—FEATURING— DAVIDGRAEBER’s HistoryofDebt ERIK LARSON’s HISTORY “novelistic history” of WWII 2013–2014 BRUCE LEVINE on thePost- New &Recommended Bellum South Booksfor Course Adoption FREDRIK LOGEVALL on theMakingof America’s Vietnam JONMEACHAM on Jefferson KIM E. NIELSEN on Writinga Disability History SANDRA DAY O’CONNOR’s Historyofthe Supreme Court LAWRENCE SCOTT SHEETS’s Journeythrough Soviet Collapse Author www.randomhouse.com/academic Spotlight: j ANTHONY EVERITT Random House,Inc.•Academic Dept.•1745 Broadway •New York,NY10019 Tel: 212-782-8482 •Fax: 212-782-8915 • ) [email protected] CONTENTS FEATURED TITLES SUBJECTCATEGORIES Behind the Beautiful forevers By Katherine Boo................................2–3 AncientHistory..............................................................................................32 india By Diana L. Eck..................................................................................4–5 U.S. History....................................................................................................32 deBt By David Graeber ................................................................................6–7 Asian History..................................................................................................38 the liBerator By Alex Kershaw................................................................8–9 Canadian History............................................................................................38 in the Garden of Beasts By Erik Larson................................................10–11 European History............................................................................................39 the fall of the house of dixie By BruceLevine ..................................12–13 emBers of War By Fredrik Logevall........................................................14–15 Middle Eastern History....................................................................................41 thomas Jefferson By Jon Meacham ....................................................16–17 MilitaryHistory..............................................................................................41 10 Years thatshook the World By Loretta Napoleoni........................18–19 World History..................................................................................................44 adisaBilitYhistorY of the united states By Kim E. Nielsen ............20–21 General History..............................................................................................45 out of order By SandraDay O’Connor ..................................................22–23 Gender Studies ..............................................................................................46 the Blackcount ByTomReiss ..............................................................24–25 HistoryofReligion ..........................................................................................46 eiGht Pieces of emPire By LawrenceScott Sheets ................................26–27 the taste of ashes By Marci Shore........................................................28–29 Holocaust Studies ..........................................................................................47 Who stole the american dream? 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Everitt lives near Colchester,England’s first recorded town, founded by the Romans. the rise of rome themaking of the World’s Greatest empire romacclaimed biographer AnthonyEveritt comes TheRiseof FRome:afascinatingaccountofRomeand itsremarkableascent from an obscure agrarian backwater to thegreatestempirethe worldhas ever known. Emerging as amarkettownfrom acluster of hill villages in the eighthand seventh centuries B.C., Rome grew to become the ancientworld’s preeminentpower.Inthe end, Rome’s declineand fall have long fascinated historians,but thestory of howthe empire waswon is everybit as compelling. With TheRise of Rome,one of themostrevered chroniclersofthe ancientworld tellsthattaleina waythatwill galvanize,inform, andenlighten modernreaders. “Everitt traces,with lucid,pithyprose,Rome’s rise from atiny settlementonthe banks of the TiberRiver to the conquerors of the entiretyofthe Mediterranean basin. With abrisk narrativeranging from mythological founders Aeneas and Romulus and Remus to the civil warbetween Sulla and Marius,[he] takes readers on a remarkable journeyinto the creation of the greatcivilization’s Random House |HC|978-1-4000-6663-6 political institutions,cultural traditions,and social hierarchy. ... 512pp |$30.00/$35.00 Can. | exam copy:$15.00 [A] comprehensive, engaging work thatwill captivateand inform also available: from beginning to end.” —Booklist e-Book: 978-0-679-64516-0 |$14.99/$16.99 Can. Also by the Author auGustus cicero hadrian thelifeofrome’s first emperor thelifeand times of rome’s and the triumph of rome AstunningaccountofRome’sfirst Greatest Politician Born in A.D.76, Hadrianlivedthrough emperor,Everitt brings to lifethe “Everitt’s eyefor the telling detail and andruled during atempestuous era. worldofagiant,rendered faithfully his superbgrasp of the ancientsources Everittvividly recounts Hadrian’s andsympatheticallyinhuman scale. bring new lifetothe single most thrillinglife, in whichthe emperor Astudy of powerand politicalgenius, complexpersonalityofafascinating brings acentury of disorder andcostly Augustus is avivid,compelling and violentage.” warfaretoapeaceful conclusionwhile biographyofone of themost —RichardMartin, Professor of Classics, demonstrating howamonarchycan be importantrulersinhistory. StanfordUniversity compatible with good governance. 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Website: Behind the Beautiful www.BehindtheBeautifulforevers.com forevers forauthor video,goto: life, death, and hope in amumbai undercity www.BehindtheBeautifulforevers.com/video By Katherine Boo Winner,2012 national Book award selectedfor common reading at michigan stateuniversity, skidmorecollege, and universityofdelaware named oneofthe tenBest Books of the Year by TheNew York Times, TheWashington Post,among others ailedbyauthorand historianRamchandra Guha as “the best Hwork of narrativenonfictionI’vereadintwenty-fiveyears,” Behind theBeautiful Forevers is Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo’slandmarkworkdepicting thedireconditionsofIndia’s urban poor. Basedonthree yearsofuncompromisingreporting,a complex ageofglobal change andinequalityismade human. India’s—and theworld’s—recenthistory is oneofseismic change, affected by quick-movingcapital anddeclininggovernment suPPorts. It is during thesevolatileeconomic timesthatBoo examines theissues of post-colonial poverty, opportunity,and global developmentthrough theexperiences of thosewho live in Annawadi,amakeshiftsettlementinthe shadowofluxuryhotels near theMumbaiairport. With intelligence anddeepinsight into what connects human beings to oneanother in an era of tumultuous change, Behind the Random House |HC|978-1-4000-6755-8 |272pp. BeautifulForevers carries thereader headlong into oneofthe $28.00/$32.00 Can. | exam copy:$14.00 twenty-first century’s hidden worlds,and into thelives of people also available: impossible to forget. e-Book: 978-0-679-64395-1 |$13.99/$15.99 Can. “[An]exquisitely accomplished first book. Novelists dream of teacher’s Guide available defining characters this swiftly and beautifully,but Ms.Boo is not a novelist.She is one of those rare,deep-digging journalists who can maketruth surpass fiction, adocumentarian with asuperbsense of human drama. Shemakes