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The Artist and the Mathematician, The Story of Nicolas Bourbaki, the Genius Mathematician Who Never Existed
Amir Aczel (Thunder's Mouth Press)
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The Jesuit and the Skull
Amir Aczel (Riverhead)
In The Jesuit and the Skull, bestselling author Amir D. Aczel vividly recounts the discovery of Peking Man and its repercussions, and how Teilhard de Chardin's scientific work helped to open the eyes of the world to new theories of humanity's origins that alarmed the traditionalists within the Church. A deft mix of narrative history and a poignant personal story, The Jesuit and the Skull brings fresh insight to a debate that still rages today.
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Companions of Paradise
Thalassa Ali (Bantam Books)
In A Singular Hostage and A Beggar at the Gate, Thalassa Ali introduced us to the lush, intriguing world of nineteenth-century British India--and to Mariana Givens, a brave, beautiful Englishwoman. Now, as vengeful Afghan tribesman close in, Mariana must face the repercussions of her marriage to Punjabi Muslim, and choose between the people she calls her own--and the life that owns her heart.
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What It Felt Like: Living in the American Century
Henry Allen (Pantheon Books)
Pulitzer Prize-winner Henry Allen offers a vivid evocation of the social, cultural, and spiritual tenor of the twentieth century, decade by remarkable decade, each of the ten chapters a virtual time capsule written with an uncanny sense of the essential experiences of the era. The author, a veteran feature writer and editor at the Washington Post, novelist, essayist, cultural critic, and poet, won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2000.
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Nuclear Terrorism
Graham Allison (Times Books)
An urgent call to action by one of America's leading experts on nuclear weapons and national security, offering an ambitious but feasible blueprint for eliminating the possibility of nuclear terrorist attacks. 2004 Notable Book of the Year, New York Times.
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The Oath: A Chechen Surgeon under Fire
Khassan Baiev, with Ruth and Nicholas Daniloff (Walker Books)
The memoir of a Chechen-born surgeon who risked his life to save lives during the Chechen-Russian conflict.
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The Legal Seafood Cookbook
Roger Berkowitz and Jane Doerfer(Broadway Books)
A guide to buying, cooking, and enjoying seafood from the restaurant that knows it best.
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Thieves of Baghdad
Matthew Bogdanos with William Patrick (Bloomsbury)
2005 National Humanities Medal recipient
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Small Giants: Companies that Choose to Be Great Instead of Big
Bo Burlingham (Penguin Portfolio)
Veteran journalist Bo Burlingham takes us deep inside fourteen remarkable privately held companies, in widely varying industries across the country, that have chosen to march to their own drummer. He searches for the magic ingredients that give these companies their unique "mojo" and the lessons we can learn from them. To learn more, visit www.smallgiantsbook.com.
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Running Alone: Presidential Leadership from JFK to Bush II -- Why It Has Failed and How We Can Fix It
James MacGregor Burns (Basic Books)
A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian accounts for the growing isolation of America's presidents--from JFK to George W. Bush--and proposes solutions to reconnect them with the citizens they serve. Drawing on his own personal letters, interviews, and recollections of America's presidents, Burns charts the decline of genuine leadership in the Oval Office and offers a stirring vision of what the presidency can and should be. America deserves better leaders, and with unsurpassed knowledge of American history and politics, Burns shows us the way forward.
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Madam President: Shattering the Last Glass Ceiling
Eleanor Clift and Tom Brazaitis (Scribner)
A story of passion, determination, and triumph, this chronicle of women’s remarkable progress—from their coffee-fetching days to their ability to make or break candidates in the new millennium—identifies those women today most likely to have an impact on the future, and includes twelve essential tips for women seeking higher office. Publishers Weekly calls it “a sharp, insider’s view of the quest to elect a female U.S. president...melding the immediacy of a breaking news story with savvy investigative journalism.”
