PENGUIN GROUP (USA) new books for course use & adoption winter • spring 2009

PENGUIN CLASSICS The Talmud: A Selection Vis and Ramin Anonymous • Translated & Edited with an Intro Fakhraddin Gorani • Translated & Edited with by Norman Solomon • 978-0-14-144178-8 Intro by Dick Davis • 978-0-14-310562-6 Greek Tragedy • $16.00 • Penguin Classics Original • June 2009. • $17.00 • First Epic Persian Romance & New to Aeschylus; Euripides; Sophocles • Translated by Penguin Classics • April 2009 • “The new Watling, Vellacott, Dutta, & Heath & Edited by Pride and Prejudice translation by Dick Davis, widely regarded as Dutta • 978-0-14-143936-5 • $15.00 • May 2009. Jane Austen • Edited by Claire Lamont & Vivien our finest translator of Persian poetry, is in Jones, Intro by Vivien Jones & Tony Tanner, heroic couplets, the closet English metrical form Rashõmon and Seventeen Other Stories Cover Illustration by Rachel Roy • Penguin to Gorgani’s. This wonderful work should win Ryunsuke Akuragawa • Translated with Notes by Classics Deluxe • 978-0-14-310542-8 • $15.00 Gorgani the Western audience he richly Jay Rubin • Intro by Haruki Murakami • Jan 2009. deserves.”—The Times Literary Supplement, UK • 978-0-14-044970-9 • $15.00 • Mar 2009. • Named one of Choice’s 2008 Outstanding Wuthering Heights Academic Title of the Year. Tevye the Dairyman Emily Bronte • Cover Design by Zac Posen and Motl the Cantor’s Son • 978-0-14-310543-5 • $16.00 • Penguin Classics The Scarlet Letter Sholom Aleichem • Translated by Aliza Shevrin Deluxe • Feb 2009. Nathaniel Hawthorne • Intro by Nina Baym, • Intro by Dan Miron • 978-0-14-310560-2 Notes by Thomas E. Connolly, Cover Illustra- • $16.00 • First Yiddish Penguin Classics • Feb 2009. The Pligrim’s Progress tion by Rodºarte • Penguin Classics Deluxe • John Bunyan • Edited by Roger Pooley 978-0-14-310544-2 • $16.00 • Jan 2009. Confessions • 978-0-14-310558-9 • $11.00 • April 2009. Saint Augustine • Translated by Garry Wills The Anger of Achilles • 978-0-14-310570-1 • $16.00 • Jan 2009. Anti-Oedipus: Homer • Translated with an Intro by Robert Capitalism and Schizophrenia Graves • 978-0-14-045560-1 • $15.00 • May 2009 The Kabbalistic Tradition: Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari • Preface by • Bringing Graves’ powerful translation back An Anthology of Jewish Mysticism Michael Foucalut, Intro by Mark Seem, into print. Anonymous • Translated & Edited with Notes by Tranlsated by Robert Hurley, Mark Seem, & Alan Unterman • 978-0-14-043799-7 • $16.00 Helen R. Lane • 978-0-14-310582-4 • $22.00 A History of New York • Penguin Classics Original • Feb 2009. • 432 pp • June 2009 • The postmodern classic of Intro & Notes by Elizabeth L. Bradley critical theory. • 978-0-14-310561-9 • $15.00 • New to Penguin Song of the Cid Classics • Jan 2009. Anonymous • Translated by Burton Raffel with Notes From Underground & The Double an Intro by María Rosa Mencoal Fyodor Dostoyevsky • Newly Translated by Chronicles of the Crusades • 978-0-14-310565-7 • $15.00 • Dual-Language Ronald Wilks • 978-0-14-045512-0 • $14.00 John de Joinville & Geoffrey de Villehardouin Edition with Parallel Text • Mar 2009 • “Elegant • May 2009. • Translated & Edited with an Intro by Caroline and measured...beautifully reflects the dashing Smith • 978-0-14-044998-3 • $16.00 • New lines and excitment of the poem. A remarkable 117 Days: Edition • Feb 2009. achievement.”—Francisco LaRubia-Prado, An Account of Confinement and Georgetown University. Interrogation Under the South African A Hero of Our Time 90-Day Detention Law Mikhail Lermontov • Foreword by Neil LaBute The Táin Ruth First • Intro by Angela Y. Davis • Translated with an Intro by Natasha S. Randall Anonymous • Translated & Intro by Ciaran • 978-0-14-310574-9 • $15.00 • June 2009 • The • 978-0-14-310563-3 • $14.00 • May 2009 Carson • 978-0-14-045530-4 • $16.00 0 • Mar first time available in black spine classic, a • Penguin Classics Original. 2009 • “A brilliant and engaging new transla- modern South African classic about Apartheid. tion...surpasses Kinsella’s.”—Los Angeles Times.

