New Books for Social Studies Course Use & Adoption Winter—Summer 2014
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PENGUIN GROUP (USA) new books new books for social studies course use & adoption winter—summer 2014 I’m Stephanie Smith, East Coast 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 winter 2014 CURRENT AFFAIRS The Naked Future: What Happens in a Mayday: The Decline World That Anticipates Your Every Move? of American Naval Supremacy Patrick Tucker • 978-1-59184-586-7 • $27.95 • Seth Cropsey • 978-1-4683-0828-0 • $17.95 • Diaries of an Unfinished Revolution: March 2014 • Current • At the intersection of April 2014 • Overlook • “A powerful distress Voices from Tunis to Damascus Present Shock and The Signal and the Noise, a call about the dangerous decline of American Edited with a Preface by Layla Al-Zubaidi and futurist’s in-depth look at the promise and sea power” (William Kristol, The Weekly Matthew Cassel • Translated by Georgina perils of forecasting. Standard) from a longtime Navy insider, now Collins and Robin Moger • Introduction by with a new afterword. • “Every American Samar Yazbek • 978-0-14-312515-0 • $17.00 • should read this extraordinary book.”—John Jan 2014 • Penguin • An English PEN Award– Lehman, former United States Secretary of the winning collection of personal testimony from POLITICAL SCIENCE Navy and member of the 9/11 Commission • participants in the Arab Spring. • “Among the “Looks at the past, present, and future of the most moving, inspiring, and revealing pieces of U.S. Navy and finds a troubling drift toward a Redeeming the Dream non-fiction we’ve come across in some smaller fleet and reduced American global David Boies and Theodore B. Olson • 978-0- t i m e .” —The National (U.A.E.) • “These influence.”—Jon Kyl, former U.S. Senate 670-01596-2 • $28.95 • June 2014 • Viking • stories…are the brave first draft of history…. Minority Whip Their voices are honest and compelling”— The inside story of the Supreme Court’s Wendell Steavenson landmark rulings on The Defense of Marriage Words Will Break Cement: Act and Proposition 8—by the two lawyers who The Passion of Pussy Riot Where Does It Hurt?: An Entrepreneur’s argued the case. Masha Gessen • 978-1-59463-219-8 • $16.00 • Guide to Fixing Health Care Roger Ailes: Off Camera March 2014 • Riverhead • The story of the Jonathan Bush with Stephen Baker • 978-1- Russian feminist punk activists who reinvented Zev Chafets • 978-1-59523-108-6 • $16.00 • Jan 59184-677-2 • $27.95 • May 2014 • Portfolio • the power of truth in a society built on lies. • 2014 • Sentinel • The journalist received An eye-opening tour of the sprawling and “Gessen shines a piercing light into every dark unprecedented access to Ailes and his family, wasteful health care industry, and a plan for corner.”—Foreign Affairs • “It is with explosive friends, and Fox News colleagues, including modernizing and reinvigorating the broken revelations that Gessen truly excels...an Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity. • “A tantalizing system. incredibly brave writer.”—Columbia Journalism look into the life of a man who altered the Review One Nation TV-news landscape”—Kirkus Reviews Ben Carson, MD and Candy Carson • The Fourth Revolution: The Party’s Over: 978-1-59523-112-3 • $24.95 • May 2014 • The Global Race to Reinvent the State How the Extreme Right Hijacked Sentinel • Acclaimed brain surgeon and John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge • the GOP and I Became a Democrat bestselling author’s plan for restoring America’s 978-1-59420-539-2 • $27.95 • May 2014 • Charlie Crist and Ellis Henican • 978-0-525- greatness. • “The Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon Penguin Press • From the bestselling authors of 95441-5 • $26.95 • Feb 2014 • Dutton • The may not be politically correct, but he’s closer to The Right Nation, an argument that our current former Republican governor of Florida spent correct than we’ve heard in years.”—The Wall crisis in government is nothing less than the years in the party’s inner circle. In this Street Journal fourth radical transition in the history of the no-holds-barred memoir, he shows why he nation-state. Hacking Happiness switched sides and became a Democrat. John Havens • 978-0-399-16531-3 • $26.95 • April 2014 • Tarcher • Shows us how to utilize our technology to improve the human experience and drive social change. PENGUIN GROUP (USA) An Atheist in the FOXhole: AMERICAN HISTORY When the United States Spoke French: A Liberal’s Eight-Year Odyssey Inside A Story of Five Aristocratic Refugees the Heart of the Right-Wing Media from Old Europe Who Shaped Joe Muto • 978-0-142-18101-0 • $17.00 • June The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans a Rough New Nation 2014 • Plume • A funny, insightful memoir by a and Their Epic Quest for Gold François Furstenberg • 978-1-59420-441-8 • self-described bleeding heart liberal (formerly at the 1936 Berlin Olympics $36.00 • July 2014 • Penguin Press • The untold known as “The Fox Mole”) who spent eight Daniel James Brown • 978-0-14-312547-1 • story of a circle of French aristocratic émigrés years at the Fox News Channel. $17.00 • June 2014 • Penguin • The New York who weathered the French Revolution in Times bestselling story about American Philadelphia, including Napoleon’s future Citizenville: How to Take the Town Square Olympic triumph in Nazi Germany, drawn foreign minister Talleyrand, whose dealings in Digital and Reinvent Government from the boys’ own journals and vivid international diplomacy and land speculation Gavin Newsom with Lisa Dickey • 978-0-14- memories. • “I really can’t rave enough about helped shape the nation as we know it today. 312447-4 • $16.00 • Feb 2014 • Penguin • this book....This is Chariots of Fire with Drawing on wide-ranging interviews with oars.”—David Laskin, author of The Children’s America’s Longest Siege: thinkers and politicians, Newsom shows how Blizzard and The Family Charleston, Slavery, and the Americans can transform their government, Slow March Toward Civil War taking matters into their own hands. • “A fasci- Washington Journal: Joseph Kelly • 978-1-4683-0892-1 • $18.95 • nating case for a more engaged government, The Watergate Scandal, 1973-1974 Sep 2014 • Overlook • A sweeping new history transformed to meet the challenges and possi- Elizabeth Drew • 978-1-4683-0918-8 • $29.95 • of the city and the times that ignited America’s bilities of the twenty-first century.”—President May 2014 • Overlook • Hailed as a landmark Civil War. • “An elucidating study by a William J. Clinton • “Offers both an impas- work of journalism, Washington Journal is back Charleston historian who sees the shadow of sioned plea for more tech-enabled government in print in time for the 40th anniversary of nullification still looming”—Kirkus • “Vividly and a tour d’horizon of the ways some govern- Nixon’s resignation. Features a new and accurately portrays Charleston as ‘ground ments have begun using technology to good introduction • “Of all the books on Watergate, zero’ in America’s long struggle over slavery.”— effect.”—San Francisco Chronicle this is the one that will last.”—John W. Gardner Robert N. Rosen, author of Confederate • “A sober, thorough, and sensitive report.”— Charleston and A Short History of Charleston Beyond War: Reimagining America’s Role The New York Times Book Review and Ambitions in a New Middle East The Founding Conservatives: David Rohde • 978-0-14-312511-2 • $16.00 • The Third Coast: When Chicago How a Group of Unsung Heroes April 2014 • Penguin • The two-time Pulitzer Built the American Dream Saved the American Revolution Prize winner presents a clarion call for change Thomas Dyja • 978-0-14-312509-9 • $18.00 • David Lefer • Untold story of the small group in American policies and attitudes toward a April 2014 • Penguin • Critically acclaimed of Founders who saved the Revolution from rapidly changing Middle East. • “A book of cultural history of Chicago at mid-century, radicalism and laid the foundations of a free profound, forward-looking policy analysis featuring many of the incredible personalities and prosperous nation. • “A splendid narrative about how America might help bring peace to that shaped American culture. • “A magisterial history”—The Washington Times • the region.”—New York Journal of Books narrative…a luminous, empathetic, and “Groundbreaking history not to be missed—a engrossing portrait of a city”—Publishers book to quote and to keep.”—Kirkus America in Retreat Weekly (starred review) • “[A] robust cultural Bret Stephens • 978-1-59184-662-8 • $27.95 • history...zooms in on the qualities Chicagoans The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret June 2014 • Sentinel • A Pulitzer Prize–winning value and does it better than anyone else.”—The Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth columnist argues that the resurgence of New York Times Book Review Mark Mazzetti • 978-0-14-312501-3 • $16.00 • isolationism in the U.S. is an invitation to April 2014 • Penguin • Pulitzer Prize–winning global disorder of a kind last seen in the 1930s. The Age of Edison: Electric Light reporter’s account of the transformation of the and the Invention of Modern America CIA and America’s special operations forces Ernest Freeberg • 978-0-14-312444-3 • $17.00 • into man-hunting and killing machines • “A Feb 2014 • Penguin • Sweeping history of the stunning, inside account….A frightening, electric light revolution and the birth of must-read book.”—Jane Mayer • “An authorita- modern America • “Freeberg’s broad research tive account...If you want to understand the adds up to a vivid social history.”— Wall Street world we live in, you need to read it.”—Thomas Journal • “Fascinating…fills an important gap E.