Why We Make Mistakes
How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average
Written by Joseph T. Hallinan

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: February 9, 2010
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-7679-2806-9 (0-7679-2806-7)

Human beings have design flaws. Our eyes play tricks on us, our stories change in the retelling, and most of us are fairly sure we’re way above average. In Why We Make Mistakes, journalist Joseph T. Hallinan sets out to explore the captivating science of human error—how we think, see, remember... Read more >

Orchid Fever
A Horticultural Tale of Love, Lust, and Lunacy
Written by Eric Hansen

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 27, 2001
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-77183-8 (0-679-77183-2)

The acclaimed author of Motoring with Mohammed brings us a compelling adventure into the remarkable world of the orchid and the impossibly bizarre array of international characters who dedicate their lives to it.

The orchid is used for everything from medicine for elephants to an aphrodisiac ice cream. A Malaysian species can... Read more >

Twilight of the Elites
America After Meritocracy
Written by Christopher Hayes

Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publisher: Crown
On Sale: June 12, 2012
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-72045-0 (0-307-72045-4)

A powerful and original argument that traces the roots of our present crisis of authority to an unlikely source: the meritocracy.

Over the past decade, Americans watched in bafflement and rage as one institution after another – from Wall Street to Congress, the Catholic Church to corporate America, even Major League Baseball... Read more >

Switch
How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
Written by Chip Heath and Dan Heath

Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Crown Business
On Sale: February 16, 2010
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-52875-7 (0-385-52875-2)

Chip and Dan Heath, the bestselling authors of Made to Stick, are back with a groundbreaking book that addresses one of the greatest challenges of our personal and professional lives--how to change things when change is hard.

In Switch, Chip and Dan Heath have written a thoroughly engaging narrative about the... Read more >

A Tribe Apart
A Journey into the Heart of American Adolescence
Written by Patricia Hersch

Format: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: August 3, 1999
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-345-43594-1 (0-345-43594-X)

Author Patricia Hersch journeyed deep inside the hearts, minds, and lives of eight “average” teenagers from the suburban community of Reston, Virginia. Hersch spent three years immersed in the teenage subculture to show us how American youth have fashioned a culture of their own, a culture of unequaled freedom and baffling... Read more >

The Force of Character
And the Lasting Life
Written by James Hillman

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: July 5, 2000
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-42405-1 (0-345-42405-0)

From the bestselling author of The Soul’s Code comes a revolutionary vision of aging. Hillman recasts life’s later years as a time with an important purpose: the fulfillment and confirmation of one’s character. Drawing on his grounding in Jungian psychology, Hillman explains here the archetypes and myths that govern the self’s... Read more >

One Nation, Two Cultures
A Searching Examination of American Society in the Aftermath of Our Cultural Rev olution
Written by Gertrude Himmelfarb

Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 30, 2001
Price: $12.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70410-9 (0-375-70410-8)

Despite her forceful critique, Himmelfarb sees encouraging signs for the future of American culture. She explores the place of religion, family, and the law in American life and proposes democratic remedies for the nation's moral and cultural diseases. Though there are many legitimate grievances against government, she contends, our citizenry cannot... Read more >

Crowdsourcing
Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business
Written by Jeff Howe

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Crown Business
On Sale: September 15, 2009
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-39621-1 (0-307-39621-5)

Why does Procter & Gamble repeatedly call on enthusiastic amateurs to solve scientific and technical challenges? How can companies as diverse as iStockphoto and Threadless employ just a handful of people, yet generate millions of dollars in revenue every year?

"Crowdsourcing" is how the power of the many can be leveraged... Read more >

Millennials Rising
The Next Great Generation
Written by Neil Howe and William Strauss
Illustrated by R.J. Matson

Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 5, 2000
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-70719-3 (0-375-70719-0)

By the authors of the bestselling 13th Gen, the first in-depth examination of the Millennials--the generation born after 1982.

"Over the next decade, the Millennial Generation will entirely recast the image of youth from downbeat and alientated to upbeat and engaged--with potentially seismic consequences for America." --from Millennials Rising

In this remarkable account... Read more >

Mother Nature
Maternal Instincts and How They Shape the Human Species
Written by Sarah Hrdy

Format: Trade Paperback, 752 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: September 5, 2000
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-0-345-40893-8 (0-345-40893-4)

~Library Journal Best Book of 1999~

Maternal instinct--the all-consuming, utterly selfless love that mothers lavish on their children--has long been assumed to be an innate, indeed defining element of a woman's nature. But is it? In this provocative, groundbreaking book, renowned anthropologist (and mother) Sarah Blaffer Hrdy shares a radical new vision... Read more >

Fresh Off the Boat
A Memoir
Written by Eddie Huang

Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-64488-0 (0-679-64488-1)

Eddie Huang is the thirty-year-old proprietor of Baohaus—the hot East Village hangout where foodies, stoners, and students come to stuff their faces with delicious Taiwanese street food late into the night—and one of the food world’s brightest and most controversial young stars. But before he created the perfect home for himself... Read more >

Pigs at the Trough
How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America
Written by Arianna Huffington

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: January 27, 2004
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-5126-7 (1-4000-5126-6)

