Spring 2019

HIGH SCHOOL & ADVANCED PLACEMENT ®

TITLES FROM THE KNOPF DOUBLEDAY PUBLISHING GROUP

English Literature English Language and Composition Spanish Language and Literature Japanese Literature and Culture Chinese Literature and Culture U.S. History European History World History KNOPF DOUBLEDAY Art History & Studio Art publishes a wide selection of books across U.S. Government and Politics a range of subject categories appropriate for Comparative Government High School and Advanced Placement® courses. Microeconomics and Macroeconomics These titles will stimulate analytic thinking, Human Geography encourage a broad-based understanding of Environmental Science each subject, and model superior writing. Biology General Science and History of Science Physics Calculus and Mathematics Computer Science Psychology Music Theory Education

KNOPF PANTHEON SCHOCKEN VINTAGE ANCHOR DOUBLEDAY NAN A. TALESE VINTAGE EVERYMAN’S ESPAÑOL LIBRARY TABLE OF CONTENTS Literary Criticism 1 European History 20-21 English: American Literature / Classics 2-3 World History 22 English: American Literature / Contemporary 4-5 Art History & Studio Art 23 English: British Literature 6 U.S. Government and Politics 2 4 - 2 5 English: Science Fiction & Speculative Fiction 7 Comparative Government 26 English: World Literature 8 Microeconomics and Macroeconomics 27 Graphic Novels and Non-Fiction 9 Human Geography 28 English: Drama 10 Environmental Science 29 English: Poetry 11 Biology 3 0 - 3 1 English: Narrative Non-Fiction 12 General Science and History of Science 32 English: Memoirs 13 Physics 33 English: Grammar & Composition 14 Calculus and Mathematics 34 Spanish Language and Literature 15 Computer Science 35 Japanese Literature and Culture 16 Psychology 3 6 - 3 7 Chinese Literature and Culture 17 Music Theory 38 U.S. History 1 8 - 1 9 Education 39

Titles marked with CCSS in this catalog have been specifcally suggested by the Common Core State Standards (Appendix B) as texts that exemplify the complexity, quality, and range of reading that the Standards require high school students to engage with. For more information about Common Core State Standards go to www.corestandards.org.

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DANIEL MENDELSOHN An Odyssey A Father, a Son, and an Epic SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE Rich with literary and emotional insight, An Odyssey is a deeply moving tale of a father and son’s transformative journey in reading —and reliving—Homer’s epic masterpiece. “Subtle, profoundly moving . . . an intricately constructed, multidimensional journey of a father and son and their travails through life and love. Mendelsohn weaves his basket with JANE HIRSHFIELD DAVID THOMSON many wands; the complexity seems natural, an Ten Windows How to Watch a Movie account of the quality of life itself, a route to How Great Poems Transform the World Delivering keen analyses of films ranging NOW IN PAPERBACK revelation. Mendelsohn explicates the Odyssey “ [Hirshfield’s] approach to poetry is exhila- from Citizen Kane to 12 Years a Slave, in with exemplary and generous clarity. A book VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-345-80621-5 rating. . . . This thrilling work of immense How to Watch a Movie, Thomson shows of shimmering, beautiful, dapple-skilled intel- 320 PAGES | $16.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 value is truly an important book on one of students how to more deeply appreciate ligence.” —The New York Times Book Review the most important subjects.” both the artistry and the manipulation of “Rich, vivid, a blood-warm book. . . . It has many —Library Journal (starred review) film—and in so doing enriches their viewing experience immensely. things to say not only about Homer’s epic poem, KNOPF | PAPER | 978-0-345-80684-0 but about fathers and sons.” —Dwight Garner, 320 PAGES | $19.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-1-101-91084-9 The New York Times 256 PAGES | $16.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00

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SPARKY SWEETS, PhD JANE SMILEY WILL SCHWALBE PHILIP PULLMAN Thug Notes 13 Ways of Looking Books for Living Daemon Voices A Street-Smart Guide to Classic Literature at the Novel Some Thoughts on Reading, Reflecting, On Stories and Storytelling and Embracing Life These masterful (and hilarious) analyses of Jane Smiley explores—as no novelist has Philip Pullman charts the history of his own sixteen of literature’s most beloved classics before her—the unparalleled intimacy of “Moving. . . . Schwalbe truly shines. . . . It enchantment with story—from his own are delivered in the argot of the street. reading, why a novel succeeds (or doesn’t), should convince even reluctant readers to books to those of Blake, Milton, Dickens, and how the novel has changed over time. pick up a book.” —Boston Globe and the Brothers Grimm, among others— “ A deliciously executed example of the applica- and delves into the role of story in education, “First-rate. . . . Schwalbe’s enthusiasm for tion of street sensibility to high-culture, high- “She examines the history, psychology, religion, and science. concept areas.” —The New York Times morality and art of the novel [and] includes what he covers is contagious.” “These essays cast a spell. . . . To read them VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-1-101-87304-5 two chapters of advice for novel writers.” —San Francisco Chronicle is to be invigorated by the company of a 304 PAGES | $14.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 —Bookpage VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-804-17275-2 joyfully wide-ranging, endlessly curious and ANCHOR | PAPER | 978-1-4000-3318-8 288 PAGES | $16.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 608 PAGES | $17.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 imaginative mind.” —The New York Times Book Review KNOPF | CLOTH | 978-0-525-52117-4 480 PAGES | $30.00 | EXAM PRICE: $15.00 1 ENGLISH: AMERICAN LITERATURE / CLASSICS

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HENRY DAVID THOREAU EDGAR ALLAN POE NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE WILLA CATHER Walden & Civil Disobedience Great Tales and Poems The Scarlet Letter My Ántonia Introduction by Jane Smiley Henry David Thoreau’s account of his adven- Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe is a The Scarlet Letter, an iconic fable of guilt ture in self-reliance—part social experiment, compact selection of Poe’s greatest stories and and redemption set in Puritan Massachu- This 100th Anniversary Edition of Willa part spiritual quest—is an enduringly influen- poems, chosen by the National Endowment for setts, has long been considered one of Cather’s masterpiece features a new intro- tial American classic. the Arts for their Big Read program. the greatest American novels. The story of duction by Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Hester Prynne possesses a reality height- Also included is “Civil Disobedience,” inspired Jane Smiley. VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-307-47477-3 ened by Hawthorne’s sympathy and his by his anti-war and anti-slavery sentiments, VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-525-56286-3 256 PAGES | $12.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 unmixed devotion to his supposedly fallen which has influenced nonviolent resistance 304 PAGES | $10.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 but fundamentally innocent heroine. movements around the world ever since. COMMON CORE EXEMPLAR VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-8041-7157-1 VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-8041-7156-4 288 PAGES | $8.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 336 PAGES | $11.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00

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RALPH ELLISON JAMES BALDWIN WILLIAM FAULKNER SANDRA CISNEROS Invisible Man Go Tell It on the Mountain As I Lay Dying The House on Mango Street Invisible Man is a milestone in American With lyrical precision, psychological direct- “ I set out deliberately to write a tour-de- The best-selling coming-of-age classic, literature, a book that has continued to en- ness, resonating symbolic power, and a force. Before I ever put pen to paper acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of gage readers since its appearance in 1952. rage that is at once unrelenting and compas- and set down the first word I knew all ages, tells the story of Esperanza Cor- As he journeys from the Deep South to the sionate, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year- what the last word would be and almost dero, a young girl growing up in the Latino streets and basements of Harlem, Ellison’s old boy’s discovery one Saturday in March where the last period would fall.” section of Chicago, inventing for herself nameless protagonist ushers readers into a of 1935 of the terms of his identity as the —William Faulkner on As I Lay Dying what she will become. stepson of the minister of a Pentecostal parallel universe that throws our own into VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-679-73225-9 VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-679-73477-2 storefront church in Harlem. harsh and even hilarious relief. 288 PAGES | $14.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 144 PAGES | $11.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 “ With vivid imagery, with lavish attention to VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-679-73276-1 COMMON CORE EXEMPLAR TEACHER’S GUIDE AVAILABLE details, Mr. Baldwin has told his feverish 608 PAGES | $16.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 story.” —The New York Times TEACHER’S GUIDE AVAILABLE VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-375-70187-0 240 PAGES | $15.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00

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ERNEST J. GAINES EUDORA WELTY WILLIAM MARCH JOHN GARDNER A Lesson Before Dying The Optimist’s Daughter The Bad Seed Grendel WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE The bestselling novel that inspired Mervyn For over a thousand years Beowulf’s monster CIRCLE AWARDS The Optimist’s Daughter, the “best book LeRoy’s classic horror film about the was revealed only through the adjectives of WINNE OF THE YALSA BEST BOOKS FOR Eudora Welty has ever written” ( little girl who can get away with anything— his enemies. They, on the other hand, basked YOUNG ADULTS The New York Times Book Review), is the story of even murder. in the glow of their propagandist. With the “ This majestic, moving novel is an instant Laurel McKelva Hand, a young Southern “ William March knows where human fears publication of Grendel in 1971, Gardner took classic, a book that will be read, discussed woman who returns to New Orleans years and secrets are buried.” the details of the original, turned the tables, and taught beyond the rest of our lives.” later because of her dying father. —The New York Times and gave us the monster in his own words. —Chicago Tribune VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-679-72311-0 VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-679-72883-2 VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-1-101-87265-9 VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-375-70270-9 192 PAGES | $13.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 192 PAGES | $14.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 224 PAGES | $14.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 272 PAGES | $14.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00

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JANE SMILEY CORMAC MCCARTHY TONI MORRISON TOBIAS WOLFF A Thousand Acres The Road Beloved Old School WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTION WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE CIRCLE AWARD CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD “ A sharply drawn, acutely felt novel Set in post-Civil War Ohio, Toni Morrison’s of moral inquiry. . . . Wolff has put “ A family portrait that is also a near-epic “ Vivid, eloquent. . . . The Road is the magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, his readers in the landscape tracked investigation into the broad landscape, the most readable of [McCarthy’s] works, Beloved—first published in 1987— across by writers as different as J. M. thousand dark acres of the human heart. and consistently brilliant in its imagin- brought the unimaginable experience of Coetzee, Philip Roth, and, going back, . . . The book has all the stark brutality ing of the posthumous condition of slavery into the literature of its time. of a Shakespearean tragedy.” nature and civilization.” Conrad and Hawthorne.” “A masterwork. . . . Wonderful. . . . I —The Washington Post Book World —The New York Times Book Review —The Washington Post Book World can’t imagine American literature without ANCHOR | PAPER | 978-1-4000-3383-6 VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-307-38789-9 it.” —John Leonard, Los Angeles Times VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-375-70149-8 384 PAGES | $16.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 304 PAGES | $16.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 208 PAGES | $15.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-1-4000-3341-6 352 PAGES | $16.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 TEACHER’S GUIDE AVAILABLE

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COLSON WHITEHEAD The Underground Railroad WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD In Colson Whitehead’s ingenious concep- tion, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor: engineers and conductors operate a secret network of actual tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. As Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the terrors of the ante- bellum era, he weaves in the saga of our nation, from the brutal abduction of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present JULIE OTSUKA CRISTINA HENRÍQUEZ day. The Underground Railroad is both the When the Emperor Was The Book of Unknown gripping tale of one woman’s will to escape Divine Americans NOW IN PAPERBACK the horrors of bondage—and a powerful meditation on the history we all share. WINNER OF THE ALEX AWARD “ Unfailingly well written and entertaining. . . . ANCHOR | PAPER | 978-0-345-80432-7 BOOKLIST EDITORS’ CHOICE FOR YOUNG [Henríquez’s] stories illuminate the lives be- ADULTS hind the current debates about Latino immigra- 336 PAGES | $16.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 “ [A] potent, almost hallucinatory novel. . . . tion.” —The New York Times Book Review TEACHER’S GUIDE AVAILABLE [Whitehead] has told a story essential to our “ Exceptional. . . . Otsuka skillfully dramatizes understanding of the American past and the a world suddenly foreign. . . . [Her] incanta- “The politics of immigration, while never explic- American present.” —The New York Times tory, unsentimental prose is the book’s itly argued, remain subtly in play, as do more greatest strength.” —The New Yorker existential matters affecting immigrants, such “A triumph.” —The Washington Post ANCHOR | PAPER | 978-0-385-72181-3 as the mixed national and cultural allegiances “An American masterpiece.” —NPR 160 PAGES | $13.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 and affiliations between the generations.” —Chicago Tribune TEACHER’S GUIDE AVAILALBLE VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-345-80640-6 304 PAGES | $15.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00

NEW YAA GYASI Homegoing WINNER OF THE PEN/ HEMINGWAY AWARD WINNER OF THE NBCC’S JOHN LEONARD AWARD Homegoing follows the parallel paths of two half-sisters and their descendants through eight generations: from the Gold Coast to the plantations of Mississippi, from the American Civil War to Jazz Age Harlem. Yaa Gyasi’s ex- traordinary novel illuminates slavery’s troubled legacy both for those who were taken and DAVE EGGERS those who stayed—and shows how the DARYL GREGORY memory of captivity has been inscribed on the Spoonbenders The Circle soul of our nation. FINALIST FOR THE NEBULA AWARD Brave New World NOW IN PAPERBACK “ A for our brave new world. “ The book leaves the reader with a visceral . . . There may come a day when we Gregory delivers a stunning new novel about understanding of both the savage realities can look back at this novel with incredu- VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-1-101-97106-2 a family of gifted dreamers and the invisible 320 PAGES | $16.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 of slavery and the emotional damage that is lity, but for now, the mirror it holds up is forces that bind us all. handed down, over the centuries, from moth- too chilling to LOL.” TEACHER’S GUIDE AVAILALBLE ers to daughters, fathers to sons. At its best, “What Daryl Gregory accomplishes in his sev- —The Washington Post enth novel is both magic and magic trick.” the novel makes us experience the horrors of VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-345-80729-8 slavery on an intimate, personal level.” —The New York Times Book Review 512 PAGES | $16.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 —The New York Times VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-525-43241-8 496 PAGES | $16.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 NOW IN PAPERBACK

