PENGUIN GROUP USA spring/summer 2008 new books for course use & adoption consideration

PENGUIN ClAsSICS • democracy: An American Novel/Henry Adams/Edited with • Purgatoria/Dante Alighieri/Translated with Intro & Notes an Intro & Notes by Earl N. Harbert/978-0-14-303980-8/ by Robin Kirkpatrick/978-0-14-144896-2/$17.00/Mar 2008. $13.00/“One of the most perceptive books ever written about Washington.”—Maureen Dowd, New York Times/June 08. • paradiso/Dante Alighieri/Translated with an Intro & Notes by Robin Kirkpatrick/978-0-14-144897-9/$13.00/Mar 2008. • the first poems in english/Michael Alexander/ 978-0-14-043378-4/$15.00/Contains the 'heroic poems' • ancien regime and the french revolution/Alexis de including passages from Beowulf/Aug 2008. Tocqueville/Translated with an Intro by Gerald Bevan/ 978-0-14-144164-1/$14.00/Penguin Classics Original/Aug • the underdogs: A Novel of the Mexican Revolution/Mariano 2008. Azuela/Translated by Sergio Waisman/Intro by Carlos Fuentes/ 978-0-14-310527-5/$8.00/A classic of Latin American • the saga of the people of laxardal and bolli bolla- literature/Penguin Classics Original/Aug 2008. son's tale/Leifur Eiricksson/Translated by Keneva Kunz/Intro by Bergljót Kristjánsdóttir/Notes, a chronology, maps, • russian thinkers/Isaiah Berlin/Intro by Henry Hardy/ suggestions for further readings/978-0-14-044775-0/$16.00/ 978-0-14-144220-4/$16.00/Mar 2008. Penguin Classics Original/Aug 2008.

• the good person of szechwan/Bertolt Brecht/ • the vinland sagas/Leifur Eiricksson/Translated by Keneva Forword by Carl Weber/New Intro by Norm Roessler/ Kunz/Intro by Gisli Sigurosson/978-0-14-044775-0/$15.00/ Translated by John Willett/Edited with an Intro by John Willett Replaces 978-0-14-044154-3/Aug 2008. & Ralph Manheim/978-0-14-310537-4/$11.00/Penguin Classics Original with the definitive translation/June 2008. • demons/Fyodor Dosoyevsky/New Translation by Robert A. Maguire/Intro by Robert l. Belknap/Edited by Ronald Meyer • life of galileo/Bertolt Brecht/Foreword by Richard with chronology, further reading, appendices, notes/ Foreman/New Intro by Norm Roessler/Translated by John 978-0-14-144141-2/ $18.00/June 2008. Willett/Edited with an Intro by John Willett & Ralph Manheim/978-0-14-310538-1/$12.00/Penguin Classics • where angels fear to tread/E.M. Forster/Intro by Ruth Original/June 08. Padel/978-0-14-144145-0/$13.00/Penguin Classics Original/ Mar 2008. • under the sea wind/Rachael Carson/Intro by Linda Lear/ Illustrations by Howard Frech/978-0-14-310496-4/$15.00/ • life of mà-ka-tai-me-she kià-kiàk, or black hawk: Dic- tated by Himself/Intro & Notes by Gerald Kennedy/ • the selected poems of cavafy/Constantine P. Cavafy/ 978-0-14-310539-8/$14.00/A vivid account of how the Sacs Edited and Translated with a New Intro by Avi Sharon/978- lived, what they believed and valued, and how they responded 0-14-4116581-3/$15.00/”One of the greatest poets of our to loss of their ancestral land/Penguin Classics Original/May time.”—E.M. Forster/July 2008. 2008.

• an organizer's tale: Speeches/Cesar Chavez/Intro by Ilan • the aeneid/Homer/Translated by Robert Fagles/ Stavans/978-0-14-310526-8/$15.00/Penguin Classics Original/ 978-0-14-310513-8/$16.00/Feb 2008. Mar 2008. • collected poems/A.E. Houseman/Revised by Archie • the portable charles w. chesnutt/Charles W. Burnett with updated notes on the text/Afterword by John Chesnutt/Edited with an Intro by William L. Andrews/ Sparrow on Houseman's methods of writing/ Presented by Henry Louis Gates, Jr./978-0-14-310534-3/ 978-0-14-042474-4-9/$/Includes A Shropshire Lad, Last Poems, $18.00/Penguin Classics Original, marks the 150th anniversary posthumous selections and translations from Aeschylus, of Chesnutt's birth/June 2008. 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/ • the street of crocodiles & other stories/Bruno $10.00/Replaces 978-0-14-043233-6/June 2008. Schultz/Translated by Celina Wieniewska/New Foreword by Jonathan Safran Foer/New Intro by David A. Goldfarb/ • the europeans/Henry James/Intro/978-0-14-144140-5/ 978-0-14-310514-5/$15.00/Mar 2008. $12.00/Replaces 978-0-14-043232-9/June 2008. • electra and other plays: Electra, Ajax, Womens of Trachis, • the wings of the dove/Henry James/Intro/ Philoctetes/Sophocles//978-0-14-044978-5/$12.00/Replaces 978-0-14-144128-3/$11.00/Replaces 978-0-14-043263-3/June 978-0-14-044028-7/July 2008. 2008. • the rule of saint benedict/Translated with an Intro by • god's trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse/James Carolinne White /978-0-14-044996-9/$13.00/Available March Weldon Johnson/Foreward by Maya Angelou/General editor, 2008. Henry Louis Gates, Jr./978-0-14-310541-1/$14.00/June 2008. • sweet thursday/John Steinbeck/Introduction & Notes • metamorphosis and other stories/Franz Kafka/ by Robert DeMott/978-0-14-303947-1/$15.00/“A postwar Translated with an Intro by Michael Hoffman/Cover by Sammy continuation of Cannery Row...this is comedy—bawdy, Harkham/978-0-14-310524-4/$14.00/Classics Deluxe Edition/ sentimental, and good fun.”—Atlantic Monthly/Aug 2008. Mar 2008. • the death of ivan ilych and other stories: The Raid, • on the road: The Original Scroll/Jack Kerouac/Edited by Woodfelling, Three Deaths, Polikushka, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Howard Cunnell/Intro by Joshua Kupetz, George Mouratidis, After the Ball, The Forged Coupon/Leo Tolstoy/Translated by & Penny Vlagopoulos/978-0-14-310546-6/$14.00/Legendary Tony Briggs, David McDuff, Ronald Wilks/Introduction by Tony first draft as Kerouac typed it in 1951 including music notes/ Briggs/978-0-14-044961-7/$11.00/Replaces the previous Sep 2008. edition, 978-0-14-044508-4 edition/June 2008.

• the water babies: a fairy Tale for a Land-Baby/Charles • the kreutzer sonata and other stories: Family Kingsley/Intro & Notes by Richard Beards/978-0-14-310509-1/ Happiness, The Kreutzer Sonata, The Devil, Father Sergius/Leo $14.00/Includes the original text and Victorian art from Tolstoy/Translated by Paul Foote & David McDuff/Introduction vintage editions/Penguin Classics Original/May 2008. by Donna Orwin/978-0-14-044960-0/$11.00//Replaces the previous edition, 978-0-14-044469-8/June 2008. • spoon river anthology/Edgar Lee Masters/New Intro, Notes, & further reading by Jerome Loving/978-0-14-310515-2/ • catiline's war, the jugurthine war, histories/Edited $14.00/Free verse and dramatic monologues from the dead, & Translated by A.J. Woodman/978-0-14-044948-8/$16.00/ “sleeping on the hill”/Penguin Classics Original/May 2008. Replaces 978-0-14-044132-1/Mar 2008.

