PENGUIN GROUP USA SPRING/SUmmER 2008

PENGUIN GROUP USA SPRING/SUmmER 2008
new books for course use & adoption consideration
• democracy: an american Novel/Henry Adams/Edited with
an Intro & Notes by Earl N. Harbert/978-0-14-303980-8/
$13.00/“One of the most perceptive books ever written
about Washington.”—Maureen Dowd, New york Times/June 08.
• The firsT poems iN eNglish/Michael Alexander/
978-0-14-043378-4/$15.00/Contains the 'heroic poems'
including passages from Beowulf/Aug 2008.
• The uNderdogs: a Novel of the mexican revolution/Mariano
Azuela/Translated by Sergio Waisman/Intro by Carlos Fuentes/
978-0-14-310527-5/$8.00/A classic of Latin American
literature/Penguin Classics Original/Aug 2008.
• russiaN ThiNkers/Isaiah Berlin/Intro by Henry Hardy/
978-0-14-144220-4/$16.00/Mar 2008.
• The good persoN of szechwaN/Bertolt Brecht/
Forword by Carl Weber/New Intro by Norm Roessler/
Translated by John Willett/Edited with an Intro by John Willett
& Ralph Manheim/978-0-14-310537-4/$11.00/Penguin Classics
Original with the definitive translation/June 2008.
• life of galileo/Bertolt Brecht/Foreword by Richard
Foreman/New Intro by Norm Roessler/Translated by John
Willett/Edited with an Intro by John Willett & Ralph
Manheim/978-0-14-310538-1/$12.00/Penguin Classics
Original/June 08.
• uNder The sea wiNd/Rachael Carson/Intro by Linda Lear/
Illustrations by Howard Frech/978-0-14-310496-4/$15.00/
• The selecTed poems of cavafy/constantine p. Cavafy/
Edited and Translated with a New Intro by Avi Sharon/978-
0-14-4116581-3/$15.00/”One of the greatest poets of our
time.”—E.M. Forster/July 2008.
• aN orgaNizer's Tale: speeches/Cesar Chavez/Intro by Ilan
Stavans/978-0-14-310526-8/$15.00/Penguin Classics Original/
Mar 2008.
• The porTaBle charles w. chesNuTT/Charles W.
Chesnutt/Edited with an Intro by William L. Andrews/
Presented by Henry Louis Gates, Jr./978-0-14-310534-3/
$18.00/Penguin Classics Original, marks the 150 th anniversary
of Chesnutt's birth/June 2008.
PENGUIN ClAssICs
• purgaToria/Dante Alighieri/Translated with Intro & Notes
by Robin Kirkpatrick/978-0-14-144896-2/$17.00/Mar 2008.
• paradiso/Dante Alighieri/Translated with an Intro & Notes
by Robin Kirkpatrick/978-0-14-144897-9/$13.00/Mar 2008.
• aNcieN regime aNd The freNch revoluTioN/Alexis de
Tocqueville/Translated with an Intro by Gerald Bevan/
978-0-14-144164-1/$14.00/Penguin Classics Original/Aug
2008.
• The saga of The people of laxardal aNd Bolli BollasoN's
Tale/Leifur Eiricksson/Translated by Keneva Kunz/Intro
by Bergljót Kristjánsdóttir/Notes, a chronology, maps,
suggestions for further readings/978-0-14-044775-0/$16.00/
Penguin Classics Original/Aug 2008.
• The viNlaNd sagas/Leifur Eiricksson/Translated by Keneva
Kunz/Intro by Gisli Sigurosson/978-0-14-044775-0/$15.00/
Replaces 978-0-14-044154-3/Aug 2008.
• demoNs/Fyodor Dosoyevsky/New Translation by Robert
A. Maguire/Intro by Robert l. Belknap/Edited by Ronald Meyer
with chronology, further reading, appendices, notes/
978-0-14-144141-2/ $18.00/June 2008.
• where aNgels fear To Tread/E.M. Forster/Intro by Ruth
Padel/978-0-14-144145-0/$13.00/Penguin Classics Original/
Mar 2008.
• life of mà-ka-Tai-me-she kià-kiàk, or Black hawk: dictated
by himself/Intro & Notes by Gerald Kennedy/
978-0-14-310539-8/$14.00/A vivid account of how the Sacs
lived, what they believed and valued, and how they responded
to loss of their ancestral land/Penguin Classics Original/May
2008.
• The aeNeid/Homer/Translated by Robert Fagles/
978-0-14-310513-8/$16.00/Feb 2008.
• collecTed poems/A.E. Houseman/Revised by Archie
Burnett with updated notes on the text/Afterword by John
Sparrow on Houseman's methods of writing/
978-0-14-042474-4-9/$/Includes a shropshire lad, last poems,
posthumous selections and translations from Aeschylus,
Sophocles, Euripides/June 2008.
PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL TITLES UNDER PENGUIN CLASSICS HEADERS ARE PAPERBACK TITLES

• The amBassadors/Henry James/Intro/978-0-14-144132-0/
$10.00/Replaces 978-0-14-043233-6/June 2008.
• The europeaNs/Henry James/Intro/978-0-14-144140-5/
$12.00/Replaces 978-0-14-043232-9/June 2008.
• The wiNgs of The dove/Henry James/Intro/
978-0-14-144128-3/$11.00/Replaces 978-0-14-043263-3/June
2008.
• god's TromBoNes: seven Negro sermons in verse/James
Weldon Johnson/Foreward by Maya Angelou/General editor,
Henry Louis Gates, Jr./978-0-14-310541-1/$14.00/June 2008.
• meTamorphosis aNd oTher sTories/Franz Kafka/
Translated with an Intro by Michael Hoffman/Cover by Sammy
Harkham/978-0-14-310524-4/$14.00/Classics Deluxe Edition/
Mar 2008.
• oN The road: The original scroll/Jack Kerouac/Edited by
Howard Cunnell/Intro by Joshua Kupetz, George Mouratidis,
& Penny Vlagopoulos/978-0-14-310546-6/$14.00/Legendary
first draft as Kerouac typed it in 1951 including music notes/
Sep 2008.
• The waTer BaBies: a fairy Tale for a land-Baby/Charles
Kingsley/Intro & Notes by Richard Beards/978-0-14-310509-1/
$14.00/Includes the original text and Victorian art from
vintage editions/Penguin Classics Original/May 2008.
• spooN river aNThology/Edgar Lee Masters/New Intro,
Notes, & further reading by Jerome Loving/978-0-14-310515-2/
$14.00/Free verse and dramatic monologues from the dead,
“sleeping on the hill”/Penguin Classics Original/May 2008.
• israel poTTer/Hermin Melville/Intro & Notes by Robert S.
Levine/978-0-14-310523-7/$15.00/Mar 2008.
• mouNTaiNs of califorNia/John Muir/Edited with an Intro
by J. Edward Hoagland/978-0-14-310525-1/$13.00/Penguin
Nature Classics/Mar 2008.
• revoluTioNary suicide/Huey P. Newton/Intro by Michael
Eric Dyson/978-0-14-310532-9/$16.00/A memoir of an
individual and a manifesto of the Black Panther Movement/
Aug 2008.
• The ladies of The corridor/Dorothy Parker & Arnaud
D'Usseau/Intro by Marion Meade/978-0-14-310531-2/$12.00/
Witty meditation on the limits of a woman's life/May 2008.
• liTTle red ridiNg hood, ciNderella, aNd oTher
classic fairy Tales of charles perraulT/Charles Perrault/
Translated by Angela Carter/Intro by Jack Zipes/
978-0-14-310536-7/$14.00/Penguin Classics Original/June 2008.
• The selecTed poems/christina Rossetti/
978-0-14-042469-0/$15.00/Unique among Victorian poets/July
2008.
• guys aNd dolls aNd oTher wriTiNgs/Damon Runyon/
Intro by Pete Hamill/Annotated by Daniel R. Schwartz/
978-0-14-144896-2/$16.00/Penguin Classics Original/May
2008.
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• The sTreeT of crocodiles & oTher sTories/Bruno
Schultz/Translated by Celina Wieniewska/New Foreword by
Jonathan Safran Foer/New Intro by David A. Goldfarb/
978-0-14-310514-5/$15.00/Mar 2008.
• elecTra aNd oTher plays: electra, ajax, womens of Trachis,
philoctetes/Sophocles//978-0-14-044978-5/$12.00/Replaces
978-0-14-044028-7/July 2008.
• The rule of saiNT BeNedicT/Translated with an Intro by
Carolinne White /978-0-14-044996-9/$13.00/Available March
2008.
• sweeT Thursday/John Steinbeck/Introduction & Notes
by Robert DeMott/978-0-14-303947-1/$15.00/“A postwar
continuation of cannery row...this is comedy—bawdy,
sentimental, and good fun.”—atlantic monthly/Aug 2008.
• The deaTh of ivaN ilych aNd oTher sTories: The raid,
woodfelling, Three deaths, polikushka, The death of ivan ilyich,
after the Ball, The forged coupon/Leo Tolstoy/Translated by
Tony Briggs, David McDuff, Ronald Wilks/Introduction by Tony
Briggs/978-0-14-044961-7/$11.00/Replaces the previous
edition, 978-0-14-044508-4 edition/June 2008.
• The kreuTzer soNaTa aNd oTher sTories: family
happiness, The kreutzer sonata, The devil, father sergius/Leo
Tolstoy/Translated by Paul Foote & David McDuff/Introduction
by Donna Orwin/978-0-14-044960-0/$11.00//Replaces the
previous edition, 978-0-14-044469-8/June 2008.
• caTiliNe's war, The jugurThiNe war, hisTories/Edited
& Translated by A.J. Woodman/978-0-14-044948-8/$16.00/
Replaces 978-0-14-044132-1/Mar 2008.
• “spaiN, Take This chalice from me” aNd poems/Cesar
Vallejo/Translated by Margaret Peden/Intro by Ilan Stavans/
978-0-14-310530-5/$16.00/Penguin Classics Original/Mar
2008.
• doveglioN: collected poems/José Garcia Villa/Intro by Luis
Francia/Edited by John Edwin Cowen/978-0-14-310535-0/
$16.00/Phillipine writer who became “The Pope of Greenwich
Village”/”A poet with a great, astounding, and perfectly original
gift...his poems are among the most beautiful written in our
time.”—Edith Sitwell/New and exclusive to Penguin Classics/
June 2008.
• The deaTh of jim loNey/James Welch/Intro by Jim
Harrison/978-0-14-310518-3/$14.00/Penguin Classics
Original/Aug 2008.
• wiNTer iN The Blood/James Welch/Intro by Louise
Erdich/978-0-14-310518-3/$14.00/Penguin Classics Original/
Aug 2008.
• yevTusheNko: selecTed poems/Yevgeni Yevtushenko/
Translated with an Intro by Robin Milner-Gulland & Peter
Levi/978-0-14-042477-5/$12.00/Includes the early works as
well as the more famous works such as Babiy yar by one of
the best-known poets of post-Stalinist Russia/Penguin Classics
Original/Aug 2008.

POETRY
• iNsTallaTioNs/Joe Bonomo/978-0-14-311395-9/$16.00/
PB/Penguin Poets Original/Invites the reader to encounter a
series of art installations and the intersection of the real and
imagined, the spectator and the event/June 2008.
• hardheaded weaTher: New and selected poems/Cornelius
Eady/978-0-399-15485-0/$25.95/HC/Shows the arc of the
poet's universe and his range of interests/April 2008.
• The ode less Travelled: unlocking the poet within/Stephen
Fry/978-1-592-40311-0/$15.00/PB/“Delightfully erudite...and
soundly pedagogical guide to poetic form.”—publishers weekly/
NY Public Library's Books for the Teen Age 2007/Available
now.
