The Wisdom of Crowds

Written by James Surowiecki

Format: eBook
On Sale: August 16, 2005
Price: $13.99

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 >

Birth Matters
How What We Don't Know About Nature, Bodies, and Surgery Can Hurt Us
Written by Ina May Gaskin
Foreword by Ani DiFranco

Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $12.95

Renowned for her practice's exemplary results and low intervention rates, Ina May Gaskin has gained international notoriety for promoting natural birth. She is a much-beloved leader of a movement that seeks to stop the hyper-medicalization of birth—which has lead to nearly a third of hospital births in America to be cesarean... Read more >

The Woman Warrior
Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
Written by Maxine Hong Kingston

Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2010
Price: $11.99

A Chinese American woman tells of the Chinese myths, family stories and events of her California childhood that have shaped her identity.


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Kabul Beauty School
An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil
Written by Deborah Rodriguez and Kristin Ohlson

Format: eBook
On Sale: April 10, 2007
Price: $11.99

Soon after the fall of the Taliban, in 2001, Deborah Rodriguez went to Afghanistan as part of a group offering humanitarian aid to this war-torn nation. Surrounded by men and women whose skills–as doctors, nurses, and therapists–seemed eminently more practical than her own, Rodriguez, a hairdresser and mother of two from... Read more >

The Unconquered
In Search of the Amazon's Last Uncontacted Tribes
Written by Scott Wallace

Format: eBook, 512 pages
On Sale: October 18, 2011
Price: $11.99

THE UNCONQUERED TELLS THE EXTRAORDINARY TRUE STORY OF A JOURNEY INTO THE DEEPEST RECESSES OF THE AMAZON TO TRACK ONE OF THE PLANET’S LAST UNCONTACTED IN DIGENOUS TRIBES.
 
Even today there remain tribes in the far reaches of the Amazon rainforest that have avoided contact with modern civilization. Deliberately hiding from the...

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The Run of His Life
The People v. O.J. Simpson
Written by Jeffrey Toobin

Format: eBook, 496 pages
On Sale: March 27, 2013
Price: $11.99

Called by The Wall Street Journal "the pick of the litter" among books on the O.J. Simpson criminal trial, this is the definitive commentary on the most famous trial of this century. Read more >

In the Shadow of the Sword
The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire
Written by Tom Holland

Format: eBook, 448 pages
On Sale: May 15, 2012
Price: $11.99

The acclaimed author of Rubicon and other superb works of popular history now produces a thrillingly panoramic (and incredibly timely) account of the rise of Islam.
 
No less significant than the collapse of the Roman Republic or the Persian invasion of Greece, the evolution of the Arab empire is one... Read more >

The Journey of Man
A Genetic Odyssey
Written by Spencer Wells

Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: October 31, 2012
Price: $11.99

Around 60,000 years ago, a man—genetically identical to us—lived in Africa. Every person alive today is descended from him. How did this real-life Adam wind up as the father of us all? What happened to the descendants of other men who lived at the same time? And why, if modern humans... Read more >

Emergency!:
True Stories from the Nation's ERs
Written by Mark Brown, MD

Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: May 15, 2013
Price: $11.99

Long before the hit TV show E.R., emergency room doctor Mark Brown decided that the world just had to know about real life in a hospital's E.R. He canvassed 15,000 doctors and nurses across the country, asking them to contribute the stories, dramas, the ridiculous sagas, and the immensely humorous moments... Read more >

Factory Girls
From Village to City in a Changing China
Written by Leslie T. Chang

Format: eBook, 448 pages
On Sale: October 7, 2008
Price: $11.99

An eye-opening and previously untold story, Factory Girls is the first look into the everyday lives of the migrant factory population in China.


China has 130 million migrant workers—the largest migration in human history. In Factory Girls, Leslie T. Chang, a former correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Beijing, tells the... Read more >