NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 24, 2013
"A depressing yet enlightening account that mostly overcomes its academic jargon."
The chronicle of MacLeish's (Medicine, Health and Society/Vanderbilt Univ.) immersion in the culture of Fort Hood, Texas, to understand daily life on military bases.
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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 19, 2013
"A good addition to the self-help bookshelf."
New York Times columnist Feiler (
Generation Freedom: The Middle East Uprisings and the Remaking of the Modern World, 2011, etc.) explores new ideas on family dynamics.
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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 19, 2013
"A few helpful kernels amid a monotonous, repetitive text."
NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 19, 2013
"Illuminating and entertaining, with some surprising insights from current research in neuroscience and endocrinology."
Bronson and Merryman (
Nurtureshock: New Thinking About Children, 2010, etc.) combine forces again to debunk truisms of positive psychology.
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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 19, 2013
"A convincing case against media hype and a premature rush to judgment."
NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 15, 2013
"May serve as a useful handbook for digital media strategists and marketers, but this dense tome will take a major effort for nonspecialists to fully understand."
A wide-ranging examination of the contemporary media environment as individuals increasingly control their own creation of content.
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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 13, 2013
"A vastly significant book that has made a world of difference, much of it slowly acquired."
The 50th-anniversary edition of a modern classic, featuring an introduction by Gail Collins and an afterword by Anna Quindlen.
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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 12, 2013
"A horrifying cautionary tale that reveals the vast dimensions of our vulnerability in the cyber age."
The story of a 30-something college student who employed an array of digital weapons to attack her writing professor, who loved her writing but rejected her amorous advances.
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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 12, 2013
"Stimulating accounts of what is being accomplished by an ambitious generation."
NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 12, 2013
"Voyeuristic and base but surprisingly engaging."
A woman's account of discovering her husband of 18 years had a second family and her confessions of her own affairs.
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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 11, 2013
"An absorbing personal account of a remarkable achievement."
How one man's vision of making books available to every child has changed the lives of millions.
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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 7, 2013
"A book full of both literary grace and hard-won world-weariness."
Iggy Pop meets Jim Carroll and Charles Bukowski in this gritty downer of a Rust Belt portrait.
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