Advanced Placement Catalog 2013

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Knopf Doubleday publishes a broad
English Literature English Language Literature in Spanish Chinese Literature and Culture Japanese Literature and Culture Art History U.S. History European History World History U.S. Government and Politics Comparative Government Economics Human Geography Environmental Science Biology Physics Calculus and Mathematics Computer Science Psychology and Neuroscience
selection of books appropriate for High School Advanced Placement courses. These titles have been carefully selected not only to adhere to College Board standards but to stimulate analytic thinking and encourage a broad-based understanding of each subject.
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The Art of the Personal Essay

An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present Selected and with an Introduction by Phillip Lopate
Steven Frank The Pen Commandments

A Guide for the Beginning Writer
Steven Frank is the English teacher you wish youd had in high school. Thats because he knows that education and humor make terrific team teachers. Richard Lederer, author of The Write Way
Anchor | Paper | 978-1-4000-3229-7 336 pages | $15.00 | Exam Price $3.00
Jack Hart A Writers Coach
The Complete Guide to Writing Strategies That Work

Wise, practical and smart, A Writers Coach is an exceptional book, offering advice with good humor and great insight. Susan Orlean, author of The Orchid Thief
Anne Lamott Bird by Bird
Some Instructions on Writing and Life

A warm, generous and hilarious guide through the writers world and its treacherous swamps. Los Angeles Times
The first anthology to celebrate this lively, fertile genre, featuring selections from every part of the globe, chronologically arranged from ancient Rome to the present.
Titles marked with CCSS in this catalog have been specifically suggested by the Common Core State Standards (Appendix B) as texts that exemplify the complexity, quality and range of reading that the Standards require high school students to engage with. For more information about Common Core State Standards go to www.corestandards.org.
Margaret Atwood Negotiating with the Dead
A Writer on Writing
Smart, deeply humane, courageous. . . . I have never come across a single book that more elegantly goes to the heart of the craft and its demands. . . . Hooray for Atwood! Michael Pakenham, The Baltimore Sun
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Karen Elizabeth Gordon The Deluxe Transitive Vampire
Verlyn Klinkenborg Several Short Sentences About Writing

No other book is as filled with as much grounded, practical advice for putting words to the paper or electronic page or gives better, more helpful exercises. . . . [The] best book on writing. Ever. New York Journal of Books
Vintage | Paper | 978-0-307-27941-5 224 pages | $15.00 | Exam Price $3.00
Bill Bryson Brysons Dictionary for Writers and Editors

An essential guide to the wonderfully disordered thing that is the English language. As Bill Bryson notes, it will provide you with the answers to all those points of written usage that you kind of know or ought to know but cant quite remember.
A Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed
This grammar handbook includes such illustrated characters as the Debutante, famous courtesan, wolf, bat, vampire, and many more vivid figures that help entertain the reader, while explaining every grammatical rule with clarity and precision.
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Edgar Allan Poe Great Tales and Poems

A compact selection of Poes eleven greatest stories and eight poems, chosen by the National Endowment for the Arts for their Big Read program.
Nathaniel Hawthorne Hawthornes Short Stories

Edited and with an Introduction by Newton Arvin
Sojourner Truth Narrative of Sojourner Truth

Edited, Annotated, and with an Introduction by Margaret Washington
Sarah Orne Jewett The Country of the Pointed Firs

And Other Stories With a Preface by Willa Cather
Edith Wharton Ethan Frome

Edith Whartons most widely read work is a brilliantly wrought, tragic novella exploring the repressed emotions and destructive passions of working-class people, far removed from the elevated social milieu usually inhabited by Whartons characters.
Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

The Age of Innocence is an incisive look at the ways desire and emotion must negotiate the complex rules of society in Gilded Age New York. Edith Wharton exquisitely details a tragic struggle between love and responsibility.
William Faulkner The Sound and the Fury

The tragedy of the Compson family features some of the most memorable characters in literature. Their lives, fragmented and harrowed by history and legacy, mesh to create what is arguably one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century.
William Faulkner As I Lay Dying

Faulkners harrowing account of the Bundren familys odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie, their wife and mother. Told in multiple first person narratives, the novel is considered one of the most influential texts in American fiction in structure, style, and drama.
Twenty-four of the best short stories by one of the early masters of the form, in the definitive collection edited by acclaimed scholar Newton Arvin.
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This narrativea partial autobiography of the woman who became a pioneer in the struggles for racial and sexual equality is one of the most important documents of slavery ever written.
A writer comes one summer to Dunnet Landing, a Maine seacoast town, where she follows the lonely inhabitants of onceprosperous coastal towns. Includes the story White Heron.
Willa Cather O Pioneers!

At once a sophisticated pastoral and a prototype for later feminist novels, O Pioneers! faithfully conveys both the sharp physical realities and the mythic sweep of the transformation of the American frontierand of the people who settled it.
Willa Cather My ntonia

In its magnificent tableaux of human beings caught in the toils of an abundant and overpowering natural world, and in the quiet, understated sympathy it displays for life of every sort, My ntonia effortlessly encompasses history and wilderness.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Herland

On the eve of World War I, three American male explorers stumble onto an all-female society. So begins this sparkling Utopian novel, a study of gender as on target as when it was written almost a century ago.
Pantheon | Paper | 978-0-394-73665-5 176 pages | $14.00 | Exam Price $3.00
The Vintage Book of American Women Writers

Edited by Elaine Showalter
This monumental anthology allows us to see our famous and familiar women writers in their full historical and literary context. An important corrective to the literary canon and a showcase of great poetry and fiction in one provocative volume.
Raymond Chandler The Big Sleep

Raymond Chandlers first novel introduces Philip Marlowe, a P.I. moving through the seamy side of 1930s Los Angeles. This classic case includes a paralyzed California millionaire, his two psychotic daughters, plus blackmail, murder, corrupt wealth, secret vices, and family scandal.
John Hersey A Bell for Adano

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
Ralph Ellison Invisible Man

Winner of the National Book Award
Ernest J. Gaines A Lesson Before Dying

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
An Italian-American major in World War II wins the love and admiration of the local townspeople when he searches for a replacement for the 700-year-old town bell that had been melted down for bullets by the fascists.
Ralph Ellisons masterpiece is a journey across the racial divide, telling unparalleled truths about the nature of bigotry and its effects on the minds of both victims and perpetrators. One of the most audacious and dazzling novels of the twentieth century.
This majestic, moving novel is an instant classic, a book that will be read, discussed and taught beyond the rest of our lives. Chicago Tribune
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Langston Hughes The Ways of White Folks

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Langston Hughess stories are messages from that other America, sharply etched vignettes of its daily life, cruelly accurate portrayals of black people colliding with whites. Filled with mordant wit, The Ways of White Folks is unmistakably the work of a shrewd and compelling storyteller.
Raymond Carver Short Cuts
Selected Stories With an Introduction by Robert Altman

These classic stories form an indelible portrait of American innocence and loss. With deadpan humor and enormous tenderness, Short Cuts is recognized as the work of one of the true contemporary masters (The New York Review of Books) of American fiction.
Tobias Wolff Old School

Finalist PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Booklist Editors Choice for Young Adults
John Gardner Grendel

For over a thousand years Beowulfs monster was revealed only through the adjectives of his enemies. With Grendel John Gardner takes the details of the original, turns the tables, and give us the monster in his own words.
Art Spiegelman Maus I
A Survivors Tale: My Father Bleeds History

Art Spiegelman Maus II
A Survivors Tale: And Here My Troubles Began

Tragic and comic by turns, Maus attains a complexity of theme and a precision of thought new to the graphic novel and rare in any medium.
Kent Haruf Plainsong

Resonant and meaningful. . . . A song of praise in honor of the lives it chronicles [and] a story about peoples ability to adapt and redeem themselves, to heal the wounds of isolation by moving, gropingly and imperfectly, toward community. The Washington Post Book World
Sandra Cisneros Woman Hollering Creek

And Other Stories
From the acclaimed author of The House on Mango Street comes a story collection of breathtaking range and authority, whose characters give voice to the vibrant and varied life on both sides of the Mexican border. Includes the story Eleven.
Old School . . . exposes the kind of class-based phoniness that Holden Caulfield so famously detested. . . . Wolff again proves himself a writer of the highest order. Carmela Ciuraru, Los Angeles Times
The most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust. The Wall Street Journal
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James Baldwin The Fire Next Time

Upon its publication in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. In an intensely personal and provocative document, James Baldwin examines the consequences of racial injustice.
Chaim Potok My Name Is Asher Lev

This stirring and visionary novel traces the passage of Asher Lev, a teenager living in a Hasidic community in postwar Brooklyn, as he struggles between two identitiesone consecrated to God, the other subject only to the imagination.
Ray Bradbury Vintage Bradbury

This collection by visionary author Ray Bradbury contains such classic stories as The Illustrated Man, Dandelion Wine, The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit, The Veldt, and The Foghorn.
Eudora Welty The Optimists Daughter

Jane Smiley A Thousand Acres

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
Toni Morrison Home

Haunting. . . . [Morrison] maps the dayto-day lives of her characters with lyrical precision. . . . Home encapsulates all the themes that have fueled her fiction, from the early novels Sula and The Bluest Eye, through her dazzling masterwork, Beloved. The New York Times
Toni Morrison The Bluest Eye

So precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry. The New York Times
Cormac McCarthy The Road

