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'Carbon Ideologies' examines 鈥� exhaustively 鈥� non-renewable energyThese fat volumes are full of scientific exposition, data in charts, and dozen-page interviews, all to make the point that our understanding of the perils of nonrenewable energy may be too little, too late.
'What We Were Promised' depicts post-Mao China in a deft debut novel set in ShanghaiSet against a contemporary global backdrop, Tan explores the timeless servant-master class conflict.
10 best books of July: the Monitor's picksFrom India's elite to French gastronomy to 19th-century Shanghai, here are the new July titles that most impressed the Monitor's book critics.聽
'The Wonderful Mr. Willughby' profiles a pioneer of ornithology and early scientistWillughby was a citizen scientist, a foot soldier in the war against ignorance.
'A Terrible Country' follows an ex-pat who returns to experience life in RussiaAn academic learns to see Russia through the eyes of his 90-year-old grandmother.聽 聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽
'Don't Make Me Pull Over' celebrates the family road tripAdvertising copywriter Richard Ratay says his own fond memories inspired him to research the history of the family road trip.
'The Poisoned City' tells the horrific story of Flint's contaminated waterAnna Clark's brutally honest book takes us from point A to point Z.
Romantic or racist? Perceptions shift on 'Little House on the Prairie'When racism is revealed in a beloved children鈥檚 classic, it raises questions about how best to respect child readers and provide them with the tools to explore themselves and the world around them.聽聽
'First In Line' profiles modern vice presidents from Nixon to PenceJournalist Kate Brower interviewed all of the former living vice presidents among the 200 subjects she spoke to and her extensive reporting pays off.
3 books for deep summer readingFor readers for whom 'summer reading' means 'a really long book,' here are three pleasing giants.
'What to Read and Why' shares a personal love of authors and titlesFrancine Prose鈥檚 wide-ranging oeuvre encompasses everything from biographies of Anne Frank and the painter Caravaggio to young adult novels about bullying and sex.
'Verdi' takes a lively approach to uncovering the man behind the art'The Man Revealed' is an introduction to Verdi, as a man rather than as a composer. Suchet takes great pains not to get bogged down in boring details or obscure music theory.
5 books about sports other than baseball These recent releases offer plenty of variety
'Northland' is an entertaining trip along America's 4,000-mile northern border
4 audiobooks that tell personal stories This month we are listening to three memoirs and one novel that sounds like a memoir.聽聽
'There There' weaves a powerful tale of contemporary urban Native AmericansOrange's debut novel follows 12 indigenous people living in Oakland, Calif., all wrestling with the effects of their heritage on their daily experiences.
Ruby Lal, author of 'Empress,' discusses the amazing life and reign of Nur JahanLal explores the powerful Indian empress who was much more than a romantic icon.
Donald Hall: poet, farmer, indefatigable observer of life
'Squeezed' paints a dark picture of an American middle class that can't keep upJournalist Alissa Quart takes a hard look at 'the Middle Precariat,' highly educated Americans who are barely able to keep up the facade of middle class respectability.
Colombia's 'lord of the books' saves tomes from the trashWhen Jos茅 Alberto Gutierrez began working as a garbage collector in 1997, he thought it was a waste that so many books were being thrown away. So he decided to save them. Now known as聽the 鈥渓ord of the books," Mr. Gutierrez has donated thousands of books across Colombia.聽
