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Book Review: <i>The Ten-Cent Plague</i>

Back before Spider-Man and the X-Men, comic books were the villains.

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| Mon Mar. 10, 2008 12:00 AM PDT

Al Qaeda Leader's New Book Hints at Jihadist Divisions Over Use of Violence

Ayman al-Zawahiri&#8212;technically Al Qaeda's second-in-command, but widely considered among terrorism analysts to have eclipsed Osama Bin Laden in his...

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| Mon Mar. 3, 2008 12:48 PM PST
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Book review: <i>Dog Man</i>

A tale of Japan's lightning-speed evolution.

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| Thu Feb. 28, 2008 1:00 AM PST

Erik Prince: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier...Author?

Erik Prince, the founder and CEO of Blackwater Worldwide, accused of multiple unlawful killings in Iraq, will defend his...

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| Tue Feb. 5, 2008 9:46 AM PST

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Go Sell It on the Mountain

On Mt. Everest, climbers have a lot more to worry about than the weather.

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| Fri Feb. 1, 2008 1:00 AM PST
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Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and Stick You With the Bill)

By David Cay Johnston. <i>Portfolio. $24.95.</i>

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| Thu Jan. 17, 2008 1:00 AM PST
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Gang Leader for a Day and Snitch

Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets, <br />by Sudhir Venkatesh. <i>The Penguin Press. $25.95.</i><br />Snitch: Informers, Cooperators and the Corruption of Justice<br />by Ethan Brown. <i>Public Affairs. $25.95.</i>

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| Wed Jan. 16, 2008 1:00 AM PST
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Shooting War: Journalism for Cool Dudes

A new graphic novel tells the story of a young citizen journalist who becomes a terrorist leader's pawn&#8212;and Dan Rather's best bud&#8212;while covering war-torn Iraq in 2011.

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| Fri Dec. 21, 2007 1:00 AM PST
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Mike Huckabee: Playing Both Sides of the Pulpit

The candidate says he wants to unite the country. But in a 1998 book, Huckabee was a fierce culture warrior, equating environmentalism with pornography, homosexuality with necrophilia, and nonbelievers with evildoers.

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| Mon Dec. 17, 2007 1:00 AM PST
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The Autobiography of an Ex-White Woman: Bliss Broyard's One Drop

Suddenly, white people are fascinated by race. Good for them. Good for all of us?

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| Fri Nov. 9, 2007 1:00 AM PST
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Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness

Christopher Lane. <i>Yale University Press. &#36;27.50.</i>

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| Thu Nov. 1, 2007 12:00 AM PDT
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Unmarketable: Brandalism, Copyfighting, Mocketing, and the Erosion of Integrity

By Anne Elizabeth Moore. <i>The New Press. &#36;15.95.</i>

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| Wed Oct. 31, 2007 12:00 AM PDT
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Gomorrah: A Personal Journey Into the Violent International Empire of Naples' Organized Crime System

By Roberto Saviano. <i>Farrar, Straus and Giroux. &#36;25.</i>

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| Wed Oct. 31, 2007 12:00 AM PDT
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The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan

A new book maps the partition of the Indian subcontinent and evocatively captures what it meant for the millions swept up in the tide of violence, migration, and the ensuing loss and confusion.

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| Tue Oct. 16, 2007 12:00 AM PDT
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Brother I'm Dying: Life in Haiti, One Breath at a Time

Edwidge Danticat's memoir weaves a tale of brotherhood and family amid Haiti's, and the United States', chaotic circumstances.

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| Mon Sep. 24, 2007 12:00 AM PDT
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College for Christ's Sake

A new book chronicles how one school prepares young Christians to compete in a secular world.

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| Mon Sep. 17, 2007 12:00 AM PDT
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Brodner's Person of the Day: George the Chimp

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| Thu Sep. 6, 2007 12:00 AM PDT

Bush: "I Cry a Lot"

There's been a bunch of interesting stuff coming out of a new book on the Bush presidency by Robert Draper...

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| Tue Sep. 4, 2007 10:32 AM PDT
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The Argument: Billionaires, Bloggers, and the Battle to Remake Democratic Politics

By Matt Bai. <i>The Penguin Press. &#36;25.95</i>.

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| Fri Aug. 31, 2007 12:00 AM PDT
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Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy

By John Bowe. <i>Random House. &#36;25.95</i>.

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| Fri Aug. 31, 2007 12:00 AM PDT