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December 2008
iSpy:
Surveillance And Power In The Interactive Era, Mark
Andrejevic (University Press of Kansas) [12/8]
November 2008
Cuba In The
American Imagination: Metaphor And The Imperial Ethos,
Louis A. Perez Jr. (The University of North Carolina Press
Chapel Hill) [11/13]
October 2008
The Shock
Doctrine: The Rise Of Disaster Capitalism, Naomi Klein
(Allen Lane) [10/30]
Born Digital:
Understanding The First Generation Of Digital Natives,
John Palfrey and Urs Gasser (Basic Books) [10/22]
The Numerati,
Stephen Baker (Houghton Mifflin Company) [10/14]
Lincoln
President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln And The Great Secession
Winter 1860-1861, (Simon & Schuster) [10/14]
Sway: The
Irresistible Pull Of Irrational Behavior, Ori Branfman
and Rom Brafman (Doubleday [10/9]
The Leaders We
Deserved (And A Few We Didn't): Rethinking The Presidential
Rating Game, Alvin Stephen Felzenberg (Basic Books)
[10/8]
Fallen Giants: A
History Of Himalayan Mountaineering From The Age Of Empire
To The Age Of Extremes, Maurice Isserman and Stewart
Weaver (Yale University Press) [10/7]
Baghdad At
Sunrise: A Brigade Commander's War In Iraq, Peter R.
Mansoor (Yale University Press) [10/6]
On The Road To
Freedom: A Guided Tour Of The Civil Rights Trail,
Charles E. Cobb Jr. (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill) [10/6]
Coming Of Age In
Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores The Virtually Human,
Tom Bloellstorf (Princeton University Press) [10/2]
September 2008
Black Maps,
David Jauss (University of Massachusetts Press) [9/25]
Biologists In
The Field: Stories, Tales, And Anecdotes From 150 Years Of
Field Biology, Edited by Michael R. Jeffords, Susan L.
Post, and Charles Warwick (Illinois) [9/25]
The Journey: The
Greek American Dream, A Documentary Film by Maria Iliou,
Historian Alexander Kitroeff (Proteus) [10/24]
The Eccentric Billionaire: John D.
MacArthur--Empire Builder, Reluctant Philanthropist,
Relentless Adversary, Nancy Kriplen (AMACOM) [9/23]
Ghost
Train To The Eastern Star: On The Tracks Of The Great
Railway Bazaar, Paul Theroux (Houghton Mifflin Company)
[9/22]
Reclaiming
Conservatism: How A Great American Political Movement Got
Lost--And How It Can Find Its Way Back, Mickey Edwards
(Oxford University Press) [9/11]
No More Joint
Pain, Joseph A. Abboud and Soo Kim Abboud (Yale
University Press) [9/10]
Gandhi: The Man,
His People, And The Empire, Rajmohan Gandhi (University
of California Press) [9/9]
AK 47: The Story
Of A Gun, Michael Hodges (MacAdam/Cage) [9/8]
August 2008
Gridlock
Economy: How Too Much Ownership Wrecks Markets, Stops
Innovation, And Costs Lives, Michael Heller (Basic
books) [8/28]
Meltdown: The
Inside Story Of The North Korean Nuclear Crisis, Mike
Chinoy (St. Martin's Press) [8/27]
Havana Nocturne:
How The Mob Owned Cuba...And Then Lost It To The Revolution,
T.J. English (William Morrow) [8/26]
American Indians
And The Law, N. Bruce Duthu (The Penguin Library of
American Indian History/Viking) [8/25]
Great Lakes For
Sale: From Whitecaps To Bottlecaps, Dave Dempsey (The
University of Michigan Press) [8/21]
Chain Of Blame:
How Wall Street Caused The Mortgage And Credit Crisis,
Paul Muolo and Mathew Padilla (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)
[8/15]
Rome 1960: The
Olympics That Changed The World, David Maraniss (Simon &
Schuster) [8/14]
The Option Of
Urbanism: Investing In A New American Dream, Christopher
B. Leinberger (Island Press) [8/12]
The Predator
State: How Conservatives Abandoned The Free Market And Why
Liberals Should Too, James Galbraith (The Free Press)
[8/11]
Grand New Party:
How Republicans Can Win The Working Class And Save The
American Dream, Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam
(Doubleday) [8/8]
The First
Campaign: Globalization, The Web, And The Race For The White
House, Garrett M. Graff (Farrar, Straus And Giroux)
[8/6]
Banana: The Fate
Of The Fruit That Changed The World, Dan Koeppel (Hudson
Street Press) [8/5]
The Dark Side:
The Inside Story Of How The War On Terror Turned Into A War
On American Ideals, Jane Mayer (Doubleday) [8/4]
The Carbon Age:
How Life's Core Element Has Become Civilization's Greatest
Threat, Eric Roston (Walker & Company) [8/1]
July 2008
Relentless
Pursuit: A Year In The Trenches With Teach For America,
Donna Foote (Alfred A. Knopf) [7/31]
The Cult Of The
Presidency: America's Dangerous Devotion To Executive Power,
Gene Healy (Cato Institute) [7/30]
Outlaw
Journalist: The Life And Times Of Hunter S. Thompson,
William McKean (W. W. Norton & Company) [7/29]
The Drunkard's
Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives, Leonard Mlodinow
(Pantheon Books, New York) [7/24]
God's Crucible:
Islam And The Making Of Europe, 570-1215, David Levering
Lewis (W. W. Norton) [7/23]
Invisible Wounds
Of War: Psychological And Cognitive Injuries, Their
Consequences, And Services To Assist Recovery, Terri
Tanielian and Lisa H. Jaycox, Editors (Rand Center for
Military Health Policy Research) [7/22]
Blood And
Belief: The PKK And The Kurdish Fight For Independence,
Aliza Marcus (New York University Press) [7/17]
My Stroke Of
Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey, Jill
Bolte Taylor (Viking) [7/21]
Kafka Comes To
America: Fighting For Justice In The War On Terror A Public
Defender's Inside Account, Steven T. Wax (Other Press)
[7/15]
One Minute To
Midnight: Kennedy, Kruschev, And Castro On The Brink Of
Civil War, Michael Dobbs (Alfred A. Knopf) [7/11]
Nixonland: The
Rise Of A President And The Fracturing Of America, Rick
Perlstein (Scribner) [7/10]
The Future Of
The Internet And How To Stop It, Jonathan Zittrain (Yale
University Press) [7/9]
June 2008
The Wisdom Of
Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels And The Business Of AIDS,
Elizabeth Pisani (W.W. Norton & Company) [6/30]
Bush's Law: The
Remaking Of American Justice, Eric Lichtblau (Pantheon
Books) [6/27]
Survival Of The
Sickest: The Surprising Connections Between Disease And
Longevity, Sharon Moalem (Harper Perennial) [6/26]
The Technology
Of Policing: Crime Mapping, Information Technology, And The
Rationality Of Crime Control, Peter K. Manning (New York
University Press) [6/26]
Forgive Us Our
Debts: The Intergenerational Dangers Of Fiscal
Irresponsibility, Andrew L. Yarrow (Yale University
Press) [6/25]
Blog Wars,
David D. Perlmutter (Oxford University Press) [6/24]
Doubt Is Their
Product: How Industry's Assault On Science Threatens Your
Health, David Michaels (Oxford University Press) [6/
The Hakwati: A
Story, Rabih Alameddine (Alfred A. Knopf) [6/19]
Bracing For
Armageddon? The Science And Politics Of Bioterrorism In
America, William R. Clark (Oxford University Press)
[6/12]
The Arab Center:
The Promise Of Moderation, Marwan Muasher (Yale
University Press) [6/11]
Slavery by
Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans From The
Civil War To World War II, Douglas A. Blackmon
(Doubleday) [6/11]
Who Owns
Antiquity? Museums And The Battle Over Our Ancient Heritage,
James Cuno (Princeton University Press) [6/10]
Yeltsin: A Life,
Timothy J. Colton (Basic Books) [6/9]
Best of the
Midwest: The Ultimate Guide to Midwest Travel (Meredith
Corporation) and Midwest Living 22 (3) June 2008
(Meredith Corporation) [6/6]
Fish Without A
Doubt: The Cook's Essential Companion, Rick Moonen & Roy
Finamore (Houghton Mifflin Company) [6/6]
The Big Sort:
Why The Clustering Of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us
Apart, Bill Bishop (Houghton Mifflin Company) [6/4]
Global
Rebellion: Religious Challenges To The Secular State, From
Christian Militias To Al Qaeda, Mark Juergensmeyer
(University of California Press) [6/3]
The Man Who
Loved China: The Fantastic Story Of The Eccentric Scientist
Who Unlocked The Mysteries Of The Middle Kingdom, Simon
Winchester (Harper) [6/3]
May
2008
Twentieth-Century Sprawl: Highways And The Reshaping Of The
American Landscape, Owen D. Gutfreund (Oxford University
Press) [5/28]
Building Red
America: The New Conservative Coalition And The Drive For
Permanent Power, Thomas Edsall (Basic Books) [5/23]
Twilight War:
The Folly Of U.S. Space Dominance, Mike Moore (The
Independent Institute) [5/22]
The Comanche
Empire, Pekka Hamalainen (Yale University Press) [5/21]
Fixing Failed
States: A Framework For Rebuilding A Fractured World,
Ashraf Ghani and Clare Lockhart (Oxford University Press)
[5/20]
Land Of Lincoln:
Adventures In Abe's America, Andrew Ferguson (Grove
Press) [5/16]
Standard
Operating Procedure, Philip Gourevitch and Errol Morris
(The Penguin Press) [5/15]
Einstein: His
Life And Universe, Walter Isaacson (Simon &
Schuster Paperbacks) [5/14]
The Race Card:
How Bluffing About Bias Makes Race Relations Worse,
Richard Thompson Ford (Farrar, Straus, And Giroux) [5/9]
The Firecracker
Boys: H-Bombs, Inupiat Eskimos, And The Roots Of The
Environmental Movement, Dan O'Neill (Basic Books) [5/8]
The Pill Book:
The Illustrated Guide To The Most-Prescribed Drugs In The
United States, Harold M. Silverman (Bantam Books) [5/6]
Polk: The Man
Who Transformed The Presidency And America, Walter R.