• israel potter/Hermin Melville/Intro & Notes by Robert S. • “, take this chalice from me” and poems/Cesar Levine/978-0-14-310523-7/$15.00/Mar 2008. Vallejo/Translated by Margaret Peden/Intro by Ilan Stavans/ 978-0-14-310530-5/$16.00/Penguin Classics Original/Mar • mountains of /John Muir/Edited with an Intro 2008. by J. Edward Hoagland/978-0-14-310525-1/$13.00/Penguin Nature Classics/Mar 2008. • doveglion: Collected Poems/José Garcia Villa/Intro by Luis Francia/Edited by John Edwin Cowen/978-0-14-310535-0/ • revolutionary suicide/Huey P. Newton/Intro by Michael $16.00/Phillipine writer who became “The Pope of Greenwich Eric Dyson/978-0-14-310532-9/$16.00/A memoir of an Village”/”A poet with a great, astounding, and perfectly original individual and a manifesto of the Black Panther Movement/ gift...his poems are among the most beautiful written in our Aug 2008. time.”—Edith Sitwell/New and exclusive to Penguin Classics/ June 2008. • the ladies of the corridor/Dorothy Parker & Arnaud D'Usseau/Intro by Marion Meade/978-0-14-310531-2/$12.00/ • the death of jim loney/James Welch/Intro by Jim Witty meditation on the limits of a woman's life/May 2008. Harrison/978-0-14-310518-3/$14.00/Penguin Classics Original/Aug 2008. • little red riding hood, cinderella, and other classic fairy tales of charles perrault/Charles Perrault/ • winter in the blood/James Welch/Intro by Louise Translated by Angela Carter/Intro by Jack Zipes/ Erdich/978-0-14-310518-3/$14.00/Penguin Classics Original/ 978-0-14-310536-7/$14.00/Penguin Classics Original/June 2008. Aug 2008.

• the selected poems/Christina Rossetti/ • yevtushenko: selected poems/Yevgeni Yevtushenko/ 978-0-14-042469-0/$15.00/Unique among Victorian poets/July Translated with an Intro by Robin Milner-Gulland & Peter 2008. 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 • guys and dolls and other writings/Damon Runyon/ the best-known poets of post-Stalinist Russia/Penguin Classics Intro by Pete Hamill/Annotated by Daniel R. Schwartz/ Original/Aug 2008. 978-0-14-144896-2/$16.00/Penguin Classics Original/May 2008.

2 POETRY • diary of a bad year/J.M. Coetzee/978-0-670-01875-8/ $24.95/HC/Brilliant new work of fiction from the Nobel • installations/Joe Bonomo/978-0-14-311395-9/$16.00/ Prize-winning author of Disgrace/Jan 2008. PB/Penguin Poets Original/Invites the reader to encounter a series of art installations and the intersection of the real and • the glimmer palace/Beatrice Colin/978-1-59448-985-3/ imagined, the spectator and the event/June 2008. $25.95/HC/Literary novel set in Berlin from 1900-1940/Aug 2008. • hardheaded weather: New and Selected Poems/Cornelius Eady/978-0-399-15485-0/$25.95/HC/Shows the arc of the • the triumph of deborah/Eva Etzioni-Halevy/ poet's universe and his range of interests/April 2008. 978-0-452-28906-2/$14.00/PB/From Professor Emeritus at Bar-Ilan, a story of feminine strength and independence, • the ode less travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within/Stephen filled with vivid historical detail/Mar 2008. Fry/978-1-592-40311-0/$15.00/PB/“Delightfully erudite...and soundly pedagogical guide to poetic form.”—Publishers Weekly/ • the aeneid/Virgil/Translated by Robert Fagles/Intro by NY Public Library's Books for the Teen Age 2007/Available Bernard Knox/978-0-14-310513-8/$16.00/From the now. recipient of the 1997 PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation & 2006 National Humanities Medal/Available now. • may day/Phillis Levin/978-0-14-311394-2/$16.00/PB/Penguin Poets Original/May 2008. • cathedral of the sea/Ildefonso Falcones/ 978-0-525-95048-6/$26.95/HC/Spanish best-selling story of • the warrior: A Mother's Story of a Son at War/Frances intrigue, revenge, war, and love in Medieval Spain/May 2008. Richey/978-0-670-01961-8/$21.95/HC/From a mother whose son goes to Iraq/“In the specific ways this poet mother refus- • knots/Nuruddin Farah/978-0-14-311298-3/$15.00/PB/ es to lose touch with a warrior son, there is a lifeline across a Spellbinding story of a Somalian émigré, “Lilting, poetic... deadly chasm for every reader.”—Gloria Steinam/April 2008. hypnotic in its ability to trace both the contradictions and hesitations of the protagonist and the complexities of Somali • the world's fair/Pattiann Rogers/978-0-14-311334-8/ life. Despite its heavy subject, joy suffuses the novel.” $16.00/PB/New collection from poet who recently received —Publishers Weekly/New York Times Notable Book/Feb 2008. prestigious Lannan Literary Award/Mar 2008. • the cellist of sarajevo/Steven Galloway/ • the importance of peeling potatoes in the ukraine/ 978-1-59448-989-1/$21.95/HC/Novel about endurance and Mark Yakich/978-0-14-311333-1/$18.00/PB/Penguin Poets the ways individuals reclaim their humanity in a city ravaged Original/Mar 2008. by war/“Gripping story of Sarajevo under siege.” —J.M. Coetzee/May 2008. WORLD LITERATURE & criticism • snapshots/Michal Govrin/978-1-59448-334-9/$15.00/PB/ • the girls of riyadh/Rajaa Alsanea/Translated by Rajaa One of Israel's most celebrated writers, examines the state Alsanea & Marilyn Booth/978-0-14-311347-8/$14.00/PB/ of Israel and the relationship of Arabs and Israelis/Winner of Reveals the social, romantic, and sexual tribulations of four prestigious Akum Prize for Book of the Year/Oct 2008. young women from the elite classes of Saudi Arabia/July 2008. • the jewish messiah/Arnon Grunberg/978-1-59420149-3/ • the secret scriptures/Sebastian Barry/978-0-670-01940-3/ $27.95/HC/Fiendishly provocative story of a confused young $24.95/HC/Haunting novel of a woman's life in Ireland and the man from a family with a Nazi past/Jan 2008. tragedy that befalls her from author of Annie Dunne/July 2008. • the lazrus project/Aleksandar Hemon/ • who the hell is pansy o'hara?: The Fascinating Stories 978-1-59448-988-4/$24.95/HC/From the author of Nowhere Behind 50 of the World's Best-Loved Books/Jenny Bond & Christ Man and The Question of Bruno—a historical novel about a po- Sheedy/978-0-14-311364-5/$13.00/PB/Compelling/Aug 2008. litically polarzied country and a wave of immigrants/May 2008.

• creator's map/Emilio Calderon/978-1-59420-181-3/$24.95/ • why kerouac matters/The Lessons of On The Road HC/Former historian recounts, through the eyes of an (They're Not What You Think)/John Leland/978-0-14-311437-6/ architect, the rise and fall of facism in /Aug 2008. $15.00/PB/Fun-to-read critical appraisal of the classic novel/ Sep 2008. • the tåin/Translated by Ciaran Carson/978-0-670-01868-0/ $24.95/HC/Major new translation by award-winning Irish • strawberry fields/Marina Lewycka/978-0-14-311355-3/ poet and author of Ireland's greatest epic tale called “the Irish $14.00/PB/From the acclaimed author of A Short History of Aeneid.”/“Lively and vivid journey through a mythic land- Tractors in Ukranian/“Zings with zest for life...shrewd, and scape.”—Publishers Weekly/Feb 2008. winningly perceptive about the wounds inflicted by prejudice and injustice.”—The Sunday Times (London)/April 2008. • the island of eternal love/Daîna Chaviano/ 978-1-59448-992-1/$25.95/HC/From Cuba's answer to Amy • consequences/Penelope Lively/978-0-14-311343-0/ Tan, a mlutigenerational epic of three families, from Africa, $14.00/PB/Booker Prize winner follows three generations Spain, —a vivid, brilliant portrait of Cuba/June 2008. of women, tracing the consequences of their choices—story of growth, death and rebirth/June 2008.