PENGUIN GROUP (USA) Selected Poems POETRY A Person of Interest D. H. Lawrence • Completely New Selection Susan Choi • 978-0-14-311502-1 • $15.00 • PB from James Fenton • 978-0-14-042458-4 • Feb 2009 • “Choi...takes us on a complicated, • $16.00 • June 2009. Love Comes First revealing journey into the alienated heart of modern Erica Jong • 978-15854-2684-3 • $24.95 • HC American life. With nuance, acuity and pitch- The Portable Abraham Lincoln • Jan 2009 • Jong’s poetic manifesto of love – love perfect writing, she tells the large-canvas story of • Edited with an Intro by Andrew Delbanco of life, love of another, and love of love itself. paranoia in the age of terror and the smaller story • 978-0-14-310554-0 • $18.00 • Jan 2009. of the cost of failed dreams.”—Los Angeles Times. Or to Begin Again Revolutionary Suicide Ann Lauterbach • 978-0-14-311520-5 • $18.00 City of Thieves Huey P. Newton with Blake J. Herman • Intro • PB • April 2009. David Benioff • 978-0-452-29529-2 • $15.00 by Frederika Newton • Cover Illustrated by Ho • PB • April 2009 • A captivating novel about war, Che Anderson • 978-0-14-310532-9 Mixology courage, survival—and a remarkable friendship • $16.00 • July 2009. Adrian Matejka • 978-0-14-311583-0 • $16.00 that ripples across a lifetime • “An exceptional • PB • June 2009. storyteller. With humor, heart...relentless The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime: suspense, he was written a riveting war novel Con Artists, Burglars, Rogues, and Poems from the Women’s Movement and an engaging coming-of-age story.”—Khaled Scoundrels from the Time of Sherlock Edited by Honor Moore • 978-1-59853-042-1 Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner and A Holmes • $20.00 • PB • April 2009 • Includes Adrienne Thousand Splendid Suns. Edited with an Intro & Notes by Michael Sims Rich, Muriel Rukeyser, Judy Grahn, and others. • 978-0-14-310566-4 • $15.00 • New to Penguin Everything Matters! Classics • Includes Sinclair Lewis, Arnold The History of Forgetting Ron Currie, Jr. • 978-0-067-02092-8 • $25.95 Bennett, H.G. Wells, William Hope Hodgson Lawrence Raab • 978-0-14-311582-3 • $18.00 • HC • July 2009 • “Like Vonnegut, Currie • April 2009. • PB • May 2009. understands...that humor is a more powerful salt than screed.”—San Francisco Chronicle. Humphrey Clinker Manatee/Humanity Tobias Smollett • Intro by Jeremy Lewis, Edited Anne Waldman • 978-0-14-311521-2 • $18.00 Wit’s End by Angus Ross & Notes by Shaun Regan • PB • April 2009. Karen Fowler • 978-0-452-29006-8 • $15.00 • PB • 978-0-14-144142-9 • $14.00 • Jan 2009. • May 2009 • From the author of The Jane Austen Book Club “Absorbing and funny, insightful and The Acts of King Arthur engaging”—Kirkus. and His Noble Nights U.S. LITERATURE John Steinbeck • Edited by Chase Horton with a All the Sad Young Literary Men Foreword by Christopher Paolini The 351 Books of Irma Arcuri Keith Gessen • 978-0-14-311477-2 • $15.00 • PB • 978-0-14-310545-9 • $16.00 • Penguin Classics David Bajo • 978-0-14-311540-3 • $15.00 • PB • April 2009 • “Fiercely intellligent, darkly funny Deluxe • Jan 2009 • Steinbeck’s only work of • June 2009 • Metaphysical literary mystery— first novel.”—Kirkus. fantasy literature. Kundera crossed with Momento. “Dazzling The Magicians combination of love and sex, and, yes, mathemat- Lev Grossman • 978-0-670-02055-3 • $26.95 The Art of War ics.”—Keith Donohue, author of The Stolen Child Sun-tzu • Edited, Translated and with an Intro • HC • Mar 2009 • Coming-of-age novel about a by John Minford • First time in black spine The Manuel of Detection young man practicing magic in the real world. • 978-0-14-310575-6 • $15.00 • May 2009. Jedidiah Berry • 978-1-59420-211-7 • $25.95 Fall Of Frost • HC • Feb 2009 • Compares to works by Carlos Brian Hall • 978-0-14-311491-8 • $15.00 • PB War and Peace Ruiz Zafón and Jorge Luis Borges, from The Big • April 2009 • “A powerful and convincing Leo Tolstoy • Translated by Anthony Briggs with sleep to The Yiddish Policeman’s Union. an Intro by Orlando Figes • 978-0-14-044793-4 portrait of the poet.”—The Washington Post. • $18.00 • Mar 2009 • “The best translation so far The Women The World in Half of Tolstoy’s masterpeice into English.”—Robert T.C. Boyle • 978-0-670-02041-6 • $27.95 • HC Christina Henríquez • 978-1-59448-855-9 A. Maguire, Professor Emeritus, Columbia • Feb 2009 • “The genius of Frank Lloyd Wright • $25.95 • HC • April 2009 • Novel of family, University. was both magnetic and cruel, as evidenced by home, loss, identity, forgiveness. the succession of failed marriages and hot- Candide or Optimism blooded affairs depicted in this biographic Voltaire • Translated by Theo Cuffe, with an A Thousand Splendid Suns reimagining that drills into Wright mythology Khaled Hosseini • 978-1-59448385-1 • $16.00 • Intro by Michael Wood • 978-0-14-045510-6 and the dark shadows of the American Dream.” • $12.00 • New to Penguin Classics • Mar 2009. PB • Jan 2009 • “Just in case you’re wondering —Publishers Weekly. whether...A Thousand Splendid Suns is as good as The Kite Runner, here’s the answer: No. It’s better.” The Vivisector People Of The Book —The Washington Post. Patrick White • Intro by J. M. Coetzee Geraldine Brooks • 978-0-14-311500-7 • $15.00 • 978-0-14-310567-1 • $17.00 • Penguin Classics • PB • Jan 2009 • One of School Library Journal’s Stern Men Deluxe • Jan 2009 • From Nobel Prize for Best Books 2008 • Rare illluminated 600 year-old Literature winner. Elizabeth Gilbert • 978-0-14-311469-7 • $15.00 Jewish prayer book’s harrowing story told • PB • Mar 2009 • “Gilbert’s metaphorical through people who crafted it and who saved it Voss writing flashes with welcome brilliance.”—The from destruction from Pulitzer Prize-winning Patrick White • Intro by Thomas Keneally New York Times. author of March • “Erudite but suspenseful.” • 978-0-14-310568-8 • $16.00 • Jan 2009 • From —Alan Cheuse, NPR. the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

PENGUIN GROUP (USA) 2 The Legend Of Colton H. Bryant The Little Book Through Black Spruce Alexandra Fuller • 978-0-14-3115373 • $15.00 Selden Edwards • 978-0-452-29551-3 • $15.00 Charles Boyden • 978-0-670-02057-7 • $26.95 • PB • May 2009 • From the author of Don’t Let’s • PB • May 2009 • Story of a displaced 20th- • HC • Mar 2009 • From the winner of Canada’s Go to the Dogs Tonight & Scribbling the Cat • “In century man in turn-of-the-century Vienna most prestigious award for literary excellence, powerful prose, Fuller puts us on the oil rigs of • “Richly inventive...superbly humane and the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the author of Wyoming and into the middle of a classic readable.”—Richard Ford. “This novel...has as Three Day Road • “Delivers the powerful story of American story...Fuller has delivered to us good a chance as any in recent memory of former bush piolt and Cree native...An another kind of American hero."—Sebastian withstanding the test of time and becoming a intelligent, mulitlayered accomplishment.” Junger, author of The Perfect Storm. classic.”—Publishers Lunch. —Publishers Weekly.

