from a range of scientific disciplinesReal-world challenges such as small sample sizes, skewed distributions of data, biase…

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Lawrence Douglas
The Criminal State

A sweeping history of the struggle to hold states to account for their gravest crimesThe Criminal State offers a gripping account of how law has confronted the most radical forms of state violence. Beauti…

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D B Dowd
Reading Pictures

A history of illustration from the beginning of popular print to the rise of mass literacy and into today's age of digital mediaOf all the visual arts, illustration shares a unique relationship with the w…

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Hugo Drochon
Elites and Democracy

Why elites always rule democracies-and why recognizing that reality can help us respond to the crisis of democracy todayA central paradox of democracies is that they are always ruled by elites. What can d…

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Mary L Dudziak
Cold War Civil Rights

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the YearHow the fight for civil rights in America became an important front in the Cold WarIn 1958, an African American handyman named Jimmy Wilson was sentenced to …

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Mary Dunn
Where Paralytics Walk and the Blind See

An exploration of early modern accounts of sickness and disability-and what they tell us about our own approach to bodily differenceIn our age of biomedicine, society often treats sickness and disability …

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Jennie Durant
Bitter Honey

"An ambitious, important, and utterly captivating book."---Mary Roach, New York Times bestselling author of Replaceable You and Stiff A revealing investigation into how industrial farming poses …

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Eric R Eaton,
Bugwatching

Discover the pleasures of watching insects with this fun, informative, and marvelously illustrated how-to guideInsects are the most abundant wildlife on the planet-but also the least observed. This incisi…

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