3 • the wild places/Robert Macfarlane/978-0-14-311393-5/ • in the woods of eternity: This Night's Foul Work/Fred $16.00/PB/“An eloquent reminder that, though we're laying Vargas/978-0-14-311359-1/$14.00/PB/“Commissaire waste the world, nature still holds sway over much of the Adamsberg must be the most engaging French detective since earth's surface, even in a place as crowded and civilized as Maigret.”—Scotland on Sunday/June 2008. Britain.”—Bill McKibben/June 2008. • i love dollars/Zhu Wen/Translated by Julia Lovell/ • the testament of gideon mack/James Robertson/ 978-0-14-311327-0/$14.00/PB/Insanely funny stories that 978-0-14-311319-5/$15.00/PB/From winner of the Scottish provide Kafka-like commentary on modern Chinese society. Book of the Year award and the Saltire Prize, the story of a minister who meets the devil/“In the hands of great writers, Multicultural Fiction the unlikeliest stories are generally the most rewarding. Here is a parable of organized religion, the supernatural and mental • abeng/Michelle Cliff/978-0-670-452-27483-9/$14.00/PB/ illness.”—The Guardian/Feb 2008. Critically acclaimed novel of a light-skinned, middle-class girl growing up in Jamaica/“Powerful and often lyric...an important • draining the sea/Micheline Marcom/978-1-59448-973-0/ work.”—Library Journal/May 2008. $26.95/HC/Exploration of the effects of political violence as it reverberates through the Armenian genocide, the conflict in • the brief wonderous life of oscar wao/Junot Díaz/ Guatamala in 1980s and present-day L.A. from the winner of 978-1-59448-958-7/$24.95/HC/The long-awaited novel from the 2005 Pen USA Literary Award/Mar 2008. the author of Drown/Winner of John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize/New York Times 10 Best of 2007/9781594483295/$14.00/ • against the day/Thomas Pynchon/978-0-14-311256-3/ PB/Sep 2008. $18.00/PB/The literary event of the decade, Pynchon’s first novel since 1997 spans the period from the Chicago World’s • the golden road: Notes On My Gentrification/Caille Milner/ Fair of 1983 to WWI, from Colorado to Central Asia, from 978-0-14-311297-6/$14.00/PB/A young woman's heartfelt corporate greed to evil intent in high places/Nov 2007. identity search for authenticity among various black, Latino, techno-utopian, Ivy League, and activist communities—all • atlas shrugged/Ayn Rand/978-0-451-19114-4/$8.99/PB/ competing for her allegiance/Feb 2008. 50th Anniversary Ed/Oct 2007. • petropolis/Anya Ulinich/9780-14-311301-0/$14.00/PB/The • wolf totem/Jiang Rong/978-1-59420156-1/$26.95/HC/Epic Russian equivalent of Julia Alvarez's How the Garcia Girls Lost tale of a young Chinese boy living among the dying culture of Their Accents/“A coming-of-age novel...brave blend of satire, Inner Mongolian nomads in the 1960s and 1970s/Mar 2008. farce, and heart-wrenching realism.”—Booklist/Mar 2008.

• the bastard of //978-0-143-11271-6/ • the gentle axe/R.N. Morris/978-0-14-311326-3/$14.00/ $14.00/PB/From one of the Mideast’s most acclaimed PB/“Creates an atmospheric St. Petersburg, and a stylish set intellectuals, a dramatic novel about a Turkish and an of intellectual problems, but what makes it such an effective Armenian family/“[Shafak] has crafted a world that enlarges debut is its fascination with good and evil.”—The London Times our understanding of our own.”—Susan Isaacs/Feb 2008. Literary Supplement/Mar 2008.

Paperbacks Coming in Jan 2008 by George Simenon Short Stories/essays Novels from the Master, As Timeless as Itself. • my friend maigret/978-0-14-311284-6/$13.00. • inner workings: Literary Essays 2000-2005/J.M. Coetzee/ • inspector cadaver/978-0-143-11281-5/ $13.00. 978-0-14-311378-2/$16.00/PB/Essays on Beckett, Roth, Sebald, • the man on the boulevard/978-0-143-11283-9/$13.00. Marquez, Gordimer from Nobel Prize-winning author/July 08.

• oil!/Upton Sinclair/978-0-14-311226-6/$15.00/PB/A novel • i was told there'd be cake/Sloane Crosley/ fashioned from oil scandals of the Harding administration. 978-1-59448-306-6/$14.00/PB/Personal & literary essays in the style of a 21st-century Dorothy Parker/April 2008. • the amnesiac/Sam Taylor/978-0-14-311340-9/$14.00/PB/ Mysterious journey into memory and amnesia, fiction and • alone in the kitchen with an eggplant: Confessions reality, destiny and randomness/June 2008. of Cooking for One and Dining Alone/Edited by Jenni Ferrari- Adler/978-159448313-4/$14.00/PB/Essays by Laura Dave, • cheating at canasta/William Trevor/ Jonathan Ames, Nora Ephron, Colin Harrison, Haruki Mu- 978-0-14-311406-2/ $14.00/PB/“These stories remind us how rakami, Ann Patchett, among others/Feb 2008. serious, noble, painful and happy human life once was...so like James Joyce's and Alice Munro's—[they] preserve something • the last single woman in america/Cindy Guidry/ of the scale of human life.”—Los Angelas Times/New York Times 978-0-525-95052-3/$23.95/HC/The funniest, freshest essayist Notable Book/Oct 2008. since David Sedaris/Feb 2008.

• young pushkin/Yury Tynyanov/Translated from the • it's only temporary: The Good News and the Bad News Russian by Anna Kurkina Rush & Christopher Rush/Intro of Being Alive/Evan Handler/978-1-594-48995-2/$23.95/HC/ by Ann Kurkina Rush/978-1-58567-962-1/$35.00/HC/First “Wonderful...he pulls you inside his life and you come out his English translation of epic novel of Russia's literary golden very close friend.”—Neil Simon/May 2008. age/May 2008.

4 • the night sky: Writings on the Poetics of Experience/Ann • wit's end/Karen Joy Fowler/978-0-399-15475-1/$24.95/ Lauterbach/978-0-14-303737-8/$16.00/PB/From Distinguished HC/From the author of The Jane Austen Book Club/April 2008. Professor at CUNY & Bard College/Mar 2008. • the legend of colton h. Bryant/Alexandra Fuller/ • armageddon in retrospect...And Other New and 978-1-59448-989-1/$35.95/HC/From the highly acclaimed and Unpublished Writings on War and Peace/Kurt Vonnegut/Intro by best-selling author of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs and Scribbling Mark Vonnegut/978-0-399-15508-6/$24.95/HC/First and only the Cat/July 2008. unpublished works and a timely contribution to the discussion of war, peace, and violence/Contains drawings by the author • spook country/William Gibson/978-0-425-22141-9/PB/ and an intro by his son/April 2008. $14.00/From the author of Pattern Recognition, a novel of politics and paranoia/“A devestatingly precise reflection of the popular fiction American Zeitgeist...bears comparison to the best work of Don DeLillo.”—Washington Post/June 2008. • the 351 books of irma arcuri/David Bajo/ 978-0-670-01929-8/$25.95/HC/Metaphysical literary mystery • fall of frost/Brian Hall/978-0-670-018666-6/$25.95/HC/ —Kundera crossed with Momento/“Dazzling combination of Exquisitely written novel about the art and life of Robert love and sex, and, yes, mathematics.”—Keith Donohue, author Frost/April 2008. of The Stolen Child/June 2008. • a thousand splendid suns/Khaled Hosseini/ • city of thieves/David Benioff/978-0-670-01870-3/$24.95/ 978-1-59448-950-1/$25.95/HC/Author of The Kite Runner HC/Gripping coming-of-age tale about two young Russians returns with another riveting story/“A forceful but nuanced during WWII on an impossible mission by the author of The portrait of a patriarchal despotism...A powerful, harrowing 25th Hour/“Resonates with Whitmanesque sense of the city's depiction of Afghanistan, but also a lyrical evocation of the possibilities.”—The New Yorker/May 2008. lives and hopes of its resilient characters.”—Publishers Weekly/ May 2008. • people of the book/Geraldine Brooks/ 978-0-670-01821-5/$25.95/HC/Illuminated 600 year-old • the crime writer/Gregg Hurwitz/978-0-14-311344-7/ Jewish prayer book's harrowing story told through people $14.00/PB/Confronts an inherent fear of what we may truly who crafted it and who saved it from destruction from be capable of...at once a noir nail-biter, contemporary moral- Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March/“Could not be more ity tale and a vivid dissection of the crime novel itself/HC timely.”—Publishers Weekly/Jan 2008. chosen by Library Journal as Best Genre fiction for 2007/June 2008. • five skies/Ron Carlson/978-0-14-311346-1/$14.00/PB/ Three strong yet fragile men on a project in the remote • virginity/Diane Johnson/978-0-525-95037-0/$24.95/HC/ mountains of Idaho, confronting their pasts and purpose/ Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist focuses on “A masterpiece of precision in its details, its structure and CIA operative in Marakesh/Jan 2008. the articulation of its themes...a luminous distillation of reality.”—The Atlantic/May 2008. • matters of faith/Kristy Kiernan/978-0-425-22179-2/ $14.00/PB/Story of a tragic accident that threatens to tear a • burning bright/Tracy Chevalier/978-0-452-28907-9/ family apart/Aug 2008. $14.00/PB/Sweeping story about Blake’s London/Mar 2008. • my revolutions/Hari Kunzru/978-0-525-94932-9/$25.95/ • god is dead/Ron Currie, Jr./978-0-14311348-5/$14.00/ HC/Provacative, timely story that asks the question, what PB/Audacious story of what happens after God takes the turns a radical into a terrorist?/Jan 2008. form of a Dinka woman and dies/“A stunning work of fiction.” —Marisha Pessl, author of Special Topics in Calamity Physics/ • walking back the cat/Robert Littell/978-0-14-311357-7/ May 2008. $14.00/PB/“Extraordinary thriller challenging, brutal...offbeat epic about offbeat humanity”—Times London/April 2008. • alive in necropolis/Doug Dorst/978-1-59448-987-7/ $24.95/HC/Literary novel about a young cop struggling in a • shining at the bottom of the sea/Stephen Marche/ town where the dead out-number the living/July 2008. 978-1-5944/$14.00/PB/Innovative novel detailing the literary and cultural history of a fictional country/Aug 2008. • fin de siécle/Selden Edwards/978-0-525-95061-5/$24.95/ HC/Story of a displaced 20th century man in turn-of-the-cen- • song yet sung/James McBride/9781-59448-972-3/$25.95/ tury Vienna/May 2008. HC/From the author of The Color of Water, story drawn from historical events of runaway slaves, free blacks, slave catchers • thursday next: First Among Sequest/Jasper Fforde/ and plantation owners in pre-Civil War Maryland/“Nails the 978-0-14-311356-0/$15.00/PB/“Infectious”—New York Times/ horror of slavery as well as the power of hope and redemp- Aug 2008. tion.”—Publishers Weekly/Feb 2008.