• may day/Phillis Levin/978-0-14-311394-2/$16.00/PB/Penguin
Poets Original/May 2008.
• The warrior: a mother's story of a son at war/Frances
Richey/978-0-670-01961-8/$21.95/HC/From a mother whose
son goes to Iraq/“In the specific ways this poet mother refuses
to lose touch with a warrior son, there is a lifeline across a
deadly chasm for every reader.”—Gloria Steinam/April 2008.
• The world's fair/Pattiann Rogers/978-0-14-311334-8/
$16.00/PB/New collection from poet who recently received
prestigious Lannan Literary Award/Mar 2008.
• The imporTaNce of peeliNg poTaToes iN The ukraiNe/
Mark Yakich/978-0-14-311333-1/$18.00/PB/Penguin Poets
Original/Mar 2008.
WORlD lITERATURE & CRITICIsm
• The girls of riyadh/Rajaa Alsanea/Translated by Rajaa
Alsanea & Marilyn Booth/978-0-14-311347-8/$14.00/PB/
Reveals the social, romantic, and sexual tribulations of four
young women from the elite classes of Saudi Arabia/July 2008.
• The secreT scripTures/Sebastian Barry/978-0-670-01940-3/
$24.95/HC/Haunting novel of a woman's life in Ireland and the
tragedy that befalls her from author of annie dunne/July 2008.
• who The hell is paNsy o'hara?: The fascinating stories
Behind 50 of the world's Best-loved Books/Jenny Bond & Christ
Sheedy/978-0-14-311364-5/$13.00/PB/Compelling/Aug 2008.
• creaTor's map/emilio calderon/978-1-59420-181-3/$24.95/
HC/Former historian recounts, through the eyes of an
architect, the rise and fall of facism in Italy/Aug 2008.
• The TåiN/Translated by Ciaran Carson/978-0-670-01868-0/
$24.95/HC/Major new translation by award-winning Irish
poet and author of Ireland's greatest epic tale called “the Irish
aeneid.”/“Lively and vivid journey through a mythic landscape.”—publishers
weekly/Feb 2008.
• The islaNd of eTerNal love/Daîna Chaviano/
978-1-59448-992-1/$25.95/HC/From Cuba's answer to Amy
Tan, a mlutigenerational epic of three families, from Africa,
Spain, China—a vivid, brilliant portrait of Cuba/June 2008.
• diary of a Bad year/J.M. Coetzee/978-0-670-01875-8/
$24.95/HC/Brilliant new work of fiction from the Nobel
Prize-winning author of disgrace/Jan 2008.
• The glimmer palace/Beatrice Colin/978-1-59448-985-3/
$25.95/HC/Literary novel set in Berlin from 1900-1940/Aug
2008.
• The Triumph of deBorah/Eva Etzioni-Halevy/
978-0-452-28906-2/$14.00/PB/From Professor Emeritus
at Bar-Ilan, a story of feminine strength and independence,
filled with vivid historical detail/Mar 2008.
• The aeNeid/Virgil/Translated by Robert Fagles/Intro by
Bernard Knox/978-0-14-310513-8/$16.00/From the
recipient of the 1997 PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for
Translation & 2006 National Humanities Medal/Available now.
• caThedral of The sea/Ildefonso Falcones/
978-0-525-95048-6/$26.95/HC/Spanish best-selling story of
intrigue, revenge, war, and love in Medieval Spain/May 2008.
• kNoTs/Nuruddin Farah/978-0-14-311298-3/$15.00/PB/
Spellbinding story of a Somalian émigré, “Lilting, poetic...
hypnotic in its ability to trace both the contradictions and
hesitations of the protagonist and the complexities of Somali
life. Despite its heavy subject, joy suffuses the novel.”
—publishers weekly/New york Times Notable Book/Feb 2008.
• The cellisT of sarajevo/Steven Galloway/
978-1-59448-989-1/$21.95/HC/Novel about endurance and
the ways individuals reclaim their humanity in a city ravaged
by war/“Gripping story of Sarajevo under siege.”
—J.M. Coetzee/May 2008.
• sNapshoTs/Michal Govrin/978-1-59448-334-9/$15.00/PB/
One of Israel's most celebrated writers, examines the state
of Israel and the relationship of Arabs and Israelis/Winner of
prestigious Akum Prize for Book of the Year/Oct 2008.
• The jewish messiah/Arnon Grunberg/978-1-59420149-3/
$27.95/HC/Fiendishly provocative story of a confused young
man from a family with a Nazi past/Jan 2008.
• The lazrus projecT/Aleksandar Hemon/
978-1-59448-988-4/$24.95/HC/From the author of Nowhere
man and The Question of Bruno—a historical novel about a politically
polarzied country and a wave of immigrants/May 2008.
• why kerouac maTTers/The Lessons of on The road
(They're Not What You Think)/John Leland/978-0-14-311437-6/
$15.00/PB/Fun-to-read critical appraisal of the classic novel/
Sep 2008.
• sTrawBerry fields/Marina Lewycka/978-0-14-311355-3/
$14.00/PB/From the acclaimed author of a short history of
Tractors in ukranian/“Zings with zest for life...shrewd, and
winningly perceptive about the wounds inflicted by prejudice
and injustice.”—The sunday Times (London)/April 2008.
• coNseQueNces/Penelope Lively/978-0-14-311343-0/
$14.00/PB/Booker Prize winner follows three generations
of women, tracing the consequences of their choices—story
of growth, death and rebirth/June 2008.
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• The wild places/Robert Macfarlane/978-0-14-311393-5/
$16.00/PB/“An eloquent reminder that, though we're laying
waste the world, nature still holds sway over much of the
earth's surface, even in a place as crowded and civilized as
Britain.”—Bill McKibben/June 2008.
• The TesTameNT of gideoN mack/James Robertson/
978-0-14-311319-5/$15.00/PB/From winner of the Scottish
Book of the Year award and the Saltire Prize, the story of a
minister who meets the devil/“In the hands of great writers,
the unlikeliest stories are generally the most rewarding. Here
is a parable of organized religion, the supernatural and mental
illness.”—The guardian/Feb 2008.
• draiNiNg The sea/Micheline Marcom/978-1-59448-973-0/
$26.95/HC/Exploration of the effects of political violence as
it reverberates through the Armenian genocide, the conflict in
Guatamala in 1980s and present-day L.A. from the winner of
the 2005 Pen USA Literary Award/Mar 2008.
• agaiNsT The day/Thomas Pynchon/978-0-14-311256-3/
$18.00/PB/The literary event of the decade, Pynchon’s first
novel since 1997 spans the period from the Chicago World’s
Fair of 1983 to WWI, from Colorado to Central Asia, from
corporate greed to evil intent in high places/Nov 2007.
• aTlas shrugged/Ayn Rand/978-0-451-19114-4/$8.99/PB/
50th Anniversary Ed/Oct 2007.
• wolf ToTem/Jiang Rong/978-1-59420156-1/$26.95/HC/Epic
tale of a young Chinese boy living among the dying culture of
Inner Mongolian nomads in the 1960s and 1970s/Mar 2008.
• The BasTard of isTaNBul/Elif Shafak/978-0-143-11271-6/
$14.00/PB/From one of the Mideast’s most acclaimed
intellectuals, a dramatic novel about a Turkish and an
Armenian family/“[Shafak] has crafted a world that enlarges
our understanding of our own.”—Susan Isaacs/Feb 2008.
Paperbacks Coming in Jan 2008 by George Simenon
Novels from the Master, As Timeless as Paris Itself.
• my frieNd maigreT/978-0-14-311284-6/$13.00.
• iNspecTor cadaver/978-0-143-11281-5/ $13.00.
• The maN oN The Boulevard/978-0-143-11283-9/$13.00.
• oil!/Upton Sinclair/978-0-14-311226-6/$15.00/PB/A novel
fashioned from oil scandals of the Harding administration.
• The amNesiac/Sam Taylor/978-0-14-311340-9/$14.00/PB/
Mysterious journey into memory and amnesia, fiction and
reality, destiny and randomness/June 2008.
• cheaTiNg aT caNasTa/William Trevor/
978-0-14-311406-2/ $14.00/PB/“These stories remind us how
serious, noble, painful and happy human life once was...so like
James Joyce's and Alice Munro's—[they] preserve something
of the scale of human life.”—los angelas Times/New york Times
Notable Book/Oct 2008.
• youNg pushkiN/Yury Tynyanov/Translated from the
Russian by Anna Kurkina Rush & Christopher Rush/Intro
by Ann Kurkina Rush/978-1-58567-962-1/$35.00/HC/First
English translation of epic novel of Russia's literary golden
age/May 2008.
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• iN The woods of eTerNiTy: This Night's foul work/Fred
Vargas/978-0-14-311359-1/$14.00/PB/“Commissaire
Adamsberg must be the most engaging French detective since
Maigret.”—scotland on sunday/June 2008.
• i love dollars/Zhu Wen/Translated by Julia Lovell/
978-0-14-311327-0/$14.00/PB/Insanely funny stories that
provide Kafka-like commentary on modern Chinese society.
mUlTICUlTURAl FICTION
• aBeNg/Michelle Cliff/978-0-670-452-27483-9/$14.00/PB/
Critically acclaimed novel of a light-skinned, middle-class girl
growing up in Jamaica/“Powerful and often lyric...an important
work.”—library journal/May 2008.
• The Brief woNderous life of oscar wao/Junot Díaz/
978-1-59448-958-7/$24.95/HC/The long-awaited novel from
the author of drown/Winner of John Sargent Sr. First Novel
Prize/New york Times 10 Best of 2007/9781594483295/$14.00/
PB/Sep 2008.
• The goldeN road: Notes on my gentrification/Caille Milner/
978-0-14-311297-6/$14.00/PB/A young woman's heartfelt
identity search for authenticity among various black, Latino,
techno-utopian, Ivy League, and activist communities—all
competing for her allegiance/Feb 2008.
• peTropolis/Anya Ulinich/9780-14-311301-0/$14.00/PB/The
Russian equivalent of Julia Alvarez's how the garcia girls lost
Their accents/“A coming-of-age novel...brave blend of satire,
farce, and heart-wrenching realism.”—Booklist/Mar 2008.
• The geNTle axe/R.N. Morris/978-0-14-311326-3/$14.00/
PB/“Creates an atmospheric St. Petersburg, and a stylish set
of intellectual problems, but what makes it such an effective
debut is its fascination with good and evil.”—The london Times
literary supplement/Mar 2008.
shORT sTORIEs/EssAYs
• iNNer workiNgs: literary essays 2000-2005/J.M. Coetzee/
978-0-14-311378-2/$16.00/PB/Essays on Beckett, Roth, Sebald,
Marquez, Gordimer from Nobel Prize-winning author/July 08.
• i was Told There'd Be cake/Sloane Crosley/
978-1-59448-306-6/$14.00/PB/Personal & literary essays in
the style of a 21st-century Dorothy Parker/April 2008.
• aloNe iN The kiTcheN wiTh aN eggplaNT: confessions
of cooking for one and dining alone/Edited by Jenni Ferrari-
Adler/978-159448313-4/$14.00/PB/Essays by Laura Dave,
Jonathan Ames, Nora Ephron, Colin Harrison, Haruki Murakami,
Ann Patchett, among others/Feb 2008.
• The lasT siNgle womaN iN america/Cindy Guidry/
978-0-525-95052-3/$23.95/HC/The funniest, freshest essayist
since David Sedaris/Feb 2008.
• iT's oNly Temporary: The good News and the Bad News
of Being alive/Evan Handler/978-1-594-48995-2/$23.95/HC/
“Wonderful...he pulls you inside his life and you come out his
very close friend.”—Neil Simon/May 2008.