The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet More Than It Hurts You The Angel Maker Reif Larson • 978-1-59420-217-9 • $25.95 Darin Strauss • 978-0-452-29552-0 • $15.00 • PB Stefan Brijs • 978-0-14-311309-6 • $15.00 • PB • HC • May 2009 • Novel about a 12 year old • June 2009 • From the author of the acclaimed • Jan 2009 • Updated Frankenstein • “Intelligently master cartographer • “Combines Twain, Chang and Eng comes a story about family, race, composed...treats an important social theme in Pyncheon and Little Miss Sunshine...This book is class • “Riveting satiric page turner.”—Publishers an accessible manner.”—Stijl. a treasure.”—Stephen King. Weekly. The Island of Eternal Love Draining the Sea A Boy’s Own Story Daína Chaviano • Translated by Andrea G. Micheline Marcom • 978-1-59448-355-4 Edmund White • 978-0-14-311484-0 • $14.00 Labinger • 978-1-594-48379-0 • $16.00 • $16.00 • PB • Mar 2009 • Exploration of the • PB • Mar 2009 • Hailed as groudbreaking work • PB • June 2009 • “Passionate...A gratifying tale effects of political violence as it reverberates about sexuality when originally published in of love across more than a century of Cuba’s through the Armenian genocide, the conflict in 1982; the author teaches Creative Writing at past.”—Chicago Sun Times. Guatemala in 1980s and present-day L.A. from Princeton • “White has crossed J.D. Salinger with the winner of the 2005 Pen USA Literary Award Oscar Wilde.”—The New York Times. Blood Kin & 2006 Whiting Writer’s Award. Ceridwen Dovey • 978-0-14-311482-6 • $14.00 The Help • PB • Mar 2009 • “Offers candid and chilling Song Yet Sung Kathryn Stockett • 978-0-399-15534-5 • $24.95 insights into the nature of power.”—The New James McBride • 9781-59448-972-3 • $15.00 • HC • Feb 2009 • “What perfect timing for this York Times Book Review • Winner of Sunday • PB • Jan 2009 • From the author of The Color of optimistic, uplifting debut novel...set during the Times Fiction Prize. Water, story drawn from historical events of a nascent civil rights movement in Jackson, Miss., runaway slave and a slave catcher • “Delivers the where black women were trusted to raise white Blonde Roots cauterising power of anger without the corrosive children but not to polish the household silver... Bernardine Evaristo • 978-1-59448-863-4 effects of bitterness.”—The New York Times. Assured and layered, full of heart and history.” • $24.95 • HC • Jan 2009 • Provocative novel that —Publishers Weekly. upends the history of the transatlantic slave Miles from Nowhere trade, reversing and reexamining notions of Nami Mun • 978-1-59448-854-2 • $21.95 • HC savagery and civilization • “Beautiful...intellectu- • Jan 2009 • Story of a teenage runway on the ally rigorous narrative...A conversation streets of 1980s New York from award-winning World LITERATURE starter.”—Publishers Weekly young author • ”Gritty, riveting story.”—Chicago Tribune Cathedral of the Sea The House of Bilqis Ildefonso Falcones • 978-0-451-22599-3 • $15.00 Short Girls Azhar Abidi • 978-0-670-01941-0 • $24.95 • PB • April 2009 • “Falcone’s rich portrait of Bich Minh Nguyen • 978-0-670-02081-2 • $25.95 • HC • April 2009 • Haunting novel about a medieval Spain is fascinating.”—Publishers • HC • July 2009 • From Purdue University mother and son in Pakistan. Weekly. professor of creative writing & Asian American lit and the author of Stealing Buddha’s Dinner. Wandering Stars The Cellist of Sarajevo Sholem Aleichem • Translated by Aliza Shevrin Steven Galloway • 978-1-59448-365-3 The Mayor’s Tongue with a Foreword by Tony Kushner • $15.00 • PB • April 2009 • “This novel tran- Nathaniel Rich • 978-1-59448-368-4 • 978-0-670-02052-2 • $29.95 • HC • Feb 2009 scends time and place. It is a universal story, and • $14.00 • PB • April 2009 • “Daring, wonderfully • The first complete translation of this epic story a testimony to the struggle to find meaning, weird...as haunting as the reality-collapsing of the theater in all its aspects. grace, and humanity, even amid the most yarns of Paul Auster.”—Interview. unimaginable horrors.”—Khaled Hosseini, The Secret Scripture author of The Kite Runner. Water Ghosts Sebastian Barry • 978-0-14-311569-4 • $15.00 Shawna Yang Ryan • 978-1-59420-207-0 • $22.95 • PB • May 2009 • “Barry writes in language of Shades of Grey • HC • April 2009 • Passionate, sophisticated surpassing beauty...It is like a song, with all the Jasper Fforde • 978-0-670-01963-2• $24.95 • HC intertwining of fact and fiction that examines pulse of the Irish language.”—The New York • July 2009 • A brilliant new series about a world mingling cultures, modern myths and forgotten Times • “Written in captivating and lyrical where social order and destiny are dictated by history. prose, Barry’s novel is both a sparkling literary the colors you can see. puzzle and a stark cautionary tale of corrupted Child of the South power.”—Publishers Weekly • Winner of the English Joanna Catherine Scott • 978-0-425-22602-5 Costa Award. Wang Gang • Translated from the Chinese by • $14.00 • PB • April 2009 • “A unique perspective Martin Merz and Jane Wizhen Pan on those in the South who did not support the • 978-0-670-02059-1 • $24.95 • HC • April 2009 Confederacy...historically accurate.”—The • Coming-of-age novel in the tradition of Balzac Herald Sun. and the Little Chinese Seamstress.

PENGUIN GROUP (USA) 3 The Lazarus Project The Jewish Messiah SCience Fiction Aleksander Hemon • Translated by Anthea Bell Arnon Grunberg • 978-0-14-311497-0 • $16.00 • 978-1-59448-375-2 • $16.00 • PB • May 2009 • PB • Mar 2009 • Fiendishly provocative story • “MacArthur genius Hemon...unpacks 100 • “A farce of nuclear proportions.”—Vanity Fair. Regenesis years’ worth of immigrant disillusion, displace- C. J. Cherryh • 978-0-7564-0530-4 • $25.95 • HC ment and desperation...piercing wit...pathos and Sonata for Miriam • Jan 2009 • The long-awaited sequel to Cyteen outrage enough to chip away at the hardest of Linda Olsson • 978-0-14-311470-3 • $15.00 • PB and Downbelow Station. hearts.”—Publishers Weekly. • Feb 2009 • A haunting novel of love, loss, and human connection. Heretics of Dune The Book of Night Women Frank Herbert • With a New Intro by Brian Marlon James • 978-1-59448-857-3 • $26.95 The Ten Year Nap Herbert • 978-0-441-01677-8 • $25.95 • HC • HC • Feb 2009 • Sweeping historical novel of Meg Wolitzer • 978-1-59448-354-7 • $15.00 • PB • Feb 2009 • Book five in the Dune Chronicles. Jamaican slavery that is compared to Morrison’s • Mar 2009 • “Wolitzer perfectly captures her Beloved • “Marlon proves himself to be Jamaica’s women’s resolve in the face of a dizzying array of Nebula Awards Showcase 2009 answer to Junot Dîaz, Edwidge Danticat, and conflicting loyalties.­”—Washington Post. Edited by Ellen Datlow • 978-0-451-46255-8 Zadie Smith...Lively, energetic prose and • $16.00 • PB • April 2009 • Features Michel unforgettable characters with precocious wisdom Chabon, Michael Moorcock, Karen Joy Fowler about love, race, and history.”—Colin Channer, and more. “The Pulse of modern science author of The Girl with the Golden Shoes. Short Stories / essays fiction.”—The New York Times Book Review.