• painting by numbers: A Novel/Jasper Fforde/ • traveller/Ron McLarty/978-0-14-311288-4/$14.00/PB/ 978-0-670-01963-2/ $24.95/HC/Part social satire, part From the author of The Memory of Running/Mar 2008. romance, part thriller, a battle against overwhelming odds/July 2008.

5 • art in america/Ron McLarty/978-0-670-01895-6/$25.95/ SCience Fiction/FANTASY HC/Down on his luck writer accepts a commission to write and direct a play and walks into a pitched battle between local • the alchemist’s apprentice/Dave Duncan/ ranchers and a fringe anti-property group/July 2008. 978-0-441-01575-7/$7.99/PB/Features the apprentice to Nostradamus in an alternate historical Venice/March 2008. • red rover/Deidre McNamer/978-0-14-311354-6/$14.00/ PB/Story of young Montana men who get swept up in the • the accidental time machine/Joe Haldeman/ machinations of WWII/“An engaging and propulsive read that 978-0-441-011616-7/$7.99/PB/Newest science fiction novel stirs profound emotions.”—Alice Munroe/Aug 2008. from the winner of the 2006 Nebula Award in which time travel runs awry/Author is adjunct professor at MIT/Aug 2007. • dragonfly summer/Eva Rice/978-0-525-95022-6/$24.95/ HC/A novel about sisters—and best friends—and finding • heaven's net is wide: The First Tale of the Otori/Lian happiness close to home/June 2008. Hearn/978-1-59448-953-2/$26.95/HC/“One of the most thrilling new series of our time”—The London Times/Aug 2007. • the mayor's tongue/Nathaniel Rich/978-1-59448-990- 7/$24.95/HC/Stunningly original novel of obsession and • world's apart: An Anthology of Russian Fantasy and Science imagination/“About how we talk to each other and how Fiction/Translated, Edited, with Commentary by Alexander make-believe helps us get on with our lives...a brave book Levitsky/978-1-59020-820-4/$23.95/PB/Includes Pushkin, brimming with brio.”—Stephen King/April 2008. Lermontov, Turgenev, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Bulgakov/656 pp/May 2008. • just in case/Meg Rosoff/978-0-452-28937-6/$13.00/PB/ “Examines the idea of fate through minutely observed • the moon pool/A. Merritt/978-1-59020-071-1/$13.95/PB/ catastrophes and the intersection of exquisitely drawn Classic first published in 1919 from one of the great pioneers characters...Funny, ironic, magically real, stunning.”—Kirkus/ of science fiction, the inspiration for the television series, Winner of the Carnegie Medal/Feb 2008. Lost/July 2008.

• more than it hurts you/Darin Strauss/ • nebula awards showcase 2008/Edited by Ben Bova/ 978-0-525-95070-7/ $24.95/HC/From the author of the 978-0-451-46188-9/$16.00/PB/Features Kelly Link, Joe Halder- acclaimed Chang and Eng/June 2008. man, Carol Emshwiller, Harlan Ellison, Lou Anders, Kevin An- derson, John Picacio, Jack McDevitt, Ben Bova, etc/Apr 2008. • flower children/Maxinne Swann/978-1-59448-311-0/ $14.00/PB/“Evokes the wonder of childhood...with an almost • galaxy blues/Allen M. Steele/978-0-441-0156-1/$24.95/ hallucinatory precision.”—Vogue/June 2008. HC/From the Hugo Award-winning author of the Coyote trilogy/April 2008. • among other things i've taken up smoking/ Aoibheann Sweeney/978-0-14-311341-6/$14.00/PB/Story • FAERIES OF DREAMDARK: Blackbringer/Laini Taylor/ about the human need for intimacy from the Director of the 978-0-39924-630-2/$17.99/HC/Debut fantasy novel/Magpie Center for Humanities at CUNY Grad Center/June 2008. sets out to save the world unset from its course by humans.

• luncheon of the boating party/Susan Vreeland/ • OPENING ATLANTIS/Harry Turtledove/978-0-45146-174-2/ 978-0-14-311312-2/$15.00/PB/“Exquisitely wrought...writing, $24.95/HC/First of a trilogy rewrites the history of the world painstaking research...combine with a talent of communicating with an 8th continent/Dec 2007 Impressionism's...ideas and theories.”—Seattle Times/Mar 2008. YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE • the kings of New york/Michael Weinreb/ 978-1-592-40338-7/$15.00/PB/“Weinreb has captured both • twisted/Laurie Halse Anderson/978-0-142-41184-1/$9.99/ the intellectual insanity—and the curious normalcy—of what PB/Male teen identity novel by Speak author/May 2008. it's like to be a teenaged super-genius...the Friday Night Lights of high school chess.”—Chuck Klosterman, author of Sex, • geek abroad/Piper Baks/978-0-451-22393-7/$9.99/PB/ Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs and Chuck Klosterman IV/Mar 2008. Story of a high school for gifted children/May 2008.

• hunk city/James Wilcox/978-014-311312-6/$14.00/PB/ • peeled/Joan Bauer/978-0-399-23475-0/$16.99/HC/ From MFA Director at Louisiana State comes a comic novel Newberry winner's new novel in which a high school journal- about culture wars/Mar 2008. ist attempts to solve haunted house mystery/May 2008.

• pharmakon/Dirk Wittenborn/978-0-067-01942-7/$25.95/ • march toward the thunder/Joseph Bruchac/ HC/Based on true events: 1950s experiments at Yale with 978-0-803-73188-2/$16.99/HC/Unique perspective on the mood altering drugs result in murder and lifetime Civil War through the eyes of 15-year-old Canadian Abernaki consequences/Aug 2008. Indian/May 2008.

