Focus 580 Booklist

September 2008

No More Joint Pain, Joseph A. Abboud and Soo Kim Abboud (Yale University Press) [9/10]

August 2008

Reclaiming Conservatism: How A Great American Political Movement Got Lost--And How It Can Find Its Way Back, Mickey Edwards (Oxford University Press) [8/15]

Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed The World, David Maraniss (Simon & Schuster) [8/14]

Chain Of Blame: How Wall Street Caused The Mortgage And Credit Crisis, Paul Muolo and Matthew Padilla (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.) [8/13]

The Option Of Urbanism: Investing In A New American Dream, Christopher B. Leinberger (Island Press) [8/12]

Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win The Working Class And Save The American Dream, Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam (Doubleday) [8/8]

AK 47: The Story Of A Gun, Michael Hodges (MacAdam/Cage) [8/7]

The First Campaign: Globalization, The Web, And The Race For The White House, Garrett M. Graff (Farrar, Straus And Giroux) [8/6]

Banana: The Fate Of The Fruit That Changed The World, Dan Koeppel (Hudson Street Press) [8/5]

The Dark Side: The Inside Story Of How The War On Terror Turned Into A War On American Ideals, Jane Mayer (Doubleday) [8/4]

The Carbon Age: How Life's Core Element Has Become Civilization's Greatest Threat, Eric Roston (Walker & Company) [8/1]

July 2008

Relentless Pursuit: A Year In The Trenches With Teach For America, Donna Foote (Alfred A. Knopf) [7/31]

The Cult Of The Presidency: America's Dangerous Devotion To Executive Power, Gene Healy (Cato Institute) [7/30]

Outlaw Journalist: The Life And Times Of Hunter S. Thompson, William McKean (W. W. Norton & Company) [7/29]

The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives, Leonard Mlodinow (Pantheon Books, New York) [7/24]

God's Crucible: Islam And The Making Of Europe, 570-1215, David Levering Lewis (W. W. Norton) [7/23]

Invisible Wounds Of War: Psychological And Cognitive Injuries, Their Consequences, And Services To Assist Recovery, Terri Tanielian and Lisa H. Jaycox, Editors (Rand Center for Military Health Policy Research) [7/22]

Blood And Belief: The PKK And The Kurdish Fight For Independence, Aliza Marcus (New York University Press) [7/17]

My Stroke Of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey, Jill Bolte Taylor (Viking) [7/21]

Kafka Comes To America: Fighting For Justice In The War On Terror A Public Defender's Inside Account, Steven T. Wax (Other Press) [7/15]

One Minute To Midnight: Kennedy, Kruschev, And Castro On The Brink Of Civil War, Michael Dobbs (Alfred A. Knopf) [7/11]

Nixonland: The Rise Of A President And The Fracturing Of America, Rick Perlstein (Scribner) [7/10]

The Future Of The Internet And How To Stop It, Jonathan Zittrain (Yale University Press) [7/9]

June 2008

The Wisdom Of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels And The Business Of AIDS, Elizabeth Pisani (W.W. Norton & Company) [6/30]

Bush's Law: The Remaking Of American Justice, Eric Lichtblau (Pantheon Books) [6/27]

Survival Of The Sickest: The Surprising Connections Between Disease And Longevity, Sharon Moalem (Harper Perennial) [6/26]

The Technology Of Policing: Crime Mapping, Information Technology, And The Rationality Of Crime Control, Peter K. Manning (New York University Press) [6/26]

Forgive Us Our Debts: The Intergenerational Dangers Of Fiscal Irresponsibility, Andrew L. Yarrow (Yale University Press) [6/25]

Blog Wars, David D. Perlmutter (Oxford University Press) [6/24]

Doubt Is Their Product: How Industry's Assault On Science Threatens Your Health, David Michaels (Oxford University Press) [6/

The Hakwati: A Story, Rabih Alameddine (Alfred A. Knopf) [6/19]

Bracing For Armageddon? The Science And Politics Of Bioterrorism In America, William R. Clark (Oxford University Press) [6/12]

The Arab Center: The Promise Of Moderation, Marwan Muasher (Yale University Press) [6/11]

Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans From The Civil War To World War II, Douglas A. Blackmon (Doubleday) [6/11]

Who Owns Antiquity? Museums And The Battle Over Our Ancient Heritage, James Cuno (Princeton University Press) [6/10]

