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Another Day in the Frontal Lobe
A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside
Written by Katrina Firlik
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: June 12, 2007
Price: $14.95
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7340-2 (0-8129-7340-2)
Katrina Firlik is a neurosurgeon, one of only two hundred or so women among the alpha males who dominate this high-pressure, high-prestige medical specialty. She is also a superbly gifted writer–witty, insightful, at once deeply humane and refreshingly wry. In Another Day in the Frontal Lobe, Dr. Firlik recounts how her...Read more >
A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside
Written by Katrina Firlik
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: June 12, 2007
Price: $14.95
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7340-2 (0-8129-7340-2)
Katrina Firlik is a neurosurgeon, one of only two hundred or so women among the alpha males who dominate this high-pressure, high-prestige medical specialty. She is also a superbly gifted writer–witty, insightful, at once deeply humane and refreshingly wry. In Another Day in the Frontal Lobe, Dr. Firlik recounts how her...
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Courtroom 302
A Year Behind the Scenes in an American Criminal Courthouse
Written by Steve Bogira
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: February 14, 2006
Price: $15.95
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 978-0-679-75206-6 (0-679-75206-4)
Steve Bogira’s riveting book takes us into the heart of America’s criminal justice system. Courtroom 302 is the story of one year in one courtroom in Chicago’s Cook County Criminal Courthouse, the busiest felony courthouse in the country.
We see the system through the eyes of the men and women who...Read more >
A Year Behind the Scenes in an American Criminal Courthouse
Written by Steve Bogira
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: February 14, 2006
Price: $15.95
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 978-0-679-75206-6 (0-679-75206-4)
Steve Bogira’s riveting book takes us into the heart of America’s criminal justice system. Courtroom 302 is the story of one year in one courtroom in Chicago’s Cook County Criminal Courthouse, the busiest felony courthouse in the country.
We see the system through the eyes of the men and women who...
The Culture Code
An Ingenious Way to Understand Why People Around the World Live and Buy as They Do
Written by Clotaire Rapaille
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: July 17, 2007
Price: $14.95
Publisher: Broadway
ISBN: 978-0-7679-2057-5 (0-7679-2057-0)
In The Culture Code, internationally revered cultural anthropologist and marketing expert Clotaire Rapaille reveals for the first time the techniques he has used to improve profitability and practices for dozens of Fortune 100 companies. His groundbreaking revelations shed light not just on business but on the way every human being acts...Read more >
An Ingenious Way to Understand Why People Around the World Live and Buy as They Do
Written by Clotaire Rapaille
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: July 17, 2007
Price: $14.95
Publisher: Broadway
ISBN: 978-0-7679-2057-5 (0-7679-2057-0)
In The Culture Code, internationally revered cultural anthropologist and marketing expert Clotaire Rapaille reveals for the first time the techniques he has used to improve profitability and practices for dozens of Fortune 100 companies. His groundbreaking revelations shed light not just on business but on the way every human being acts...
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Exuberance
The Passion for Life
Written by Kay Redfield Jamison
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: September 13, 2005
Price: $15.95
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 978-0-375-70148-1 (0-375-70148-6)
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With the same grace and breadth of learning she brought to her studies of the mind’s pathologies, Kay Redfield Jamison examines one of its most exalted states: exuberance. This “abounding, ebullient, effervescent emotion” manifests itself everywhere from child’s play to scientific breakthrough and is crucially important to learning, risk-taking...Read more >
The Passion for Life
Written by Kay Redfield Jamison
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: September 13, 2005
Price: $15.95
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 978-0-375-70148-1 (0-375-70148-6)
NOW IN PAPERBACK
With the same grace and breadth of learning she brought to her studies of the mind’s pathologies, Kay Redfield Jamison examines one of its most exalted states: exuberance. This “abounding, ebullient, effervescent emotion” manifests itself everywhere from child’s play to scientific breakthrough and is crucially important to learning, risk-taking...
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Final Exam
A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality
Written by Pauline W. Chen
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2008
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 978-0-307-27537-0 (0-307-27537-X)
A brilliant transplant surgeon brings compassion and narrative drama to the fearful reality that every doctor must face: the inevitability of mortality.
When Pauline Chen began medical school, she dreamed of saving lives. What she could not predict was how much death would be a part of her work. Almost immediately, she...Read more >
A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality
Written by Pauline W. Chen
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2008
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 978-0-307-27537-0 (0-307-27537-X)
A brilliant transplant surgeon brings compassion and narrative drama to the fearful reality that every doctor must face: the inevitability of mortality.
When Pauline Chen began medical school, she dreamed of saving lives. What she could not predict was how much death would be a part of her work. Almost immediately, she...
