Social science

We Are Our Mothers' Daughters: Revised and Expanded Edition

by Cokie Roberts

In this tenth-anniversary edition of We Are Our Mothers' Daughters, renowned political commentator Cokie Roberts once again examines the nature of women's roles through the revealing lens of her personal experience....

Do Dead People Walk Their Dogs?

by Concetta Bertoldi

Highly unorthodox questions and answers about life after life from America's most delightful medium

Concetta Bertoldi has been communicating with the "Other Side" since childhood. In her previous book, the bestselling...

Data Smog: Surviving the Information Glut

by David Shenk

Media scholar ( and Internet Enthusiast ) David Shenk examines the troubling effects of information proliferation on our bodies, our brains, our relationships, and our culture, then offers strikingly down-to-earth...

The Mighty and the Almighty

by Madeleine Albright

Does America, as George W. Bush has proclaimed, have a special mission, derived from God, to bring liberty and democracy to the world? How much influence does the Christian right have over U.S. foreign policy?...

The Way of the World

by Ron Suskind

From Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and bestselling author Ron Suskind comes a startling look at how America lost its way and at the nation's struggle, day by day, to reclaim the moral authority upon which...

Little Money Street

by Fernanda Eberstadt & John Updike

In 1998, Fernanda Eberstadt, her husband, and their two small children moved from New York to an area outside Perpignan, France - a city with one of the largest Gypsy populations in Western Europe. Here she...

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

by Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver & Steven L. Hopp

Bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver returns with her first nonfiction narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat.

"As the U.S. population made an unprecedented...

The Match

by Bruce Schoenfeld

With the help of friends who recognized her extraordinary talent, Althea Gibson rose from a childhood of playing stickball on Harlem streets to claim victory at Wimbledon. It is widely recognized that her sacrifices...

War and Decision

by Douglas J. Feith

In the years since the attacks of September 11, 2001, journalists, commentators, and others have published accounts of the Bush Administration's war on terrorism. But no senior Pentagon official has offered...

The Secrets of Freemasonry

by Robert Lomas

Many people are curious about the existence of secret societies which claim to hold arcane religious or esoteric knowledge and pass it down through the generations via selected adepts. Classic Masonic writers...

The F***ing Epic Twitter Quest of @MayorEmanuel

by Dan Sinker & Biz Stone

Primary Colors for the social media era, the wildly profane, viral phenomenon that resulted from a fake Twitter account deftly satirizing Rahm Emanuel is the first significant Twitter epic in today’s digital...

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Zombies

by Matt Mogk

THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE ZOMBIE HANDBOOK EVER PUBLISHED

In one indispensable volume, Matt Mogk, founder and head of the Zombie Research Society, busts popular myths and answers all your raging questions about...

The Concussion Crisis: Anatomy of a Silent Epidemic

by Linda Carroll & David Rosner

FOR FAR TOO LONG, the menace of concussions has been hidden in plain sight. On playing fields across America, lives are being derailed by seemingly innocuous jolts to the head. From the peewees to the pros,...

The Coke Machine: The Dirty Truth Behind the World's Favorite Soft Drink

by Michael Blanding

The Coke Machine takes readers deep inside The Coca-Cola Company and its international franchisees to reveal how they became the number one brand in the world, and how far they'll go to stay there.

Ever since...

Don't Tread on Me: The Story of My Run for California Governor as a Tea Party Candidate

by Larry Naritelli

New from Voices of the Tea Party. Deeply upset at the way the Republican Party abandoned its conservative base in the elections of 2008, Larry Naritelli had taken to yelling at his television, prompting his...

A Branch from the Lightning Tree: Ecstatic Myth and the Grace of Wildness

by Martin Shaw

Martin Shaw's writing rattles the cages of souls. In A Branch from the Lightning Tree, Shaw creates links between the wildness in landscape and language, with myth being the bridge between the two. Shaw uses...

The Conquest of Bread

by Peter Kropotkin

The clearest statement of Kropotkin's anarchist social doctrines. In Kropotkin's own description, the book is "a study of the needs of humanity, and of the economic means to satisfy them."

The Sixties in Canada: A Turbulent and Creative Decade

by M.Athena Palaeologu

An extraordinary work that brings to life the events and trends of the '60s in Canada.

Adventures Along Borders: Personal Reminiscences

by Graeme S. Mount

A look around the world that reveals the "freedom to travel" is not a universal reality.

Afghanistan and Canada: Is There an Alternative to the War?

by Lucia Kowaluk & Steven Staples

Traces Canada's military involvement in Afghanistan in the hope of finding an alternative to continuing war.