NONFICTION
Released: March 7, 2013
"A succinct, polemical debate urging the neutralization of the power of this religious minority for the good of Israeli society."
Two engaged journalists offer an anxious look at how the "ultras" gained their troubling political supremacy over a secular state.
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NONFICTION
Released: March 5, 2013
"A well-considered, well-written appraisal of a region that is more complicated than many readers realize."
NONFICTION
Released: March 5, 2013
"A personal look at the Secretary's diplomacy via a flexible, pragmatic approach rather than ideology."
An intimate, admiring look at the four-year global travails of the secretary of state from a member of her traveling press corps.
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NONFICTION
Released: March 5, 2013
"In an engaging, fully transparent, upbeat narrative, with chockablock footnotes and resources, Harris presents the MFI case very persuasively."
The story of a well-meaning American journalist who travels the poorest regions of the world in search of the human stories behind microfinance loans.
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NONFICTION
Released: March 5, 2013
"Though the story is hardly unique, Berler's ability to recount the struggles of failing schools through the viewpoints of its primary players--students, teachers and administrators--provides new insight on an old saga."
A journalist's exposé of a year spent inside a fifth-grade classroom in one of America's struggling schools.
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NONFICTION
Released: March 5, 2013
"A data-packed, intriguing analysis that is not entirely convincing."
Former
Foreign Policy editor-in-chief Naím (
Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers, and Copycats Are Hi-Jacking the Global Economy, 2006, etc.) argues that global institutions of power are losing their ability to command respect.
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NONFICTION
Released: March 5, 2013
"Healthy skepticism dealt with a sometimes too-heavy hand, and a useful corrective for those who believe that we'll somehow engineer ourselves out of our current mess."
NONFICTION
Released: March 5, 2013
"A sobering, intensive report."
An al-Qaida watcher lends some farsighted insight into the group's motivation and direction.
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NONFICTION
Released: March 5, 2013
"A practical addition to literature on conservatism that will be widely appreciated, not just on the left."
Nation contributor Fang debuts with this introduction to the leadership of the contemporary conservative movement, survey of its organizational forms and tactics, and classification of its different sections, by function and area of activity.
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NONFICTION
Released: March 5, 2013
"A valuable addition to the literature on the digital age."
A provocative and far-reaching account of how capitalism has shaped the Internet in the United States.
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NONFICTION
Released: March 5, 2013
"Cynical, tardy and unnecessary."
The 2012 election is still fresh in memory, but with this effort to make a multicultural, immigrant-flush America safe for Republicans, it's clear that another Bush is declaring for the presidency.
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NONFICTION
Released: March 4, 2013
"Insightful case studies that explore how young women are negotiating the pressures of sexual and professional liberation."
Sociologist and psychotherapist Bell investigates the generation of women in their 20s who, despite unprecedented opportunities, are struggling to find balance in their emotional and sexual lives.
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