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Discipline & Punish
The Birth of the Prison
Written by Michel Foucault
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: April 25, 1995
Price: $16.95
In this brilliant work, the most influential philosopher since Sartre suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his soul. Read more >
The Birth of the Prison
Written by Michel Foucault
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: April 25, 1995
Price: $16.95
In this brilliant work, the most influential philosopher since Sartre suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his soul. Read more >
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Ogilvy on Advertising
Written by David Ogilvy
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: March 12, 1985
Price: $27.50
A candid and indispensable primer on all aspects of advertising from the man Time has called "the most sought after wizard in the business". 223 photos. Read more >
Written by David Ogilvy
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: March 12, 1985
Price: $27.50
A candid and indispensable primer on all aspects of advertising from the man Time has called "the most sought after wizard in the business". 223 photos. Read more >
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Anatomy of an Epidemic
Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America
Written by Robert Whitaker
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: August 2, 2011
Price: $16.00
In this astonishing and startling book, award-winning science and history writer Robert Whitaker investigates a medical mystery: Why has the number of disabled mentally ill in the United States tripled over the past two decades? Every day, 1,100 adults and children are added to the government disability rolls because they have... Read more >
Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America
Written by Robert Whitaker
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: August 2, 2011
Price: $16.00
In this astonishing and startling book, award-winning science and history writer Robert Whitaker investigates a medical mystery: Why has the number of disabled mentally ill in the United States tripled over the past two decades? Every day, 1,100 adults and children are added to the government disability rolls because they have... Read more >
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Why You're Not Married . . . Yet
The Straight Talk You Need to Get the Relationship You Deserve
Written by Tracy McMillan
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: May 29, 2012
Price: $11.99
This paperback edition includes an exclusive conversation between Bill and Giuliana Rancic, hosts of NBC’s Ready for Love, and Tracy McMillan, one of its expert matchmakers. This new relationship show features three of America’s most eligible guys searching for their soul mates.
If you’re looking to get married and you’re... Read more >
The Straight Talk You Need to Get the Relationship You Deserve
Written by Tracy McMillan
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: May 29, 2012
Price: $11.99
This paperback edition includes an exclusive conversation between Bill and Giuliana Rancic, hosts of NBC’s Ready for Love, and Tracy McMillan, one of its expert matchmakers. This new relationship show features three of America’s most eligible guys searching for their soul mates.
If you’re looking to get married and you’re... Read more >
Dead Man Walking
An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States
Written by Helen Prejean
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: February 2, 2011
Price: $9.99
In 1982, Sister Helen Prejean became the spiritual advisor to Patrick Sonnier, the convicted killer of two teenagers who was sentenced to die in the electric chair of Louisiana's Angola State Prison. In the months before Sonnier's death, the Roman Catholic nun came to know a man who was as terrified... Read more >
An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States
Written by Helen Prejean
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: February 2, 2011
Price: $9.99
In 1982, Sister Helen Prejean became the spiritual advisor to Patrick Sonnier, the convicted killer of two teenagers who was sentenced to die in the electric chair of Louisiana's Angola State Prison. In the months before Sonnier's death, the Roman Catholic nun came to know a man who was as terrified... Read more >
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The Looming Tower
Written by Lawrence Wright
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 8, 2006
Price: $12.99
Written by Lawrence Wright
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 8, 2006
Price: $12.99
UPDATED AND WITH A NEW AFTERWORD
National Book Award Finalist
A Time, Newsweek, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and New York Times Book Review Best Book of the Year
A gripping narrative that spans five decades, The Looming Tower explains in unprecedented detail the growth of Islamic fundamentalism, the rise of al-Qaeda, and the intelligence...
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The Social Animal
The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement
Written by David Brooks
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 8, 2011
Price: $12.99
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
With unequaled insight and brio, New York Times columnist David Brooks has long explored and explained the way we live. Now Brooks turns to the building blocks of human flourishing in a multilayered, profoundly illuminating work grounded in everyday life. This is the story of how success... Read more >
The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement
Written by David Brooks
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 8, 2011
Price: $12.99
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
With unequaled insight and brio, New York Times columnist David Brooks has long explored and explained the way we live. Now Brooks turns to the building blocks of human flourishing in a multilayered, profoundly illuminating work grounded in everyday life. This is the story of how success... Read more >
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Down These Mean Streets
Written by Piri Thomas
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: November 25, 1997
Price: $14.95
Thirty years ago Piri Thomas made literary history with this lacerating, lyrical memoir of his coming of age on the streets of Spanish Harlem. Here was the testament of a born outsider: a Puerto Rican in English-speaking America; a dark-skinned morenito in a family that refused to acknowledge its African blood... Read more >
Written by Piri Thomas
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: November 25, 1997
Price: $14.95
Thirty years ago Piri Thomas made literary history with this lacerating, lyrical memoir of his coming of age on the streets of Spanish Harlem. Here was the testament of a born outsider: a Puerto Rican in English-speaking America; a dark-skinned morenito in a family that refused to acknowledge its African blood... Read more >
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Saturday Night Widows
The Adventures of Six Friends Remaking Their Lives
Written by Becky Aikman
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $12.99
Six marriages, six heartbreaks, one shared beginning.
In her forties – a widow, too young, too modern to accept the role – Becky Aikman struggled to make sense of her place in an altered world. In this transcendent and infectiously wise memoir, she explores surprising new discoveries about how people experience grief... Read more >
The Adventures of Six Friends Remaking Their Lives
Written by Becky Aikman
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $12.99
Six marriages, six heartbreaks, one shared beginning.
In her forties – a widow, too young, too modern to accept the role – Becky Aikman struggled to make sense of her place in an altered world. In this transcendent and infectiously wise memoir, she explores surprising new discoveries about how people experience grief... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Savage Inequalities
Children in America's Schools
Written by Jonathan Kozol
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: July 24, 2012
Price: $15.00
For two years, beginning in 1988, Jonathan Kozol visited schools in neighborhoods across the country, from Illinois to Washington D.C., and from New York to San Antonio. He spoke with teachers, principals, superintendents, and, most important, children. What he found was devastating. Not only were schools for rich and poor blatantly... Read more >
Children in America's Schools
Written by Jonathan Kozol
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: July 24, 2012
Price: $15.00
For two years, beginning in 1988, Jonathan Kozol visited schools in neighborhoods across the country, from Illinois to Washington D.C., and from New York to San Antonio. He spoke with teachers, principals, superintendents, and, most important, children. What he found was devastating. Not only were schools for rich and poor blatantly... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
