NONFICTION
Released: June 18, 2013
"A relaxed yet disturbing look at an alternative lifestyle, its heady profits and its hidden costs. "
Straightforward overview of Northern California's "Emerald Triangle," the rural region renowned for producing America's best cannabis.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 25, 2013
"A well-written book, mostly free of jargon, that is short on practical solutions and thus, profoundly pessimistic."
A high-ranking economist employed by a major international bank expresses pessimism about the future of the economy in the United States and other traditionally powerful nations.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 26, 2013
"An eye-opening account of corruption and secrecy."
Why Joseph Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI, became the first pope to be cited for crimes against humanity.
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NONFICTION
Released: July 9, 2013
"An important, sometimes-groundbreaking account of police gone wild."
Huffington Post senior investigative reporter Balko combines a searing exposé focusing on a specific kind of police brutality with a contextual history of police violence from the Roman Empire through today.
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NONFICTION
Released: July 16, 2013
"Teaching is a tough job, but Esquith shows that its rewards can be profound."
Award-winning teacher Esquith (
Lighting Their Fires: Raising Extraordinary Children in a Mixed-up, Muddled-up, Shook-up World, 2009, etc.) shares the ups and downs of his career.
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NONFICTION
Released: Aug. 1, 2013
"A forcefully presented, corrective analytical approach to today's headline-grabbing orthodoxy."
"The story on which the current practice of [counterinsurgency] depends…is a myth [and] a recipe for perpetual war," insists Gentile (
Securing the Snake's Head: The Question of Air Power as a Political Instrument in the Post Cold-War Security Environment, 2012, etc.), a former Iraq War commander and director of the military history program at West Point.
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NONFICTION
Released: Aug. 5, 2013
"As delightful as it is intelligent and important."
A journalist's inspiring story of the "Pink Gang," a group of ordinary women fighting for justice in the political badlands of Northern India.
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NONFICTION
Released: Aug. 6, 2013
"An apt and affable nautical chaperone, George's watery excursion fascinates and dutifully educates."
NONFICTION
Released: Aug. 6, 2013
"A lively, contrasting study of hubris and humility."
A well-fleshed portrait of T.E. Lawrence (1888–1935) brought in burnished relief against other scoundrels in the Arabian narrative.
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NONFICTION
Released: Aug. 13, 2013
"Although his subject was Iraq, Peter Van Buren covered the same ground in his hilarious We Meant Well (2011). Gezari eschews humor but delivers a gripping report on another of America's painful, surprisingly difficult efforts to win hearts and minds."
Having discovered (again) that superior firepower does poorly against guerrillas, America's military adopted its current counterinsurgency doctrine, an object of almost universal praise. Not all was deserved, writes journalist Gezari (Narrative Nonfiction and War Reporting/Univ. of Michigan) in this insightful but disturbing account of the Human Terrain System, a program designed to bring social science to the battlefield.
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NONFICTION
Released: Aug. 13, 2013
"A compelling, instructive account regarding education in America, where the arguments have become "so nasty, provincial, and redundant that they no longer lead anywhere worth going.""
Chronicle of a journalist's global travels to visit schools, interviewing educators and talking with students and their families in order to answer the question, "Why were some kids learning so much--and others so very little?"
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NONFICTION
Released: Aug. 26, 2013
"Bennoune, and those she profiles, bravely meets the tide of extremism with a sense of shared community and nonviolent purpose."
A human rights lawyer scours the global hotspots for stories of Muslim push back to fundamentalism.
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