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Complications
A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
Atul Gawande
Picador
"None surpass Gawande in the ability to create a sense of immediacy, in his power to conjure the reality of the ward, the thrill of the moment-by-moment medical or surgical drama.
Complications
impresses for its truth and authenticity, virtues that it owes to its author being as much forceful writer as uncompromising character."—
The New York Times Book Review
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Better
A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
Atul Gawande
Picador
"'What does it take to be good at something, when failure is so easy?' asks writer/physician Gawande . . . Diligence, ingenuity and 'doing right' . . . Gawande illustrates each of these qualities with stories from his own experience, [and] his observations of and conversations with other physicians . . . For young doctors . . . Gawande suggests five strategies: Ask unscripted questions, don't complain, 'count something' (be a scientist as well as a doctor), write something (to make yourself part of a larger world) and change in response to new ideas. A must-read for medical professionals-and a discerning, humanizing portrait of doctors at work for the rest of us."—
Kirkus Reviews
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The Checklist Manifesto
How to Get Things Right
Atul Gawande
Metropolitan Books
The New York Times bestselling author of Better and Complications reveals the surprising power of the ordinary checklist We live in a world of great and...
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Our Choice
A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis
Vice President Al Gore
Rodale Books
"It’s the grand compendium of all that we know about how to undertake this most difficult of transitions. Gore’s new volume is the indispensable one-stop shop for the cutting edge thinking about how we’re going to solve this problem."—
Bill McKibben, author of
The End of Nature
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The Photographer
Into War-torn Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders
Emmanuel Guibert
First Second
"It is impossible to know war if you do not stand with the mass of the powerless caught in its maw. All narratives of war told through the lens of the combatants carry with them the seduction of violence. But once you cross to the other side, to stand in fear with the helpless and the weak, you confront the moral depravity of industrial slaughter and the scourge that is war itself. Few books achieve this clarity.
The Photographer
is one. A strange book, part photojournalism and part graphic memoir,
The Photographer
tells the story of a small mission of mostly French doctors and nurses who traveled into northern Afghanistan by horse and donkey train in 1986, at the height of the Soviet occupation. The book shows the damage done to bodies and souls by shells, bullets and iron fragments, and the frantic struggle to mend the broken."
—Chris Hedges,
The New York Times
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The 9/11 Report
A Graphic Adaptation
Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón; Foreword by Thomas H. Kean and Lee H. Hamilton
Hill and Wang
"The 130-page
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. . . arguably places the attacks in context better than any nonpictorial book could, or any film or television show has done so far. And in the simple visual retelling of the written report's results, it carries a profound emotional impact that is disarming . . . Perhaps most important, the
9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation
takes a document that is more than 500 pages long and often difficult to penetrate and makes it accessible to a much wider audience—tightening the narrative and increasing the spectacle without the fictionalization . . . The finished product is so solid that Sept. 11 commission Chairman Thomas Kean went from skepticism about a Sept. 11 report comic book to writing the foreword."—
Peter Hartlaub,
San Francisco Chronicle
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War Child
A Child Soldier's Story
Emmanuel Jal
St. Martin's Griffin
"Remember, this is a little kid, not even 10 years old, all alone. Hatred, by now, is the only thing that sustains him, hatred for his father, who so brutally double-crossed him, hatred for the Arabs, who he presumes are responsible for this war. There's no glamour here, no pitched battles, only unimaginable misery. Finally, after about two years in the camp, he's recruited into the SPLA, and his real troubles begin. He's beaten and tortured in every possible fashion . . . When he finally does get to kill a few Arabs, he feels no sense of triumph, just sadness. They're human, too, it seems. A couple of miracles happen . . . we know there is a happy ending; otherwise, there wouldn't be this book. Jal becomes a believing Christian and gospel singer. He sets up an organization to help lost boys, but he's . . . often tired and sad and lonely, but in
War Child
he succeeds in making this crazy war and all its ramifications utterly grounded, specific and real . . . You'll come away from this book loving Emmanuel Jal."—
Carolyn See,
The Washington Post Book World
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Intern
A Doctor's Initiation
Sandeep Jauhar
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
“
Intern
succeeds as an unusually transparent portrait of an imperfect human being trying to do his best at a tough job . . . In addition to telling Jauhar’s own story,
Intern
delivers a vivid portrait of the culture of a New York City hospital, with its demanding hierarchy and sometimes indifferent cruelty . . . The medical system ultimately wore down Jauhar’s most idealistic impulses, and yet allowed him to find a certain peace.”—
Vincent Lam,
The New York Times Book Review
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Field Notes from a Catastrophe
Man, Nature, and Climate Change
Elizabeth Kolbert
Bloomsbury USA
"[Elizabeth Kolbert's] research is thorough. She gleaned much of her information from personal interviews and visits to localities around the world. Although she is clearly distressed by the lack of concern of the Bush administration about global warming and climate change, Kolbert tends not to use alarmist language to argue for a particular viewpoint, choosing instead to let her stories and interviews do the talking. That is an effective approach to a topic that could, in less-skilled hands, make for dull reading. And by the end of the book, the reader will have no doubt that the problem is a serious one."—
Doug Macdougall,
The Chronicle of Higher Education
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Fly by Wire
The Geese, the Glide, the Miracle on the Hudson
William Langewiesche
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
"A venerated reporter, Langewiesche makes the case that the Miracle on the Hudson had two heroes—the pilot and his plane. While Langewiesche takes us through the dramatic event from all perspectives, he particularly focuses on how the genius advances in aviation and digital technology made that landing possible. Planes are now built to protect passengers from pilots, or at least the bad ones. Now geese, that's a different matter."—
Sherryl Connelly,
The Daily News
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Soul of a Citizen