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6 • THE OUTSIDERS: 40th Anniversary Edition/S.E. Hinton/ • literally, the best language book ever: Annoying Words 978-0-670-06251-5/$17.99/HC/Original cover/Sep 2007. and Abused Phrases You Should Never Use Again/Paul Yeager/ 978-0-399-53423-2/$13.95/PB/Goes beyond grammar, com- • anne of green gables:100th Anniversary Edition/L.M. menting on how we use—or abuse—our language/May 2008. Montogomery/978-0-399-15478-2/$19.95/HC/Feb 2008. film • before green gables/Budge Wilson/978-0-399-15468-3/ $22.95/HC/Prequel to Ann of Green Gables/Mar 2008. • pictures at a revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of New Hollywood/Mark Harris/978-1-59420152-3/$27.95/HC/Human • the game of my life: A True Story of Challenge, Triumph and drama of academy-award nominated movies and the cultural Growing Up Autistic/J-Mac and the Four Minutes that Changed revolution that transformed Hollywood/“Captures the rising Everything/Jason McElwain (J-Mac) & Daniel Paisner/ cultural tide that broke in the late 60s...and Hollywood's 978-0-451-22301-2/$23.95/HC/Uplifting memoir by autistic inconsistent engagement with the Civil Rights movement.”— teenager and his unlikely star turn in a high school basketball Publishers Weekly/Feb 2008. game/Feb 2008. • inside inside/James Lipton/978-0-525-95035-6/$27.95/HC/ language/Writing/journalism The host of Inside the Actor's Studio offers behind-the- scenes close-ups of hundreds of celebrated artists/Oct 2007. • by hook or by crook: A Journey in Search of English/David Crystal/978-1-59020-06102/$27.95/HC/From the esteemed • american movie critics: An Anthology from the Silents Until language expert, comes a Bryon-esque linguistic travelogue/ Now/Edited by Phillip Lopate/978-1-59583-022-3/$19.95/ May 2008. PB/Includes Pauline Kael, Andrew Sarris, James Agee, Susan Sontag, H.L. Mencken, Molly Haskell, Roger Ebert, A.O. Scott, • it's not news, it's fark: How Mainstream Media Tries among others/750 pp/Feb 2008. 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 • leonard maltin's movie guide 2009/Leonard fans of The Daily Show, News of the Wierd...not for the Maltin/978-0-451-22468-2/$9.99/PB/Aug 2008. squeamish.”—/June 2008. memoir/bio/autobiography • how to say it in business writing that works:The Simple 10-Step Target Outline System to Help You Reach Your • a summer of hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Bottom Line/Adina Gewirtz/978-0-7352-428-7/$11.95/PB/ Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Includes examples, exercises, troubleshooting advice/Aug Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade/Christopher Benfey/ 2008. 978-1-59420-160-8/$25.95/PB/Mt. Holyoke English professor explores how American thought was changed/Mar 2008. • the first word: The Search for the Origins of Language/ Christine Kenneally/978-0-14-311374-4/$16.00/PB/Scientific • no man's land/Ruth Fowler/978-0-670-01939-7/$24.95/ research on the evolution of language/May 2008. HC/A gritty account of how a young woman rescued herself from the underbelly of Manhattan's strip clubs, and an acute • april 16th: Tragedy in Blacksburg/Edited by Roland Lazenby social commentary of those who live and work illegally in the and the Journalism Students of Virginia Tech/ sexual service industry in the U.S./June 2008. 978-0-452-28934-5/$14.00/PB/Relays events, including the recovery and resiliency of the community from the students' • joan of arc/Mary Gordon/978-0-14-311397-3/$14.00/PB/ perspectives—a portion of royalties from the book will be “Gordon is perfectly matched with Joan of Arc, and the book donated to Memorial Fund for the victims and their families/ she has written is both a compelling life story and a shrewd "Fascinating instructive document...an antidote to the edited analysis of the mythical uses to which it has been put.”—New sound-bite version we saw on T.V.”—New York Times/Aug 2007. York Times/Aug 2008.

• obit/Jim Sheeler/978-0-14-311383-6/$14.00/PB/From • turtle feet: The Making and Unmaking of a Buddhist Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist comes “Prose so good that it Monk/Nikolai Grozni/978-1-59448-984-6/$24.95/HC/Colorful transcends the individual's obituary to speak about mortality memoir of becoming a monk and a young man's spiritual and in general.”—Chicago Sun-Times/May 2008. not-so-spiritual journey in India/May 2008.

• the penguin latin dictionary/Robert Shorrock & David • dead lucky: Life After Death on Mount Everest/Lincoln Butterfield/978-0-141-01555-2/$14.00/PB/Aug 2008. Hall/978-1-58542-646-1/$24.95/HC/“Gripping almost un- believable story of survival that offers insight into a largely • the book of other people/Edited with an Intro by Zadie misunderstood domain.”—Sun Herald, Australia/May 2008. Smith/978-0-14-303818-4/$15.00/PB/Anthology of over 25 writings illlustrating characterization by well-known and • the mistress's daughter/A.M. Homes/ outstanding contemporary writers, including Nick Hornby, 978-0-14-311331-7/$15.00/PB/Given up for adoption before Zadie Smith, Jonathan Lethem, Jonathan Safran Foer, Dave birth, the story of what happened when, thirty years later, Eggers, and many more/Jan 2008. Homes's birth parents came looking for her/“The latest example of Homes's fearlessness and brilliance.”—Zadie Smith/April 2008.

7 • the man who made lists/Joshua Kendall/ • all about the beat: Why Hip-Hop Can't Save Black America/ 978-0-399-1546-2/$25.95/HC/Authoritative story of polymath John McWhorter/978-1-592-40374-5/$20.00/PB/Trenchant Peter Mark Roget of Roget's Thesaurus, in the tradition of The polemic from controversial author which should add to the Professor and the Madman/Mar 2008. debate/June 2008.

• body of work: Meditations on Mortality from the Human • pandemonium: Bird Flu, Mad Cow Disease and Other Biological Anatomy Lab/Christine Montross/978-0-14-311366-9/$15.00/ Plagues of the 21st Century/Andrew Nikiforuk/ PB/Memoir of the relationship between a cadaver & the 978-0-670-04519-8/$26.95/HC/“Well-researched and well- med student who dissected her from psychiatriy resident at written catalog of horrors.”—William Leiss, O.C., Ph.D., Brown/“Thoughtful meditations on balancing clinical detach- McLaughlin Center for Population Health Risk Assesment. ment and emotional engagement.”—Publishers Weekly/June 08. • us and them: The New Ultra-Wealth and What's Left for the • the age of turbulence: Adventures in a New World/Alan Rest of Us/Greg Palast/978-0-525-95063-9/$25.95/HC/ Greenspan/978-0-14-311416-1/$16.00/PB/The ultimate Brilliant dispatches on greed and corruption from the author master class on how the global economy really works from of Best Democracy Money Can Buy and Armed Madhouse/“Palast the master himself/640 pp/Sep 2008. upsets all the right people”—Noam Chomsky/May 2008.

• twenty chickens for a saddle: The Story of an African • how to watch tv news: Revised Edition/Neil Postman & Childhood/Robyn Scott/978-1-59420159-2/$24.95/HC/ Steve Powers/978-0-14-311377-5/$14.00/PB/July 2008. Adventures growing up in Botswana/April 2008. • what every american should know about the • love and consequences: Coming of Age in a L.A. Gang/ middle east/Melissa Rossi/978-0-452-28959-8/$16.00/PB/“A Peggy Seltzer/978-1-59448-977-8/$24.95/HC/Life with the funky foreign affairs seminar.”—Newsday/Dec 2008. L.A. gang, the Bloods and how the author survived, escaped, and, against all odds, thrived/”Steely and honest...L.A.'s South political science central ghetto is seen afresh in this harrowing yet hopeful memoir.”—Kirkus/Mar 2008. • why we're liberals: A Political Handbook for Post-Bush America/Eric Alterman/978-0-670-01860-4/$22.95/HC/Spirited • the girl from foreign/Sadia Shepard/978-1-59420-151-6 polemic that demolishes the many myths about liberalism/Mar $25.95/HC/Young Muslim-Christian woman travels to insular 2008. Jewish community in India to unlock family secrets/Aug 2008. • the argument: Billionaires, Bloggers, and the Battle to Remake • drunkard: A Hard Drinking Life/Neil Steinberg/ Democratic Politics/Matt Bai/978-0-14-3311417-8/$16.00/ 978-0-525-96065-3/$24.95/HC/Smashed for the older PB/“Semi-secret history of the Democratic party...thoroughly generation/June 2008. reported–and dead serious–look at the direction politics is headed at an important moment in history.”—Time Magazine/ • brother one cell: An American Coming of Age in South New York Times Notable Book/Aug 2008. Korea’s Prisons/Cullen Thomas/978-0-143-11311-9/$15.00/PB/ Insightful coming-of-age in prison story/Mar 2008. • the bin ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century/ Steve Coll/978-1-59420-164-6/$35.00/HC/From two time current events Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ghost Wars, story of the family's rise to privilege, revealing new information on how • the dumbest generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies American influences affected the family and how they in turn Young Americans and Jepordizes Our Future (Or Don't Trust Anyone changed America/688 pp/April 2008. Under 30)/Mark Bauerlein/978-1-58542-639-3/$24.95/HC/Prof at Emory reports on the intellectual life of young adults and • broken government: How Republican Rule Destroyed the its impact on American democracy and culture/May 2008. Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches/John Dean/ 978-0-670-01820-8/$25.95/HC/Examines the current state • a place called canterbury: Tales of the New Old Age in of the branches of government and offers solutions/Sep 2007. America/Dudley Clendinen/978-0-670-01884-0/$24.95/HC/ Examines a group of residents in a geriatric apartment house/ • blue grit: Making Impossible, Improbable, and Inspirational Finalist for the J. Lukas Anthony Work-in-Progress Award for Political Change in America/Laura Flanders/978-0-14311322-5/ topic of political or social concern/May 2008. $15.00/PB/Fiery polemic, assured narrative, acute political commentary/Feb 2008. • Standard Operating Procedure/Philip Gourevitch and Errol Morris/978-1-59420-132-5/$25.95/HC/First full • the assault on reason/Al Gore/978-0-14-3311362-1/ reckoning on what happened in Abu Ghraib by two of the $16.00/PB/A visionary analysis of how the politics of fear, keenest moral and political observers of our time/368 pp/ secrecy, cronyism and blind faith has combined with the April 2008. degradation of the public sphere to create an environment dangerously hostile to reason/“A mindful book on the Bush • on call in hell: A Doctor’s Iraq War Story/Cdr. Richard administration's assault on reason, truth, civil liberties, the Jadick with Thomas Hayden/978-0-451-22308-1/$22.95/PB/ seperation of the powers, the environment, and world or- From the most decorated U.S. doctor in Iraq/Mar 2008. der.”—The Atlantic Monthly/May 2008.