After the death of her father, Laurel McKelva Han returns with her young stepmother to the small Mississippi town where she grew up. Alone in the old house, Laurel comes to an understanding of the past and herself.
A family portrait that is also a near-epic investigation into the broad landscape, the thousand dark acres of the human heart. . . . The book has all the stark brutality of a Shakespearean tragedy. The Washington Post Book World
Vivid, eloquent. . . . The Road is the most readable of [McCarthys] works, and consistently brilliant in its imagining of the posthumous condition of nature and civilization. The New York Times Book Review
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Abraham Verghese Cutting for Stone

[A] gripping family saga that brings midcentury Ethiopia to vivid life. The practice of medicine is like a spiritual calling in this book, and the unforgettable people at its center bring passion and nobility . . . to the ancient art. Ann Packer
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The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories
Stephen L. Carter The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln

With an encyclopedic command of period detail . . . Carter has created an entertaining story rooted in the legal, political and racial conflicts of 19thcentury America. . . . His creation of Washington City in 1867, [is] alive with sounds and smells. The Washington Post
Carrie Brown The Rope Walk

New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age
Mark Dunn Ella Minnow Pea

A Novel in Letters
A curiously compelling . . . satire of human foibles, and a light-stepping commentary on censorship and totalitarianism. The Philadelphia Inquirer
Dave Eggers A Hologram for the King

National Book Award Finalist
Ayana Mathis The Twelve Tribes of Hattie

In the long family arc that Mathis describes, the painful life of one remarkably resilient woman is placed against the hopes and struggles of millions of African Americans who held this nation to its promise. The Washington Post
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Jonathan Odell The Healing

A terrific novel that will take its place in the distinguished pantheon of Southern fiction. . . . Polly Shine is a character for the ages. Pat Conroy, author of The Prince of Tides
The thirty-three stories in this volume contain a heightened world of power and moral importance. As a cumulative collection, they stand as a beacon of the American short story, in its varied forms over the past three decades.
Beautifully written. . . . Captures the dignity and grace of a young woman coming into knowledge of herself and the world. Chicago Tribune
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[This] sad-funny-dreamlike story unfolds to become an allegory about the frustrations of middle-class America. . . . A comic but deeply affecting tale about one mans travails that also provides a bright, digital snapshot of our times. The New York Times
DC Pierson The Boy Who Couldnt Sleep and Never Had To

Winner of the Alex Award
Julie Otsuka When the Emperor Was Divine

Winner of the Alex Award Booklist Editors Choice for Young Adults
Karen Russell Swamplandia!

Pulitzer Prize Finalist Winner of the New York Public Library Young Lions Award
A. M. Homes Jack
The engaging, doggedly funny [Jack] is likable from the first paragraph, a good kid caught in circumstances too much for him. . . . Homes handles the big subjects subtly, deftly and with an appealing lack of melodrama. The New York Times Book Review
Alan Lightman Mr g
A Novel About the Creation

A beautiful and philosophical fable that weaves the laws of quantum physics into a modern Genesis myth that will stick with a reader long after the book is put away. The New York Journal of Books
Peter Heller The Dog Stars

[A] ravishing doomsday novel. . . . There are moments of unexpected happiness, of real human interaction, infused with love and hope, like the twinkling of a star we might wish upon, which makes this end-of-the-world novel more like a rapturous beginning. San Francisco Chronicle
Colson Whitehead Zone One

Whitehead writes with economy, texture and punch. . . . [ Zone One] is a cool, thoughtful and, for all its ludicrous violence, strangely tender novel, a celebration of modernity and a preemptive wake for its demise. The New York Times Book Review
Aimee Bender The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

In a smart, funny and endlessly imaginative debut, the voluminously talented DC Pierson shows keen insight into the rocky emotional terrain of adolescence. . . . Pierson has a sharp eye for the way teenagers think, talk and behave. The A.V. Club, The Onion
Exceptional. . . . Otsuka skillfully dramatizes a world suddenly foreign. . . . [Her] incantatory, unsentimental prose is the books greatest strength. The New Yorker
A rich and humid world of spirits and dreams, buzzing mosquitoes and prehistoric reptiles. . . . With Ava, [Russell] has created a goofy and self-conscious girl who is young enough to hope that all darkness has an answering lightness. The Economist
The fairy-tale elements in her writing, far from seeming outlandish, highlight the everyday nature of her characters flaws and struggles. . . . Relationships and mundane activities take on mythic qualities. The Wall Street Journal
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Mary Shelley (with Percy Shelley) The Original Frankenstein

Edited by Charles E. Robinson
Working from the earliest surviving draft of Frankenstein, Charles E. Robinson presents two versions of the classic novelas Mary Shelley originally wrote it and a subsequent version clearly indicating Percy Shelleys amendments and contributions. Thanks to the dogged textual work of Charles E. Robinson . . . readers will now be able to see for themselves what Mary wrote before she turned it over to Percys editorial ministrations. . . . [This] version of the novel . . . probably comes as close as its possible to get to the draft that Mary first handed Percy to read. The Chronicle of Higher Education
Vintage | Paper | 978-0-307-47442-1 | 464 pages | $14.00 | Exam Price $3.00
Jane Austen The Annotated Pride and Prejudice

A Revised and Expanded Edition Annotated and Edited by David M. Shapard
Jane Austen The Annotated Emma

Annotated and Edited by David M. Shapard
Jane Austen The Annotated Sense and Sensibility

Annotated and Edited by David M. Shapard
Emily Bront Wuthering Heights

It is as if Emily Bront could tear up all that we know human beings by, and fill these unrecognizable transparencies with such a gust of life that they transcend reality. Virginia Woolf
Charlotte Bront Jane Eyre

Charlotte Bronts most beloved novel describes the passionate love between the courageous orphan Jane Eyre and the brilliant, brooding, and domineering Rochester. It lives as one of the great triumphs of storytelling and as a moving and unforgettable portrayal of a womans quest for self-respect.
Here is the complete text of Pride and Prejudice with more than 2,300 annotations on facing pages, including explanations of historical context, citations from Austens life and letters, definitions and clarifications, literary comments and analyses, maps and illustrations, and a detailed chronology of events that add immeasurably to understanding and enjoying the intricate psychological interplay of Austens immortal characters.
Anchor | Paper | 978-0-307-95090-1 | 816 pages | $17.95 | Exam Price $3.00
Filled with details about everything from the social status of spinsters and the shopping habits of fashionable ladies to English attitudes toward gypsies, David M. Shapards Annotated Emma brings Austens world into richer focus with more than 2,200 annotations on facing pages.
With more than 2,000 annotations, filled with information about everything from the rules of inheritance to the fashionable cult of sensibility that Austen so brilliantly satirizes, David M. Shapards Annotated Sense and Sensibility is an entertaining and edifying delight.
Charles Dickens Great Expectations

The most popular writer of the Victorian era and a perennial inspiration for writers ever since, Charles Dickens is one of literatures most iconic and enduring masters. To celebrate the bicentennial of Dickenss birth, Vintage Classics has released handsome, wittilydesigned editions of seven of his beloved novels, detailed with French flaps, rough front pages, and charming cover illustrations by Peter de Sve.
Simon Callow Charles Dickens and the Great Theatre of the World
While best known for his novels, Charles Dickens was also a dazzling mimic and storyteller, and he wrote, stage-managed, and acted in plays for the public. In this colorful biography, Simon Callow reveals Dickenss genius on and off the page and offers a compelling insight into a life that was driven as much by performance and showmanship as by literature. This is the book we have long been waiting for and only Simon Callow could have written it. . . . A marvelous book that deepens and enriches our understanding and enjoyment of Dickens. Michael Slater, author of Charles Dickens: A Life Defined by Writing
Robert Louis Stevenson Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
With an Introduction by Joyce Carol Oates

An exploration of the curious turnings of human character through the strange case of Dr. Jekyll, a kindly scientist who by night takes on his stunted evil self, Mr. Hyde. Anticipating modern psychology, Jekyll and Hyde are a brilliantly original study of mans dual nature.
Bram Stoker Dracula

Dracula has enthralled generations of readers with the alluring malevolence of its undead Count, the most famous vampire in literature. A classic of Gothic horror, Bram Stokers masterpiece remains an irresistible entertainment of undying appeal.
W. Somerset Maugham The Razors Edge

Maugham remains the consummate craftsman. . . . [His writing is] so compact, so economical, so closely motivated, so skillfully written, that it rivets attention from the first page to last. Saturday Review of Literature
Nancy Mitford The Pursuit of Love

Mitford, describing in a tart and easy fashion the diverting activities of a titled English family, is mocking, goodtempered, and very funny. The New Yorker
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Nevil Shute On the Beach

Both terrifying and intensely moving, On the Beach is a remarkably convincing portrait of how ordinary people might face a world poisoned by radiation after a global nuclear war.
Margaret Atwood The Handmaids Tale

Just as the world of Orwells 1984 gripped our imaginations, so will the world of Atwoods handmaid! The Washington Post Book World
Margaret Atwood The Year of the Flood

Leave it to Atwood to find humor in a postapocalyptic world as she covertly, and brilliantly, addresses questions of how we need to live on an imperiled planet. The Kansas City Star
Kazuo Ishiguro Never Let Me Go

Richard Adams Tales from Watership Down

An exercise in enchantment. . . . Adams is a master of characterization and description. . . . Tales From Watership Down is the sort of work that can transport the reader to a parallel existence. The Baltimore Sun
Ian McEwan Atonement

