NONFICTION
Released: April 2, 2013
"A heartwarming tale of adoption and unconditional love."
NONFICTION
Released: April 2, 2013
"Despite some dry prose, Krishna presents a sophisticated, easy-handed elucidation of the practice of marketing to our senses."
Krishna (Marketing/Univ. of Michigan) examines the relatively new idea of sensory marketing, which "engages the consumer's senses and affects their perception, judgment, and behavior."
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NONFICTION
Released: April 1, 2013
"Some intriguing stories better read the way newspaper columns are published--one at a time--than as an extended series in one sitting."
A collection of recent newspaper columns on the homes of New York residents illuminates the ways in which the city has (and hasn't) changed.
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NONFICTION
Released: April 1, 2013
"New, urgent awareness of seeing black women as, in the words of BET co-founder Sheila Johnson, "fully human and fully powerful.""
In this thorough study of popular icons and real women, an update of the 2010 edition, Parks (American Studies/Univ. of Maryland) finds the myth of the strong black woman--variously known as the Sacred Dark Feminine, Black Madonna, Mammy, Angry Black Woman--both slippery and resonant.
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NONFICTION
Released: April 1, 2013
"At a time when women weren't supposed to want to travel beyond their fenced yards, stewardesses set their sights on the sky; this book lovingly salutes them."
A historian chronicles the stewardess' trajectory from friendly nurse to sultry sex symbol during the "golden age" of flying, 1945–1970.
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INDIE
Released: March 29, 2013
"A perceptive but narrow analysis of the human side of the Afghan conflict."
"Soft power," not firepower, can deliver an American victory in Afghanistan, according to this debut treatise on military-civilian relations.
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NONFICTION
Released: March 28, 2013
"Is there a clash of civilizations, as Samuel Huntington maintained, between the Muslim world and the West? Norton's response will be of interest to students of geopolitics and Islamic studies."
What to do about the Muslims? It's a question, writes Norton (Political Science/Univ. of Pennsylvania;
Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire, 2004, etc.), that non-Muslims have been asking, and the answers have been few.
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NONFICTION
Released: March 26, 2013
"Many of the characters require more than the three or four pages Dotson allots them to make any lasting impression, but the sheer multitude of tales underscores his argument about an America chock-full of unassuming people whose lives enrich the nation."
The longtime
Today Show correspondent offers a collection of heartwarming stories about ordinary citizens, "people who live the values our country cherishes."
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NONFICTION
Released: March 26, 2013
"A titillating story for the Fifty Shades set that plumbs the complex, intimate head space of the sexually submissive."
NONFICTION
Released: March 26, 2013
"Readers approaching this book because they have a pressing decision may be annoyed by the Heaths' lumbering pace, but for those who want to improve decision-making overall, the workshop style of the narrative should prove helpful."
A manual on how to become more rational when facing difficult decisions at work and in your personal life.
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NONFICTION
Released: March 21, 2013
"While the eye-catching title may suggest a hot new shade of lipstick, the contents are solid, down-to-earth insights into why we think, feel and act the way we do."
A brisk survey of how human emotions, thoughts and behaviors are shaped by such seemingly small factors as colors as well as such major ones as culture and weather.
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NONFICTION
Released: March 19, 2013
"Sure to garner newfound respect for an essential yet greatly underappreciated workforce."
