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| Adjust Your Brain |
Adjust Your Brain:
A Practical Theory for Maximizing Mental Health
By Paul J. Fitzgerald
O Books, October 2007.
Correcting an imbalance in brain chemistry requires little more than an observatio...
The World & I Online, Kym Kuenning |
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| The Story of Huck Finn's No-Account Father |
FINN
By Jon Clinch
Random House, $23.95, 287 pages
Did you ever wonder about the families of some of literature's most memorable characters? Say Ahab's mother? Or Holden Caulfield's own kids? ...
The World & I Online, John Greenya |
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| Editing Ernest |
Of the making of many books on Ernest Hemingway there is no end. In the nearly 46 years since Hemingway's death, scholars and enthusiasts have published book-length works on everything related to his ...
The World & I Online, James E. Person Jr. |
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| Elizabeth I and Two Explorers |
THE PIRATE QUEEN: QUEEN ELIZABETH I, HER PIRATE ADVENTURERS, AND THE DAWN OF EMPIRE
By Susan Ronald
HarperCollins, $26.95, 471 pages
DR.LIVINGSTONE, I PRESUME? MISSIONARIES, JOURNALISTS, EXPLORER...
The World & I Online, John M. Taylor and Priscilla S. Taylor |
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| Giving Nuclear Weaponry to Third World Countries |
THE ATOMIC BAZAAR: THE RISE OF THE NUCLEAR POOR
By William Langewiesche
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $22, 179 pages
If you grew up in the United States in the era after World War II, you undoubt...
The World & I Online, A.G. Gancarski |
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| Is she Blanca, or not? |
IN HER ABSENCE
By Antonio Munoz Molina
Translated from the Spanish by Esther Allen
Other Press, $113.95, 126 pages
Did she or didn't she? Is she or isn't she? Spanish novelist Antonio Munoz Mo...
The World & I Online, Carol Herman |
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| The Great Depression |
THE FORGOTTEN MAN: A NEW HISTORY OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION
By Amity Shlaes
HarperCollins, $26.95, 480 pages
Amity Shlaes' brilliant and highly readable book surely must be the best analysis of the ...
The World & I Online, Ernest W. Lefever |
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| The Playwright's Poems |
THE COLLECTED POEMS OF TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Edited by David Roessel and Nicholas Moschovakis
With a cd of the author reading
New Directions, $23.50, 304 pages
In the late 1970s, at the invitat...
The World & I Online, Carol Herman |
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| Doing as the Romans Did? |
ARE WE ROME?
By Cullen Murphy
Houghton Mifflin, $24.00,
Historical metaphors can be dangerous things. Politicians, scholars and journalists often use them to back up an argument or explain a com...
The World & I Online, Claude R. Marx |
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