Among the Great Apes: Adventures on the Trail of Our Closest Relatives
By Paul Raffaele
An engaging mix of reportage, natural history, and travelogue takes readers on an exciting and often hazardous journey to witness the last great apes in their native habitat.
Bible Babel: Making Sense of the Most Talked About Book of All Time
By Kristin Swenson
Based on the most recent scholarship, a lively and readable introduction to the Bible – what it is, where it comes from and what’s in it – answers common questions and identifies and explains pop culture references to the holy book.
Black Hearts: One Platoon’s Descent into Madness in Iraq’s Triangle of Death
By Jim Frederick
Frederick documents the events surrounding the tragic rape of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and the executions of her family members by soldiers in the 502nd Infantry, citing contributing factors while examining the event’s relevance in shaping future military initiatives.
Broker, Trader, Lawyer, Spy: The Secret World of Corporate Espionage
By Eamon Javers
An in-depth work of investigative and historical journalism examines the evolution of corporate espionage, exploring the dangerous and combustible power spies hold over international business.
Change Your Brain, Change Your Body: Use Your Brain to Get and Keep the Body You Have Always Wanted
By Daniel G. Amen
Amen counsels readers on how to tap the potential of the mind-body connection to improve overall health, outlining 18 strategies for such areas as improving willpower, decreasing stress, and balancing hormones.
Comeback America: Turning the Country Around and Restoring Fiscal Responsibility
By David Walker
A former head of the Government Accountability Office offers bold ideas on how to control spending, save Social Security, dramatically alter Medicare, and simplify the tax code – all taking into account the Obama Administration’s current efforts, which receive never-before-published assessments that are both complimentary and critical.
The Death of American Virtue: Clinton vs. Starr
By Ken Gormley
A dramatic account of the Ken Starr investigation and the impeachment of President Clinton taps exclusive interviews and previously unreleased research to include coverage of the Paula Jones suit, the Lewinsky affair, and Jim McDougal’s imprisonment.
The Decision Tree: Taking Control of Your Health in the New Era of Personalized Medicine
By Thomas Goetz
In a book where the author advocates a new strategy for thinking about health, the executive editor of WIRED magazine examines the recent advances in preventive medicine, from genomics to early detection, and how they are transforming health care.
An End to Al Qaeda: Destroying Bin Laden’s Jihad and Restoring America’s Honor
By Malcolm Nance
An anti-terrorism director and terrorism training veteran, outlines a two-year plan for restoring America’s reputation and defeating Al Qaeda without military violence. After exposing the organization’s purposes, Nance recommends reducing operations that cause inadvertent civilian deaths, and relying on counterintelligence sources.
Fat to Skinny Fast and Easy! Eat Great, Lose Weight, and Lower Blood Sugar
By Doug Varrieur
A middle-aged businessman who successfully lost 100 pounds on a low-carb diet profiles different sugar types and identifies the sugar content of typical meals, sharing a variety of low-carb recipes including Chicken Cacciatore with Spaghetti Squash, Roast Cajun Pork Loin, and Strawberry Shortcake.
Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy
By Joseph E. Stiglitz
Drawing on his academic and professional expertise, the author explains how the United States exported bad economics, bad policies, and bad behavior to the rest of the world, only to provide a substandard response when the markets finally seized up.
Get Me Out: A History of Childbirth from the Garden of Eden to the Sperm Bank
By Randi Hutter Epstein
A contributing medical writer for The New York Times and the Washington Post offers an eye-opening history of pregnancy, chronicles birthing joys and debacles, and looks at what it takes to get pregnant, stay pregnant, and deliver a child.
Go-Givers Sell More: Unleashing the Power of Generosity
By Bob Burg and John David Mann
The authors build on the principles introduced in The Go-Give to instruct readers on how to apply their philosophies to real-world situations, and provide strategic coverage of such practices as creating value, building trusting relationships, and enabling quality service.
The High School Reunion Diet: Lose 20 Years in 30 Days
By Dr. David Colbert
A respected dermatologist lays out a whole-foods diet designed to help readers “lose 20 years in 30 days” and once again look and feel young and refreshed.
I Am an Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls Around the World
By Eve Ensler
The best-selling author of The Vagina Monologues presents a series of provocative essays that capture the voices of adolescent women from a variety of cultures, from a Westchester teen who rejects the demands of popularity to a Republic of Congo sex slave.
If the Church Were Christian: Rediscovering the Values of Jesus
By Philip Gulley
The author of If Grace Is True and If God Is Love challenges today’s church to become what it could be if Christians truly followed the core values of Jesus.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
By Rebecca Skloot
Skloot documents the story of how scientists took cells from an unsuspecting descendant of freed slaves and created a human cell line that has been kept alive indefinitely, enabling discoveries in such areas as cancer research, in vitro fertilization, and gene mapping.
