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The Anatomy of Violence
The Biological Roots of Crime
Written by Adrian Raine
Format: eBook, 528 pages
On Sale: April 30, 2013
Price: $18.99
With a 4-page full-color insert, and black-and-white illustrations throughout
Why do some innocent kids grow up to become cold-blooded serial killers? Is bad biology partly to blame? For more than three decades Adrian Raine has been researching the biological roots of violence and establishing neurocriminology, a new field that applies neuroscience techniques... Read more >
The Biological Roots of Crime
Written by Adrian Raine
Format: eBook, 528 pages
On Sale: April 30, 2013
Price: $18.99
With a 4-page full-color insert, and black-and-white illustrations throughout
Why do some innocent kids grow up to become cold-blooded serial killers? Is bad biology partly to blame? For more than three decades Adrian Raine has been researching the biological roots of violence and establishing neurocriminology, a new field that applies neuroscience techniques... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and a
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The Autism Puzzle
Connecting the Dots Between Environmental Toxins and Rising Autism Rates
Written by Brita Belli
Foreword by Caroline Cox
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: April 30, 2013
Price: $13.95
Connecting the Dots Between Environmental Toxins and Rising Autism Rates
Written by Brita Belli
Foreword by Caroline Cox
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: April 30, 2013
Price: $13.95
"The Autism Puzzle unlocks many alarming truths about this worldwide epidemic and raises the deeper question: What are you going to do about it?”
—Dr. Bob Sears, author of The Autism Book (Sears Parenting Library)
With 1 in 88 American children now affected by autism, The Autism Puzzle is the first book to move...
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Holistic Beauty from the Inside Out
Your Complete Guide to Natural Health, Nutrition, and Skincare
Written by Julie Gabriel
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: April 30, 2013
Price: $19.95
Your Complete Guide to Natural Health, Nutrition, and Skincare
Written by Julie Gabriel
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: April 30, 2013
Price: $19.95
Celebrated author of The Green Beauty Guide Julie Gabriel presents a comprehensive yet simple book that brings all four corners of the natural beauty paradigm together: natural skincare, holistic nutrition, stress-relief, and healthy lifestyle. A holistic nutritionist, Gabriel teaches her reader how to 'eat yourself beautiful' using building blocks from a wholesome diet, and...
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Confucius Lives Next Door
What Living in the East Teaches Us About Living in the West
Written by T.R. Reid
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: April 24, 2013
Price: $11.99
Those who've heard T. R. Reid's weekly commentary on National Public Radio or read his far-flung reporting in National Geographic or The Washington Post know him to be trenchant, funny, and cutting-edge, but also erudite and deeply grounded in whatever subject he's discussing. In Confucius Lives Next Door he brings... Read more >
What Living in the East Teaches Us About Living in the West
Written by T.R. Reid
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: April 24, 2013
Price: $11.99
Those who've heard T. R. Reid's weekly commentary on National Public Radio or read his far-flung reporting in National Geographic or The Washington Post know him to be trenchant, funny, and cutting-edge, but also erudite and deeply grounded in whatever subject he's discussing. In Confucius Lives Next Door he brings... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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NEW YORK INTELLECT
Written by Thomas Bender
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 24, 2013
Price: $19.99
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Written by Thomas Bender
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 24, 2013
Price: $19.99
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Single Mothers by Choice
A Guidebook for Single Women Who Are Considering or Have Chosen Motherhood
Written by Jane Mattes
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: April 24, 2013
Price: $11.99
The first handbook for the rapidly growing number of American women choosing single motherhood, written by the director of the national organization, Single Mothers by Choice. Read more >
A Guidebook for Single Women Who Are Considering or Have Chosen Motherhood
Written by Jane Mattes
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: April 24, 2013
Price: $11.99
The first handbook for the rapidly growing number of American women choosing single motherhood, written by the director of the national organization, Single Mothers by Choice. Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Confront and Conceal
Obama's Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power
Written by David E. Sanger
