Things I've Been Silent About
Written by Azar Nafisi

Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2008
Price: $27.00

I started making a list in my diary entitled “Things I Have Been Silent About.” Under it I wrote: “Falling in Love in Tehran. Going to Parties in Tehran. Watching the Marx Brothers in Tehran. Reading Lolita in Tehran.” I wrote about repressive laws and executions, about public and political abominations... Read more >

Superparenting for ADD
Written by Edward Hallowell and Peter S. Jensen

Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2008
Price: $25.00

With decades of experience working with ADD children, Dr. Edward Hallowell–a pediatric psychiatric clinician, father of two ADD children, and himself an adult with ADD–understands how easily the gifts of this condition are lost on a child amid negative comments from doctors, teachers, and even loving but frustrated parents. Hallowell has... Read more >

Nim Chimpsky
Written by Elizabeth Hess

Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2008
Price: $13.00

An adorable baby chimp, a loving family, and an
experiment that changed the lives of all it touched…

Project Nim, the brainchild of a Columbia University psychologist, was designed to refute Noam Chomsky’s claim that language is an exclusively human trait. Nim Chimpsky, the chimpanzee chosen to realize this potentially groundbreaking experiment... Read more >

Behind the Bedroom Door
Edited by Paula Derrow

Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2008
Price: $25.00

We may not admit it, but we’re all curious about what goes on in other people’s bedrooms. After all, we live in a world saturated with sex, which makes it tough not to wonder how we measure up—and even tougher to talk about our intimate experiences honestly. In this frank, poignant... Read more >

Get Over Yourself!
Written by Patti Novak and Laura Zigman

Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2008
Price: $24.00

True love doesn’t just happen, notes professional matchmaker Patti Novak. You have to work for it–and want it. Forget eight-minute speed dates or online dating sites with twenty-page questionnaires that promise a scientifically calculated perfect match. The fact that you both like golf, stamp collecting, and pizza with anchovies is great... Read more >

Your Inner Fish
Written by Neil Shubin

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: January 6, 2009
Price: $13.95

Details on a Major New Discovery included in a New Afterword

Why do we look the way we do? Neil Shubin, the paleontologist and professor of anatomy who co-discovered Tiktaalik, the “fish with hands,” tells the story of our bodies as you've never heard it before. By examining fossils and DNA, he... Read more >

Wild Ducks Flying Backward
Written by Tom Robbins

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: August 29, 2006
Price: $14.00

Known for his meaty seriocomic novels, Tom Robbins’s shorter work has appeared in publications ranging from Esquire to Harper’s, from Playboy to the New York Times. Collected here for the first time in paperback, the essays, articles, observations—and even some untypical country-music lyrics—offer a rare overview of the eclectic sensibility of... Read more >

See You in a Hundred Years
Written by Logan Ward

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2008
Price: $13.00

Logan Ward and his wife, Heather, were prototypical New Yorkers circa 2000: their lives steeped in ambition, work, and stress. Feeling their souls grow numb, wanting their toddler son to see the stars at night, the Wards made a plan. They would return to their native South, find a farm, and... Read more >

All the Money in the World
Written by Peter Bernstein and Annalyn Swan

Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: December 2, 2008
Price: $16.95

From Wall Street to the West Coast, from blue-collar billionaires to blue-blood fortunes, from the Google guys to hedge-fund honchos, All the Money in the World gives us the lowdown on today richest Americans. Veteran journalists Peter W. Bernstein and Annalyn Swan delve into who made and lost the most money... Read more >

The Breakthrough
Written by Gwen Ifill

Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: January 20, 2009
Price: $24.95

In The Breakthrough, veteran journalist Gwen Ifill surveys the American political landscape, shedding new light on the impact of Barack Obama’s stunning presidential victory and introducing the emerging young African American politicians forging a bold new path to political power.

Ifill argues that the Black political structure formed during the Civil...

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