Borneman (Random House) [5/4]
Insomniac,
Gayle Greene (University of California Press) [5//2]
The Great
Warming: Climate Change And The Rise And Fall Of
Civilizations, Brian Fagan (Bloomsbury Press) [5/1]
April 2008
The Art Of
Political Murder: Who Killed The Bishop? Francisco
Goldman (Grove Press) [4/30]
Madison Avenue
And The Color Line: African Americans In The
Advertising Industry, Jason Chambers (University of
Pennsylvania Press) [4/29]
Biography Of The
Dollar: How The Mighty Buck Conquered The World And Why It's
Under Siege, Craig Karmin (Crown Business) [4/28]
Farmer John's
Cookbook: The Real Dirt On Vegetables Seasonal Recipes And
Stories From A Community Supported Farm, John Peterson
with Lesley Littlefield Freeman (Gibbs Smith Publisher)
[4/25]
Preventing
Addiction: What Parents Must Know To Immunize Their Kids
Against Drug And Alcohol Addiction, John C. Fleming (CrossHouse)
[4/25]
Varieties Of
Muslim Experience: Encounters With Arab Political And
Cultural Life, Lawrence Rosen (The University of Chicago
Press) [4/24]
McMafia: A
Journey Though The Global Criminal Underworld, Misha
Glenny (Alfred A. Knopf) [4/18]
Student Bodies:
The Influence Of Student Health Services In American Society
And Medicine, Heather Munro Prescott (The University of
Michigan Press) [4/17]
The Execution Of
Willie Francis: Race, Murder, And The Search For Justice In
The American South, Gilbert King (Basic Books) [4/16]
Water And
Ritual: The Rise And fall Of Classic Maya Rulers, Lisa
J. Lucero (University of Texas Press) [4/15]
Lush Life: A
Novel, Richard Price (Farrar, Straus And Giroux) [4/14]
Inside The
Presidential Debates: Their Improbable Past And Promising
Future, Newton Minow and Craig L. Lamay (The University
of Chicago Press) [4/11]
Human Smoke: The
Beginnings Of World War II, The End Of Civilization,
Nicholson Baker (Simon & Schuster) [4/9]
Of A Feather: A
Brief History Of American Birding, Scott Weidensaul
(Harcourt, Inc.) [4/7]
Billy The Kid:
The Endless Ride, Michael Wallis (W. W. Norton &
Company) [4/2]
The Cure Within:
A History Of Mind-Body Medicine, Anne Harrington (W. W.
Norton & Company) [4/1]
March 2008
The Bridge At
The Edge Of The World: Capitalism, The Environment, And
Crossing From Crisis To Sustainability, James Gustave
Speth (Yale University Press) [3/31]
Out Of The East:
Spices And The Medieval Imagination, Paul Freedman (Yale
University Press) [3/28]
The Man Who
Pushed America To War: The Extraordinary Life, Adventures,
And Obsessions Of Ahmad Chalabi, Aram Roston (Nation
Books) [3/26]
Who's Your City:
How The Creative Economy Is Making Where To Live The Most
Important Decision Of Your Life, Richard Florida (Basic
Books) [3/25]
Negro With A
Hat: The Rise And Fall Of Marcus Garvey, Colin Grant
(Oxford University Press) [3/18]
The Absence Of
Grand Strategy: The United States And The Persian Gulf
(1972-2005), Steve A. Yetiv (The Johns Hopkins Press)
[3/18]
Stricken Field:
The Little Bighorn Since 1876, Jerome A. Greene
(University of Oklahoma Press) [3/17]
Lincoln And
Douglas: The Debate That Defined America, Allen C.
Guelzo (Simon & Schuster) [3/14]
Guide To
Preventing And Treating Heart Disease: Essential Information
You And Your Family Need To Know About Having A Healthy
Heart, Martin S. Lipsky, et. al. (American Medical
Association) [3/13]
Pens And Swords:
How The American Mainstream Media Report The
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Marda Dunsky (Columbia
University Press) [3/12]
Naked In The
Woods: Joseph Knowles And The Legacy Of Frontier Fakery,
Jim Motavalli (Da Capo Press) [3/11]
The Nuclear
Sphinx Of Tehran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad And The State Of Iran,
Yossi Melman and Meir Javedanfar (Carroll & Graf Publishers)
[3/10]
The First Word:
The Search For The Origins Of Language, Christine
Kenneally (Viking) [3/7]
Consumer Reports
Annual Auto Issue (73:4), April 2008 [3/5]
Going Broke: Why
Americans Can't Hold On To Their Money, Stuart Vyse
(Oxford University Press) [3/4]
The Lost Ark Of
The Covenant: Solving The 2,500 Year Old Mystery Of The
Fabled Biblical Ark, Tudor Parfitt (HarperOne) [3/3]
February 2008
The Age Of
American Unreason, Susan Jacoby (Pantheon Books) [2/29]
Twilight At
Monticello: The Final Years Of Thomas Jefferson, Alan
Pell Crawford (Random House) [2/28]
Less Safe Less
Free: Why America Is Losing The War On Terror, David
Cole and Jules Lobel (the New Press) [2/27]
The Future Of
Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, And Privacy On The Internet,
Daniel J. Solove (Yale University Press) [2/26]
Bill Mauldin A
Life Up Front: A Biography with Illustrations, Todd
DePastino (W. W. Norton & Company) [2/22]
The Occupation
Of Iraq: Winning The War, Losing The Peace, Ali A.
Allawi (Yale University Press) [2/20]
Defying Dixie:
The Radical Roots Of Civil Rights 1919-1950, Glenda
Elizabeth Gilmore (W. W. Norton & Company) [2/18]
Arsenals Of
Folly: The Making Of The Nuclear Arms Race, Richard
Rhodes (Alfred A. Knopf New York) [2/15]
Your Symptoms
Are Real: What To Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong,
Benjamin H. Natelson (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.) [2/13]
Desperate
Passage: The Donner Party's Perilous Journey West, Ethan
Rarick (Oxford University Press) [2/12]
Storm World:
Hurricanes, Politics, And The Battle Over Global Warming,
Chris Mooney (Harcout, Inc.) [2/8]
How We Missed
The Story: Osama Bin Laden, The Taliban, And The Hijacking
of Afghanistan, Roy Gutman (United States Institute of
Peace) [2/7]
The Age Of
Shiva: A Novel, Manil Suri (W. W. Norton And Company)
[2/4]
January 2008
Endgame, 1945:
The Missing Final Chapter Of World War II, David
Stafford (Little, Brown And Company) [1/30]
Education's End:
Why Our Colleges And Universities Have Given Up On The
Meaning Of Life, Anthony T. Kronman (Yale University
Press) [1/29]
Death By Black
Hole And Other Cosmic Quandaries, Neil DeGrasse Tyson
(W. W. Norton & Company) [1/25]
Monk's Music:
Thelonious Monk and Jazz History In The Making, Gabriel
Solis (University of California Press) [1/25]
Darkness At
Dawn: The Rise Of The Russian Criminal State, David
Satter (Yale University Press) [1/24]
Printer's Devil:
Mark Twain And The American Publishing Revolution, Bruce
Michelson (University of California Press) [1/22]
The Coming Of
The Walrus: What Really Happened In The '60s, James
Riordan (Image Workshop) [1/18]
Marco Polo: From
Venice To Xanadu, Laurence Bergreen (Alfred A. Knopf)
[1/17]
"Can You Count on
These Machines?" Clive Thompson in The New York Times
Magazine, January 6, 2008 (cover story) [1/15]
The Innocence
Commission: Preventing Wrongful Convictions And Restoring
The Criminal Justice System, Jon B. Gould (New York
University Press) [1/14]
The Greatest
Battle: Stalin, Hitler, And The Desperate Struggle For
Moscow That Changed The Course Of World War II, Andrew
Nagorski (Simon & Schuster) [1/11]
Write It When
I'm Gone: Remarkable Off-The-Record Conversations With
Gerald R. Ford, Thomas M. DeFrank (G.P. Putnam's Sons)
[1/10]
Power To Save
The World: The Truth About Nuclear Energy, Gwyneth
Cravens (Alfred A. Knopf) [1/8]
Godly Republic:
A Centrist Blueprint For America's Faith-Based Future,
John J. DiIulio, Jr. (University of California Press)
[1/7]
The Toothpick:
Technology And Culture, Henry Petroski (Alfred A. Knopf)
[1/4]
Taijiquan: The
Art Of Nurturing, The Science Of Power, Yang Yang with
Scott A. Grubisich, (Zhenwu Publications) [1/3]
The Invisible
Cure: Africa, The West, And The Fight Against AIDS,
Helen Epstein (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [1/3]
December 2007
The Mirage:
Napoleon's Scientists And The Unveiling of Egypt, Nina
Burleigh (HarperCollins Publishers) [12/21]
Total Cold War:
Eisenhower's Secret Propaganda Battle At Home And Abroad,
Kenneth Osgood (University of Kansas Press) [12/19]
The Design Of
Future Things, Donald A. Norman (Basic Books) [12/18]
Complete Book Of
Indian Cooking: 350 Recipes From The Regions Of India,
Suneeta Vaswani (Robert Rose) [12/17]
The Far
Traveler: Voyages Of A Viking Woman, Nancy Marie Brown
(Harcourt, Inc.) [12/13]
The Secret
History Of The War On Cancer, Devra Davis (Basic Books)
[12/10]
The Science Of
Leonardo: Inside The Mind Of The Great Genius Of The
Renaissance, Fritjof Capra (Doubleday) [12/7]
Blood Of
Brothers: Life And War In Nicaragua, Stephen Kinzer
(Harvard University David Rockefeller Center for Latin
American Studies) [12/6]
The Discovery Of
France: A Historical Geography From The Revolution To The
First World War, Graham Robb (W. W. Norton & Company)
[12/5]
The Oil And The
Glory: The Pursuit Of Empire And Fortune On The Caspian Sea,
Steve LeVine (Random House) [12/4]
The Airmen And
The Headhunters: A True Story Of Lost Soldiers, Heroic
Tribesmen And The Unlikeliest Rescue Of World War II,
Judith M. Heimann (Harcourt, Inc.) [12/3]
November 2007
Deception:
Pakistan, The United States, And The Secret Trade In Nuclear
Weapons, Adrian Levy & Catherine Scott-Clark (Walker &
Company) [11/30]