Leaving Tangier Coyote Tahar Ben Jelloun, Translated by Linda Passages: 22 Modern Indian Stories Allen M. Steele • 978-0-441-01682-2 • $24.95 Edited with Intro & Bios by professors Barbara H. Cloverdale • 978-0-14-311456-9 • $15.00 • PB • HC • Mar 2009 • From the Hugo Award- Solomon & Eileen Panetta • 978-0-451-53126-1 • April 2009 • The story of exiles • “Of the 30 winning author of the Coyote trilogy. • $7.95 • PB • May 2009 • Includes Rushdie, Kiran books Ben Jelloun has written, this is undoubt- Desai, Jhumpa Lahiri, and others. edly one of the most courageous. ”—Le Monde des Livres. The Deportees And Other Stories YOUNG ADULT Roddy Doyle • 978-0-14-311488-8 • $14.00 My Revolutions • PB • Jan 2009 • “An excursion into the new Irish LITERATURE Hari Kunzru • 978-0-452-29002-0 • $15.00 • PB culture, conveyed with...brilliant sense of original- • Jan 2009 • Provactive and timely story that asks ity, sly charm and wry wit.”—The Seattle Times. the question–what turns a radical into a terrorist Wintergirls • “An amazingly convincing account of the Laurie Halse Anderson • 978-0-067-01110-0 Love and Obstacles period.”—The New York Times. • $17.99 • HC • Mar 2009 • From the author of Aleksander Hemon • 978-1-59448-864-1 Speak—a story of anorexia. • $25.94 • HC • May 2009 • From the celebrated Fall author of The Lazarus Project. Colin McAdam • 978-1-59448-868-9 • $25.95 Mission Control, This Is Apollo: • HC • June 2009 • A masterpiece of adolescent The Story of the First Voyages to the Armageddon In Retrospect perspective, emotion, impulse; the story of two Moon Kurt Vonnegut • Intro by Mark Vonnegut roommates at a co-ed boarding school. Andrew Chaikin with Victoria Kohl • 978-0-425-22689-6 • $15.00 • PB • April 2009 • 978-0-067-01156-8 • $23.99 • HC • May 2009 • Poshumous collection of previous unpublished Wolf Totem • The tale of humankind’s greatest adventure in work by Vonnegut on the subject of war Jiang Rong • 978-0-14-311514-4 • $15.00 • PB the last frontier, space. • “Demonstrates Vonnegut’s mind-boggling • April 2009 • Epic Chinese tale depicting the evolution as a writer.”—Salon.com dying culture of the Mongols • Winner of the Letters To A Young Sister first Man Asian Prize and a Chinese bestseller • Hill Harper • 978-1-59240-459-9 • $15.00 • PB One Big Happy Family: “A stirring allegoriacal critique of Chinse • May 2009 • Building on the success of Letters to 18 Writers Talk About Polyamory, civilization.”— The New York Times. a Young Brother, author asks young black women Open Adoption, Mixed Marriage, to aim high. Rooftops of Tehran Househusbands, Single Motherhood, Mahbod Seraji • 978-0-451-22681-5 • $15.00 and Other Realities of Truly Modern Love The Game of My Life: A True Story • PB • May 2009 • Coming-of-age story set in in Edited by Rebecca Walker • 978-1-59448-862-7 of Challenge, Triumph and Iran in the 1970s during the last days of the • $25.95 • HC • Feb 2009 • Includes ZZ Packer, Growing Up Autistic brutal regime of the Shah. Dan Savage, Min Jin Lee, Asha Bandele, etc. Jason McElwain (J-Mac) & Daniel Paisner • 978-0-451-22619-8 • $14.00 • PB • Feb 2009 The Wish Maker • Uplifting memoir by autistic teenager and his Ali Sethi • 978-1-59448-875-7 • $25.95 • HC unlikely star turn in a high-school basketball game. • June 2009 • Story of a fatherless boy growing up in a family of outspoken women in Pakistan, What I Was from an exciting new international voice. Meg Rosoff • 978-0-425-29023-5 • $15.00 • PB • Jan 2009 • “An unconventional coming-of-age Gods and Soldiers: The Penguin tale elegantly crafted.”—Publishers Weekly. Anthology of Current African Writing Edited by Rob Spillman • 978-0-14-311473-4 Before Green Gables • $16.00 • PB • April 2009 • Includes Adichie, Budge Wilson • 978-0-425-22576-9 • $15.00 Wainaina, Gordimer, Abani, Okri, Coetzee. • PB • Prequel to Anne of Green Gables • Feb 2009.

PENGUIN GROUP (USA) 4 Writing / journalism City Kid The Unforgiving Minute: Nelson George • 978-0-670-02036-2 • $25.95 A Soldier’s Education • HC • April 2009 • “Perhaps one of the seven Craig M. Mullaney • 978-1-59420-202-5 • $28.95 The Numbers Game: A Commonsense greatest books ever written. It has the realness of • HC • 400 pp • Feb 2009 • “A story of our time, Guide to Understanding the Numbers The Autobiography of Malcolm X, the warmth of from West Point to combat in Afghanistan and in the News, in Politics, and in Life The Color Purple, and the page count of Tuesdays back...a thoughtful, instropsective work Michael Blastland & Andrew Dilnot with Morrie. It’s a must read.”—Chris Rock. reminiscent of the great British memoirs of • 978-1-592040423-0 • $22.00 • HC WWI. A thousand years from now, historians • Jan 2009 • “The authors apply their famously Turtle Feet: The Making and wanting to know about life in America after 9/11 cheeky approach to the analysis of how people Unmaking of a Buddhist Monk would do well to look at this book.”—Thomas are duped, frightened or falsely encouraged by Nikolai Grozni • Translated by Anthea Bell E. Ricks, author of Fiasco. data.”—Publishers Weekly. • 978-1-59448-376-9 • $16.00 • PB • May 2009 • “A spiritual journey filled with beautiful Seeking Peace: Chronicles of Creative Journal Writing: insights...also a funny, gritty tale of dysentery, the Worst Buddhist in the World The Art and Heart of Reflection stoner roommates, cranky monks and flirty Mary Pipher • 978-1-59448-861-0 • $25.95 • HC Stephanie Dowrick • 978-1-58542-686-7 nuns.”—A. J. Jacobs, author of The Year of Living • Mar 2009 • From the author of Reviving • $13.95 • PB • Feb 2009. Biblically. Ophelia, an exploration of her search for understanding, tranquility and respect. The Artful Nuance: A Refined Guide Dead Lucky: Life After Death on Mount to Imperfectly Understood Words Everest Unpolished Gem: My Mother, in the English Language Lincoln Hal • 978-1-58542-7192 • $15.95 • PB My Grandmother, and Me Rod L. Evans, Ph.D. • 978-0-399-53482-9 • May 2009 • “Gripping almost unbelievable story Alice Pung • 978-0-452-29000-6 • $15.00 • $12.95 • PB • 304 pp • Feb 2009. of survival that offers insight into a largely • PB • Feb 2009 • Vivid journey about identity misunderstood domain.”—Sun Herald, from a daughter whose family fled to Australia Reading the OED Australia. from the killing fields of Cambodia.“Alice Pung Ammon Shea • 978-0-399-53505-5 • $13.95 is a gem. Her voice is the real thing.”—Amy Tan. • PB • May 2009 • “This is the Super Size Me of The Islamist: Why I Became lexicography...Shea has walked the wildwood of an Islamic Fundamentalist, Closing Time our gnarled, ancient speech and returned singing What I Saw Inside, and Why I Left Joe Queenan • 978-0-670-02063-8 • $26.95 incomprehensible sounds in a language that Ed Husain • 978-0-14-311598-4 • $16.00 • HC • April 2009 • Memoir about escape from a turns out to be our own.”—The New York Times • PB • 304 pp • May 2009 • An insider’s look into childhood of poverty • “Close to home and Book Review. fundamentalism and extremism • “Ed Hussain heart, this portrait of the artist shows Queenan has written a persuasive and stimulating book.” at the top of his form.”—Starred Kirkus Review —Martin Amis. Twenty Chickens For A Saddle: memoir / bio / Abraham Lincoln The Story Of An African Childhood autobiography Thomas Keneally • 978-0-14-311475-8 • $14.00 Robyn Scott • 978-0-14-311509-0 • $15.00 • PB • PB • April 2009. • April 2009 • Adventures in Botswana.

