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Glorian Emerson Reports from the Occupied Territories
Emerson has covered wars in Nigeria, Northern Ireland and Zimbabwe. She has a new book about the intifada in the Gaza strip, called Gaza.
What Humans Can Learn from Animal Behavior
Biologist William Jordan has a new book of essays that contemplates the similarities between the animal and human mind by looking at behavior. It's called "Divorce Among The Gulls: An Uncommon Look at Human Nature.
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