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $17.00
"This astonishingly revealing insider's account of the Obama administration's foreign policy process is a triumph." —Foreign Affairs
President Obama's administration came to office with the world on fire. Confront and Conceal is the story of how, in his first term, Obama secretly used the most innovative weapons and tools of American power... Read more >
Obama's Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power
Written by David E. Sanger
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $17.00
"This astonishingly revealing insider's account of the Obama administration's foreign policy process is a triumph." —Foreign Affairs
President Obama's administration came to office with the world on fire. Confront and Conceal is the story of how, in his first term, Obama secretly used the most innovative weapons and tools of American power... Read more >
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Harvest the Wind
America's Journey to Jobs, Energy Independence, and Climate Stability
Written by Philip Warburg
Format: Trade Paperback
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $19.00
Winds sweeping through the Great Plains once robbed the Farm Belt of its future, stripping away overworked topsoil and creating the dreaded Dust Bowl of the 1930s. Today, those winds are bringing new hope to the declining rural communities of the central United States. Nowhere is wind’s promise more palpable than... Read more >
America's Journey to Jobs, Energy Independence, and Climate Stability
Written by Philip Warburg
Format: Trade Paperback
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $19.00
Winds sweeping through the Great Plains once robbed the Farm Belt of its future, stripping away overworked topsoil and creating the dreaded Dust Bowl of the 1930s. Today, those winds are bringing new hope to the declining rural communities of the central United States. Nowhere is wind’s promise more palpable than... Read more >
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The Last Men on Top
Written by Susan Jacoby
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $2.99
A feminist—and the bestselling author of The Age of American Unreason—looks back at the last pre-feminist generation of men who supposedly had it all and asks: what exactly did they have?
How fabulous was life for men in the 1950s and early 1960s? How real is the world depicted by a television... Read more >
Written by Susan Jacoby
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $2.99
A feminist—and the bestselling author of The Age of American Unreason—looks back at the last pre-feminist generation of men who supposedly had it all and asks: what exactly did they have?
How fabulous was life for men in the 1950s and early 1960s? How real is the world depicted by a television... Read more >
Conundrum
Written by Jan Morris
Format: eBook, 176 pages
On Sale: April 17, 2013
Price: $14.00
The great travel writer Jan Morris was born James Morris. James Morris distinguished himself in the British military, became a successful and physically daring reporter, climbed mountains, crossed deserts, and established a reputation as a historian of the British empire. He was happily married, with several children. To all appearances, he... Read more >
Written by Jan Morris
Format: eBook, 176 pages
On Sale: April 17, 2013
Price: $14.00
The great travel writer Jan Morris was born James Morris. James Morris distinguished himself in the British military, became a successful and physically daring reporter, climbed mountains, crossed deserts, and established a reputation as a historian of the British empire. He was happily married, with several children. To all appearances, he... Read more >
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Moonlight At Midday
Written by Sally Carrighar
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 17, 2013
Price: $15.99
Written by Sally Carrighar
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 17, 2013
Price: $15.99
This is the real Alaska, the Alaska few outsiders know. It is the human scene, described in intimate and authentic detail. No one except a gift naturalist could have written this book, for Sally Carrighar has eyes that see, trained eyes that see what others pass by.
Icebound Summer was...
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The Nations Within
The Past and Future of American Indian Sovereignity
Written by Vine Deloria, Jr.
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: April 17, 2013
Price: $14.99
The message of The Nations Within is an urgent on, and should be read by anyone concerned with American Indian affairs today.
“Those of us who try to understand what is happening in North American Indian communities have learned to see Vine Delora, Jr., both as an influential actor in the ongoing... Read more >
The Past and Future of American Indian Sovereignity
Written by Vine Deloria, Jr.
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: April 17, 2013
Price: $14.99
The message of The Nations Within is an urgent on, and should be read by anyone concerned with American Indian affairs today.