The Whale
Warriors: The Battle At The Bottom Of The World To Save The
Planet's Largest Mammals, Peter Heller (Free Press)
[11/29]
Governing
Through Crime: How The War On Crime Transformed American
Democracy And Created A Culture Of Fear, Jonathan Simon
Oxford University Press) [11/28]
Thirst: Fighting
The Corporate Theft Of Our Water, Alan Snitow, Deborah
Kaufman, and Michael Fox (John Wiley & Sons, Inc. [11/21]
Privacy In
Peril: How We Are Sacrificing A Fundamental Right In
Exchange For Security And Convenience, James B. Rule
(Oxford University Press) [11/20]
Playing With The
Boys: Why Separate Is Not Equal In Sports, Eileen
McDonagh and Laura Pappano (Oxford University Press) [11/16]
Extraordinary
Evil: A Short Walk To Genocide, Barbara Coloroso (Nation
Books) [11/15]
Miko Kings: An
Indian Baseball Story, LeAnne Howe (Aunt Lute Books)
[11/14]
Shyness: How
Normal Behavior Became A Sickness, Christopher Lane
(Yale University Press) [11/14]
Mongrels,
Bastards, Orphans, And Vagabonds: Mexican Immigration And
The Future Of Race In America, Gregory Rodriguez
(Pantheon Books) [11/12]
Good Germs, Bad
Germs: Health And Survival In A Bacterial World, Jessica
Snyder Sachs (Hill And Wang) [11/8]
Ending Slavery:
How We Free Today's Slaves, Kevin Bales (University of
California Press) [11/7]
New Indians Old
Wars, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn (University of Illinois Press)
[11/6]
Nothing In The
World: A Novella and All Over: Stories, Roy Kesey
(Dzanc Books) [11/5]
Hanni And Beth
Safe & Sound, Beth Finke illustrated by Anthony Alex
LeTourneau (Blue Marlin Publications, Ltd.) [11/2]
October 2007
So Help Me God:
The Founding Fathers And The First Great Battle Over Church
And State, Forrest Church (Harcourt, Inc.) [10/26]
A Magnificent
Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election Of 1800, America's
First Presidential Campaign, Edward J. Larson (Free
Press) [10/25]
"Al Qaeda:
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy" Peter Bergen & Paul
Cruickshank, Mother Jones October 18,
2007 [10/24]
Innovation
Nation: How America Is Losing Its Innovation Edge, Why It
Matters, And What We Can Do To Get It Back, John Kao
(Free Press) [10/24]
Alcohol Can Be a
Gas: Fueling an Ethanol Revolution for the 21st
Century, David Blume (Permaculture) [10/23]
The Last Refuge:
Patriotism, Politics, And The Environment In An Age Of
Terror, David W. Orr (Island Press) or Ecological
Literacy: Education And The Transition To A Postmodern World,
David W. Orr (State University of New York Press) [10/23]
Stoic Warriors:
The Ancient Philosophy Behind the Military Mind, Nancy
Sherman (Oxford University Press) [10/22]
Sputnik: The
Shock Of The Century, Paul Dickson (Walker & Company0
[10/19]
Stanley: The
Impossible Life Of America's Greatest Explorer, Tim Jeal
(Yale University Press) [10/18]
Roofwalker,
Susan Power (Milkweed); and The Grass Dancer (Berkley
Books) [10/15]
Auto Mania:
Cars, Consumers, And The Environment, Tom McCarthy (Yale
University Press) [10/12]
Prodigal
Soldiers: How the Generation of Officers Born of
Vietnam Revolutionized the American Style of War, James
Kitfield (Simon & Schuster) [10/11]
After The Reich:
The Brutal History Of The Allied Occupation, Giles
MacDonogh (Basic Books) [10/10]
Dancing In The
No-Fly Zone: A Woman's Journey Through Iraq, Hadani
Ditmars (Interlink Press) [10/3]
Acts Of Faith:
The Story Of An American Muslim, The Struggle For The Soul
Of A Generation, Eboo Patel (Beacon Press) [10/2]
September 2007
Joy Of Cooking,
Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer, and Ethan Becker
(Scribner) [9/24]
articles on
Afghanistan by David Rohde in The New York Times,
e.g. "How the 'Good War' in Afghanistan Went Bad", Sunday
August 12, 2007 CLVI (54,034) [9/21]
Communication
Revolution: Critical Junctures And The Future Of Media,
Robert W. McChesney (New Press) [9/19]
The Cult Of The
Amateur: How Today's Internet Is Killing Our Culture,
Andrew Keen (Currency/Doubleday) [9/18]
God's Harvard: A
Christian College On A Mission To Save America, Hanna
Rosin (Harcourt, Inc.) [9/18]
Bipolar
Expeditions: Mania And Depression In American Culture,
Emily Martin (Princeton University Press) [9/12]
Lying In Weight:
The Hidden Epidemic Of Eating Disorders In Adult Women,
Trisha Gura (HarperCollinsPublishers) [9/10]
Maxed Out: Hard
Times, Easy Credit, And The Era Of Predatory Lenders,
James D. Scurlock (Scribner) [9/7]
Marriage, A
History, Stephanie Coontz (Viking) [9/7]
Mao's Last
Revolution, Roderick MacFarquhar and Michael Schoenhals
(The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press) [9/6]
Only A Promise
Of Happiness: The Place Of Beauty In A World Of Art,
Alexander Nehamas (Princeton University Press) [9/5]
August 2007
We're All
Journalists Now: The Transformation Of The Press And
Reshaping Of The Law In The Internet Age, Scott Gant
(Free Press) [8/29]
In The Ruins Of
Empire The Japanese Surrender And The Battle For Postwar
Asia, Ronald H. Spector (Random House) [8/28]
Kind Of Blue The
Making Of The Miles Davis Masterpiece, Ashley Kahn (Da
Capo Press) [8/27]
Fantasies Of A
Bollywood Love Thief: Inside The World Of Indian Moviemaking,
Stephen Alter (Harvest Books) [8/27]
Betraying Our
Troops: The Destructive Results of Privatizing War,
Dina Rasor and Robert Bauman (Palgrave Macmillan) [8/23]
Lights Out: The
Electricity Crisis, The Global Economy, And What It Means To
You, Jason Makansi (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.) [8/23]
Pursuing the
American Dream: Opportunity and Exclusion Over Four
Centuries, Cal Jillson (University Press of Kansas)
[8/22]
Spook Country,
William Gibson (G. P. Putnam's Sons) [8/20]
Lost History:
The Enduring Legacy Of Muslim Scientists, Thinkers, And
Artists, Michael Hamilton Morgan (National Geographic)
[8/16]
The Clash
Within: Democracy, Religious Violence, And India's Future,
Martha C. Nussbaum (The Belknap Press of Harvard University
Press) [8/17]
Presidential
Secrecy And The Law, Robert M. Pallitto and William G.
Weaver (The Johns Hopkins Press) [8/15]
Security First
For A Muscular, Moral Foreign Policy, Amitai Etzioni
(Yale University Press) [8/13]
The New Time
Travelers: A Journey To The Frontiers Of Physics, David
Toomey (W. W. Norton & Company) [8/2]
The Horse In The
City: Living Machines In The Nineteenth Century, Clay
McShane and Joel A. Tarr (The Johns Hopkins University
Press) [8/1]
July 2007
Charter Schools
Hope Or Hype? Jack Buckley and Mark Schneider (Princeton
University Press) [7/31]
A Shadow Of Red:
Communism And The Blacklist In Radio And Television,
David Everitt (Ivan R. Dee) [7/30]
The Berlin Wall:
A World Divided, 1961-1989, Frederick Taylor (HarperCollinsPublishers)
[7/26]
The Political
Brain: The Role Of Emotion In Deciding The Fate Of The
Nation, Drew Westen (Public Affairs) [7/25]
The Republic Of
Pirates: Being The True And Surprising Story Of The
Caribbean Pirates And The Man Who Brought Them Down,
Colin Woodard (Harcourt, Inc.) [7/23]
Legacy Of Ashes:
The History Of The CIA, Tim Weiner (Doubleday) [7/20]
Divided: The
Ferocious Power Struggle In American Politics, Earl
Black and Merle Black (Simon & Schuster) [7/19]
The Iron Whim: A
Fragmented History Of Typewriting, Darren Wershler-Henry
(Cornell University Press) [7/18]
Meanwhile...A
Biography Of Milton Caniff Creator Of Terry And The Pirates
And Steve Canyon, Robert C. Harvey (Fantagraphics Books)
[7/17]
Plutonium:
A History Of The World's Most Dangerous Element, Jeremy
Bernstein (Joseph Henry Press) [7/16]
Blood Struggle:
The Rise of Modern Indian Nations, Charles Wilkinson
(W.W. Norton) [7/3]
June 2007
Breathing Space:
How Allergies Shape Our Lives And Landscapes, Gregg
Mitman (Yale University Press) [6/28]
Mirage:
Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S.,
Cynthia Barnett (The University of Michigan Press) [6/27]
The Pentagon A
History: The Untold Story Of The Wartime Race To Build The
Pentagon--And To Restore It Sixty Years Later, Steve
Vogel (Random House) [6/26]
The Age Of
Lincoln, Orville Vernon Burton (Hill And Wang) [6/25]
Charm Offensive:
How China's Soft Power Is Transforming The World, Joshua
Kurlantzick (Yale University Press) [6/21]
The Next
Christendom: The Coming Of Global Christianity, revised
and expanded edition, Philip Jenkins (Oxford University
Press) [6/20]
Statecraft And
How To Restore America's Standing In The World, Dennis
Ross (Farrar, Straus And Giroux) [6/15]
Balance: In
Search Of The Lost Sense, Scott McCredie (Little,
Brown And Company) [6/13]
No Child Left
Behind And The Public Schools, Scott Franklin Abernathy
(The University of Michigan Press) [6/11]
The Devil Came
On Horseback: Bearing Witness To the Genocide In Darfur,
Brian Steidle (Public Affairs) [6/8]
The Clash
Within: Democracy, Religious Violence, and India's Future,
Martha C. Nussbaum (The Belknap Press of Harvard University)
[6/7]
Ralph Ellison: A
Biography, Arnold Rampersad (Alfred A. Knopf) [6/6]
How Doctors
Think, Jerome Groopman, (Houghton Mifflin Company) [6/5]
Bobby and J.