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The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow
Phuli Cohan (Wiley)
The Natural Hormone Makeover outlines ten steps to rejuvenate and improve your health using natural hormones. For more info, visit www.phulicohanmd.com.
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We Are Lincoln Men: Abraham Lincoln and His Friends
David Herbert Donald (Simon & Schuster)
A portrait of Lincoln's closest friendships by the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner.
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Shock
Kitty Dukakis and Larry Tye (Avery)
Kitty's dramatic first-person account of how ECT keeps at bay her illness is half the story of Shock. The other half, by award-winning medical reporter Larry Tye, is a revealing look at the science behind ECT and its dramatic yet subterranean comeback.
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Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of the End of Empire in Kenya
Caroline Elkins (Henry Holt)
A major work of history that for the first time reveals the violence and terror at the heart of Britain's "civilizing mission" in Kenya. Caroline Elkins, an assistant professor of history at Harvard University, spent nearly a decade in London, Nairobi, and the Kenyan countryside interviewing hundreds of Kikuyu men and women who survived the British camps, as well as the British and African loyalists who detained them. The result is an unforgettable account of the unraveling of the British colonial empire in Kenya -- a pivotal moment in twentieth-century history with chilling parallels to America's own imperial project. Elkins' book won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction.
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American Creation
Joseph Ellis (Alfred A. Knopf)
From the prizewinning author of the best-selling Founding Brothers and American Sphinx, a masterly and highly ironic examination of the founding years of our country.
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His Excellency: George Washington
Joseph Ellis (Alfred A. Knopf)
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Founding Brothers comes this masterful biography of the father of our country. An instant New York Times bestseller in hard and softcover. His Excellency is a full, glorious, and multifaceted portrait of the man behind our country's genesis, sure to become the authoritative biography of George Washington for many decades.
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Tuna: A Love Story
Richard Ellis (Alfred A. Knopf)
Ellis (The Book of Sharks) covers everything one could want to know about the biggest, fastest, warmest-blooded, warmest-bodied fish in the world, describing the various species of tuna and giving a thorough account of the history of recreational and commercial tuna fishing.
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House of Wits: An Intimate Portrait of the James Family
Paul Fisher (Henry Holt)
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Grant and Sherman: The Friendship That Won the Civil War
Charles Bracelen Flood (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Moving and elegantly written, Grant and Sherman is an historical page turner: a gripping portrait of two men, whose friendship, forged on the battlefield, would win the Civil War.
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The Scandal Plan or: How to Win the Presidency by Cheating On Your Wife
Bill Folman (William Morrow)
A presidential candidate behind in the polls concocts an outrageous scandal to improve his chances in this hilarious political satire in the spirit of Primary Colors. To learn more, visit www.billfolman.com.
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Jesus in America: Personal Savior, Cultural Hero, National Obsession
Richard Wightman Fox (HarperSanFrancisco)
An exploration of the vital role that the figure of Jesus has played throughout American history, by a professor at the University of Southern California.
"An extraordinary blend of historical sophistication, theological discrimination, and spiritual understanding...rich and fluent in the complexities of religious life."
--The New Republic
"An exciting book...a fresh history that will likely be influential for years to come. Highly recommended."
--Library Journal
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Nightingales: The Extraordinary Upbringing and Curious Life of Miss Florence Nightingale
Gillian Gill (Ballantine)
A novelistic biography of Florence Nightingale and her relationship with her Victorian family, who suffered the ultimate social disaster of having a daughter who wanted to change the world.
"Magnificent. Gill brings sympathy, insight, and a novelist's sense of drama to bear as she explores her subjects' actions, motivations, and struggles. By the time we finish reading...we fully share her fascination with this formidable and enigmatic woman."
--The Boston Globe
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Mistress Bradstreet: The Untold Life of America's First Poet
Charlotte Gordon (Little, Brown)
Selected as an “Honor Book” by the Massachusetts Book Awards. This is the story of a woman and poet of great feeling struggling to find a language to describe the country in which she finds herself. It also offers a complex portrait of early America, the Puritans, and the trials and values whose legacy continues to shape our country to the present day. To learn more, please visit www.charlottegordonhome.com.
