New Books New Books for Social Studies Course Use & Adoption Fall 2012

PENGUIN GROUP (USA) new books new books for social studies course use & adoption fall 2012 • • • I’m Therese Neumann, Midwest College Field Sales Representative You can contact me with any questions or requests at [email protected] • • • PENGUIN GROUP (USA) new books for course use & adoption fall 2012 CURRENT AFFAIRS Instant City: Life and Death in Karachi POLITICAL SCIENCE Steve Inskeep • 978-0-14-312216-6 • $16.00 • Oct 2012 • Penguin • A deeply researched Too High To Fail: Cannabis and the New portrait of one of the world’s fastest growing Interventions: A Life in War and Peace Green Economic Revolution cities • “Magnificent, engrossing.... [Inskeep’s] Kofi Annan with Nader Mousavizadeh Doug Fine • 978-1-592-40709-5 • $27.00 • Aug voice reflects the best traditions of politically • 978-1-59420-420-3 • $36.00 • Sep 2012 2012 • Gotham • “Well-researched...eye-open- alert travel writing, endowed with calm • Penguin Press • “Thought-provoking....Annan ing. Explores the revenue and benefits to be wisdom and curious empathy.”—Steve Coll, describes the peaceful and more equitable world had from cannabis without a single joint’s being author of Ghost Wars and The Bin Ladens • “A that is within our grasp, and offers his candid lighted....Making a moral case... inside the eco- colorful journey through a sprawling, terrifying perspective on the challenges we must nomic case.”—The New York Times Book city.... Impressively structured and briskly overcome to get there,”—President William J. Review told.”—Thomas E. Ricks, author of Fiasco and Clinton • “Focusing mostly on the years of his The Gamble UN tenure, Annan recounts his role in This Machine Kills Secrets: How alleviating global conflicts and underscores the WikiLeakers, Cypherpunks, and Hacktivists Blood Medicine: Blowing the Whistle monumental difficulty in restoring and Aim to Free the World’s Information on One of the Deadliest Prescription maintaining peace....The bulk of Annan’s Andy Greenberg • 978-0-525-95320-3 • $27.95 Drugs Ever recollections concern the major conflicts of the • Nov 2012 • Dutton • The first full account of Kathleen Sharp • 978-0-452-29850-7 • $17.00 last several decades, from wars in Somalia, the cypherpunks who are changing our world. • Sep 2012 • Plume • The true story behind one Rwanda, and Bosnia to the September 11 • “Greenberg tells a vivid story that weaves to- of the biggest whistleblower cases of our time terrorist attacks and the U.S. invasions of gether compelling characters and powerful tech- • “Blood Medicine rivals A Civil Action for best Afghanistan and Iraq. Avoiding the nebulous nology that could change politics more pro- nonfiction book of the past twenty years.” rhetoric of many political memoirs, Annan foundly than any invention since the printing —John Lescroart, New York Times bestselling instead provides a peacemaker’s invaluable press.”—David Bacon, IBM, T.J. Watson Research author of The Hunter • “A page-turner, this perspective on those crises as well as insight Center • “Points to a future in which few corpo- alarming chronicle of profit seeking in into the daunting challenges facing diplomats rate and government secrets are safe. This is the American medicine will appeal to all who are in today’s world”—Booklist book you must read to understand the invested in the health care they receive or the WikiLeaks phenomenon and the growing strug- drugs they’re prescribed.”—Library Journal It’s the Middle Class, Stupid! gle over the most sensitive institutional se- James Carville and Stan Greenberg crets.”— Stephen Solomon, Director of the Busi- The Penguin State of the World Atlas: • 978-0-399-16039-4 • $26.95 • July 2012 ness and Economic Reporting Program, New Ninth Edition • Blue Rider Press • Two of the nation’s top York University Carter School of Journalism Dan Smith • 978-0-14-312265-4 • $22.00 • Dec political strategists explain how the Democrats • “Greenberg masterfully portrays a new reality. 2012 • Penguin • The completely up-to-date can capture the 2012 election (and recapture Radical transparency for firms and governments edition of a comprehensive overview of the their base) by recommitting the party to saving is not just a decision but a technological fact of elements that define our world • “Unique and America’s working people • “Refreshingly life.”—Don Tapscott, bestselling author of Mac- uniquely beautiful... [it tells us] more about the specific in some of their policy rowikinomics world today than a dozen statistical abstracts or recommendations in areas such as energy scholarly tomes.”