Intellectuals and Society
By Thomas Sowell
Sowell aims to unravel the world of intellectuals so that lay people may understand an important social phenomenon – how the thinkers of our society mold that society, leaving an impact on people in every walk of life, even if the thinkers are basically unknown to the world at large.
Jack the Ripper’s Secret Confession: The Hidden Testimony of Britain’s First Serial Killer
By David Monaghan and Nigel Cawthorne
The authors put forth the theory that Jack the Ripper was a textile millionaire by the name of Henry Spencer Ashbee, who, under the pseudonym Walter,” wrote a troubling book of violent sex fantasies around the turn of the century.”
Jerry West: The Life and Legend of a Basketball Icon
By Roland Lazenby
An account of the career of the basketball icon whose silhouette appears on the NBA’s logo documents his rise from West Virginia coal country to the famed player popularly nicknamed “Mr. Clutch;” includes coverage of his sensational college games, gold medal Olympic run, and contributions as an NBA executive.
Just Don’t Fall: How I Grew Up, Conquered Illness, and Made It Down the Mountain
By Josh Sundquist A disabled champion skier recounts the childhood sarcoma that cost him his left leg, his relationship with his pastor father and conservative home-schooling mother and his inspirational efforts to participate in the 2006 Paralympics.
The Language of Pain: Finding Words, Compassion, and Relief
By David Biro, M.D.
A doctor who himself suffered through an excruciating bone-marrow transplant aims to transform our understanding of and ability to communicate pain through his deft mixture of compelling personal stories and artwork from patients, along with insights from some of our greatest thinkers, writers, and artists.
Law of the Jungle: The Hunt for Colombian Guerrillas, American Hostages, and Buried Treasure
By John Otis
A wild and riveting true story of kidnapping, drug trafficking and communist revolutionary guerillas tells the tale of defense contractors taken hostage after their plane crashed in a remote Colombian jungle, only to have their intended rescuers be sidetracked by the discovery of sure$20 million.
Marry Him! The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough
By Lori Gottlieb
The NPR commentator and author of the best-selling Stick Figure describes her realization that she was prioritizing the wrong qualities in her search for a life partner, in an unstinting account that draws on the positive and negative responses to her 2008 Atlantic article.
Never Tell Our Business to Strangers
By Jennifer Mascia
Mascia documents her youth as an unaware child of criminal parents on the run, describing her father’s brief incarceration for an undisclosed reason, their frenetic travels throughout the country under assumed names, and the powerful love shared by their family in spite of their unstable lives.
A New Kind of Christianity: Ten Questions That Are Transforming the Faith
By Brian McLaren
In a book that lays out a vision of what the church will look like for its next five hundred years, McLaren examines ten questions facing Christianity today: questions about authority, God, Jesus, how to articulate the faith itself, the nature of the gospel, sex, the future, and pluralism.
The Perfect 10 Diet: 10 Key Hormones that Hold the Secret to Losing Weight and Feeling Great—Fast!
By Michael Aziz, M.D.
Aziz presents a diet designed to balance ten key hormones with the aim of losing fourteen pounds in twenty-one days and improving overall health. The book also includes tips for overcoming sluggish weight loss, a guide to hormone supplements, more than sixty-five recipes, inspiring real-life case studies, and frequently asked questions.
The Poisoner’s Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
By Deborah Blum
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Ghost Hunters chronicles the dramatic story of New York City’s first forensic scientists to describe Jazz Age poisoning cases, including a family’s inexplicable balding, Barnum and Bailey’s Blue Man, and the crumbling bones of factory workers.
The Power of Women: Harness Your Unique Strengths at Home, at Work, and in Your Community
By Susan Nolen-Hoeksema
Drawing on original research and instructive stories of real people, the best-selling author of Women Who Think Too Much shows women how to break the cycle of scrutinizing their flaws and instead discover and utilize their unique psychological strengths.
Reality Hunger: A Manifesto
By David Shields The author of the best-selling The Thing About Life Is That One Day You’ll Be Dead presents a call for new art forms to match the complexities of the 21st century, exploring how creative expression is being reshaped to reflect today’s increasingly artificial and disconnected world.
Red Carpet Ready: Secrets for Making the Most of Any Moment You’re in the Spotlight
By Melissa Rivers and Tim Vandehey
The Hollywood insider shares life lessons she has learned in her personal and professional arenas, recounting haphazard experiences from her red carpet interviews at the Emmy Awards ceremonies while counseling readers on how to approach milestones with grace and humor.
The Right Fight: How Great Leaders Use Healthy Conflict to Drive Performance, Innovation, and Value
By Saj-Nicole Joni and Damon Beyer
In a sharp critique of conventional management wisdom, a pair of influential consultants argues that executives must learn to create and manage carefully selected tensions – “right fights” – to lead their organizations to peak performance.
The Routes of Man: How Roads Are Changing the World, and the Way We Live Today
By Ted Conover
The Pulitzer Prize finalist and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing explores how roads literally and metaphorically bind the world and change its landscape, citing examples in such regions as China, the Andes, and the West Bank.