8 • the political mind: Why You Can't Understand 21st-Century • u.s. versus them: How a Half-Century of Conservatism Has Politics with an 18th-Century View of the Mind/George Lakoff/ Underminded America's Security/J. Peter Scoblic/ 978-0-670-01927-4/$25.95/HC/Distinguished prof of Cogni- 978-0-670-018882-6/$25.95/HC/Examines post-WWII history tive Science at UC-Berkeley explains the science behind how of conservatism in the U.S. and its consequences for 21st-cen- we make political decisions—and how to put that science to tury geopolitics/320 pp/May 2008. work/304 pp/June 2008. • only a theory: Evolution and the Battle for America's Soul/ • the dirty dozen: How Twelve Supreme Court Cases Radically Kenneth R. Miller/978-0-670-01883-3/$25.95/HC/Acclaimed Expanded Government and Eroded Freedom/Robert A. Levy & biology prof at Brown examines the battle between evolution William Mellor/Foreword by Richard W. Epstein/ and intelligent design and it's implications for America's role 978-1-59523-050-8/$25.95/May 2008. as a scientific leader/256 pp/June 2008.

• the secret history of the american empire: The Truth • thinking beyond the unthinkable: Harnassing Doom About Economic Hit Men, Jackals and How to Change the World/ from the Cold War to the Age of Terror/Jonathan Stevenson/ John Perkins/978-0-452-28957-4/$15.00/PB/“Bold assault on 978-0-670-01901-4/$26.95/HC/Strategic Studies prof at U.S. the tyranny of corporate globalization”—Howard Zinn/May Naval Academy analyzes and explains what the Cold War can 2008. teach us about the War on Terror/320 pp/Aug 2008.

• bad money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global legal studies & criminology Crisis of American Capitalism/Kevin Phillips/978-0-670-01907- 6/$25.95/HC/Devastating follow-up to American Theocracy— • the murder room: The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes Gather to how the U.S. financial sector has hijacked our economy and Solve the World's Most Perplexing Cold Cases/Michael put America's global future at risk/“Extensively researched... Capuzzo/978-1-592-40142-0/$27.50/HC/A team of foremost frighteningly persuasive.”—New York Times/April 2008. forensic investigators who meet every month to solve cold cases and bring murderers to justice/May 2008. • chasing the flame: Sergio Viera de Mello and the Fight to Save the World/Samantha Power/978-1-59420-128-5/$32.95/ • dishonorable passions: Sodomy Law in America, 1861- HC/From Professor of Global Leadership & Public Policy at 2003/ William Eskridge, Jr./978-0-670-01862-8/$27.95/HC/The Harvard and winner of 2003 Pulitzer Prize, National Book history of government's regulation of sexual behavior/May 08 Critics Circle Award, J. Anthony Lukas Prize, Arthur Ross Prize/Saga of the audacious UN High Commissioner whose • poisoning of an american high school/Joy poliltical career and tragic death define the struggle to secure Horowitz/978-0-14-3113867/$16.00/PB/Investigation of a peace and human rights today/“Profoundly important...As a landmark trial which examines the connection between study of leadership, it ranks with the very best. As an analysis big money, corporate malfeasance, and environmental of how to respond to the struggles of the new era, it is the toxicity/“Authoritative account...A clarian call about how Big defining work for our generation”—Doris Kearns Goodwin/ Oil trumps scientific inquiry and concern for the health of 520 pp/Feb 2008. children.”—Sheila Weller/July 2008.

• Disaster: The U.S. and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, • god on trial: Dispatches from America’s Religious Afghanistan, and Central Asia/Ahmed Rashid/978-0-670-01970-0/ Battlefields/Peter Irons/978-0-14311375-1/$16.00/PB/ $27.95/HC/“Pakistan's best and bravest reporter” (Christo- In-depth look at five contemporary court battles on the sepa- pher Hitchens) will do for Central Asia what Fiasco did for ration of church and state from a leading expert and former Iraq—offers a blistering critique of the Bush administaration Professor Emeritus of Law at UC, San Diego/June 2008. and a call to correct our failed strategy/June 2008. • blood on the table: The Greatest Cases of New York City's • hispanic: Why Some Americans Fear the Growth of Hispanics in Office of the Chief Medical Examiner/Colin Evans/ America/Geraldo Rivera/978-0-451-22414-9/$24.95/HC/Epic 978-0-425-21937-9/$15.00/PB/Mar 2008. account of the growth of the Hispanic market and the chang- ing face of America with a foreword by Bill O'Reilly/May 2008. • beating the devil's game: A History of Forensic Science and Criminal Investigation/Katherine Ramsland, Ph.D./ • let them in: The Case for Open Borders: 12 Myths About Im- 978-0-425-22146-4/$15.00/PB/From beginnings in 13th migration and Why They're Wrong/Jason Riley/978-1-59240349-3/ century China to the present and beyond where DNA $22.50/HC/Conservative journalist's measured argument on evidence will be analyzed on the spot/June 2008. how immigration keeps the U.S. strong/May 2008. • aftermath, inc.: Cleaning Up After CSI Goes Home/Gil • common wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet/Jeffrey D. Reavill/978-1-592-40364-6/$15.00/PB/“Tells the stories with Sachs/978-1-59420127-1/$27.95/HC/One of the world’s great compassion for both sides...His eye for details and grasp of economic minds and author of The End of Poverty, presents forensic science are impressive, but it is his empathy for a map to global prosperity and an augury of global collapse people that will affect readers the most.”—Booklist/May 2008. should we choose not to follow it/“By making sense of eco- nomics as it affects the lives of people, this book is an • law and the long war: The Future of Justice in the Age of excellent resource to understand what changes the 21st Terror/Benjamin Wittes/978-1-59420-179-X/$25.95/HC/ century may bring.”—Kofi Annan, 2001 Nobel Peace Prize and Critique of the legal battles fought by and between the Bush former Secretary-General of the U.N./Mar 2008. administration, Congress and the Supreme Court/June 2008.

