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Medieval Cuisine of the Islamic World by Lilia Zaouali

Vinegar and sugar, dried fruit, rose water, spices from India and China, sweet wine made from raisins and dates--these are …

The Monkey's Voyage by Alan de Queiroz

Throughout the world, closely related species are found on landmasses separated by wide stretches of ocean. What explains these far-flung …

Qualityland by Marc-Uwe Kling

Leviathan Falls by James S. A. Corey

The Laconian Empire has fallen, setting the thirteen hundred solar systems free from the rule of Winston Duarte. But the …

The Triumph of Seeds by Thor Hanson

We live in a world of seeds. From our morning toast to the cotton in our clothes, they are quite …

Do androids dream of electric sheep? by Philip K. Dick

It was January 2021, and Rick Deckard had a license to kill. Somewhere among the hordes of humans out there, …

The Memory Code by Lynne Kelly

Gang leader for a day by Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh

First introduced in Freakonomics, here is the full story of Sudhir Venkatesh, the sociology grad student who infiltrated one of …

The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber, David Wengrow

For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike--either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. …

Putin country by Anne Garrels

"A revealing look into the lives of ordinary Russians. More than twenty years ago, the longtime NPR correspondent Anne Garrels …

Lives of Weeds by John Cardina

Lives of Weeds by John Cardina

Make It Stick by Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger, Mark A. McDaniel

To most of us, learning something "the hard way" implies wasted time and effort. Good teaching, we believe, should be …

Overboard! by Michael J. Tougias

Democracy in Chains by Nancy MacLean

"An explosive expose of the right's relentless campaign to eliminate unions, suppress voting, privatize public education, and change the Constitution. …