Edgar: The Historic Face-Off Between the Kennedys and J.
Edgar Hoover that Transformed America, Burton Hersh
(Carroll & Graf Publishers) [6/4]
The Best Old
Movies for Families: A Guide to Watching Together, Ty
Burr (Anchor Books) [6/1]
May
2007
Dwelling Place A
Plantation Epic, Erskine Clarke (Yale University Press)
[5/30]
The Black Swan:
The Impact Of The Highly Improbable, Nassim Nicholas
Taleb (Random House) [5/23]
Kindness Goes
Unpunished: A Walt Longmire Mystery, Craig Johnson
(Viking) [5/22]
The Lie
Detectors: The History Of An American Obsession, Ken
Alder (Free Press) [5/18]
Shattered
Nerves: How Science Is Solving Modern Medicine's Most
Perplexing Problem, Victor D. Chase (The Johns Hopkins
University Press) [5/17]
Almost Human:
Making Robots Think, Lee Gutkind (W. W. Norton &
Company) [5/16]
Breach of Faith
Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American
City, Jed Horne (Random House) [5/15]
Not By A Long
Shot: A Season At A Hard Luck Horse Track, T. D.
Thornton (Public Affairs) [5/14]
The Silence Of
The Rational Center: Why American Foreign Policy Is Failing,
Stefan Halper and Jonathan Clarke (Basic Books) [5/11]
Cell Of Cells:
The Global Race To Capture And Control The Stem Cell,
Cynthia Fox (W. W. Norton & Company) [5/10]
It Shouldn't Be
This Way: The Failure Of Long -Term Care, Robert
L. Kane (Vanderbilt University Press) [5/8]
Long-Term Care
In Six Countries: Implications For The United States,
Robert L. Kane and Rosalie A. Kane (U.S. Department of
Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service,
National Institutes of Health) [5/8]
The Jamestown
Project, Karen Ordahl Kupperman (The Belknap Press of
Harvard University Press) [5/7]
Wounded:
Vietnam to Iraq, Ronald J. Glasser, M.D. (George
Braziller, Inc.) [5/3]
Blood And
Religion: The Unmasking Of The Jewish Democratic State,
Jonathan Cook (Pluto Press) [5/2]
April 2007
On Capitol Hill:
The Struggle to Reform Congress and Its Consequences,
1948-2000, Julian E. Zelizer (Cambridge University
Press) [4/30]
Savage Peace:
Hope And Fear In America 1919, Ann Hagedorn (Simon &
Schuster) [4/27]
Stealing
Lincoln's Body, Thomas J. Craughwell (The Belknap Press
of Harvard University Press) [4/26]
Havana:
Autobiography Of A City, Alfredo Jose Estrada (Palgrave)
[4/25]
Once Upon A
Country: A Palestinian Life, Sari Nusseibeh (Farrar,
Straus And Giroux) [4/24]
American Shaolin
Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, And The Legend Of Iron Crotch:
An Odyssey In The New China, Matthew Polly (Gotham
Books) [4/23]
The Sacred And
The Sovereign: Religion And International Politics, John
D. Carlson and Erik C. Owens, Editors (Georgetown University
Press) [4/18]
Children and
Animals: Exploring the Roots of Kindness and Cruelty,
Frank R. Ascione (Purdue University Press) [4/11]
Ike's Final
Battle: The Road To Little Rock And The Challenge Of
Equality, Kasey S. Pipes (World Ahead Publishing, Inc.)
[4/11]
The Cigarette
Century: The Rise, Fall, And Deadly Persistence Of The
Product That Defined America, Allan M. Brandt (Basic
Books) [4/6]
The Iron Cage:
The Story Of The Palestinian Struggle For Statehood,
Rashid Khalidi (Beacon Press) [4/6]
Hezbollah: A
Short History, Augustus Richard Norton (Princeton
University Press)[4/5]
The Best Old
Movies For Families: A Guide To Watching Together, Ty
Burr (Anchor Books) [4/3]
March 2007
The Last Mughal
The Fall Of A Dynasty: Delhi, 1857, William Dalrymple
(Alfred A. Knopf) [3/30]
The Invisible
Sex: Uncovering The True Roles Of Women In Prehistory,
J.M. Adovasio, Olga Soffer & Jake Page (Smithsonian
Books/Collins) [3/29]
The Accidental
Mind: How Brain Evolution Has Given Us Love, Memory, Dreams,
And God, David J. Linden (The Belknap Press of Harvard
University Press) [3/27]
The Averaged
American: Surveys, Citizens, And The Making Of A Mass Public,
Sarah E. Igo (Harvard University Press) [3/21]
The Illinois
Report 2007 (Institute of Government & Public Affairs of
the University of Illinois) [3/21]
Too Far From
Home: A Story Of Life And Death In Space, Chris Jones
(Doubleday) [3/20}
Sacred Games,
Vikram Chandra (HarperCollins) [3/19]
The Perfect
Thing: How The iPod Shuffles Commerce, Culture, And Coolness,
Steven Long (Simon & Schuster) [3/16]
Designing Public
Consensus: The Civic Theater of Community
Participation for Architects, Landscape Architects,
Planners, and Urban Designers, Barbara Faga (John Wiley
& Sons, Inc.) [3/14]
The Old Way: A
Story Of The First People, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
(Farrar Straus Giroux) [3/13]
Big Coal: The
Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future, Jeff
Goodell (Houghton Mifflin Company) [3/9]
Nixon And Mao:
The Week That Changed The World, Margaret MacMillan
(Random House) [3/8]
Consumer Reports
April 2007 [3/8]
American
Dreaming, Global Realities: Rethinking U.S.
Immigration History, Donna Gabaccia and Vicki L. Ruiz,
editors (University of Illinois Press) [3/7]
The Limits of
Dissent: The Constitutional Status of Armed Civilian
Militias, Thomas Halpern & Brian Levin (Aletheia Press)
[3/6]
February 2007
Chutes And
Ladders: Navigating The Low-Wage Labor Market, Katherine
S. Newman (Harvard University Press) [2/23]
Marriage And
Caste In America: Separate And Unequal Families In A
Post-Marital Age, Kay S. Hymowitz (Ivan R. Dee) [2/22]
Insurgents,
Terrorists, And Militias: The Warriors Of Contemporary
Combat, Richard H. Shultz Jr. & Andrea J. Dew (Columbia
University Press) [2/21]
Cronies:
Oil, the Bushes, and the Rise of Texas, America's Superstate,
Robert Bryce (Public Affairs); and Pipe Dreams:
Greed, Ego and the Death of Enron, Robert Bryce (Public
Affairs) [2/20]
Veretski Pass,
Cookie Segelstein, Joshua Horowitz, Stuart Brotman (Golden
Horn Records) [2/19]
A Forest
Journey: The Role Of Wood In The Development Of Civilization,
John Perlin (W.W. Norton & Company) [2/15]
Kettle: Poems By
Carl Reisman (A Hot Lead Press Book) [2/14]
"Off The Record An
Anthology Of Poetry By Lawyers", The Legal Studies Forum
XXVIII (1 & 2) 2004 Edited by James R. Elkins
Supreme
Conflict: The Inside Story Of The Struggle For Control Of
The United States Supreme Court, Jan Crawford Greenburg
(The Penguin Press) [2/12]
Blood Brothers:
Among The Soldiers Of Ward 57, Michael Weisskopf (Henry
Holt And Company) [2/9]
Power, Faith,
And Fantasy America In The Middle East 1776 To The Present,
Michael B. Oren (W. W. Norton & Company) [2/8]
What To Eat,
What To Drink, What To Leave For Poison: Poetry, Camille
T. Dungy (Red Hen Press) [2/8]
Prisoners: A
Muslim & A Jew Across The Middle East Divide, Jeffrey
Goldberg (Alfred A. Knopf) [2/6]
A Shameful Act:
The Armenian Genocide And The Question Of Turkish
Responsibility, Taner Akcam (Metropolitan Books) [2/5]
Man the Hunted:
Primates, Predators, and Human Evolution, Donna Hart (Westview/Perseus
Press) [2/5]
Presidential
Temples: How Memorials and Libraries Shape Public
Memory, Benjamin Hufbauer (University Press of Kansas)
[2/2]
All Is Change:
The Two-Thousand-Year Journey Of Buddhism To The West,
Lawrence Sutin (Little, Brown And Company) [2/2]
January 2007
God Willing:
The Politics of Islamism in Bangladesh, Ali Riaz (Rowman
& Littlefield) [1/30]
Among The
Righteous: Lost Stories From The Holocaust's Long Reach Into
Arab Lands, Robert Satloff (Public Affairs) [1/29]
A Needle In The
Right Hand Of God: The Norman Conquest Of 1066 And The
Making And Meaning Of The Bayeux Tapestry, R.
