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Recovering Place

Recovering Place: Reflections on Stone Hill by Mark Taylor | Read an essay by Mark C. Taylor on Recovering Place | Read an excerpt | View images from Recovering Place

Read an excerpt from Finding Ourselves at the Movies

Read an excerpt from The Insect Cookbook

VIDEO: Marcel Dicke discusses insects, cooking, and more

"With a winning combination of Bill Bryson's dry wit and Mary Roach's eye for the absurd, Winnebago Nation is a historical, psychological, and cultural romp through the quirky landscape of RVing in America." — Doreen Orion

"There are plenty of books to read if you want to understand modern slavery in your head, but if you want to understand the truth of slavery in your heart, read this book." — Kevin Bales

Read the introduction The Middle East in the Eye of the Global Storm

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Relativity

Read the chapter Voyage to a Black Hole from What Is Relativity?: An Intuitive Introduction to Einstein’s Ideas, and Why They Matter by Jeffrey Bennett

CBSP

Passion for Reality: The Extraordinary Life of the Investing Pioneer Paul Cabot, by Michael Yogg

A new biography of investing pioneer Paul Cabot by Michael Yogg and new from Columbia Business School Publishing

Orientalism

Read the Preface to The Homoerotics of Orientalism by Joseph Boone

Hitchcock

Must We Kill the Thing We Love?: Emersonian Perfectionism and the Films of Alfred Hitchcock, by William Rothman

Barnum is Back!

Available Again! The Barnum Museum by Steven Millhauser, published by Dalkey Archive Press .