Roald Dahl Tales of the Unexpected

This collection of stories showcases Roald Dahls vivid imagination as he introduces readers to a new sense of what lurks beneath the ordinary.
A Gothic tour de force. . . . What Mr. Ishiguro has done so artfully in these pages is not only assemble a chilling jigsaw puzzle, but also create a distinct fictional world. The New York Times Book Review
Mark Haddon The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Winner of the Alex Award Whitbread Book of the Year Booklist Editors Choice for Young Adults
In the seriousness of its intentions and the dazzle of its language, Atonement made me starry-eyed all over again on behalf of literatures humanizing possibilities. Daphne Merkin, Los Angeles Times
Moving. . . . Think of The Sound and the Fury crossed with The Catcher in the Rye and one of Oliver Sackss reallife stories. The New York Times
Mary Renault The King Must Die

The story of the mythical hero Theseus, slayer of monsters, abductor of princesses, and king of Athens. He emerges from these pages as a clearly defined personality: brave, aggressive, and quick. The core of the story is Theseuss Cretan adventure.
Robert Graves I, Claudius

I, Claudius, the first part of Gravess twopart account of the life of Tiberius Claudius, is written in the form of Claudiuss autobiography and stands as a modern classic of historical fiction.
David Malouf Ransom

Thrillingly profound. . . . Maloufs prose feels timelesslyric and direct in ways that recall [Homers Iliad] yet seem wholly contemporary. San Francisco Chronicle
P. D. James Death Comes to Pemberley

A rare meeting of literary genius: P. D. James, long among the most admired mystery writers of our time, draws the characters of Jane Austens beloved novel Pride and Prejudice into a tale of murder and emotional mayhem.
Zadie Smith White Teeth

Smith is a master at detail . . . a postmodern Charles Dickens. . . . [Smiths] rich storytelling and wicked wit are suited to the sights and smells of the world that England has inherited. The Washington Post
Pat Barker Tobys Room

Pat Barkers Tobys Room is the most emotionally powerful and aesthetically daring of her searing novels about the First World War and British culture. Elaine Showalter, Times Literary Supplement
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Michael Ondaatje The Cats Table

Lithe and quietly profound: a tale about the magic of adolescence and the passing strangers who help tip us into adulthood in ways we dont become aware of until much later. The Washington Post
Julian Barnes The Sense of an Ending

Winner of the Man Booker Prize
A brilliant, understated examination of memory and how it works, how it compartmentalizes and fixes impressions to tidily store away. . . . Barnes reminds his readers how fragile is the tissue of impressions we conveniently rely upon as bedrock. Minneapolis Star Tribune
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Fyodor Dostoevsky Crime and Punishment
Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

Nikolai Gogol The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
Leo Tolstoy Hadji Murat
Translated and Annotated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky


Thomas Mann Death in Venice
And Seven Other Stories Translated by H. T. Lowe-Porter

Winner of the Nobel Prize
Andr Brink Philida

South African novelist Andr Brink gives us his most powerful work yet: the truly unforgettable storybased on individuals connected to the authors familyof a female slave, and her fierce determination to survive and to be free. The novel is set in South Africa in 1832, the year before slavery was abolished. [ Philida] combines an unflinching examination of the cruelties inflicted on the African people by their Afrikaner masters with an attempt to give voice to the tradition that sustained them. . . . [A] rich and complex novel. The Times (London)
Franz Kafka The Metamorphosis
And Other Stories Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir
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This collection brings together the stories that Kafka allowed to be published during his lifetime. Included here are: Meditation, The Judgment, The Metamorphosis, A Country Doctor, In the Penal Colony, A Hunger Artist, and an appendix which includes First Long Train Journey by Max Brod and Kafka, The Aeroplanes at Brescia, Three Critical Pieces, and an epilogue by Max Brod.
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Marcel Proust Swanns Way
Translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin

Albert Camus The Stranger
Translated by Matthew Ward

Albert Camus The Plague
Translated by Stuart Gilbert

Elie Wiesel From the Kingdom of Memory

Reminiscences
Schocken | Paper | 978-0-8052-1020-0 256 pages | $15.00 | Exam Price $3.00
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Leo Tolstoy The Death of Ivan Ilyich

Leo Tolstoys most famous novella is an intense and moving examination of death and the possibilities of redemption, here in a powerful translation by the award-winning Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Excellent. . . . [Pevear and Volokhonsky have] managed to convey the rather simple elegance of Tolstoys prose. The New Criterion
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Americanah

From the award-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun comes a powerful story of love and race centered around a young man and woman from Nigeria who face difficult choices and challenges in the countries they come to call home. This is not just a story that unfolds across three different continents; it is also a keenly observed examination of race, identity and belonging in the global landscapes of Africans and Americans. . . . Adichie is brave enough to allow the story to unfold with a distinct straightforward simplicity that never loses its edgy intellect. Colum McCann, author of Let the Great World Spin
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Gabriel Garca Mrquez Love in the Time of Cholera

Translated by Edith Grossman
Naguib Mahfouz The Thief and the Dogs

Translated by Trevor Le Gassick and M. M. Badawi

Anchor | Paper | 978-0-385-26462-4 160 Pages | $14.00 | Exam Price $3.00
Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart

Winner of the Man Booker International Prize
Orhan Pamuk The White Castle
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Andrea Wulf Chasing Venus
The Race to Measure the Heavens

[Wulfs] feeling for personality and her attention to both the scientific records and to the astronomers journals brings their exploits to life. . . . Chasing Venus effectively dramatizes an important moment in the history of science. The Washington Times
Jill Lepore The Mansion of Happiness

A History of Life and Death
[Lepore] manages to spin a larger narrative that both fascinates and informs, showing that our taken-for-granted ideas about every stage of life are culturally specific, very much a product of our times. Rachel Newcomb, The Washington Post
Lucas Mann Class A
Baseball in the Middle of Everywhere

This is a hard-hitting examination of minor league baseball and some of the major issues of life in small-town America. . . . Mann seeks to humanize not only the players but also the fans who comprise the family of this smalltown field of dreams. Library Journal
Lawrence Weschler Mr. Wilsons Cabinet of Wonder

Pulitzer Prize Finalist
Oliver Sacks Uncle Tungsten
Memories of a Chemical Boyhood

Oliver Sacks weaves together the wonders of chemistry and his boyhood experiences with grace, ease, and just the right comedic touch. The result is a rich, unique, and compelling glimpse into the development of an enormously fertile and creative mind. Brian Greene, author of The Hidden Reality
Sonia Sotomayor My Beloved World

An eloquent and affecting testament to the triumph of brains and hard work over circumstance, of a childhood dream realized through extraordinary will and dedication. The New York Times
Cheryl Strayed Wild
From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

The clarity of Ms. Strayeds prose, and thus of her person, makes her story, in its quiet way . . . as riveting an adventure narrative as Jon Krakauers Into the Wild. The New York Times
Peggielene Bartels and Eleanor Herman King Peggy
As Lawrence Weschler guides students through sixteenth-century wonder cabinets that were the first museums, he compels us to examine the imaginative origins of both art and science.
An American Secretary, Her Royal Destiny, and the Inspiring Story of How She Changed an African Village
Candid and humble. . . . A captivating glimpse into the mental and spiritual transformation of a middle-aged African American woman as she steps into her royal destiny as an African king. The Baltimore Times
Fabio Geda In the Sea There Are Crocodiles

Based on the True Story of Enaiatollah Akbari Translated by Howard Curtis
Cynthia Ozick Quarrel & Quandary

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Winner of the national book critics circle award
Dave Eggers Zeitoun

Great narrative nonfiction. . . . Fifty years from now, when people want to know what happened to this once-great city during a shameful episode of our history, they will still be talking about a family named Zeitoun. Timothy Egan, The New York Times Book Review
Jon Krakauer Into Thin Air
A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster

This is a great book, among the best ever on mountaineering. Gracefully and efficiently written, carefully researched, and actually lived by its narrator, it shares a similar theme with another sort of book, a novel called The Great Gatsby. The Washington Post
Rick Bragg All Over but the Shoutin

A record of a life that has been harrowing, cruel and yet triumphant, written so beautifully he makes the book a marvel. Los Angeles Times
NgUgI wa Thiongo Dreams in a Time of War

A Childhood Memoir
Vividly evokes the colonial era as experienced by Africans. . . . Ngug s greatest literary achievement in this book is to re-create, with almost uncanny success, how the world looked through mid-century African eyes. The Boston Globe
Lijia Zhang Socialism Is Great!
A Workers Memoir of the New China

A beautiful memoir. . . . [A] true tale of aspiration: a young woman coming of age in a nation desperately trying to do the same. Peter Hessler, author of River Town
Marjane Satrapi The Complete Persepolis

Youve never seen anything like Persepolisthe intimacy of a memoir, the irresistibility of a comic book, and the political depth of the conflict between fundamentalism and democracy. Marjane Satrapi may have given us a new genre. Gloria Steinem
Reading of Akbaris efforts to find a better lifealone and at an age when children in our country cant even drive yetwill leave you shaken, but his resilient joy leavens the story. The Washington Post
I urge all lovers of American prose to read it. . . . Ozick is . . . the most accomplished and graceful literary stylist of our time. . . . Great essays.John Sutherland, The New York Times Book Review
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Lorraine Hansberry A Raisin in the Sun

