
The Selling of the American Economy:
“As Micheline Maynard makes compellingly clear in this vivid account, global firms have rescued companies, restored jobs, and revitalized communities in the U.S.—and have brought better ways of doing business that American companies may ignore only at their peril.” —Michael Useem, Professor of Management and Director of the Center for Leadership and Change, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

The Landmark Xenophon Hellenika:
Beautifully illustrated, heavily annotated, and filled with detailed, clear maps here is a new edition of Xenophon's Hellenika, the primary source for the events of the final seven years and aftermath of the Peloponnesian War.

Woodrow Wilson:“A rich and readable study by a leading historian who has made Wilson and his times his life work. A fine combination of sound scholarship and compelling narrative.” —James MacGregor Burns, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Roosevelt: Soldier of Freedom 1940-1945
A Truth Universally Acknowledged:
For two centuries Jane Austen has enthralled readers. In this fascinating collection of essays, classic and contemporary writers offer insights into the timelessness of Austen's moral truths while highlighting the unique confines of the society in which she composed her novels.

Outcasts United:
“Truly unforgettable, Outcasts United offers a stirring lesson in the power of a single person to transform the lives of many. It's an incisive window into the world ahead for all of us, where cultural diversity won't be an ideal or a course requirement or a corporate initiative but a fact of life that has to be wrestled with and reconciled, if never quite resolved.” —Reza Aslan, author of No God but God

The Original of Laura:
“The legendarily meticulous Nabokov spent a couple of fertile decades filling index cards with careful paragraphs, which he then revised and shuffled into complete novels. When he died he left one last batch, a partial draft. . . . A unique chance to see the perfectionist in imperfection.” —New York Magazine

Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann (Random House) has received the 2009 National Book Award for Fiction and The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T. J. Stiles (Knopf) has been announced as the Nonfiction winner.
Click here for a complete list of the 2009 National Book Award Finalists.
Jhumpa Lahiri has won the Twelfth Annual Asian American Literary Award in Fiction for her short story collection Unaccustomed Earth, and Ed Park's Personal Days was named a finalist for the award. Leslie T. Chang won in the nonfiction category for her book Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China.
Ajai Singh "Sonny" Mehta, chairman and editor-in-chief of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, was named the 2009 winner of The Asian American Writers' Workshop's Lifetime Achievement Award. Click here for more information.
John Pipkin's The Woodsburner (Nan A. Talese), a first novel about a forest fire accidentally set by Henry David Thoreau, has won the Center for Fiction's 2009 First Novel Prize. It was named the winner from a short list that included The Vagrants by Yiun Li (Random House). Last year's winner, The Book Thief author Hannah Tinti, presented the award at a ceremony on November 9.
We are excited to present our new academic blog Debate this Book. Leading thinkers, such as Daniel Goleman, Azar Nafisi and Phil Zimbardo, will contribute essays on debates of the dayand you get a chance to respond. This unique blog blends polemic, commentary and discussion, all centered around books. Click here to check out the blog and add your voice to the debate.
Debate this Book now joins Random House's other academic blogs Common Reads and Make Me Required Reading.
Neil Shubin, author of Your Inner Fish, has won a 2009 National Academy Communication Book Award for "excellence in reporting and communicating science, engineering and medicine to the public."
Age of Wonder, Richard Holmes' extraordinary account of how science inspired the romantic generation, has won the Royal Society Prize for Science Books.

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