Books from Pantheon Books
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Secret Life: An Autobiography
By Michael Ryan"A memoir whose sensational subject - childhood molestation and sexual addiction - becomes, through the extraordinary candor and dispassion of its telling, a deeply moral and spiritual autobiography." "Michael Ryan...
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Motown in Love: Lyrics from the Golden Era
By Herb JordanPresents the complete lyrics to over one hundred Motown love songs, grouped into such categories as lessons of love, the joy of love, and love lost, and including "I'll Be There," "My Girl," and "Please Mr. Postman."
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Why Did the Heavens Not Darken?: The "final Solution" in History
By Arno J. Mayer, Mayer. Arno J.This highly acclaimed book presents a radically new view of the origins of the Holocaust. Mayer argues that the slaughter of the Jews was not part of Hitler's plan from...
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After The Second Sex: Conversations with Simone de Beauvoir
By Simone de Beauvoir, Alice SchwarzerInterviews clarify de Beauvoir's opinions on feminism, the condition of women, her relationship with Sartre, politics, maternity, and love
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Tao Magic: The Chinese Art of the Occult
By Ireneus László LegezaTao Magic: The Chinese Art of the Occult
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Physical Intelligence: The Science of How the Body and the Mind Guide Each Other Through Life
By Scott GraftonThrough the prisms of behavioral neurology and cognitive neuroscience, Scott Grafton brilliantly accounts for the design and workings of the action-oriented brain in synchronicity with the body in the natural world, and he shows how ...
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I Live Here
By Michael Simons, J. B. MacKinnon, Mia KirshnerI Live Here is a paper documentary-an intimate journey to humanitarian crises in four corners of the world: war in Chechnya, ethnic cleansing in Burma, globalization in Mexico, and AIDS...
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McSorley's Wonderful Saloon
By Joseph MitchellNew Yorker essayist Mitchell likes to start with an unimportant hero, but collects all the facts, arranges them to give the desired effects, and usually ends by describing the customs...
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Satisfaction Guaranteed: The Making of the American Mass Market
By Susan StrasserA history of modern marketing traces the evolution of advertising, production, and sales techniques from the turn of the century to the present day
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Time Frames: The Meaning of Family Pictures
By Michael LesyTime Frames: The Meaning of Family Pictures
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Decomposition: A Music Manifesto
By Andrew DurkinA provocative inquiry into music as a personal and cultural experience offers insight into how it is composed, often wrongfully criticized and informed by neuroscientific, psychological, technological and other factors. 20,000 first ...
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Book Bytes: The User's Guide to 1200 Microcomputer Books
By Cris PopenoeBook Bytes: The User's Guide to 1200 Microcomputer Books
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The Distant Lover
By Christoph HeinThe Distant Lover
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Both: A Portrait in Two Parts
By Douglas CraseBoth is the enchanting account of a remarkable fifty-year relationship: Dwight Ripley, the child heir to an American railroad fortune, and Rupert Barneby, the product of a wealthy, baronial English...
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The Pacific War: World War II and the Japanese, 1931-1945
By Saburō IenagaA GRAPHIC ACCOUNT OF WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO GIVE UNDER AN ALL-PERVASIVE STATE SYSTEM. SHOWS HOW MILITARISTIC AND RACIST ATTITUDES WERE DISSEMINATED THROUGH, SCHOOLS, ARMY, AND FAMILY.
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Facing the Music: A Pantheon Guide to Popular Culture
By Simon FrithFacing the Music: A Pantheon Guide to Popular Culture
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America's Forgotten Folk Arts
By Frederick Fried, Mary FriedAmerica's Forgotten Folk Arts
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The Other Europe
By Jacques RupnikJacques Rupnik, one of the foremost experts on Eastern Europe, looks at the countries behind the Iron Curtain not merely as subjects of the Soviet Empire, but from within. Proposing...
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Things that Fall from the Sky
By Kevin BrockmeierUnexpected humor and tenderness intertwine with loneliness and desire to create a whimsical ambience throughout the stories ofThings That Fall from the Sky. In “These Hands,” a male babysitter who...
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Brother Love: Murder, Money, and a Messiah
By Sydney P. Freedberg"Brother Love: Murder, Money, and a Messiah details the incredible rise and fall of Yahweh Ben Yahweh (born Hulon Mitchell, Jr.) and his Nation of Yahweh. In a section of...