Athol Fugard Master Harold . . . and the boys

Robert Bolt A Man for All Seasons

Jean-Paul Sartre No Exit and Three Other Plays

Translated by Stuart Gilbert and Lionel Abel
Jorge Luis Borges El Aleph

Uno de los artistas contemporneos ms memorable. . . . La deuda que tenemos contrada con l quienes escribimos en espaol es enorme. Mario Vargas Llosa
Martn Solares Los minutos negros

Para resolver el asesinato de un periodista, un polica investiga un crimen que ocurri veinte aos antes. Pero a medida que se sumerge en los bajos fondos, empieza a dudar de la identidad del asesino que busca.
Javier Maras Corazn tan blanco

Winner of the impac dublin award
Cristina Garca Las hermanas Agero

Traducido por Alan West
Las hermanas Agero cuenta la historia de dos hermanas cubanas que se renen en Miami tras 30 aos de separacin dos mujeres cuyas vidas encarnan el romanticismo y el pragmatismo de la dispora cubana.
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Beowulf
A Dual-Language Edition Translated and with an Introduction and Commentary by Howell D. Chickering, Jr.
Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales
Dante Aligheri The Inferno
Living with Shakespeare
A Prose Version in Modern English by David Wright

Translated by Robert Hollander and Jean Hollander

Essays by Writers, Actors, and Directors Edited by Susannah Carson Foreword by Harold Bloom
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Junot Daz La breve y maravillosa vida de scar Wao

scar Wao de Junot Daz, es una maravillosa y no tan breve opera prima tan desbordante de originalidad que slo se puede comparar a un hbrido entre Mario Vargas Llosa, Kanye West, David Foster Wallace y Star Trek. The New York Times
Isabel Allende El cuaderno de Maya

Una novella
Una moderna y innovadora novela de iniciacin, a caballo entre el lacnico lenguaje de un relato policaco y la lrica belleza de uno de redencin. El Nuevo Herald
Gabriel Garca Mrquez Cien aos de soledad

Una de las novelas ms fascinantes del siglo XX, Cien aos de soledad cuenta la fascinante historia de la familia BuendaIguarn, cuya aventura representa al mismo tiempo el mito y la historia, la tragedia y el amor, del mundo entero.
Junot Daz Negocios

La obra triunfal que marc el arranque literario de Junot Daz puede ahora disfrutarse en una edicin en espaol que conserva en su integridad la fuerza desabrida y la delicadeza del texto original.
Poetry in Person
Twenty-five Years of Conversation with Americas Poets Edited by Alexander Neubauer

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The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry
W. H. Auden Selected Poems
Edited by J. D. McClatchy
Selected and Edited by Edward Mendelson

Langston Hughes Selected Poems of Langston Hughes

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Gretel Ehrlich Facing the Wave
A Journey in the Wake of the Tsunami

In an eloquent narrative that blends strong reportage, poetic observation, and deeply felt reflection, writer Gretel Ehrlich takes us into the upside-down world of northeastern Japan, where nothing is certain and where the boundaries between living and dying have been erased by water.
Robert Whiting You Gotta Have Wa

The definitive book on Japanese baseball and one of the best-written sports books ever. San Francisco Chronicle A wonderfully entertaining look at baseball and wa. Time
John Hersey Hiroshima

Nothing can be said about this book that can equal what the book has to say. It speaks for itself, and in an unforgettable way, for humanity. The New York Times
Ivan Morris The World of the Shining Prince

Court Life in Ancient Japan
Ivan Morriss widely acclaimed portrait of the world of ancient Japan, has been a standard in cultural studies for nearly forty years. Focusing on the world of the emperors court he describes the politics, society, religious life, and superstitions of the times.
Jim Yardley Brave Dragons
A Chinese Basketball Team, an American Coach, and Two Cultures Clashing

Remarkable. . . . Brave Dragons is about much more than basketball. It is about more than Weisss adventures. It is a serious look at the deep divisions between American and Chinese cultures. The Seattle Times
James Fallows China Airborne
The Test of Chinas Future

The story so brilliantly told in China Airborne, a metaphor for the much bigger story of Chinas rise, suggests that no one should take its future as a superpower for granted. San Francisco Chronicle
Maxine Hong Kingston The Woman Warrior
Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
Koonchung Chan The Fat Years

Translated by David Tse
Banned in China, The Fat Years tells the story of the search for an entire month erased from Chinese history. A kind of Brave New World reflecting the China of our times, this is a complex novel of ideas.
A book of fierce clarity and originality (Newsweek), Maxine Hong Kingstons autobiography tells of her early life in California and the cultural confusion she experienced as the daughter of Chinese immigrants.
Yasutaka Tsutsui Paprika
Translated by Andrew Driver

This surreal, mind-bending narrative details the theft from the Institute for Psychiatric Research of a dream-invading device, which is being used by the perpetrator to drive people insane. Brilliant psychotherapist Atsuko Chiba must journey into the world of dreams to fight her mysterious opponents.
Haruki Murakami The Elephant Vanishes
Stories Translated by Alfred Birnbaum and Jay Rubin

These stories show us Japan as its experienced from the inside. . . . [They] take place in parallel worlds not so much remote from ordinary life as hidden within its surfaces. The New York Times Book Review
Junichiro Tanizaki Naomi
Translated by Anthony H. Chambers

A literary masterpiece that helped to establish Junichiro Tanizaki as Japans greatest novelist, Naomi is both a hilarious story of one mans obsession and torment, and a brilliant evocation of a nations cultural confusion.
Murasaki Shikibu The Tale of Genji
Abridged and Translated by Edward G. Seidensticker

A lively and astonishingly nuanced portrait of a refined society where every dalliance is an act of political consequence. Vintages abridged edition is recognized as the finest English version of what is thought to be the worlds first novel.
Tsao Hsueh-Chin Dream of the Red Chamber
Translated and Adapted from the Chinese by Chi-Chen Wang Preface by Mark Van Doren
Recognized by sophisticated readers in China as the greatest of the countrys novels, Dream of the Red Chamber centers on a boys forbidden romance with his cousin, a story woven between the complex life of the two great palaces and of the capital itself.
Dai Sijie Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

Translated by Ina Rilke
Poetic and affecting. . . . The descriptions of life in this strangest of times and places are so riveting that the reader longs for more. The New York Times Book Review
Ha Jin Waiting
Winner of the National Book Award Pulitzer Prize Finalist
Yu Hua China in Ten Words
Translated by Allan H. Barr

Captures the heart of the Chinese. . . . If you think you know China, you will be challenged to think again. If you dont know China, you will be introduced to a country that is unlike anything you have heard from travelers. The Wall Street Journal
Compassionate, earthy, robust, and wise, Waiting blends provocative allegory with all-too-human comedy. The result touches and reveals, bringing to life a singular world in its spectacular intricacy. Gish Jen, author of Whos Irish?
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Revolutionary Founders
The Revolutionary Generation

I Wish Id Been There
Twenty Historians Bring to Life the Dramatic Events That Changed America Edited by Byron Hollinshead
Brings together twenty of our most distinguished historians responses to the question What scene or incident in American history would you most liked to have witnessedand why? The answers illuminate crucial moments in our past and give students a front-row seat to some of American historys most dramatic events. Fun. . . . Poses new and intriguing questions. . . . The essays are crammed with knowledge and are as thought-provoking as they are entertaining. The Buffalo News
David Nasaw Children of the City

At Work and at Play
This classic title, the inspiration for the movie Newsies, paints a surprising and indelible portrait of the bitter hardships, amazing resourcefulness, and unadulterated joys experienced by immigrant children in American metropolises at the turn of the century. The excellent photographs in the book compliment its greatest strengthsthe description of the street traders, including the newsies, and the authors intelligent stress on the way in which children learn to carve out their turf for work and play. Minneapolis Star Tribune
Rebels, Radicals, and Reformers in the Making of the Nation Edited by Alfred F. Young, Gary B. Nash and Ray Raphael
Gerald J. Prokopowicz Did Lincoln Own Slaves?
And Other Frequently Asked Questions About Abraham Lincoln

James M. McPherson What They Fought For, 18611865

Bruce Catton This Hallowed Ground

A History of the Civil War
Eric Foner Forever Free
The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction

H. W. Brands American Colossus
The Triumph of Capitalism, 18651900

Erik Larson The Devil in the White City

Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
Candice Millard Destiny of the Republic
A Tale of Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of a President

Just four months after James Garfields inauguration, an attempt on his life made the president an object of a bitter, behind-the-scenes struggle for powerover his administration, over the nations future, and, hauntingly, over his disastrously mishandled medical care. A spirited tale that intertwines murder, politics and medical mystery. . . . Candice Millard leaves us feeling that Garfields assassination deprived the nation not only of a remarkably humble and intellectually gifted man but one who perhaps bore the seeds of greatness. The Wall Street Journal
Jefferson Morley Snow-Storm in August
The Struggle for American Freedom and Washingtons Race Riot of 1835
This textured and absorbing account of how the nineteenth-century struggle over slavery first violently erupted in Washington, D.C. details the bloody race riots that thrust the ambitious District Attorney Francis Scott Key into a uniquely American battle for justice. [Morleys] plunge beneath the surface of history exposes realities more true to daily experience than executive proclamations or speeches in Congress. . . . Snow-Storm in August deepens our appreciation of how slavery made a mockery of the founding and made the Civil War as close to inevitable as any event in our history. The Washington Post
Isabel Wilkerson The Warmth of Other Suns

The Epic Story of Americas Great Migration
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction Winner of the Mark Lynton History Prize
Great Issues in American History, Vol. I