• The NighT sky: writings on the poetics of experience/Ann
Lauterbach/978-0-14-303737-8/$16.00/PB/From Distinguished
Professor at CUNY & Bard College/Mar 2008.
• armageddoN iN reTrospecT...and other New and
unpublished writings on war and peace/Kurt Vonnegut/Intro by
Mark Vonnegut/978-0-399-15508-6/$24.95/HC/First and only
unpublished works and a timely contribution to the discussion
of war, peace, and violence/Contains drawings by the author
and an intro by his son/April 2008.
POPUlAR FICTION
• The 351 Books of irma arcuri/David Bajo/
978-0-670-01929-8/$25.95/HC/Metaphysical literary mystery
—Kundera crossed with momento/“Dazzling combination of
love and sex, and, yes, mathematics.”—Keith Donohue, author
of The stolen child/June 2008.
• ciTy of Thieves/David Benioff/978-0-670-01870-3/$24.95/
HC/Gripping coming-of-age tale about two young Russians
during WWII on an impossible mission by the author of The
25th hour/“Resonates with Whitmanesque sense of the city's
possibilities.”—The New yorker/May 2008.
• people of The Book/Geraldine Brooks/
978-0-670-01821-5/$25.95/HC/Illuminated 600 year-old
Jewish prayer book's harrowing story told through people
who crafted it and who saved it from destruction from
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of march/“Could not be more
timely.”—publishers weekly/Jan 2008.
• five skies/Ron Carlson/978-0-14-311346-1/$14.00/PB/
Three strong yet fragile men on a project in the remote
mountains of Idaho, confronting their pasts and purpose/
“A masterpiece of precision in its details, its structure and
the articulation of its themes...a luminous distillation of
reality.”—The atlantic/May 2008.
• BurNiNg BrighT/Tracy Chevalier/978-0-452-28907-9/
$14.00/PB/Sweeping story about Blake’s London/Mar 2008.
• god is dead/Ron Currie, Jr./978-0-14311348-5/$14.00/
PB/Audacious story of what happens after God takes the
form of a Dinka woman and dies/“A stunning work of fiction.”
—Marisha Pessl, author of special Topics in calamity physics/
May 2008.
• alive iN Necropolis/Doug Dorst/978-1-59448-987-7/
$24.95/HC/Literary novel about a young cop struggling in a
town where the dead out-number the living/July 2008.
• fiN de siécle/Selden Edwards/978-0-525-95061-5/$24.95/
HC/Story of a displaced 20 th century man in turn-of-the-century
Vienna/May 2008.
• Thursday NexT: first among sequest/Jasper Fforde/
978-0-14-311356-0/$15.00/PB/“Infectious”—New york Times/
Aug 2008.
• paiNTiNg By NumBers: a Novel/Jasper Fforde/
978-0-670-01963-2/ $24.95/HC/Part social satire, part
romance, part thriller, a battle against overwhelming odds/July
2008.
• wiT's eNd/Karen Joy Fowler/978-0-399-15475-1/$24.95/
HC/From the author of The jane austen Book club/April 2008.
• The legeNd of colToN h. BryaNT/Alexandra Fuller/
978-1-59448-989-1/$35.95/HC/From the highly acclaimed and
best-selling author of don't let's go to the dogs and scribbling
the cat/July 2008.
• spook couNTry/William Gibson/978-0-425-22141-9/PB/
$14.00/From the author of pattern recognition, a novel of
politics and paranoia/“A devestatingly precise reflection of the
American Zeitgeist...bears comparison to the best work of
Don DeLillo.”—washington post/June 2008.
• fall of frosT/Brian Hall/978-0-670-018666-6/$25.95/HC/
Exquisitely written novel about the art and life of Robert
Frost/April 2008.
• a ThousaNd spleNdid suNs/Khaled Hosseini/
978-1-59448-950-1/$25.95/HC/Author of The kite runner
returns with another riveting story/“A forceful but nuanced
portrait of a patriarchal despotism...A powerful, harrowing
depiction of Afghanistan, but also a lyrical evocation of the
lives and hopes of its resilient characters.”—publishers weekly/
May 2008.
• The crime wriTer/Gregg Hurwitz/978-0-14-311344-7/
$14.00/PB/Confronts an inherent fear of what we may truly
be capable of...at once a noir nail-biter, contemporary morality
tale and a vivid dissection of the crime novel itself/HC
chosen by library journal as Best Genre fiction for 2007/June
2008.
• virgiNiTy/Diane Johnson/978-0-525-95037-0/$24.95/HC/
Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist focuses on
CIA operative in Marakesh/Jan 2008.
• maTTers of faiTh/Kristy Kiernan/978-0-425-22179-2/
$14.00/PB/Story of a tragic accident that threatens to tear a
family apart/Aug 2008.
• my revoluTioNs/Hari Kunzru/978-0-525-94932-9/$25.95/
HC/Provacative, timely story that asks the question, what
turns a radical into a terrorist?/Jan 2008.
• walkiNg Back The caT/Robert Littell/978-0-14-311357-7/
$14.00/PB/“Extraordinary thriller challenging, brutal...offbeat
epic about offbeat humanity”—Times london/April 2008.
• shiNiNg aT The BoTTom of The sea/Stephen Marche/
978-1-5944/$14.00/PB/Innovative novel detailing the literary
and cultural history of a fictional country/Aug 2008.
• soNg yeT suNg/james McBride/9781-59448-972-3/$25.95/
HC/From the author of The color of water, story drawn from
historical events of runaway slaves, free blacks, slave catchers
and plantation owners in pre-Civil War Maryland/“Nails the
horror of slavery as well as the power of hope and redemption.”—publishers
weekly/Feb 2008.
• Traveller/Ron McLarty/978-0-14-311288-4/$14.00/PB/
From the author of The memory of running/Mar 2008.
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• arT iN america/Ron McLarty/978-0-670-01895-6/$25.95/
HC/Down on his luck writer accepts a commission to write
and direct a play and walks into a pitched battle between local
ranchers and a fringe anti-property group/July 2008.
• red rover/Deidre McNamer/978-0-14-311354-6/$14.00/
PB/Story of young Montana men who get swept up in the
machinations of WWII/“An engaging and propulsive read that
stirs profound emotions.”—Alice Munroe/Aug 2008.
• dragoNfly summer/Eva Rice/978-0-525-95022-6/$24.95/
HC/A novel about sisters—and best friends—and finding
happiness close to home/June 2008.
• The mayor's ToNgue/Nathaniel Rich/978-1-59448-990-
7/$24.95/HC/Stunningly original novel of obsession and
imagination/“About how we talk to each other and how
make-believe helps us get on with our lives...a brave book
brimming with brio.”—Stephen King/April 2008.
• jusT iN case/Meg Rosoff/978-0-452-28937-6/$13.00/PB/
“Examines the idea of fate through minutely observed
catastrophes and the intersection of exquisitely drawn
characters...Funny, ironic, magically real, stunning.”—kirkus/
Winner of the Carnegie Medal/Feb 2008.
• more ThaN iT hurTs you/Darin Strauss/
978-0-525-95070-7/ $24.95/HC/From the author of the
acclaimed chang and eng/June 2008.
• flower childreN/Maxinne Swann/978-1-59448-311-0/
$14.00/PB/“Evokes the wonder of childhood...with an almost
hallucinatory precision.”—vogue/June 2008.
• amoNg oTher ThiNgs i've TakeN up smokiNg/
Aoibheann Sweeney/978-0-14-311341-6/$14.00/PB/Story
about the human need for intimacy from the Director of the
Center for Humanities at CUNY Grad Center/June 2008.
• luNcheoN of The BoaTiNg parTy/Susan Vreeland/
978-0-14-311312-2/$15.00/PB/“Exquisitely wrought...writing,
painstaking research...combine with a talent of communicating
Impressionism's...ideas and theories.”—seattle Times/Mar 2008.
• The kiNgs of New york/Michael Weinreb/
978-1-592-40338-7/$15.00/PB/“Weinreb has captured both
the intellectual insanity—and the curious normalcy—of what
it's like to be a teenaged super-genius...the friday Night lights
of high school chess.”—Chuck Klosterman, author of sex,
drugs, and cocoa puffs and chuck klosterman iv/Mar 2008.
• huNk ciTy/James Wilcox/978-014-311312-6/$14.00/PB/
From MFA Director at Louisiana State comes a comic novel
about culture wars/Mar 2008.
• pharmakoN/Dirk Wittenborn/978-0-067-01942-7/$25.95/
HC/Based on true events: 1950s experiments at Yale with
mood altering drugs result in murder and lifetime
consequences/Aug 2008.
• loTTery/Patricia Wood/978-0-425-22220-1/$14.00/PB/
“Much more than a novel about a windfall...it's a book about
a stupendous event affecting many people, especially the
reader.”—Paul Theroux/June 2008.
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sCIENCE FICTION/FANTAsY
• The alchemisT’s appreNTice/Dave Duncan/
978-0-441-01575-7/$7.99/PB/Features the apprentice to
Nostradamus in an alternate historical Venice/March 2008.
• The accideNTal Time machiNe/Joe Haldeman/
978-0-441-011616-7/$7.99/PB/Newest science fiction novel
from the winner of the 2006 Nebula Award in which time
travel runs awry/Author is adjunct professor at MIT/Aug 2007.
• heaveN's NeT is wide: The firsT Tale of The oTori/Lian
Hearn/978-1-59448-953-2/$26.95/HC/“One of the most
thrilling new series of our time”—The london Times/Aug 2007.
• world's aparT: an anthology of russian fantasy and science
fiction/Translated, Edited, with Commentary by Alexander
Levitsky/978-1-59020-820-4/$23.95/PB/Includes Pushkin,
Lermontov, Turgenev, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Bulgakov/656 pp/May
2008.
• The mooN pool/A. Merritt/978-1-59020-071-1/$13.95/PB/
Classic first published in 1919 from one of the great pioneers
of science fiction, the inspiration for the television series,
lost/July 2008.
• NeBula awards showcase 2008/Edited by Ben Bova/
978-0-451-46188-9/$16.00/PB/Features Kelly Link, Joe Halderman,
Carol Emshwiller, Harlan Ellison, Lou Anders, Kevin Anderson,
John Picacio, Jack McDevitt, Ben Bova, etc/Apr 2008.
• galaxy Blues/Allen M. Steele/978-0-441-0156-1/$24.95/
HC/From the Hugo Award-winning author of the coyote
trilogy/April 2008.
• faeries of dreamdark: Blackbringer/Laini Taylor/
978-0-39924-630-2/$17.99/HC/Debut fantasy novel/Magpie
sets out to save the world unset from its course by humans.
• opeNiNg aTlaNTis/Harry Turtledove/978-0-45146-174-2/
$24.95/HC/First of a trilogy rewrites the history of the world
with an 8th continent/Dec 2007
YOUNG ADUlT lITERATURE
• TwisTed/Laurie Halse Anderson/978-0-142-41184-1/$9.99/
PB/Male teen identity novel by speak author/May 2008.
• geek aBroad/Piper Baks/978-0-451-22393-7/$9.99/PB/
Story of a high school for gifted children/May 2008.
• peeled/Joan Bauer/978-0-399-23475-0/$16.99/HC/
Newberry winner's new novel in which a high school journalist
attempts to solve haunted house mystery/May 2008.
• march Toward The ThuNder/Joseph Bruchac/
978-0-803-73188-2/$16.99/HC/Unique perspective on the
Civil War through the eyes of 15-year-old Canadian Abernaki
Indian/May 2008.