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Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
Stephen Greenblatt (W. W. Norton & Co.)
The acclaimed Renaissance scholar brings to life the elusive, mysterious William Shakespeare in this highly acclaimed biography vibrant with the life of Elizabethan England and of Shakespeare's theatrical masterpieces. Stephen Greenblatt is the John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University, editor of The Norton Shakespeare, and prize-winning author of many books, including Hamlet in Purgatory.
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The Tao of Emerson
Richard Grossman (Random House/Modern Library)
By adroitly juxtaposing on facing pages the texts of Lao Tse’s masterpiece, the Tao Te Ching, with Emerson’s writings, Richard Grossman illuminates how these two remarkable men, from opposite sides of the world and separated by 2,500 years, are united in an inspired wisdom and common spirit.
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A Walk in the Rain with a Brain
Edward M. Hallowell, M.D. (Regan Books)
The first children's book by a leading expert on Attention Deficit Disorder, about different styles of learning.
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Crazy Busy: Overstretched, Overbooked, and About to Snap! Strategies for Coping in a World Gone ADD
Edward M. Hallowell, M.D. (Ballantine Books)
CrazyBusy – the modern phenomenon of brain overload – is a national epidemic. We’ve plunged ourselves into a mad rush of activity, expecting our brains to keep track of more than they comfortably or effectively can. In fact, as Attention Deficit Disorder expert and bestselling author Edward M. Hallowell, M.D., argues in this groundbreaking book, brain overload has reached the point where our entire society is suffering from culturally induced ADD. CrazyBusy is the 2006 Books for a Better Life Award winner in the “Motivational” category.
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Delivered from Distraction
Edward Hallowell, M.D. and John J. Ratey, M, D. (Ballantine)
All the latest news on Attention Deficit Disorder, from the two experts who changed its definition and the face of treatment of this disorder with their groundbreaking 1994 book Driven to Distraction (Pantheon), which has sold more than one million copies in the U.S.
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The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Non-Believer
Christopher Hitchens, Ed. (Da Capo Press)
Christopher Hitchens, the acclaimed journalist and best-selling author of God Is Not Great, selects and introduces an illuminating collection of the most essential and influential writings for the non-believer, including selections from Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, Mark Twain, Bertrand Russell, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Karl Marx, Richard Dawkins, H.L. Mencken, Sam Harris, and more.
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Reporting Iraq: An Oral History of the War by the Journalists Who Covered It
Mike Hoyt, John Palatella, Columbia Journalism Review (Melville House)
Following in the footsteps of best-selling books about the war, Reporting Iraq is a fully illustrated narrative history of the war by the world's best-known reporters and photojournalists.
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Restless Virgins: Love, Sex, and Survival at a New England Prep School
Abigail Jones & Marissa Miley (Morrow)
An honest, intimate look at the lives of today's teens—told through the true experiences of friends at a New England prep school.
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Savage Summit: The True Stories of the First Five Women who Climbed K2
Jennifer Jordan (Morrow)
Few mountaineers have reached the summit of K2, one of the world's deadliest mountains. This riveting book by a journalist and broadcaster tells the story of the first five women who did, all of whom died in the Himalayas. To learn more, visit www.jenniferjordan.us.
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Fairy Tales Can Come True: How a Driven Woman Changed Her Fate
Rikki Klieman with Peter Knobler (Regan Books)
A memoir by the news anchor for Courtroom Television Network, in which she recalls how she learned to balance work with her marriage to Bill Bratton, Los Angeles Chief of Police.