From Settlement to Revolution, 15841776 Edited by Richard Hofstadter and Clarence L. Ver Steeg
Great Issues in American History, Vol. II
From the Revolution to the Civil War, 17651865 Edited by Richard Hofstadter
Great Issues in American History, Vol. III
From Reconstruction to the Present Day, 18641981 Edited by Richard Hofstadter and Beatrice K. Hofstadter
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Bettany Hughes The Hemlock Cup
I Wish Id Been There
Thomas Cahill Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea

Why the Greeks Matter
The best introduction to classical Greek culture yet written. . . . Learned, stylish and inspiring. . . . Well-informed, insightful and on the whole written in a sparkling style. Los Angeles Times
Tom Holland The Forge of Christendom

The End of Days and the Epic Rise of the West
Russell Shorto Descartes Bones
Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life

Celebrated historian Bettany Hughes combines historical inquiry and storytelling lan to paint an unprecedentedly vivid portrait of Socrates and the Golden Age of classical Athens. Hughes recreates the Athenian streets where Socrates walked to illuminate for students the world as he experienced it. Fascinating. . . . What Bettany Hughes provides is something vital: a life and times of Socrates that is so richly textured, flavorful and atmospheric that it makes human this most enigmatic of all philosophers. By the end of her book, we can almost see and smell the man, with all of his quirks and foibles and questioning brilliance. Walter Isaacson, The New York Times Book Review
Book Two: European History Twenty Historians Bring to Life Dramatic Events in the History of Europe Edited by Byron Hollinshead and Theodore K. Rabb
In this companion to I Wish Id Been There, some of our finest historical writers now turn their attention to Europe, with lively and detailed accounts of some of the most dramatic events in history. Guided by peerless scholars such as Paul Kennedy, John Keegan, Ross King, Freeman Dyson, and Katherine Duncan-Jones, students will be transported to the signing of the Magna Carta, the Versailles Conference, the German surrender in WWII on Luneburg Heath, and other key turning points in European history. The result is an historical pageant of characters and episodes that will attract and delight all students of history.
A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason

A fascinating, colorful, and very readable account of early modern ideas and personalities. Shorto has a gift for storytelling. He brings the seventeenth century to life while doing justice to the philosophy. Professor Steven Nadler, author of Rembrandts Jews and Spinoza: A Life
David Fromkin Europes Last Summer
Who Started the Great War in 1914?

No one has deconstructed the war quite the way Fromkin has. . . . Through it all are the telling details of diplomatic and military life that make the period so utterly tragic. The Boston Globe
Prodigious. . . . A marvelous, enthralling read, [it] gives a lively sense of these turbulent centuries that were so crucial in the making of Western civilization. . . . Narrative history in the grand manner. Daily Telegraph (London)
Max Hastings Inferno Richard Holmes The Age of Wonder Peter Englund The Beauty and the Sorrow
The World at War, 19391945

The best one-volume history of the war yet written. . . . A relatively brief review can only begin to indicate the depth, breadth, complexity and pervasive humanity of this extraordinary book. . . . [A] monumental achievement. The Washington Post
Anne Applebaum Gulag

A History
Mirjam Pressler Anne Franks Family
The Romantic Generation and the Discovery of the Beauty and Terror of Science
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award Winner of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books
An Intimate History of the First World War Translated by Peter Graves

An intimate and revelatory narrative history of World War I told through the stories of twenty men and women from around the globea powerful picture of what the war was really like. History in the raw, an unconventional look at the war that did so much to shape the last century. . . . Englund has uncovered the stories of a myriad of fascinating characters. The Boston Globe
A riveting history of the men and women whose discoveries and inventions at the end of the eighteenth century gave birth to the Romantic Age of Science. Amazingly ambitious, buoyant new fusion of history, art, science, philosophy and biography. . . . Mr. Holmess excitement at fusing long-familiar events and personages into something startlingly new is not unlike the exuberance of the age that animates his groundbreaking book. The New York Times
Combining meticulous research with myriad accounts of survivors, Gulag illuminates a shadowed world in which millions perished under unspeakable conditions. Any who question why we fought the Cold War will find an answer. Henry A. Kissinger
The Extraordinary Story of Where She Came From, Based on More Than 6,000 Newly Discovered Letters, Documents, and Photos
After Helene Elias, Anne Franks aunt, died in Germany, a vast collection of photos, letters, drawings, poems, and postcards preserved throughout decades were discovered in her attic. These findings weave an indelible, engaging portrait of the family that shaped Anne Frank.
William I. Hitchcock The Struggle for Europe
The Turbulent History of a Divided Continent, 1945Present

The Struggle for Europe is not only shrewd and comprehensive, but written with a wit and vigour that makes it a real joy to read. It deserves to be the standard work on the subject for many years to come. Sir Michael Howard, former Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military History, Yale University
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Camille Paglia Glittering Images
A Journey Through Art from Egypt to Star Wars

Written especially with high school students in mind, here is an enthralling journey through Western arts defining moments, from the ancient Egyptian tomb of Queen Nefertari to George Lucass volcano planet duel in Revenge of the Sith. Glittering Images takes students on a tour through more than two dozen seminal imagespaintings, sculptures, architectural styles, performance pieces, and digital art that have defined and transformed our visual world. Paglia combines close analysis with background information that situates each artist and image within its historical context. Written with energy, erudition, and wit, Glittering Images is destined to change the way we think about our high-tech visual environment. The books subtitleA Journey Through Art From Egypt to Star Warshighlights Ms. Paglias impressive range and famously eclectic tastes. . . . Ms. Paglia chooses well, from works both celebrated and obscure. She is especially good at the difficult trick of providing context for the newcomer to art history without being tedious for a more experienced reader. She is no dreary docent. . . . She is also adept at helping readers to see the radical original impulse in now familiar art forms. The Wall Street Journal A magisterial, poetically composed, and masterly study of twenty-nine great works of Western art. . . . [Paglia is] one of the most erudite public intellectuals in America. The Philadelphia Inquirer
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David Fromkin The Way of the World
From the Dawn of Civilizations to the Eve of the Twenty-first Century

Mr. Fromkin recounts the greatest story ever told exceedingly well, aided by a deep knowledge and an elegant prose style. Andrew Stark, The Wall Street Journal
Karen Armstrong Holy War

The Crusades and Their Impact on Todays World
Thomas Cahill The Gifts of the Jews
How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels
A concise and highly readable treatise on the enormous impact of the Jews on history and civilization. Thomas Cahill explains the historical importance of key biblical figures, and he shows how their ideas continue to drive our civilization today.
Karen Armstrong The Great Transformation

The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions
A tour de force. . . . Any reader will come away from this book with a better frame of reference for assessing todays headlines. The Kansas City Star
Karen Armstrong traces the rise and development of Confucianism and Daoism in China; Hinduism and Buddhism in India; monotheism in Israel; philosophical rationalism in Greece, and examines their continued relevance to our own time.
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Tom Holland In the Shadow of the Sword

The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire
Charles C. Mann 1491
Charles C. Mann 1493
New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

This is a volume of unparalleled historical and hemispheric sweep. Through a lively and comprehensive review, Mann brings together the most recent research from many fields to truly show us the New World in 1491. Susanna Hecht, author of The Fate of the Forest
Uncovering the New World Columbus Created

Exemplary in its union of meaningful fact with good storytelling, 1493 ranges across continents and centuries to explain how the world we inhabit came to be. The Washington Post
William H. McNeill Plagues and Peoples

Interprets world history as seen through the extraordinary impact of disease on cultures. With the identification of AIDS in the 1980s, a new chapter has been added to this chronicle of events, which William McNeill explores in his new preface to this updated edition.
Alain de Botton The Architecture of Happiness

With originality, verve, and wit, de Botton explains how we find reflections of our own values in the edifices we make. . . . Altogether satisfying. San Francisco Chronicle
John Berger About Looking

John Berger explores our role as observers to reveal new layers of meaning in what we see. By asking probing questions about our relationship to the art we view, Berger alters the vision of anyone who reads his work.
Gregory Curtis The Cave Painters
A thrillingly panoramic account of the rise of Islam, a story rich in drama, character, and achievement. With profound bearing on the most consequential events of our time, Tom Holland ties the exciting story of Islams ascent to the crises and controversies of the present.
Probing the Mysteries of the Worlds First Artists

A fascinating survey of the rival theories. . . . [Readers will be] swept up in the beauty of the cave paintings and the persuasive pull of his prose. Richmond Times-Dispatch
Peter Steinhart The Undressed Art

Why We Draw
Richly enjoyable. . . . Lucidly written, delightfully illustrated. Steinhart considers the phenomenon of drawing from practically every conceivable angle and the result is as stimulating as it is enlightening. Los Angeles Times
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Eli Saslow Ten Letters
Pauline Maier American Scripture
How and Why the Founders Created a Chief Executive

The story of the dramatic political maneuverings and personalities behind the creation of the office of the president. Charting the evolution of the presidency, Ray Raphael reveals how politics and personalities cobbled together a lasting, but flawed, executive office, with ramifications that continue to this day. This is a fascinating and fresh narrative that takes the reader from the fierce debates establishing the federal executive at the Constitutional Convention through Thomas Jeffersons election which tested the framers handiwork. It makes you wonder why its never been told before. Joyce Appleby, author of The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism
The Stories Americans Tell Their President