The Progress Paradox
How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse
Written by Gregg Easterbrook
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: November 9, 2004
Price: $14.95
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7303-7 (0-8129-7303-8)
In The Progress Paradox, Gregg Easterbrook draws upon three decades of wide-ranging research and thinking to make the persuasive assertion that almost all aspects of Western life have vastly improved in the past century--yet today, according to research and anecdotal evidence, most men and women feel less 'happy' than in previous...Read more >
How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse
Written by Gregg Easterbrook
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: November 9, 2004
Price: $14.95
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7303-7 (0-8129-7303-8)
In The Progress Paradox, Gregg Easterbrook draws upon three decades of wide-ranging research and thinking to make the persuasive assertion that almost all aspects of Western life have vastly improved in the past century--yet today, according to research and anecdotal evidence, most men and women feel less 'happy' than in previous...
Race Matters
Written by Cornel West
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: March 29, 1994
Price: $12.95
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 978-0-679-74986-8 (0-679-74986-1)
With an intellectual boldness and redemptive passion, West addresses the growing nihilism among African-Americans; the failure of both liberal and conservative approaches to race; the taboos surrounding black sexuality; and the cult and legacy of Malcolm X. West's subject matter ranges from the crisis in black leadership to the myths surrounding black...Read more >
Written by Cornel West
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: March 29, 1994
Price: $12.95
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 978-0-679-74986-8 (0-679-74986-1)
With an intellectual boldness and redemptive passion, West addresses the growing nihilism among African-Americans; the failure of both liberal and conservative approaches to race; the taboos surrounding black sexuality; and the cult and legacy of Malcolm X. West's subject matter ranges from the crisis in black leadership to the myths surrounding black...
Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer
A Road Trip into the Heart of Fan Mania
Written by Warren St. John
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: May 31, 2005
Price: $13.95
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
ISBN: 978-0-609-80713-2 (0-609-80713-7)
A Chronicle of Higher Education Top 10 Best College-Sports Books Ever**
"St. John offers an unsurpassed blend of scholarly heft (he's gathered all of the scattered research on sports fandom), superb reporting (among those we meet is the Alabama fan so full of hate toward Tennessee that he'd root for "Notre Dame...Read more >
A Road Trip into the Heart of Fan Mania
Written by Warren St. John
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: May 31, 2005
Price: $13.95
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
ISBN: 978-0-609-80713-2 (0-609-80713-7)
A Chronicle of Higher Education Top 10 Best College-Sports Books Ever**
"St. John offers an unsurpassed blend of scholarly heft (he's gathered all of the scattered research on sports fandom), superb reporting (among those we meet is the Alabama fan so full of hate toward Tennessee that he'd root for "Notre Dame...
Status Anxiety
Written by Alain De Botton
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: May 10, 2005
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 978-0-375-72535-7 (0-375-72535-0)
Anyone who’s ever lost sleep over an unreturned phone call or the neighbor’s Lexus had better read Alain de Botton’s irresistibly clear-headed new book, immediately. For in its pages, a master explicator of our civilization and its discontents turns his attention to the insatiable quest for status, a quest that has...Read more >
Written by Alain De Botton
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: May 10, 2005
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 978-0-375-72535-7 (0-375-72535-0)
Anyone who’s ever lost sleep over an unreturned phone call or the neighbor’s Lexus had better read Alain de Botton’s irresistibly clear-headed new book, immediately. For in its pages, a master explicator of our civilization and its discontents turns his attention to the insatiable quest for status, a quest that has...
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Stumbling on Happiness
Written by Daniel Gilbert
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: March 20, 2007
Price: $15.95
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7742-7 (1-4000-7742-7)
Winner of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books 2007
• Why are lovers quicker to forgive their partners for infidelity than for leaving dirty dishes in the sink?
• Why will sighted people pay more to avoid going blind than blind people will pay to regain their sight?
• Why do dining...Read more >
Written by Daniel Gilbert
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: March 20, 2007
Price: $15.95
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7742-7 (1-4000-7742-7)
Winner of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books 2007
• Why are lovers quicker to forgive their partners for infidelity than for leaving dirty dishes in the sink?
• Why will sighted people pay more to avoid going blind than blind people will pay to regain their sight?
• Why do dining...