• leTTers To a youNg sisTer/Hill Harper/978-1-5924035-
1/$20.00/HC/Building on the success of letters to a young
Brother, author asks young blacks to aim high/June 2008.

• The ouTsiders: 40 th anniversary edition/S.E. Hinton/
978-0-670-06251-5/$17.99/HC/Original cover/Sep 2007.
• aNNe of greeN gaBles:100th anniversary edition/L.M.
Montogomery/978-0-399-15478-2/$19.95/HC/Feb 2008.
• Before greeN gaBles/Budge Wilson/978-0-399-15468-3/
$22.95/HC/Prequel to ann of green gables/Mar 2008.
• The game of my life: a True story of challenge, Triumph and
growing up autistic/J-Mac and the Four Minutes that Changed
Everything/Jason McElwain (J-Mac) & Daniel Paisner/
978-0-451-22301-2/$23.95/HC/Uplifting memoir by autistic
teenager and his unlikely star turn in a high school basketball
game/Feb 2008.
lANGUAGE/WRITING/jOURNAlIsm
• By hook or By crook: a journey in search of english/David
Crystal/978-1-59020-06102/$27.95/HC/From the esteemed
language expert, comes a Bryon-esque linguistic travelogue/
May 2008.
• IT'S NOT NEWS, IT'S FARK: how mainstream media Tries
to pass off crap as News/Drew Curtis/978-1-592-40366-0/
$12.00/PB/From the Jon Stewart of the internet/“fark is for
fans of The daily show, News of the wierd...not for the
squeamish.”—The washington post/June 2008.
• how To say iT iN BusiNess wriTiNg ThaT works:The
simple 10-step Target outline system to help you reach your
Bottom line/Adina Gewirtz/978-0-7352-428-7/$11.95/PB/
Includes examples, exercises, troubleshooting advice/Aug
2008.
• The firsT word: The search for the origins of language/
Christine Kenneally/978-0-14-311374-4/$16.00/PB/Scientific
research on the evolution of language/May 2008.
• april 16 th : Tragedy in Blacksburg/Edited by Roland Lazenby
and the Journalism Students of Virginia Tech/
978-0-452-28934-5/$14.00/PB/Relays events, including the
recovery and resiliency of the community from the students'
perspectives—a portion of royalties from the book will be
donated to Memorial Fund for the victims and their families/
"Fascinating instructive document...an antidote to the edited
sound-bite version we saw on T.V.”—New york Times/Aug 2007.
• oBiT/Jim Sheeler/978-0-14-311383-6/$14.00/PB/From
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist comes “Prose so good that it
transcends the individual's obituary to speak about mortality
in general.”—chicago sun-Times/May 2008.
• The peNguiN laTiN dicTioNary/Robert Shorrock & David
Butterfield/978-0-141-01555-2/$14.00/PB/Aug 2008.
• The Book of oTher people/Edited with an Intro by Zadie
Smith/978-0-14-303818-4/$15.00/PB/Anthology of over 25
writings illlustrating characterization by well-known and
outstanding contemporary writers, including Nick Hornby,
Zadie Smith, Jonathan Lethem, Jonathan Safran Foer, Dave
Eggers, and many more/Jan 2008.
• liTerally, The BesT laNguage Book ever: annoying words
and abused phrases you should Never use again/Paul Yeager/
978-0-399-53423-2/$13.95/PB/Goes beyond grammar, commenting
on how we use—or abuse—our language/May 2008.
FIlm
• picTures aT a revoluTioN: five movies and the Birth of New
hollywood/Mark Harris/978-1-59420152-3/$27.95/HC/Human
drama of academy-award nominated movies and the cultural
revolution that transformed Hollywood/“Captures the rising
cultural tide that broke in the late 60s...and Hollywood's
inconsistent engagement with the Civil Rights movement.”—
publishers weekly/Feb 2008.
• iNside iNside/James Lipton/978-0-525-95035-6/$27.95/HC/
The host of inside the actor's studio offers behind-the-
scenes close-ups of hundreds of celebrated artists/Oct 2007.
• americaN movie criTics: an anthology from the silents until
Now/Edited by Phillip Lopate/978-1-59583-022-3/$19.95/
PB/Includes Pauline Kael, Andrew Sarris, James Agee, Susan
Sontag, H.L. Mencken, Molly Haskell, Roger Ebert, A.O. Scott,
among others/750 pp/Feb 2008.
• leoNard malTiN's movie guide 2009/Leonard
Maltin/978-0-451-22468-2/$9.99/PB/Aug 2008.
memoir/bio/autobiography
• a summer of hummiNgBirds: love, art, and scandal in the
intersecting worlds of emily dickinson mark Twain, harriet Beecher
stowe, and martin johnson heade/Christopher Benfey/
978-1-59420-160-8/$25.95/PB/Mt. Holyoke English professor
explores how American thought was changed/Mar 2008.
• No maN's laNd/Ruth Fowler/978-0-670-01939-7/$24.95/
HC/A gritty account of how a young woman rescued herself
from the underbelly of Manhattan's strip clubs, and an acute
social commentary of those who live and work illegally in the
sexual service industry in the U.S./June 2008.
• joaN of arc/Mary Gordon/978-0-14-311397-3/$14.00/PB/
“Gordon is perfectly matched with Joan of Arc, and the book
she has written is both a compelling life story and a shrewd
analysis of the mythical uses to which it has been put.”—New
york Times/Aug 2008.
• TurTle feeT: The making and unmaking of a Buddhist
monk/Nikolai Grozni/978-1-59448-984-6/$24.95/HC/Colorful
memoir of becoming a monk and a young man's spiritual and
not-so-spiritual journey in India/May 2008.
• dead lucky: life after death on mount everest/Lincoln
Hall/978-1-58542-646-1/$24.95/HC/“Gripping almost unbelievable
story of survival that offers insight into a largely
misunderstood domain.”—sun herald, Australia/May 2008.
• The misTress's daughTer/A.M. Homes/
978-0-14-311331-7/$15.00/PB/Given up for adoption before
birth, the story of what happened when, thirty years later,
Homes's birth parents came looking for her/“The latest
example of Homes's fearlessness and brilliance.”—Zadie
Smith/April 2008.
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• The maN who made lisTs/Joshua Kendall/
978-0-399-1546-2/$25.95/HC/Authoritative story of polymath
Peter Mark Roget of roget's Thesaurus, in the tradition of The
professor and the madman/Mar 2008.
• Body of work: meditations on mortality from the human
anatomy lab/Christine Montross/978-0-14-311366-9/$15.00/
PB/Memoir of the relationship between a cadaver & the
med student who dissected her from psychiatriy resident at
Brown/“Thoughtful meditations on balancing clinical detachment
and emotional engagement.”—publishers weekly/June 08.
• The age of TurBuleNce: adventures in a New world/Alan
Greenspan/978-0-14-311416-1/$16.00/PB/The ultimate
master class on how the global economy really works from
the master himself/640 pp/Sep 2008.
• TweNTy chickeNs for a saddle: The story of an african
childhood/Robyn Scott/978-1-59420159-2/$24.95/HC/
Adventures growing up in Botswana/April 2008.
• love aNd coNseQueNces: coming of age in a l.a. gang/
Peggy Seltzer/978-1-59448-977-8/$24.95/HC/Life with the
L.A. gang, the Bloods and how the author survived, escaped,
and, against all odds, thrived/”Steely and honest...L.A.'s South
central ghetto is seen afresh in this harrowing yet hopeful
memoir.”—kirkus/Mar 2008.
• The girl from foreigN/Sadia Shepard/978-1-59420-151-6
$25.95/HC/Young Muslim-Christian woman travels to insular
Jewish community in India to unlock family secrets/Aug 2008.
• druNkard: a hard drinking life/Neil Steinberg/
978-0-525-96065-3/$24.95/HC/smashed for the older
generation/June 2008.
• BroTher oNe cell: an american coming of age in south
korea’s prisons/Cullen Thomas/978-0-143-11311-9/$15.00/PB/
Insightful coming-of-age in prison story/Mar 2008.
CURRENT EvENTs
• The dumBesT geNeraTioN: how the digital age stupefies
young americans and jepordizes our future (or don't Trust anyone
under 30)/Mark Bauerlein/978-1-58542-639-3/$24.95/HC/Prof
at Emory reports on the intellectual life of young adults and
its impact on American democracy and culture/May 2008.
• a place called caNTerBury: Tales of the New old age in
america/Dudley Clendinen/978-0-670-01884-0/$24.95/HC/
Examines a group of residents in a geriatric apartment house/
Finalist for the J. Lukas Anthony Work-in-Progress Award for
topic of political or social concern/May 2008.
• sTaNdard operaTiNg procedure/Philip Gourevitch and
Errol Morris/978-1-59420-132-5/$25.95/HC/First full
reckoning on what happened in Abu Ghraib by two of the
keenest moral and political observers of our time/368 pp/
April 2008.
• oN call iN hell: a doctor’s iraq war story/Cdr. Richard
Jadick with Thomas Hayden/978-0-451-22308-1/$22.95/PB/
From the most decorated U.S. doctor in Iraq/Mar 2008.
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• all aBouT The BeaT: why hip-hop can't save Black america/
John McWhorter/978-1-592-40374-5/$20.00/PB/Trenchant
polemic from controversial author which should add to the
debate/June 2008.
• paNdemoNium: Bird flu, mad cow disease and other Biological
plagues of the 21st century/Andrew Nikiforuk/
978-0-670-04519-8/$26.95/HC/“Well-researched and wellwritten
catalog of horrors.”—William Leiss, O.C., Ph.D.,
McLaughlin Center for Population Health Risk Assesment.
• us aNd Them: The New ultra-wealth and what's left for the
rest of us/Greg Palast/978-0-525-95063-9/$25.95/HC/
Brilliant dispatches on greed and corruption from the author
of Best democracy money can Buy and armed madhouse/“Palast
upsets all the right people”—Noam Chomsky/May 2008.
• how To waTch Tv News: revised edition/Neil Postman &
Steve Powers/978-0-14-311377-5/$14.00/PB/July 2008.
• whaT every americaN should kNow aBouT The
middle easT/Melissa Rossi/978-0-452-28959-8/$16.00/PB/“A
funky foreign affairs seminar.”—Newsday/Dec 2008.
POlITICAl sCIENCE
• why we're liBerals: a political handbook for post-Bush
america/Eric Alterman/978-0-670-01860-4/$22.95/HC/Spirited
polemic that demolishes the many myths about liberalism/Mar
2008.
• The argumeNT: Billionaires, Bloggers, and the Battle to remake
democratic politics/Matt Bai/978-0-14-3311417-8/$16.00/
PB/“Semi-secret history of the Democratic party...thoroughly
reported–and dead serious–look at the direction politics is
headed at an important moment in history.”—Time magazine/
New york Times Notable Book/Aug 2008.
• The BiN ladeNs: an arabian family in the american century/
Steve Coll/978-1-59420-164-6/$35.00/HC/From two time
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of ghost wars, story of the
family's rise to privilege, revealing new information on how
American influences affected the family and how they in turn
changed America/688 pp/April 2008.
• BrokeN goverNmeNT: how republican rule destroyed the
legislative, executive, and judicial Branches/John Dean/
978-0-670-01820-8/$25.95/HC/Examines the current state
of the branches of government and offers solutions/Sep 2007.
• Blue griT: making impossible, improbable, and inspirational
political change in america/Laura Flanders/978-0-14311322-5/
$15.00/PB/Fiery polemic, assured narrative, acute political
commentary/Feb 2008.