In this powerful look at the issues facing Americans today, reporter Eli Saslow creates vivid portraits of the lives of ten citizens who corresponded with President Obama. Their letters, and the presidents responses, tell of the personal struggles behind everything from healthcare to immigration to war. These letters reveal an inside look at what influences U.S. policy and shows a relationship between a president and the people he governs that is deeply affecting. Eli Saslow . . . show[s] the profound real-life connections between the White House and the people. David Maraniss, author of Barack Obama: The Story
Making the Declaration of Independence

Quite simply the fairest, fullest, and finest account ever written of how the Declaration of Independence happened. Joseph J. Ellis, author of Founding Brothers
Richard Hofstadter The American Political Tradition

And the Men Who Made it
This revised edition of Richard Hofstadters classic study of American politics from the founding fathers to FDR changed the way in which the relationship between power and ideas in the national experience is understood.
Robert Kagan The World America Made

[Kagan] seems to care less about partisanship than about ideas, particularly his advocacy for a powerful American role in the world. . . . The virtue of Kagans book is that his ideas and logic are so clearly laid out that readers can see where they agree or disagree. The Washington Post
David K. Shipler The Rights of the People

How Our Search for Safety Invades Our Liberties
If you ever wondered how the erosion of constitutional liberties affects ordinary people, this is the book to read. Shipler shows us . . . the true cost of sacrificing liberty for security. David Cole, author of No Equal Justice
Jack N. Rakove Original Meanings Robert G. Kaiser Act of Congress Raymond Bonner Anatomy of Injustice
A Murder Case Gone Wrong
Pulitzer Prize winner Raymond Bonner tells the gripping story of a grievously mishandled murder case that put a twenty-three-year-old semiliterate, mentally retarded black man on death row. Moving, enraging, suspenseful, and enlightening, Anatomy of Injustice is a vital contribution to our nations ongoing, increasingly important debate about inequality and the death penalty. Accomplished and meticulously researched. . . . Convincing. . . . As a piece of reporting, the book is masterful. Bonner builds the story, and his argument, carefully, rarely editorializing, mixing in a prcis of capital punishment in the United States. The Boston Globe
Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution

Jeffrey Toobin The Oath
The Obama White House and The Supreme Court

Not until scholars a generation hence gain access to the justices papers are we likely to have a more useful, or more readable, picture of this oddly assorted group of judges at this moment in history. The New York Times Book Review
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Stephen Breyer Making Our Democracy Work

A Judges View
A calm, reasoned book about how the Supreme Court should do its work and how, in history, it has sometimes failed the challenge. . . . A remarkable contribution to educating the public about our constitutional system. The New York Review of Books
Sister Helen Prejean Dead Man Walking

An intimate meditation on crime and punishment, life and death, justice and mercy. . . . Prejeans argument against the death penalty draws its fire from her own fervent belief in social justice. Los Angeles Times
How Americas Essential Institution Works, and How It Doesnt

Washington Post reporter Robert G. Kaiser illuminates the workings of Congress in all of its complexity and presents a clearer picture than any we have had of how Congress works bestor sometimes doesnt work at all. If you want to know how Washington really works, read this book. Its the ultimate inside story of a major piece of legislation that will affect the way the country does business for decades to come. Robert G. Kaiser, who knows the terrain like few others, was given unique access to the key players as they pasted this complicated package together. Cokie Roberts, NPR and ABC News
A deeply satisfying account of the political world from which the United States Constitution issued. . . . It demonstrates convincingly that the world of our Founding Fathers is not ours. The New York Times Book Review
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Hooman Majd The Ayatollah Begs to Differ

The Paradox of Modern Iran
Provides an intimate look at a paradoxical country that is both deeply religious and highly cosmopolitan, authoritarian yet informed by a history of democratic and reformist traditions. Hooman Majd, grandson of an eminent ayatollah and the son of an Iranian diplomat, offers an insightful tour of Iranian culture, introducing fascinating characters from all walks of life, including zealous government officials, tough female cab drivers, and open-minded, reformist ayatollahs. Perhaps the best book yet written on the contradictions of contemporary Iran. . . . It captures like no book in recent memory the ethos of the country, in elegant and precise prose. Los Angeles Times
Alaa Al Aswany On the State of Egypt
What Made the Revolution Inevitable Translated by Jonathan Wright

A vivid chronicle of Egyptian society, with penetrating analysis of all the most urgent issueseconomic stagnation, police brutality, poverty, the harassment of women and of the Christian minority, to name a fewthat led to the stunning overthrow of the Mubarak government. In a candid and controversial assessment of both the potential and limitations that will determine his countrys future, Al Aswany reveals why the revolt that surprised the world was destined to happen.
Randy Charles Epping A Beginners Guide to the World Economy
Randy Charles Epping The 21st Century Economy

A Beginners Guide
Randy Charles Epping uses compelling narratives and insightful analogies to clearly and concisely explain the rapidly changing way business is done in the twenty-first century. A comprehensive guide to understanding todays global economy.
Barbara Garson Down the Up Escalator

How the 99 Percent Live in the Great Recession
Robert B. Reich Beyond Outrage
Eighty-one Basic Economic Concepts That Will Change the Way You See the World
What is the new economy? What is globalization? These and many other pertinent issues are concisely addressed in this highly readable and accessible primer.
[Barbara Garson explains] how and why we got into the economic mess we are inand what it really means in the everyday life of real people . . . and makes it readable and human to boot. Gar Alperovitz, author of America Beyond Capitalism
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What Has Gone Wrong With Our Economy and Our Democracy, and How To Fix It
Robert Reich shows us why the increasing share of income and wealth going to the top has hobbled jobs and growth for the 99 percent. He proposes a blueprint for action to get the United States back on track.
Wangari Maathai The Challenge for Africa

Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and founder of the Green Belt Movement, offers a refreshingly unique perspective on the severe and wide-ranging challenges facing Africa, even as she calls for a moral revolution among Africans themselves. Illuminating the complex and dynamic nature of the continent, Maathai offers hardheaded hope and realistic options for change and improvement. Wangari Maathai and the Green Belt Movement demonstrate the intimate connection between sustainable management of Africas rich natural resources, democracy, good governance and peace. Such are the solutions that will bring new light to Africa. Nelson Mandela
Howard W. French A Continent for the Taking

The Tragedy and Hope of Africa
Howard W. French, a veteran correspondent for The New York Times, gives a compelling firsthand account of some of Africas most devastating recent historyfrom the fall of Mobutu Sese Seko, to Charles Taylors arrival in Monrovia, to the genocide in Rwanda and the Congo. Blending eyewitness reportage with rich historical insight, French searches deeply into the causes of these events, illuminating the debilitating legacy of colonization and the abiding hypocrisy and inhumanity of both Western and African political leaders. A brilliant and nuanced meditation on the complexities of contemporary Africa. . . . Howard Frenchs voice is both fresh and enlightening. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., author of Colored People
Thomas Byrne Edsall The Age of Austerity

How Scarcity Will Remake American Politics
Louis Hyman Borrow
The American Way of Debt

The story of how Americans learned to love debtand became dangerously addicted to it. Anyone who has ever wondered how we got into the mess we are now in must read this powerful book. Lizabeth Cohen, author of A Consumers Republic
Simon Johnson and James Kwak White House Burning
David K. Shipler The Working Poor

Invisible in America
A searing, intimate portrait of working American families struggling against insurmountable odds to escape poverty. This impassioned book not only dissects the problems, but makes pointed, informed recommendations for change.
One of our most prescient political observers provides a sobering account of how pitched battles over scarce resources will increasingly define American politics in the coming yearsand how we might avoid, or at least mitigate, the damage from these ideological and economic battles.
Our National Debt and Why It Matters to You

A thorough, scholarly account of how the country got into this predicament and how it can dig its way out. . . . [Johnson and Kwak] point out the absurdities of a budget debate dominated by partisan exaggerations and warnings of pending doom. San Francisco Chronicle
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Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn Half the Sky
The History of a Temptation

A brilliant, original history of the spice trade and the appetites that fueled it. [A]n erudite and engaging account of how foodstuffs can change the flow of history. The New York Times Book Review
Jack Turner Spice
Ted Conover The Routes of Man
Travels in the Paved World

Ted Conovers exploration of six far-flung roads. . . [serves] to remind that in many places of the world the act of getting around is an art marked by pride, lust, corruption, and bloodshed. Erik Larson, author of The Devil in the White City
Christopher McDougall Born to Run

A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
Craig Childs Apocalyptic Planet
Field Guide to the Everending Earth

In chapters packed with vivid descriptions and lyrical language, Childs tells tales not merely of droughts and ice ages, but of globe-swallowing deserts and planetfreezing cold spells. . . . A fascinating travelog of an excitable, seething and perilous planet. Science News
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Climate Central Global Weirdness
Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

[A] brilliant call to arms. . . . [Kristof and WuDunn] take you to many countries, introduce you to extraordinary women, and tell you their moving tales. Throughout, the tone is practical not preachy. Fareed Zakaria
Severe Storms, Deadly Heat Waves, Relentless Drought, Rising Seas and the Weather of the Future
Slim and elegant. . . . Written in the kind of plain English of which Strunk and White would approve, that lays out what we know about climate change while hewing to the facts and taking great care to avoid bias and hysteria. The New York Times
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Robert Peter Gale, M.D. and Eric Lax Radiation

What It Is, What You Need to Know
An essential guide to radiationthe good, the bad, and the utterly fascinating explained with unprecedented clarity by the doctor to whom governments turned in the wake of the Chernobyl and Fukushima disasters.
Edward O. Wilson The Future of Life

