New Books New Books for Social Studies Course Use & Adoption Fall 2014 / Spring 2015
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PENGUIN GROUP (USA) new books new books for social studies course use & adoption fall 2014 / spring 2015 • • • I’m Therese Neumann, Midwest College Field Sales Representative You can contact me with any questions or requests at [email protected] • • • PENGUIN GROUP (USA) new books for course use & adoption fall 2014 / spring 2015 POLITICAL SCIENCE Capital: The Eruption of Delhi The Investigator Rana Dasgupta • 978-0-14-312699-7 • $18.00 • Terry Lenzner • 978-0-14-218135-5 • $17.00 • May 2015 • Penguin • In a series of meetings Oct 2014 • Plume • In his wide-ranging career Believer: My Forty Years in Politics with a wide swath of the population of India’s memoir, Lenzner speaks publicly about his David Axelrod • 978-1-59420-587-3 • $29.95 • capital city—from Delhi’s forgotten poor to its high-profile investigations and world-famous Feb 2015 • Penguin Press • The strategist who rich tech entrepreneurs—Commonwealth clients for the first time. • “An absorbing masterminded Obama’s historic election Writers’ Prize winner Rana Dasgupta presents account of dedicated public service, cunning campaigns opens up about his years as a young an intimate portrait of the people living, intrigue and Beltway politics.”—Monroe E. journalist, political consultant, and ultimately suffering, and striving for more in this city of Price, Director, Center for Global senior adviser to the president. In frankly extremes, as well as a glimpse of our shared Communications Studies Annenberg School sharing his life and work over the decades, global future. for Communication Axelrod ultimately traces the continuing evolution of the Democratic Party and the Double Down: Game Change 2012 The Penguin Book of Modern Speeches country at large. Mark Halperin and John Heilemann • Brian MacArthur, editor • 978-0-241-95325-9 • 978-0-14-312600-3 • $18.00 • Nov 2014 • $20.00 • Apr 2015 • Penguin • Originally The Perfect Kill: 21 Laws for Assassins Penguin • From the authors of the bestseller published as The Penguin Book of Twentieth- Robert Baer • 978-0-399-16857-4 • $27.95 • Game Change, an account of the 2012 Century Speeches, this new edition has been Nov 2014 • Blue Rider Press • An odyssey presidential election, pulling back the curtain updated to include some of the most important through the art, theory, and brutality of to reveal the story behind the headlines for the speeches from the first decade of the new modern political murder by the bestselling first time. Drawing on hundreds of interviews century. • “It would be hard to do better than author, former CIA operative, and, yes, with the people who lived the story, Double MacArthur’s selection, which is a tribute to the assassin. • “After twenty years as the CIA’s best Down offers a panoramic account of a breadth of his knowledge.”—The Times and most adventurous spy, Bob Baer has campaign at once intensely hard fought and (London) established himself as America’s go-to writer on lastingly consequential. • “In many ways, an espionage and the Middle East in the age of insight into America.”—Charlie Rose Knife Fights: 9/11.”—James Risen, Pulitzer Prize–winning An Education in Modern War author of State of War World Order John A. Nagl • 978-1-59420-498-2 • $27.95 • Henry Kissinger • 978-1-59420-614-6 • $36.00 Oct 2014 • Penguin Press • From one of the The Case Against the Supreme Court • Sep 2014 • Penguin Press • A meditation on most important army officers of his generation, Erwin Chemerinsky • 978-0-670-02642-5 • the roots of international harmony and global a memoir of the revolution in warfare he $30.00 • Oct 2014 • Viking • A preeminent disorder. Grounded in Kissinger’s deep study of helped lead (in combat and in Washington) constitutional scholar offers a hard-hitting history and experience as national security and an education in modern war—in theory, in analysis of the Supreme Court over the last two advisor and secretary of state, World Order practice, and in the often tortured relationship hundred years. guides readers on a tour of the globe. It between the two. • “[Nagl’s] work on examines the events and ideas that formed the counterinsurgency is deep and profound, and historic concepts of order, their manifestations this book is the essential back story both of the in contemporary controversies, and the ways in intellectual process that underpins it and the which they might ultimately be reconciled. personal journey that formed it. A powerful and meaningful memoir.”