Howard Bloch (Random House) [1/26]
Blasphemy: Art
That Offends, S. Brent Plate, (black dog publishing)
[1/25]
The Children In
Room E4: American Education On Trial, Susan Eaton
(Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill) [1/25]
Aldo Leopold's
Odyssey: Rediscovering The Author Of A Sand County Almanac,
Julianne Lutz Newton (Island Press/Shearwater Books) [1/24]
Right Wing Wrong
Bird: Why the Tactics of the Religious Right Won't Fly
with Most Conservative Christians, Joel C. Hunter
(Distributed Church Press) [1/24]
The Real Toy
Story: Inside The Ruthless Battle For America's Youngest
Consumers, Eric Clark (Free Press) [1/23]
Should I Be
Tested for Cancer?: Maybe Not and Here's Why,
H.Gilbert Welch, MD, MPH (University of California Press)
[1/23]
Thomas Paine:
Enlightenment, Revolution, And The Birth Of Modern Nations,
Craig Nelson (Viking) [1/19]
Thicker Than
Oil: America's Uneasy Partnership With Saudi Arabia,
Rachel Bronson (Oxford University Press) [1/18]
The Cambridge
Encyclopedia of Stars, James B. Kaler (Cambridge
University Press) [1/16]
The End Of The
Line: How Overfishing Is Changing The World And What We Eat,
Charles Clover (The New Press) [1/12]
The Rise And
Fall Of HMO's: An American Health Care Revolution, Jan
Gregoire Coombs (The University of Wisconsin Press) [1/11]
Tales From
Spandau: Nazi Criminals And The Cold War, Norman J. W.
Goda (Cambridge University Press) [1/10]
Dark Side Of The
Moon: The Magnificent Madness Of The American Lunar Quest,
Gerard J. Degroot (New York University Press) [1/8]
The Language Of
God: A Scientist Presents Evidence For Belief, Francis
S. Collins (Free Press) [1/8]
The River Of
Lost Footsteps: Histories Of Burma, Thant Myint-U
(Farrar, Straus And Giroux) [1/5]
America's Geisha
Ally: Reimagining The Japanese Enemy, Naoko Shibusawa
(Harvard University Press) [1/4]
Open Target:
Where America is Vulnerable to Attack, Clark Kent Ervin
(Palgrave Macmillan) [1/3]
Arabesque: A
Taste Of Morocco, Turkey, & Lebanon, Claudia Roden
(Alfred A. Knopf) [1/3]
December 2006
The Annotated
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry Louis
Gates Jr. and Hollis Robbins, editors (W. W. Norton &
Company) [12/21]
The Best
Intentions: Kofi Annan And The UN In The Era Of American
World Power, James Traub (Farrar, Straus And Giroux)
[12/20]
Nonviolence:
Twenty-Five Lessons From The History Of A Dangerous Idea,
Mark Kurlansky (The Modern Library) [12/19]
The Race Beat:
The Press, The Civil Rights Struggle, And The Awakening Of A
Nation, Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff (Alfred A.
Knopf) [12/15]
Challenging
Racism in Higher Education: Promoting Justice,
Mark Chesler, Amanda Lewis, and James Crowfoot (Rowman &
Littlefield) and Race in the Schoolyard:
Negotiating the Color Line in Classrooms and Communities,
Amanda E. Lewis (Rutgers University Press) [12/14]
The Cave
Painters: Probing The Mysteries Of The World's First Artists,
Gregory Curtis (Alfred A. Knopt) [12/13]
Breaking Open
Japan: Commodore Perry, Lord Abe, and American Imperialism
In 1853, George Feifer (Smithsonian Books) [12/12]
Not
Condemned to Repetition: The United States and
Nicaragua, Robert A. Pastor (Westview Press) [12/8]
From Roosevelt
To Truman: Potsdam, Hiroshima, And The Cold War, Wilson
D. Miscamble (Cambridge University Press) [12/5]
Stem Cell Wars:
Inside Stories From The Frontlines, Eve Herold (Palgrave
Macmillan) [12/1]
November 2006
The Veil
Unveiled: The Hijab in Modern Culture, Faegheh S.
Shirazi (University Press of Florida) [11/30]
Medicare Meets
Mephistopheles, David A. Hyman (Cato Institute) [11/28]
The Conservative
Soul: How We Lost It How To Get It Back, Andrew Sullivan
(HarperCollinsPublishers) [11/22]
Mishima's Sword:
Travels In Search Of A Samurai Legend, Christopher Ross
(Da Capo Press) [11/21]
Women In The
Line Of Fire: What Your Should Know About Women In The
Military, Erin Solaro (Seal Press) [11/20]
Imperium: A
Novel Of Ancient Rome, Robert Harris (Simon & Schuster)
[11/16]
Thin, Lauren
Greenfield (Chronicle Books) [11/15]
Defending the
Holy Land: A Critical Analysis of Israel's Security
and Foreign Policy, Zeev Maoz (University of Michigan
Press) [11/14]
Visual Shock: A
History Of Art Controversies In American Culture,
Michael Kammen (Alfred A. Knopf) [11/10]
Black Victory:
The Rise And Fall Of The White Primary In Texas, Darlene
Clark Hine (University of Missouri Press) [10/8]
Wood: Craft,
Culture, History, Harvey Green (Viking) [11/8]
Blood And
Thunder: An Epic Of The American West, Hampton Sides
(Doubleday) [11/7]
All You Need Is
Love: The Story Of Popular Music, Tony Palmer (Grossman
Publishers) [11/6]
October 2006
Communication As
Culture: Essays On Media And Society, James W. Carey (Unwin
Hyman) [10/26]
James Carey: A
Critical Reader, Eve Stryker Munson and Catherine
A. Warren, Editors (University of Minnesota Press) [10/26]
The Immortal
Game: A History of Chess Or How 32 Carved Pieces On A Board
Illustrated Our Understanding Of War, Art, Science, And The
Human Brain, David Shenk (Doubleday) [10/24]
Now In Theaters
Everywhere: A Celebration Of A Certain Kind Of Blockbuster,
Kenneth Turan (Public Affairs) [10/24]
Choosing
White-Collar Crime, Neal Shover and Andy Hochstetler
(Cambridge University Press) [10/23]
Dangerous
Nation: America's Place In The World From Its Earliest Days
To The Dawn Of The Twentieth Century, Robert Kagan
(Alfred A. Knopf) [10/23]
Rabindranath
Tagore: A Biography, Uma Das Gupta (Oxford University
Press) [10/19]
Imperial Life In The Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green
Zone, Rajiv Chandrasekaran (Alfred A. Knopf) [10/19]
The Way To Win: Taking The White House In 2008,
Mark Halperin and John F. Harris (Random House) [10/17]
Shutting Out The
Sun: How Japan Created Its Own Lost Generation, Michael
Zielenziger (Doubleday) [10/13]
Diplomacy
Lessons: Realism for an Unloved Superpower, John
Brady Kiesling (Potomac Books) [10/12]
Mind Set!,
John Naisbitt (Collins) [10/11]
The Angle Of
Sharpest Ascending: Poems By Ingrid Wendt (Word Tech
Editions) [10/10]
Rainbows Of
Stone, Ralph Salisbury (The University of Arizona Press)
[10/10]
The Trojan War:
A New History, Barry Strauss (Simon & Schuster) [10/6]
The One Percent
Doctrine: Deep Inside America's Pursuit Of Its Enemies Since
9/11, Ron Suskind (Simon & Schuster) [10/5]
Making
Globalization Work, Joseph E. Stiglitz (W. W. Norton and
Company) [10/4]
September 2006
Empire And
Inequality: America And The World Since 9/11, Paul
Street (Paradigm Publishers) [9/26]
The Long Tail:
Why The Future Of Business Is Selling Less Of More,
Chris Anderson (Hyperion) [9/22]
What Terrorists
Want: Understanding The Enemy, Containing The Threat,
Louise Richardson (Random House) [9/19]
Guantanamo And
The Abuse Of Presidential Power, Joseph Margulies (Simon
& Schuster) [9/18]
Unbearable Cost:
Bush, Greenspan And The Economics Of Empire, James
Galbraith (Palgrave Macmillan) [9/13]
The Minds I:
Fantasies And Reflections On Soul, Douglas Hofstadter
and Daniel C. Dennett (Basic Books, Inc.) [9/11]
Backdoor To
Eugenics, 2d ed., Troy Duster (Routledge) [9/8]
Fiasco: The
American Military Adventure In Iraq, Thomas Ricks (The
Penguin Press) [9/6]
August 2006
James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life Of Alice B.
Sheldon, Julie Phillips (St. Martin's Press) [8/31]
Licensed to
Kill: Hired Guns in the War on Terror, Robert
Young Pelton (Crown) [8/30]
After Fidel: The
Inside Story Of Castro's Regime And Cuba's Next Leader,
Brian Latell (Palgrave Macmillan) [8/29]
Why Gender
Matters: What Parents And Teachers Need To Know About The
Emerging Science Of Sex Differences, Leonard Sax
(Broadway Books) [8/28]
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda And The Road To
9/11, Lawrence Wright (Alfred A. Knopf) [8/25]
LBJ: Architect
Of American Ambition, Randall B. Woods (Free Press)
[8/23]
A Perfect Union: Dolley Madison And The Creation Of
The American Nation, Catherine Allgor (Henry Holt And
Company) [8/22]
Future Hype: The
Myths Of Technology Change, Bob Seidensticker (Berrett-Koehler
Publishers, Inc) [8/21]
The Southern
Past: A Clash Of Race And Memory, W. Fitzhugh Brundage
(The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press) [8/18]
The Senator And
The Socialite: The True Story Of America's First Black
Dynasty, Lawrence Otis Graham (HarperCollinsPublishers)
[8/17]
The Places In
Between, Rory Stewart (Harcourt, Inc.) [8/16]
The Prince Of
The Marshes And Other Occupational Hazards Of A Year In Iraq,
Rory Stewart (Harcourt, Inc.) [8/16]
Hollow Earth:
The Long And Curious History Of Imagining Strange Lands,
Fantastical Creatures, Advanced Civilizations, And Marvelous
Machines Below The Earth's Surface, David Standish (Da
Capo Press) [8/14]
Strom: The
Complicated Personal And Political Life Of Strom Thurmond,
Jack Bass and Marilyn W. Thompson (Public Affairs) [8/14]
The New Lion Of
Damascus: Bashar al-Asad And Modern Syria, David W.