4 NEW NEW NEW TOMMY ORANGE There There WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE JOHN LEONARD PRIZE Tommy Orange writes of the plight of the ur- ban Native American in a stunning novel that grapples with a complex and painful history. There There is a relentlessly paced multigen- erational story about violence and recovery, memory and identity, and the beauty and despair woven into the history of a nation and its people. A.E. HOTCHNER TOM HANKS “A gripping deep dive into urban indigenous The Amazing Adventures of community in California: an astonishing liter- Uncommon Type ary debut!” —Margaret Atwood, via Twitter Aaron Broom This short story collection explores—with NOW IN PAPERBACK Street-savvy, almost-thirteen-year-old Aaron great affection, humor, and insight—the VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-525-43614-0 “This is a novel about what it means to inhabit Broom is guarding his father’s car when he wit- human condition in all its foibles. The stories 304 PAGES | $16.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 a land both yours and stolen from you, to nesses a robbery gone wrong. His father is made are linked by one thing: in each of them, a simultaneously contend with the weight of be- the prime suspect in the murder, despite Aaron typewriter plays a part, sometimes minor, “Powerful. . . . There There has so much longing and unbelonging. There is an organic seeing the real killer flee the scene. Undaunted, sometimes central. jangling energy and brings so much news power to this book—a revelatory, controlled Aaron enlists an unlikely band of friends and “All demonstrate a joy in writing, a pleasure in from a distinct corner of American life that chaos. Tommy Orange writes the way a storm helpful adults to clear his father’s name. communicating an intensely American sense it’s a revelation.” —The New York Times makes landfall.” —Omar El Akkad, author of of atmosphere, friendship, life, and family.” American War NAN A. TALESE | CLOTH | 978-0-385-54358-3 240 PAGES | $23.95 | EXAM PRICE: $12.00 —Stephen Fry VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-1-101-91194-5 PAPERBACK AVAILABLE JUNE 2019 416 PAGES | $16.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00

NEW NEW NEW ESI EDUGYAN Washington Black SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR’S CHOICE George Washington Black, or “Wash,” is an eleven-year-old field slave on a Barbados sugar plantation. He is terrified to be chosen by his master’s brother as his manservant but, to his surprise, the eccentric Christopher Wilde turns out to be an explorer and abolitionist. When a JANET BENTON RHIANNON NAVIN man is killed and a bounty is placed on Wash’s Lilli de Jong Only Child head, Christopher and Wash leave to travel along the eastern coast of America, and to a “Lilli de Jong is the story of an unwed mother First-grader Zach Taylor is in his class- NOW IN PAPERBACK remote outpost in the Arctic. Washington Black in late 19th-century Philadelphia who, room when a gunman enters the school asks the question, What is true freedom? facing peril at every turn, will do almost auditorium and the unthinkable happens, VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-525-56324-2 “Perfectly executed. . . . Soaring. . . . More anything to keep her daughter alive. Benton irrevocably changing the very fabric of this 400 PAGES | $16.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 turns a laser eye to her subject, exposing close-knit community. than a tale of human bondage, it’s also an enthralling meditation on the weight of the sanctimony, hypocrisies, and pervasive “[This] powerful novel . . . earns its worth freedom, wrapped in a rousing adventure story sexism that kept women confined and by avoiding gratuitous scenes of horror stretching to the ends of the earth.” unequal in the Victorian era—and that still in favor of a careful examination of the —The Boston Globe bedevil many women today.” —Christina way one boy and his parents, and their Baker Kline, author of Orphan Train community, struggle to survive—and ANCHOR | PAPER | 978-0-525-56332-7 stay together—after the worst has 352 PAGES | $16.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 happened.” —USA Today VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-525-43497-9 304 PAGES | $16.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 5 ENGLISH: BRITISH LITERATURE

JANE AUSTEN The Annotated Pride and Prejudice A Revised and Expanded Edition Annotated and Edited by David M. Shapard The complete text of Pride and Prejudice with more than 2,300 annotations on facing pages, including explanations of his- torical context, citations from Austen’s life and letters, definitions and clarifications, literary comments, analyses and more. MARY SHELLEY H.G. WELLS ANCHOR | PAPER | 978-0-307-95090-1 (with PERCY SHELLEY) The Invisible Man 816 PAGES | $18.95 | EXAM PRICE $3.00 The Original Frankenstein The Invisible Man (1897) blends comedy Edited by Charles E. Robinson and tragedy in its story of a scientist who H ALSO AVAILABLE AS AN INTERACTIVE EBOOK H Working from the earliest surviving draft of discovers a way to make himself invisible. His inability to reverse the process leads to a radi- As an interactive eBook, here is the complete text of Pride and Prejudice with thousands Frankenstein, Charles E. Robinson presents of annotations and hundreds of color illustrations and many unique interactive features: two versions of the classic novel—as Mary cal disconnection from society. This prescient complete audiobook synced to the text; 250 study questions, and 5 interactive quizzes; Shelley originally wrote it and a subsequent parable of the dark side of scientific progress interactive maps, timelines, and family trees; image galleries covering music, fashion, version clearly indicating Percy Shelley’s demonstrates H. G. Wells’s signature gift for dramatizing humanity’s grandest possibilities food, travel, and more; video interviews with writers and scholars and content from the amendments and contributions. and darkest fears. BBC film adaptation and documentaries provided by BBC Worldwide Learning; filmography VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-307-47442-1 and annotated bibliography. 464 PAGES | $14.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-525-56415-7 160 PAGES | $8.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 ANCHOR | EBOOK | 978-1-101-87338-0 | iBOOKS PRICE: $9.99

NEW MICHAEL ONDAATJE Warlight LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE “Warlight is a quiet new masterpiece from Michael Ondaatje. . . . An elegiac thriller [with] the immediate allure of a dark fairy tale. In Warlight, all is illuminated, at first dimly then starkly, but always brilliantly.” —Anna Mundow, The Washington Post

“Mr. Ondaatje has stepped into John le Carré’s world of spies and criminals. . . . His DAN VYLETA MARK HADDON novel views history as a child would, in The Curious Incident of the Smoke ignorance but also innocence and wonder.” Dog in the Night-Time Smoke is Dan Vyleta’s thrilling blend NOW IN PAPERBACK —The Wall Street Journal WINNER OF THE ALEX AWARD of Dickensian historical fiction and VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-525-43194-7 WHITBREAD BOOK OF THE YEAR fantasy, as three young friends scratch “The novel becomes at once a mystery tale 224 PAGES | $16.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 BOOKLIST EDITORS’ CHOICE FOR YOUNG the surface of the grown-up world and an exploration into how much of our ADULTS to discover startling wonders—and lives are out of our control, especially in dangerous secrets. wartime.” —The Minneapolis Star Tribune “ Moving. . . . Think of The Sound and the Fury crossed with The Catcher in the Rye “Compelling. . . . Deliriously imagined. and one of Oliver Sacks’s real-life stories.” . . . This gas-lamp fantasy at time borders —The New York Times on steampunk through the grimy lens of a dystopian past.” —NPR VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-1-4000-3271-6 240 PAGES | $15.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 ANCHOR | PAPER | 978-1-101-91040-5 560 PAGES | $16.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00

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EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL MARGARET ATWOOD KAZUO ISHIGURO H.G. WELLS Station Eleven The Handmaid’s Tale Never Let Me Go The War of the Worlds WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE The seminal masterpiece of alien invasion, IN LITERATURE The War of the Worlds conjures a terrifying, FINALIST FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD “ Fiercely political and bleak, yet witty and FOR FICTION “ A Gothic tour de force. . . . What Mr. tentacled race of Martians who devastate wise. . . . Atwood’s chilling tale of a concu- Ishiguro has done so artfully in these the Earth and feed on their human victims “ Station Eleven is so compelling, so fearlessly bine in an oppressive future America is more pages is not only assemble a chilling while their voracious vegetation, the red imagined, that I wouldn’t have put it down vital than ever.” —The Guardian jigsaw puzzle, but also create a distinct weed, spreads over the ruined planet. for anything.” —Ann Patchett ANCHOR | PAPER | 978-0-385-49081-8 fictional world.” —The New York Times VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-525-56416-4 336 PAGES | $15.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 Book Review VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-8041-7244-8 192 PAGES | $8.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 352 PAGES | $16.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-1-4000-7877-6 304 PAGES | $16.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00

TED CHIANG ERIN MORGENSTERN OMAR EL AKKAD DANIELNEIL H.SMITH WILSON KAZUO ISHIGURO Arrival The Night Circus American War GuardianBoo Angels & Other The Buried Giant Monsters “ Shining, haunting, mind-blowing tales. . . . A YALSA BEST BOOK FOR YOUNG ADULTS An audacious and powerful debut novel: a “ TheBuried Giant does what important “ Original,wickedly funny and avoiding This collection is a pure marvel. Chiang is WINNER OF THE ALEX AWARD second American Civil War, a devastating This fascinating and fantastic story collection booksdo: It remains in the mind long overtsentimentality, Smith’s writing is so exhilarating so original so stylish he just plague, and one family caught deep in the explores the intersection of artificial intel- afterit has been read, refusing to leave, consistentlyassured. As Boo matures leaves you speechless. I always suggest a “The Night Circus is the real deal, the kind of middle—a story that asks what might ligence and human life. forcingone to turn it over and over. and learns the value of mercy, person read at least 52 books a year for novel that will appeal to romantics, history happen if America were to turn its most .. . Ishiguro is not afraid to tackle huge, “Smartforgiveness writing andand intriguingfriendship charactersin a strange lend proper mental functioning but if you only buffs, circus aficionados, mystery fans, and devastating policies and deadly weapons personalthemes, nor to use myths, themselvesdemocratic to theseheaven, well-craftedhis story talesproves about have time for one, be at peace: you found lovers of a good story.” —Bookreporter upon itself. historyand the fantastic as the tools to futureboth technology.”moving and —Librarysurprisingly Journalhopeful.” it.” —Junot Díaz, author of The Brief VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-1-101-97313-4 do it. . . . An exceptional novel.” ANCHOR | PAPER | 978-0-307-74443-2 VINTAGE—Financial | PAPER | 978-1-101-97201-4 Times Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 528 PAGES | $16.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 432 PAGES | $16.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 —NeilGaiman, The New York Times 304 PAGES | $16.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-525-43367-5 VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-8041-7136-6 Book Review 320 PAGES | $14.95 | E X A M P R I C E $ 3 . 0 0 304 PAGES | $16.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-307-45579-6 336 PAGES | $16.00 | E X A M P R I C E $ 3 . 0 0

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FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY NIKOLAI GOGOL ALBERT CAMUS SHARON BALA Notes from Underground The Collected Tales of Nikolai The Plague The Boat People Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Gogol Translated by Stuart Gilbert The Boat People is an extraordinary Volokhonsky Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa A haunting tale of human resilience in the novel about a group of refugees who “ It may well be that Dostoevsky’s [world], Volokhonsky face of unrelieved horror, Camus’s novel survive a perilous ocean voyage only with all its resourceful energies of life and Using, or rather mimicking, traditional forms of about a bubonic plague ravaging the to face the threat of deportation amid language, is only now—and through the storytelling Gogol created stories that are com- people of a North African coastal town is a accusations of terrorism. medium of [this] new translation—begin- plete within themselves and only tangentially classic of twentieth-century literature. “Timely and engrossing. . . . This is a ning to come home to the English-speaking connected to a meaning or moral. Includes “The VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-679-72021-8 powerful debut.”—Publishers Weekly reader.” —New York Review of Books Nose,” recommended by CCSS Appendix B. 320 PAGES | $15.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 ANCHOR | PAPER | 978-0-525-43246-3 VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-679-73452-9 VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-375-70615-8 352 PAGES | $16.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 160 PAGES | $13.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 464 PAGES | $17.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 NOW IN PAPERBACK COMMON CORE EXEMPLAR

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AYOBAMI ADEBAYO GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE ELIE WIESEL Stay With Me Love in the Time of Cholera Americanah From the Kingdom of SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 BAILEYS Translated by Edith Grossman WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS Memory WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR CIRCLE AWARD Reminiscences LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DYLAN LITERATURE “ [A] knockout of a novel about immigra- “One of the great writers of our generation” THOMAS PRIZE “ This shining and heartbreaking novel may be tion, American dreams, the power of first (The New Republic) weaves together mem- “At once, a gothic parable about pride and one of the greatest love stories ever told.” love, and the shifting meanings of skin ories of his life before the Holocaust and his betrayal; a thoroughly contemporary—and —The New York Times Book Review color. . . . A marvel.” —NPR great struggle to find meaning afterwards. Included are Wiesel’s landmark speeches, deeply moving—portrait of a marriage. . . . “A sumptuous book . . . [with] major themes “Witheringly trenchant and hugely among them his powerful testimony at Adebayo . . . writes not just with extraordi- of love, death, the torments of memory, the empathetic. . . . A novel that holds the the trial of Klaus Barbie and his 1986 nary grace but with genuine wisdom about inexorability of old age.” discomfiting realities of our times fearlessly Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech. . . . the possibility of redemption.” —The Washington Post Book World before us. . . . A steady-handed dissection —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times SCHOCKEN | PAPER | 978-0-8052-1020-0 VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-307-38973-2 of the universal human experience.” 256 PAGES | $15.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-1-101-97441-4 368 PAGES | $16.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 —The New York Times Book Review 272 PAGES | $16.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 ANCHOR | PAPER | 978-0-307-45592-5 COMMON CORE EXEMPLAR 8 608 PAGES | $16.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 ENGLISH:GRAPHIC NOVELS AND NON-FICTION

ART SPIEGELMAN NEW Maus I: A Survivor’s Tale WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE “Maus is a book that cannot be put down, truly, even to sleep. When two of the mice speak of love, you are moved, when they suffer, you weep.” — Umberto Eco PANTHEON | PAPER | 978-0-394-74723-1 160 PAGES | $15.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00

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MARJANE SATRAPI ANNE FRANK ART SPIEGELMAN Persepolis Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Maus II: A Survivor’s The Story of a Childhood Adaptation Adapted by Ari Folman Tale “[A] self-portrait of the artist as a young girl, Illustrated by David Polonsky WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE rendered in graceful black-and-white comics that apply a childlike sensibility to the bleak “A superb offering to read alongside the original, “The most affecting and successful nar- lowlights of recent Iranian history.” this adaptation lets its narrator’s voice soar.” rative ever done about the Holocaust.” —Village Voice —School Library Journal —The Wall Street Journal “You’ve never seen anything like Persepolis— “[A] stunning, haunting work of art. . . . This “An epic story told in tiny pictures.” the intimacy of a memoir, the irresistability graphic adaptation is so engaging and effective —The New York Times of a comic book, and the political depth of that it’s easy to imagine it replacing the Diary in PANTHEON | PAPER | 978-0-679-72977-8 a the conflict between fundamentalism and classrooms and among younger readers.” 144 PAGES | $15.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 democracy. Marjane Satrapi may have given —The New York Times Book Review us a new genre.” —Gloria Steinem TEACHER’S GUIDE AVAILALBLE PANTHEON | CLOTH | 978-1-101-87179-9 PANTHEON | PAPER | 978-0-375-71457-3 160 PAGES | $24.95 | EXAM PRICE: $12.50 160 PAGES | $14.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00

