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Confucius Lives Next Door

The author, an NPR commentator, brings his erudition and humor to the five years he spent in Japan, where he served as "The Washington Post's" Tokyo bureau chief.

Nicholas and Alexandra

A superbly crafted and humane portrait of the last days - and last rulers - of the Russian Empire. Complementing his Pulitzer prize-winning Peter the Great, in this commanding book Robert K. Massi...

Two Years in Oregon

'The evening is closing in; the sun has set, leaving a hot, red glow, where his copper disk has just sunk beyond the Pacific horizon; and the eye wanders out from the infant waves, at foot just tinged...

Goethe und die Narren