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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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Guns, Germs, and Steel
The Fates of Human Societies
Written by Jared Diamond
Read by Doug Ordunio
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: June 7, 2011
Price: $25.00
Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the reverse? Evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for history’s broadest patterns.
The story begins 13,000 years ago, when Stone Age hunter-gatherers constituted the... Read more >
The Fates of Human Societies
Written by Jared Diamond
Read by Doug Ordunio
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: June 7, 2011
Price: $25.00
Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the reverse? Evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for history’s broadest patterns.
The story begins 13,000 years ago, when Stone Age hunter-gatherers constituted the... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download.
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What the World Eats
Written by Faith D'Aluisio
Photographed by Peter Menzel
Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
On Sale: August 1, 2008
Price: $22.99
Sitting down to a daily family meal has long been a tradition for billions of people. But in every corner of the world this age-old custom is rapidly changing. From increased trade between countries to the expansion of global food corporations like Kraft and NestlŽ, current events are having a tremendous... Read more >
Written by Faith D'Aluisio
Photographed by Peter Menzel
Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
On Sale: August 1, 2008
Price: $22.99
Sitting down to a daily family meal has long been a tradition for billions of people. But in every corner of the world this age-old custom is rapidly changing. From increased trade between countries to the expansion of global food corporations like Kraft and NestlŽ, current events are having a tremendous... Read more >
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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 >
Also available as an
eBook.
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God Believes in Love
Straight Talk About Gay Marriage
Written by Gene Robinson
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2012
Price: $24.00
From the Bishop of the Diocese of New Hampshire in the Episcopal Church, the first openly gay person elected (in 2003) to the historic episcopate and the world's leading religious spokesperson for gay rights and gay marriage—a groundbreaking book that lovingly and persuasively makes the case for same-sex marriage using a... Read more >
Straight Talk About Gay Marriage
Written by Gene Robinson
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2012
Price: $24.00
From the Bishop of the Diocese of New Hampshire in the Episcopal Church, the first openly gay person elected (in 2003) to the historic episcopate and the world's leading religious spokesperson for gay rights and gay marriage—a groundbreaking book that lovingly and persuasively makes the case for same-sex marriage using a... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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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 >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Ten Lessons to Transform Your Marriage
America's Love Lab Experts Share Their Strategies for Strengthening Your Relationship
Written by John Gottman, Ph.D., Julie Schwartz Gottman and Joan DeClaire
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: June 26, 2007
Price: $15.00
In 1994, Dr. John Gottman and his colleagues at the University of Washingto— made a startling announcement: Through scientific observation and mathematical analysis, they could predict—with more than 90 percent accuracy—whether a marriage would succeed or fail. The only thing they did not yet know was how to turn a failing... Read more >
America's Love Lab Experts Share Their Strategies for Strengthening Your Relationship
Written by John Gottman, Ph.D., Julie Schwartz Gottman and Joan DeClaire
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: June 26, 2007
Price: $15.00
In 1994, Dr. John Gottman and his colleagues at the University of Washingto— made a startling announcement: Through scientific observation and mathematical analysis, they could predict—with more than 90 percent accuracy—whether a marriage would succeed or fail. The only thing they did not yet know was how to turn a failing... Read more >
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Orientalism
Written by Edward W. Said
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: October 12, 1979
Price: $16.95
The noted critic and a Palestinian now teaching at Columbia University,examines the way in which the West observes the Arabs. Read more >
Written by Edward W. Said
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: October 12, 1979
Price: $16.95
The noted critic and a Palestinian now teaching at Columbia University,examines the way in which the West observes the Arabs. Read more >
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The Fatal Gift of Beauty
The Trials of Amanda Knox
Written by Nina Burleigh
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: August 2, 2011
Price: $11.99
The sexually violent murder of twenty-one-year-old British student Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy, on the night of November 1, 2007, became an international sensation when one of Kercher’s housemates, twenty-year-old Seattle native Amanda Knox, as well as her Italian boyfriend and a troubled local man Knox said she “vaguely” knew, was... Read more >
The Trials of Amanda Knox
Written by Nina Burleigh
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: August 2, 2011
Price: $11.99
The sexually violent murder of twenty-one-year-old British student Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy, on the night of November 1, 2007, became an international sensation when one of Kercher’s housemates, twenty-year-old Seattle native Amanda Knox, as well as her Italian boyfriend and a troubled local man Knox said she “vaguely” knew, was... Read more >
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The Road of Lost Innocence
As a girl she was sold into sexual slavery, but now she rescues others. The true story of a Cambodian heroine.
Written by Somaly Mam
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: September 9, 2008
Price: $11.99
A portion of the proceeds of this book will be donated to the Somaly Mam Foundation.
A riveting, raw, and beautiful memoir of tragedy and hope
Born in a village deep in the Cambodian forest, Somaly Mam was sold into sexual slavery by her grandfather when she was twelve years old. For the... Read more >
As a girl she was sold into sexual slavery, but now she rescues others. The true story of a Cambodian heroine.
Written by Somaly Mam
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: September 9, 2008
Price: $11.99
A portion of the proceeds of this book will be donated to the Somaly Mam Foundation.
A riveting, raw, and beautiful memoir of tragedy and hope
Born in a village deep in the Cambodian forest, Somaly Mam was sold into sexual slavery by her grandfather when she was twelve years old. For the... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