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ANDREA WULF SYDNEY PADUA MARGARET ATWOOD GENGOROH TAGAME The Adventures of Alexander von The Thrilling Adventures of The Handmaid’s Tale: My Brother’s Husband, Volume 1 Humboldt Lovelace and Babbage The Graphic Novel Translated by Anne Ishii Illustrated by Lillian Melcher The (Mostly) True Story of the First Illustrated by Renee Nault A YALSA TOP 10 GRAPHIC NOVELS FOR TEENS An instant classic when it was published in “This winsome look at culture clash compares Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) was Computer 1985, Atwood’s genre-bending, dystopian the largely still-closeted Japanese gay culture an intrepid explorer and the most famous sci- “Padua’s extravaganza is very much for the story comes to life in this new, beautifully with the West, underscoring a theme of entist of his age. From the New York Times whimsical intelligentsia and will speak to those illustrated graphic novel. Illustrated by artist universal yearning for family.” bestselling author of The Invention of Nature, interested in computers or math who will de- Renée Nault, the terrifying reality of Gilead —Library Journal comes a breathtakingly illustrated and brilliantly light in the abundant background materials.” has been brought to vivid life like never evocative recounting of von Humboldt’s five- —Library Journal PANTHEON | CLOTH | 978-1-101-87151-5 before. 352 PAGES | $24.95 | year expedition in South America. EXAM PRICE: $12.50 PANTHEON | CLOTH | 978-0-307-90827-8 NAN A. TALESE | CLOTH | 978-0-385-53924-1 PANTHEON | CLOTH | 978-1-5247-4737-4 320 PAGES | $28.95 | EXAM PRICE: $14.50 240 PAGES | $22.95 | EXAM PRICE: $11.50 272 PAGES | $29.95 | EXAM PRICE: $15.00 9 ENGLISH: DRAMA

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LORRAINE HANSBERRY ATHOL FUGARD MOISÉS KAUFMAN and TECTONIC JOHN GUARE A Raisin in the Sun “Master Harold” . . . THEATER PROJECT Six Degrees of Separation “ One of a handful of great American and the boys The Laramie Project and In this soaring and deeply provocative plays—it belongs in the inner circle, “ One of Fugard’s most universal works of The Laramie Project: tragicomedy of race, class, and manners, along with Death of a Salesman, Long theater. It operates on two levels: as the Ten Years Later John Guare has created one of those rare Day’s Journey into Night and The Glass story of a loving but lacerating relationship “ Deeply moving. . . . [Kaufman] has a remark- works that capture both the supercharged Menagerie.”—The Washington Post between a black man and a white boy; and able gift for giving a compelling theatrical pulse of our present era and the deepest VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-679-75533-3 . . . as a powerful political statement about flow to journalistic and historical material. and most mysterious movements of the 160 PAGES | $7.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 apartheid.” —The New Yorker . . . This play is Our Town with a question human heart. TEACHER’S GUIDE AVAIALBLE VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-307-47520-6 mark, as in ‘Could this be our town?’” VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-679-73481-9 64 PAGES | $13.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 —The New York Times 136 PAGES | $14.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 COMMON CORE EXEMPLAR VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-8041-7039-0 COMMON CORE EXEMPLAR 224 PAGES | $15.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00

MICHAEL FRAYN JAMES BALDWIN Seven Famous Greek Plays ROBERT BOLT Copenhagen Blues for Mr. Charlie Edited by Whitney J. Oates and Eugene A Man for All Seasons A Play O’Neill Jr. The Tony Award-winning play that soars The classic play about Sir Thomas More, the at the intersection of science and art, Blues for Mister Charlie takes place in Seven Famous Greek Plays includes Agamem- Lord chancellor who refused to compromise Copenhagen is an explosive re-imagining a small Southern town where a white non, Prometheus Bound, Oedipus the King, and was executed by Henry VIII. man murders a black man, then throws Antigone, Medea, Alcestis, and The Frogs. of the mysterious wartime meeting be- An enduring modern classic, A Man for All his body in the weeds. With this act of tween two Nobel laureates to discuss the “At this time appeared a group of lyric poets, Seasons “challenges the mind, and, in the atomic bomb. violence, Baldwin launches an unspar- who had looked deeply within their own na- end, touches the heart” (The New York ing and at times agonizing probe of the “An electrifying work of art.” tures, and through the vehicle of their poetry Times). —Ben Brantley, The New York Times wounds of race. made abundantly evident how thoroughly VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-679-72822-1 “A play with fires of fury in its belly, tears they understood the essential character of ANCHOR | PAPER | 978-0-385-72079-3 192 PAGES | $12.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 of anguish in its eyes, a roar of protest man’s inner being.” —from the Introduction 144 PAGES | $16.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 in its throat.” —The New York Times VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-394-70125-7 VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-679-76178-5 480 PAGES | $15.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 10 144 PAGES | $13.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 ENGLISH: POETRY

NEW ROBERT FROST New Hampshire WINNER OF THE PULITIZER PRIZE First published in 1923, Robert Frost won the first of his four Pulitzer Prizes with this collec- tion. It contains some of his most enduring and best-known poems, including “Nothing Gold Can Stay,” “Fire and Ice,” “The Need of Being Versed in Country Things,” and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.” Included in this edition are the original woodcut illustrations of rural scenes, done in the Arts and Crafts style by J. J. Lankes.

WILLIAM BLAKE LANGSTON HUGHES VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-525-56534-5 Poems Selected Poems of 128 PAGES | $10.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 Selected by Patti Smith Langston Hughes In this collection Patti Smith brings togeth- The poems in this collection were chosen er her personal favorites of Blake’s poems, by Hughes himself shortly before his including the complete Songs of Innocence death in 1967 and represent work from and Songs of Experience, to give a singular his entire career. picture of this unique genius, whom she VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-679-72818-4 calls in her moving introduction “the spiri- 320 PAGES | $16.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 tual ancestor” of generations of poets. VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-1-101-97314-1 192 PAGES | $16.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00

Measure for Measure PHILIP LEVINE KENNETH KOCH The Vintage Book of African An Anthology of Poetic Meters The Last Shift Rose, Where Did You Get American Poetry Edited by Annie Finch and Poems That Red? Edited by Michael S. Harper and Alexandra Oliver “In this posthumous collection of new Teaching Great Poetry to Children Anthony Walton This comprehensive and joyous celebration poems, Levine extends the content of his The celebrated poet Kenneth Koch conveys how This is the definitive collection of black verse of metered verse brings together some of American working-class poetics both to great poetry may be taught so as to help chil- in the United States—200 years of vision, the best rhythmic lines in literature. look back at his past and to push himself dren write poetry of their own. For this edition, struggle, power, beauty, and triumph from 50 The examples of each meter are drawn from to reckon with the future. . . . Wonderful.” the author has written a new introduction and a outstanding poets. special afterword for teachers. a wide range of poetic traditions, from Ovid —Publishers Weekly VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-375-70300-3 and Sappho to Shakespeare and Milton, “The meditative music of Levine’s deeply “Excellent and enormously important. . . . I 448 PAGES | $17.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 encompassing the Victorians, the Romantics, thoughtful, elegiac poetry will echo in the urge you to buy [the book], pass [it] around, ballads, folk songs, poets of the Harlem literary memory of this country.” exert influence in schools.” —John Gardner, Renaissance, and modern-day hip hop. —New York Journal of Books The New York Times Book Review VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-679-72471-1 EVERYMAN’S LIBRARY | CLOTH KNOPF | PAPER | 978-0-451-49377-4 416 PAGES | $16.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 978-0-375-71248-7 | 256 PAGES 96 PAGES | $17.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 $14.95 | EXAM PRICE: $7.50 11 ENGLISH: NARRATIVE NON-FICTION

NEW NEW DAVE EGGERS The Monk of Mokha “A gripping, triumphant adventure” (Los Angeles Times) from bestselling author Dave Eggers, the incredible true story of a young Yemeni American man, raised in San Francisco, who dreams of resurrecting the ancient art of Yemeni coffee but finds himself trapped in Sana’a by civil war.

“Exquisitely interesting. . . . This is about the human capacity to dream—here, there, —Gabriel Thompson, San Francisco Chronicle “The Monk of Mokha is not merely about ‘coming to America,’ it is a thrilling chronicle of one ELI SASLOW CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE man’s coming-and-going between two beloved Rising Out of Hatred We Should All Be Feminists homelands—a brilliant mirror on the global com- The Awakening of a Former White NOW IN PAPERBACK —Marie Arana, author This is the highly acclaimed, personal, munity we have become.” Nationalist of American Chica eloquently argued essay, adapted from the VINTAGE| PAPER | 978-1-101-97144-4 “Rising Out of Hatred proclaims if the successor much-admired TEDx talk of the same name 352 PAGES | $16.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 “Like many great works, Eggers’ book is to the white nationalist movement can forsake offers students a unique definition of femi- multifaceted. It combines, in a single moving his ideological upbringing, can rebirth himself nism for the twenty-first century, one rooted narrative, history, politics, biography, psychology, in antiracism, then we can too no matter the in inclusion and awareness. adventure, drama, despair, hope, triumph and personal cost. This book is an inspiration.” “A moving essay that should find its way the irrepressible, indomitable nature of the hu- —Ibram X. Kendi, National Book Award- into the hands of all students and teachers man spirit—at its best.” —Imam Zaid Shakir winning author of Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist to provoke new conversation and aware- ness.” —Kirkus Reviews DOUBLEDAY | CLOTH | 978-0-385-54286-9 ANCHOR | PAPER | 978-1-101-91176-1 304 PAGES | $26.95 | EXAM PRICE: $13.50 64 PAGES | $8.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00

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TRUMAN CAPOTE DAVID GRANN DAVID GRANN JON KRAKAUER Into the Wild In Cold Blood The Old Man and the Gun Killers of the Flower Moon And Other Tales of True Crime The Osage Murders and the Birth of “ A narrative of arresting force. Anyone who As Truman Capote reconstructs the murder the FBI ever fancied wandering off to face nature of the Clutter family in Kansas in 1959, he David Grann takes the reader on a journey FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD on its own harsh terms should give a look. through some of the most intriguing and generates both unnerving suspense and It’s gripping stuff.”—The Washington Post astonishing empathy. gripping real-life tales from around the world. “Killers of the Flower Moon offers up the Included in this collection is “The Old Man Osage killings as emblematic of America’s “ Engrossing . . . with a telling eye for detail, “The best documentary account of an and the Gun,” the incredible story of a bank relationship with its indigenous peoples Krakauer has captured the sad saga of a American crime ever written.” stubborn, idealistic young man.” —The New York Review of Books robber and prison escape artist who modeled and the ‘culture of killing’ that has forever himself after figures like Pretty Boy Floyd, marred that tie.” —The Boston Globe —Los Angeles Times Book Review VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-679-74558-7 “True Crime,” and “The Chameleon.” 368 PAGES | $16.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-307-74248-3 ANCHOR | PAPER | 978-0-385-48680-4 VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-525-56603-8 400 PAGES | $16.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 240 PAGES | $15.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 144 PAGES | $11.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 TEACHER’S GUIDE AVAILABLE

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NEW SCOTT KELLY Endurance My Year in Space, a Lifetime of Discovery A stunning, personal memoir from the astronaut and modern-day hero who spent a record-breaking year aboard the Interna- tional Space Station—a message of hope for the future that will inspire for generations to come. In Endurance, we see the triumph of the human imagination, the strength of the human will, and the infinite wonder of the galaxy. “Captivating, charming. . . . [Kelly] pulls EMILY BERNARD MICHELE NORRIS back the curtain separating the myth of the Black Is the Body The Grace of Silence astronaut from its human realities. . . . It Stories from My Grandmother’s Time, A Family Memoir is easy to imagine future generations of My Mother’s Time, and Mine NOW IN PAPERBACK explorers and daredevils harnessing the “An insightful, elegant rendering of how the history of an American family illuminates the VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-525-43243-2 lessons and truths within the pages of “Contemplative and compassionate, . . . history of our country.” —Toni Morrison 464 PAGES | $16.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 Endurance as the blueprints for their own Bernard’s voice is personable yet incisive in trips into the unknown.” —The New York exploring the lived reality of race.” VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-307-47527-5 Times Book Review —Publishers Weekly 240 PAGES | $16.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 KNOPF | CLOTH | 978-0-451-49302-6 240 PAGES | $25.95 | EXAM PRICE: $13.00

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VERLYN KLINKENBORG Several Short Sentences About Writing In Several Short Sentences About Writing, Verlyn Klinkenborg sets out to help writers unlearn that “wisdom”—about genius, about creativity, about writer’s block, topic sentences, and outline—and understand that writing is just as much about thinking, noticing, and learning what it means to be involved in the act of writing. There is no gospel, no orthodoxy, no dogma in this book. Instead it is a gathering of starting points in a journey NORMAN LEWIS toward lively, lucid, satisfying self-expression. Word Power Made Easy VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-307-27941-5 The Complete Handbook for Building a Superior 224 PAGES | $16.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 “Klinkenborg does away with much of the FERNANDO DE ROJAS traditional wisdom on writing and dissects VocabularyLa celestina the sentence—its structure, its intention, ThisUn time-tested texto poderoso classic—first y publishedmagní- more its semantic craftsmanship—to deliver a thanfco sixty que years obra ago—has el milagro helped millionsde build new, useful, and direct guide to the art of theirllenar vocabulary. de pasión It provides la lec-a simple, step-by-step storytelling.” —Brain Pickings methodtura misma. for increasing La knowledgeemoción, and la mastery of writtenbelleza, and spokenel sentido English. trágico y ANCHOR | PAPER | 978-1-101-87385-4 560 PAGES | $8.99 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00

KAREN ELIZABETH GORDON STEVEN FRANK KORY STAMPER The Deluxe Transitive Vampire The Pen Commandments Word by Word A Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the A Guide for the Beginning Writer The Secret Life of Dictionaries Eager and the Doomed WINNER OF NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY BOOKS “[Word by Word] mixes memoiristic meditations Playful and practical, this is a guide that ad- FOR THE TEEN AGE on the lexicographic life along with a detailed dresses classic questions of English usage with Steven Frank has a new approach to writing: fun description of the brain-twisting work of writing wit and the blackest of humor. With this special first, rules to follow, success for all. In The Pen dictionaries.” —The New York Times edition, Gordon gives the reader more illustrations Commandments, his offbeat and entertaining “[An] eloquent love letter to letters themselves. and even more examples of confusing appositives, guide, he’s given us a book that all writers can . . . A cheerful and thoughtful rebuke of the cult the many uses of gerunds, the complicated mat- turn to for help and a good laugh. of the grammar scolds.” —The Atlantic ter of agreements. The Deluxe Transitive Vampire “ A highly readable book that entertains as it instructs. “Great fun. . . . [Stamper] brings both zest and includes black-and-white illustrations throughout . . . Even veteran writers will find a new perspective style. . . . An exuberant mash note to language.” which help entertain the reader, while explaining on the whole writing venture.“ —The Times Literary Supplement every grammatical rule with clarity and precision, —Quill and Scroll VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-1-101-97026-3 making the most intricate usages clear. 320 PAGES | $16.95 | ANCHOR | PAPER | 978-1-4000-3229-7 EXAM PRICE: $3.00 PANTHEON | CLOTH | 978-0-679-41860-3 336 PAGES | $15.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 192 PAGES | $26.95 | EXAM PRICE: $13.50 14 SPANISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