• The assaulT oN reasoN/Al Gore/978-0-14-3311362-1/
$16.00/PB/A visionary analysis of how the politics of fear,
secrecy, cronyism and blind faith has combined with the
degradation of the public sphere to create an environment
dangerously hostile to reason/“A mindful book on the Bush
administration's assault on reason, truth, civil liberties, the
seperation of the powers, the environment, and world order.”—The
atlantic monthly/May 2008.

• The poliTical miNd: why you can't understand 21 st-century
politics with an 18 th-century view of the mind/George Lakoff/
978-0-670-01927-4/$25.95/HC/Distinguished prof of Cognitive
Science at UC-Berkeley explains the science behind how
we make political decisions—and how to put that science to
work/304 pp/June 2008.
• The dirTy dozeN: how Twelve supreme court cases radically
expanded government and eroded freedom/Robert A. Levy &
William Mellor/Foreword by Richard W. Epstein/
978-1-59523-050-8/$25.95/May 2008.
• The secreT hisTory of The americaN empire: The Truth
about economic hit men, jackals and how to change the world/
John Perkins/978-0-452-28957-4/$15.00/PB/“Bold assault on
the tyranny of corporate globalization”—Howard Zinn/May
2008.
• Bad moNey: reckless finance, failed politics, and the global
crisis of american capitalism/Kevin Phillips/978-0-670-01907-
6/$25.95/HC/Devastating follow-up to american Theocracy—
how the U.S. financial sector has hijacked our economy and
put America's global future at risk/“Extensively researched...
frighteningly persuasive.”—New york Times/April 2008.
• chasiNg The flame: sergio viera de mello and the fight to
save the world/Samantha Power/978-1-59420-128-5/$32.95/
HC/From Professor of Global Leadership & Public Policy at
Harvard and winner of 2003 Pulitzer Prize, National Book
Critics Circle Award, J. Anthony Lukas Prize, Arthur Ross
Prize/Saga of the audacious UN High Commissioner whose
poliltical career and tragic death define the struggle to secure
peace and human rights today/“Profoundly important...As a
study of leadership, it ranks with the very best. As an analysis
of how to respond to the struggles of the new era, it is the
defining work for our generation”—Doris Kearns Goodwin/
520 pp/Feb 2008.
• disasTer: The u.s. and the failure of Nation Building in pakistan,
afghanistan, and central asia/Ahmed Rashid/978-0-670-01970-0/
$27.95/HC/“Pakistan's best and bravest reporter” (Christopher
Hitchens) will do for Central Asia what fiasco did for
Iraq—offers a blistering critique of the Bush administaration
and a call to correct our failed strategy/June 2008.
• hispaNic: why some americans fear the growth of hispanics in
america/Geraldo Rivera/978-0-451-22414-9/$24.95/HC/Epic
account of the growth of the Hispanic market and the changing
face of America with a foreword by Bill O'Reilly/May 2008.
• leT Them iN: The case for open Borders: 12 myths about immigration
and why They're wrong/Jason Riley/978-1-59240349-3/
$22.50/HC/Conservative journalist's measured argument on
how immigration keeps the U.S. strong/May 2008.
• commoN wealTh: economics for a crowded planet/Jeffrey D.
Sachs/978-1-59420127-1/$27.95/HC/One of the world’s great
economic minds and author of The end of poverty, presents
a map to global prosperity and an augury of global collapse
should we choose not to follow it/“By making sense of economics
as it affects the lives of people, this book is an
excellent resource to understand what changes the 21 st
century may bring.”—Kofi Annan, 2001 Nobel Peace Prize and
former Secretary-General of the U.N./Mar 2008.
• u.s. versus Them: how a half-century of conservatism has
underminded america's security/J. Peter Scoblic/
978-0-670-018882-6/$25.95/HC/Examines post-WWII history
of conservatism in the U.S. and its consequences for 21 st-century
geopolitics/320 pp/May 2008.
• oNly a Theory: evolution and the Battle for america's soul/
Kenneth R. Miller/978-0-670-01883-3/$25.95/HC/Acclaimed
biology prof at Brown examines the battle between evolution
and intelligent design and it's implications for America's role
as a scientific leader/256 pp/June 2008.
• ThiNkiNg BeyoNd The uNThiNkaBle: harnassing doom
from the cold war to the age of Terror/Jonathan Stevenson/
978-0-670-01901-4/$26.95/HC/Strategic Studies prof at U.S.
Naval Academy analyzes and explains what the Cold War can
teach us about the War on Terror/320 pp/Aug 2008.
lEGAl sTUDIEs & CRImINOlOGY
• The murder room: The heirs of sherlock holmes gather to
solve the world's most perplexing cold cases/Michael
Capuzzo/978-1-592-40142-0/$27.50/HC/A team of foremost
forensic investigators who meet every month to solve cold
cases and bring murderers to justice/May 2008.
• dishoNoraBle passioNs: sodomy law in america, 1861-
2003/ William Eskridge, Jr./978-0-670-01862-8/$27.95/HC/The
history of government's regulation of sexual behavior/May 08
• poisoNiNg of aN americaN high school/Joy
Horowitz/978-0-14-3113867/$16.00/PB/Investigation of a
landmark trial which examines the connection between
big money, corporate malfeasance, and environmental
toxicity/“Authoritative account...A clarian call about how Big
Oil trumps scientific inquiry and concern for the health of
children.”—Sheila Weller/July 2008.
• god oN Trial: Dispatches from America’s Religious
Battlefields/Peter Irons/978-0-14311375-1/$16.00/PB/
In-depth look at five contemporary court battles on the separation
of church and state from a leading expert and former
Professor Emeritus of Law at UC, San Diego/June 2008.
• Blood oN The TaBle: The greatest cases of New york city's
office of the chief medical examiner/Colin Evans/
978-0-425-21937-9/$15.00/PB/Mar 2008.
• BeaTiNg The devil's game: a history of forensic science and
criminal investigation/Katherine Ramsland, Ph.D./
978-0-425-22146-4/$15.00/PB/From beginnings in 13 th
century China to the present and beyond where DNA
evidence will be analyzed on the spot/June 2008.
• afTermaTh, iNc.: cleaning up after csi goes home/Gil
Reavill/978-1-592-40364-6/$15.00/PB/“Tells the stories with
compassion for both sides...His eye for details and grasp of
forensic science are impressive, but it is his empathy for
people that will affect readers the most.”—Booklist/May 2008.
• law aNd The loNg war: The future of justice in the age of
Terror/Benjamin Wittes/978-1-59420-179-X/$25.95/HC/
Critique of the legal battles fought by and between the Bush
administration, Congress and the Supreme Court/June 2008.
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mIlITARY hIsTORY
• call of duTy: my life Before, during, and after Band of Brothers/Lt.
Lynn “Buck” Compton with Marcus Brotherton/
978-0-425-21970-6/$24.95/HC/May 2008.
• The caNdy BomBers: The untold story of the Berlin airlift
and america's finest hour/Andrei Cherny/978-0-399-1549-6/
$29.95/HC/The untold story of the men who made the Berlin
Airlift a great military and humanitarian success/“A book that
lives up this glorious moment in American history.”—Walter
Isaacson/April 2008.
• faces of war The untold story of edward steichen's aviation
photographic unit/Mark Faram/978-0-425-22140-2/$15.95/PB/
May 2008.
• lioNs of mediNa: The marines of charlie company and the
Battle for Barrier island/Doyle D. Glass/978-0-451-22408-8/
$15.00/PB/Fighting in the jungles of South Vietnam/July 2008.
• commaNd of hoNor: general lucian Truscott's path to
victory in world war ii/H. Paul Jeffers/978-0-451-22402-6/
$24.95/HC/June 2008.
• fear up harsh: an army interrogator’s dark journey Through
iraq/Anthony Lagouranis & Allen Mikaelian/978-0-451-22315-9/
$14.95/PB/First-hand account by former U.S. army
interrogator at Abu Ghraib who challenged what he perceived
as an immoral command/“Anyone who wants to know what
went wrong in Iraq should read this book.”—Michael Posner,
Human Rights Watch/April 2008.
• 15 sTars: eisenhower, macarthur, marshall: Three generals who
saved the american century/Stanley Weintraub/
978-0-451-22392-0/$15.00/PB/560 pp with B&W photos/May
2008.
• BeyoNd BaNd of BroThers: The war memoirs of major
dick winters/Dick Winters with Colonel Cole C. Kingseed/
978-0-425-21375-9/$15.00/PB/From the commander of Easy
Company immortalized in Band of Brothers/May 2008.
WORlD hIsTORY
• The imperial capiTals of chiNa: a dynastic history of the
celestial empire/Arthur Cotterell/978-1-59020-007-0/$27.95/
HC/Offers a level of insight indispensable for a true understanding
of China/June 2008.
• lawreNce aNd aaroNsohN: T.e. lawrence, aaron aaronsohn,
and the seeds of the arab-israeli conflict/Ronald Florence/
978-0-14-311382-9/$18.00/PB/Story of how the Middle East
was shaped after WWI by pre-eminent historian/“Suspense
and pathos in Florence's saga of the war-torn Middle East.”—
publishers weekly/544 pp/July 2008.
• four QueeNs: The provencal sisters who ruled europe/Nancy
Goldstone/978-014-311325-6/$15.00/PB/“Goldstone moves
her four sisters expertly across the chessboard of European
politics, from princely machinations...to war, rebellion and
crusades to the Holy Land. Based on a solid bedrock of
scholarship.”—Ross King, author of Brunelleschi’s dome/Mar
2008.
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• The compleTe idioT's guide To world myThology/
Evans Lansing Smith, Ph.D./978-1-592-57764-4/$18.95/PB/July
2008.
• The Thief aT The eNd of The world: rubber, power, and
the seeds of empire/Joe Jackson/978-0-4670-01853-6/$27.95/
HC/Timely story of Henry Wickham, and the Victorian era
of spectacular boom and bust in the history of resource
extraction/“Of interest to all these days, as resources across
the board are running out...will occupy an honored place in
the library on Amazonia.”—Alex Shoumatoff, author of The
rivers amazon and The world is Burning/Feb 2008.
• reappraisals: reflections on the forgotten Twentieth century/
Tony Judt/978-1-59420-136-3/$29.95/HC/From NYU
Professor and Director of European Studies and author of the
highly acclaimed postwar/448 pp/Dec 2007.
• mr. gaTliNg's TerriBle marvel: The gun That changed
everything and the misunderstood genius who invented it/Julia
Keller/978-0-670-01894-9/$25.95/HC/Pulitzer-prize winning
author explores the invention of the first machine gun during
the Civil War and America's swift climb to global preeminence
as a result/304 pp/July 2008.
• faTeful choices: Ten decisions That changed the world, 1940-
1941/Ian Kershaw/978-0-14-311372-0/$18.00/PB/“Superb...
excellent job of synthesizing a great deal of scholarship...to
further our understanding of this epic struggle—as well as the
role of contingency in making history.”—Max Boot, New york
Times Book review/656 pp/June 2008.
• The israel-araB reader: a documentary history of the
middle east conflict, seventh revised & updated edition/Walter
Laqueur & Barry Rubin/978-0-14-311377-9/$18.00/PB/592
pp/Long awaited edition includes a new Intro and Timeline/
May 2008.
• empires of TrusT: how rome Built—and america is
Building—a New world/Thomas F. Madden/978-0-525-95074-5/
$25.95/HC/Saint Louis University professor and expert on
Medieval and Ancient History shows how the global power of
Rome and the U.S. was uniquely built on trust between allies,
not conquest of enemies/July 2008.
• jerusalem 1913: The origins of the arab-israeli conflict/Amy
Dockser Marcus/978-0-14-311328-7/$15.00/PB/From Pulitzer
Prize-winning journalist/“Insightful...critical and even handed...
a page-turning, heartbreaking narrative.”—San francisco
chronicle/Mar 2008.
