Your Call Is Important to Us
The Truth About Bullshit
Written by Laura Penny

Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: July 12, 2005
Price: $12.95

Every once in a while a truth-telling book appears out of nowhere, a book that crystallizes our darkest suspicions and makes us mad as hell—while we’re laughing like fiends. A book like this one.

Your Call Is Important to Us is a manifesto for anyone who’s sick and tired of the twenty-first... Read more >

McMafia

Written by Misha Glenny

Format: eBook, 416 pages
On Sale: April 8, 2008
Price: $16.95

With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the deregulation of international financial markets in 1989, governments and entrepreneurs alike became intoxicated by dreams of newly opened markets. But no one could have foreseen that the greatest success story to arise from these events would... Read more >

Traffic

Written by Tom Vanderbilt

Format: eBook, 275 pages
On Sale: July 29, 2008
Price: $16.00

A New York Times Notable Book

One of the Best Books of the Year
The Washington Post • The Cleveland Plain-Dealer • Rocky Mountain News

In this brilliant, lively, and eye-opening investigation, Tom Vanderbilt examines the perceptual limits and cognitive underpinnings that make us worse drivers than we think we are. He demonstrates why... Read more >

The East, The West, and Sex
A History of Erotic Encounters
Written by Richard Bernstein

Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: June 2, 2009
Price: $27.95

A rich and seductive narrative of the powerful erotic pull the East has always had for the West—a pervasive yet often ignored aspect of their long historical relationship—and a deep exploration of the intimate connection between sex and power.

Richard Bernstein defines the East widely—northern Africa, the Middle East, Asia, the Pacific... Read more >

The Marriage-Go-Round

Written by Andrew J. Cherlin

Format: eBook, 300 pages
On Sale: April 14, 2009
Price: $25.95

From one of the nation’s leading experts on the American family, a book that explores the state of marriage in America today; its evolution culturally; and with regard to religion and the law, how and why the present state of marriage—a merry-go-round of partnerships—developed, and the implications for parents and children.

During... Read more >

Half the Sky

Written by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn

Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $27.95

From two of our most fiercely moral voices, a passionate call to arms against our era’s most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women and girls in the developing world.

With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake an odyssey through Africa and Asia... Read more >

The Wisdom of Crowds

Written by James Surowiecki

Format: eBook
On Sale: August 16, 2005
Price: $14.95

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 >

The Death of Innocents
An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions
Written by Helen Prejean

Format: eBook
On Sale: January 24, 2006
Price: $14.95

Sister Helen Prejean was a little-known Roman Catholic nun from Louisiana when in 1993, her first book Dead Man Walking, challenged the way we look at the death penalty in America. It became a #1 New York Times bestseller and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Now in The Death of... Read more >

The Ape in the Corner Office
Understanding the Workplace Beast in All of Us
Written by Richard Conniff

Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: September 6, 2005
Price: $14.95

Tired of swimming with the sharks? Fed up with that big ape down the hall? Real animals can teach us better ways to thrive in the workplace jungle.

You’re ambitious and want to get ahead, but what’s the best way to do it? Become the biggest, baddest predator? The proverbial 800-pound gorilla?... Read more >

The Marijuana-logues
Everything About Pot That We Could Remember
Written by Doug Benson, Tony Camin and Arj Barker

Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: November 22, 2005
Price: $12.00

Sweet ass! A 200ish-page book about pot and pot-related stuff. Can you believe somebody paid these guys to publish a whole book about The Chronic? Man, that is so sick! The Marijuana-Logues started as an Off-Broadway show, consisting of these three guys, Arj Barker, Doug Benson, and Tony Camin sitting on... Read more >