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10 • the heirs of muhammad: Islam's First Century and the american HISTORY Origins of the Sunni-Shia Spllit/John Crowley/ 978-1-59020-022-3/$14.95/PB/“Exciting, relevant, thoroughly from the Penguin Library of American Indian researched history told with great gusto.”—Times Literary History Series Supplement/432 pp/May 2008. • american indians and the law/N. Bruce Duthu, J.D./ • justinian’s flea: Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe/ 978-0-670-01857-4/$21.95/HC/Renowned scholar explores William Rosen/978-0-14-311381-2/$16.00/PB/“Narrative the history and unique constitutional status of Indian tribes/ history writing at its best. Breathtaking in its scope...transforms Feb 2008. our understanding of key events in history”—Karl Sabbagh, author of The Riemann Hypothesis and Skyscraper/August 2008. • the shawnees and the war for america/Colin G. Calloway/978-0-14-311391-1/$14.00/PB/ From history • the forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin's Russia/ professor at UNC/“Comprehensive and passionate”—Leslie Timotheos Tzouliadis/978-1-59420-168-4/$27.95/HC/During Marmo Silko, author of Ceremony/“A remarkably accessible Depression era America thousands were lured to Russia, only distillation.”—Publishers Weekly/July 2008. to meet a tragic and, until now, forgotten end/320 pp/June 2008. • the cherokee nation and the trail of tears/Theda Perdue & Michael D. Green/978-0-14-311-367-6/$14.00/PB/ spycraft: The Secret History of the CIA's Spytechs from From history profs at UNC one of the first books in the new Communism to Al-Qaeda/Robert Wallace & H. Keith Melton, Penguin Library of American Indian History Series/“Broadens with Henry R. Schlesinger/978-0-525-94980-0/$29.95/HC/ our understanding...a human story, not only tragic but also Definitive inside history of how Central Intelligence Agent unbelievably heroic.”—L.A. Times/July 2008. spies do their work using amazing technology/480 pp/June 2008. • the iroquois and diplomacy on the early american frontier/Timothy J. Shannon/978-0-670-01897-0/$22.95/ european HISTORY HC/Associate Professor at Gettysburg College examines the deeply political world of Revolution-era Iroquois/July 2008. • the war for all the oceans: From Nelson at the Nile to Napoleon at Waterloo/Roy Adkins & Leslie Adkins/ • complete idiot's guide to us history illustrated: 978-0-14-311392-8/$17.00/PB/“Vivid account of the naval Fourth Edition/Alan Axelrod, Ph.D./978-1-592-57702-6/$18.95/ campaigns of the Napoleanic Wars...Meticulously PB/July 2008. researched.”— Publishers Weekly/Aug 2008. • texas death row: Executions in the Modern Age/Edited by • the pursuit of glory: Europe 1648-1815/Tim Bill Crawford/978-0-452-28930-7/$16.00/PB/Opens up one of Blanning/General Editor, David Cannadine/978-0-14-311389-8/ the most controversial issues in America today/Feb 2008. $20.00/PB/Penguin History of Europe Series/“Magnificent... In 708 pages, we traverse two centuries—from the last days • fallen founder: The Life of Aaron Burr/Nancy Isenberg/ of Charles I to the end of the Napoleonic wars...The grand 978-0-14-311371-3/$17.00/PB/Definitive bio/ “Her study of themes are all here...this capacity for the Olympian view...co- Burr is full of insight and new research...an important and exits with an ability to telescope in with vivid clarity...a truly engaging account.”—New York Times Book Review/560 pp/May glorious book.”—The Sunday Times, London/June 2008. 2008.

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11 • reading the man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His • alice waters and chez panisse: The Romantic, Impractical, Private Letters/Elizabeth Brown Pryor/978-0-14-311390-4/ Often Eccentric, Ultimately Brilliant Making of a Food Revolution/ $20.00/PB/Draws on previously unpublished correspondence Thomas McNamee/978-0-143-11308-9/$15.00/PB/Authorized to create a unique blend of analysis, narrative, historigoraphy/Apr bio of Alice Waters, and the 1970s counterculture food 2008. revolution that invented “American cuisine.”/336 pp/Mar 2008.

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• why good people do bad things: Understanding Our PHILOSOPHY Darker Selves/James Hollis/978-1-592-40341-7/$15.00/PB/ Explores Jung's concept of the shadow/“Clear, literate, and • plato and a platypus walk into a bar: Understanding paradoxical.”—Library Journal/May 2008. Philosophy Through Jokes/Thomas Cathcart & Daniel Klein/ 978-0-14-311387-4/$12.00/PB/“Very funny jokes that illustrate • the how of happiness/Sonja Lyubomirky/ questions and principles in metaphysics, logic, epistemology, ethics, 978-1-59420-148-6/$24.95/HC/From scientist who “uses and philosophy of language, existentialism.”—Torono Globe/July cutting edge psychological research”—Barry Schwartz, 2008. Swarthmore Professor/Jan 2008. • the little book of atheist spirituality/André Comte- • why beautiful people have more daughters: From Sponville/978-0-670-01847-5/$19.95/HC/Brilliant argument Dating, Shopping and Praying to Watching Porn, Going to War, and for spirituality without God from one of 's preeminent Becoming a Billionaire—Two Evolutionary Psychologists Explain Why contemporary philosophers/Jan 2008. We Do What We Do/Alan S. Miller & Satoshi Kanazawa/ 978-0-399-53365-5/$23.95/HC/Scholar from the London • the spiritual emerson/Ralph Waldo Emerson/Intro by School of Economics and professor of Political Science Jacob Needleman/978-1-58542-642-3/$10.00/PB/Key explores the topic/368 pp/Sep 2007. collection of Emerson's spiritual thought, including landmark works and overlooked classics such as Compensation, Fate, The • the adventures of johnny bunko: The Last Career Guide Over-Soul, Self-Reliance, Circles, Spiritual Laws, Success/August You'll Ever Need/Daniel H. Pink/978-1-59448-291-5/$15.00/PB/ 2008. A graphic novel from the author of A Whole New Mind/April 2008. • concrete reveries: Consciousness and the City/Mark Kingwell/978-0-670-03780-3/$24.95/HC/Breaks new • the stuff of thought: Language as a Window into Human ground—part philosopy, urban studies, architecture—all about Nature/Steven Pinker/978-0-14-3311424-6/$16.00/PB/736 pp/ urbanism and personal identity/256 pp/Aug 2008. Renowned Harvard professor and author of The Blank Slate investigates how words shape us/Sep 2008. religion

• the man with the phantom twin: Adventures in the • the religious case against belief/James P. Carse/ Neuroscience of the Human Brain/Dr. V.S. Ramachandran/ 978-1-59420-169-1/$24.95/HC/Professor Emeritus from New 978-0-525-95023-3/$25.95/HC/Oliver Sacks meets Stephen York University provides a provocative explanation for why it Pinker by the Director of Center for Brain and Cognition is that belief, not religion, keeps us in a perilous state of what and professor of psychology and neuroscience at UC-San he terms, willful ignorance/Sure to provoke lively discus- Diego/304 pp/Nov 2007. sion/226 pp/June 2008.

• financial infidelity: Seven Steps to Conquering the #1 • the penguin dictionary of the bible/John M. Court/ Relationship Wrecker/Bonnie Eaker Weil, Ph.D./ 978-0-14-101533-0/$17.00/PB/Latest Penguin dictionary from 978-1-594-630450-3/$24.95/HC/Expert advice on the most one of the UK's foremost scholars in biblical studies/May 2008. common and taboo relationship problem affecting couples today/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, gender/Women’s Studies Kerouac's life of Buddha/Aug 2008.

• girls who like boys who like boys: True Tales of Love, Lust, • reading judas: The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of and Friendship Between Straight Women and Gay Men/Edited by Christianity/Elaine Pagels & Karen L. King/ Melissa de la Cruz & Tom Dolby/Foreword by Maupin 978-0-14-311316-4/ $15.00/PB/The pre-eminent leading Armistead/978-0-452-28961-1/$16.00/PB/Focuses on the experts of Gnostic Gospels, Harvard and Princeton much celebrated friendships between gay men and the professors, Pagles and King, examine the newly discovered women who love them—from Carson Kressley to Elizabeth Gospel, and focus on the text's ancient and provocative Spiers/July 2008. theology/Mar 2008.

14 • beyond tolerance: Searching for Interfaith Understanding • blessed unrest: How the Largest Social Movement in in America/Gustav Niebuhr/978-0-670-01956-4/$25.95/HC/ History Is Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beauty to the World/Paul Grandson of the renowned Reinhold Niebuhr takes a journey Hawken/978-0-14-311365-2/$16.00/PB/Leading environmen- through American congregations, reaching across theologi- talist examines a grass-roots movement that is transforming cal boundaries with respect/“Anyone interested in dialogue the world/”Exciting, compelling and very important...It will in- among individuals, communities, and nations, will benefit from spire...millions more to take action.”—Jane Goodall/Mar 2008. its wisdom and humanity.”—Elie Wiesel/224 pp/Aug 2008. • the world in six songs: How the Musical Brain Created • joseph’s bones: Understanding the Struggle Between God Human Nature/Daniel J. Levitin/978-0-525-95073-8/$25.95/ and Mankind in the Bible/Jerome Segal/978-1-59448-289-2/ HC/Follow up to acclaimed This Is Your Brain on Music, $15.00/PB/Bold reinterpretation of the Old Testament from audacious look at how the brain evolved and gave rise to senior scholar at Maryland's Institute for Philosophy & Public human culture/Aug 2008. Policy/Mar 2008. • when science goes wrong: Twelve Tales from the Dark • head and heart: American Christianities/Garry Wills/ Side of Discovery/Simon LeVay/978-0-452-28932-1/$15.00/ 978-1-59420-146-2/$29.95/HC/Landmark examination of PB/True stories of human error from a neuroscientist who Christianity's place in American life across its broad history/ served on faculty at Harvard & Salk Institute/“Thought 512 pp/Oct 2007. provoking.”—Publishers Weekly/Mar 2008.

