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Greed, Exploitation, and Elephants: The Story of a Failed Congo Conquest
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Greed, Exploitation, and Elephants: The Story of a Failed Congo Conquest

A Training School for Elephants, by travel writer Sophy Roberts ’97JRN, tells the little-known tale of a Belgian king and Irish fixer in Africa

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The Pacifist's Guide to Satanism
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The Pacifist's Guide to Satanism

La Carmina, an award-winning blogger, journalist, and author, offers a spirited defense of the often-misunderstood religion

The Best Way to Stop a Negative-Thought Spiral
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The Best Way to Stop a Negative-Thought Spiral

Psychologist Ethan Kross ’07GSAS suggests strategies to root out negative self-talk 

Genius at Work: How Franz Boas Created the Field of Cultural Anthropology
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Boas reenacts a Kwakiutl ceremonial dance to assist Smithsonian Institution sculptors building a diorama. (Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution Archives)

Genius at Work: How Franz Boas Created the Field of Cultural Anthropology

A century ago, when people believed that human potential was determined by race and gender, a maverick Columbia professor decided everyone was wrong

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Deutschland After All
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Deutschland After All

Grand Central to All Points
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Grand Central to All Points

The Architecture of Warren & Wetmore, by Peter Pennoyer '80CC, '84APP and Anne Walker '00APP

Mixed-up Media
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Mixed-up Media

Letters to a Young Journalist, by Samuel G. Freedman

Whitman Sampler (& Dickinson, Poe, et al.)
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Whitman Sampler (& Dickinson, Poe, et al.)

The Oxford Book of American Poetry, edited by David Lehman

Fidel's Man in Manhattan
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Fidel's Man in Manhattan

The Man Who Invented Fidel: Castro, Cuba, and Herbert L. Matthews of The New York Times, by Anthony DePalma

In Denial
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In Denial

Buried by The Times:The Holocaust and America’s Most Important Newspaper, by Laurel Leff

Whites and Wrongs
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Whites and Wrongs

When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America, by Ira Katznelson

Gained in Translation
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Gained in Translation

If This Be Treason: Translation and Its Dyscontents, by Gregory Rabassa ’54GSAS

Call Him Herman
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Call Him Herman

Melville: His World and Work, by Andrew Delbanco

The Columbian Candidate
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The Columbian Candidate

Nicholas Murray Butler served as Columbia’s president for 44 years and created the University in his own image. But there was another job he wanted

From 8:46 to 10:28
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From 8:46 to 10:28

102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers, by Jim Dwyer ’80JRN and Kevin Flynn ’79JRN

Found Art
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Found Art

New York, Empire City 1920–1945, by David Stravitz with Christopher Gray ’75GS

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