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Saving Milly: Love, Politics, and Parkinson’s Disease
Morton Kondracke (Public Affairs)
Best-selling Saving Milly is Morton Kondracke’s deeply moving, unflinchingly honest chronicle of his vital and volatile marriage, one that endured and deepened in the face of the tragedy of Parkinson’s disease; it is also the inspiring, incredibly frank story of his transformation from careerist to caregiver and disease activist. Kondracke was a regular panelist on The McLaughlin Group and is currently co-host of Fox News Channel’s Beltway Boys; a columnist for Roll Call; and a semi-regular commentator on Fox News Sunday. He is also an activist with the Parkinson’s Action Network and the Michael J. Fox Foundation.
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The Book of Customs: A Complete Handbook for the Jewish Year
Scott-Martin Kosofsky (HarperSanFrancisco)
An illustrated guide to the Jewish calendar, based upon a medieval book of the same name.
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The Children's Blizzard
David Laskin (HarperCollins)
An account of the ferocious storm that struck the Great Plains states in January 1888, killing hundreds of people, most of them children struggling to reach home in the blinding snow.
"David Laskin gives us the complete story in all its fascinating, often harrowing detail... A vital addition to the lore of Western immigrant pioneering."
-- The Washington Post
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The New Killer Diseases: How the Alarming Evolution of Mutant Germs Threatens Us All
Elinor Levy and Mark Fischetti (Crown Publishers)
The vital facts the public should know about the astonishing range of threats of new diseases we face.
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The Essential Conversation
Sarah Lawrence Lightfoot (Random House)
Chair of the MacArthur Foundation, Harvard professor, and author of Balm in Gilead considers the parent-teacher conference as a laboratory in which to examine the relationship between these two crucial partners in a child's education.
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Breaking the Tongue
Vyvyane Loh (W.W. Norton)
A debut novel by a physician-turned- novelist chronicling the fall of Singapore to the Japanese in World War II through the eyes of a Chinese boy who is torn between two opposing worlds. You can learn more about Vyvyane's work at www.vyvyaneloh.com
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Dr. Susan Love's Menopause and Hormone Book
Susan Love, MD and Karen Lindsey (Crown)
In the first edition of this important bestselling book, praised by Newsday as “the bible for a whole generation of menopausal women,” renowned physician and pioneering women’s health advocate Dr. Susan Love warned about the potential dangers of the long-term prescription of hormone replacement therapy. Her insightful words of caution have been backed up by the stunning results of the recent studies on hormone replacement. In this revised edition, Dr. Love offers a remarkably clear set of guidelines as to what the studies have shown about the risks regarding heart disease, breast cancer, stroke, and other conditions, and what effect hormone therapy has on osteoporosis. She offers definitive expert advice about whether or not to go on hormone replacement therapy and, if so, for how long, as well as how to taper off hormones; and she introduces the alternative methods for treating the symptoms of menopause.
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Easter Rising
Michael MacDonald (Houghton Mifflin)
Michael Patrick MacDonald's best-selling All Souls: A Family Story from Southie told of the loss of the author's four siblings to the violence, poverty, and gangsterism of Boston's Irish-American ghetto. The question "How did you get out?" has haunted MacDonald ever since. He has written this new book in response, giving answers that are searingly honest and morally urgent.
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American Scripture
Pauline Maier (Random House)
Pauline Maier shows us the Declaration as both the defining statement of our national identity and the moral standard by which we live as a nation. It is truly "American Scripture," and Maier tells us how it came to be - from the Declaration's birth in the hard and tortuous struggle by which Americans arrived at Independence to the ways in which, in the nineteenth century, the document itself became sanctified. Maier describes the transformation of the Second Continental Congress into a national government, unlike anything that preceded or followed it, and with more authority than the colonists would ever have conceded to the British Parliament; the great difficulty in making the decision for Independence; the influence of Paine's Common Sense, which shifted the terms of debate; and the political maneuvers that allowed Congress to make the momentous decision.
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Cheap Diamonds
Norris Mailer (Random House)
Norris Church Mailer triumphantly returns to the page with this breezy, hilarious novel of discovery and destiny. Set against the backdrop of 1970s New York City, Cheap Diamonds follows a sweet young girl from the South who risks it all to fulfill her heart’s desire.