Lesch (Yale University Press) [8/8]
Democracy's
Edge: Choosing To Save Our Country By Bringing Democracy To
Life, Frances Moore Lappe, (Jossey-Bass) [8/4]
The Most Famous
Man In America: The Biography Of Henry Ward Beecher,
Debby Applegate (Doubleday) [8/3]
Democracy's
Edge: Choosing To Save Our Country By Bringing Democracy To
Life, Frances Moore Lappe (Jossey-Bass) [8/2]
July 2006
The Storm: What
Went Wrong And Why During Hurricane Katrina--The Inside
Story From One Louisiana Scientist, Ivor Van Heerden and
Mike Bryan (Viking) [7/25]
Stealing
Democracy: The New Politics Of Voter Suppression,
Spencer Overton (W. W. Norton & Company) [7/21]
The House That
Trane Built: The Story Of Impulse Records, Ashley Kahn
(W. W. Norton & Company); and The House That Trane Built:
The Best Of Impulse Records (Impulse!) [7/19]
The Omnivore's
Dilemma: A Natural History Of Four Meals, Michael Pollan
(The Penguin Press) [7/18]
River Of No
Reprieve: Descending Siberia's Waterway Of Exile, Death, And
Destiny, Jeffrey Tayler (Houghton Mifflin Company)
[7/17]
Imaginary Weapons:
A Journey Through The Pentagon's Scientific Underworld
(Nation Books) [7/14]
Seven Fires: The
Urban Infernos That Reshaped America, Peter Charles
Hoffer (Public Affairs) [7/13]
Hooked: Pirates,
Poaching, And The Perfect Fish, G. Bruce Knecht (Rodale)
[7/12]
Secrets Of
The Savanna: Twenty-three Years In The African Wilderness
Unraveling The Mysteries Of Elephants And People, Mark
and Delia Owens (Houghton Mifflin Company) [7/11]
The Pale Blue
Eye: A Novel, Louis Bayard (HarperCollinsPublisher)
[7/10]
The Heartless
Stone: A Journey Through The World Of Diamonds, Deceit, And
Desire, Tom Zoellner (Saint Martin's Press) [7/7]
Tiger Force: A
True Story Of Men And War, Michael Sallah and Mitch
Weiss (Little, Brown And Company) [7/6]
June 2006
The Devil Is A
Gentleman: Exploring America's Religious Fringe, J. C.
Hallman (Random House) [6/30]
Heat: An
Amateur's Adventures As Kitchen Slave, Live Cook,
Pasta-Maker, And Apprentice To A Dante-Quoting Butcher In
Tuscany, Bill Buford (Alfred A. Knopf) [6/29]
The
Microeconomics Of Income Distribution Dynamics In East Asia
And Latin America, Francisco H. G. Ferreira, et. al.
(The World Bank and Oxford University) [6/29]
A Godly Hero:
The Life Of William Jennings Bryan, Michael Kazin
(Alfred A. Knopf) [6/28]
Medicare
Matters: What Geriatric Medicine Can Teach American Health
Care, Christine K. Cassel (University of California
Press) [6/27]
The Journey
Through Cancer: Healing And Transforming The Whole Person,
Jeremy Geffen (Three Rivers Press) [6/26]
The Essential
Guide To Prescription Drugs 2005, James J. Rybacki
(Harper Resource) [6/26]
The Sky
Unwashed: A Novel, Irene Zabytko (Algonquin Books of
Chapel Hill) [6/23]
The Social
Impact Of The Chernobyl Disaster, David R. Marples
(Macmillan Press) [6/22]
Knowledge And
The Wealth Of Nations: A Story Of Economic Discovery,
David Warsh (W. W. Norton & Company) [6/22]
Mark Twain: A
Life, Ron Powers (Free Press) [6/20]
We Will Always
Have The Movies: American Cinema During World War II,
Robert McLaughlin and Sally E. Parry (The University of
Kentucky Press) [6/19]
Kicking The
Carbon Habit: Global Warming And The Case For Renewable And
Nuclear Energy, William Sweet (Columbia University
Press) [6/16]
Abraham: The
First Historical Biography, David Rosenberg (Basic
Books) [6/13]
Nature Noir: A
Park Ranger's Patrol In The Sierra, Jordan Fisher Smith
(Mariner Books) [6/12]
Taxing
Ourselves: A Citizen's Guide To The Debate Over Taxes,
3rd ed., Joel Slemrod and Jon Bakija (The MIT Press) [6/9]
Assimilation,
American Style, Peter D. Salins (Basic Books) [6/8]
Mr. Lincoln Goes
To War, William Marvel (Houghton Mifflin Company) [6/2]
House Of War:
The Pentagon And The Disastrous Rise Of American Power,
James Carroll (Houghton Mifflin Company) [6/1]
May
2006
The Segregated
Origins Of Social Security: African Americans And The
Welfare State, Mary Poole (The University of North
Carolina Press) [5/31]
Creating The
Good Will: The Most Comprehensive Guide To Both The
Financial And Emotional Sides Of Passing On Your Legacy,
Elizabeth Arnold (Portfolio) [5/26]
The Great Match
Race: When North Met South In America's First Sports
Spectacle, John Eisenberg (Houghton Mifflin Company)
[5/24]
Theft: A Love
Story, Peter Carey (Alfred A. Knopf) [5/24]
Lake Monsters
Mysteries: Investigating The World's Most Elusive Creatures,
Benjamin Radford (The University Press of Kentucky) [5/23]
Fortunate Son: A
Novel, Walter Mosley (Little, Brown And Company) [5/22]
Stem Cell Now:
From The Experiment That Shook The World To The New Politics
Of Life, Christopher Thomas Scott (Plume) [5/19]
Reporting:
Writings From The New Yorker, David Remnick (Alfred A.
Knopf) [5/16]
Hell In The Holy
Land: World War I In The Middle East, David R. Woodward
(The University Press of Kentucky) [5/12]
America's
Constitution: A Biography, Akhil Reed Amar (Random
House) [5/11]
Caregiving As
Your Parents Age, Linda Rhodes (NAL Trade) Should Mom
Be Left Alone? Should Dad Be Driving?: Your
Q & A Companion for Caregiving (NAL) [5/10]
31 Days: The
Crisis That Gave Us The Government We Have Today, Barry
Werth (Doubleday) [5/8]
Nuclear
Showdown: North Korea Takes On The World, Gordon G.
Chang (Random House) [5/5]
Death In The
Haymarket: A Story Of Chicago, The First Labor Movement And
The Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America, James Green
(Pantheon Books, New York) [5/2]
April 2006
The K Street
Gang: The Rise And Fall Of The Republican Machine,
Matthew Continetti (Doubleday) [4/27]
Among The Dead
Cities: The History And Moral Legacy Of The WWII Bombing Of
Civilians In Germany And Japan, A. C. Grayling (Walker &
Company) [4/26]
A Crack In The
Edge Of The World: America And The Great California
Earthquake Of 1906, Simon Winchester (HarperCollinsPublishers)
[4/25]
The Judgment Of
Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave The World
Impressionism, Ross King (Walker & Company) [4/25]
Why? What
Happens When People Give Reasons...And Why? Charles
Tilly (Princeton University Press) [4/24]
Terror On The
Internet: The New Arena, The New Challenges, Gabriel
Weimann (United States Institute of Peace Press) [4/20]
Secrets Of The
Lean Plate Club: A Simple Step-By-Step Program To Help You
Shed Pounds And Keep Them Off For Good, Sally Squires
(St. Martin's Press) [4/20]
A Lesson Before
Dying, Ernest J. Gaines (Vintage Contemporaries) [4/19]
The Obstacles: A
Novel, Eloy Urroz (Dalkey Archive Press) [4/18]
Parking Management Best Practices, Todd Litman
(American Planning Association) [4/18]
The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way In The New
Century, Paul Krugman (W. W. Norton & Company) [4/13]
Microeconomics, Paul Krugman and Robin Wells (Worth
Publishers); and, Macroeconomics, Paul Krugman and
Robin Wells (Worth Publishers [4/13]
"Family Mealtime As
A Context Of Development And Socialization", Reed W. Larson,
Angela R.Wiley, Kathryn R. Branscomb, editors New
Directions For Child And Adolescent Development 111
Spring 2006 [4/12]
War Of Nerves:
Chemical Warfare From World War I To Al-Qaeda, Jonathan
B. Tucker (Pantheon Books) [4/11]
Roam, Susan
B. A. Somers-Willett (Crab Orchard Press and Southern
Illinois University Press) [4/10]
Before The Next
Attack: Preserving Civil Liberties In An Age Of Terrorism,
Bruce Ackerman (Yale University Press) [4/7]
The Balkans:
Nationalism, War And The Great Powers, 1804-1999, Mischa
Glenny (Viking) [4/6]
The Revenge Of
Thomas Eakins, Sidney D. Kirkpatrick (Yale University
Press) [4/5]
The New Lion Of
Damascus: Bashar al-Asad And Modern Syria, David W. :Lesch
(Yale University Press) [4/4]
March 2006
Reclaiming The
Ivory Tower: Organizing Adjuncts To Change Higher Education,
Joe Berry (Monthly Review Press) [3/31]
Living Our
Stories, Telling Our Truths: Autobiography And The Making Of
The African-American Intellectual Tradition, V.P.
Franklin (Scribner) [3/30]
Black Males Left
Behind, Ronald B. Mincy (Urban Institute Press) [3/30]
Liberation,
Imagination, And The Black Panther Party, Kathleen
Cleaver and George Katsiaficas, editors (Routledge) [3/29]
A Whole New
Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule The Future, Daniel H.