Provocative political commentator Arianna Huffington "yanks back the curtain" on the unholy alliance of CEOs, politicians, lobbyists, and Wall Street bankers who have shown a brutal disregard for those in the office cubicles and on the factory floors. As she puts it: “The economic game is not supposed to be rigged... Read more >

Homo Ludens
A Study of the Play-Element in Culture
Written by Johan Huizinga

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: June 1, 1971
Price: $24.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-4681-4 (0-8070-4681-7)

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Raising America
Experts, Parents, and a Century of Advice About Children
Written by Ann Hulbert

Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 13, 2004
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70122-1 (0-375-70122-2)

In this probing inquiry into America’s preoccupation with raising children, Ann Hulbert blends biography and critical analysis to probe the personal dramas, the scientific claims, and the social visions of a succession of experts who during the twentieth century aimed to make a science of child rearing. She describes how these... Read more >

Abused Boys
The Neglected Victims of Sexual Abuse
Written by Mic Hunter

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: June 25, 1991
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-449-90629-3 (0-449-90629-9)

After defining exactly what sexual abuse is, Hunter examines the physical and emotional impact of abuse on its victims and the factors affecting adult recovery. Abused Boys includes the stories of adult men and their loved ones, who describe the experience of childhood abuse, the after-effects that last well into adulthood... Read more >

The Most Expensive Game in Town
The Rising Cost of Youth Sports and the Toll on Today's Families
Written by Mark Hyman

Format: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-0144-8 (0-8070-0144-9)

mining the youth sports economy from many sides–the major corporations, the small entrepreneurs, the coaches, the parents, and, of course, the kids–Hyman probes the reasons for rapid changes in what gets bought and sold in this lucrative marketplace. He reveals the effects on kids and profiles the individuals and communities bucking... Read more >

Full Body Burden
Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats
Written by Kristen Iversen

Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-95565-4 (0-307-95565-6)

Chosen one of the Best Books of 2012 by Kirkus Reviews and the American Library Association and 2012 Best Book about Justice by The Atlantic
Finalist for the Barnes & Noble Discover Award and the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence
Selected for Common Reading at:
Virginia Commonwealth University
St. Bonaventure University
Fort Lewis College
California State University... Read more >

The Global Soul
Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home
Written by Pico Iyer

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 13, 2001
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-77611-6 (0-679-77611-7)

Pico Iyer has for many years described with keen perception and exacting wit the shifting textures of faraway lands anchored on a spinning globe that mixes and matches East and West. Now he casts a philosophical eye upon this curious state of floatingness.

In the transnational village that our world has become... Read more >

The Economy of Cities

Written by Jane Jacobs

Format: Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 12, 1970
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-394-70584-2 (0-394-70584-X)

"This book is radiant with ideas about what makes cities grow, and how city growth affects national economies."--The New Yorker Read more >

Systems of Survival
A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics
Written by Jane Jacobs

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 13, 1994
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-74816-8 (0-679-74816-4)

In her first book in a decade, Jacobs offers a brilliant and original study of the ethical basis of public life. Written in the form of a platonic dialogue, Systems of Survival argues that human behavior is governed by two distinct ethical systems. The first is a guardian syndrome, which arises... Read more >

Never Say Die
The Myth of the New Old Age
Written by Susan Jacoby

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 14, 2012
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-45628-1 (0-307-45628-5)

In Never Say Die, Susan Jacoby delivers a brave, impassioned, and exceptionally important wake-up call to Americans who have long been deluded by the dangerous myth that a radically new old age awaits the huge baby boom generation.

Combining historical, social, and economic analysis with personal experiences of love and loss... Read more >

Decoded

Written by Jay-Z

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
On Sale: November 1, 2011
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-8115-5 (0-8129-8115-4)

Expanded paperback edition of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller features 16 pages of new material, including 3 new songs decoded.

Decoded is a book like no other: a collection of lyrics and their meanings that together tell the story of a culture, an art form, a moment in history, and one... Read more >

Decoded

Written by Jay-Z

Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
On Sale: November 16, 2010
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-6892-0 (1-4000-6892-4)

Decoded is a book like no other: a collection of lyrics and their meanings that together tell the story of a culture, an art form, a moment in history, and one of the most provocative and successful artists of our time.

“Hip-hop’s renaissance man drops a classic. . . . Heartfelt, passionate... Read more >

Bloody Falls of the Coppermine
Madness and Murder in the Arctic Barren Lands
Written by Mckay Jenkins

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: January 10, 2006
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7537-6 (0-8129-7537-5)

In the winter of 1913, high in the Canadian Arctic, two Catholic priests set out on a dangerous mission to reach a group of Eskimos and convert them. Upon reaching their destination, the priests were murdered. Over the next three years, one of the Arctic’s most tragic stories became one of... Read more >

The Lawn
A History of an American Obsession
Written by Virgina Jenkins

Format: Trade Paperback, 246 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
On Sale: April 17, 1994
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 978-1-56098-406-1 (1-56098-406-6)

Lawns now blanket thirty million acres of the United States, but until the late nineteenth century few Americans had any desire for a front lawn, much less access to seeds for growing one. In her comprehensive history of this uniquely American obsession, Virginia Scott Jenkins traces the origin of the front... Read more >