Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press On Sale: June 29, 2010 Price: $26.95 ISBN: 978-0-8070-4452-0 (0-8070-4452-0)
Professor Gail Dines has written about and researched the porn industry for over two decades. She attends industry conferences, interviews producers and performers, and speaks to hundreds of men and women each year about their experience with porn. Students and educators describe her work as “life changing.”
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
Publisher: Random House On Sale: February 28, 2012 Price: $28.00 ISBN: 978-1-4000-6928-6 (1-4000-6928-9)
Selected for common reading at Babson College
A young woman walks into a laboratory. Over the past two years, she has transformed almost every aspect of her life. She has quit smoking, run a marathon, and been promoted at work. The patterns inside her brain, neurologists discover, have fundamentally changed.
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publisher: Doubleday On Sale: January 21, 2003 Price: $24.00 ISBN: 978-0-385-50398-3 (0-385-50398-9)
Finalist in the non-fiction category of the 3rd Annual Hurston Wright Legacy Awards.
In this stunning memoir, veteran Washington Post correspondent Lynne Duke takes readers on a wrenching but riveting journey through Africa during the pivotal 1990s and brilliantly illuminates a continent where hope and humanity thrive amid unimaginable depredation and horrors.
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks On Sale: April 10, 2007 Price: $9.95 ISBN: 978-0-8129-7735-6 (0-8129-7735-1)
On January 5, 1924, a well-dressed young woman, accompanied by a male companion, walked into a Brooklyn grocery, pulled a “baby automatic” from the pocket of her fur coat, emptied the cash register, and escaped into the night. Dubbed “the Bobbed Haired Bandit” by the press, the petite thief continued her...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks On Sale: November 9, 2004 Price: $14.95 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...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: September 28, 2004 Price: $14.95 ISBN: 978-1-4000-3287-7 (1-4000-3287-3)
Dig. The Demon Dog gets down with a new book of scenes from America’s capital of kink: Los Angeles. Fourteen pieces, some fiction, some nonfiction, all true enough to be admissible as state’s evidence, and half of it in print for the first time. And every one of them bearing the...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: January 12, 1973 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-394-71874-3 (0-394-71874-7)
"A far more frightening work than any of the nightmare novels of George Orwell. With the logic which is the great instrument of French thought, [Ellul] explores and attempts to prove the thesis that propaganda, whether its ends are demonstrably good or bad, is not only destructive to democracy, it is...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks On Sale: January 10, 2006 Price: $15.95 ISBN: 978-0-8129-7382-2 (0-8129-7382-8)
One of BusinessWeek's Top 10 Business Books of 2005
In The Big Picture, acclaimed writer Edward Jay Epstein gives an unprecedented, sweeping, and thoroughly entertaining account of the real magic behind moviemaking: how the studios make their money. Epstein shows how, in Hollywood, the only art that matters is the art of...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Melville House On Sale: January 24, 2012 Price: $17.95 ISBN: 978-1-61219-050-1 (1-61219-050-2)
A fully revised edition of the popular guide to Hollywood finances, updated to reflect even newer films and trends
A fast-and-dirty guide to the financial world behind the movies, The Hollywood Economist was a surprise hit last year. Now Edward Jay Epstein has updated his look into the dazzlingly complicated economics of...
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Format: Hardcover, 290 pages
Publisher: Rizzoli On Sale: March 7, 2006 Price: $19.95 ISBN: 978-0-8478-2753-4 (0-8478-2753-4)
Oriana Fallaci is back with her much-anticipated follow up to The Rage and the Pride, her powerful post-September 11 manifesto. The genesis for The Force of Reason was a postscript entitled Due Anni Dopo (Two Years Later), which was intended as a brief appendix to the thirtieth edition of The Rage...Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 168 pages
Publisher: Rizzoli On Sale: October 25, 2002 Price: $14.95 ISBN: 978-0-8478-2504-2 (0-8478-2504-3)
With her well-known courage Oriana Fallaci faces the themes unchained by the Islamic terrorism: the contrast and, in her opinion, incompatibility between the Islamic world and the Western world; the global reality of the Jihad and the lack of response, and the lenience of the West.
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Delta On Sale: October 9, 2001 Price: $16.00 ISBN: 978-0-440-50849-6 (0-440-50849-5)
Syd Field tells his own remarkable story, sharing the insight and experience gleaned from an extraordinary career. Using classic movies from the past and present — from Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane to Andy and Larry Wachowski’s The Matrix — Field provides a guided tour of the basic elements common to all...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: February 29, 2000 Price: $16.95 ISBN: 978-0-375-70653-0 (0-375-70653-4)
From one of America's most original cultural critics and the author of Winchell, the story of how our bottomless appetite for novelty, gossip, glamour, and melodrama has turned everything of importance-from news and politics to religion and high culture-into one vast public entertainment.