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The Canal Builders: Making America’s stunningly original account of how Lincoln’s Empire at the Panama Canal unparalled array of leadership skills, strategic Beyond Bars: Rejoining Society Julie Greene • 978-1-59420-201-8 • $30.00 insights, exceptional sensitivity to popular Jeffrey Ian Ross & Stephen Richards • HC • 496 pp • Feb 2009 • Part of the Penguin sentiment combined to make him our greatest • 978-1-592-57851-1 • $12.95 • PB • July 2009 History of American Life Series. “Professor commander-in-chief.”— Doris Kearns Goodwin. • Guide for ex-cons and their families—manag- Greene shows how racist labor policies, ing a successful re-entry into the community. Progressive reformers, workers’ wives and Rocket Men: The Epic Story washerwomen, imperial courts, the Panamanian of the First Men on the Moon people and especially the laborers themselves all Craig Nelson • 978-0-067-02103-1 • $27.95 • HC shaped the canal’s construction. 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Professor presents “An absolute summit of Passing Strange: historical insight and writing...The sinews and A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall tissues of early capitalism are brilliantly revealed Across the Color Line of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes here, alongside a cast of extraordinary charac- Martha A. Sandweiss • 978-1-59420-200-1 Bryan Burrough • 978-1-59420-199-8 • $29.95 ters...the book sets a new standard of excel- • $27.95 • HC • Feb 2009 • From Professor of • HC • 464 pp • Feb 2009 • “Burroughs has long lence—something to inspire both readers and History & American Studies, Amherst College been one of this nation’s best storytellers, but he practitioners of narrative history.”—John comes a “A masterful work of scholarship, and a has outdone himself with this tour de force. 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Americans and Jepordizes Our Future (Or Don’t Trust Anyone Under 30) Now the Hell Will Start: Mark Bauerlein • 978-1-58542-712-3 • $15.95 One Soldier’s Flight from the • PB • May 2009 • From Emory prof • “An urgent Greatest Manhunt of World War II european HISTORY book on the very dark topic of the virtual end of Brendan I. Koerner • 978-0-14-311533-5 reading among the young.”—Harold Bloom • $16.00 • PB • 400 pp • June 2009 • “A valuable Winston Churchill: footnote to the vast history of WW II...provides Meat: A Love Story: Pasture to Plate, The Flawed Genius of World War II damning evidence of the Army’s self-defeating A Search for the Perfect Meal Christopher Catherwood • Foreword by Patrica insensitivity and bigotry at a time when it Susan Bourette • 978-0-425-22756-5 • $15.00 Cornwell • 978-0-425-22572-1 • $26.95 should have been utilizing each man’s skills to • PB • May 2009 • “A study of human behavior... • HC • Mar 2009 • A controversial look at the the fullest.”—The Washington Post Book Review. a cross between Omnivore’s Dilemma and Eat, wartime triumphs and failures of Churchill from Pray, Love...satisfying for members of most Cambridge University professor. food cultures.”—Library Journal. The Third Reich at War Normal at Any Cost: Tall Girls, Richard J. Evans • 978-1-59420-206-3 • $40.00 • HC • 912 pp • Mar 2009 • Professor of Modern Short Boys, and the Medical Industry’s History, Cambridge University presents the final Quest to Manipulate Height volume in his masterly trilogy of the rise and fall Susan Cohen & Christine Cosgrove of German military might. • 978-1-58542-683-6 • $25.95 • HC • Mar 2009 • Puts a human face on this complex and ethically charged medical history.

