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Unaccustomed Earth: “Lahiri’s enormous gifts as a storyteller are on full display in this collection: the gorgeous, effortless prose; the characters haunted by regret, isolation, loss, and tragedies big and small; and most of all, a quiet, emerging sense of humanity.” —Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner

Wrestling with the Angel of Democracy: In this unique and timely exploration of American history, leading feminist thinker Susan Griffin demonstrates that ultimately democracy is not only a system of governance, but, in its fullest form, represents a revolution in consciousness—and one that is still unfolding today.

Bush's Law: “‘All the President’s Men’ for an age of terror. . . . At a time when the press’s role in American democracy is being hotly contested, this book provides an inspiring example of reporters doing what they do best: checking claims of unlimited governmental power and protecting the public’s right to know.” —The New York Times

In The Translator: A Tribesman’s Memoir of Darfur, Daoud Hari narrates the events of his life—from his childhood in a small village in the Darfur region of Sudan, to his travels seeking work as a young adult, to his devastating return to a ravaged homeland. Emotionally powerful and ethically galvanizing, this is a story that will bring recent events in Darfur to vivid life for students.

“A bravura piece of globe-trotting reportage, McMafia traces the origins and maps the reach of every major known transnational criminal network operating in the 21st century . . . engrossing.” —San Francisco Chronicle

“James Rosen’s The Strong Man is excellent. Few novels read as well as this first-rate blend of history and biography. Crammed with new information and steeped in deep research, political street smarts, fresh insights, and crisp, clear writing, it is a major contribution to the history of Watergate and the Nixon presidency.” —Dan Rather, CBS News White House correspondent, 1969–1974

Random House, Inc. Welcomes Other Press

Random House, Inc. is pleased to welcome Other Press as one of our newest distribution clients.

Other Press is the publisher of outstanding works in Lacanian studies, psychology, and psychoanalysis, as well as novels, short stories, poetry, and essays from the U.S. and around the world that represent literature at its best.

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Philip Zimbardo's The Lucifer Effect Wins William James Book Award

The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil was recently awarded the William James Book Award of the Society for General Psychology (Division 1 of the American Psychological Association). This award recognizes one work that "serves to integrate material across psychological subfields or to provide coherence to the diverse subject matter of psychology." It is the highest book honor of the APA.

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RH Authors at the 2008 World Science Festival

Join authors Brian Greene, Oliver Sacks, Alan Lightman, Michio Kaku, and many others at the 2008 World Science Festival.

The World Science Festival is an unprecedented celebration of science that brings together many of the world's greatest minds in science, business, public policy, and the arts to transform public perceptions of science. Over 40 events will take place at venues around New York City from May 28th-June 1st, 2008. Learn more at http://www.worldsciencefestival.com/

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John Updike to Deliver 2008 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities

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John Updike will deliver the 37th annual Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities on Thursday, May 22. In the lecture, entitled "The Clarity of Things," Updike will examine the connection between America's art and its ideas by posing the question, "What is American about American art?" Updike has published several books of art history and criticism including Just Looking: Essays on Art (1989) and Still Looking: Essays on American Art (2005). His new novel, The Widows of Eastwick, will be published this fall by Knopf. The annual NEH-sponsored Jefferson Lecture is the most prestigious honor the federal government bestows for distinguished intellectual achievement in the humanities.

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Our 2007 NBCC Award Winners

Two Random House titles were voted winners of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle awards:

Nonfiction
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington (Doubleday)

Autobiography
Brother, I'm Dying by Edwidge Danticat (Knopf)

Random House finalists included:

Fiction: In The Country of Men by Hisham Matar — Nonfiction: Legacy of Ashes: A History of the CIA by Tim Weiner — Autobiography: A Russian Diary: A Journalist's Final Account of Life, Corruption and Death in Putin's Russia by Anna Politkovskaya — Biography: Edith Wharton by Hermione Lee; Ralph Ellison by Arnold Rampersad A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917–1932 by John Richardson — Criticism: Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints by Joan Acocella

Every year the NBCC presents awards for the finest books and reviews published in English. Click here for a list of current and past winners and finalists.

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Jean Edward Smith, the John Marshall Professor of Political Science at Marshall University and Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Toronto, received the annual Francis Parkman Prize for his FDR, published by Random House in 2007. The Society of American Historians awarded the 51st Francis Parkman Prize at its annual dinner on Monday, May 5, in New York City. The Francis Parkman Prize is awarded annually for the best nonfiction book on an American theme published the previous year. Click here for a complete list of our Francis Parkman Prize winners.

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Two Random House authors were awarded the 2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Simon Sebag Montefiore won the Biography prize for Young Stalin (Knopf) and Tim Weiner won the History prize for Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA (Doubleday, Anchor). Also, novelist Maxine Hong Kingston won this year's Robert Kirsch Award, which honors a living author with a connection to the American West whose works have made a substantial contribution to American letters.

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Peter Constantine, for his translation of The Essential Writings of Machiavelli by Niccolo Machiavelli (Modern Library), and Evan Fallenberg , for his translation of a Pigeon and a Boy by Meir Shalev (Schocken Books), were finalists for the PEN Translation Prize. This award goes to book-length translations from any language into English.

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