Pink (Riverhead Books) [3/29]
Lost Mountain: A
Year In The Vanishing Wilderness, Radical Strip Mining And
The Devastation Off Appalachia, Erik Reece (Riverhead
Books) [3/27]
"The Fate Of The
Ocean" by Julia Whitty in Mother Jones March + April
2006, 32-48 [3/23]
Pets In America:
A History, Katherine C. Grier (The University of North
Carolina Press) [3/22]
The Unnatural
Metropolis: Wresting New Orleans From Nature, Craig E.
Colten (Louisiana State University Press) [3/21]
Consumer Reports
April 2006, "Best & Worst Cars 2006" [3/15]
The Historian: A
Novel, Elizabeth Kostova (Little, Brown And Company)
[3/10]
Restoring
Shakertown: The Struggle To Save The Historic Shaker Village
Of Pleasant Hill, Thomas Parrish (The University of Kentucky
Press) [3/9]
Night Draws
Near: Iraq's People In The Shadow Of America's War,
Anthony Shadid (Henry Holt And Company) [3/8]
In Darkest
Hollywood: Exploring The Jungles Of Cinema's South Africa,
Peter Davis (Ravan Press) [3/7]
New Orleans, Mon
Amour: Twenty Years Of Writings From The City, Andrei
Codrescu (Algonquin Books Of Chapel Hill) [3/2]
February 2006
Refugee Women,
Susan Forbes Martin (Lexington Books) [2/24]
Hollywood's Road
To Riches, David Waterman (Harvard University Press)
[2/23]
Desdemona's Fire,
Ruth Ellen Kocher (Lotus Press) [2/22]
Blog! How The
Newest Media Revolution Is Changing Politics, Business, And
Culture, David Kline and Dan Burstein (cds books) [1/21]
The Philosopher
And The Druids: A Journey Among The Ancient Celts,
Philip Freeman (Simon & Schuster) [2/21]
Blindspot:
The Secret History of American Counterterrorism, Timothy
F. Naftali(Basic) [2/20]
Dying to
Kill: The Allure of Suicide Terror, Mia Bloom
(Columbia University Press) [2/17]
American
Vertigo: Traveling America In The Footsteps Of Tocqueville,
Bernard-Henri Levy (Random House) [2/16]
Our Inner Ape: A
Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are,
Frans de Waal (Riverhead Books) [2/15]
Envisioning The
Future Of Doctoral Education: Preparing Stewards of
Discipline, Chris M. Golde and George E. Walker, Editors
(Jossey-Bass) [2/14]
Invented Eden:
The Elusive, Disputed History Of The Tasaday, Robin
Hemley (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [2/9]
The Essential
Guide To Prescription Drugs 2005: Everything You Need To
Know For Safe Drug Use, James J. Rybacki (HarperResource)
[2/8]
A Question Of
Torture: CIA Interrogation, From The Cold War To The War On
Terror, Alfred W. McCoy (Metropolitan Books) [2/2]
January 2006
What It Means To
Be Daddy: Fatherhood For Black Men Living Away From Their
Children, Jennifer Hamer (Columbia University Press)
[1/27]
Flying One One
Engine: The Bloomberg Book Of Master Market Economists,
Fourteen views On The World Economy, edited by Thomas R.
Keene (Bloomberg Press) [1/26]
Madame Dread: A
Tale Of Love, Voodou, And Civil Strife In Haiti, Kathie
Klarreich (Nation Books) [1/25]
The Fated Sky:
Astrology In History, Benson Bobrick (Simon & Schuster)
[1/24]
Stepin Fetchit:
The Life & Times Of Lincoln Perry, Mel Watkins
(Pantheon Books, New York) [1/20]
The Wal-Mart
Effect: How The World's Most Powerful Company Really
Works--And How It's Transforming The American Economy,
Charles Fishman (The Penguin Press) [1/18]
Black Men And
Depression: Saving Our Lives, Healing Our Families And
Friends, John Head (Harlem Moon Broadway Books) [1/17]
The City Of
Falling Angels, John Berendt (The Penguin Press) [1//9]
Off Center: The
Republican & The Erosion Of American Democracy, Jacob S.
Hacker & Paul Pierson (Yale University Press) [1/6]
The Next Attack:
The Failure Of The War On Terror And A Strategy for Getting
It Right, Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon (Times Books)
[1/5]
Steal This Vote:
Dirty Elections And The Rotten History Of Democracy In
America, Andrew Gumbel (Nation Books) [1/4]
December 2005
Soldiers To
Citizens: The G. I. Bill And The Making Of The Greatest
Generation, Suzanne Mettler (Oxford University Press)
[12/20]
The Good
Doctor's Guide To Colds And Flu, Neil Schachter
(Collins) [12/21]
Downsizing the
Federal Government, Chris Edwards (Cato Institute)
[12/19]
Powerful Times:
Rising To The Challenge Of Our Uncertain World, Eamonn
Kelly (Wharton School Publishing) [12/16]
The Reindeer
People: Living With Animals And Spirits In Siberia,
Piers Vitebsky (Houghton Mifflin Company) [12/14]
Henry Adams And
The Making Of America, Garry Wills (Houghton
Mifflin Company) [12/13]
Basic Instinct:
The Genesis Of Behavior, Mark Blumberg (Thunder's
Mouth Press) [12/8]
The Google Story,
David A. Vise and Mark Malseed, (Delacorte Press) [12/8]
The Rise Of
American Democracy: Jefferson To Lincoln, Sean
Wilentz (W. W. Norton & Company) [12/7]
Dark Bargain:
Slavery, Profits, And The Struggle For The Constitution,
Lawrence Goldstone (Walker & Company) [12/5]
Confederate
Emancipation: Southern Plans To Free And Arm Slaves During
The Civil War, Bruce Levine (Oxford University Press)
[12/2]
Responsible
Children And Adolescents, Peter L. Benson (Jossey-Bass)
[12/2]
Holding Back The
Sea: The Struggle On The Gulf Coast To Save America,
Christopher Hallowell (Harper Perennial) [12/1/]
November 2005
Mighty Fitz: The
Sinking Of The Edmund Fitzgerald, Michcael Schumacher
(Bloomsbury) [11/30]
Going Sane: Maps
Of Happiness, Adam Phillips (Fourth Estate) [11/21]
Theology For The
Third Millennium: An Ecumenical View, Hans Kung,
translated by Peter Heinegg, (Doubleday) {11/16]
The Lost
Painting: The Quest For A Caravaggio Masterpiece,
Jonathan Harr (Random House) [11/15]
Broken:
The Troubled Past and Uncertain Future of the FBI,
Richard Gid Powers (Free Press) [11/15]
Degree Mills:
The Billion-Dollar Industry That Has Sold Over A Million
Fake Diplomas, Allen Ezell and John Bear (Prometheus
Books) [11/14]
Indivisible By
Two: Lives Of Extraordinary Twins, Nancy L. Segal
(Harvard University Press) [11/11]
Making Enemies:
War And State Building In Burma, Mary P. Callahan
(Cornell University Press) [11/10]
Big Bang: The
Origin Of The Universe, Simon Singh (Harper Perennial)
[11/9]
The Highly
Civilized Man: Richard Burton And The Victorian World,
Dane Kennedy (Harvard University Press) [11/7]
Abducted: How
People Come To Believe They Were Kidnapped By Aliens,
Susan A. Clancy (Harvard University Press) [11/4]
Wolf Point: A
Novel, Edward Falco (Unbridled Books) [11/3]
The Cutter
Incident: How America's First Polio Vaccine Led To The
Growing Vaccine Crisis, Paul A. Offit (Yale University
Press)
[11/1]
October 2005
Teaching Reading
To Black Adolescent Males: Closing The Achievement Gap,
Alfred Tatum (Stenhouse Publishers) [10/31]
Mao: The Unknown
Story, Jung Chang and Jon Halliday (Alfred A. Knopf)
[10/28]
Cinnamon Kiss: A
Novel, Walter Mosley (Little, Brown And Company) [10/27]
Beyond Glory:
Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling, And A World On The Brink,
David Margolick (Alfred A. Knopf) [10/26]
At The Entrance
To The Garden Of Eden: A Jew's Search For Hope With
Christians And Muslims In The Holy Land, Yossi Klein
Halvei (Perennial) [10/24]
Curse Of The
Narrows, Laura M. Mac Donald (Walker & Company) [10/21]
The Man From
Beyond: A Novel, Gabriel Brownstein (W. W. Norton &
Company) [10/20]
Johnny Depp
Starts Here, Murray Pomerance (Rutgers University Press)
[10/19]
Big Cotton: How
A Humble Fiber Created Fortunes, Wrecked Civilizations, And
Put America On The Map, Stephen Yafa (Viking) [10/19]
Odysseus
Unbound: The Search For Homer's Ithaca, Robert
Bittlestone with James Diggle and John Underhill (Cambridge
University Press) [10/14]
Andrew Jackson:
His Life And Times, H. W. Brands (Doubleday) [10/12]
Cascade
Experiment: Selected Poems, Alice Fulton (W. W. Norton &
Company) [10/11]
Tab Hunter
Confidential: The Making Of A Movie Star, Tab Hunter
with Eddie Muller (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill) [10/10]
Crash Course:
Imagining A Better Future For Public Education, Chris
Whittle (Riverhead Books) [10/7]
The Health Care
Mess: How We Got Into It And What It Will Take To Get Out,
Julius B. Richmond and Rashi Fein (Harvard University Press)
[10/6]
I Is For
Infidel: From Holy War To Holy Terror, Kathy Gannon
(Public Affairs) [10/4]
September 2005
Night Draws
Near: Iraq's People In The Shadow Of America's War,
Anthony Shadid (Henry Holt And Company) [9/29]
In Giriot Time:
An American Guitarist In Mali, Banning Eyre (Temple
University Press) [9/28]
Guitar: An
American Life, Tim Brookes (Grove Press) [9/26]
Admission
Matters: What Students And Parents Need To Know About
Getting Into College, Sally P. Springer and Marion R.