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JUAN RULFO ERNESTO QUIÑONEZ ROSARIO FERRÉ El Diario de Anne Frank: Pedro Páramo El vendedor de sueños Papeles de Pandora novela gráfica cuentos Lectura obligada en el universo literario Todos en Spanish Harlem lo saben: Wil- Adapted by Ari Folman en español, la novela de Juan Rulfo se ha lie Bodega es el rey. ¿Necesita ayuda Llenos de imaginación, y elegantemente Illustrated by David Polonsky convertido en un clásico de la literatura para mantener a su hija en la escuela? escritos, los relatos de Rosario Ferré son Anne Frank, una niña de trece años, escribió moderna. Obra maestra del realismo mágico, ¿Para pagar el alquiler? Bodega puede prueba temprana de su importancia entre su estremecedor Diario: un testimonio único esta portentosa novela mexicana narra la ayudarlos a cambio de su lealtad. En esta los escritores latinoamericanos contem- sobre el horror y la barbarie nazi, y sobre historia de Pedro Páramo, un caudillo local intensa novela de búsqueda de identidad poráneos. los sentimientos y experiencias de la pro- de quien dependen la vida y la muerte de un y redención, Julio, un joven inteligente y VINTAGE ESPAÑOL | PAPER | 978-0-375-72469-5 pia Anne y sus acompañantes. El presente pueblo, Comala, y del hijo que va a buscarlo prometedor a quien llaman “Chino,” con- 256 PAGES | $15.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 volumen recoge este estremecedor relato porque así se lo prometió a su madre mori- oce al mítico Bodega, quien recurre a él bella y delicadamente para volcarlo a la bunda. Publicada en 1955, Pedro Páramo para contactar a su amor de juventud. novela gráfica. Una nueva oportunidad de representa un cambio radical con la novela VINTAGE ESPAÑOL | PAPER | 978-0-8041-7076-5 acercarse a una historia que ya forma parte realista de la época. 248 PAGES | $15.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 de todos nosotros. VINTAGE ESPAÑOL | PAPER | 978-0-5255-6652-6 VINTAGE ESPAÑOL | CLOTH | 978-0-525-56450-8 144 PAGES | $14.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 160 PAGES | $24.95| EXAM PRICE: $12.50

ERIKA L. SÁNCHEZ GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ ESMERALDA SANTIAGO CRISTINA GARCÍA Yo no soy tu perfecta Cien años de soledad Cuando era puertorriqueña Las hermanas Agüero hija Mexicana Traducción de Alan West Una de las novelas más notables del “Cuenta la historia de la inmigración Traducción de Graciela Romero Saldaña siglo XX, Cien años de soledad cuenta la norteamericana, esta vez con un sabor Las hermanas Agüero cuenta la historia de Julia no es la hija mexicana perfecta. Ese fascinante historia de la familia Buendía- especial latino. Santiago ha enviado al dos hermanas cubanas que se reúnen en era el rol de su hermana Olga. Olga no fue Iguarán, cuya aventura representa al mis- mundo un paquete sobre sus viajes, Miami tras treinta años de separación: dos a la universidad y se quedó en casa para mo tiempo el mito y la historia, la tragedia [y] su documental es ahora nuestro mujeres cuyas vidas encarnan el romanticis- cuidar de sus padres. Julia tiene grandes y el amor, del mundo entero. regalo.” —Washington Post Book World mo y el pragmatismo de la diáspora cubana. sueños y no quiere seguir los pasos de VINTAGE ESPAÑOL | PAPER | 978-0-679-78145-5 VINTAGE ESPAÑOL | PAPER | 978-0-307-47472-8 VINTAGE ESPAÑOL | PAPER | 978-0-679-75677-4 su hermana mayor. Pero, tras la muerte 320 PAGES | $16.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 496 PAGES | $16.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 320 PAGES | $14.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 inesperada de Olga, Julia se ve obligada a ocuparse de las secuelas. VINTAGE ESPAÑOL | PAPER | 978-0-525-56432-4 288 PAGES | $12.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 15 JAPANESE LITERATURE AND CULTURE

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Haiku ROBERT WHITING NAOKO ABE The Ink Dark Moon Edited by Peter Washington You Gotta Have Wa Sakura Obsession Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and This anthology brings together hundreds The Incredible Story of the Plant Hunter Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient of haiku by the Japanese masters–Basho, “ The definitive book on Japanese baseball Who Saved Japan’s Cherry Blossoms Court of Japan Issa, Buson, Shiki–with superb examples and one of the best-written sports books Translated by Jane Hirshfield with from nineteenth- and twentieth-century ever.” —San Francisco Chronicle The Sakura Obsession follows the 1,200- Mariko Aratani year history of the Japanese cherry blossom writers. VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-307-45597-0 Elegant, sensual, insightful, and piercingly tree and how it was saved from extinction EVERYMAN’S LIBRARY | CLOTH 416 PAGES | $16.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 lovely, the poems in The Ink Dark Moon by an English gardener. The narrative follows 978-1-400-04128-2 | 256 PAGES speak to us from the Heian court of Impe- its adoption as a national symbol in 794, $14.95 | EXAM PRICE: $7.50 rial Japan, an age in which the predominant through its use as an emblem of imperialism geniuses were women. in the 1930s, to the present-day worldwide obsession with forecasting the exact moment VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-679-72958-7 of the trees’ flowering. 240 PAGES | $16.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 KNOPF | CLOTH | 978-1-5247-3357-5 400 PAGES | $27.95 | EXAM PRICE: $14.00

Japanese Tales HARUKI MURAKAMI ERI HOTTA MURASAKI SHIKIBU Translated by Royall Tyler Norwegian Wood Japan 1941 The Tale of Genji This collection includes two hundred and Translated by Jay Rubin Countdown to Infamy Translated and with an Introduction by twenty dazzling tales from medieval A poignant story of one college student’s “ Chilling. . . . Constitutes a warning of the Edward G. Seidensticker Japan—a fabulous, faraway world that re- romantic coming-of-age, Norwegian Wood literally earth-shattering dangers that can A lively and astonishingly nuanced portrait of flects the Japanese worldview during a clas- takes us to that distant place of a young emerge when the political system of a a refined society where every dalliance is an sic period in Japanese civilization. Master- man’s first, hopeless, and heroic love. powerful nation fails to work.” act of political consequence. Vintage’s edition fully edited and translated by the acclaimed —The New York Times Book Review is recognized as the finest English version of translator of The Tale of Genji, these stories “A masterly novel. . . . Norwegian Wood VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-307-73974-2 what is thought to be the world’s first novel. ably balance the lyrical and the dramatic, of- bears the unmistakable marks of Mu- 368 PAGES | $17.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-679-72953-2 fering a window into a long-vanished though rakami’s hand.” —The New York Times 368 PAGES | $16.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 perennially fascinating culture. Book Review VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-375-70402-4 PANTHEON | PAPER | 978-0-375-71451-1 304 PAGES | $16.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 400 PAGES | $19.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 16 CHINESE LITERATURE AND CULTURE

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EDEN COLLINSWORTH LIAO YIWU HA JIN HOWARD W. FRENCH I Stand Corrected The Corpse Walker The Banished Immortal Everything Under the How Teaching Western Manners in Real-Life Stories, China from the Bottom A Life of Li Bai (Li Po) Heavens China Became Its Own Unforgettable Up “Ha Jin’s masterful style and deep affection How the Past Helps Shape China’s Push Lesson NEW “ Revealing. . . . Full of forbearance and for- for his subject make the book a pleasure to for Global Power “ Collinsworth’s observations bring the giveness. . . . Each re-created interview . . . read—especially for those unfamiliar with “Fascinating. . . . A deep historical and Chinese and their rituals and history captures a particular individual at a crucial Li Bai or Chinese poetry in general. . . . cultural study of the meaning of China’s to life. . . . Entertaining, informative time in Chinese history.” —The New York Newcomers will be swept up in Bai’s rise from the point of view of the Chinese adventures of a woman determined to Times Book Review personal history while fans of his work themselves.” —The New York Times understand the people of China.” ANCHOR | PAPER | 978-0-307-38837-7 will enjoy Ha Jin’s own take on the man Book Review and his influence.” — Shelf Awareness —Kirkus Reviews 352 PAGES | $16.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-8041-7245-5 (starred review) 352 PAGES | $17.00 | ANCHOR | PAPER | 978-0-8041-7046-8 EXAM PRICE: $3.00 PANTHEON | CLOTH | 978-1-5247-4741-1 304 PAGES | $15.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 320 PAGES | $28.00 | EXAM PRICE: $14.00

HA JIN LIJIA ZHANG IAN JOHNSON YU HUA The Boat Rocker “Socialism Is Great!” The Souls of China China in Ten Words “ It feels like a miracle—and a splendid A Worker’s Memoir of the New China The Return of Religion After Mao Translated by Allan H. Barr irony—that an immigrant writer can “ Set against China’s breathless recent From the Pulitzer Prize–winning journal- “ Captures the heart of the Chinese. . . . If fashion a novel with such quintessentially transformation, ‘Socialism Is Great!’ offers ist, a revelatory portrait of religion in Chi- you think you know China, you will be American themes from the front lines of a rare and intimate glimpse of a country na today—its history, the spiritual tradi- challenged to think again. If you don’t the Chinese diaspora.” and culture that are now reshaping our tions of its Eastern and Western faiths, know China, you will be introduced to a —The Seattle Times world.” —Pankaj Mishra, author of An and the ways in which it is influencing country that is unlike anything you have VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-8041-7037-6 End to Suffering China’s future. heard from travelers.” 240 PAGES | $16.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 —The Wall Street Journal ANCHOR | PAPER | 978-0-307-47219-9 VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-8041-7339-1 384 PAGES | $16.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 480 PAGES | $17.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 ANCHOR | PAPER | 978-0-307-73979-7 240 PAGES | $16.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00

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NEW JOSEPH J. ELLIS American Dialogue The Founders and Us Joseph J. Ellis examines four of our most seminal historical figures, Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and Adams, through the prism of particular topics, using the perspective of the present to shed light on their views. He discusses Jefferson and the is- sue of racism, Adams and the specter of economic inequality, Washington and American imperialism, Madison and the doctrine of original intent. “[Joseph J. Ellis] conducts a discourse between our current troubled times and the period when I Wish I’d Been There LARRIE D. FERREIRO our founders crafted our national creed. The re- Twenty Historians Bring to Life KNOPF | CLOTH | 978-0-385-35342-7 sult is an exploration of our values that is both Brothers at Arms Dramatic Events That Changed 304 PAGES | $27.95 | EXAM PRICE: $14.00 timely and timeless.” —Walter Isaacson, author American Independence and the Men of America of Leonardo Da Vinci France and Spain Who Saved It Edited by Byron Hollinshead PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST IN HISTORY “Ellis is not concerned with quiet insights or reas- Brings together twenty of our most dis- surance. He means to mark out where we have “[A] fascinating and groundbreaking account tinguished historians’ responses to the strayed from, and how we have betrayed, Amer- of the American Revolutionary War. . . . question, “What scene or incident in ica’s founding ideals.” —The Washington Post [A]n important corrective to the notion that American history would you most like our nationhood was preordained.” to have witnessed—and why?” The —Nathaniel Philbrick, author of Bunker Hill answers give students a front-row seat VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-1-101-91030-6 to American history’s most crucial events. 464 PAGES | $18.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 ANCHOR | PAPER | 978-1-4000-9654-1 352 PAGES | $16.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00

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H. W. BRANDS A. ROGER EKIRCH H.W. BRANDS MARY FRANCES BERRY The Heartbreak of American Sanctuary Heirs of the Founders My Face Is Black Is True Aaron Burr Mutiny, Martyrdom, and National Identity The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Callie House and the Struggle for Ex- in the Age of Revolution Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the Second Slave Reparations “H. W. Brands brings to life Burr’s forgotten Generation of American Giants Acclaimed historian Mary Frances Berry contributions as a Revolutionary War hero “A dramatic narrative linking the stories of a resurrects the remarkable story of ex-slave and politician, as well as the shame that fierce, bloody mutiny on a British war vessel “H. W. Brands tells the story of Clay, Calhoun, Callie House who, seventy years before the shadowed him for the rest of his life after in 1797 to a legal battle over extradition that and Webster with verve and clarity, reminding civil-rights movement, demanded repara- Hamilton’s death.” —The New York Times rocked John Adams’ administration, shaped us of a bygone age when giants truly walked the nation’s developing party system, and the floor of the United States Senate.” tions for ex-slaves. ANCHOR | PAPER | 978-0-307-74326-8 contributed to Adams’ defeat in the bitter Presi- —Jon Meacham, author of The Soul of 192 PAGES | $15.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-307-27705-3 dential struggle of 1800 and to the election of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels 336 PAGES | $16.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 Thomas Jefferson.” —Bernard Bailyn, author DOUBLEDAY | CLOTH | 978-0-385-54253-1 of The Barbarous Years 432 PAGES | $30.00 | EXAM PRICE: $15.00 VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-525-56363-1 320 PAGES | $17.00 | 18 EXAM PRICE: $3.00 NEW

ERIC FONER HOWARD MARKEL PETER COZZENS ERIK LARSON Forever Free The Kelloggs The Earth Is Weeping The Devil in the White City The Story of Emancipation and The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair Reconstruction “A compelling yarn and a fascinating window American West That Changed America “ Passionate, lucid, concise without being light. into the genesis of both modern medicine WINNER OF THE GILDER LERHMAN PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR MILITARY HISTORY . . . Foner traces the lines of race and poli- and management. . . . A vivid portrait of “ As absorbing a piece of popular history as one tics that run from Reconstruction to the age the brothers and their era.” —Jonathan A. “ Cozzens admirably succeeds in framing the will ever hope to find. Readers will soon forget of segregation to the civil rights movement Knee, The New York Times Indian Wars with acute historical accuracy.” that Larson’s work is nonfiction and, instead, to our own time.” —The New York Times —The New York Times Book Review imagine that they are holding a fictional page- VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-307-94837-3 Book Review VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-307-94818-2 turner.” —San Francisco Chronicle 544 PAGES | $18.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 592 PAGES | $20.00 | VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-375-70274-7 EXAM PRICE: $10.00 VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-375-72560-9 304 PAGES | $16.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 NOW IN PAPERBACK 464 PAGES | $16.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00