Yeltsin: A Life, Timothy J. Colton (Basic Books) [6/9]

Best of the Midwest: The Ultimate Guide to Midwest Travel (Meredith Corporation) and Midwest Living 22 (3) June 2008 (Meredith Corporation) [6/6]

Fish Without A Doubt: The Cook's Essential Companion, Rick Moonen & Roy Finamore (Houghton Mifflin Company) [6/6]

The Big Sort: Why The Clustering Of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart, Bill Bishop (Houghton Mifflin Company) [6/4]

Global Rebellion: Religious Challenges To The Secular State, From Christian Militias To Al Qaeda, Mark Juergensmeyer (University of California Press) [6/3]

The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story Of The Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked The Mysteries Of The Middle Kingdom, Simon Winchester (Harper) [6/3]

May 2008

Twentieth-Century Sprawl: Highways And The Reshaping Of The American Landscape, Owen D. Gutfreund (Oxford University Press) [5/28]

Building Red America: The New Conservative Coalition And The Drive For Permanent Power, Thomas Edsall (Basic Books) [5/23]

Twilight War: The Folly Of U.S. Space Dominance, Mike Moore (The Independent Institute) [5/22]

The Comanche Empire, Pekka Hamalainen (Yale University Press) [5/21]

Fixing Failed States: A Framework For Rebuilding A Fractured World, Ashraf Ghani and Clare Lockhart (Oxford University Press) [5/20]

Land Of Lincoln: Adventures In Abe's America, Andrew Ferguson (Grove Press) [5/16]

Standard Operating Procedure, Philip Gourevitch and Errol Morris (The Penguin Press) [5/15]

Einstein: His Life And Universe, Walter Isaacson  (Simon & Schuster Paperbacks) [5/14]

The Race Card: How Bluffing About Bias Makes Race Relations Worse, Richard Thompson Ford (Farrar, Straus, And Giroux) [5/9]

The Firecracker Boys: H-Bombs, Inupiat Eskimos, And The Roots Of The Environmental Movement, Dan O'Neill (Basic Books) [5/8]

The Pill Book: The Illustrated Guide To The Most-Prescribed Drugs In The United States, Harold M. Silverman (Bantam Books) [5/6]

Polk: The Man Who Transformed The Presidency And America, Walter R. Borneman (Random House) [5/4]

Insomniac, Gayle Greene (University of California Press) [5//2]

The Great Warming: Climate Change And The Rise And Fall Of Civilizations, Brian Fagan (Bloomsbury Press) [5/1]

April 2008

The Art Of Political Murder: Who Killed The Bishop? Francisco Goldman (Grove Press) [4/30]

Madison Avenue And The Color  Line: African Americans In The Advertising Industry, Jason Chambers (University of Pennsylvania Press) [4/29]

Biography Of The Dollar: How The Mighty Buck Conquered The World And Why It's Under Siege, Craig Karmin (Crown Business) [4/28]

Farmer John's Cookbook: The Real Dirt On Vegetables Seasonal Recipes And Stories From A Community Supported Farm, John Peterson with Lesley Littlefield Freeman (Gibbs Smith Publisher) [4/25]

Preventing Addiction: What Parents Must Know To Immunize Their Kids Against Drug And Alcohol Addiction, John C. Fleming (CrossHouse) [4/25]

Varieties Of Muslim Experience: Encounters With Arab Political And Cultural Life, Lawrence Rosen (The University of Chicago Press) [4/24]

McMafia: A Journey Though The Global Criminal Underworld, Misha Glenny (Alfred A. Knopf) [4/18]

Student Bodies: The Influence Of Student Health Services In American Society And Medicine, Heather Munro Prescott (The University of Michigan Press) [4/17]

The Execution Of Willie Francis: Race, Murder, And The Search For Justice In The American South, Gilbert King (Basic Books) [4/16]

Water And Ritual: The Rise And fall Of Classic Maya Rulers, Lisa J. Lucero (University of Texas Press) [4/15]

Lush Life: A Novel, Richard Price (Farrar, Straus And Giroux) [4/14]

Inside The Presidential Debates: Their Improbable Past And Promising Future, Newton Minow and Craig L. Lamay (The University of Chicago Press) [4/11]

