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White House Burning
Our National Debt and Why It Matters to You
Written by Simon Johnson
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $15.95
Our National Debt and Why It Matters to You
Written by Simon Johnson
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $15.95
From the authors of the national bestseller 13 Bankers, a chilling account of America’s unprecedented debt crisis: how it came to pass, why it threatens to topple the nation as a superpower, and what needs to be done about it.
With bracing clarity, White House Burning explains why the national debt matters...
Schoolgirls
Young Women, Self Esteem, and the Confidence Gap
Written by Peggy Orenstein
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: February 6, 2013
Price: $12.99
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
The classic account of the hurdles facing adolescent girls in America--now reissued with a new Foreword, to coincide with the award-winning author's new book on women and identity.
Inspired by a study by the American Association of University Women that showed girls' self-esteem plummeting... Read more >
Young Women, Self Esteem, and the Confidence Gap
Written by Peggy Orenstein
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: February 6, 2013
Price: $12.99
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
The classic account of the hurdles facing adolescent girls in America--now reissued with a new Foreword, to coincide with the award-winning author's new book on women and identity.
Inspired by a study by the American Association of University Women that showed girls' self-esteem plummeting... Read more >
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A Tribe Apart
A Journey into the Heart of American Adolescence
Written by Patricia Hersch
Format: eBook, 416 pages
On Sale: February 6, 2013
Price: $11.99
For three fascinating, disturbing years, writer Patricia Hersch journeyed inside a world that is as familiar as our own children and yet as alien as some exotic culture--the world of adolescence. As a silent, attentive partner, she followed eight teenagers in the typically American town of Reston, Virginia, listening to their... Read more >
A Journey into the Heart of American Adolescence
Written by Patricia Hersch
Format: eBook, 416 pages
On Sale: February 6, 2013
Price: $11.99
For three fascinating, disturbing years, writer Patricia Hersch journeyed inside a world that is as familiar as our own children and yet as alien as some exotic culture--the world of adolescence. As a silent, attentive partner, she followed eight teenagers in the typically American town of Reston, Virginia, listening to their... Read more >
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The Devil's Cinema
The Untold Story Behind Mark Twitchell's Kill Room
Written by Steve Lillebuen
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: February 5, 2013
Price: $19.99
The Untold Story Behind Mark Twitchell's Kill Room
Written by Steve Lillebuen
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: February 5, 2013
Price: $19.99
"A detailed, well-constructed account of a diabolical real-life Dexter. Lillebuen has written a riveting, true crime page-turner about aspiring filmmaker Mark Twitchell, who turned his obsession with fantasy into horrible reality." -- Robert Remington, co-author of Runaway Devil
On the night of October 10, 2008, Johnny Altinger was heading to his...
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Meme Wars
The Creative Destruction of Neoclassical Economics
Written by Kalle Lasn
Edited by Adbusters
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
On Sale: February 5, 2013
Price: $100.00
"Engrossing, exciting [...] This book compels us to rethink our approaches to economics ..." —Literary Review of Canada
"Thought-provoking and creative [...]" —Julie Nelson, author of Beyond Economic Man: Feminist Theory and Economics
From the editor and magazine that started and named the Occupy Wall Street movement, Meme Wars: The Creative Destruction of Neoclassical Economics is an articulation of... Read more >
The Creative Destruction of Neoclassical Economics
Written by Kalle Lasn
Edited by Adbusters
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
On Sale: February 5, 2013
Price: $100.00
"Engrossing, exciting [...] This book compels us to rethink our approaches to economics ..." —Literary Review of Canada
"Thought-provoking and creative [...]" —Julie Nelson, author of Beyond Economic Man: Feminist Theory and Economics
From the editor and magazine that started and named the Occupy Wall Street movement, Meme Wars: The Creative Destruction of Neoclassical Economics is an articulation of... Read more >
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The Accordion Family
Boomerang Kids, Anxious Parents, and the Private Toll of Global Competition
Written by Katherine S. Newman
Format: Trade Paperback
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $18.00
Why are adults in their twenties and thirties stuck in their parents’ homes in the world’s wealthiest countries?
There’s no question that globalization has drastically changed the cultural landscape across the world. The cost of living is rising, and high unemployment rates have created an untenable economic climate that has... Read more >
Boomerang Kids, Anxious Parents, and the Private Toll of Global Competition
Written by Katherine S. Newman
Format: Trade Paperback
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $18.00
Why are adults in their twenties and thirties stuck in their parents’ homes in the world’s wealthiest countries?
There’s no question that globalization has drastically changed the cultural landscape across the world. The cost of living is rising, and high unemployment rates have created an untenable economic climate that has... Read more >
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Coming Apart
The State of White America, 1960-2010
Written by Charles Murray
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $16.00
From the bestselling author of Losing Ground and The Bell Curve, this startling long-lens view shows how America is coming apart at the seams that historically have joined our classes.