NEW JOHN A. FARRELL Richard Nixon The Life PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST WINNER OF THE NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY AMERICAN HISTORY BOOK PRIZE WINNER OF THE PEN/JACQUELINE BOGRAD WELD AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHY From a prize-winning biographer comes the defining portrait of a man who led America in a time of turmoil. “A bracing portrait of a man untethered from principle and ideology, driven throughout his life to win at any cost and thereby palliate his deep-seated insecurities. . . . We see H. W. BRANDS ISABEL WILKERSON NOW IN PAPERBACK Nixon in his entirety—and we can’t help American Colossus The Warmth of Other Suns VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-345-80496-9 but wonder what he means for our politics The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865–1900 The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration 784 PAGES | $19.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 today.” —San Francisco Chronicle “ A first-rate overview of one of the most WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS “Farrell has written the best one-volume, important periods in American history. . . . CIRCLE AWARD cradle-to-grave biography that we could Brands is a terrific writer who commands WINNER OF THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE expect about such a famously elusive subject. his material, handles this sprawling, compli- “ Ms. Wilkerson does for the Great Migration By employing recently released government cated story with authority and panache.” what John Steinbeck did for the Okies in his documents and oral histories, he adds layers —The New York Times fiction masterpiece, The Grapes of Wrath; she of understanding to a complex man and his ANCHOR | PAPER | 978-0-307-38677-9 humanizes history, giving it emotional and psy- dastardly decisions. . . . Outstanding.” 704 PAGES | $18.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 chological depth.”—The Wall Street Journal —Aram Goudsouzian, The Washington Post VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-679-76388-8 640 PAGES | $17.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00

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I Wish I’d Been There THOMAS CAHILL TOM HOLLAND THOMAS CAHILL Book Two: European History Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea Dynasty How the Irish Saved Twenty Historians Bring to Life Dramatic Why the Greeks Matter The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar Civilization The Untold Story of Ireland’s Heroic Role Events in the History of Europe “ The best introduction to classical Greek “ Startlingly visceral. . . . Holland has crafted Edited by Byron Hollinshead and culture yet written. . . . Learned, stylish and a history of early Rome that has all the from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Theodore K. Rabb inspiring. . . . Well-informed, insightful and gripping detail and narrative momentum of Medieval Europe Our finest historical writers turn their atten- on the whole written in a sparkling style.” a novel.”—The New York Times “Charming and poetic, . . . an entirely tion to Europe, with detailed accounts of —Los Angeles Times ANCHOR | PAPER | 978-0-345-80672-7 engaging, delectable voyage into the some of the most dramatic events in histo- ANCHOR | PAPER | 978-0-385-49554-7 512 PAGES | $17.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 distant past, a small treasure.”—The New ry, such as the signing of the Magna Carta, 352 PAGES | $18.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 York Times the Versailles Conference, and the German ANCHOR | PAPER | 978-0-385-41849-2 surrender in WWII on Luneburg Heath. 256 PAGES | $16.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 ANCHOR | PAPER | 978-0-307-27764-0 336 PAGES | $16.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00

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THOMAS CAHILL RUSSELL SHORTO RICHARD HOLMES INGRID ROSSELLINI Heretics and Heroes Descartes’ Bones The Age of Wonder Know Thyself How Renaissance Artists and A Skeletal History of the Conflict How the Romantic Generation Discovered Western Identity from Classical Greece to Reformation Priests Created Our World Between Faith and Reason the Beauty and Terror of Science the Renaissance “ A great achievement. . . . Seemingly effort- “ A fascinating, colorful, and very read- WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS “Rossellini is skilled in teasing out the meta- less illumination of the Renaissance and the able account of early modern ideas CIRCLE AWARD physical and cultural hinges that shaped the Reformation.”—James Shapiro, author of and personalities. Shorto has a gift for WINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY PRIZE FOR Western mind. . . . A scholarly yet accessible Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? storytelling. He brings the seventeenth SCIENCE BOOKS tour through the history of Western civiliza- ANCHOR | PAPER | 978-0-385-49558-5 century to life while doing justice to the “ [A] buoyant new fusion of history, art, tion, pleasantly detailing the rises, declines, 368 PAGES | $16.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 philosophy.” —Steven Nadler, author science, philosophy, and biography.” rediscoveries, and revolutions along the way.” of Rembrandt’s Jews and Spinoza: —The New York Times —Library Journal A Life VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-1-4000-3187-0 DOUBLEDAY | CLOTH | 978-0-385-54188-6 VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-307-27566-0 576 PAGES | $18.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 496 PAGES | $30.00 | EXAM PRICE: $15.00 336 PAGES | $16.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00

20 NEW ANNE APPLEBAUM Red Famine SHORTLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL PRIZE IN HISTORICAL LITERATURE At least five million people died between 1931 and 1933 in the USSR. But instead of sending relief the Soviet state made use of the catastrophe to rid itself of a political prob- lem. In Red Famine, Anne Applebaum argues that more than three million of those dead were Ukrainians who perished not because they were accidental victims of a bad policy but because the state deliberately set out to kill them. DAVID FROMKIN PHILIPPE SANDS Europe’s Last Summer East West Street “With searing clarity, Red Famine demon- Who Started the Great War in 1914? On the Origins of “Genocide” and NOW IN PAPERBACK strates the horrific consequences of a cam- “ No one has deconstructed the war quite the “Crimes Against Humanity” paign to eradicate ‘backwardness’ when way Fromkin has. . . . Through it all are the WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE ANCHOR | PAPER | 978-0-8041-7088-8 undertaken by a regime in a state of war with 608 PAGES | $17.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 telling details of diplomatic and military life “ We have in Sands’s East West Street a ma- its own people” —The Economist that make the period so utterly tragic.” chine of power and beauty that should not “Chilling, dramatic. . . . Applebaum provides —The Boston Globe be ignored by anyone in the United States a ‘crucial backstory’ for understanding current VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-375-72575-3 or elsewhere who would believe that there relations between Russia and Ukraine.” 384 PAGES | $17.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 are irreparable crimes whose adjudication —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) should not stop at the border.” —The New York Times Book Review VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-525-43372-9 464 PAGES | $19.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00

ROBERT TOMBS SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE STEVEN LEE MYERS WILLIAM I. HITCHCOCK The English and Their The Romanovs The New Tsar The Struggle for Europe History 1613–1918 The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin The Turbulent History of a Divided Continent, 1945–Present “ Spectacular and massive. . . . It’s a book “ Spellbinding. . . . It takes true historical dar- “ Myers’s The New Tsar is not the first biogra- for our times that should also become the ing to tackle such an immense subject. phy of Putin, but it is the strongest to date. “ The Struggle for Europe is not only shrewd standard text for the century to come.” . . . Montefiore’s novelistic gift of drawing Judicious and comprehensive, it pulls back and comprehensive, but written with a wit —The Atlantic vivid characters with a few choice words the veil . . . from one of the world’s most and vigour that makes it a real joy to read. never fails him. . . . The main portraits secretive leaders.”—The Washington Post It deserves to be the standard work on the “ Combine[s] a fresh retelling of English are invariably memorable. . . . This subject for many years to come.” history with a thoughtful analysis of the VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-345-80279-8 monumental work is an essential addition —Sir Michael Howard, formerly Robert changing ways in which the English them- 592 PAGES | $19.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 to the library of anyone interested in Rus- A. Lovett Professor of Military History, selves have interpreted their past.” sian history and the doomed dynasty of Yale University —The New York Times Book Review the Romanovs.” —The New York Times ANCHOR | PAPER | 978-0-385-49799-2 VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-1-101-87336-6 Book Review 560 PAGES | $18.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 1040 PAGES | $26.00 | EXAM PRICE: $13.00 VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-307-28051-0 784 PAGES | $21.00 | EXAM PRICE: $10.50 21 WORLD HISTORY

CCSS PETER FRANKOPAN The Silk Roads A New History of the World

From the rise and fall of empires to the spread of Buddhism and the advent of Christianity and Islam, right up to the great wars of the twentieth century— this book shows how the fate of the West has always been inextricably linked to the East. “This provocative history challenges the view of the West as heir to a pure Greco-Roman CHARLES C. MANN CHARLES C. MANN culture. . . . Frankopan marshals diverse 1491 1493 VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-1-101-91237-9 examples to demonstrate the interconnect- New Revelations of the Americas Uncovering the New World Columbus 672 PAGES | $20.00 | EXAM PRICE: $10.00 edness of cultures, showing in vivid detail Before Columbus Created the economic and social impact of the silk “ Mann tells a powerful, provocative and Charles C. Mann presents a deeply engag- and the slave trades, the Black Death, and important story. . . . 1491 vividly compels ing new history of how European settle- the Buddhist influence on Christianity.” us to reexamine how we teach the an- ments in the post-Colombian Americas —The New Yorker cient history of the Americas and how we shaped the world. live with the environmental consequences “1493 ranges across continents and centu- of colonization.” —The Washington Post ries to explain how the world we inhabit Book World came to be.” —The Washington Post VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-1-4000-3205-1 VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-307-27824-1 576 PAGES | $18.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 720 PAGES | $17.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 COMMON CORE EXEMPLAR

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WILLIAM H. McNEILL DAVID ARMITAGE SCOTT ANDERSON SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE Plagues and Peoples Civil Wars Fractured Lands Titans of History The Giants Who Made Our World Interprets world history as seen through This book’s unique perspective on the roots How the Arab World Came Apart the extraordinary impact of disease on and dynamics of civil war, and on its shaping In this gripping account, Anderson examines Titans of History is a collection of 170 short, cultures. With the identification of AIDS in force in our conflict-ridden world, will be es- the myriad complex causes of the profound entertaining, and vivid life stories of various the 1980s, a new chapter has been added sential to the ongoing effort to grapple with unraveling in the Middle East, tracing the ideo- historical figures who have changed the to this chronicle of events, which William this seemingly interminable problem. logical conflicts of the present to their origins course of world history—from Buddha and Genghis Khan to Nero and Churchill; from McNeill explores in his new preface to this “Concise, wonderfully lucid, highly intelligent . in the United States invasion of Iraq in 2003 Catherine the Great and Anne Frank to Tous- updated edition. . . . A searching, nuanced, and succinct analysis.” and beyond. saint l’Ouverture and Martin Luther King. ANCHOR | PAPER | 978-0-385-12122-4 —Linda Colley, The New York Review of Books ANCHOR | PAPER | 978-0-525-43443-6 240 PAGES | $15.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 Through these lives, Montefiore recounts the 368 PAGES | $17.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-307-45617-5 most momentous world events to the present. 368 PAGES | $17.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-525-56446-1 640 PAGES | $20.00 | EXAM PRICE: $10.00 22 ART HISTORY & STUDIO ART

CAMILLE PAGLIA Glittering Images A Journey Through Art from Egypt to Star Wars With trademark audacity, Paglia tours through more than two dozen seminal paintings, sculptures, architectural styles, per- formance pieces, and digital art works that have transformed our world. Combining close analysis with historical context, she trains our eye to each image—from an Egyptian tomb to Jackson Pollock’s abstract Green Silver to JULIAN BARNES ROBERT FARRIS THOMPSON VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-307-27802-9 Renée Cox’s daring performance piece Chillin’ 224 PAGES | $18.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 Keeping an Eye Open Flash of the Spirit with Liberty. Written with energy, erudition, Essays on Art African & Afro-American and wit, Glittering Images will profoundly Art & Philosophy change the way we see. In this illuminating collection of essays on art, Barnes turns his narrative gifts toward “Mr. Thompson is a professor of art “A magisterial, poetically composed, and mas- some of the most important paintings in history, but he takes his subject in the terly study.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer the Western canon, eloquently voicing our round. . . . He is part anthropologist, “Paglia is a wonderful popularizer of art his- reactions to these images—what they part art critic, part musicologist, part tory and art appreciation.” cause us to think and feel, and why. student of religion and philosophy, and —Kirkus Reviews VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-1-101-87337-3 entirely an enthusiastic partisan of what 288 PAGES | $20.00 | EXAM PRICE: $10.00 he writes about.” —The New York Times Book Review VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-394-72369-3 VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-307-27824-1 336 PAGES | $16.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 EXAM PRICE: $3.00

TOM ANG ANNE-MARIE O’CONNOR ALAIN de BOTTON ALEXANDER LEE Fundamentals of The Lady in Gold The Architecture of The Ugly Renaissance Photography The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Happiness Sex, Greed, Violence and Depravity in an The Essential Handbook for Both Klimt’s Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele “ With originality, verve, and wit, de Botton Age of Beauty Digital and Film Cameras Bloch-Bauer explains how we find reflections of our “ Effortlessly combing scholarly depth with a own values in the edifices we make. . . . The most comprehensive, accessible, and “ A celebration of art and persistence. highly accessible style and presenting many Altogether satisfying.” —San Francisco completely up-to-date guide available for . . . O’Connor’s book brings Klimt’s of the best-known (as well as some of the Chronicle today’s photographer: whether begin- exceptional portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer least-known) figures and artworks from the ner or advanced, using a film camera or home, broadening the meaning of VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-307-27724-4 Renaissance in an unexpected and multifac- digital. Award-winning photographer Tom homeland at the same time.” 288 PAGES | $19.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 eted light.” —New Humanist Ang provides a thorough, explicitly detailed —The Christian Science Monitor ANCHOR | PAPER | 978-0-345-80292-7 bottom-to-top understanding of modern VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-1-101-87312-0 448 PAGES | $18.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 photography, explaining all the techniques 368 PAGES | $17.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 that will help students improve the quality of his or her photographs. KNOPF | CLOTH | 978-0-375-71157-2 352 PAGES | $26.95 | EXAM PRICE: $13.50 23 U.S. GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS

GANESH SITARAMAN The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution Why Economic Inequality Threatens Our Republic In this original, provocative contribution to the de- bate over economic inequality, Ganesh Sitaraman argues that a strong and sizable middle class is a prerequisite for America’s constitutional system. The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution is a tour de force of history, philosophy, law, and politics. It makes a compelling case that inequality is more than just a moral or economic problem; it threat- RAY RAPHAEL RICHARD HOFSTADTER ens the very core of our constitutional system. Mr. President The American Political How and Why the Founders Tradition And the Men Who NOW IN PAPERBACK “ Ganesh Sitaraman is a bold and visionary thinker whose new book, The Crisis of the Middle-Class Created a Chief Executive Made It VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-1-101-97345-5 Constitution, shows that the disappearing Ameri- “ [A] fascinating and fresh narrative that With a Foreword by Christopher Lasch 432 PAGES | $17.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 can dream is more than a policy problem—it takes the reader from the fierce debates This revised edition of Richard Hofstadter’s is a constitutional crisis. In our age of growing establishing the federal executive at the classic study of American politics changed inequality, the stakes couldn’t be higher.” Constitutional Convention through Thomas the way in which the relationship between —Senator Elizabeth Warren Jefferson’s election which tested the framers’ power and ideas in the national experience handiwork.”—Joyce Appleby, author of The is understood. Relentless Revolution VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-679-72315-8 VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-307-74238-4 560 PAGES | $17.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 336 PAGES | $16.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00

