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Homeward from Heaven

Part of Columbia University Press’s laudable resurrection of lost Russian voices, Poplavsky’s fiery human document impetuously shoulders its way alongside the works of Rimbaud, Fante, and Bukowski in the cult fiction pantheon.
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DVS Mindz: The Twenty-Year Saga of the Greatest Rap Group To Almost Make It Outta Kansas

Readers interested in Midwest hip-hop should enjoy this book.

Neither Confirm nor Deny: How the Glomar Mission Shielded the CIA from Transparency

Comprehensive research makes this book as engaging as any espionage novel. An essential read.
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Unequal Cities: Overcoming Anti-Urban Bias To Reduce Inequality in the United States

The book covers perspectives already extensively discussed in urban literature.

Crooked, but Never Common: The Films of Preston Sturges

It’s obvious Klawans has pored over Sturges’s films. After reading his thoughtful analyses, film buffs will want to rewatch them, armed with new insights.
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Backfire: How Sanctions Reshape the World Against U.S. Interests

This book is a broad and welcome examination of sanctions and will be appreciated by both the general reader and serious scholar, which makes it a perfect addition to economic and policy collections.
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Darwin’s Love of Life: A Singular Case of Biophilia

A wonderful holistic understanding of Charles Darwin’s life and his own evolution. Recommended for fans of biologist/writer E. O. Wilson.
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Going Low: How Profane Politics Challenges American Democracy

Although academic, the prose is still accessible, and the author does a skillful job of breaking down the strategies that everyone will recognize from daily news coverage. An excellent buy for any political collection.
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The Analyst: A Daughter’s Memoir

This memoir looks into the past of medical research and provides some context as to how far the field has come today. Anyone interested in the history of mental health care and genetic diseases would find this memoir fascinating.
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