Education • zeno's paradox: Unraveling the Ancient Mystery Behind the Science of Space and Time/Joseph Mazur/978-0-452-28917-8/ • what's math got to do with it?: Helping Children Learn $15.00/PB/“Compelling historical survey of science's oldest to Love Their Most Hated Subject—and Why It's Important for and deepest conundrum.”—John Derbyshire, Marlboro America/Jo Boaler/978-0-670-01952-6/$24.95/HC/Math prof at College prof, author of Euclid in the Rainforest/Mar 2008. 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. • the american earth anthology: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau/Edited by Bill McKibben/Foreword by Al • taking back childhood: Helping Your Kids Thrive in a Fast- Gore/978-1-59853-020-9/$40.00/HC/Provocative timely Paced, Media-Saturated, Violence-Filled World/ essays from John Muir to Rachael Carson/900 pp/April 2008. Nancy Carlsson-Paige/978-1-594-63043-9/$23.95/HC/From nationally celebrated early childhood development scholar & • only a theory: Evolution and the Battle for America's Soul/ Lesley University prof comes an innovative roadmap/“Real-life Kenneth R. Miller/978-0-670-01883-3/$/HC/Acclaimed biology examples for preserving children's creative play and professor at Brown examines the battle between evolution relationships...I highly recommend it.”—Alvin F. Poussaint, and intelligent design and its implications for America's role as Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School/April 2008. a scientific leader/July 2008.

• your child's strengths: Discover Them, Develop Them, • in defense of food: The Myth of Nutrition and the Pleasures Use Them/Jenifer Fox/978-0-670-01876-5/$24.95/HC/From of Eating/Michael Pollan/978-1-59420-145-5/$21.95/HC/ renowned educator, an ambitious book that aims to change From the author of Omnivore's Dilemma, a manifesto about the conversation about education in America by focusing on what to eat and what not to eat and how to think about children's strengths instead of their weaknesses/Mar 2008. health/“Powerfully argued, thoroughly researched.”—Publishers Weekly/244 pp/Jan 2007. math/Science/environment • sleep: The Mysteries, The Problems, and the Solutions/Carlos • censoring science: Inside the Political Attack on Dr. James H. Schenck, M.D./978-1-58333-301-3/$15.95/PB/Cutting-edge Hansen and the Truth of Global Warming/Mark Bowen/ look into the latest scientific discoveries/April 2008. 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 • faust in copenhagen: A Struggle for the Soul of Physics/Gino must-read not just for environmentalists but for all politically Segrè/978-0-14-311373-7/$16.00/PB/From U Penn physics and conscientious readers.”—Kirkus/Jan 2008. astronomy prof comes the story of physics in 1932/“Clear and splendidly written account of a new field of research on a central • gut feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious/Gert question about the human species.”—Steven Pinker/June 2008. Gierenzer/978-0-14-311376-8/$15.00/PB/How our brains really work/“Edifying tour of territory that has long been dark • apollo's fire: A Day On Earth in Nature and Imagination/ and unexplored...lively and provocative.”—Kirkus/June 2008. Michael Sims/978-0-670-06328-4/$24.95/HC/Exuberant blend of science, myth, and folklore/Sep 2007. • the scalpel and the soul: Encounters with Surgery, the Supernatural, and the Healing Power of Hope/Alan J. Hamilron/ • the poincare's prize: The Hundred-Year Quest to Solve One 978-158542-615-7/$23.95/HC/“Accalimed neurosurgeon of Math's Greatest Puzzles/George G. Szpiro, Ph.D./ shares his considerable knowledge and experience on unique 0-978-0-525-95024-0/ $15.00/PB/“Story of one of the most patient occurances that defy scientific explanation with cur- alluring and treacherous problems in all of math history. So rent knowledge of Western Medicine...thought-provoking many superb mathematicians were sucked in by it...only to and will inspire.”—Richard Carmona, M.D., MPH, FACS, 17th suffer the consequences...Perelman, the outsider, overcomes Surgeon General/Mar 2008. what no one else could!”—Colin Adams, Williams/Aug 2008.

15 MUSIC/drama/art • while america aged: How Pension Debts Ruined General Motors, Stopped the NYC Subways, Bankrupted San Diego, and • journey to the end of east bay: The Untold Story of East Loom as the Next Financial Crisis/Roger Lowenstein/ Bay Punk/Jack Boulare & Silke Tudor/978-0-14-311380-5/$15.00/ 978-1-59420-167-7/$25.95/HC/A wake up call and roadmap/ PB/First hand account of the history of punk/June 2008. 288 pp/May 2008.

• the james brown reader/Edited by Nelson George & • good guys and bad guys: Behind the Scenes with the Saints Alan Leeds/978-0-452-28946-8/$17.00/PB/From foremost and Scoundrels of American Business (and Everything In Between)/ music & culture critic & leading expert on Brown/May 2008. Joseph Novera/978-1-59184-162-3/$25.95/HC/Classic pieces from dean of American business journalism/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 • divide or conquer: How Great Teams Turn Conflict Into the heart and soul of America and American music as the best Strength/Diana McLain Smith/978-1-59184-204-0/$24.95/HC/ of rock 'n' roll.”—Bruce Springsteen/Mar 2008. Consultant who's taught at Harvard takes groundbreaking look at how and why the relationships of leaders are the • old masters, new world: America's Raid on Europe's Great essential link to the success of any organization/May 2008. Pictures/Cynthia Saltzman/978-0-670-01831-4/$27.95/HC/Sto- ry of Gilded Age America & Europe's great works/Aug 2008. • think india: The Rise of the World’s Next Superpower and What It Means for Every American/Vinay Rai & William L. • black postcards/Dean Wareham/978-1-59420155-4/ Simon/978-0-452-28958-1/$16.00/PB/“Outstanding $25.95/HC/Music making in iconic Indie bands/“Both a contribution to educating Americans on India.”—Gowjer Rizvi, personal and a cultural history, Wareham has made music of Harvard/Aug 2008. beguiling intimacy...Now he has written a captivating book that does the same.”—Rolling Stone/Mar 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/ BUSINESS & Management The Godfather with grapes/“Call it Greek tragedy or Shakespearean drama, Biblical strife, Freudian acting out... • the china price: The High Cost and Uncertain Future of Compelling.”—New York Times/May 2008. Chinese Competitive Advantage/Alexandra Harney/ 978-1-59420-157-8/$25.95/PB/Exposé of how China sells out •do you!: 12 Laws to Access the Power in You to Achieve Happi- its workers, environment, and future/“With unusual insight ness and Success/Russell Simmons with Chris Morrow/ and perserverance Harney presents the truths about China...a 978-1-592-40368-4/$15.00/PB/From the “CEO of Hip-Hop”/ must read...to understand how today's world really works.” “Produced another hit.”—Wall Street Journal/May 2008. —Clyde Prestowitz, Economics Strategy Institute/April 2008. • togprading for Sales: World-Class Methods to Interview, • women on top: How Women Entrepreneurs Are Rewriting the Hire, and Coach Top Sales Representatives/Bradford D. Smart, Rules of Business Success/Margaret Heffernan/ Ph.D. & Greg Alexander/978-1-59184-206-4/$23.95/HC/A 978-014-311280-8/$15.00/PB/“A great piece of reporting, a proven method for building dream teams at work—an great piece of writing—one of the most important books, extension of the acclaimed business book that has sold more business or otherwise, to come along in many a year.”—Tom than 130,000 copies since 1999/June 2008. Peters/Mar 2008. • wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything/ • once you're lucky, twice you're good: The Rebirth of Expanded Edition/Don Tapscott & Anthony D. Williams/ Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0/Sarah Lacy/ 978-1-59184-138-0/$27.95/HC/From adjunct professor at 978-1-592-40382-0/$26.00/HC/Narrative of the U of Toronto, an updated edition of the best-selling book on entrepreneurs who rose from the ashes of the internet bust winning in the age of collaboration/April 2008. to take the Web into the 21st century/May 2008.

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