In Raban's first novel since the mid '80s, readers come into gruesome contact with the disintegrating marriage of a pretentious writing professor and his neglected wife. Advance readers say one of the best aspects of the book is its frighteningly accurate depiction of Seattle during the dotcom boom.
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Biology professor Andrew Goliszek presents a deeply disturbing book covering the whole sordid history of “medical” abuse throughout the ages, but focussing mainly on our own government's dubious experiments on unwilling human subjects. Creepy but fascinating stuff.
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The title sums it up nicely. Van Lew grew up in a slave-owning family in Virginia. When the Civil War broke out, she not only helped Union prisoners escape, but built up a formidable intelligence network to aid the North. An extraordinary biography.
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Covering a gigantic swath of time from prehistory to the 17th century, Galloway examines Native American existence before contact with Europeans. In the process, he dismantles several aspects of conventional wisdom about indigenous American cultures.
