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20 non-fiction books to watch for in 2012

Here’s a sampling of some of the more promising early 2012 nonfiction titles.

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France brings Armenian genocide bill one step closer to law

The French Senate today approved a controversial bill making it a crime to deny the Armenian genocide in what many see as a political ploy ahead of elections this spring.
20 non-fiction books to watch for in 2012

Here’s a sampling of some of the more promising early 2012 nonfiction titles.
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Is France's Armenian Genocide law merely a domestic ploy for votes?

The diplomatic repercussions of the vote in France to criminalize denying the Armenian Genocide have been substantial, but so are the domestic benefits.
The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution

Francis Fukuyama’s analysis of the development of the modern state is a masterwork.
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Tony Judt: an appreciation

Tony Judt will be remembered as a public intellectual unafraid to address his readers and listeners as moral beings.
Bestselling books the week of 4/8/10, according to IndieBound*

What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
Bestselling books the week of 4/1/10, according to IndieBound*

What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
When the Berlin Wall came down

Twenty years later, the rest of the world is a different place because of that event.
A Protestant town's 'conspiracy of good' in Vichy France

As the French education ministry revisits Holocaust curricula this month, advocates say Chambon-sur-Lignon's story would be 'revolutionary' for schoolchildren.