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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Katherine Boo - Random House Trade Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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In this brilliant, breathtaking book by Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human through the dramatic story of families striving toward a better life in Annawadi, a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai... |
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Organic: A Journalist's Quest to Discover the Truth behind Food Labeling
Peter Laufer - Lyons Pr
Format: Print book
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Part food narrative, part investigation, part adventure story, Organic is an eye-opening and entertaining look into the anything goes world behind the organic label. It is also a wakeup call about the dubious origins of food labeled organic. After eating some suspect organic walnuts that... |
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Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed
Jason L. Riley - Encounter Books
Format: Hardcover
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Why is it that so many efforts by liberals to lift the black underclass not only fail, but often harm the intended beneficiaries? In Please Stop Helping Us, Jason L. Riley examines how well-intentioned welfare programs are in fact holding black Americans back. Minimum-wage laws may lift... |
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A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History
Nicholas Wade - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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Drawing on startling new evidence from the mapping of the genome, an explosive new account of the genetic basis of race and its role in the human story Fewer ideas have been more toxic or harmful than the idea of the biological reality of race, and with it the idea that humans of different... |
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Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain
Steven D Levitt - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestselling Freakonomics changed the way we see the world, exposing the hidden side of just about everything. Then came SuperFreakonomics, a documentary film, an award-winning podcast, and more.Now, with Think Like a Freak, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner have... |
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The Scorpion's Sting: Antislavery and the Coming of the Civil War
James Oakes - W W Norton
Format: Hardcover
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An award-winning historian illuminates the strategy for ending slavery that precipitated the crisis of civil war. Surrounded by a ring of fire, the scorpion stings itself to death. The image, widespread among antislavery leaders before the Civil War, captures their long-standing strategy... |
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La vida robot.
Joshua Davis - Farrar
Format: Paperback
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Finalist for the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize Four undocumented Mexican American students, two great teachers, one robot-building contest . . . and a major motion picture In 2004, four Latino teenagers arrived at the Marine Advanced Technology Education Robotics Competition at the University... |
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The Italians
John Hooper - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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A vivid and surprising portrait of the Italian people from an admired foreign correspondent How did a nation that spawned the Renaissance also produce the Mafia? And why does Italian have twelve words for coat hanger but none for hangover? John Hooper's entertaining and perceptive... |
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The Next America: Boomers, Millennials, and the Looming Generational Showdown
Paul Taylor - Perseus Books Group
Format: Hardcover
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The America of the near future will look nothing like the America of the recent past.America is in the throes of a demographic overhaul. Huge generation gaps have opened up in our political and social values, our economic well-being, our family structure, our racial and ethnic identity,... |
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