• shades of differeNce/Padraig O’Malley/Foreword by
Nelson Mandela/978-0-14-023224-0/$18.00/PB/University of
Mass professor traces the entire freedom struggle in South
Africa, and Maharaj’s place in it/“Clearly important for scholars...relays
a myriad examples of living in the web of racial
regulations...and the price that he (Maharaj) paid for his fight
against them”—Booklist/April 2008.
• parTNers iN commaNd: george marshall and dwight
eisenhower in war and peace/Mark Perry/
978-0-14-311385-0/$17.00/PB/“A marvelous new way to walk
us through the momentous decisions that shaped the victory in
WWII—through the relationship between the two most important
generals of the time.”—Seymour Hirsch/512 pp/May 2008.

• The heirs of muhammad: islam's first century and the
origins of the sunni-shia spllit/John Crowley/
978-1-59020-022-3/$14.95/PB/“Exciting, relevant, thoroughly
researched history told with great gusto.”—Times literary
supplement/432 pp/May 2008.
• jusTiNiaN’s flea: plague, empire, and the Birth of europe/
William Rosen/978-0-14-311381-2/$16.00/PB/“Narrative
history writing at its best. Breathtaking in its scope...transforms
our understanding of key events in history”—Karl Sabbagh,
author of The riemann hypothesis and skyscraper/August 2008.
• The forsakeN: an american Tragedy in stalin's russia/
Timotheos Tzouliadis/978-1-59420-168-4/$27.95/HC/During
Depression era America thousands were lured to Russia, only
to meet a tragic and, until now, forgotten end/320 pp/June
2008.
spycrafT: The secret history of the cia's spytechs from
communism to al-Qaeda/Robert Wallace & H. Keith Melton,
with Henry R. Schlesinger/978-0-525-94980-0/$29.95/HC/
Definitive inside history of how Central Intelligence Agent
spies do their work using amazing technology/480 pp/June
2008.
EUROPEAN hIsTORY
• The war for all The oceaNs: from Nelson at the Nile to
Napoleon at waterloo/Roy Adkins & Leslie Adkins/
978-0-14-311392-8/$17.00/PB/“Vivid account of the naval
campaigns of the Napoleanic Wars...Meticulously
researched.”— publishers weekly/Aug 2008.
• The pursuiT of glory: europe 1648-1815/Tim
Blanning/General Editor, David Cannadine/978-0-14-311389-8/
$20.00/PB/Penguin History of Europe Series/“Magnificent...
In 708 pages, we traverse two centuries—from the last days
of Charles I to the end of the Napoleonic wars...The grand
themes are all here...this capacity for the Olympian view...coexits
with an ability to telescope in with vivid clarity...a truly
glorious book.”—The sunday Times, London/June 2008.
• aN imperial possessioN: Britain in the roman empire, 54 Bc
- ad 409/David Mattingly/978-0-14-014822-0/$20.00/PB/From
Prof at Univ of Leicester comes an "Examplary work...from
brothal slaves to procurators, from the very lowest to the
highest, all are here in a magnificent work.”—spectator/June
2008.
• The lasT day: wrath, ruin, and reason in the great lisbon
earthquake of 1755/Nicholas Shrady/978-0-670-/$25.95/HC/
Well-researched and well-writen account of how this event
shook the religious and intellectual foundations of
Enlightenment Europe and particularly affected Portugal,
caausing enormous changes/April 2008.
• The verNeys: a True story of love, war, and madness in seventeenth-century
england/Adrian Tinniswood/
978-1-59448-309-7/$20.00/PB/“Invaluable case study of
aristocratic Stuart England's manners, customs, and affairs
—financial, legal, amorous...thorough research...a talent for
storytelling.”—kirkus/592 pp/May 2008.
AmERICAN hIsTORY
from the Penguin Library of american indian
history series
• americaN iNdiaNs aNd The law/N. Bruce Duthu, J.D./
978-0-670-01857-4/$21.95/HC/Renowned scholar explores
the history and unique constitutional status of Indian tribes/
Feb 2008.
• The shawNees aNd The war for america/Colin G.
Calloway/978-0-14-311391-1/$14.00/PB/ From history
professor at UNC/“Comprehensive and passionate”—Leslie
Marmo Silko, author of ceremony/“A remarkably accessible
distillation.”—publishers weekly/July 2008.
• The cherokee NaTioN aNd The Trail of Tears/Theda
Perdue & Michael D. Green/978-0-14-311-367-6/$14.00/PB/
From history profs at UNC one of the first books in the new
Penguin Library of American Indian History Series/“Broadens
our understanding...a human story, not only tragic but also
unbelievably heroic.”—l.a. Times/July 2008.
• The iroQuois aNd diplomacy oN The early americaN
froNTier/Timothy J. Shannon/978-0-670-01897-0/$22.95/
HC/Associate Professor at Gettysburg College examines the
deeply political world of Revolution-era Iroquois/July 2008.
• compleTe idioT's guide To us hisTory illusTraTed:
fourth edition/Alan Axelrod, Ph.D./978-1-592-57702-6/$18.95/
PB/July 2008.
• Texas deaTh row: executions in the modern age/Edited by
Bill Crawford/978-0-452-28930-7/$16.00/PB/Opens up one of
the most controversial issues in America today/Feb 2008.
• falleN fouNder: The life of aaron Burr/Nancy Isenberg/
978-0-14-311371-3/$17.00/PB/Definitive bio/ “Her study of
Burr is full of insight and new research...an important and
engaging account.”—New york Times Book review/560 pp/May
2008.
• coNQueriNg goTham, a gilded age epic: The construction
of penn station and its Tunnels/Jill Jonnes/978-0-143-11324-9/
$16.00/PB/ “A wonderfully told saga.”—Henry Petroski
History & Civil Engineering, Duke/April 2008.
• Now The hell will sTarT: one soldier's flight from the
greatest manhunt of world war ii/Brendan I. Koerner/
978-1-59420-173-8/$25.95/HC/Tale of the black soldier
turned folk hero who sparked the greatest manhunt in WWII
through the Indo-Burmese wilderness/June 2008.
• The liBeral hour: washington and the politics of change in
the 1960s/G. Calvin Mackenzie & Robert S. Weisbrot/
978-1-59420-170-7/$27.95/HC/Colby College profs present
revelatory premise that Washignton was the era's most effective
engine of reform and not just its target/432 pp/July 2008.
• The day The world eNded aT liTTle BighorN: a lakota
history/joseph Marshall/978-0-14-311369-0/$15.00/PB/
In-depth look at the Battle of Little Big Horn from the Lakota
perspective/“A thoughtful and enlightening alternative look at
this iconic chapter in American history.”—kirkus/June 2008.
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• readiNg The maN: a portrait of robert e. lee Through his
private letters/Elizabeth Brown Pryor/978-0-14-311390-4/
$20.00/PB/Draws on previously unpublished correspondence
to create a unique blend of analysis, narrative, historigoraphy/Apr
2008.
• fiNal saluTe: a story of unfinished lives/Jim Sheeler/
978-1-59420-165-3/$25.95/HC/Unprecedented look at the
way our country honors its war dead/320 pp/May 2008.
• americaN eve: evelyn Nesbit, stanford white, and the crime
of the century/Paula Uruburu/978-1-59448-993-8/$27.95/PB/
From Chair of English Dept at Hofstra, a story of America
entering the modern age/May 2008.
• loNe sTar lawmeN: The second century of the Texas
rangers/Robert M. Utley/978-0-425-21938-6/$16.00/PB/
Includes Bonnie & Clyde, the Waco seige/400 pp/Mar 2008.
• The purpose of The pasT: reflections on the uses of history/
Gordon S. Wood/978-1-59420154-7/$27.95/PB/Reflections on
the historian's craft and place in American culture/Mar 2008.
AmERICAN sTUDIEs
• how does iT feel To Be a proBlem?: Being young and arab
in america/Moustafa Mohamed Bayoumi/978-1-59420-176-9/
$24.95/HC/How young Muslim and Arab Americans forge a
life for themselves in today's America/Aug 2008.
• meaT: my year in search of the perfect meal/Susan Bourette/
978-0-399-15486-7/$24.95/PB/Investigative journalist takes
reader from bucolic farms to Texas cattle drive to Inuit whale
hunt to Greenwich Village butcher shop to explore what it
means to be a compassionate carnivore/May 2008.
• TwiNkie, decoNsTrucTed: my journey to discover how
the ingredients found in processed foods are grown, mined (yes,
mined), and manipulated into what america eats/Steve Ettlinger/
978-0-452-28928-4/$15.00/PB/“An insightful look into the
food processing industry.”—library journal/Mar 2008.
• The chris farley show: a Biography in Three acts/Tom
Farley, Jr. & Tanner Colby/978-0-670-01923-6/$26.95/HC/
Harrowing portrait of saturday Night live comedian/May 2008.
• The Book of The damNed: The collected works of charles
fort/Preface by Jim Steinmeyer/978-1-58542-641-6/$18.95/
PB/“No one in the world has suggested the underlying depths
and mysteries...as has Fort. To me he is simply stupendous.”
—TheodoreDreiser/May 2008.
• americaN BaNd: music, dreams, and coming of age in the
heartland/Kristen Laine/978-1-592-40319-6/HC/$26.00/“An
incisive portrait of life and coming of age in our 'heartland'–
pushes through the stereotypes about 'red states,'
'evangelicals,' and the nature of life in the middle of our
nation.”—Susan Eaton, author of The children in room e-4:
american education/Aug 2007.
• us guys: The True and Twisted mind of the american man/
Charles LeDuff/978-0-14-311306-5/$15.00/PB/A road trip
from the Pulitzer Prize-winning heir to Jack Kerouac and
Hunter S. Thompson/Mar 2008.
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• alice waTers aNd chez paNisse: The romantic, impractical,
often eccentric, ultimately Brilliant making of a food revolution/
Thomas McNamee/978-0-143-11308-9/$15.00/PB/Authorized
bio of Alice Waters, and the 1970s counterculture food
revolution that invented “American cuisine.”/336 pp/Mar 2008.
• oNe perfecT day: The selling of the american wedding/
Rebecca Mead/978-0-14-311384-3/$15.00/PB/“A sobering and
sorely needed examination of how and why contemporary
nuptials have turned into bank-breaking three-ring circuses.”
—los angeles Times/Aug 2008.
• piTch perfecT: The Quest for collegiate a capella glory/Mickey
Rapkin/978-1-592-40376-9/$26.00/HC/Behind the scenes look
at the bizarre, inspiring competition for national
championships/June 2008.
• playiNg wiTh The eNemy: a Baseball prodigy, a world war,
and a field of Broken dreams/Gary W. Moore/Foreword by
Jim Morris978-0-14-3113881/$15.00/PB/Story of small-town
prodigy/“A 20 th-century epic that demonstrates how,
sometimes, letting go of a dream is the only way to discover
one's great fortune.”—publishers weekly/May 2008.
• hospiTal: man, woman, Birth, death, infinity, plus red Tape, Bad
Behavior, money, god and diversity on steroids/Julie Salamon/
978-1-59420-171-4/$25.95/HC//320 pp/Investigative reporter
follows a year in the life of urban hospital, a revealing portrait
of how medical care is delivered in the U.S./ “Captures the
tensions and triumphs of today's medicine.”—Dr. Jerome
Groopman, author of how doctors Think/May 2008.
• charles forT: The man who invented the supernatural/Jim
Steinmeyer/978-1-58542-640-9/$23.95/HC/First c
omprehensive bio of the 20th century's premier chronicler of
the paranormal/May 2008.