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ROBERT B. REICH ANTHONY LEWIS STEPHEN BREYER ELI SASLOW The Common Good Gideon’s Trumpet Making Our Democracy Ten Letters Work The Stories Americans Tell Their Robert Reich makes a powerful case, rooting A history of the landmark case of James Earl President his argument in common sense and everyday Gideon’s fight for the right to legal counsel A Judge’s View reality, that a common good constitutes the that changed “the whole course of American “ A calm, reasoned book about how the “ Eli Saslow . . . show[s] the profound very essence of any society or nation. legal history“ (Robert F. Kennedy). Supreme Court should do its work and real-life connections between the White how, in history, it has sometimes failed House and the people.” —David Maraniss, “Brief but well-argued. . . . A provocative VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-679-72312-7 the challenge. . . . A remarkable contribu- author of Barack Obama: The Story essay.” —Kirkus 288 PAGES | $16.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 tion to educating the public about our ANCHOR | PAPER | 978-0-307-74255-1 VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-525-43637-9 constitutional system.” —The New York 304 PAGES | $16.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 208 PAGES | $15.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 Review of Books VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-307-39083-7 288 PAGES | $16.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00

24 The U.S. Constitution Explained—Clause by Clause—for Every American Today Annotated by Ray Raphael In this indispensable edition, acclaimed his- torian and Constitutional expert Ray Raphael guides students through the origins, impact, and current relevance of the original text and all twenty-seven amendments. Here is the key historical context for issues in the news today—from the Electoral College to Washington gridlock, from peaceful protests MELVIN I. UROFSKY ROBERT G. KAISER to executive power. Thoughtful and nuanced, this annotated Constitution is for all of us Dissent and the Act of Congress How America’s Essential Institution to read and refer to—the ultimate political Supreme Court Works, and How It Doesn’t fact-checking source for every American. Its Role in the Court’s History and the VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-525-56254-2 Nation’s Constitutional Dialogue “ Congress is the most powerful, and least 192 PAGES | $9.95 | “Raphael’s annotations are written with EXAM PRICE: $3.00 “ Ambitious. . . . Urofsky’s extraordinarily well understood, branch of the American such clarity. Indeed, the kind of clarity we careful analysis and sense of historical government. Luckily, Robert Kaiser is here need at this critical moment in our nation’s depth make [this] an important book, one to explain it to us. Required reading for history.” —Carol Anderson, winner of the that explores some of the most significant anyone who is affected by Washington, National Book Critics Circle Award dissents in the history of that institution . . . which is, as Kaiser demonstrates in this riveting.” —New York Times Book Review book, all of us.” —The Washington Post VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-307-74132-5 VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-307-74451-7 544 PAGES | $17.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 464 PAGES | $17.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00

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JONATHAN HARR Policing the Black Man DAVID K. SHIPLER DAVID K. SHIPLER Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment Rights at Risk Freedom of Speech A Civil Action Edited by Angela J. Davis The Limits of Liberty in Modern Mightier Than the Sword WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD Policing the Black Man explores and critiques America “ [Shipler] takes on everything from the the many ways the criminal justice system “ Shipler doesn’t mince words or shy away fate of whistleblowers (not good) to how “ A fascinating work . . . that is much less impacts the lives of African American boys from the hard issues. . . . The writing schools deal with books that some parents about environmental pollution or corporate and men at every stage of the criminal pro- is precise, interesting, and frequently find objectionable. Thoroughly reported irresponsibility or even cancer victims than cess, from arrest through sentencing. This moving. . . . His coverage, concreteness, and written with both fairness and pas- it is about the practice of law in America anthology features essays by some of the and willingness to candidly take on the sion, it’s a highly readable treatment of today. It is ultimately, subtly, then, a nation’s most influential and respected crimi- range of issues make this a terrific book a subject that doesn’t get much more book about our society’s most basic moral nal justice experts and legal scholars. for anyone interested in our rights and important.” —The New York Times values.” —The Boston Globe VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-679-77267-5 “This powerful book demands our fierce at- liberties.”—Philadelphia Inquirer VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-307-94761-1 352 PAGES | $18.00 | 512 PAGES | $16.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 tention.” —Toni Morrison VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-307-94700-0 EXAM PRICE: $3.00 400 PAGES | $17.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-525-43661-4 352 PAGES | $16.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 25 COMPARATIVE GOVERNMENT

GARY J. BASS WILLIAM J. DOBSON PAUL KENNEDY H.G. WELLS Freedom’s Battle The Dictator’s The Parliament of Man The Rights of Man The Origins of Humanitarian Intervention Learning Curve The Past, Present, and Future of the H. G. Wells’s passionate and influential United Nations “ Bass relates these episodes masterfully, Inside the Global Battle for Democracy manifesto—never before available in providing a wealth of detail in fluid prose. “ William J. Dobson’s exploration of the A thorough and timely history of the United the United States—was first published in Although he aims to make a point—about contest between contemporary dictatorships Nations that explains the institution’s roots England in 1940 in response to World War the legitimacy of humanitarian interven- and those who rebel against them is and functions while also casting an objective II. A new introduction to Wells’s work by award-winning novelist Ali Smith under- tion—his accounts are full and fair- valuable because it offers a sober analysis eye on the UN’s effectiveness as a body and lines the continuing urgency and relevance minded.” —The Wall Street Journal of both sides. . . . [A] close look at the on its prospects for success in meeting the of one of the most important humanitarian VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-307-27987-3 face of modern authoritarianism.” challenges that lie ahead. —The Washington Post texts of the twentieth century. 528 PAGES | $19.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-375-70341-6 VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-525-43234-0 ANCHOR | PAPER | 978-0-307-47755-2 384 PAGES | $17.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 352 PAGES | $17.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 176 PAGES | $10.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00

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NINA MUNK ANJAN SUNDARAM HOWARD W. FRENCH ROBERT KAGAN The Idealist Bad News A Continent for the Taking The Jungle Grows Back Jeffrey Sachs and the Last Journalists in a Dictatorship The Tragedy and Hope of Africa America and Our Imperiled World Quest to End Poverty “ A searing illustration of the dangers associ- A YALSA OUTSTANDING BOOK FOR THE The Jungle Grows Back is a visionary “ Munk draws a nuanced portrait of Sachs ated with newsgathering in an authoritar- COLLEGE BOUND argument for America’s role as an enforcer and his Millennium Villages Project. . . . ian state, and a paean to those courageous “ A brilliant and nuanced meditation on the of peace and order throughout the world— Worth taking the time to read it. It’s a enough to practice it in such dire circum- complexities of contemporary Africa. . . . and what is likely to happen if the United valuable—and, at times, heartbreaking— stances.” —San Francisco Chronicle Howard French’s voice is both fresh and States were to withdraw and focus its cautionary tale.” —Bill Gates ANCHOR | PAPER | 978-1-101-87215-4 enlightening.” —Henry Louis Gates, Jr., attention inward. ANCHOR | PAPER | 978-0-7679-2942-4 210 PAGES | $16.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 author of Colored People “[Kagan] is right to detect a crisis of confi- 288 PAGES | $16.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-1-4000-3027-9 dence in the democratic world. He sets out 320 PAGES | $17.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 his case with characteristic brilliance and conviction.” —The Economist KNOPF | CLOTH | 978-0-525-52165-5 192 PAGES | $22.95 | EXAM PRICE: $11.50 26 MICROECONOMICS AND MACROECONOMICS

JAMES KWAK Economism Bad Economics and the Rise of Inequality Here is a bracing deconstruction of the frame- work for understanding the world that is learned as gospel in Economics 101, regardless of its imaginary assumptions and misleading half- truths. “Economism” is defined as the distor- tion of the valid principles and tools of every introductory economics course by self-styled experts, zealous lobbyists, clueless politicians, and ignorant pundits. RANDY CHARLES EPPING RANDY CHARLES EPPING “This clearly written book is an excellent dissec- A Beginner’s Guide to the The 21st Century Economy NOW IN PAPERBACK tion of some bad ideas that have been allowed World Economy A Beginner’s Guide to masquerade as common sense for too long.” Eighty-one Basic Economic Concepts Randy Charles Epping uses compelling nar- VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-525-43628-7 —Jedediah Purdy, Duke Law School 256 PAGES | $17.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 That Will Change the Way You See ratives and insightful analogies to clearly “Kwak has written the myth-buster that our dis- the World and concisely explain the rapidly changing torted economic debate needs. And he’s made What is the new economy? What is global- way business is done in the twenty-first it fun—er, welfare-enhancing—to read.” ization? These and many other pertinent is- century. A comprehensive guide to under- —Jacob S. Hacker, Stanley B. Resor Professor sues are concisely addressed in this highly standing today’s global economy. of Political Science, Yale University readable and accessible primer. VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-307-38790-5 336 PAGES | $16.95 | VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-375-72579-1 EXAM PRICE: $3.00 256 PAGES | $15.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00

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JEFF MADRICK TIM WU DAVID K. SHIPLER FINBARR LIVESEY Seven Bad Ideas The Attention Merchants The Working Poor From Global to Local How Mainstream Economists Have The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Invisible in America The Making of Things and the End of Globalization Damaged America and the World Our Heads A searing, intimate portrait of working “ As Madrick makes clear, many economists “ Comprehensive and conscientious, readers American families struggling against in- “The great strength of Livesey’s book is to have, consciously or unconsciously, en- are bound to stumble on ideas and epi- surmountable odds to escape poverty. This make us look more closely and intelligently gaged in a game of bait and switch. . . . sodes of media history that they knew little impassioned book not only dissects the at the underlying drivers of globalization. Seven Bad Ideas tells us an important and about. [Wu] writes with elegance and clar- problems, but makes pointed, informed [From Global to Local] will help us under- broadly accurate story about what went ity, giving readers the pleasing sensation of recommendations for change. stand and anticipate the changing dynam- wrong.” —The New York Times walking into a stupendously well-organized VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-375-70821-3 ics of global economic interdependence.” VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-307-95072-7 closet.” —The New York Times 352 PAGES | $17.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 —Finance & Development 272 PAGES | $15.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-8041-7004-8 VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-525-56297-9 432 PAGES | $17.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 228 PAGES | $17.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 NOW IN PAPERBACK 27 HUMAN GEOGRAPHY

NEW JAMES FALLOWS and DEBORAH FALLOWS Our Towns A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America For five years, James and Deborah Fallows have travelled across America in a single-engine prop airplane. Visiting dozens of towns, the America they saw is acutely conscious of its problems but it is also crafting solutions, with a practical- minded determination at dramatic odds with the bitter paralysis of national politics. “In these cities, the Fallows argue, citizen JACK TURNER NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF and participants are coping with declining industries, SHERYL WuDUNN NOW IN PAPERBACK Spice creating new civic cultures, assimilating waves The History of a Temptation Half the Sky of immigration, and collaborating across party- VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-525-43244-9 Turning Oppression into Opportunity for lines to revive everything from arts programs A brilliant, original history of the spice 432 PAGES | $16.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 Women Worldwide to tech seedbeds.” —David Brooks, The New trade—and the appetites that fueled it. York Times WINNER OF THE DAYTON LITERARY PEACE “ [A]n erudite and engaging account of how PRIZE FOR LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT foodstuffs can change the flow of history.” “A tonic of a book about the can-do America A YALSA OUTSTANDING BOOK FOR THE unready to succumb to rot.” —Roger Cohen, —The New York Times Book Review COLLEGE BOUND The New York Times VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-375-70705-6 “ Combines a denunciation of horrible abuses 384 PAGES | $17.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 with clear-eyed hope and some compelling practical strategies.” —The New York Times VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-307-38709-7 320 PAGES | $16.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00

JANE JACOBS JOSHUA JELLY-SCHAPIRO GISH JEN DOLORES HAYDEN The Death and Life of Island People The Girl at the Baggage Building Suburbia Great American Cities The Caribbean and the World Claim Green Fields and Urban Growth, 1820–2000 “ This is one of the most remarkable books “A travelogue of love and scholarship. . . . Explaining the East-West Culture Gap ever written about the city. . . . It is an an- [It] does the region splendid justice.” Gish Jen, drawing on a trove of personal Building Suburbia is a provocative history tithesis we very much need, for the elements —The New York Times accounts and cutting-edge research, shows of the contested landscapes where Jacobs perceives are precisely the elements “Many have tried this before—to get hold how our worldviews are shaped by what the majority of Americans now live. we seem bent on eliminating in conventional of, in its entirety, the volatile, beautiful, cultural psychologists call “independent” Encompassing environmental controversies redevelopment.” —William H. Whyte relentlessly shifting Caribbean. Nobody has and “interdependent” models of selfhood. as well as the complexities of race, gender, and class, Hayden’s account defines seven VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-679-74195-4 succeeded as dazzlingly.” —Marlon James, VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-1-101-97206-9 eras of suburban development since 1820. 480 PAGES | $16.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 author of A Brief History of Seven Killings 336 PAGES | $17.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-345-80499-0 VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-375-72721-4 512 PAGES | $17.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 336 PAGES | $18.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00

28 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE

CRAIG CHILDS CLIMATE CENTRAL STEPHEN EMMOTT ERIK LARSON Apocalyptic Planet Global Weirdness Ten Billion Isaac’s Storm A Field Guide to the Future of the Earth Severe Storms, Deadly Heat Waves, A compelling call to action that reveals A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Relentless Drought, Rising Seas, and Hurricane in History “ In chapters packed with vivid descriptions the dangers of human population growth and lyrical language, Childs tells tales the Weather of the Future on the climate, the environment, and “ Erik Larson’s accomplishment is to have not merely of droughts and ice ages, but “ Slim and elegant. . . . Written in the Earth’s dwindling resources. Told through made this great-storm story a very human of globe-swallowing deserts and planet- kind of plain English of which Strunk and diagrams, photos, and graphs, Ten Billion one—thanks to his use of the large number freezing cold spells. . . . A fascinating travel- White would approve, that lays out what is a snapshot of our planet, and our species, of survivors’ accounts—without ignoring the ogue of an excitable, seething and perilous we know about climate change while approaching a crisis. hurricane itself.” —The Boston Globe planet.” —Science News hewing to the facts and taking great care VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-345-80647-5 VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-375-70827-5 VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-307-47681-4 to avoid bias and hysteria.” 224 PAGES | $14.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 336 PAGES | $16.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 368 PAGES | $16.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 —The New York Times VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-307-74336-7 224 PAGES | $15.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00