PENGUIN GROUP (USA) 8 The Chris Farley Show: A Place of My Own: Psychology A Biography in Three Acts The Architecture of Daydreams Tom Farley, Jr. & Tanner Colby Michael Pollan • 978-0-14-311474-1 • $16.00 • 978-0-14-311556-4 • $16.00 • PB • May 2009 • PB • Jan 2009 • UC Berkeley professor & author Emotional Bullshit: Overcoming the Toxic • Harrowing portrait of Saturday Night Live of The Omnivore’s Dilemma explores the art of Deceptions That Threaten to Ruin Your comedian • “An oral history...the form seems architecture, the craft of building, and the Relationships—and Your Life particularly appropriate in the case of Farley, meaning of modern work. Carl Paul Alasko, Ph.D. • 978-1-58542-666-9 whose comedy was aggressively social...The result • $14.95 • PB • Jan 2009. is satisfyingly complex. ”—New York Magazine. Hispanic: Why Americans Fear Hispanics in the U.S. Play: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Drink: Geraldo Rivera • 978-0-451-22609-9 • $15.00 Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul A Cultural History of Alcohol • PB • 256 pp • April 2009 • “Throughly Stuart Brown, M.D. with Christopher Vaughan Iain Gately • 978-1-592-40464-3 • $18.00 • PB researched...a sane look at what will be an • 978-1-58333-333-4• $24.95 • HC • Feb 2009 • May 2009 • In the tradition of Salt, a spirited enromous challenge and perhaps an opportu- • A blend of cutting-edge neuroscience, biology, look at the history of alcohol • “Ranges so wide nity for this country.”—Publishers Weekly. psychology, social science, and human stories. and so deep that it may become a classic reference on the subject.”—Publishers Weekly. Hospital: Man, Woman, Birth, Death, Rapt: Attention and the Interested Life Infinity, Plus Red Tape, Bad Behavior, Winifred Gallagher • 978-1-59420-210-0 The Means of Reproduction: Money, God, and Diversity on Steroids • $25.95 • HC • April 2009 • A provocative, How Women’s Freedom Will Determine Julie Salamon • 978-0-14-311536-6 • $16.00 illuminating and captivating look at the power the World’s Future OR Sex, Power, • 384 pp • May 2009 • A year in the life of an and importance of attention in multiple Population, and the Future of the World urban hospital • “An ambitious, absorbing domains of life.”—Sonja Lyubomrsky, author of Michelle Goldberg • 978-1-59420-208-7 • $25.95 story...sits on the fault lines of two national The How of Happiness. • HC • April 2009 • Groundbreaking work of controversies, immigration and health care.” investigative journalism • “We know how to —New York Times Book Review. Unstuck: Your Guide to the radically improve women’s lives around the Seven-Stage Jouney Out of Depression world: give them education, power, and the Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue James Gordon, M.D. • 978-0-14-311551-9 liberty to control their own bodies... Goldberg’s Sociologist Takes to the Street • $16.00 • 448 • June 2009 • Healing without sweeping saga about how this consensus came Sudhir Venkatesh • 978-0-14-311493-2 • $16.00 anti-depressants • “A fresh, holistic approach... about, and the tragic impediments to putting it • PB • Jan 2009 • One of School Library Journal’s will help us break free from compartmentalized into practice, may be the most important book Best Books 2008 • “Not another voyeuristic look ideas about mental health and our tendency to you’ll ever read about the future of the human into the life of the black poor. Venkatesh entered pathologize life experiences.”—Dr. Mary race.” —Rick Perlstein, author of Nixonland. the Chicago gang world at the height of the Pipher, author of Reviving Ophelia. crack epidemic and found a tightly organized X Saves the World: How Generation X community, held together by friendship and A Course in Happiness: Mastering Got the Shaft But Can Still compassion as well as force...The gang leader, J. the Three Essential Life Skills That Keep Everything from Sucking T. has to be one of the greatest characters ever to Underlie True and Lasting Contentment Jeff Gordinier • 978-0-14-311515-1 • $15.00 • PB emerge from something that could be called Mardi Horowitz, M.D. • 978-1-58532-694-2 • April 2009 • “Gordinier might be the secret love sociological research.”—Barbara Ehrenreich. • $23.95 • HC • Jan 2009 • A road map for child of Tom Wolfe and Douglas Coupland...a achieving contentment from UC San Francisco thought-provoking and funny look at America Voluntary Madness professor of psychiatry & recipient of the Ameri- today.”—A. J. Jacobs, author of The Year of Norah Vincent • 978-0-670-01971-7 • $25.95 can Pyschiatric Assocation’s Foundations Prize. Living Biblically. • HC • Jan 2009 • From the author of Self-Made Man, the journalist who famously lived as a man Train Your Brain More: Newbos: The Rise of America’s commits herself to another riveting experiment 60 Days to An Even Better Brain New Black Overclass • “Keenly observed”—Publishers Weekly. Dr. Ryuta Kawashima • 978-0-14-03550-5 Lee Hawkins • 978-1-592-40451-3 • $26.00 • $14.00 • PB • Jan 2009 • Professor of neurosci- • HC • June 2009 • A provocative look at how And Then There’s This: How Stories ence and head of the Functional Brain Imaging young black creative entrepreneurs are poised to Live and Die in a Viral Culture Centre at Tohoku University, Dr. Kawashima transform black America. Bill Wasik • 978-0-670-02084-3 • $25.95 and his successful research, especially with • HC • 208 pp • June 2009 • A witty, well argued, sufferers of Alzheimer’s, is revolutionising health Listening Is an Act of Love: look into the frontier of idea making. care around the world. A Celebration of American Life from the StoryCorps Project Hella Nation: Looking for Happy Meals Edited with an Intro by Dave Isay in Kandahar, Rocking the Side Pipe, • 978-0-14-311434-5 • $15.00 • PB • Nov 2008 Wingnut’s War Against the GAP, and • “Asks Americans to reflect upon their experi- Other Adventures with the Totally Lost ences, times of travail, their achievements... Tribes of America creates a national narration...a presentation of a Evan Wright • 978-0-670-02084-3 • $25.95 people’s mind, heart, soul”—Dr. Robert Coles, • HC • 304 pp • April 2009 • From the author of James Agee Professor of Social Ethics, Harvard. Generation Kill, a meticulously observed tour of America’s jagged edges hiding in plain sight amid malls and mansions “His style owes more to Hunter Thompson than to any sort of political correctness.”—Newsday.