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The Zero Game
Brad Meltzer (Warner Books)
A new thriller in which two congressional aides become embroiled in an insider's game turned deadly, from the New York Times bestselling writer of The Millionaires and The Tenth Justice. You can learn more about Brad at www.bradmeltzer.com.
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Being Dead is No Excuse: The Official Southern Ladies Guide to Hosting the Perfect Funeral
Gayden Metcalfe and Charlotte Hays (Miramax Books)
A New York Times Bestseller, BookSense Pick, Quill Award 2005 Finalist. In this deliciously entertaining slice of Southern life (and death), Mississippi Delta natives Gayden Metcalfe and Charlotte Hays explain everything you need to know to host an authentic Southern funeral, such as: Can you be properly buried without tomato aspic? Who prepares tastier funeral fare, the Episcopal ladies, or the Methodist ladies? And what does one do when a family gets three sheets to the wind and eats the entire funeral feast the night before the funeral? Each chapter includes a delicious, tried-and-true Southern recipe you'll need if you plan to die tastefully.
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Getting Even: Why Women Don't Get Paid Like Men--and What To Do About It
Evelyn Murphy and E. J. Graff (Simon & Schuster)
Are you (or a woman you love) being cheated out of 33 percent of your earnings? If you're a woman, over your working lifetime you will lose between $700,000 and $2 million — simply because of your sex. Is that fair? No. Can it be stopped? Absolutely. Getting Even exposes the discrepancy between what women and men make — and how it affects us all. It reveals that the wage gap is not going away on its own. And it explains how to close the wage gap — and, finally, get women even.
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All Deliberate Speed
Charles Ogletree (W. W. Norton)
An account of the legal fight for civil rights for African Americans by a professor at Harvard Law School who was born in 1952, the year of Brown v. Board of Education. New and Noteable in paperback, New York Times 2005.
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Praying for Gil Hodges: A Memoir of the 1955 World Series and One Family's Love of the Brooklyn Dodgers
Tom Oliphant (Thomas Dunne Books)
A New York Times Bestseller. Tom Oliphant, longtime Boston Globe columnist and commentator on the Lehr NewsHour, grew up attending the Brooklyn Dodgers games. Part personal, part history, this book will recreate the exciting, nail-biting game that finally brought World Series victory to the Dodgers, bringing alive the colorful cast of players and their Brooklyn fans. But it will also use this close-up story to tell the larger story of race, class, Brooklyn, and the transformative power of sports at this moment in American history.
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Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the United States
Trita Parsi (Yale University Press)
Parsi traces the shifting relations among Israel, Iran, and the United States from 1948 to the present, uncovering for the first time the details of secret alliances, treacherous acts, and unsavory political maneuverings that have undermined Middle Eastern stability and disrupted U.S. foreign policy initiatives in the region. The book was shortlisted for the Arthur Ross Book Award.
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How to Fall
Edith Pearlman (Sarabande Books)
How to Fall is a darkly humorous collection that welcomes the world's immense variety with confidence. Spanning no fewer than four countries in sixty years, these sixteen stories flesh out the complexities of people who, at first glance, live ordinary, unremarkable lives. Widowers, old men, estranged spouses, young restaurant workers, career women and Jewish grandmothers are all at the center of Pearlman's cool, studied observation. Each character is rendered with such unpredictable intricacy that they often astonish themselves just as much as the reader.
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An Invitation to Poetry
edited by Robert Pinsky and Maggie Dietz (W.W. Norton)
A collection of poems chosen as their favorites by a wide range of American readers.
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Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters
Elizabeth Brown Pryor (Viking)
For the 200th anniversary of Robert E. Lee’s birth, a new portrait drawing on previously unpublished correspondence. Winner of the 2007 Lincoln Prize.