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WANGARI MAATHAI DR. LUCY JONES ANNALEE NEWITZ DAVID S. WILCOVE Unbowed The Big Ones Scatter, Adapt, The Condor’s Shadow A Memoir How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us and Remember The Loss and Recovery WINNER OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE (and What We Can Do About Them) How Humans Will Survive of Wildlife in America a Mass Extinction “ Well conceived and very well written—it When Maathai founded the Green Belt In The Big Ones, leading seismologist Dr. Lucy should serve to clarify hard decisions that Movement, she began a vital environmental Jones offers a bracing look at some of the Annalee Newitz’s remarkable and fascinat- our nation must face in regard to habitat organization that soon spread across Africa. world’s greatest natural disasters. ing journey through the science of mass extinctions is a powerful argument about preservation for the future.” Persevering through run-ins with the Kenyan “Nobody does a better job of explaining the human ingenuity and our ability to change. —Peter Matthiessen government, she fought tirelessly to save science of disasters and the psychology It leads us away from apocalyptic thinking ANCHOR | PAPER | 978-0-385-49881-4 Kenya’s forests and to restore democracy to of humans than Lucy Jones. This book is into a future where we live to build a bet- 368 PAGES | $16.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 her beloved country. priceless—both as a history and a prophecy.” ter world. ANCHOR | PAPER | 978-0-307-27520-2 —Amanda Ripley, author of The Smartest 368 PAGES | $17.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 Kids in the World ANCHOR | PAPER | 978-0-307-94942-4 320 PAGES | $16.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 TEACHER’S GUIDE AVAILABLE ANCHOR | PAPER | 978-0-525-43428-3 256 PAGES | $16.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 NOW IN PAPERBACK 29 BIOLOGY

NEW DAVID REICH Who We Are and How We Got Here Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past Drawing upon revolutionary findings and unparalleled scientific studies, Who We Are and How We Got Here is a groundbreak- ing book about how ancient DNA has profoundly changed our understanding of human history. David Reich delves into how the genomic revolution is transforming the understanding of modern humans and NEIL SHUBIN JAMES HAMBLIN how DNA studies reveal deep inequalities Your Inner Fish If Our Bodies Could Talk among different populations, between the A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year Operating and Maintaining NOW IN PAPERBACK sexes, and among individuals. History of the Human Body a Human Body “The work in [Reich’s] lab has reshaped WINNER OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-1-101-87346-5 our understanding of human prehistory. SCIENCES BOOK AWARD “ If you want to understand the strange workings of the human body, and the future 368 PAGES | $16.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 . . . He and his colleagues have shed “ Your Inner Fish combines Shubin’s and of medicine, you must read this illuminating, light on the peopling of the planet and others’ discoveries to present a twenty- engaging book.”—Siddhartha Mukherjee, the spread of agriculture, among other first-century anatomy lesson. The simple, —Carl Zimmer, author of The Gene momentous events.” passionate writing may turn more than The New York Times a few high-school students into aspiring ANCHOR | PAPER | 978-1-101-97082-9 biologists.” —Nature 400 PAGES | $16.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-307-27745-9 NOW IN PAPERBACK 256 PAGES | $16.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00

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30 NEW HOPE JAHREN Lab Girl WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR AUTOBIOGRAPHY Geobiologist Hope Jahren has spent her life studying trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. Lab Girl is her revelatory treatise on plant life—but it is also a celebration of the lifelong curiosity, humility, and passion that drive every scientist. “Engrossing. . . . Thrilling. . . . Does for botany what Oliver Sacks’s essays did for neurology, what Stephen Jay Gould’s writings did for CARLOS MAGDALENA RICHARD FORTEY paleontology.”—The New York Times The Plant Messiah The Wood for the Trees “Brilliant. . . . Extraordinary. . . . Delightfully, wick- Adventures in Search of the World’s One Man’s Long View of Nature VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-1-101-87372-4 edly funny. . . . Powerful and disarming.” Rarest Species Award-winning scientist Richard Fortey, 304 PAGES | $16.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 —The Washington Post This is an impassioned memoir of saving upon his retirement, purchased four acres “Clear, compelling and uncompromisingly honest. extraordinary plants on the brink of extinc- of ancient woodland in the Chiltern Hills . . . Hope Jahren is the voice that science has tion, by a scientist who has been called a of Oxfordshire, England. The Wood for the been waiting for.”—Nature “codebreaker” (Telegraph) and “an inspira- Trees is the joyful, lyrical portrait of what tion” (Jane Goodall). he found there. ANCHOR | PAPER | 978-0-525-43666-9 VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-1-101-91156-3 288 PAGES | $16.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 336 PAGES | $18.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 NOW IN PAPERBACK

RICHARD O. PRUM The Evolution of Beauty How Darwin’s Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World

In this major reimagining of how evolutionary forces work, Prum reveals how mating preferences create the extraordinary range of ornament in the animal world. Prum dusts off Darwin’s long-neglected theory of sexual selection in which the act of choosing a mate for purely aesthetic reasons—what Darwin termed “the taste for the beautiful”—is an independent JAMES D. WATSON, ANDREW JONATHAN WEINER engine of evolutionary change. The Evolution of BERRY and KEVIN DAVIES The Beak of the Finch Beauty presents a unique scientific vision for how DNA A Story of Evolution in Our Time NOW IN PAPERBACK nature’s splendor contributes to a more complete The Story of the Genetic Revolution WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE ANCHOR | PAPER | 978-0-345-80457-0 understanding of evolution and of ourselves. Newly Revised and Updated This is the story of two evolutionary biolo- 448 PAGES | $17.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 “Prum draws on decades of study, hundreds of pa- James D. Watson, the Nobel laureate whose gists’ investigation of Galapagos finches pers, and a lively, literate, and mischievous mind. pioneering work helped unlock the mystery who were able to see the size and shape . . . A delicious read, both seductive and muti- of DNA’s structure, charts the greatest scien- of the beak adapt in a brief span of time. nous. . . . Prum’s attention never strays far from nature, and his writing [about birds] is minutely tific journey of our time, from the discovery “This book is an extraordinary achieve- detailed, exquisitely observant, deeply informed, of the double helix to today’s controversies ment. It is carefully researched, impec- to what the future may hold. and often tenderly sensual.” —David Dobbs, cably crafted, unflinchingly dramatic, yet The New York Times Book Review KNOPF | PAPER | 978-0-385-35118-8 conscientiously scientific.” —School 512 PAGES | $29.95 | EXAM PRICE: $15.00 Library Journal VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-679-73337-9 352 PAGES | $17.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 31 GENERAL SCIENCE AND HISTORY OF SCIENCE

NEW MICHIO KAKU The Future of Humanity Our Destiny in the Universe World-renowned physicist and futurist Dr. Michio Kaku presents a compelling vision of how humanity may develop a sustainable civilization in outer space. He reveals the developments in robotics, nanotechnology, and biotechnology that may allow us to terraform and build habitable cities on Mars and beyond.

“With admirable clarity and ease, Mr. Kaku GEORGE JOHNSON MICHAEL BROOKS rehearses the history of rocketry and the The Ten Most 13 Things that Don’t formation of the planets, and explains how Beautiful Experiments Make Sense we might colonize not only Mars but some The Most Baffling Scientific NOW IN PAPERBACK “ Unusual and engaging. . . . Unfussy, jargon- of the rocky moons of the gas giants Jupiter Mysteries of Our Time free. . . . Johnson is an experienced science ANCHOR | PAPER | 978-0-525-43454-2 and Saturn.” —The Wall Street Journal Science’s best-kept secret is this: even 368 PAGES | $16.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 writer with a knack for making biology and “The sheer amount of technical scientific physics clear, and for finding the human- today, there are experimental results that speculation in The Future of Humanity is izing details in this world.”—Minneapolis the most brilliant scientists cannot explain. amazing, and yet Kaku is in smooth, perfect Star Tribune Michael Brooks heads to the scientific control of it the entire time.” —Steve VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-1-4000-3423-9 frontier to confront thirteen modern-day Donoghue, Christian Science Monitor 208 PAGES | $16.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 anomalies and what they might reveal about tomorrow’s breakthroughs. VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-307-27881-4 256 PAGES | $16.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00

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KEVIN ASHTON LEONARD MLODINOW CHARLES C. MANN ROBERT M. HAZEN and JAMES TREFIL How to Fly a Horse The Upright Thinkers The Wizard and the Prophet Science Matters The Secret History of Creation, Invention, The Human Journey from Living in Trees Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Achieving Scientific Literacy and Discovery to Understanding the Cosmos Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow’s World “ Hazen and Trefil [are] unpretentious— “ Tech pioneer Kevin Ashton argues that it is “ The Upright Thinkers playfully tracks the evo- From the award-winning author of 1491 good, down-to-earth, we-can-explain- hard work, not genius, that’s responsible lution of man’s understanding of the world and 1493—an incisive portrait of the two anything science teachers, the kind you for most technological innovations. . . . His over millions of years. . . . An accessible and little-known twentieth-century scientists, Norman wish you had but never did.” —The New well-chosen examples reinforce the idea engaging read that brings science’s brilliant Borlaug and William Vogt, whose diametrically York Times Book Review that there is no magic or myth to creation minds to life.” —Financial Times opposed views shaped our ideas about the envi- or discovery, making this an approachable, ronment, laying the groundwork for how people ANCHOR | PAPER | 978-0-307-45458-4 VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-345-80443-3 thought-provoking book that encourages in the twenty-first century will choose to live in 384 PAGES | $17.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 352 PAGES | $16.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 everyone to be the best they can be.” tomorrow’s world. —The Guardian VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-345-80284-2 ANCHOR | PAPER | 978-0-8041-7006-2 640 PAGES | $17.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 336 PAGES | $16.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 NOW IN PAPERBACK 32 PHYSICS

JAMES GLEICK Time Travel A History James Gleick delivers a mind-bending exploration of time travel—from its origins in literature and science to its influence on our understanding of time itself. Gleick vividly explores physics, technol- ogy, philosophy, and art as each relates to time travel and tells the story of the concept’s cultural evolutions—from H.G. Wells to Doctor Who, from Proust to Woody Allen. “Exhilarating. . . . A veritable theme park of play- ful attractions, which Mr. Gleick explores with JOHN D. BARROW JANNA LEVIN infectious gusto.” —The Wall Street Journal The Constants of Nature Black Hole Blues and Other VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-8041-6892-2 “A fascinating mash-up of philosophy, literary The Numbers that Encode the Deepest Songs from Outer Space 352 PAGES | $17.00 | EXAM PRICE $3.00 criticism, physics and cultural observation. . . . A Secrets of the Universe “ A first-hand account of the scientific pursuit to wonderful reminder that the most potent time- “ Even when the science gets really difficult, detect gravitational waves. . . . Levin is an traveling technology we have is also the oldest Barrow explains it with great clarity, a accomplished astrophysicist and a colleague technology we have: storytelling.” —The New lovely lightness of touch and enormous of the four scientists at the center of this York Times Book Review erudition.”—The Spectator (London) book. It is a story that, until now, has been VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-1-4000-3225-9 known only to those most involved with the 368 PAGES | $18.00 | EXAM PRICE $3.00 project.” —NPR.org ANCHOR | PAPER | 978-0-307-94848-9 256 PAGES | $16.00 | EXAM PRICE $3.00

MICHIO KAKU MICHIO KAKU JOSEPH SCHWARTZ and MAX TEGMARK Physics of the Future Physics of the Impossible MICHAEL McGUINNESS Our Mathematical How Science Will Shape Human Destiny A Scientific Exploration into the World Einstein for Beginners Universe My Quest for the Ultimate and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100 of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, Amusing, sophisticated, and accessible, Nature of Reality “ Mind-bending. . . . Fascinating. . . . Kaku and Time Travel Einstein for Beginners takes us through has a gift for explaining incredibly complex “ Kaku’s latest book aims to explain the revolutions in electrical communica- “ This is science writing at its best— concepts, on subjects as far-ranging as exactly why some visions of the future tions and technology that made the dynamic, dramatic and accessible. . . . nanotechnology and space travel, in may eventually be realized while others theory of relativity possible. A compre- Brilliantly argued and beautifully written, language the lay reader can grasp.” are likely to remain beyond the bounds hensive introduction to Einstein’s life it is never less than thought-provoking —San Francisco Chronicle of possibility.” —The Economist and thought. about the greatest mysteries of our existence.”—The New York Times ANCHOR | PAPER | 978-0-307-47333-2 ANCHOR | PAPER | 978-0-307-27882-1 PANTHEON | PAPER | 978-0-375-71459-7 VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-307-74425-8 480 PAGES | $16.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 352 PAGES | $16.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 176 PAGES | $14.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 432 PAGES | $17.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00

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DAVID BERLINSKI DAVID BERLINSKI JOHN D. BARROW ROBERT OSSERMAN A Tour of the Calculus One, Two, Three The Infinite Book Poetry of the Universe Absolutely Elementary Mathematics A Short Guide to the Boundless, A Mathematical Exploration “ [Explains] the concepts from a modern Timeless and Endless of the Cosmos viewpoint. The work should be especially Filled with illuminating historical anec- useful for providing perspective to college dotes and asides on some of the most For a thousand years, infinity has proven “ Thoroughly delightful. It shows how mathemat- and advanced high school students currently fascinating mathematicians through the to be a difficult and illuminating challenge ics and our understanding of the universe learning calculus.” —Library Journal ages, One, Two, Three is a captivating ex- for mathematicians and theologians. Cam- evolve together. Osserman’s lucid explana- VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-679-74788-8 ploration of the foundation of mathemat- bridge professor John Barrow takes us on tions and passion make this book daring in 352 PAGES | $17.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 ics: how it originated, who thought of it, a grand tour of this most elusive of ideas scope.” —George F. Smoot, astrophysicist, and why it matters. and describes with clarifying subtlety how University of California at Berkeley ANCHOR | PAPER | 978-0-385-47429-0 VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-1-4000-7910-0 this subject has shaped, and continues 224 PAGES | $15.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 224 PAGES | $16.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 to shape, our very sense of the world in which we live. VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-1-4000-3224-2 352 PAGES | $18.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00

SIMON SINGH JAMES SUROWIECKI LEONARD MLODINOW WILLIAM POUNDSTONE Fermat’s Enigma The Wisdom of Crowds The Drunkard’s Walk Prisoner’s Dilemma The Epic Quest to Solve the World’s “It has become increasingly recognized that How Randomness Rules Our Lives John von Neumann, Game Theory, and Greatest Mathematical Problem the average opinions of groups is frequently “ A wonderfully readable guide to how the the Puzzle of the Bomb What came to be known as Fermat’s Last more accurate than most individuals in the mathematical laws of randomness affect “ Both a fascinating biography of von Neu- Theorem looked simple; proving it, however, group. The author has written a most inter- our lives.” —Stephen Hawking, author of mann, the Hungarian exile whose math- became the Holy Grail of mathematics, baf- esting survey of the many studies in this A Brief History of Time ematical theories were building blocks for fling its finest minds for more than 350 years. area and discussed the limits as well as the VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-307-27517-2 the A-bomb and the digital computer, and In Fermat’s Enigma, Simon Singh tells the achievements of self-organization.” 272 PAGES | $16.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 a brilliant social history of game theory and astonishingly entertaining story of the pursuit —Kenneth Arrow, winner of the Nobel its role in the Cold War and nuclear arms of that grail, and the lives that were devoted Prize in Economics and Professor of Eco- race.”—San Francisco Chronicle to, sacrificed for, and saved by it. nomics (Emeritus), Stanford University ANCHOR | PAPER | 978-0-385-41580-4 ANCHOR | PAPER | 978-0-385-49362-8 ANCHOR | PAPER | 978-0-385-72170-7 320 PAGES | $17.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 336 PAGES | $16.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 336 PAGES | $16.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 34 COMPUTER SCIENCE