PENGUIN GROUP (USA) 9 Disconnected Kids: The Groundbreaking The Hindus: An Alternative History Education Brain Balance ProgramTM for Children Wendy Doniger • 978-1-59420-205-6 • $35.00 with Autism, ADHD Dyslexia, and • HC • 720 pp • Mar 2009 • Distinguished Other Neurological Disorders Professor at University of Chicago writes a vivid What’s Math Got To Do With It: Dr. Robert Melillo • 978-0-399-43475-1 • $24.95 reinterpretation • “Since the appearance of her Helping Children Learn To Love • HC • 256 pp • Jan 2009. first critically lauded book, Doniger has been an Their Least Favorite Subject­, unparalleled presence in International Religious and Why It’s Important for America Nasty, Brutish, and Long: Adventures Studies.”—Annette Koegh, Stanford. Jo Boaler • 978-0-14-311571-7 • $16.00 • PB in Old Age and the world of Eldercare • 288 pp • July 2009 • Examines U.S. math Ira Rosofsky, Ph.D. • 978-1-58333-336-5 • $24.95 The Hermetica: The Lost education—why and how it needs to change and • HC • Mar 2009. Wisdom of the Pharoahs how students can be more engaged in problem Timothy Freke & Peter Gandy solving. “Highly accessible, enjoyable.”—Booklist. Nudge: Improving Decisions • 978-1585-42692-8 • $10.00 • PB • Dec 2008 about Health, Wealth, and Happiness • The first easily accessible translation of the late- Taking Back Childhood: A Proven Richard H. Thaler & Cass R. Sunstein Egyptian classic which inspired some of the Roadmap for Raising Confident, • 978-0-14-311526-7 • $16.00 • Feb 2009 world’s great artist, scientists, and philosophers. Creative, Compassionate Kids • University of Chicago & Harvard Law Nancy Carlsson-Paige • 978-0-452-29009-9 professors take on choices • “Fundamentally God Is Back: How the Global • $15.00 • PB • Feb 2009 • Innovative roadmap. changes the way I think about the world... Revival of Faith Will Change the World Academics aren’t supposed to be able to write Robert Micklethait & Adrian Wooldridge Your Child’s Strengths: this well”—Steven Levitt, co-author of • 978-1-59420-213-1 • $27.95 • HC • 352 pp A Guide for Parents and Teachers Freakonomics. • April 2009 • Economist writers show how Jenifer Fox, M.Ed. Foreword by Marcus religion is booming and reveal its vast effects on Buckingham • 978-0-14-311517-5 • $15.00 • PB The Empathy Gap: Building Bridges the global economy, politics, etc. • 368 pp • Mar 2009 • From renowned educator, to the Good Life and the Good Society an ambitious book that aims to change and J.D. Trout • 978-0-670-02044-7 • $25.95 • HC An American Gospel: On Family, improve the conversation about education in • 288 pp • Feb 2009 • Loyola professor creates a History, and the Kingdom of God America by focusing on children’s strengths road map to a better society linking the Erik Reece • 978-1-59448-859-7 • $24.95 • HC instead of their weaknesses. cognitive psychclogy of the individual and social • April 2009 • From the award-winning author of decision making. Lost Mountain, a dazzling chronicle of personal and national identity. math / Science / Raven: The Untold Story of the environment PHILOSOPHY / religion Rev. Jim Jones and His People Tim Reiterman with John Jacobs • 978-1-58542-678-2 • $18.95 • PB • Jan 2009 My Stroke of Insight: The Duck That Won the Lottery: • “A document which will illuminate a dark A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey And 99 Other Bad Arguments corner of our era.”—Daniel Schorr. Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D. • 978-0-452-29554-4 Julian Baggini • 978-0-452-29541-4 • $15.00 • PB • $15.00 • PB • 192 pp • June 2009 • A neuro- • May 2009 • From the founding editor of The Rumi: In the Arms of the Beloved anatomist affiliated with the Indiana University Philosopher’s Magazine and author of The Pig Translated by Jonathan Start School of Medicine shares her journey from a That Wants To Be Eaten and Do You Think What • 978-1-585-42693-5 • $10.00 • PB • Dec 2008 debilitating stroke to full recovery and her You Think? “A curiosity cabinet of spurious • Master translator has assembled selections of unique perspective on the brain’s capacity for reasoning and spin.”—Financial Times. Rumi’s verse in a treasury that spans the poet’s recovery. • Time Magazine 100 Most Influential life and includes his most celebrated work. People of 2008. The Religious Case Against Belief James P. Carse • 978-0-14-311544-1 • $16.00 What The Gospels Meant Hope Is the Thing With Feathers: • PB • 240 pp • June 2009 • NYU Professor Garry Wills • 978-0-14-311512-0 • $15.00 • PB A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds Emeritus provides a provocative explanation • Feb 2009 • “A learned and yet eminently Christopher Cokinos • 978-1-58542-7222 for why belief, not religion, keeps us in a readable and provocative exploration.” • $16.95 • PB • May 2009 • From award-winning perilous state of willful ignorance • “Carse is a —The Los Angeles Times. writer and Utah State English prof comes “This kind of agile provocatuer, eager to...get us story—of the ghost species still haunting this Fingerprints of God: thinking...he contrives to make the thrashing continent—is full of power and mystery.”—Bill out of essential issues both urgent and The Search for the Science of Spirituality McKibben, author of The End of Nature. enjoyable.”—The New York Review of Books. Barbara Bradley Hagerty • 978-1-59448-877-1 • $26.95 • HC • 320 pp • May 2009 • “In this Shop Class as Soulcraft: groundbreaking book on the emerging science Manuel Competence and the of faith, Hagerty discovers the links between Struggle for Agency in Modern Life science and spiritual experience. Fingerprints of Matthew B. Crawford, Ph.D. God will provoke you, intrigue you, and inspire • 978-1-59420-223-0 • $25.95 • HC • June 2009 you.”—Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead • Rousing examination and a call for the return Man Walking. to the pleasures of living concretely from a fellow at the Institue for Advanced Studies at University of Virginia.

PENGUIN GROUP (USA) 10 Why Evolution Is True In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto MUSIC / drama / Film/ Jerry A. Coyne • 978-0-670-02053-9 • $27.95 Michael Pollan • 978-0-14-311496-3 • $15.00 • HC • 320 pp • Feb 2009 • Explores modern • PB • 256 pp • May 2009 • From the author of genetics, paleontology, geology, molecular Omnivore’s Dilemma...what to eat and what not Vanity Fair’s Tales of Hollywood: Rebels, biology and anatomy • “Scientists don’t use the to eat and how to think about health • Reds, and Graduates and the Wild Stories word ‘true’ lightly but in this lively and engross- “A distinguished author and designated Behind the Making of 13 Iconic Films ing book, Coyne shows why biologists are happy repository for the nation’s food conscience.” Edited by Graydon Carter • 978-0-14-311471-0 to use it when it comes to evolution...There are —The New York Times. • $16.00 • PB • Jan 2009. many superb books on evolution, but this one is superb in a new way...it explains the latest Think Smart: A Neuroscientist’s Prescrip- Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies evidence for evolution lucidly, thoroughly and tion for Improving Brain Performance and the Birth of the New Hollywood with devestating effectiveness.”—Steven Pinker, Richard Restak, M.D. • 978-1-59448-873-3 Mark Harris • 978-0-14-311503-8 • $17.00 • PB Harvard. • $25.95 • HC • April 2009 • Award-winning • Feb 2009 • Story of the movies and the cultural neuroscientist and psychiatrist and neurology revolution that transformed Hollywood • “A Thank God for Evolution: profesor at George Washington University first-rate, broad-gauged (and deliciously How the Marriage of Science and Religion distills the latest brain research. readable) cultural history.”