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The Nature of the Future
Free Press |
April 9, 2013 |
256 pages
A renowned futurist offers a vision of a reinvented world. Large corporations, big governments, and other centralized organizations have long determined and dominated the way we work, access healthcare, get an education, feed ourselves, and generally go about our lives. The economist Ronald Coase,... More Info
$18.99
Moving the Mountain
Free Press |
March 5, 2013 |
240 pages
Now in paperback, an open and honest clarion call inviting readers to a deeper understanding of the role of moderate Muslims in America and in the world. Many know Imam Feisal as the man behind the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque,” an interfaith community center he is trying to build near the... More Info
$18.99
To Show and to Tell
Free Press |
February 12, 2013 |
240 pages
Distinguished author Phillip Lopate, editor of the celebrated anthology The Art of the Personal Essay, is universally acclaimed as “one of our best personal essayists” (Dallas Morning News). Here, combining more than forty years of lessons from his storied career as a writer and professor, he... More Info
$18.99
I Know Who You Are and I Saw What You Did
Free Press |
January 1, 2013 |
272 pages
Social networks, the defining cultural movement of our time, offer many freedoms. But as we work and shop and date over the Web, we are opening ourselves up to intrusive privacy violations by employers, the police, and aggressive data collection companies that sell our information to any and all... More Info
The Magic of Reality
Free Press |
September 11, 2012 |
272 pages
Richard Dawkins, bestselling author and the world’s most celebrated evolutionary biologist, has spent his career elucidating the many wonders of science. Here, he takes a broader approach and uses his unrivaled explanatory powers to illuminate the ways in which the world really works. Filled with... More Info
All Standing
Free Press |
January 8, 2013 |
256 pages
All Standing The Remarkable Story of the Jeanie Johnston, the Legendary Irish Famine Ship recounts the journeys of this famous ship, her heroic crew, and the immigrants who were ferried between Ireland and North America. Spurred by a complex web of motivations—shame, familial obligation, and... More Info
A Thousand Lives
Free Press |
November 13, 2012 |
336 pages
In 1954, a past or named Jim Jones opened a church in Indianapolis called Peoples Temple Full Gospel Church. He was a charismatic preacher with idealistic beliefs, and he quickly filled his pews with an audience eager to hear his sermons on social justice. As Jones’s behavior became erratic and... More Info
Day of Honey: A Mem
Free Press |
February 14, 2012 |
416 pages
American Book Award Winner Winner of Books for a Better Life Award (First Book) James Beard Foundation Award Nominee BNN Discover Awards, second place nonfiction IN THE FALL OF 2003, AS IRAQ DESCENDED INTO CIVIL WAR, Annia Ciezadlo spent her honeymoon in Baghdad. For the next six years, she lived... More Info
$33.50
Lincoln's Code
Free Press |
September 4, 2012 |
512 pages
In the fateful closing days of 1862, three weeks before Emancipation, the administration of Abraham Lincoln commissioned a code setting forth the laws of war for the armies of the United States. The code announced standards of civilized conduct in wartime concerning issues such as torture,... More Info
A Renegade History of the United States
Free Pr |
July 5, 2011 |
400 pages
“Raucous, profane, and thrillingly original, Thaddeus Russell's A Renegade History of the United States turns the myths of the 'American character' on their heads with a rare mix of wit, scholarship, and storytelling flair” (Steven Johnson, author of Everything Bad Is Good for You and The... More Info
Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness?
Free Press |
July 10, 2012 |
288 pages
In this provocative book, writer and cultural critic TourÉ explores the concept of Post-Blackness: the ability for someone to be rooted in but not restricted by their race. Drawing on his own experiences and those of 105 luminaries, he argues that racial identity should be understood as fluid,... More Info
Sybil Exposed
Free Pr |
June 12, 2012 |
320 pages
Now available in paperback, "Sybil Exposed" is the "New York Times" bestselling book that offers a new perspective on the smash hit book and film, "Sybil," and on multiple personality disorder itself. Journalist Debbie Nathan gives proof that the allegedly true story was largely fabricated.
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The Source of All Things
Free Pr |
February 21, 2012 |
320 pages
Tracy Ross never knew her biological father, who died after a brain aneurysm when she was still an infant. So when her mother married Donnie, a gregarious man with an all-wheel-drive jeep and a love of hiking, four-year-old Tracy was ecstatic to have a father figure in her life. A loving and... More Info
$16.00
Nomad
Free Press |
February 8, 2011 |
320 pages
The activist and best-selling author of Infidel describes her experiences after moving to America to pursue a safer life, from her renewed contact with her family after her father's death to her struggles to embrace new principles in the face of Islamic attempts to prohibit her work. Reprint.... More Info
$21.00
Fool's Gold
Free Press |
April 13, 2010 |
301 pages
The fascinating, unknown story at the heart of the current financial crisis by the award-winning journalist who warned of the crash well in advance.
