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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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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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All But My Life
Gerda Weissmann Klein
Hill and Wang
"Soul searching and human . . . A moving personal testament to courage."—
Herbert Mitgang,
The New York Times
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American Jesus
How the Son of God Became a National Icon
Stephen Prothero
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
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Chicago Tribune
Best Nonfiction Book
"[Prothero presents] a cultural history of Jesus as American image and icon [in] vivid, engrossing detail . . . Within his narrative, ostensibly a popular and often entertaining account of the rendering of Jesus in song, story, and spirituality, [the author] has embedded a fairly detailed history of American religion itself."—
R. Scott Appleby,
The New York Times
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Arc of Justice
A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age
Kevin Boyle
Holt Paperbacks
Winner of the National Book Award
"Masterful . . . An important, scholarly work . . . The writing is graceful [and] it endows the story with the majesty and consequence of an epic . . . This is the kind of book that causes students to major in history."—
Paul Butler,
The Boston Globe
National Book Awards - Winner - Nonfiction
National Books Critics Circle Awards - Nominee - Nonfiction
Society of Midland Authors Book Awards - Winner - Adult Nonfiction
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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."—
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Beyond Oil
The View from Hubbert's Peak
Kenneth S. Deffeyes
Hill and Wang
"This work would be useful as a current holding for serving students of political science, economics, science, and technology."—
W.C. Peters,
Choice
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The Bill McKibben Reader
Pieces from an Active Life
Bill McKibben
St. Martin's Griffin
“McKibben has just edited
The Bill McKibben Reader
, an anthology of forty-four essays on topics as diverse as being arrested at a demonstration, spending time with writer Wendell Berry and putting his Christian faith into action.”—
Susan Larson,
The Times Picayune
(New Orleans)
"Collected here are 44 trenchant essays written for various publications over the past 25 years by an astute observer of contemporary life and the environment. In some, McKibben reflects on personal experiences; in others, he discusses the sources of his environmental activism . . . Though McKibben worries about consumerism and the environment, he sees reason for optimism, too . . . There are all sorts of sweet things in this world, McKibben writes, many of which are us, and many of which are not. Thankfully, McKibben has borne witness to them with grace and style."—
Publishers Weekly
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Blue Collar, Blue Scrubs
The Making of a Surgeon
Michael J. Collins, M.D.
St. Martin's Press
It looked for a while like Michael Collins would spend his life breaking concrete and throwing rocks for the Vittorio Scalese Construction Company. He liked...
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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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Born Under a Million Shadows
A Novel
Andrea Busfield
Holt Paperbacks
"Former journalist Busfield first traveled to Afghanistan in 2001 to cover the fall of the Taliban. Her first novel presents the aftermath of that event through the eyes of an 11-year-old boy . . . Readers who like to explore other cultures and current events through fiction will find here an intriguing picture of contemporary Afghanistan. Extras for book clubs are appended."—
Debbie Bogenschutz, Cincinnati State Technical & Community College,
Library Journal
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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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How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America
Barbara Ehrenreich
Metropolitan Books
“In this hard-hitting but honest appraisal, America’s cultural skeptic Barbara Ehrenreich turns her focus on the muddled American phenomenon of positive thinking. She exposes the pseudoscience and pseudointellectual foundation of the positive-thinking movement for what it is: a house of cards. This is a mind-opening read.”—
Michael Shermer, author of
Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time
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Can't Stop Won't Stop
A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
Jeff Chang; Introduction by DJ Kool Herc
Picador
"The birth of hip-hop out of the ruin of the South Bronx is a story that has been told many times, but never with the cinematic scope and the analytic force that Chang brings to it. Robert Moses unleashes the destructive juggernaut of the Cross-Bronx Expressway; landlords set fire to worthless tenements; police stand by and do nothing; and, against a backdrop of gang warfare, peacemaking d.j.s lay down the heavy beats and spidery loops around which a rapping, dancing, graffiti-painting culture grows. This is one of the most urgent and passionate histories of popular music ever written. Chang is blind to no one's greed or viciousness, but he retains an idealistic view of a music that speaks the truth about the alternately stultifying and horrifying urban landscapes that the parents who hate hip-hop have made."—
The New Yorker
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Catfish and Mandala
A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam
Andrew X. Pham
Picador
"An engaging and vigorously told story . . . a fresh and original look at how proud Vietnamese on the war's losing side reconciled having their identity abruptly hyphenated to Vietnamese-American."—
Gavin Scott,
Chicago Tribune
Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize - Winner - Pacific Rim Nonfiction
Guardian First Book Award - Nominee - Nominee
Oregon Book Award - Nominee - Nonfiction
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The Challenge
How a Maverick Navy Officer and a Young Law Professor Risked Their Careers to Defend the Constitution--and Won
Jonathan Mahler
Picador
"[
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Anthony Lewis,
The New York Review of Books
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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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Choosing Civility
The Twenty-five Rules of Considerate Conduct
P. M. Forni
St. Martin's Griffin
"
Choosing Civility
is a beautiful book that lifts the spirit, warms the heart, and provides clear direction for a balanced life."—
Arthur P. Ciaramicoli, Ed.D., Ph.D., author of
The Power of Empathy
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The Civility Solution
What to Do When People Are Rude
P. M. Forni
St. Martin's Griffin
"Though his new book deals with many kinds of incivility, Dr. Forni has devoted a sizeable chunk of it to workplace and high-tech rudeness . . . his approach to incivility is rooted in his academic career researching and teaching Italian literature. Some fundamentals of good behavior, he says, go back hundreds of years."—
The Wall Street Journal
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Class Matters
The New York Times Company; Introduction by Bill Keller
Times Books
"The newly released book
Class Matters
is just such a journalist-led research effort, the culmination of an extraordinary decision by
The New York Times
to carry out a year-long research project on social class, based on a commissioned survey as well as much ethnographic legwork . . .
Class Matters
is a resounding success, and the
New York Times
is to be commended for making it happen."—
David B. Grucky,
Contexts
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College Success
What It Means and How to Make It Happen
The College Board
College Board
"The College Board has done the educational community a great service by publishing this excellently chosen set of essays that focuses primarily on what happens to students after they enter college. Many of us have felt for some time that too much emphasis is often placed on who gets into college rather than on success in college. McPherson and Schapiro provide a valuable guide to the contents in their introduction, and readers will have no difficulty identifying the essays of particular interest to them."—
William Bowen, President Emeritus, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
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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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Confessions of a Radical Industrialist
Profits, People, Purpose--Doing Business by Respecting the Earth
Ray C. Anderson and Robin White
St. Martin's Press
“In a humble, inspiring and informative manner, Ray Anderson describes his own journey to not just tweak the edges of his business towards green goals but to fundamentally re-think and re-design every aspect of its operations to respect environmental limits . . . Let’s hope that
Confessions of a Radical Industrialist
becomes required reading in all business, industrial design, and economics classes so that our next generation of business leaders continue in the direction that Anderson has begun.”—
Annie Leonard, author of
The Story of Stuff
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So Right, So Smart
The Corporation
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Connected: 24 Hours in the Global Economy
Daniel Altman
Picador
"Altman's easy narration, merged with a few well-researched anecdotes, can offer that winning combination sought by all writers of popular economics: a succinct overview of the well-known with an original, intellectually stimulating point."—
Mario Pisani,
Financial Times
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