Basic Books

In December 1937, the Japanese army swept into the ancient city of Nanking. Within weeks, more than 300,000 Chinese civilians and soldiers were systematically raped, tortured, and murdered,a death toll exceeding that of the atomic blasts of Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined. Using extensive interviews with survivors and newly discovered documents, Iris Chang has written the definitive history of this horrifying episode.

A "superb" (New York Times) intellectual history of the last century of American conservatism

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Essential advice on problem solving from physics' clearest teacher

"A masterly synthesis of scientific research and personal observation." -Wall Street Journal

From an award-winning historian, the outlandish story of the man who gave rights to animals

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