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10 best books like Cartographies of Time: A History of the Timeline (Daniel Rosenberg): Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain, Love Medicine, The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir, Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War, The Round House, The Master Butchers Singing Club, The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place, The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse, The Silver Palate Cookbook, Grimm's Fairy Tales

Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
AuthorDavid Eagleman
ISBN0307377334
Let me start with the easy stuff. On a literary note, this book is entertaining. However, it reads more like a series of interesting essays on neuroscience rather than a book.

Let me move on to the more interesting stuff. This book is deceptive. Eagleman uses a "slight of hand" writing style....
Love Medicine
AuthorLouise Erdrich
ISBN0060786469
A member of the Chippewa and Obijwe tribes, Louise Erdrich has been a leading voice in Native American literature for over thirty years. Determined to publish her first book before she turned thirty, Erdrich wrote Love Medicine at the age of twenty nine, and this debut novel won the National Critics...
The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir
AuthorSamantha Power
ISBN0062820710
Pulitzer Prize winner Samantha Power, widely known as a relentless advocate for promoting human rights, has been heralded by President Barack Obama as one of America's "foremost thinkers on foreign policy."

In her memoir, Power offers an urgent response to the question "What can one person...
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
AuthorTony Horwitz
When prize-winning war correspondent Tony Horwitz leaves the battlefields of Bosnia and the Middle East for a peaceful corner of the Blue Ridge Mountains, he thinks he's put war zones behind him. But awakened one morning by the crackle of musket fire, Horwitz starts filing front-line dispatches again...
The Round House
AuthorLouise Erdrich
ISBN0062065246
One of the most revered novelists of our time - a brilliant chronicler of Native-American life - Louise Erdrich returns to the territory of her bestselling, Pulitzer Prize finalist The Plague of Doves with The Round House, transporting readers to the Ojibwe reservation in North Dakota. It is an exquisitely...
The Master Butchers Singing Club
AuthorLouise Erdrich
ISBN0060837055
From National Book Award-winning, New York Times-bestselling author Louise Erdrich, a profound and enchanting new novel: a richly imagined world “where butchers sing like angels.”

Having survived World War I, Fidelis Waldvogel returns to his quiet German village and marries the...
The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place
AuthorJulie Berry
There's a murderer on the loose—but that doesn't stop the girls of St. Etheldreda's from attempting to hide the death of their headmistress in this rollicking farce.

The students of St. Etheldreda's School for Girls face a bothersome dilemma. Their irascible headmistress, Mrs. Plackett,...
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
AuthorLouise Erdrich
ISBN0007136358
This is the story of Father Damien Modeste, priest to his beloved people, the Ojibwe. Modeste, nearing the end of his life, dreads the discovery of his physical identity -- for he is a woman who has lived as a man.
For more than a half century, Father Damien Modeste has served his beloved people, the...
The Silver Palate Cookbook
AuthorJulee Rosso
ISBN0894802046
With over 2.2 million copies in print, the widely acclaimed The Silver Palate Cookbook is firmly established as a contemporary classic. Originally published in 1982, the book's elegant, innovative recipes and emphasis on pure, fresh, ingredients ushered a new passion for food and hospitality into...
Grimm's Fairy Tales
AuthorJacob Grimm
The Grimm brothers were early 19th-century writers best known for their fairy tales coming from Scandinavian, Icelandic and Germanic origins. By 1807 there was a growing interest in German folk tales. The Grimm brothers were academics who invited friends to their home and asked them to relate stories...
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
AuthorRoss Gay
ISBN0822963310
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude is a sustained meditation on that which goes away—loved ones, the seasons, the earth as we know it—that tries to find solace in the processes of the garden and the orchard. That is, this is a book that studies the wisdom of the garden and orchard, those places where all—death,...
De Anima (On the Soul)
AuthorAristotle
ISBN0140444718
'The soul is, so to speak, the first principle of living things. We seek to contemplate and know its nature and substance'

For the Pre-Socratic philosophers the soul was the source of movement and sensation, while for Plato it was the seat of being, metaphysically distinct from the body that...
Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England
AuthorWilliam Cronon
ISBN0809016346
The book that launched environmental history now updated.

Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize

In this landmark work of environmental history, William Cronon offers an original and profound explanation of the effects European colonists' sense of property and their pursuit of...
Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter
AuthorThomas Cahill
ISBN0385495544
In the fourth volume of the acclaimed Hinges of History series, Thomas Cahill brings his characteristic wit and style to a fascinating tour of ancient Greece.

The Greeks invented everything from Western warfare to mystical prayer, from logic to statecraft. Many of their achievements, particularly...
The Assistant
AuthorRobert Walser
ISBN0811215903
Robert Walser is an overwhelmingly original author with many ardent fans: J.M. Coetzee ("dazzling"), Guy Davenport ("a very special kind of whimsical-serious-deep writer"), and Hermann Hesse ("If he had a hundred thousand readers, the world would be a better place"). Charged with compassion,...
Zapped: From Infrared to X-rays, the Curious History of Invisible Light
AuthorBob Berman
ISBN0316311308
How much do you know about the radiation all around you?

Your electronic devices swarm with it; the sun bathes you in it. It's zooming at you from cell towers, microwave ovens, CT scans, mammogram machines, nuclear power plants, deep space, even the walls of your basement. You cannot see, hear,...
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