A no-nonsense appraisal of the problem of species extinctions and a pragmatic road map for renewal. . . . The Future of Life takes the reader on a fascinating and ultimately hopeful journey. San Jose Mercury News
[McDougalls] extended portrait of one of the worlds least known cultures, the Tarahumara Indians of Mexicos Copper Canyons, puts modern American running under an exacting magnifying glass. San Francisco Chronicle
Jane Jacobs The Death and Life of Great American Cities

This is one of the most remarkable books ever written about the city. . . . It is an antithesis we very much need, for the elements Jacob perceives are precisely the elements we seem bent on eliminating in conventional redevelopment. William H. Whyte
Doug Saunders Arrival City
How the Largest Migration in History Is Reshaping Our World

A brisk world tour of enormous urbanfringe neighborhoods populated by people who have left the countryside. New Yorker Mightily researched, lofty and humane, Arrival City is packed with salient detail and could hardly be more timely. The New York Times
William Julius Wilson and Richard P. Taub There Goes the Neighborhood
Racial, Ethnic, and Class Tensions in Four Chicago Neighborhoods and Their Meaning for America
Alan Ehrenhalt The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City
Ehrenhalt shows us how a desire for urbanism is bringing people back to Americas downtowns, and what suburbs and communities of all sorts must do to thrive in the future. . . . [A] must read. Richard Florida, author of Whos Your City?
Wangari Maathai Unbowed

A Memoir
When Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement, she began a vital environmental organization that soon spread across Africa. Persevering through run-ins with the Kenyan government, she fought tirelessly to save Kenyas forests and to restore democracy to her beloved country.
John Vaillant The Tiger
A True Story of Vengeance and Survival

[Brings] vividly to life this rare and terrifying creature and the men who are setting their lives at stake every day in a barely civilized part of the world. This is a real-life adventure story that is rarely encountered. The Washington Times
Lee Sandlin Storm Kings
The Untold History of Americas First Tornado Chasers

If the vast majority of climate scientists are right, the weather is going to become an increasingly important, and threatening, feature of our daily lives. Lee Sandlins new book is a riveting history of our relationship with the funnel clouds of the Midwest. Joseph J. Ellis, author of Founding Brothers
Richard Ellis On Thin Ice
The Changing World of the Polar Bear

Ellis is [the polar bears] ideal champion. . . . By presenting the bears plight in such convincing terms, Ellis shows unequivocally that the fate of these magnificent creatures is in our hands. The Providence Journal
[Wilson and Taub] show how ethnic and racial change is not an inevitable linear process. . . . Absorbing and thoughtprovoking. Ira Katznelson, Ruggles Professor of Political Science, Columbia University
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Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People

With his trademark clarity and exuberance, Neil Shubin seeks the answer to a scientific mystery as big as the world itself: How are the events that formed our solar system billions of years ago embedded inside each of us? What is special about the book is its sweep, its scope, its panoramahow physics, biology, geology, chemistry and seemingly every other science are brought to bear on the most intricate details of human life. . . . Shubins ability to do all this comes from long experience . . . and this makes science seem a very uplifting enterprise indeed. The Wall Street Journal
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Neil Shubin The Universe Within
Adrian Bejan and J. Peder Zane Design in Nature
Carl Zimmer Microcosm
E. coli and the New Science of Life

A powerful account of the dynamic, complicated and social world we share with this ordinary yet remarkable bug. New Scientist
Arno Karlen Biography of a Germ

Arno Karlen examines a single bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi, the germ that causes Lyme diseaseto give us an intimate view of the life and world of this recently prominent germ.
Jonathan Weiner The Beak of the Finch

A Story of Evolution in Our Time

The Beak of the Finch is a dramatic story of groundbreaking scientific research showing that natural selection is neither rare nor slow: it is taking place in real time, and we can watch.
Jonathan Weiner Time, Love, Memory
How the Constructal Law Governs Evolution in Biology, Physics, Technology, and Social Organization
This groundbreaking book takes the recurring patterns in naturetrees, tributaries, air passages, neural networks, and lightning boltsand reveals how a single principle of physics, the Constructal Law, accounts for the evolution of these and all other designs in our world. Written in an easy style that achieves clarity without sacrificing complexity, Design in Nature is a paradigmshifting book that will fundamentally transform our understanding of the world around us. This extraordinary book proposes a law of nature whose power is matched only by its simplicity. Everything you lay your eyes on will blow your mind with fresh interpretation. David Eagleman, author of Incognito
A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior

Stellar. . . . Weiners compelling portrait tells how [Seymour Benzer] and his fruit flies bestow on the most scientifically significant legacies of the century. Science News
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Randolph M. Nesse, m.D. and George C. Williams, Ph.D. Why We Get Sick Adrian Raine Anatomy of Violence Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, M.d. and Kathryn Bowers Zoobiquity
The Astonishing Connection Between Human and Animal Health
Inspired by an eye-opening consultation at the Los Angeles Zoo, which revealed that a monkey experienced the same symptoms of heart failure as her human patients, cardiologist Barbara Natterson-Horowitz embarked upon a project that would reshape how she practiced medicine. She began researching every affliction that she encountered in humans to learn whether it happened with animals, too. And usually, it did. Zoobiquity presents a revelatory understanding of what animals can teach us about the human body and mind. [ Zoobiquity] will change medicine more than any new machine or drug. Randolph Nesse, M.D., Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan and author of Why We Get Sick
Richard Preston The Hot Zone

A Terrifying True Story
The Hot Zone tells the dramatic story of a highly infectious, deadly virus from the central African rain forest that suddenly appears in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. A hair-raising account of rare and lethal viruses and their crashes into the human race.
Sherwin B. Nuland How We Die

New Edition
Reflections of Lifes Final Chapter

Winner of the National Book Award
Dick Teresi The Undead
The New Science of Darwinian Medicine
The Biological Roots of Crime

Adrian Raine, a leading criminologist who specializes in the neuroscience behind criminal behavior, introduces a wide range of new scientific research into the origins and nature of violence and criminal behavior. Provocative and timely, the book contains an eight-page full-color insert, and black-and-white illustrations throughout. An exhaustive, unvarnished survey of what is known about the neurobiological correlates of physical violence. It is deeply informative and it makes for disquieting reading. It wisely refrains from claiming a single cause for the problem or advocating a single solution. It is an indispensable reference. Antonio Damasio, author of Self Comes to Mind
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By bringing the evolutionary vision systematically into one of the last unconquered provinces, Nesse and Williams have devised not only means for the improvement of medicine but fundamental new insights into the human condition. Edward O. Wilson, Harvard University
Attempting to demythologize the process of dying, Sherwin Nuland explores how each of us shall die uniquely. He examines seven common roads to death: old age, cancer, AIDS, Alzheimers, accidents, heart disease, and strokes, revealing the facets of deaths multiplicity.
Organ Harvesting, the Ice-Water Test, Beating-Heart CadaversHow Medicine Is Blurring the Line Between Life and Death
The simple question Teresi asks is: When exactly is a person dead? Prepare to have your assumptions shattered. The Globe and Mail (Canada)
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Steve Jones The Language of Genes
Solving the Mysteries of Our Genetic Past, Present, and Future

This is one of the most insightful books on genetics to date and certainly the most entertaining. The Wall Street Journal
Richard Fortey Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms
Richard Fortey Life
The Story of the Animals and Plants That Time Has Left Behind
Fortey . . . takes us through aeons, to look at creatures that havent changed much for hundreds of millions and in some cases billions of years. . . . Its a great story, and no one is better equipped to tell it than Fortey. The Guardian (London)
A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth

No one can finish Life without having accrued considerable knowledge of evolutionary history and a sense of excitement of discovery that can be conveyed only by a professional scientist chipping away at the rock face of his discipline. The New York Times Book Review
Hugh Raffles Insectopedia

Winner of the Orion Book Award
Leonard Mlodinow Feynmans Rainbow
A Search for Beauty in Physics and in Life

This is a sweetly entertaining book about the weird, but engaging, world of physics. . . . Young scientists will find solace and perhaps inspiration here. American Scientist
Brian Greene The Hidden Reality
A stunningly original exploration of the ties that bind us to the beautiful, ancient, astoundingly accomplished, largely unknown, and unfathomably different species with whom we share the world.
Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos

The multiverse is an idea whose time has come. . . . The book serves well as an introduction . . . and will open up many peoples eyes. The Wall Street Journal
John D. Barrow The Constants of Nature

The Numbers That Encode the Deepest Secrets of the Universe
Michio Kaku Physics of the Impossible
Barrows familiarity with the material allows him to glide from Pascal to Pasadena in smooth, informative paragraphs. The Economist
A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel
Kakus latest book aims to explain exactly why some visions of the future may eventually be realized while others are likely to remain beyond the bounds of possibility. The Economist
Ann Gibbons The First Human
The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors

Science writer Anne Gibbons follows four intensely competitive international teams of scientists to Africa in a heated race to find the missing linkthe fossil of the earliest human ancestor.
Neil Shubin Your Inner Fish
A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body

Winner of the National Academy of Sciences Book Award
Richard Leakey and Roger Lewin The Sixth Extinction