Neal Gabler calls them "lifies," those blockbusters written in...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks On Sale: January 8, 2002 Price: $19.00 ISBN: 978-0-375-75867-6 (0-375-75867-4)
For more than forty years, Jack Germond enjoyed an extraordinary career in political reporting. With his trademark no-nonsense style and tremendous wit in abundance, Fat Man in a Middle Seat remembers the personalities that dominated national politics during Germond’s career: Richard Nixon, Hubert Humphrey, Eugene McCarthy, George McGovern, Jimmy Carter, Ronald...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: April 29, 1997 Price: $16.95 ISBN: 978-0-679-77912-4 (0-679-77912-4)
Drawing on firsthand experience as a prison psychiatrist, Dr. James Gilligan has written a pathbreaking book on the tragic epidemic of violence in the United States. Violence is a pioneering work that examines the roots of violence and offers a startling conclusion: that shame is a driving force behind violent behavior and...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: March 6, 2012 Price: $16.95 ISBN: 978-1-4000-9623-7 (1-4000-9623-5)
A New York Times Notable Book A Los Angeles Times and Cleveland Plain Dealer Best Book of the Year
From the bestselling author of the acclaimed Chaos and Genius comes a thoughtful and provocative exploration of the big ideas of the modern era: Information, communication, and information theory.
Acclaimed science writer James Gleick...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Bantam On Sale: July 31, 2007 Price: $16.00 ISBN: 978-0-553-38449-9 (0-553-38449-X)
Emotional Intelligence was an international phenomenon, appearing on the New York Times bestseller list for over a year and selling more than five million copies worldwide. Now, once again, Daniel Goleman has written a groundbreaking synthesis of the latest findings in biology and brain science, revealing that we are “wired to...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 688 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: February 24, 1998 Price: $16.95 ISBN: 978-0-375-70104-7 (0-375-70104-4)
Winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
An extraordinarily frank, honest, and generous book by one of America's most famous and admired women, Personal History is, as its title suggests, a book composed of both personal memoir and history.
It is the story of Graham's parents: the multimillionaire father who left private...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
Publisher: Three Rivers Press On Sale: August 31, 2004 Price: $18.00 ISBN: 978-1-4000-5071-0 (1-4000-5071-5)
“I had a fantasy the other night that this interview is so great that they no longer want me to act—just do interviews. I thought of us going all over the world doing interviews—we’ve signed for three interviews a day for six weeks.” —Al Pacino, in an interview with Lawrence Grobel
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Anchor On Sale: July 3, 1973 Price: $16.00 ISBN: 978-0-385-05549-9 (0-385-05549-8)
Leading anthropologist Hall analyzes the many aspects of non-verbal communication and considers the concepts of space and time as tools for transmission of messages. His stimulating work is of interest to both the intelligent general reader and the sophisticated social scientist.
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Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Anchor On Sale: June 10, 2003 Price: $15.00 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...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Three Rivers Press On Sale: February 27, 2007 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-307-34144-0 (0-307-34144-5)
Thank You for Arguing is your master class in the art of persuasion, taught by professors ranging from Bart Simpson to Winston Churchill. The time-tested secrets the book discloses include Cicero’s three-step strategy for moving an audience to action--as well as Honest Abe’s Shameless Trick of lowering an audience’s expectations by...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
Publisher: Pantheon On Sale: January 15, 2002 Price: $19.95 ISBN: 978-0-375-71449-8 (0-375-71449-9)
In this pathbreaking work, now with a new introduction, Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky show that, contrary to the usual image of the news media as cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitous in their search for truth and defense of justice, in their actual practice they defend the economic, social, and political...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press On Sale: October 4, 2011 Price: $19.95 ISBN: 978-1-60980-347-6 (1-60980-347-7)
Every year since 1976, Project Censored, our nation’s oldest news-monitoring group–a university-wide project at Sonoma State University founded by Carl Jensen, directed for many years by Peter Phillips, and now under the leadership of Mickey Huff–has produced a Top-25 list of underreported news stories and a book, Censored, dedicated to the...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 672 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press On Sale: February 14, 2012 Price: $30.00 ISBN: 978-1-60980-389-6 (1-60980-389-2)
The world’s pulse in one essential book, Human Rights Watch’s World Report 2012 is a must-read for anyone interested in the fight to protect human rights in every corner of the globe.
The most sought-after report of human rights news, Human Rights Watch’s annual World Report is an invaluable resource for journalists...
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