—Los Angeles Times investment and campaign finance reform.” —Kirkus Review PENGUIN GROUP (USA) The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Vultures’ Picnic: American Empire: The Rise of a Global Inside Story of America’s War in In Pursuit of Petroleum Pigs, Power Power, the Democratic Revolution at Afghanistan Pirates, and High-Finance Carnivores Home 1945-2000 Michael Hastings • 978-0-452-29896-5 • $17.00 Greg Palast • 978-0-452-29864-4 • $17.00 Joshua Freeman • 978-0-670-02378-3 • $36.00 • Dec 2012 • Plume • A behind-the-scenes look • Sep 2012 • Plume • The New York Times • Aug 2012 • Viking • A look at the movements into the workings of the U.S. war in bestselling author of Armed Madhouse returns and developments that propelled America to Afghanistan • “An exciting and enlightening to blow the lid off the oil industry and the world dominance • “Freeman’s ability to exposé of the war in Afghanistan, the dangers banks who fund their lies • “[Palast is] the last interweave national and international of concentrated power and the public’s need to of the great investigative reporters.”—Robert F. perspectives make this, in my opinion, the best know.” —Kirkus Review Kennedy, Jr. grand synthesis of postwar US history we have.”—Mike Wallace, Pulitzer Prize-winning Winning the War on War: The Decline of Retirement Heist: co-author of Gotham: A History of New York Armed Conflict Worldwide How Companies Plunder and Profit City to 1898 • “Freeman’s epic survey provides a Joshua S. Goldstein • 978-0-452-29859-0 from the Nest Eggs of American Workers fuller understanding of America’s postwar • $17.00 • Aug 2012 • Plume • Goldstein Ellen E. Schultz • 978-1-59184-565-2 • $16.00 achievements and challenges, without the definitively illustrates how decades of effort by • Nov 2012 • Portfolio • An exposé of the ways bias… or despair of other books on these humanitarian aid agencies, popular corporations manipulate retirement plans at important issues.”—Publishers Weekly (starred movements, and especially the United Nations employee expense • “Schultz herds all her review) have made a measureable difference in journalistic cattle into a single corral, laying out reducing violence in our times • “The greatest by what any measure is a damning indictment George F. Kennan: An American Life untold story of the past two decades—that of the broken pension promises too many John Lewis Gaddis • 978-0-14-312215-9 contrary to popular impressions, war has American corporations have made to their • $22.00 • Nov 2012 • Penguin • Three decades become substantially rare and less workers.”—The New York Times in the making, the “magisterial” (Henry dangerous.”—Steven Pinker Kissinger, The New York Times Book Review) biography of America’s most influential Cold Malled: My Unintentional Career in Retail War strategist • Winner of the National Book Caitlin Kelly • 978-1-59184-543-0 • $16.00 AMERICAN HISTORY Critics Circle award for Biography and The • Aug 2012 • Portfolio • One woman’s New York Historical Society’s American midcareer misadventures in the absurd world History Book Prize • “This may be the most of American retail • “Kelly deftly pulls back the Columbus: The Four Voyages, 1492-1504 long-awaited single volume biography ever.... cleverly constructed curtain between the shiny, Laurence Bergreen • 978-0-14-312210-4 An epic work—probing, engrossing, corporate image presented to mall shoppers • $20.00 • Oct 2012 • Penguin From the author occasionally revelatory—but also a well-timed and the degrading work environment inhabited of the Magellan biography, Over the Edge of the on e .” — The New York Times • “A triumph of by the individuals toiling behind the World, a new account of the great explorer both scholarship and narrative writing.” counter.”—Kirkus • “Bergreen’s Columbus was brilliant, —Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs audacious, volatile, paranoid, and ruthless.... Lincoln Speeches [A] worthy addition to the literature on The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Abraham Lincoln • Edited by Richard Breeman Columbus.”—The New York Times • “Complex Age of American Innovation • Introduction by Allen C. Guelzo in its themes, intriguing in its substance, and John Gertner • 978-0-14-312279-1 • $17.00 • 978-0-14-312198-5 • $12.00 • Sep 2012 • Part sparkling with surprises.”—The Washington • Mar 2013 • Penguin • The definitive history of the Penguin Civic Classics series • This book Times of America’s greatest incubator of technological contains everything from classic speeches that innovation. • “Filled with colorful characters any citizen would recognize—the first debate Holding Our World Together: Ojibwe and inspiring lessons....The Idea Factory with Stephen Douglas, the “House Divided” Women and the Survival of Community explores one of the most critical issues of our Speech, the Gettysburg Address, the Second Brenda J. Child • 978-0-14-312159-6 • $15.00 time: What causes innovation?”—Walter Inaugural Address—to lesser known ones.

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