In Coming Apart, Charles Murray explores the formation of American classes that are different in kind from anything we have ever... Read more >
The State of White America, 1960-2010
Written by Charles Murray
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $16.00
From the bestselling author of Losing Ground and The Bell Curve, this startling long-lens view shows how America is coming apart at the seams that historically have joined our classes.
In Coming Apart, Charles Murray explores the formation of American classes that are different in kind from anything we have ever... Read more >
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Divided We Fail
The Story of an African American Community That Ended the Era of School Desegregation
Written by Sarah Garland
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $26.95
The Story of an African American Community That Ended the Era of School Desegregation
Written by Sarah Garland
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $26.95
Examines why school desegregation, despite its success in closing the achievement gap, was never embraced wholeheartedly in the black community as a remedy for racial inequality
In 2007, a court case originally filed in Louisville, Kentucky, was argued before the Supreme Court and officially ended the era of school desegregation— both changing...
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Divided We Fail
The Story of an African American Community That Ended the Era of School Desegregation
Written by Sarah Garland
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $26.95
The Story of an African American Community That Ended the Era of School Desegregation
Written by Sarah Garland
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $26.95
Examines why school desegregation, despite its success in closing the achievement gap, was never embraced wholeheartedly in the black community as a remedy for racial inequality
In 2007, a court case originally filed in Louisville, Kentucky, was argued before the Supreme Court and officially ended the era of school desegregation— both changing...
Also available as a
hardcover.
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The Future
Six Drivers of Global Change
Written by Al Gore
Format: Hardcover, 592 pages
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $30.00
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
From the former vice president and #1 New York Times bestselling author comes An Inconvenient Truth for everything—a frank and clear-eyed assessment of six critical drivers of global change in the decades to come.
Ours is a time of revolutionary change that has no precedent in history... Read more >
Six Drivers of Global Change
Written by Al Gore
Format: Hardcover, 592 pages
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $30.00
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
From the former vice president and #1 New York Times bestselling author comes An Inconvenient Truth for everything—a frank and clear-eyed assessment of six critical drivers of global change in the decades to come.
Ours is a time of revolutionary change that has no precedent in history... Read more >
The Future
Six Drivers of Global Change
Written by Al Gore
Format: eBook, 592 pages
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $15.99
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
From the former vice president and #1 New York Times bestselling author comes An Inconvenient Truth for everything—a frank and clear-eyed assessment of six critical drivers of global change in the decades to come.
Ours is a time of revolutionary change that has no precedent in history... Read more >
Six Drivers of Global Change
Written by Al Gore
Format: eBook, 592 pages
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $15.99
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
From the former vice president and #1 New York Times bestselling author comes An Inconvenient Truth for everything—a frank and clear-eyed assessment of six critical drivers of global change in the decades to come.
Ours is a time of revolutionary change that has no precedent in history... Read more >
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The Future
Six Drivers of Global Change
Written by Al Gore
Read by Al Gore
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $50.00
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
From the former vice president and #1 New York Times bestselling author comes An Inconvenient Truth for everything—a frank and clear-eyed assessment of six critical drivers of global change in the decades to come.
Ours is a time of revolutionary change that has no precedent in history... Read more >
Six Drivers of Global Change
Written by Al Gore
Read by Al Gore
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $50.00
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
From the former vice president and #1 New York Times bestselling author comes An Inconvenient Truth for everything—a frank and clear-eyed assessment of six critical drivers of global change in the decades to come.
Ours is a time of revolutionary change that has no precedent in history... Read more >
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The Future
Six Drivers of Global Change
Written by Al Gore
Read by Al Gore
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $25.00
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
From the former vice president and #1 New York Times bestselling author comes An Inconvenient Truth for everything—a frank and clear-eyed assessment of six critical drivers of global change in the decades to come.
Ours is a time of revolutionary change that has no precedent in history... Read more >
Six Drivers of Global Change
Written by Al Gore
Read by Al Gore
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $25.00
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
From the former vice president and #1 New York Times bestselling author comes An Inconvenient Truth for everything—a frank and clear-eyed assessment of six critical drivers of global change in the decades to come.
Ours is a time of revolutionary change that has no precedent in history... Read more >
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I Do and I Don't
A History of Marriage in the Movies
Written by Jeanine Basinger
Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $30.00
A History of Marriage in the Movies
Written by Jeanine Basinger
Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $30.00
From one of our leading film historians and interpreters: a brilliantly researched, irresistibly witty, delightfully illustrated examination of “the marriage movie”; what it is (or isn’t) and what it has to tell us about the movies—and ourselves.
As long as there have been feature movies there have been marriage movies, and yet...
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I Do and I Don't
A History of Marriage in the Movies
Written by Jeanine Basinger
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $15.99
A History of Marriage in the Movies
Written by Jeanine Basinger
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $15.99
From one of our leading film historians and interpreters: a brilliantly researched, irresistibly witty, delightfully illustrated examination of “the marriage movie”; what it is (or isn’t) and what it has to tell us about the movies—and ourselves.