“Those of us who try to understand what is happening in North American Indian communities have learned to see Vine Delora, Jr., both as an influential actor in the ongoing... Read more >
The Ruling Race
Written by James Oakes
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 17, 2013
Price: $16.99
This pathbreaking social history of the slaveholding South marks a turn in our understanding of antebellum America and the coming of the Civil War. Oakes's bracing analysis breaks the myth that slaveholders were a paternalistic aristocracy dedicated to the values of honor, race, and section. Instead they emerge as having much... Read more >
Written by James Oakes
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 17, 2013
Price: $16.99
This pathbreaking social history of the slaveholding South marks a turn in our understanding of antebellum America and the coming of the Civil War. Oakes's bracing analysis breaks the myth that slaveholders were a paternalistic aristocracy dedicated to the values of honor, race, and section. Instead they emerge as having much... Read more >
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Slavery And Freedom
An Interpretation of the Old South
Written by James Oakes
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 17, 2013
Price: $10.99
This pathbreaking interpretation of the slaveholding South begins with the insight that slavery and freedom were not mutually exclusive but were intertwined in every dimension of life in the South. James Oakes traces the implications of this insight for relations between masters and slaves, slaveholders and non-slaveholders, and for the rise... Read more >
An Interpretation of the Old South
Written by James Oakes
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 17, 2013
Price: $10.99
This pathbreaking interpretation of the slaveholding South begins with the insight that slavery and freedom were not mutually exclusive but were intertwined in every dimension of life in the South. James Oakes traces the implications of this insight for relations between masters and slaves, slaveholders and non-slaveholders, and for the rise... Read more >
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City of Scoundrels
The 12 Days of Disaster That Gave Birth to Modern Chicago
Written by Gary Krist
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $14.95
The masterfully told story of twelve volatile days in Chicago, when an aviation disaster, a race riot, a crippling transit strike, and a sensational child murder transfixed and roiled a city already on the brink of collapse.
When 1919 began, the city of Chicago seemed on the verge of transformation. Modernizers had... Read more >
The 12 Days of Disaster That Gave Birth to Modern Chicago
Written by Gary Krist
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $14.95
The masterfully told story of twelve volatile days in Chicago, when an aviation disaster, a race riot, a crippling transit strike, and a sensational child murder transfixed and roiled a city already on the brink of collapse.
When 1919 began, the city of Chicago seemed on the verge of transformation. Modernizers had... Read more >
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Dirt Work
An Education in the Woods
Written by Christine Byl
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $24.95
An Education in the Woods
Written by Christine Byl
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $24.95
A lively and lyrical account of one woman’s unlikely apprenticeship on a national-park trail crew and what she discovers about nature, gender, and the value of hard work
Christine Byl first encountered the national parks the way most of us do: on vacation. But after she graduated from college, broke and ready...
Also available as an
eBook.
Dirt Work
An Education in the Woods
Written by Christine Byl
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $24.95
An Education in the Woods
Written by Christine Byl
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $24.95
A lively and lyrical account of one woman’s unlikely apprenticeship on a national-park trail crew and what she discovers about nature, gender, and the value of hard work
Christine Byl first encountered the national parks the way most of us do: on vacation. But after she graduated from college, broke and ready...
Also available as a
hardcover.
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The Food Police
A Well-Fed Manifesto About the Politics of Your Plate
Written by Jayson Lusk
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $24.00
A rollicking indictment of the liberal elite's hypocrisy when it comes to food.
Ban trans-fats? Outlaw Happy Meals? Tax Twinkies? What's next? Affirmative action for cows?
A catastrophe is looming. Farmers are raping the land and torturing animals. Food is riddled with deadly pesticides, hormones and foreign DNA. Corporate farms are... Read more >
A Well-Fed Manifesto About the Politics of Your Plate
Written by Jayson Lusk
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $24.00
A rollicking indictment of the liberal elite's hypocrisy when it comes to food.
Ban trans-fats? Outlaw Happy Meals? Tax Twinkies? What's next? Affirmative action for cows?
A catastrophe is looming. Farmers are raping the land and torturing animals. Food is riddled with deadly pesticides, hormones and foreign DNA. Corporate farms are... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
The Food Police
A Well-Fed Manifesto About the Politics of Your Plate
Written by Jayson Lusk
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $12.99
A rollicking indictment of the liberal elite's hypocrisy when it comes to food.
Ban trans-fats? Outlaw Happy Meals? Tax Twinkies? What's next? Affirmative action for cows?
A catastrophe is looming. Farmers are raping the land and torturing animals. Food is riddled with deadly pesticides, hormones and foreign DNA. Corporate farms are... Read more >
A Well-Fed Manifesto About the Politics of Your Plate
Written by Jayson Lusk
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $12.99
A rollicking indictment of the liberal elite's hypocrisy when it comes to food.
