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The Best Military Science Ficti - Harry Turtledove
Amazon.com ReviewIt's not merely a task that's thankless--it's impossible. How can you hope to pick out the best of anything, let alone from such a contentious category as SF (and ... -
The Best American Science and N - Freeman Dyson
The author of the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning Weapons and Hope edits a collection of the finest science and nature writing. Original. 30,000 first printing. -
The Berlin Conspiracy - Tom Gabbay
From Publishers WeeklyWallowing in a post–Bay of Pigs funk, ex-CIA agent Jack Teller is called out of retirement in 1963 and sent to Berlin to meet an East German agent with a mess... -
The Believing Brain - Michael Shermer
Review“Michael Shermer has long been one of our most committed champions of scientific thinking in the face of popular delusion. In The Believing Brain, he has written a wonderful.... -
The Beauty Myth_ How Images of - Naomi Wolf
The bestselling classic that redefined our view of the relationship between beauty and female identity.In today's world, women have more power, legal recognition, and professional ... -
The Bean Trees - Barbara Kingsolver
Clear-eyed and spirited, Taylor Greer grew up poor in rural Kentucky with the goals of avoiding pregnancy and getting away. But when she heads west with high hopes and a barely fun... -
The Battle for Skandia - John Flanagan
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Still far from their homeland after escaping slavery in the icebound land of Skandia, Will and Evanlyn's plans to return to Araluen are spoiled when Evanlyn is ta... -
The Battery - Henry Schlesinger
In the tradition of Mark Kurlansky's Cod and David Bodanis's E=MC2, The Battery is the first popular history of the technology that harnessed electricity and powered the greatest s... -
The Bang-Bang Club - Greg Marinovich; Joao Silva
Ask any foreign editor on a national paper what part of the job gives them the most grief, and you'll almost certainly be told, "the foreign correspondents". Almost without excepti... -
The Balfour Declaration - Jonathan Schneer
Issued in London in 1917, the Balfour Declaration was one of the key documents of the twentieth century. It committed Britain to supporting the establishment in Palestine of “a Nat...