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Furious Improvisation, How the WPA and a Cast of Thousands Made High Art out of Desperate Times
Susan Quinn (Walker Books)
A vivid portrait of the turbulent 1930s and the Roosevelt administration as seen through the
WPA’s Federal Theater Project.
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SPARK
Dr. John Ratey (Little Brown)
In SPARK, John J. Ratey, M.D., embarks upon a fascinating and entertaining journey through the mind-body connection, presenting startling research to prove that exercise is truly our best defense against everything from depression to ADD to addiction to aggression to menopause to Alzheimer's. It will change forever the way you think about your morning run---or, for that matter, simply the way you think.
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Fever: How Rock 'n' Roll Transformed Gender in America
Tim Riley (St. Martin's Press)
A look at how rock music has provided role models, especially during times of flux in gender roles and politics.
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Song for My Fathers: A New Orleans Story in Black and White
Tom Sancton (Other Press)
In this memoir international journalist, Rhodes scholar and professional jazz musician, Tom Sancton returns to the racially segregated New Orleans of his youth and the music that shaped and guided his life.
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Into the Mirror: The Life of Master Spy Robert P. Hanssen
Larry Schiller (HarperCollins)
From the best-selling author of American Tragedy, Perfect Murder, and Perfect Town, Schiller's latest takes on the master spy who single-handedly created the greatest breach of security in the history of our country.
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Me and a Guy Named Elvis
Jerry Schilling (Gotham)
An intimate memoir of a friendship with Elvis Presley, arguably one of the most important artists in rock 'n' roll history, taking you from late-night parties at Graceland to the bright lights of Hollywood sets and the glittering stages of Las Vegas.
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All I Need to Get By
Sophfronia Scott (St. Martin's Press)
A first novel by a former writer at People magazine, in which a young woman returns to her small-town Ohio home to say good-bye to her dying father and confront the secrets in her past. You can learn more about Sophfronia at www.sophfroniascott.com.
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The Perfect Manhattan
Leanne Shear and Tracey Toomey (Broadway)
A dishy tale of bartending among the beautiful people—and the ultimate summer cocktail, this debut novel follows Cassie Ellis, a young college graduate with the world on a string, a yen for screenwriting, and a need for fast cash to pay off her student loans. Eager to avoid the lucrative snooze-fest of a reliable consulting job, she shocks everyone she knows by opting for a sexier, more flexible job: mixing drinks. When Cassie accepts a job bartending in the Hamptons, she finds herself catapulted into a whirlwind of dazzling celebrity and over-the-top wealth unlike anything she’s ever seen. As the summer progresses, and she finds herself surrounded by playboys, moguls, spoiled rich kids, and Paris Hilton clones in strappy stilettos, she soon wonders if playing the ersatz socialite—while actually trying to make a living—more than she bargained for. For more about Shear's and Toomey's own real-life experiences in Manhattan's bartending world, visit www.theperfectmanhattan.com.
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Our Savage Neighbors
Peter Silver (Norton)
In potent, graceful prose that sensitively unearths the social complexity and tangled history of colonial relations, Peter Silver gives us an astonishingly vivid picture of eighteenth-century America. He straddles cultural history, political history, social history, and ethnohistory to offer groundbreaking insights into the seminal forces that continue to shape the United States today. Winner of the 2008 Bancroft Prize and the 2008 Lynton Prize.
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Trouble
Patrick Somerville (Vintage)
A collection of short stories for the trouble-making, trouble-seeking, and just plain deeply troubled, Trouble is an outrageously funny glimpse into life for the American male.
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The Red Prince: The Secret Lives of a Hapsburg Archduke
Timothy Snyder (Basic Books)
"The biography of Wilhelm von Habsburg (1895–1949), who become a fervent Ukrainian nationalist during WWI and how this became his life's one constant, culminating with efforts to help formerly pro-German Ukraine turn to the West at the end of WWII."
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The Samaritan's Dilemma: Should Government Help Your Neighbor?