• gaNg leader for a day/Sudhir Venkatesh/
978-1-59420-150-9/$25.95/HC/Columbia Prof of Sociology &
African-American Studies tells story of how he infiltrated one
of Chicago's most notorious gangs/“Extraordinary book features
the fascinating research of a brilliant young sociologist...
spent years interacting with crack-selling gang members and
struggling residents in a very dangerous public housing project
in Chicago. His riveting portrait...is rich with original information
and insights.”—Willliam Julius Wilson, Harvard/Jan 2008.
sOCIAl sCIENCEs
& CUlTURAl sTUDIEs
• oNce upoN a QuiNceañera/Julia Alvarez/
978-0-452-28830-0/$15.00/PB/“A thoughtful and important
book...a journey into the world of teenage latinas, describing
the issues that bicultural girls face.”—Mary Pipher, author of
reviving ophelia/Also in Spanish, habia una vez una
quinceañera/978-0-452-28939-0/Aug 2008.
• discover your iNNer ecoNomisT: how to use
economics to fall in love, survive your Next meeting, walk Through
art museums, and motivate your dentist/Tyler Cowen/
978-0-452-28963-5/$15.00/PB/Quirky look at how to apply
the logic of economics to all spheres of life from Economics
professor at George Mason University/Winner of Lysander
Spooner Award/June 2008.

• The loliTa affecT: media sexualization of young girls and
what we can do about it/M. Gigi Durham, Ph.D./University of
Iowa professor and journalist offers new insight into American
media myths and sexuality/978-1-59020-063-6/$24.95/HC/
May 2008.
• ceremoNial violeNce: The scientific explanation of
columbine and other school shootings/Jonathan Fast, Ph.D./From
Professor of Social Work at Yeshiva University/
978-1-59020-047-6/$25.95/HC/Aug 2008.
• a few secoNds of paNic: a 5-foot-8, 170-pound, 43-year-old
sportwriter plays in the Nfl/Stefan Fatsis/978-1-59420-178-3/
$25.95/HC/From the author of word freak/July 2008.
• driNk: a cultural history of alcohol/Iain Gately/
978-1-592-40303-5/$30.00/HC/In the tradition of salt,
a spirited look at the long and checkered history of alcohol/
May 2008.
• populuxe from TailfiNs aNd Tv diNNers To BarBie
dolls aNd fallouT shelTers: a decade of modern design/
Thomas Hine/978-1-58567-910-2/$25.00/HC/“One of the
most sprightly cultural histories in a long time.”—New york
Times/Aug 2007.
• daNgerous kNowledge: orientalism and its discontents/
Robert Irwin/978-1-59020-017-9/$16.95/PB/“A survey course
in West-East encounters...Mr. Irwin's all-out assault on Mr. Said
makes for bracing reading.”—New york Times/April 2008.
• The sushi ecoNomy: globalization and the making of a
modern delicacy/Sasha Issenberg/978-1-592-40363-9/$15.00/
PB/“Reveals the complex web of commerce, culture, and
culinary expertise...A thought-provoking repast for the
mind”—library journal/May 2008.
• game Boys: professional videogaming's rise from the Basement
to the Big Time/Michael Kane/978-0-670-01896-3/$24.95/HC/
Vicious rivalries, big money, lawless entrepreneurship in “e”
sport/June 2008.
• firsT sTop iN The New world: a street-level panorma of
mexico city, the megalopolis That represents our urban future/David
Lida/978-1-59448-989-1/$25.95/HC/Portrait of
Mexico—revealing the future of urban life/June 2008.
• The meaNiNg of The 21sT ceNTury: a vital Blueprint for
ensuring our future/James Martin/978-1-59448-259-5/$16.00/
PB/The founder of the James Martin 21st Century School at
Oxford University explains the challenges the world will
confront in the future and offers solutions to the problems/
480 pp/Aug 2008.
• TeeNage: The creation of youth culture: 1875–1945/Jon Savage/
978-0-14-25415-0/$17.00/PB/Acclaimed music and pop
culture critic and author of England's Dreaming/“Definitive
history of youth in revolt.”—rolling stone/Mar 2008.
• deluxe: how luxury losT iTs lusTer/Dana Thomas/
978-0-14-311370-6/$15.00/PB/“The story of luxury goods
today is really about globalization, captitalization, class and
culture... a fascinating book.”—Fareed Zakaria/Aug 2008.
sPORTs
• The BaseBall ecoNomisT: The real game exposed/J.C.
Bradbury/978-0-452-28902-4/$16.00/PB/Evocative exposé
in which freakonomics meets moneyball by Kennesaw State
Economics associate professor/Mar 2008.
• Tommy's hoNor: The story of old Tom morris and young Tom
morris, golf's founding father and son/J.C. Bradbury/
978-1-592-40342-8/$15.00/PB/“Golf history at its absolute
best.”—Booklist/April 2008.
• The humaN facTor: Nelson mandela and the game that
made a Nation/John Carlin/978-1-59420-174-5/$24.95/HC/
Inspiring account of Mandela's campaign to unite his country,
beginning in his jail cell and ending with a rugby tournament/
Aug 2008.
• explorers of The iNfiNiTe: The secret spiritual lives of
extreme athletes—and what They're Teaching us about Neardeath
experiences, psychic communication, and Touching the
Beyond/Maria Coffey/978-1-58542-651-5/$24.95/HC/Winner
of the Banff Mountain Literature Prize asks why extreme
athletes take the risks that push them to the limits of
consciousness and what they and we can learn from this/June
2008.
• war wiThouT deaTh: a year in the cutthroat competition in
pro football's most storied division/Mark Maske/
978-1-59420-141-7/$25.95/HC/In-depth journey between
football rivals and its influence in our cultural landscape/Aug
2007.
• BrilliaNT oraNge: The Neurotic genius of dutch soccer/
David Winner/978-1-590-2005-5/$13.95/PB/June 2008.
PsYChOlOGY
• The psychology of romaNTic love: romantic love in an
anti-romatnic age/Nathaniel Branden, Ph.D./
978-1-58542-625-6/$15.95/PB//Feb 2008.
• a real Boy: a True story of autism, early intervention, and
recovery/Christina Adams/978-0-425-20243-2/$15.00/PB/Story
of boy who at 2 years old was autisitc and by five was
recovered, thanks to the intervention of his parents/August
2008.
• No miNd lefT BehiNd: understanding and fostering
executive control—the eight essential Brain skills every child
Needs to Thrive/Adam. J. Cox, Ph.D./978-0-399-53359-4/$23.95/
HC/288 pp/Sep 2007.
• The power of frieNdship: how your circle of friends shapes
your life/Paul Dobransky, M.D., with L.A. Stamford/
978-0-452-28943-7/$14.00/PB/From board-certified
psychiatrist and former associate professor at University of
Colorado/June 2008.
• americaN Therapy: The rise of psychotherapy in the united
states/Jonathan Engel/978-0-525-40380-6/$27.50/HC/Prof
from Seton Hall provides narrative history of mental
healthcare in the U.S. from Freud to Zoloft/Aug 2008.
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• The scieNce of fear: why we fear the Things we shouldn't—
and put ourselves in greater danger/Dan Gardner/
978-0-525-95062-2/$24.95/HC/In the tradition of Blink, a tour
of the new brain science of risk, showing how instinctual fears
misguide and manipulate us/July 2008.
•uNsTuck: your guide to the seven stage journey out of
depression to delight/James Gordon, M.D./978-1-59420-166-8/
$25.95/HC/From world-renowned, Clinical prof at Georgetown
School of Medicine, a groundbreaking guide to healing
without the use of anti-depressants/May 2008.
• why good people do Bad ThiNgs: understanding our
darker selves/James Hollis/978-1-592-40341-7/$15.00/PB/
Explores Jung's concept of the shadow/“Clear, literate, and
paradoxical.”—library journal/May 2008.
• The how of happiNess/Sonja Lyubomirky/
978-1-59420-148-6/$24.95/HC/From scientist who “uses
cutting edge psychological research”—Barry Schwartz,
Swarthmore Professor/Jan 2008.
• why BeauTiful people have more daughTers: from
dating, shopping and praying to watching porn, going to war, and
Becoming a Billionaire—Two evolutionary psychologists explain why
we do what we do/Alan S. Miller & Satoshi Kanazawa/
978-0-399-53365-5/$23.95/HC/Scholar from the London
School of Economics and professor of Political Science
explores the topic/368 pp/Sep 2007.
• The adveNTures of johNNy BuNko: The last career guide
you'll ever Need/Daniel H. Pink/978-1-59448-291-5/$15.00/PB/
A graphic novel from the author of a whole New mind/April
2008.
• The sTuff of ThoughT: language as a window into human
Nature/Steven Pinker/978-0-14-3311424-6/$16.00/PB/736 pp/
Renowned Harvard professor and author of The Blank slate
investigates how words shape us/Sep 2008.
• The maN wiTh The phaNTom TwiN: adventures in the
Neuroscience of the human Brain/Dr. V.S. Ramachandran/
978-0-525-95023-3/$25.95/HC/Oliver Sacks meets Stephen
Pinker by the Director of Center for Brain and Cognition
and professor of psychology and neuroscience at UC-San
Diego/304 pp/Nov 2007.
• fiNaNcial iNfideliTy: seven steps to conquering the #1
relationship wrecker/Bonnie Eaker Weil, Ph.D./
978-1-594-630450-3/$24.95/HC/Expert advice on the most
common and taboo relationship problem affecting couples
today/May 2008.
GENDER/WOmEN’s sTUDIEs
• girls who like Boys who like Boys: True Tales of love, lust,
and friendship Between straight women and gay men/Edited by
Melissa de la Cruz & Tom Dolby/Foreword by Maupin
Armistead/978-0-452-28961-1/$16.00/PB/Focuses on the
much celebrated friendships between gay men and the
women who love them—from Carson Kressley to Elizabeth
Spiers/July 2008.
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• eNergy mediciNe for womeN: a woman's guide to using
medicine for optimal health, joy, and vitality/Donna Eden &
David Feinstein/978-1-58542-647-8/$15.95/PB/400 pp/From
professionsal alternative health care pioneer and
psychologist/Aug 2008.
• The moTher-daughTer projecT: how mothers and
daughters can Band Together, Beat the odds, and Thrive Through
adolescence/SuEllen Hamkins, M.D. and Renee Schultz,
M.A./978-0-452-28916-1/$15.00/PB/Simple and
revolutionary/April 2008.
PhIlOsOPhY
• plaTo aNd a plaTypus walk iNTo a Bar: understanding
philosophy Through jokes/Thomas Cathcart & Daniel Klein/
978-0-14-311387-4/$12.00/PB/“Very funny jokes that illustrate
questions and principles in metaphysics, logic, epistemology, ethics,
and philosophy of language, existentialism.”—Torono globe/July
2008.
• The liTTle Book of aTheisT spiriTualiTy/André Comte-
Sponville/978-0-670-01847-5/$19.95/HC/Brilliant argument
for spirituality without God from one of France's preeminent
contemporary philosophers/Jan 2008.
• The spiriTual emersoN/Ralph Waldo Emerson/Intro by
Jacob Needleman/978-1-58542-642-3/$10.00/PB/Key
collection of Emerson's spiritual thought, including landmark
works and overlooked classics such as compensation, fate, The
over-soul, self-reliance, circles, spiritual laws, success/August
2008.
• coNcreTe reveries: consciousness and the city/Mark
Kingwell/978-0-670-03780-3/$24.95/HC/Breaks new
ground—part philosopy, urban studies, architecture—all about
urbanism and personal identity/256 pp/Aug 2008.