As long as there have been feature movies there have been marriage movies, and yet...
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hardcover.
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A World Without Women
The Christian Clerical Culture of Western Science
Written by David F Noble
Format: eBook, 329 pages
On Sale: January 23, 2013
Price: $12.99
In this groundbreaking work of history, David Noble examines the origins and implications of the masculine culture of Western science and technology. He begins by asking why women have figure so little in the development of science, and then proceeds—in a fascinating and radical analysis—to trace their absence to a deep-rooted... Read more >
The Christian Clerical Culture of Western Science
Written by David F Noble
Format: eBook, 329 pages
On Sale: January 23, 2013
Price: $12.99
In this groundbreaking work of history, David Noble examines the origins and implications of the masculine culture of Western science and technology. He begins by asking why women have figure so little in the development of science, and then proceeds—in a fascinating and radical analysis—to trace their absence to a deep-rooted... Read more >
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Crescent Moon Rising
The Islamic Transformation of America
Written by Paul L. Williams
Format: Trade Paperback, 270 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $20.00
Informative and at times controversial, this book examines the rise of Islam in American and clearly shows it will be a force to reckon with for some time. In 1975, Leo Rosten published his Religions of America, an exhaustive compilation of statistical information on every major and minor group of believers... Read more >
The Islamic Transformation of America
Written by Paul L. Williams
Format: Trade Paperback, 270 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $20.00
Informative and at times controversial, this book examines the rise of Islam in American and clearly shows it will be a force to reckon with for some time. In 1975, Leo Rosten published his Religions of America, an exhaustive compilation of statistical information on every major and minor group of believers... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Crescent Moon Rising
The Islamic Transformation of America
Written by Paul L. Williams
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $12.99
Informative and at times controversial, this book examines the rise of Islam in American and clearly shows it will be a force to reckon with for some time. In 1975, Leo Rosten published his Religions of America, an exhaustive compilation of statistical information on every major and minor group of believers... Read more >
The Islamic Transformation of America
Written by Paul L. Williams
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $12.99
Informative and at times controversial, this book examines the rise of Islam in American and clearly shows it will be a force to reckon with for some time. In 1975, Leo Rosten published his Religions of America, an exhaustive compilation of statistical information on every major and minor group of believers... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City
Written by Alan Ehrenhalt
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $16.95
Written by Alan Ehrenhalt
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $16.95
Eye-opening and thoroughly engaging, this is an indispensible look at American urban/suburban society and its future.
In The Great Inversion, Alan Ehrenhalt, one of our leading urbanologists, reveals how the roles of America’s cities and suburbs are changing places—young adults and affluent retirees moving in, while immigrants and the less affluent are...
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Saber comer
64 reglas basicas para aprender a comer bien
Written by Michael Pollan
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $14.00
Una guía sencilla para comer de manera inteligente
Comer no tiene por qué ser tan complicado. En esta época de dietas milagrosas demasiado elaboradas y consejos contradictorios sobre salud y nutrición, Saber comer nos ofrece 64 reglas básicas para nuestra alimentación diaria. Escrito con claridad, precisión y una agudeza que lo ha... Read more >
64 reglas basicas para aprender a comer bien
Written by Michael Pollan
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $14.00
Una guía sencilla para comer de manera inteligente
Comer no tiene por qué ser tan complicado. En esta época de dietas milagrosas demasiado elaboradas y consejos contradictorios sobre salud y nutrición, Saber comer nos ofrece 64 reglas básicas para nuestra alimentación diaria. Escrito con claridad, precisión y una agudeza que lo ha... Read more >
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Saturday Night Widows
The Adventures of Six Friends Remaking Their Lives
Written by Becky Aikman
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $26.00
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: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $26.00
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,
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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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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Saturday Night Widows
The Adventures of Six Friends Remaking Their Lives
Written by Becky Aikman
Read by Ann Marie Lee
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $40.00
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
Read by Ann Marie Lee
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $40.00
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 >
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Saturday Night Widows
The Adventures of Six Friends Remaking Their Lives
Written by Becky Aikman
Read by Ann Marie Lee
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $20.00
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
Read by Ann Marie Lee
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $20.00
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 >
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White Bread
A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf
Written by Aaron Bobrow-Strain
Format: Trade Paperback
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $17.00
How did white bread, once an icon of American progress, become “white trash”? In this lively history of bakers, dietary crusaders, and social reformers, Aaron Bobrow-Strain shows us that what we think about the humble, puffy loaf says a lot about who we are and what we want our society to... Read more >
A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf
Written by Aaron Bobrow-Strain
Format: Trade Paperback
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $17.00
How did white bread, once an icon of American progress, become “white trash”? In this lively history of bakers, dietary crusaders, and social reformers, Aaron Bobrow-Strain shows us that what we think about the humble, puffy loaf says a lot about who we are and what we want our society to... Read more >