Franck (Jossey-Bass) [9/23]
Digital Phoenix:
Why The Information Economy Collapsed And How It Will Rise
Again, Bruce Abramson (The MIT Press) [9/22]
Fear's Empire:
War, Terrorism, And Democracy, Benjamin Barber (W. W.
Norton & Company) [9/21]
Sundown Towns: A
Hidden Dimension Of Segregation In America, James Loewen
(The New Press) [9/20]
Beyond Choice:
Reproductive Freedom In The 21st Century, Alexander
Sanger (Public Affairs) [9/19]
Immigration The
World Over: Statutes, Policies, And Practices, James P.
Lynch and Rita J. Simon (Rowan & Littlefield Publishers,
Inc.) [9/12]
Living At The
Epicenter, Allison Funk (Northeastern University Press)
[9/12]
Exodus!
Religion, Race, And Nation In Early Nineteenth-Century Black
America, Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. (The University of Chicago
Press) [9/6]
On The Ridge
Between Life And Death: A Climbing Life Reexamined,
David Roberts (Simon & Schuster) [9/2]
The Great
American Jobs Scam: Corporate Tax Dodging And The Myth Of
Job Creation, Greg LeRoy (Berrett-Koehler Publishers,
Inc.) [9/1]
August 2005
The Accidental
Masterpiece On The Art Of Life And Vice Versa, Michael
Kimmelman (The Penguin Press) [8/31]
The Ice Maiden:
Inca Mummies, Mountain Gods, And Sacred Sites In The Andes,
Johan Reinhard (National Geographic) [8/26]
Self-Help Books:
Why Americans Keep Reading Them, Sandra K. Dolby
(University of Illinois Press) [8/25]
How America Lost
Iraq, Aaron Glantz (Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin) [8/24]
The
Hummingbird's Daughter, Luis Alberto Urrea (Little,
Brown And Company) [8/23]
The End Of
Detroit: How The Big Three Lost Their Grip On The American
Care Market, Micheline Maynard (Currency Doubleday)
[8/17]
Working Toward
Whiteness: How America's Immigrants Became White, David
R. Roediger (Basic Books) [8/17]
With God On Our
Side: The Rise Of The Religious Right In America,
William Martin (Broadway Books) [8/16]
Better Off:
Flipping The Switch On Technology, Eric Brende (Harper
Perennial) [8/15]
Biodiesel:
Growing a New Energy Economy, Greg Pahl (Chelsea
Green) Natural Home Heating: The Complete Guide to
Renewable Energy Options, Greg Pahl (Chelsea Green)
[8/11]
The United
States Of Wal-Mart, John Dicker (Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin)
[8/10]
Perils Of
Dominance: Imbalance Of Power And The Road To War In Vietnam,
Gareth Porter (University of California Press) [8/5]
Past Imperfect:
Facts, Fictions, Fraud--American History From Bancroft And
Parkman To Ambrose, Bellesiles, Ellis, And Goodwin,
Peter Charles Hoffer (Public Affairs) [8/9]
Perils Of
Dominance: Imbalance Of Power And The Road To War In Vietnam,
Gareth Porter (Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin) [8/5]
Message in a
Bottle: The Making of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome,
Janet Golden (Harvard University Press) [8/4]
Against
Depression, Peter D. Kramer (Viking) [8/3]
Zarqawi: The New
Face Of Al-Qaeda, Jean-Charles Brisard in collaboration
with Damien Martinez (Other Press) [8/2]
July 2005
The Dark Sides
Of Virtue: Reassessing International Humanitarianism,
David Kennedy (Princeton University Press) [7/29]
God's
Politics: Why The Right Gets It Wrong And The Left Doesn't
Get It, Jim Wallis (HarperSanFrancisco) [7/28]
Huck's Raft: A
History Of American Childhood, Steven Mintz (The Belknap
Press of Harvard University Press) [7/27]
Empires At War:
The French And Indian War And The Struggle For North
America, 1754-1763, William M. Fowler, Jr. (Walker&
Company) [7/26]
Cancer-Gate:
How to Win the Losing Cancer War, Samuel S. Epstein,
M.D. (Baywood Publishing Company, Inc.) [7/25]
Martha
Washington: An American Life, Patricia Brady (Viking)
[7/21]
The Lake, The
River & The Other Lake, Steve Amick (Pantheon Books)
[7/20]
Kremlin Rising:
Vladimir Putin's Russia And The End Of Revolution, Peter
Baker and Susan Glasser (Scribner) [7/19]
American Gothic:
A Life Of America's Most Famous Painting, Steven Biel
(W. W. Norton & Company) [7/13]
Dangerous Doses:
How Counterfeiters Are Contaminating America's Drug Supply,
Katherine Eban (Harcourt, Inc.) [7/13]
The Icarus Girl:
A Novel, Helen Oyeyemi (Doubleday) [7/11]
Irresistible
Empire: America's Advance Through 20th-Century Europe,
Victoria de Grazia (The Belknap Press of the Harvard
University Press) [7/7]
Equity And
Excellence In American Higher Education, William G.
Bowen, Martin A. Kurzweil, and Eugene M. Tobin (University
of Virginia Press) [7/6]
Spices Of Life:
Simple And Delicious Recipes For Great Health, Nina
Simonds (Alfred A. Knopf) [7/6]
June 2005
The Last Voyage
Of Columbus: Being The Epic Tale Of The Great Captain's
Fourth Expedition, Including Accounts Of Swordfight, Mutiny,
Shipwreck, Gold, War, Hurricane, And Discovery, Martin
Dugard (Little, Brown And Company) [6/29]
The
Evolution-Creation Struggle, Michael Ruse (Harvard
University Press) [6/28]
The Deep Dark:
Disaster And Redemption In America's Richest Silver Mine,
Gregg Olsen (Crown Publishers) [6/27]
Why Birds Sing:
A Journey Into The Mystery Of Bird Song, David
Rothenberg (Basic Books) [6/24]
Marriage, A
History: From Obedience To Intimacy Or How Love Conquered
Marriage, Stephanie Coontz (Viking) [6/23]
Racing The
Enemy: Stalin, Truman, And The Surrender Of Japan,
Tsuyoski Hasegawa (The Belknap Press of Harvard University
Press) [6/22]
No Place To Hide,
Robert O'Harrow, Jr. (Free Press) [6/21]
Why White Kids
Love Hip Hop: Wankstas, Wiggers, Wannabes, And The New
Reality Of Race In America, Bakari Kitwana (Basic Books)
[6/17]
What's Wrong
With Children's Rights, Martin Guggenheim (Harvard
University Press) [6/15]
Hosack's Folly:
A Novel Of Old New York, Gillen D'Arcy Wood (Other
Press) [6/14]
The Lobotomist:
A Maverick Medical Genius And His Tragic Quest To Rid The
World Of Mental Illness, Jack El-Hai (John Wiley & Sons)
[6/13]
Iron Tears
America's Battle For Freedom, Britain's Quagmire: 1775-1783,
Stanley Weintraub (Free Press) [6/10]
Putting Faith in
Partnerships: Welfare-to-Work in Four Cities,
Stephen V. Monsma (University of Michigan Press) [6/10]
God vs. The
Gavel: Religion And The Rule Of Law, Marci A. Hamilton
(Cambridge University Press) [6/9]
Boss Tweed: The
Rise And Fall Of The Corrupt Pol Who Conceived The Soul Of
Modern New York, Kenneth D. Ackerman (Carroll & Graf
Publishers) [6/8]
A History Of The
World In 6 Glasses, Tom Standage (Walker & Company)
[6/87]
The Golden
Spruce: A True Story Of Myth, Madness, And Greed, John
Vaillant (W. W. Norton & Company [6/3]
The End Of
Poverty: Economic Possibilities For Our Time, Jeffrey D.
Sachs (The Penguin Press) [6/1]
May
2005
Listener
Supported: The Culture And History Of Public Radio, Jack
W. Mitchell (Praeger) [5/26]
Making a
Killing: How Corporations Use Armed Force to Do
Business, Madelaine Drohan (Lyons Press) [5/20]
Testosterone
Dreams: Rejuvenation, Aphrodisia, Doping, John Hoberman
(University of California Press) [5/18]
Bound For
Canaan: The Underground Railroad And The War For The Soul Of
America, Fergus M. Bordewich (Amistad) [5/17]
The Eighties:
America In The Age Of Reason, John Ehrman (Yale
University Press) [5/16]
The
Death Of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account Of Wrongful
Executions, Sister Helen Prejean (Random House) [5/13]
Before The
Fallout: From Marie Curie To Hiroshima, Diana Preston
(Walker & Company) [5/12]
Metropolis: A
Novel, Elizabeth Gaffney (Random House) [5/6]
William Maxwell:
A Literary Life, Barbara Burkhardt (University of
Illinois Press) [5/3]
April
2005
The Asian
Mystique: Dragon Ladies, Geisha Girls, & Our Fantasies Of
The Exotic Orient, Sheridan Prasso (Public
Affairs) [4/29]
Sharing the Land
of Canaan: Human Rights and the Israeli-Palestinian
Struggle, Mazin B. Qumsiyeh (Pluto Press) [4/28]
Ponzi's Scheme:
The True Story Of A Financial Legend, Mtichell Zuckoff
(Random House) [4/27]
Copeland's Cure: Homeopathy And The War Between
Conventional And Alternative Medicine, Natalie Robins
(Alfred A. Knopf) [4/26]
The
Long Arc Of Justice: Lesbian And Gay Marriage, Equality, And
Rights, Richard D. Mohr (Columbia University Press)
[4/25]
Buddha's
Warriors: The Story Of The CIA-Backed Tibetan Freedom
Fighters, The Chinese Invasion, And The Ultimate Fall Of
Tibet, Mikel Dunham (Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin) [4/21]
First Hand:
Poems, Linda Bierds (G. P. Putnam's Sons) [4/20]
Freethinkers: A
History Of American Secularism, Susan Jacoby (A
Metropolitan/Owl Book) [4/19]
Perilous Times:
Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the
War on Terrorism (W.W. Norton & Company) [4/15]
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