Living with Conviction in Challenging Times
Paul Rogat Loeb
St. Martin's Griffin
“
Soul of a Citizen
has been a powerful resource to get thousands of students involved in their communities, giving them the opportunity to apply their learning in meaningful ways. This updated edition is both timely and exceptionally useful to campuses that want to reclaim higher education’s central role in educating responsible, democratic citizens.”—
Carol Geary Schneider, President, American Association of Colleges and Universities
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Cradle to Cradle
Remaking the Way We Make Things
William McDonough and Michael Braungart
North Point Press
"Our planet is alive and the wondrous web of biodiversity provides us with all we need—clean air, water, soil, and energy, as well as food, medicine, resources. Whatever we do, that's what should be the highest priority for protection and we have to adapt everything else to that end. With this book, McDonough and Braungart open our eyes to the way to genuine sustainability by the study of nature and mimicking her ways. This is a groundbreaking book that should be the Bible for the Second Industrial Revolution."—
Dr. David Suzuki, Professor Emeritus, University of British Columbia, and author of
Good News for a Change: Hope for a Troubled Planet
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The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering Our Place in Nature
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Enough
Staying Human in an Engineered Age
Bill McKibben
St. Martin's Griffin
"In this wise, well-researched, and important book, Bill McKibben addresses the burning philosophical question of the new century, and the one that counts for the long haul: how to control the technoscientific juggernaut before it dehumanizes our species."—
E. O. Wilson, author of
The Future of Life
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Deep Economy
The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future
Bill McKibben
St. Martin's Griffin
"It would be unwise to dismiss McKibben's ideas as pipe dreams or Luddism. He makes his case on anecdotal, environmental, moral and, as it were, aesthetic grounds. An attentive, widely traveled writer and environmentalist, McKibben cites the success of local projects around the world, from a rabbit-raising academy in China to a Guatemalan cooperative that manufactures farm machinery from old bicycles."—
Lance Morrow,
The New York Times Book Review
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Fight Global Warming Now
The Handbook for Taking Action in Your Community
Bill McKibben
St. Martin's Griffin
Drawing on the experience of 1,400 Step It Up organizers in all fifty states, Bill McKibben—the author of
The End of Nature
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Deep Economy
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The Trouble with Diversity
How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality
Walter Benn Michaels
A Metropolitan/Holt Paperbacks Book
"[Michaels] describes in eloquent detail how the liberal pursuit of social and economic equality was sidetracked by the pursuit of 'diversity.'"—
Clarence Page,
Chicago
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The Blue Sweater
Bridging the Gap between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World
Jacqueline Novogratz
Rodale Books
"The decency of Jacqueline Novogratz shines through these pages and so does her strength. The stories she shares about the people she has met show the nobility of the human spirit and the breadth of the desire to stop suffering, to feed the hungry, to care for the sick, to empower the poor - in short, to make the world a better place.
The Blue Sweater
is a book of hope written by a practical idealist who won't take 'no' for an answer when it comes to building a better world. Jacqueline breathes new life into the phrase "a life of meaning" and she is living one everyday even as she asks us to join her."—
Senator Bill Bradley
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3 Minutes or Less
Life Lessons from America's Greatest Writers
Pen/Faulkner Foundation
Bloomsbury USA
An anthology of never-before-published short essays by America's literary greats. Each October at the PEN Gala, well-known authors take the stage of the Folger...
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Step Out on Nothing
How Faith and Family Helped Me Conquer Life's Challenges
Byron Pitts
St. Martin's Press
It was August 25, 2006, my first on-camera studio open for the CBS News broadcast 60 Minutes. Executive Producer Jeff Fager poked his head in the dressing...
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The Echo Maker
A Novel
Richard Powers
Picador
Winner of the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize Finalist
"A wise and elegant post-9/11 novel . . . As the features of life after 9/11 come into focus—the engagement in Afghanistan, 'that bleak, first anniversary' of the attacks, the march to war in Iraq—Powers accomplishes something magnificent, no facile conflation of personal catastrophe with national calamity, but a lovely essay on perseverance in all its forms."—
Colson Whitehead,
The New York Times Book Review
National Book Awards - Winner
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Methland
The Death and Life of an American Small Town
Nick Reding
Bloomsbury USA
“This is a strong book, and it tells a complicated story in comprehensible, human dimensions. Like all good journalism, it’s the hand holding up the mirror, the friend telling us to take a cold, hard look at ourselves.”—
Los Angeles Times
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Bottlemania
Big Business, Local Springs, and the Battle Over America's Drinking Water
Elizabeth Royte
Bloomsbury USA
"Fascinating . . . look at the water wars: between bottled water and tap water, between big corporations and local water interests, between consumers who say they want the convenience, cleanliness and even status of bottled water, and environmentalists who condemn bottled water as 'the moral equivalent of driving a Hummer,' producing tons of plastic bottles, racking up huge transportation fees and leaving behind a significant carbon footprint."—
Michiko Kakutani,
The New York Times
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Footnotes in Gaza
A Graphic Novel
Joe Sacco
Metropolitan Books
"Fascinating . . . the cartoonist is in top form throughout . . . A story soaked to the marrow with heartbreaking insights . . . One of the best long-form comics of this decade, and Sacco’s greatest work to date.”—
The Comics Reporter
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Justice
What's the Right Thing to Do?
Michael J. Sandel
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
“Michael J. Sandel is one of this generation’s most important philosophers because he combines a relentlessly inquiring spirit with a profound commitment to the idea of a common good.
Justice
is Sandel at his finest: no matter what your views are, his delightful style will draw you in, and he’ll then force you to rethink your assumptions and challenge you to question accepted ways of thinking. But Sandel does not leave you marooned on an island of skepticism. He calls us to a better way of doing politics, and a more enriching way of living our lives.”—
E. J. Dionne, Jr.
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