Patterns of Life and the Future of Humankind
Edward O. Wilson Consilience

The Unity of Knowledge
Wilson gives us his informed, sensitive, and flat-out brilliantly balanced reflections on the prospects for human inquiry. . . . [Shines] a bright light on a darkened path. Loyal D. Rue, author of By the Grace of Guile
Michio Kaku Physics of the Future
Future Science
Essays from the Cutting Edge Edited by Max Brockman
Editor Max Brockman introduces the work of some of todays brightest and most innovative young scientists in this fascinating and exciting collection of writings that describe the very boundaries of our knowledge.
How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100
Mind-bending. . . . Fascinating. . . . Kaku has a gift for explaining incredibly complex concepts, on subjects as far-ranging as nanotechnology and space travel, in language the lay reader can grasp. San Francisco Chronicle
Joseph Schwartz and Michael McGuinness Einstein for Beginners

Amusing, sophisticated and highly accessible, Einstein for Beginners takes us through the revolutions in electrical communications and technology that made the theory of relativity possible. A comprehensive introduction to Einsteins life and thought.
James Gleick Isaac Newton
Pulitzer Prize Finalist

After reading Jim Gleicks beautifully written and intimate portrait of Newton, I felt as if Id spent an evening by the fire with that complex and troubled genius. Alan Lightman, author of Einsteins Dreams
Your Inner Fish combines Shubins and others discoveries to present a twentyfirst-century anatomy lesson. The simple, passionate writing may turn more than a few high-school students into aspiring biologists. Nature
Richard Leakey and Roger Lewin examine the five mass extinctions that have taken place in history, drawing parallels between these evolutionary crises and mankinds destruction of 30,000 species per year in the present.
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David Berlinski A Tour of the Calculus

[Explains] the concepts from a modern viewpoint. The work should be especially useful for providing perspective to college and advanced high school students currently learning calculus. Library Journal
Absolutely Elementary Mathematics

Filled with illuminating historical anecdotes and asides on some of the most fascinating mathematicians through the ages, One, Two, Three is a captivating exploration of the foundation of mathematics: how it originated, who thought of it, and why it matters.
David Berlinski One, Two, Three
Simon Singh Fermats Enigma
The Epic Quest to Solve the Worlds Greatest Mathematical Problem With a Foreword by John Lynch
Simon Singh tells the compelling story of the pursuit to solve Fermats Last Theorem, and the lives that were devoted to, sacrificed for, and saved by it. A mesmerizing tale of heartbreak and triumph that will entirely change your feelings about math.
Robert Osserman Poetry of the Universe

A Mathematical Exploration of the Cosmos
Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business

Two leading global thinkers in technology and foreign affairs give us a forward-thinking account of where our world is headed. This is the most importantand fascinatingbook yet written about how the digital age will affect our world. With vivid examples and brilliant analysis, it shows how the internet and other communications technologies will empower individuals and transform the way nations and businesses operate. How will different societies make tradeoffs involving privacy, freedom, control, security, and the relationship between the physical and virtual worlds? This realistic but deeply optimistic book provides the guideposts. Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs
Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen The New Digital Age
Brian Christian The Most Human Human
What Artificial Intelligence Teaches Us About Being Alive

Each year, the AI community convenes to administer the famous (and famously controversial) Turing test, pitting sophisticated software programs against humans to determine if a computer can think. The machine that most often fools the judges wins the Most Human Computer Award. But there is also a prize, strange and intriguing, for the Most Human Human, and Brian Christian is determined to win. Machines are getting so smart that it forces us to take a completely fresh look at what smart is, and at what human is. Brian Christian takes on this very weighty task, and somehow makes it fun. David Shenk, author of The Genius in All of Us
Thoroughly delightful. It shows how mathematics and our understanding of the universe evolve together. Ossermans lucid explanations and passion make this book daring in scope. George F. Smoot, astrophysicist, University of California at Berkeley
Benoit Mandelbrot The Fractalist
Memoir of a Scientific Maverick

A fascinating memoir from the man who revitalized visual geometry, and whose ideas about fractals have changed how we look at both the natural world and the financial world.
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Gregory Chaitin Proving Darwin
Making Biology Mathematical

Fascinating and thought-provoking, mathematician Gregory Chaitin gives us the first book to posit that we can prove how Darwins theory of evolution works on a mathematical level. Proving Darwin makes clear how biology may have found its greatest ally in mathematics.
Leonard Mlodinow The Drunkards Walk
How Randomness Rules Our Lives

A wonderfully readable guide to how the mathematical laws of randomness affect our lives. Stephen Hawking, author of A Brief History of Time
William Poundstone Prisoners Dilemma

Both a fascinating biography of von Neumann, the Hungarian exile whose mathematical theories were building blocks for the A-bomb and the digital computer, and a brilliant social history of game theory and its role in the Cold War and nuclear arms race. San Francisco Chronicle
James Gleick The Information
A History, a Theory, a Flood

James Gleick tells the story of information technologies that changed the very nature of human consciousness, providing portraits of the key figures who contributed to the development of our modern understanding of information. Gleick is one of the great science writers of our age. . . . The Information is an entertaining and instructive romp through the history of information technologies. . . . [F]or anyone interested in learning more about the important and ever-more-prominent role that information plays in our society, the book is not only a pleasure to read, it is well worth reading. American Scientist
George Dyson Turings Cathedral
The Origins of the Digital Universe

George Dysons revealing account of how the digital universe exploded in the aftermath of World War II, illuminating the nature of digital computers, the lives of those who brought them into existence, and how code took over the world. It is a joy to read George Dysons revelation of the very human story of the invention of the electronic computer. . . . Read Turings Cathedral as both the origin story of our digital universe and as a perceptive glimpse into its future. W. Daniel Hillis, author of The Pattern on the Stone
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David Eagleman Incognito
The Secret Lives of the Brain

In this provocative book, renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman navigates the depths of the subconscious brain to illuminate surprising mysteries: Why can your foot move halfway to the brake pedal before you become consciously aware of danger ahead? Why do you hear your name being mentioned in a conversation that you didnt think you were listening to? Incognito is a thrilling subsurface exploration of the mind and all its contradictions. [A] journey to the heart of neurological darkness. . . . Incognito proposes a grand new account of the relationship between consciousness and the brain. It is full of dazzling ideas, as it is chockablock with facts and instances. The New York Observer
Leonard Mlodinow Subliminal
Susanna Kaysen Girl, Interrupted

Winner of the YALSA Best Books for Young Adults
Temple Grandin Thinking in Pictures

My Life with Autism
Temple Grandins window onto the subjective experience of autism is of value to all of us who hope to gain a deeper understanding of the human mind by exploring the ways in which it responds to the worlds challenges. The Washington Times
Daniel Gilbert Stumbling on Happiness

Winner of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books
Morton Hunt The Story of Psychology

Fully revised, and incorporating the dramatic developments of the last fifteen years, The Story of Psychology is a graceful and absorbing chronicle of one of the great human inquiriesthe search for the true causes of our behavior.
How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior

A startling and eye-opening examination of how the unconscious mind shapes our experience of the world. Leonard Mlodinow explores the complexities of the subliminal self, increasing our understanding of how the human mind works and how we interact with friends, strangers, spouses, and coworkers. In the process he changes our view of ourselves and the world around us. With the same deft touch he showed in The Drunkards Walk, Mlodinow probes the subtle, automatic, and often unnoticed influences on our behavior. Daniel J. Simons, professor of psychology, University of Illinois
[A]n account of a disturbed girls unwilling passage into womanhood. . . . [A]nd here is the girl, looking into our faces with urgent eyes. Diane Middlebrook, The Washington Post Book World
Gilberts elbow-in-the-ribs social-science humor is actually funny. . . . [But] underneath the goofball brilliance, Gilbert has a serious argument to make about why human beings are forever wrongly predicting what will make them happy. The New York Times
Oliver Sacks Hallucinations Jonathan Haidt The Righteous Mind Carlin Flora Friendfluence
Fascinating. . . . Dr. Sackss compassion for his patients and philosophical outlook transform what might have been clinical case studies into humanely written short stories that illuminate the complexities of the human brain and the mysteries of the human mind. The New York Times
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Richard Wiseman 59 Seconds
Change Your Life in Under a Minute

Imagine taking thousands of papers from the vast world of psychology and distilling them down to the most important, unexpected, salient and straightforward lessons for how to live our lives. Thats Wisemans book. David Eagleman, author of Sum
Richard Appignanesi and Oscar Zarate Freud for Beginners

A perfect introduction to the life and thought of the man whose discovery of psychoanalysis revolutionized psychology. This documentary cartoon does an extraordinary job of simplifying Freud without trivializing him.
John J. Ratey, M.D. A Users Guide to the Brain

Perception, Attention, and the Four Theaters of the Brain
[A]n introduction to neuroscience which sticks to a man-on-the-street vocabulary. The New Yorker
Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

Drawing on his twenty-five years of groundbreaking research on moral psychology, Jonathan Haidt challenges conventional thinking about morality, politics, and religion to show how moral judgments are born and why liberals, conservatives, and libertarians have such different intuitions about right and wrong. This elegantly written book has far-reaching implications for anyone interested in politics, religion, or the many controversies that divide modern societies. If you want to know why you hold your moral beliefs, and why many people disagree with you, read this book. Simon Baron-Cohen, Cambridge University, author of The Science of Evil
The Surprising Ways Friends Make Us Who We Are

Drawing from the latest scientific research and clinical psychology, Carlin Flora uses everrelatable anecdotes to explain the unexpected ways friends influence our personalities, choices, emotions, and even physical health. Combining the latest research with engaging stories, Friendfluence shines with authenticity and is a must-read for anyone who wants to know more about our ancient human desire to connect. James H. Fowler, co-author of Connected A fascinating and thought-provoking examination of the new science that explores this crucial element of our lives. Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project
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