NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 22, 2012
"Alternately sad, defiant, carefree and understated, this journey into a world hidden in plain sight is well worth taking."
A journalist ingratiates himself with a band of day laborers on the mean streets of Delhi, India.
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NONFICTION
Released: Aug. 28, 2012
"Cleareyed, compassionate and hopeful."
The award-winning author of
Death at an Early Age (1967) tells the stories of the later lives of poor children who grew up in the Bronx.
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NONFICTION
Released: July 24, 2012
"A courageous, insightful book that offers no cause for optimism."
A former watchdog in the federal government attacks the officials who perpetuated the financial meltdown by kowtowing to behemoth banks and Wall Street firms while abandoning the public interest.
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NONFICTION
Released: July 17, 2012
"Rapturously irreverent, this book should kick-start plenty of useful discussions."
A spirited memoir/manifesto that dares readers to "stand on a chair and shout ‘I AM A FEMINIST.' "
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NONFICTION
Released: July 10, 2012
"An exquisite--and often exquisitely depressing--patchwork of joy and pain."
Captivating samplings of one doctor's tour of duty inside the country's oldest and perhaps most illustrious public hospital.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 26, 2012
"A fascinating addition to the study of decision-making. File alongside Malcolm Gladwell, Dan Ariely and other similar writers."
A leading expert on financial market regulation studies the virtues of delay and even inaction.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 18, 2012
"A call for a new American revolution, passionately proclaimed."
An unabashedly polemic, angry manifesto that is certain to open eyes, intensify outrage and incite argument about corporate greed.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 12, 2012
"A provocative discussion of the deeper causes of our current discontent, written with verve and meriting wide interest."
In this forcefully written debut,
Nation editor at large and MSNBC host Hayes examines some of the consequences of accumulating institutional failures.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 5, 2012
"In each chapter, Blackwell finds he loves the polluted places for all the ways they aren't ruined. With great verve, and without sounding preachy, he exposes the essence and interconnectedness of these environmental problems."
Humor and dry wit lighten a travelogue of the most polluted and ravaged places in the world.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 5, 2012
"Superbly crafted tale of Cold War America's dark underside."
A harrowing account of Colorado's Rocky Flats plutonium plant by a woman who grew up nearby.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 4, 2012
"A timely portrait of Texas delivered with Collins' unique brand of insightful humor."
New York Times political columnist Collins (When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present, 2009, etc.) zeroes in on what makes Texas so important and why the rest of the country needs to know and care about what's happening there.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 22, 2012
"A deeply argued call to action from a lucid, impassioned polemicist."
A concise, cogent assessment of the 2008 banking disaster and how the fallout has affected the country.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 1, 2012
"Leaks, reserves, PACs, hydrofracking, bloated corporate profits and more: all pertinent concerns nicely handled by Coll in this engaging, hard-hitting work."
NONFICTION
Released: April 26, 2012
"The author's compelling argument for Laguna Honda's philosophy of "slow medicine" will make readers contemplate if perhaps the body should be viewed more as a garden to be tended rather than a machine to be fixed."
NONFICTION
Released: April 24, 2012
"An exquisitely reasoned, skillfully written treatise on big issues of everyday life."
Sandel (Government/Harvard Univ.;
Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?, 2010, etc.) sounds the alarm that the belief in a market economy diminishes moral thought.
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NONFICTION
Released: April 3, 2012
"With humor and verve, Maddow lays a solid basis for that hoped-for interview with Cheney (fingers crossed)."
In her hard-hitting debut, popular MSNBC host Maddow examines how the country has lost control of its national-security policy.
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NONFICTION
Released: April 1, 2012
"A bracing cooperative effort taking readers as close to war as humanly possible."
NONFICTION
Released: March 27, 2012
"An erudite discussion both profoundly sympathetic and richly analytical."
A simultaneously scholarly and deeply personal analysis of evangelical communities in America.
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NONFICTION
Released: March 26, 2012
"A surprising, sobering look at one of the deadliest terror networks in history and the American spy agencies charged with bringing it down."
Superlative storytelling and crackling reportage define a pulse-pounding narrative tracing the capture of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 28, 2012
"A complicated, elegiac, beautiful attempt to reconcile the physical bayt (home) and the spiritual."
NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 7, 2012
"The best book yet written on India in the throes of a brutal transition."
In her debut, Pulitzer Prize–winning
New Yorker staff writer Boo creates an intimate, unforgettable portrait of India's urban poor.
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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 7, 2012
"A provocative, intellectually rigorous book written clearly and with an admirable lack of hatred."
A well-reported study of disaffected groups who hate other groups whose members look or think differently than the haters.
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NONFICTION
Released: Jan. 24, 2012
"An intriguing and potentially life-altering examination of the human psyche that is sure to benefit both introverts and extroverts alike."
An enlightened Wall Street survivor exhorts wallflowers everywhere to embrace their solitude-seeking souls and fully appreciate the power of the lone wolf.
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