Safe Patients, Smart Hospitals: How One Doctor’s Checklist Can Help Us Change Health Care from the Inside Out
By Peter Pronovost and Eric Vohr
In a guide complemented by patient and professional anecdotes, a patient safety expert and recipient of a MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” outlines a program for hospital safety reform that includes an ICU procedure designed to reduce infection rates.
The Science of Liberty: Democracy, Reason, and the Laws of Nature
By Timothy Ferris
The Pulitzer Prize-nominated author of Coming of Age in the Milky Way makes a case for science as the inspiration behind the rise of liberalism and democracy, arguing that just as the scientific revolution rescued billions from poverty, fear, hunger, and disease, the Enlightenment values it inspired has swelled the number of persons living in free democratic societies.
The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire
By Jack Weatherford
The award-winning author of the best-selling Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World presents a meticulously researched account of the pivotal contributions of the dynasty’s women throughout subsequent centuries.
Shocking Cases from Dr. Henry Lee’s Forensic Files
By Dr. Henry C. Lee and Jerry Labriola, M.D.
The authors of Famous Crimes Revisited delve into a new set of cases in a way only Dr. Lee’s expertise can deliver; among them: the Phil Spector murder trial; the massacre of restaurant employees; genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina; the brutal murder of a nun in Ohio; and the shooting of a Connecticut state trooper.
Spirited: Connect to the Guides All Around You
By Rebecca Rosen
A popular psychic medium provides a fresh and hip prescriptive program that empowers readers to heighten their intuition, connect with deceased loved ones, and surpass the psychological roadblocks holding them back.
Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
By Chip Heath and Dan Heath
The best-selling authors of Made to Stock offer insight into the difficult nature of lasting change, presenting metaphorical illustrations of the conflict between the instinctual and the intellectual areas of the brain while sharing case stories of successful individuals and organizations.
This Book Is Overdue! How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All
By Marilyn Johnson
In a celebration of libraries and the dedicated people who staff them, the author argues that librarians are more important than ever. Johnson discusses “cybrarians,” a new breed of visionary professionals who use the Internet to link people and information.
TIME Your Brain: A Visual User’s Guide
By Jeffrey Kluger
A guide to a new understanding of the human brain – and the ways in which the mind, body, and spirit work together – explains how the brain is involved in every aspect of life, from aging, sexuality and overall health to nutrition and exercise; includes useful pointers on how to keep the brain young, vital, and alert.
To Hell on a Fast Horse: Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, and the Epic Chase to Justice in the Old West
By Mark Lee Gardner
Drawing on a wealth of primary sources, the author recreates Sheriff Pat Garrett’s thrilling manhunt for Billy the Kid, the Wild West’s most notorious outlaw, and offers a duel biography of the two legendary larger-than-life figures.
Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History
By David Aaronovitch
The award-winning author of Paddling to Jerusalem examines the role of conspiracy theories in shaping history and public perception, and analyzes twelve major theories to reveal why conspiracies gain support and can fuel violence in today’s world.
The Watchers: The Rise of America’s Surveillance State
By Shane Harris
In an account that cites the contributions of such figures as Admiral John Poindexter and General Mike Hayden, Harris charts the rise of America’s surveillance state throughout the past quarter century, arguing that government strategy has made it harder to catch terrorists and easier to spy on everyday citizens.
We’ve Got Issues: Children and Parents in the Age of Medication
By Judith Warner
Attempting to raise awareness about the actual experiences of families confronting mental health issues, the author of Perfect Madness argues that parents and physicians are inappropriately prescribing medication to control undesirable behavior in children.
The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea
By Philip Hoare
In addition to relating his travels to learn more about these mysterious mammals, Hoare explores the troubled history of man and whale; traces the whale’s cultural history; and seeks to discover why these strange and beautiful animals continue to exert such a powerful grip on our imagination.
What Darwin Got Wrong
By Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini
A critical assessment of what the authors believe may be scientific and philosophical flaws in Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection questions the environmental assumptions of Darwin’s evolutionary framework.
Workin’ It! RuPaul’s Guide to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Style
By RuPaul and Merle Ginsberg
The popular drag queen and host of RuPaul’s Drag Race provide provocative tips on fashion, beauty, style, and confidence for women and men, gay and straight, in a book augmented by full-color photos.
Yalta: The Price of Peace
By S. M. Plokhy
A history of the eight-day peace conference in 1945 between FDR, Churchill, and Stalin offers insight into the strained political forces that influenced peace talks, challenging popular opinions about Yalta’s role in triggering the Cold War.
You Say More Than You Think: A 7-Day Plan for Using the New Body Language to Get What You Want
By Janine Driver
Challenging popular misconceptions promoted by other body-language experts, a certified business coach and deception-detection expert shares science-based information on reading people, outlining a seven-day program for using body-language cues to promote personal and professional goals.
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