Deborah Stone (Nation Books)
"Calm, logical, and immensely reassuring...Dismantles the standard arguments against a more caring society...When the time comes for our next president to assemble a cabinet, Deborah Stone could be appointed our first Secretary of Compassion." - Francine Prose
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From Here to Maternity: The Education of a Rookie Mom
Beth Teitell (Broadway)
A hilarious, highly perceptive look at the often surreal experience of becoming a mother, exposing the delightful absurdities of modern parenting that your doctor will fail to warn you about and your fellow mothers will be too embarrassed to admit. From coping with SUV envy (that is, Stroller Utilty Vehicle envy) to learning "The Rules" for dating other mommies in the playdate social network, Teitell explores what it's like to be a mother in a culture responsible for Barney and Baby Einstein, and tells it like it is-what to sing if you don't know any lullabies (the Brady Bunch theme is a perfectly valid choice), how to avoid scarfing down your toddler's animal crackers when his little back is turned, and how to keep the most important person in the family (your nanny) happy-with consummate style and laugh-out-loud irreverence. To learn more about Beth, please visit www.teitell.com.
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The Old Way: A Story of the First People
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
In The Old Way, Thomas shows how the skills and customs of the hunter-gatherer share much in common with the survival tactics of our animal predecessors. And since it is "knowledge, not objects, that endure" over time, Thomas vividly brings us to see how linked we are to our origins in the animal kingdom.
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Come On Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All: A New Zealand Love Story
Christina Thompson (Bloomsbury)
In this unusual hybrid of history and memoir, Harvard Review editor Thompson examines the historical collisions between Westerners and Maoris through the lens of her marriage to a Maori man.
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Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled--and More Miserable Than Ever Before
Jean M. Twenge, Ph.D. (Free Press)
Generation Me describes anyone born in the 1970s, 1980s, or 1990s -- in 2006, this means people between the ages of 7 and 36. These are today's young people, those who take it for granted that the self comes first.Generation Me will give Boomers new insight into their offspring, and help those in their teens, twenties, and thirties finally make sense of their generation.
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Rising from the Rails
Larry Tye (Henry Holt)
Drawing on interviews with dozens of Pullman porters and their descendants, Larry Tye reconstructs through this microcosm the rise of the black middle class. Tye is also the author of Home Lands: Portraits of the New Jewish Diaspora, which is now available in paperback, and The Father of Spin.
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Marketing to the Social Web
Larry Weber (Wiley)
A smart guide to marketing in a fragmented world.
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A Country Practice: Scenes from the Veterinary Life
Douglas Whynott (North Point Press)
The author charts a year in the life of Chuck Shaw, a veterinarian with 25 years of experience treating everything from house pets to farm animals, and his associates.
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The Future of Life
E. O. Wilson (Knopf)
From one of the world's most influential scientists and two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner, a timely and impassioned call for quick and decisive action to save Earth's biological heritage.
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Around the World on Two Wheels: Annie Londonderry's Extraordinary Ride
Peter Zheutlin (Citadel Press/Kensington)
Annie Kopchovsky was a Jewish housewife and mother, but on June 25, 1894 she became Annie Londonderry and began an audacious, solo, ‘round the world race against time on a bicycle. A beguiling story of a bold spirit who transformed herself into an international sports celebrity by turning every Victorian expectation of female propriety on its ear, Around the World on Two Wheels blends social history and high adventure into an unforgettable portrait of courage, imagination and tenacity.
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The Heartless Stone
Tom Zoellner (St. Martin's Press)
"When he proposed to his girlfriend, Tom Zoellner gave what every American man is supposed to give at such a time - a diamond engagement ring. But when the relationship broke apart a few months before the wedding, he was left with a used diamond ring that began to haunt him. Zoellner looked harder at the stone, and the consequent fascination sent him around the world." Across fourteen nations and six continents, the empty mythology of the diamond drew him into a world in which a piece of carbon is made to breathe with the profound intimacies of our own histories. The Heartless Stone was selected as an American Library Association Notable Book, 2007.
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