RElIGION
• The religious case agaiNsT Belief/James P. Carse/
978-1-59420-169-1/$24.95/HC/Professor Emeritus from New
York University provides a provocative explanation for why it
is that belief, not religion, keeps us in a perilous state of what
he terms, willful ignorance/Sure to provoke lively discussion/226
pp/June 2008.
• The peNguiN dicTioNary of The BiBle/John M. Court/
978-0-14-101533-0/$17.00/PB/Latest Penguin dictionary from
one of the UK's foremost scholars in biblical studies/May 2008.
• wake up: a l:ife of Buddha/Jack Kerouac/978-0-670-01957-1/
$24.95/HC/Composed in 1955 and never before published,
Kerouac's life of Buddha/Aug 2008.
• readiNg judas: The gospel of judas and the shaping of
christianity/Elaine Pagels & Karen L. King/
978-0-14-311316-4/ $15.00/PB/The pre-eminent leading
experts of Gnostic Gospels, Harvard and Princeton
professors, Pagles and King, examine the newly discovered
Gospel, and focus on the text's ancient and provocative
theology/Mar 2008.

• BeyoNd ToleraNce: searching for interfaith understanding
in america/Gustav Niebuhr/978-0-670-01956-4/$25.95/HC/
Grandson of the renowned Reinhold Niebuhr takes a journey
through American congregations, reaching across theological
boundaries with respect/“Anyone interested in dialogue
among individuals, communities, and nations, will benefit from
its wisdom and humanity.”—Elie Wiesel/224 pp/Aug 2008.
• joseph’s BoNes: understanding the struggle Between god
and mankind in the Bible/Jerome Segal/978-1-59448-289-2/
$15.00/PB/Bold reinterpretation of the Old Testament from
senior scholar at Maryland's Institute for Philosophy & Public
Policy/Mar 2008.
• head aNd hearT: american christianities/Garry Wills/
978-1-59420-146-2/$29.95/HC/Landmark examination of
Christianity's place in American life across its broad history/
512 pp/Oct 2007.
EDUCATION
• whaT's maTh goT To do wiTh iT?: helping children learn
to love Their most hated subject—and why it's important for
america/Jo Boaler/978-0-670-01952-6/$24.95/HC/Math prof at
Univ of Sussex in the UK examines math education in the U.S.
and why and how it needs to change/256 pp/July 2008.
• TakiNg Back childhood: helping your kids Thrive in a fastpaced,
media-saturated, violence-filled world/
Nancy Carlsson-Paige/978-1-594-63043-9/$23.95/HC/From
nationally celebrated early childhood development scholar &
Lesley University prof comes an innovative roadmap/“Real-life
examples for preserving children's creative play and
relationships...I highly recommend it.”—Alvin F. Poussaint,
Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School/April 2008.
• your child's sTreNgThs: discover Them, develop Them,
use Them/Jenifer Fox/978-0-670-01876-5/$24.95/HC/From
renowned educator, an ambitious book that aims to change
the conversation about education in America by focusing on
children's strengths instead of their weaknesses/Mar 2008.
mATh/sCIENCE/ENvIRONmENT
• ceNsoriNg scieNce: inside the political attack on dr. james
hansen and the Truth of global warming/Mark Bowen/
978-0-525-95014-1/$25.95/HC/“Hansen has had the courage
to stay and fight for the right to tell the truth.”—Al Gore/“A
must-read not just for environmentalists but for all politically
conscientious readers.”—kirkus/Jan 2008.
• guT feeliNgs: The intelligence of the unconscious/Gert
Gierenzer/978-0-14-311376-8/$15.00/PB/How our brains
really work/“Edifying tour of territory that has long been dark
and unexplored...lively and provocative.”—kirkus/June 2008.
• The scalpel aNd The soul: encounters with surgery, the
supernatural, and the healing power of hope/Alan J. Hamilron/
978-158542-615-7/$23.95/HC/“Accalimed neurosurgeon
shares his considerable knowledge and experience on unique
patient occurances that defy scientific explanation with current
knowledge of Western Medicine...thought-provoking
and will inspire.”—Richard Carmona, M.D., MPH, FACS, 17 th
Surgeon General/Mar 2008.
• Blessed uNresT: how the largest social movement in
history is restoring grace, justice, and Beauty to the world/Paul
Hawken/978-0-14-311365-2/$16.00/PB/Leading environmentalist
examines a grass-roots movement that is transforming
the world/”Exciting, compelling and very important...It will inspire...millions
more to take action.”—Jane Goodall/Mar 2008.
• The world iN six soNgs: how the musical Brain created
human Nature/Daniel J. Levitin/978-0-525-95073-8/$25.95/
HC/Follow up to acclaimed This is your Brain on music,
audacious look at how the brain evolved and gave rise to
human culture/Aug 2008.
• wheN scieNce goes wroNg: Twelve Tales from the dark
side of discovery/Simon LeVay/978-0-452-28932-1/$15.00/
PB/True stories of human error from a neuroscientist who
served on faculty at Harvard & Salk Institute/“Thought
provoking.”—publishers weekly/Mar 2008.
• zeNo's paradox: unraveling the ancient mystery Behind the
science of space and Time/Joseph Mazur/978-0-452-28917-8/
$15.00/PB/“Compelling historical survey of science's oldest
and deepest conundrum.”—John Derbyshire, Marlboro
College prof, author of euclid in the rainforest/Mar 2008.
• The americaN earTh aNThology: environmental
writing since Thoreau/Edited by Bill McKibben/Foreword by Al
Gore/978-1-59853-020-9/$40.00/HC/Provocative timely
essays from John Muir to Rachael Carson/900 pp/April 2008.
• oNly a Theory: evolution and the Battle for america's soul/
Kenneth R. Miller/978-0-670-01883-3/$/HC/Acclaimed biology
professor at Brown examines the battle between evolution
and intelligent design and its implications for America's role as
a scientific leader/July 2008.
• iN defeNse of food: The myth of Nutrition and the pleasures
of eating/Michael Pollan/978-1-59420-145-5/$21.95/HC/
From the author of omnivore's dilemma, a manifesto about
what to eat and what not to eat and how to think about
health/“Powerfully argued, thoroughly researched.”—publishers
weekly/244 pp/Jan 2007.
• sleep: The mysteries, The problems, and the solutions/Carlos
H. Schenck, M.D./978-1-58333-301-3/$15.95/PB/Cutting-edge
look into the latest scientific discoveries/April 2008.
• fausT iN copeNhageN: a struggle for the soul of physics/gino
segrè/978-0-14-311373-7/$16.00/PB/From U Penn physics and
astronomy prof comes the story of physics in 1932/“Clear and
splendidly written account of a new field of research on a central
question about the human species.”—Steven Pinker/June 2008.
• apollo's fire: a day on earth in Nature and imagination/
Michael Sims/978-0-670-06328-4/$24.95/HC/Exuberant blend
of science, myth, and folklore/Sep 2007.
• The poiNcare's prize: The hundred-year Quest to solve one
of math's greatest puzzles/George G. Szpiro, Ph.D./
0-978-0-525-95024-0/ $15.00/PB/“Story of one of the most
alluring and treacherous problems in all of math history. So
many superb mathematicians were sucked in by it...only to
suffer the consequences...Perelman, the outsider, overcomes
what no one else could!”—Colin Adams, Williams/Aug 2008.
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mUsIC/DRAmA/ART
• jourNey To The eNd of easT Bay: The untold story of east
Bay punk/Jack Boulare & Silke Tudor/978-0-14-311380-5/$15.00/
PB/First hand account of the history of punk/June 2008.
• The james BrowN reader/Edited by Nelson George &
Alan Leeds/978-0-452-28946-8/$17.00/PB/From foremost
music & culture critic & leading expert on Brown/May 2008.
• mysTery TraiN: images of america in rock n' roll: fifth edition/
Greil Marcus/978-0-452-28918-5/$17.00/PB/“Gets as close to
the heart and soul of America and American music as the best
of rock 'n' roll.”—Bruce Springsteen/Mar 2008.
• old masTers, New world: america's raid on europe's great
pictures/Cynthia Saltzman/978-0-670-01831-4/$27.95/HC/Story
of Gilded Age America & Europe's great works/Aug 2008.
• Black posTcards/Dean Wareham/978-1-59420155-4/
$25.95/HC/Music making in iconic Indie bands/“Both a
personal and a cultural history, Wareham has made music of
beguiling intimacy...Now he has written a captivating book
that does the same.”—rolling stone/Mar 2008.
BUsINEss & mANAGEmENT
• The chiNa price: The high cost and uncertain future of
chinese competitive advantage/Alexandra Harney/
978-1-59420-157-8/$25.95/PB/Exposé of how China sells out
its workers, environment, and future/“With unusual insight
and perserverance Harney presents the truths about China...a
must read...to understand how today's world really works.”
—Clyde Prestowitz, Economics Strategy Institute/April 2008.
• womeN oN Top: how women entrepreneurs are rewriting the
rules of Business success/Margaret Heffernan/
978-014-311280-8/$15.00/PB/“A great piece of reporting, a
great piece of writing—one of the most important books,
business or otherwise, to come along in many a year.”—Tom
Peters/Mar 2008.
• oNce you're lucky, Twice you're good: The rebirth of
silicon valley and the rise of web 2.0/Sarah Lacy/
978-1-592-40382-0/$26.00/HC/Narrative of the
entrepreneurs who rose from the ashes of the internet bust
to take the Web into the 21st century/May 2008.
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• while america aged: how pension debts ruined general
motors, stopped the Nyc subways, Bankrupted san diego, and
loom as the Next financial crisis/Roger Lowenstein/
978-1-59420-167-7/$25.95/HC/A wake up call and roadmap/
288 pp/May 2008.
• good guys aNd Bad guys: Behind the scenes with the saints
and scoundrels of american Business (and everything in Between)/
Joseph Novera/978-1-59184-162-3/$25.95/HC/Classic pieces
from dean of American business journalism/May 2008.
• divide or coNQuer: how great Teams Turn conflict into
strength/Diana McLain Smith/978-1-59184-204-0/$24.95/HC/
Consultant who's taught at Harvard takes groundbreaking
look at how and why the relationships of leaders are the
essential link to the success of any organization/May 2008.
• ThiNk iNdia: The rise of the world’s Next superpower and
what it means for every american/Vinay Rai & William L.
Simon/978-0-452-28958-1/$16.00/PB/“Outstanding
contribution to educating Americans on India.”—Gowjer Rizvi,
Harvard/Aug 2008.
• The house of moNdavi: The rise and fall of an american
wine dynasty/Julia Flynn Siler/978-1-592-40367-7/$15.00/PB/
The godfather with grapes/“Call it Greek tragedy or
Shakespearean drama, Biblical strife, Freudian acting out...
Compelling.”—New york Times/May 2008.
•do you!: 12 laws to access the power in you to achieve happiness
and success/Russell Simmons with Chris Morrow/
978-1-592-40368-4/$15.00/PB/From the “CEO of Hip-Hop”/
“Produced another hit.”—wall street journal/May 2008.
• TogpradiNg for sales: world-class methods to interview,
hire, and coach Top sales representatives/Bradford D. Smart,
Ph.D. & Greg Alexander/978-1-59184-206-4/$23.95/HC/A
proven method for building dream teams at work—an
extension of the acclaimed business book that has sold more
than 130,000 copies since 1999/June 2008.
• wikiNomics: how mass collaboration changes everything/
Expanded Edition/Don Tapscott & Anthony D. Williams/
978-1-59184-138-0/$27.95/HC/From adjunct professor at
U of Toronto, an updated edition of the best-selling book on
winning in the age of collaboration/April 2008.
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I look forward to hearing from you.
Naomi Weinstein
Penguin Group Inc. (USA)
http://www.penguin.com
E-mail: Naomi.Weinstein@us.penguingroup.com
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