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Ambition and Survival: Becoming a Poet

April 21, 2011
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Ambition and Survival: Becoming a Poet

Before assuming command of a revamped Poetry magazine in 2002, Wiman already wielded a reputation as a serious, outspoken poet-critic.
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I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings

April 19, 2011
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I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings

The wisdom, rue and humor of her storytelling are borne on a lilting rhythm completely her own, the product of a born writer's senses nourished on black church singing and preaching, soft mother talk and salty street talk, and on literature: James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Shakespeare and Gorki.
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Leonard Cohen: Poems and Songs

April 18, 2011
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Leonard Cohen: Poems and Songs

A magnificent selection of song lyrics and poems from across the storied career of one of the most daring and affecting poet-ongwriters in the world.
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T. S. Eliot Selected Poems

April 16, 2011
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T. S. Eliot Selected Poems

Chosen by Eliot himself, the poems in this volume represent the poets most important work before Four Quartets. Included here is some of the most celebrated verse in modern literature-”The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” “Gerontion,” “The Waste Land,” “The Hollow Men,” and “Ash Wednesday”-as well as many other fine selections from Eliots...
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The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos

April 7, 2011
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The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos

There was a time when “universe” meant all there is. Everything. Yet, in recent years discoveries in physics and cosmology have led a number of scientists to conclude that our universe may be one among many.
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The Sociopath Next Door: The Ruthless Versus the Rest of Us

April 6, 2011
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The Sociopath Next Door: The Ruthless Versus the Rest of Us

How do we recognize the remorseless? One of their chief characteristics is a kind of glow or charisma that makes sociopaths more charming or interesting than the other people around them. They're more spontaneous, more intense, more complex, or even sexier than everyone else, making them tricky to identify and leaving us easily seduced....
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

April 5, 2011
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells — taken without her knowledge — became one of the most important tools in medicine.
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Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100

April 4, 2011
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Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100

The Internet will be in your contact lens. It will recognize people's faces, display their biographies, and even translate their words into subtitles.
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