Ban trans-fats? Outlaw Happy Meals? Tax Twinkies? What's next? Affirmative action for cows?
A catastrophe is looming. Farmers are raping the land and torturing animals. Food is riddled with deadly pesticides, hormones and foreign DNA. Corporate farms are... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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Light without Fire
The Making of America's First Muslim College
Written by Scott Korb
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $25.95
The Making of America's First Muslim College
Written by Scott Korb
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $25.95
The story of America’s first Muslim institution of higher education, Zaytuna College
In the fall of 2010, anti-Muslim furor in the United States reached a breaking point, capping a decade in which such sentiment had surged. Loud, angry crowds gathered near New York’s Ground Zero to protest plans to build...
Also available as an
eBook.
Light without Fire
The Making of America's First Muslim College
Written by Scott Korb
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $25.95
The Making of America's First Muslim College
Written by Scott Korb
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $25.95
The story of America’s first Muslim institution of higher education, Zaytuna College
In the fall of 2010, anti-Muslim furor in the United States reached a breaking point, capping a decade in which such sentiment had surged. Loud, angry crowds gathered near New York’s Ground Zero to protest plans to build...
Also available as a
hardcover.
Cancer in the Community
Class and Medical Authority
Written by Martha Balshem
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $16.95
Focusing on deep conflicts between the medical establishment and the working class, Martha Balshem chronicles a health education project in “Tannerstown,” a pseudonym for a blue-collar neighborhood in northeast Philadelphia. Read more >
Class and Medical Authority
Written by Martha Balshem
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $16.95
Focusing on deep conflicts between the medical establishment and the working class, Martha Balshem chronicles a health education project in “Tannerstown,” a pseudonym for a blue-collar neighborhood in northeast Philadelphia. Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Dakini Power
Twelve Extraordinary Women Shaping the Transmission of Tibetan Buddhism in the West
Written by Michaela Haas
Format: Trade Paperback, 344 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $16.95
How 12 Tibetan Buddhist Teachers Succeed in Merging East and West - including Pema Chödrön, Joan Halifax, and Thubten Chodron, among others
Personal reflections and life stories from 12 contemporary female Tibetan Buddhist teachers, both Westerners and Tibetans, who share insights into how they discovered their true calling, overcame barriers, and developed... Read more >
Twelve Extraordinary Women Shaping the Transmission of Tibetan Buddhism in the West
Written by Michaela Haas
Format: Trade Paperback, 344 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $16.95
How 12 Tibetan Buddhist Teachers Succeed in Merging East and West - including Pema Chödrön, Joan Halifax, and Thubten Chodron, among others
Personal reflections and life stories from 12 contemporary female Tibetan Buddhist teachers, both Westerners and Tibetans, who share insights into how they discovered their true calling, overcame barriers, and developed... Read more >
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The Democracy Project
A History, a Crisis, a Movement
Written by David Graeber
Read by Grover Gardner
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $20.00
A bold rethinking of the most powerful political idea in the world—democracy—and the story of how radical democracy can yet transform America
Democracy has been the American religion since before the Revolution—from New England town halls to the multicultural democracy of Atlantic pirate ships. But can our current political system... Read more >
A History, a Crisis, a Movement
Written by David Graeber
Read by Grover Gardner
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $20.00
A bold rethinking of the most powerful political idea in the world—democracy—and the story of how radical democracy can yet transform America
Democracy has been the American religion since before the Revolution—from New England town halls to the multicultural democracy of Atlantic pirate ships. But can our current political system... Read more >
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The Democracy Project
A History, a Crisis, a Movement
Written by David Graeber
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $26.00
A bold rethinking of the most powerful political idea in the world—democracy—and the story of how radical democracy can yet transform America
Democracy has been the American religion since before the Revolution—from New England town halls to the multicultural democracy of Atlantic pirate ships. But can our current political system... Read more >
A History, a Crisis, a Movement
Written by David Graeber
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $26.00
A bold rethinking of the most powerful political idea in the world—democracy—and the story of how radical democracy can yet transform America
Democracy has been the American religion since before the Revolution—from New England town halls to the multicultural democracy of Atlantic pirate ships. But can our current political system... Read more >