The Sunflower
On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness
Written by Simon Wiesenthal
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: April 7, 1998
Price: $14.95
Publisher: Schocken
ISBN: 978-0-8052-1060-6 (0-8052-1060-1)
While imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp, Simon Wiesenthal was taken one day from his work detail to the bedside of a dying member of the SS. Haunted by the crimes in which he had participated, the soldier wanted to confess to--and obtain absolution from--a Jew. Faced with the choice between...Read more >
On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness
Written by Simon Wiesenthal
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: April 7, 1998
Price: $14.95
Publisher: Schocken
ISBN: 978-0-8052-1060-6 (0-8052-1060-1)
While imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp, Simon Wiesenthal was taken one day from his work detail to the bedside of a dying member of the SS. Haunted by the crimes in which he had participated, the soldier wanted to confess to--and obtain absolution from--a Jew. Faced with the choice between...
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Twentysomething Essays by Twentysomething Writers
Edited by Matt Kellogg and Jillian Quint
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: August 29, 2006
Price: $14.95
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7566-6 (0-8129-7566-9)
Selected as the winners of Random House’s national contest, a stunning collection of essays ranging from comic to poignant, personal to political, by the newest, brightest young writers you haven’t heard of . . . yet.
Here, for the first time, current twentysomethings come together on their own terms, in their own...Read more >
Edited by Matt Kellogg and Jillian Quint
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: August 29, 2006
Price: $14.95
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7566-6 (0-8129-7566-9)
Selected as the winners of Random House’s national contest, a stunning collection of essays ranging from comic to poignant, personal to political, by the newest, brightest young writers you haven’t heard of . . . yet.
Here, for the first time, current twentysomethings come together on their own terms, in their own...
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Twilight
Los Angeles, 1992
Written by Anna Deavere Smith
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: March 15, 1994
Price: $14.95
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 978-0-385-47376-7 (0-385-47376-1)
Stanford professor Anna Deavere Smith has performed her hard-hitting, sociologically probing "documentary theater" stage pieces Fires in the Mirror and Twilight on campuses and in theaters nationwide, receiving critical praise and accolades from every quarter. Available here in book form with complete text and photographs, the productions document changes in racial...Read more >
Los Angeles, 1992
Written by Anna Deavere Smith
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: March 15, 1994
Price: $14.95
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 978-0-385-47376-7 (0-385-47376-1)
Stanford professor Anna Deavere Smith has performed her hard-hitting, sociologically probing "documentary theater" stage pieces Fires in the Mirror and Twilight on campuses and in theaters nationwide, receiving critical praise and accolades from every quarter. Available here in book form with complete text and photographs, the productions document changes in racial...
War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning
Written by Chris Hedges
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: June 10, 2003
Price: $13.95
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3463-5 (1-4000-3463-9)
As a veteran war correspondent, Chris Hedges has survived ambushes in Central America, imprisonment in Sudan, and a beating by Saudi military police. He has seen children murdered for sport in Gaza and petty thugs elevated into war heroes in the Balkans. Hedges, who is also a former divinity student, has...Read more >
Written by Chris Hedges
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: June 10, 2003
Price: $13.95
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3463-5 (1-4000-3463-9)
As a veteran war correspondent, Chris Hedges has survived ambushes in Central America, imprisonment in Sudan, and a beating by Saudi military police. He has seen children murdered for sport in Gaza and petty thugs elevated into war heroes in the Balkans. Hedges, who is also a former divinity student, has...
What Terrorists Want
Understanding the Enemy, Containing the Threat
Written by Louise Richardson
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2007
Price: $17.00
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7544-4 (0-8129-7544-8)
“This is at the top of my list for best books on terrorism.”
–Jessica Stern, author of Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill
How can the most powerful country in the world feel so threatened by an enemy infinitely weaker than we are? How can loving parents and otherwise...Read more >
Understanding the Enemy, Containing the Threat
Written by Louise Richardson
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2007
Price: $17.00
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7544-4 (0-8129-7544-8)
“This is at the top of my list for best books on terrorism.”
–Jessica Stern, author of Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill
How can the most powerful country in the world feel so threatened by an enemy infinitely weaker than we are? How can loving parents and otherwise...
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The Wisdom of Crowds
Written by James Surowiecki
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: August 16, 2005
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 978-0-385-72170-7 (0-385-72170-6)
In this fascinating book, New Yorker business columnist James Surowiecki explores a deceptively simple idea: Large groups of people are smarter than an elite few, no matter how brilliant—better at solving problems, fostering innovation, coming to wise decisions, even predicting the future.
With boundless erudition and in delightfully clear prose, Surowiecki...Read more >
Written by James Surowiecki
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: August 16, 2005
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 978-0-385-72170-7 (0-385-72170-6)
In this fascinating book, New Yorker business columnist James Surowiecki explores a deceptively simple idea: Large groups of people are smarter than an elite few, no matter how brilliant—better at solving problems, fostering innovation, coming to wise decisions, even predicting the future.
With boundless erudition and in delightfully clear prose, Surowiecki...