—Admiral James Stavridis (Ret.), Dean of The Fletcher School at Tufts University PENGUIN GROUP (USA) The Two-State Delusion: Israel and American Reckoning: The Vietnam War Palestine—A Tale of Two Narratives and Our National Identity Padraig O’Malley • 978-0-670-02505-3 • $30.00 Christian G. Appy • 978-0-670-02539-8 • • May 2015 • Viking • A leading reconciliation $28.95 • Feb 2015 • Viking • How did the expert argues that a two-state solution is no Vietnam War change the way we think of longer a viable path to create lasting peace in ourselves as a people and a nation? Christian Israel and Palestine. O’Malley approaches the G. Appy, author of the widely praised oral key issues pragmatically, without ideological history of the Vietnam War, Patriots, now bias, to show that we must find new examines the relationship between the war’s frameworks for reconciliation if there is to be realities and myths and its impact on our lasting peace between Palestine and Israel. national identity, conscience, pride, shame, popular culture, and postwar foreign policy. Worthy Fights: A Memoir of Leadership in War and Peace The Penguin State Days of Rage: America’s Radical Leon Panetta with Jim Newton • 978-1-59420- of the Middle East Atlas Underground, the FBI, 596-5 • $36.00 • Oct 2014 • Penguin Press • The Dan Smith • 978-0-14-312423-8 • $25.00 • Mar and the First Age of Terror revelatory autobiography of one of the last great 2015 • Penguin • In this essential guide to the Bryan Burrough • 978-1-59420-429-6 • $29.95 bipartisan figures in American life, including a region and its politics, Dan Smith unravels the • Apr 2015 • Penguin Press • From the full reckoning with his leadership of the CIA’s history of the Middle East from the Ottoman bestselling author of Public Enemies and The intelligence war against Al Qaeda, which Empire to the present day. Smith highlights key Big Rich, an account of the decade-long battle culminated in the death of Osama bin Laden. issues and maps their global implications to between the FBI and the homegrown explain why the Middle East has become, and revolutionary terrorists of the 1970s. Days of Bending Adversity: will remain, the focal point of foreign policy. Rage is filled with revelations and fresh details Japan and the Art of Survival about the major revolutionaries and their David Pilling • 978-0-14-312695-9 • $18.00 • The Idea of Europe: An Essay connections and about the FBI and its Mar 2015 • Penguin • Financial Times Asia George Steiner • 978-1-4683-1024-5 • $20.00 • desperate efforts to make the bombings stop. editor David Pilling draws on his own Jan 2015 • Overlook • The Idea of Europe finds experience as well as observations from a George Steiner reckoning with Europe from a Careless People: Murder, Mayhem, diverse cross-section of Japanese citizenry, number of different angles. It is a continent rich and the Invention of The Great Gatsby including novelist Haruki Murakami and with contradiction, whose many tensions— Sarah Churchwell • 978-0-14-312625-6 • former prime minister Junichiro Koizumi to cultural, social, political, economic, and $17.00 • Feb 2015 • Penguin • Acclaimed create a nuanced representation of the religious—have for centuries conspired to pull scholar of American literature Sarah oft-misunderstood island nation and its people. it apart, even as it has become more and more Churchwell offers a different framework for The • “Pilling is eloquent and direct.”—James unified. Great Gatsby, revealing new ways of thinking Fallows, The New York Times Book Review about the moment and the world that defined America in Retreat: The New Isolationism Fitzgerald’s most consummate work. • Right of Boom: and the Coming Global Disorder “Churchwell...has written an excellent book.... The Aftermath of Nuclear Terrorism Bret Stephens • 978-1-59184-662-8 • $27.95 • Prodigious research and fierce affection Benjamin Schwartz • 978-1-46830-994-2 • Nov 2014 • Sentinel • A Pulitzer Prize–winning illumine every remarkable page.”—Kirkus $26.95 • Jan 2015 • Overlook • Hypothesizing a columnist argues that the resurgence of Reviews nuclear explosion in downtown Washington, isolationism in the U.S. is an invitation to D.C., national security specialist Benjamin global disorder of a kind last seen in the 1930s. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Schwartz maps out the likely ramifications A warning and manifesto by one of America’s Douglass, An American Slave while going deep into history to explore the foremost foreign-policy thinkers, it will be Frederick Douglass • Introduction by John limited range of options available to a hotly debated as the latest crises force our Stauffer • 978-1-59853-351-4 • $7.95 • Aug Commander in Chief. Drawing from his leaders to make difficult choices. 2014 • Library of America • Published seven experience as an analyst at the Departments of years after his escape from slavery, Douglass’s Defense, State, and Energy, Schwartz offers a autobiography is a powerful account of the fully panoramic view. cruelty and oppression of the Maryland AMERICAN HISTORY plantation culture into which he was born. It Path of Blood: The Story of Al Qaeda’s brought him to the forefront of the antislavery War on the House of Saud A Climate of Crisis: movement and drew thousands, black and Thomas Small and Jonathan Hacker • 978-1- white, to the cause.