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A Soul of a New Machine for our time--a gripping account of invention, commerce, and duplicity in the age of technology A worldwide race is on to perfect the next engine of economic growth, the advanced lithium-ion battery. It will power the electric car, relieve global warming, and catapult the winner into a new era of economic and political mastery. Can the United States win? Steve LeVine was granted unprecedented access to a secure federal laboratory outside Chicago, where a group of geniuses is trying to solve this next monumental task of physics and engineering. But these scientists--almost all foreign born--are not alone. With so much at stake, researchers in Japan, South Korea, and China are in the same pursuit. The drama intensifies when a Silicon Valley start-up licenses the federal laboratory's signature invention with the aim of a blockbuster sale to the world's biggest carmakers. The Powerhouse is a real-time, two-year account of big invention, big commercialization, and big deception. It exposes the layers of aspiration and disappointment, competition and ambition behind this great turning point in the history of technology.

In Putin's Labyrinth, acclaimed journalist Steve LeVine, who lived inand reported from the former Soviet Union for more than a decade, provides a gripping account of modern Russia. President Dmitri Medvedev and the country's real power, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, are posing a resolute challenge to the West. In a penetrating narrative that recounts the lives and deaths of six Russians, LeVine portrays the growth of a "culture of death"--from targeted assassinations of the state's enemies to the Kremlin's indifference when innocent hostages are slaughtered. Interviews with eyewitnessesand the families and friends of these victims reveal how Russians manage to negotiate their way around the ever-present danger of violence and the emotional toll that this lethal maze is exacting on ordinary people. The result is a fresh way of assessing the forces that are driving this major new confrontation with the West.

Inventive, spontaneous, and playful, Levine's poems will enchant lovers of Dada poetry, absurdist theater, and minimalism. By the author of The Cycles of Heaven.

Rabbi Abrams didn't get stoned today.Louis Abrams is a charming, intelligent spiritual leader. He's also a habitual cheater and his loyal wife, Rebecca, a successful businesswoman, has had about enough. She's banished him from their bedroom over suspicion of yet another affair and threatened divorce. But Louis will always be Louis. After meeting and falling for an attractive Philadelphia radio personality, his tightly controlled world comes undone. When he finds himself separated from his wife and facing an ugly, public divorce, one that he's certain, based on his past infidelities, will lead to the loss of his position and any claim on his wife's much better assets and income, he determines to fix the mess he's created with an unorthodox plan - the murder of his wife in their home.