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A Soviet MemoirSee Deborah Kaple interviewed for New Books in History: http://newbooksinhistory.com/ The searing accounts of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Evgeniia Ginsberg and Varlam Shalamov opened the world&'s eyes to the terrors of the Soviet Gulag. But not until now has there been a memoir of life inside the camps written from the perspective of an...

The author's main contention is that the American Civil War was the real Revolutionary War, and that Lincoln was the catalyst of this revolution....

Geography, Destiny, and Globalization's Rough LandscapeThe world is not as mobile or as interconnected as we like to think. As Harm de Blij argues in The Power of Place, in crucial ways--from the uneven distribution of natural resources to the unequal availability of opportunity--geography continues to hold billions of people in its grip. We...

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The hippocampus is one of a group of remarkable structures embedded within the        brain's medial temporal lobe. Long known to be important for memory, it has been a        prime focus of neuroscience research for many years. The Hippocampus Book promises        to facilitate developments in the field in a major way by bringing together, for...

Medical Ethicists Confront CancerThis book tells the stories of seven people with a distinct perspective on cancer. Experts on medical ethics, personal experience showed them how little they knew about the real world of serious illness. In this book, they describe cancer's teachings on ethics, medicine, and the experience of illness....