—The Los Angeles Will Transform Your Life and Our World Times • A Choice Outstanding Academic Title. Michael Dowd • 978-0-452-29534-6 • $16.00 Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution PB • 488 pp • June 2009 • “The science vs. and Conflict in the 21st Century Man of Constant Sorrow: My Life & Times religion debate is over...Dowd masterfully unites P.W. Singer • 978-1-59420-198-1 • $29.95 • HC Dr. Ralph Stanley with Eddie Dean rationality and spirituality in a world view that • Jan 2009 • Brookings Institute Senior Fellow • 978-1-592-40425-4 • $26.00 • HC • July 2009 celebrates the mysteries of existence...A powerful researches issues of ethics, culture, technology. • A giant and legend of bluegrass music pays book! A must read for all, including scientists.” • “As important as it is readable...a fascinating tribute to the vanishing Appalachian culture that —Craig Mello, 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology/ account of new technology...a challenging gave him his voice. Medicine. appraisal of the strategic, political and ethical questions that we must now face. Needs to be Black Postcards How to Build a Dinosaur: read by anyone interested in fundamental Dean Wareham • 978-0-14-311548-9 • $16.00 Extinction Doesn’t Have To Be Forever questions of how our society and others will • PB • 352 pp • May 2009 • “Both a personal and Jack Horner & James Gorman look at war itself.”—Anthony Lake, former U.S. a cultural history...Wareham has made music • 978-0-525-95104-9 • $25.95 • HC • Mar 2009 National Security Advisor and Professor of that draws you into mysteries, dreams and • World renowned paleontologist reveals a new Diplomacy, Georgetown University. romances. Now he has written a book that does science that trumps fiction. the same.”—Joe Levy, Rolling Stone. The Why Files: Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That The Science Behind the News Changed the World David Tenenbaum with Terry Devitt Dan Koeppel • 978-0-452-29008-2 • $16.00 • PB • 978-0-14-311467-3 • $15.00 • PB • 304 pp BUSINESS / Economics • Jan 2009 • Fascinating biological detective story • May 2009 • The not-for-nerds guide to human brains, animal sex, exploding bugs and galactic of the world’s most humble and endangered The Lords of Finance: fruit • “Koeppel’s book is an important addition death rays. The Bankers Who Broke the World to the impact that one product can have on the Liaquat Ahamed • 978-1-59420-182-0 • $32.95 history of many of the world’s nations, empires, Uranium: War, Energy, • HC • 480 pp • Jan 2009 • With penetrating and civilizations. The banana joins oil, sugar, and the Rock That Shaped the World insights for today, Ahamed presents the vital and a host of products that have changed the Tom Zoellner • 978-0-670-02064-5 • $26.95 history of the world economic collapse of the face of the world.”—Jack Devine, The Richard • HC • 304 pp • Mar 2009 • “Superbly paints late 1920s. • “A brisk, original, incisive and Stockton College of New Jersey. vivid pictures of uranium’s impact, including entertaining account of a crucial time in the forced labor in Soviet mines and lucky prospec- world’s economic history that continues to affect Only a Theory: tors who struck it rich in harsh environments, us all today. Anyone who wants to understand Evolution and the Battle for America’s Soul the spread of uranium smuggling, as well as an the origins of the economic world we live in Kenneth R. Miller • 978-0-14-311566-3 explanation of why it was absurd to claim that would do well to read this book.”—Michael • $16.00 • PB • 256 pp • June 2009 • Acclaimed Saddam Hussein was attempting to purchase Beschloss, author of Presidential Courage: Brave Brown biologist examines the battle between significant quantities of uranium from Niger.” Leaders and How they Changed America. evolution & intelligent design and its implica- —Publishers Weekly. tions for America's role as a scientific leader. It’s Not About the Coffee: Spent: Leadership Principles From a Life at Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior Starbucks Geoffrey Miller • 978-0-670-02062-1• $26.95 Howard Behar • Foreward by Howard Schultz, • HC • 416 pp • May 2009 • An Evolutionary Starbucks founder and chariman Psychologist from New Mexico University • 978-15918-4272-9 • $15.00 • PB • 208 pp examines human nature to explain our behavior • April 2009 • Ten principles from former as consumers. executive.

PENGUIN GROUP (USA) 11 A New Breed of Leader: The Foreclosure of America: Cheap: Eight Leadership Qualities The Inside Story of the Rise and Fall The High Cost of Discount Culture that Matter Most in the Real World of Countrywide, the Mortgage Crisis, Ellen Ruppel Shell • 978-1-594-20215-5 • $25.95 Sheila M. Bethel, Ph.D. • 978-0-425-22590-5 and the Default of the American Dream • HC • July 2009 • The economic, political and • $15.00 • PB • Mar 2009 • The author of Making Adam Michaelson • 978-0-425-22741-1 • $25.95 psychic costs of making and supplying things as A Difference presents the indispensable • HC • Jan 2009 • From Countrywide’s Sr. VP. cheaply as possible by Boston Uinversity characteristics every 21st century leader wants. Journalism professor. Imagining India: The Idea The China Price: The True Cost of a Nation Renewed Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Chinese Competitive Advantage Nandan Nilekani • 978-1-59420-• $28.95 of Organizing Without Organizations Alexandra Harney • 978-0-13-311486-4 • $16.00 • HC • 416 pp • Mar 2009 • A visionary look at Clay Shirky • 978-0-13-311494-9 • $16.00 • PB • PB • Feb 2009 • “Provides valuable insight into the evolution and future of India by a preemi- • Mar 2009 • NYU prof examines technology’s the problems of outsourcing.”—Financial Times. nent business leader. consequences • “Shirky may be the finest thinker we have on the Internet revolution, but this is Street Fighters: Free the Market: Why Only Government more than just a technology book; it’s an The Shocking Demise of Bear Stearns, Can Keep the Marketplace Competitive absorbing guide to the future of society the Toughest Firm on Wall Street Gary L. Reback • 978-1-59184-246-0 • $26.95 itself.”—Steven Johnson, author of The Ghost Kate Kelly • 978-1-59184-273-6 • $25.95 • HC • April 2009 • Ideas from prominent anti- Map • “In story after story, Clay masterfully • HC • June 2009 • The inside story of the trust attorney. makes the connections as to why business, implosion of Bear Stearns. society and our lives continue to be transformed The Art of Woo: Using Strategic by a world of net- enabled social tools. His While America Aged: How Pension Debts Persuasion to Sell Your Ideas pattern-matching skills are second to none.” Ruined General Motors, Stopped the New G. Richard Shell & Mario Moussa —-Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Chief Software York Subways, Bankrupted San Diego, • 978-0-14-311404-8 • $16.00 • PB • Jan 2009 Architect and Loom as the Next Financial Crisis • Advice from professors of Legal Studies of Roger Lowenstein • 978-0-14-311538-0 • $16.00 Business, Ethics & Management at the Wharton Revolution in a Bottle: How TerraCycle • PB • 288 pp • May 2009 • “Lowenstein is one School • “Ranging across history, from Charles Is Redefining Green Business of the nation’s most talented business writers Lindbergh to Sam Walton, the authors examine Tom Szaky, founder of TerraCycle with a particular ability to make obscure how savvy negotiators use persuasion—not • 978-1-59184-250-7 • $15.00 • PB • April 2009 financial issues as clear as the morning light.” confrontation—to achieve goals.””—U.S. News • The amazing story of what Inc. calls “The —The New York Times Book Review. & World Report. coolest startup in America.”

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