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We Learn Nothing
Free Pr |
June 12, 2012 |
240 pages
Satirical cartoonist Tim Kreider here turns his most unflinchingly funny, brutally honest mind to the dark truths of the human condition.Tim Kreider spent the past fifteen years of his life as a political cartoonist with an avid cult following, exposing the hypocrisies of our government and being,... More Info
Driving with Plato
Free Pr |
February 14, 2012 |
256 pages
"This book is elegant proof that philosophy doesn't have to be fusty and musty" (A.J. Jacobs, bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically).Learn to ride a bicycle with Einstein, have your first kiss with Kant, get your first job with Adam Smith, and weather midlife with Dante. Let history's... More Info
Crazy Enough
Free Press |
November 13, 2012 |
288 pages
Yes, Storm Large is her real name, though she’s been called many things. As a performer, the majority of descriptions have led with “Amazon,” “powerhouse,” “a six-foot Vargas pinup come to life.” Playboy called her a “punk goddess.” You’d never know she used to be called... More Info
We Heard the Heavens Then
Free Pr |
April 10, 2012 |
288 pages
A story of an extraordinary father/son relationship imperiled by a nation's ominous and drastically changing political climate, We Heard the Heavens Then is a piercing look at revolution through the wide-open eyes of a child.Aria Minu-Sepehr was raised in a sheltered world of extraordinary... More Info
A Random Book about the Power of ANYone
Free Press |
October 2, 2012 |
272 pages
You can be greater than you know how to be. In a world where you are pushed to know more, this book will prove that your greatest asset is often not knowing. In a world where you are told it’s all in the planning, this book will encourage you to keep your cart ahead of your horse and allow your... More Info
The Fiddler on Pantico Run
Free Press |
October 2, 2012 |
320 pages
“My dad’s family was a mystery,” writes prize-winning journalist Joe Mozingo. Growing up, he knew that his mother’s ancestors were from France and Sweden, but he heard only suspiciously vague stories about where his father’s family was from—Italy, Portugal, the Basque country. Then one... More Info
Managing a Nonprofit Organization
Free Press |
July 24, 2012 |
400 pages
MANAGING A NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION has been an essential resource for nonprofit administrators, managers, and business professors since 1984. It is a classic in its field. But much has changed since it was last updated in 1999, as the United States reels from political, economic, and demographic... More Info
The Book of Mormon Girl
Free Press |
August 7, 2012 |
240 pages
From her days of feeling like “a root beer among the Cokes”—Coca-Cola being a forbidden fruit for Mormon girls like her—Joanna Brooks always understood that being a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints set her apart from others. But, in her eyes, that made her special;... More Info
A Thousand Lives
Free Pr |
October 11, 2011 |
320 pages
Documents the tragic story of the 1978 mass murder-suicide at Jonestown, drawing on such newly released sources as diaries, unsent letters and audiotapes of charismatic leader Jim Jones to identify the beliefs that inspired his followers and the addiction and mental illness that influenced Jones's... More Info
Yellow Dirt
Free Pr |
July 5, 2011 |
336 pages
WINNER OF THE J. ANTHONY LUKAS WORK-IN-PROGRESS AWARD PUBLISHERS WEEKLY TOP 100 BEST BOOKS OF 2010, NONFICTION THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR BEST BOOKS OF 2010, NONFICTION A world-class deposit of uranium runs under the Navajo reservation in the American Southwest. The radioactive “yellow dirt”... More Info
The Return
Free Pr |
January 10, 2012 |
544 pages
Russia has long been a source of puzzlement— and sometimes alarm—for Western observers. Since shaking off communism two decades ago, the country has seemed wobbly at best, thoroughly corrupt and threatening at worst. But in recent years, as noted scholar Daniel Treisman shows in this compelling... More Info
The Great Penguin Rescue
Free Pr |
August 16, 2011 |
320 pages
On June 23, 2000, the iron ore carrier MV Treasure foundered off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa, spilling 1,300 tons of oil into the ocean and contaminating the habitat of 75,000 penguins—thus threatening to decimate 41 percent of the world’s population of African penguins. A massive... More Info
The Memory Palace
Free Pr |
August 9, 2011 |
336 pages
The Pushcart Prize-nominated daughter of piano prodigy Norma Herr describes how her sister and she were forced by their mother's violent schizophrenic episodes to discontinue contact with her until the author's debilitating injury changed her sense of the world and enabled a healing access to... More Info
The 3rd Alternative
Free Pr |
October 4, 2011 |
480 pages
The influential author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People outlines a breakthrough approach to conflict resolution and creative problem solving that draws on the techniques of thinkers from a broad range of disciplines to explain how to incorporate diverse viewpoints for win-win solutions.... More Info
Terrorists in Love
Free Pr |
October 4, 2011 |
336 pages
A leading expert profiles six terrorists to lend insight into the hostile threats facing the Western world today, drawing on extensive interviews with Muslim extremists to outline a revisionist theory about what motivates terrorist beliefs and activities. 50,000 first printing.
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The Story of Stuff
Free Press |
February 1, 2011 |
319 pages
Annie Leonard tracks the life of the "stuff" we use every day, transforming how we think about our patterns of consumption.
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