MAX TEGMARK Life 3.0 Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence How will Artificial Intelligence affect crime, war, justice, jobs, society and our very sense of being human? The rise of AI has the potential to transform our future more than any other tech- nology—and there’s nobody better qualified or situated to explore that future than Max Tegmark, an MIT professor who’s helped mainstream re- search on how to keep AI beneficial. “This is a compelling guide to the challenges and choices in our quest for a great future BRIAN CHRISTIAN JARON LANIER of life, intelligence and consciousness—on NOW IN PAPERBACK The Most Human Human You Are Not a Gadget Earth and beyond.” —Elon Musk, Founder, What Artificial Intelligence Teaches Us A Manifesto VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-1-101-97031-7 CEO and CTO of SpaceX and co-founder and About Being Alive “ A provocative and sure-to-be-controversial 384 PAGES | $17.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 CEO of Tesla Motors “ Humorous and thought-provoking. book. . . . Lucid, powerful and persuasive. “All of us—not only scientists, industrialists . . . A curious look into the history and It is necessary reading for anyone inter- and generals—should ask ourselves what can potential of artificial intelligence, and a ested in how the Web and the software we we do now to improve the chances of reaping brilliant comparison between artificial use every day are reshaping culture and the benefits of future AI and avoiding the risks. intelligence and our natural variety. the marketplace.” —The New York Times This is the most important conversation of our . . . Christian wants to call attention to VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-307-38997-8 time, and Tegmark’s thought-provoking book how special we are, and his book is a 240 PAGES | $16.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 will help you join it.” —Stephen Hawking success.” —The Columbus Dispatch ANCHOR | PAPER | 978-0-307-47670-8 320 PAGES | $16.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00

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JAMES GLEICK GEORGE DYSON BRIAN DEAR MARC GOODMAN The Information Turing’s Cathedral The Friendly Orange Glow Future Crimes A History, a Theory, a Flood The Origins of the Digital Universe The Untold Story of the Rise of Inside the Digital Underground and the WINNER OF THE PEN/E. O. WILSON “ Vivid. . . . [A] detailed yet readable chroni- Cyberculture Battle for Our Connected World LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING AWARD cle of the birth of modern computing. . . . “I loved this deep unknown history. An in- “ Future Crimes is a risk compendium for “ Gleick is one of the great science writers Dyson’s book is one small step toward credible tale of a rag-tag team of students the Information Age. . . . Exhaustively of our age. . . . The Information is an reminding us that behind all the touch inventing key technologies—flat screens, researched. . . . Fascinating. . . . Thrilling entertaining and instructive romp through screens, artificial intelligences and instant messaging, networked games, to read.” —San Francisco Chronicle the history of information technologies.” cerebellum implants lies not sorcery but a blogging—decades before Silicon Valley, ANCHOR | PAPER | 978-0-8041-7145-8 —American Scientist machine from the middle of New Jersey.” and then they were totally forgotten. 608 PAGES | $17.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 —The Oregonian —Kevin Kelly, VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-1-4000-9623-7 Your mind will be blown.” 544 PAGES | $18.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-1-4000-7599-7 Senior Maverick for Wired Magazine and 464 PAGES | $17.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 author of The Inevitable VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-1-101-97363-9 640 PAGES | $17.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00

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JOHN J. RATEY DAVID EAGLEMAN DAVID EAGLEMAN LEONARD MLODINOW A User’s Guide to The Brain Incognito Subliminal the Brain The Story of You The Secret Lives of the Brain How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior Perception, Attention, and the Four “ An ideal introduction to how biology gener- “ The journey to the heart of neurological Theaters of the Brain ates the mind . . . structured around crucial darkness. . . . Incognito proposes a grand “ With the same deft touch he showed in “ [A]n introduction to neuroscience and wide-ranging questions, saturated with new account of the relationship between con- The Drunkard’s Walk, Mlodinow probes which sticks to a man-on-the-street personal and social relevance.” —Nature sciousness and the brain. It is full of dazzling the subtle, automatic, and often unno- vocabulary.” —The New Yorker VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-525-43344-6 ideas, as it is chockablock with facts and ticed influences on our behavior.” instances.”—The New York Observer —Daniel J. Simons, professor of “ A book that will explain that mysterious 256 PAGES | $16.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-307-38992-3 psychology, University of Illinois space between your ears . . . in an acces- A COMPANION TO THE PBS SERIES 304 PAGES | $16.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 sible way.” —Psychology Today VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-307-47225-0 272 PAGES | $16.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-375-70107-8 416 PAGES | $16.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00

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NICHOLAS EPLEY ELIEZER J. STERNBERG LEONARD MLODINOW RICHARD WISEMAN Mindwise NeuroLogic Elastic 59 Seconds Why We Misunderstand What Others The Brain’s Hidden Rationale Behind Our Unlocking Your Brain’s Ability Change Your Life in Under a Minute Think, Believe, Feel, and Want Irrational Behavior to Embrace Change “ Imagine taking thousands of papers from “ Mindwise stands out from the crowd. It is “ A research-rich study of the neurological With keen acumen and wit, Leonard Mlodinow the vast world of psychology and distilling surprising, intelligent, and convincing. . . . circuitry behind the narratives we use to explains the psychology and neuroscience of them down to the most important, unex- You emerge from reading it understanding make sense of things. Sternberg cracks change, and how tapping into elastic thinking pected, salient, and straightforward lessons both yourself and others better.” open the brain’s ‘black box’ to examine its will help us thrive in an endlessly dynamic for how to live our lives. That’s Wiseman’s —The Times (London) parallel conscious and unconscious systems, world. book.” —David Eagleman, author of Sum and explores states from dreaming and acts VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-307-74356-5 “ A book of sparkling intelligence, written with ANCHOR | PAPER | 978-0-307-47486-5 336 PAGES | $16.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 272 PAGES | $16.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 on ‘autopilot’ to memory, hallucinations humor and grace. If you read only one book and trauma.”—Nature of accessible science this year, let this be VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-345-80725-0 the one.” —Mark Williams, author of 320 PAGES | $16.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 Mindfulness, Emeritus Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of Oxford VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-1-101-97016-4 36 272 PAGES | $16.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 NEW

JONATHAN HAIDT MICHAEL FINKEL SUSAN SHEEHAN MERVE EMRE The Righteous Mind The Stranger in the Woods Is There No Place on The Personality Brokers Why Good People Are Divided by The Extraordinary Story of the Last Earth for Me? The Strange History of Myers-Briggs Politics and Religion True Hermit With a Foreword by Robert Coles and and the Birth of Personality Testing a New Postscript by the author “ This elegantly written book has A NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC BEST “This combined dual biography and social BOOK OF THE YEAR far-reaching implications for anyone “ This is the classic case study of schizo- history seeks explanations for why an interested in politics, religion, or the “An absorbing exploration of solitude phrenia that set the stage for reform admittedly flawed, unscientifically proven many controversies that divide modern and man’s eroding relationship with the in the mental health system and for personality test—created in the 1920s societies. If you want to know why you natural world.” —The Atlantic the larger public understanding of the by a mother-daughter team of two untrained pseudointellectuals—continues hold your moral beliefs, and why many VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-1-101-91153-2 condition.” —Andrew Solomon, author to be the most revered personality indica- people disagree with you, read this 224 PAGES | $16.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 of The Noonday Demon tor in existence.” —Booklist book.” —Simon Baron-Cohen, author of VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-8041-6918-9 The Science of Evil 384 PAGES | $16.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 DOUBLEDAY| CLOTH | 978-0-385-54190-9 336 PAGES | $27.95 | EXAM PRICE: $14.00 VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-307-45577-2 528 PAGES | $17.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00

TOM VANDERBILT CARLIN FLORA NANCY ETCOFF MORTON HUNT You May Also Like Friendfluence Survival of the Prettiest The Story of Psychology Taste in an Age of Endless Choice The Surprising Ways Friends The Science of Beauty Fully revised, and incorporating the dra- “A tour through the world of human prefer- Make Us Who We Are “ Nancy Etcoff . . . writes confidently that matic developments of the last fifteen ences and the companies that try to di- Drawing from the latest scientific research today’s culture of beauty is not a backlash years, The Story of Psychology is a graceful vine them… [Vanderbilt is an] amiable and clinical psychology, Carlin Flora uses against feminism. She delves into why we and absorbing chronicle of one of the great and thorough guide to a subject that can ever-relatable anecdotes to explain the devour fashion magazines, agonize about human inquiries—the search for the true get either fussy or murky fairly quickly, unexpected ways friends influence our waist sizes, and gaze longingly at objects causes of our behavior. and he has an obsessive determination personalities, choices, emotions, and even of desire.” —Houston Chronicle ANCHOR | PAPER | 978-0-307-27807-4 to get to the bottom of something we physical health. ANCHOR | PAPER | 978-0-385-47942-4 896 PAGES | $24.00 | EXAM PRICE: $12.00 exercise so often and unthinkingly we 336 PAGES | $16.95 | ANCHOR | PAPER | 978-0-307-94695-9 EXAM PRICE: $3.00 tend to take it for granted.” —The New 288 PAGES | $16.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 York Times Book Review VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-307-94859-5 400 PAGES | $16.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 37 MUSIC THEORY

NEW JOHN MAUCERI Maestros and Their Music The Art and Alchemy of Conducting An exuberant, uniquely accessible, beautifully illustrated look inside the enigmatic art and craft of conducting, from a celebrated conduc- tor whose international career has spanned half a century. John Mauceri brings a lifetime of experience to bear in an unprecedented, hugely informa- tive, consistently entertaining exploration of his profession, rich with anecdotes from decades of working alongside the greatest names of the music world. With candor and humor, Mauceri HARUKI MURAKAMI and SIMON CALLOW makes clear that conducting is itself a composi- SEIJI OZAWA Being Wagner NOW IN PAPERBACK tion: of legacy and tradition, techniques handed Absolutely on Music The Story of the Most Provocative VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-1-101-97360-8 down from master to apprentice—and more Conversations Composer Who Ever Lived than a trace of ineffable magic. 272 PAGES | $17.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 Translated by Jay Rubin Simon Callow delivers a dazzling, swift, “To read Maestros and Their Music is to come “ A book . . . that will open doors for people and accessible biography of the musical away with a much clearer understanding of who want to love classical music. It is a quirky, titan Richard Wagner and his profoundly what its author calls the ‘strange and lawless oddly compelling book carried along by the problematic legacy—a fresh take for sea- world’ of conducting.” —Terry Teachout, smooth, laid-back rhythms of its relaxing soned acolytes and the perfect introduction Commentary conversations.” —San Francisco Chronicle for new fans. VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-8041-7372-8 VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-525-43618-8 320 PAGES | $17.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 256 PAGES | $16.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00

STUART ISACOFF MATTHEW GUERRIERI BRAD TOLINSKI and OLIVER SACKS ALAN DI PERNA Temperament The First Four Notes Musicophilia Tales of Music and the Brain How Music Became a Battleground for Beethoven’s Fifth and the Play It Loud the Great Minds of Western Civilization Human Imagination An Epic History of the Style, Sound, and “ [Dr. Sacks’s] book not only contri- Revolution of the Electric Guitar butes to our understanding of the elusive “ Charming. . . . As much a whirlwind “ How do four simple notes—da-da-da- magic of music but also illuminates the tour of Western culture’s big ideas as it is DUM—inspire everyone from Ralph “ Even the casual music fan will find a thrilling strange workings, and misfirings, of the a musicological investigation.” Waldo Emerson and Mao Zedong to the narrative that weaves together cultural his- human mind.” —The New York Times —Los Angeles Times Nazis and the Allies in WWII? Guerrieri tory, musical history, race, politics, business uncovers everything you’d ever want to case studies, advertising and technological VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-1-4000-3353-9 VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-375-70330-0 know about Beethoven’s most famous discovery.” —The Wall Street Journal 448 PAGES | $17.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 288 PAGES | $16.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 symphony.” —Los Angeles Magazine ANCHOR | PAPER | 978-1-101-97039-3 VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-8041-7019-2 400 PAGES | $17.00 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 384 PAGES | $17.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00

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DIANE RAVITCH NIKHIL GOYAL W. THOMAS BOYCE, M.D. BEL KAUFMAN Reign of Error Schools on Trial The Orchid and Up the Down Staircase The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and How Freedom and Creativity Can Fix Our the Dandelion With an introduction by Diane Ravitch the Danger to America’s Public Schools Educational Malpractice Why Some Children Struggle and How Narrated through a collection of memos, All Can Thrive “ No matter what side of the debate the reader is “ A blistering critique of the damage and injustices doodles, notes between teachers, and pa- on, Ms. Ravitch provides a thought-provoking wrought by standardized education and a vision- “Boyce’s stellar research on orchid and pers from desk drawers and wastebaskets, look at some of the major challenges facing pub- ary, practical vision of the essential alternatives dandelion children will help parents and Up the Down Staircase (1964) timelessly lic education today.” —Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that lie in our reach.” —Ken Robinson, author professionals develop greater sensitivity to depicts the shambolic joys and frustrations the needs of orchid kids who are biologically of a young teacher. “ Ravitch’s critique of the corporate reformers’ of Creative Schools challenged but surprisingly have much higher manufactured agenda, along with the truly “ Goyal makes a compelling case for the need to “The most enduring account we have potential. A must read for all parents, teach- progressive alternatives she offers, shows us a listen to the voices of kids and offer meaning- of teachers’ lives. . . . Empathetic and ers, and psychologists.” —John M. Gottman, way to begin the long haul toward improving ful learning alternatives.” —Tony Wagner, aware.” —The New Yorker PhD, author of Raising an Emotionally democracy’s classrooms.” —The Nation author of Creating Innovators and Expert in VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-525-56565-9 Intelligent Child VINTAGE | PAPER | 978-0-345-80635-2 Residence at the Harvard Innovation Lab 384 PAGES | $16.95 | EXAM PRICE: $3.00 KNOPF | CLOTH | 978-1-101-94656-5 416 PAGES | $16.95 | EXAM PRICE $3.00 ANCHOR | PAPER | 978-1-101-91022-1 304 PAGES | $27.95 | EXAM PRICE: $14.00 320 PAGES | $16.95 | EXAM PRICE $3.00 NEW

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