Human Smoke: The Beginnings Of World War II, The End Of Civilization, Nicholson Baker (Simon & Schuster) [4/9]

Of A Feather: A Brief History Of American Birding, Scott Weidensaul (Harcourt, Inc.) [4/7]

Billy The Kid: The Endless Ride, Michael Wallis (W. W. Norton & Company) [4/2]

The Cure Within: A History Of Mind-Body Medicine, Anne Harrington (W. W. Norton & Company) [4/1]

March 2008

The Bridge At The Edge Of The World: Capitalism, The Environment, And Crossing From Crisis To Sustainability, James Gustave Speth (Yale University Press) [3/31]

Out Of The East: Spices And The Medieval Imagination, Paul Freedman (Yale University Press) [3/28]

The Man Who Pushed America To War: The Extraordinary Life, Adventures, And Obsessions Of Ahmad Chalabi, Aram Roston (Nation Books) [3/26]

Who's Your City: How The Creative Economy Is Making Where To Live The Most Important Decision Of Your Life, Richard Florida (Basic Books) [3/25]

Negro With A Hat: The Rise And Fall Of Marcus Garvey, Colin Grant (Oxford University Press) [3/18]

The Absence Of Grand Strategy:  The United States And The Persian Gulf (1972-2005), Steve A. Yetiv (The Johns Hopkins Press) [3/18]

Stricken Field: The Little Bighorn Since 1876, Jerome A. Greene (University of Oklahoma Press) [3/17]

Lincoln And Douglas: The Debate That Defined America, Allen C. Guelzo (Simon & Schuster) [3/14]

Guide To Preventing And Treating Heart Disease: Essential Information You And Your Family Need To Know About Having A Healthy Heart, Martin S. Lipsky, et. al. (American Medical Association) [3/13]

Pens And Swords: How The American Mainstream Media Report The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Marda Dunsky (Columbia University Press) [3/12]

Naked In The Woods: Joseph Knowles And The Legacy Of Frontier Fakery, Jim Motavalli (Da Capo Press) [3/11]

The Nuclear Sphinx Of Tehran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad And The State Of Iran, Yossi Melman and Meir Javedanfar (Carroll & Graf Publishers) [3/10]

The First Word: The Search For The Origins Of Language, Christine Kenneally (Viking) [3/7]

Consumer Reports Annual Auto Issue (73:4), April 2008 [3/5]

Going Broke: Why Americans Can't Hold On To Their Money, Stuart Vyse (Oxford University Press) [3/4]

The Lost Ark Of The Covenant: Solving The 2,500 Year Old Mystery Of The Fabled Biblical Ark, Tudor Parfitt (HarperOne) [3/3]

February 2008

The Age Of American Unreason, Susan Jacoby (Pantheon Books) [2/29]

Twilight At Monticello: The Final Years Of Thomas Jefferson, Alan Pell Crawford (Random House) [2/28]

Less Safe Less Free: Why America Is Losing The War On Terror, David Cole and Jules Lobel (the New Press) [2/27]

The Future Of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, And Privacy On The Internet, Daniel J. Solove (Yale University Press) [2/26]

Bill Mauldin A Life Up Front: A Biography with Illustrations, Todd DePastino (W. W. Norton & Company) [2/22]

The Occupation Of Iraq: Winning The War, Losing The Peace, Ali A. Allawi (Yale University Press) [2/20]

Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots Of Civil Rights 1919-1950, Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore (W. W. Norton & Company) [2/18]

Arsenals Of Folly: The Making Of The Nuclear Arms Race, Richard Rhodes (Alfred A. Knopf New York) [2/15]

Your Symptoms Are Real: What To Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong, Benjamin H. Natelson (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.) [2/13]

Desperate Passage: The Donner Party's Perilous Journey West, Ethan Rarick (Oxford University Press) [2/12]

Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, And The Battle Over Global Warming, Chris Mooney (Harcout, Inc.) [2/8]

How We Missed The Story: Osama Bin Laden, The Taliban, And The Hijacking of Afghanistan, Roy Gutman (United States Institute of Peace) [2/7]

The Age Of Shiva: A Novel, Manil Suri (W. W. Norton And Company) [2/4]

January 2008

Endgame, 1945: The Missing Final Chapter Of World War II, David Stafford (Little, Brown And Company) [1/30]

Education's End: Why Our Colleges And Universities Have Given Up On The Meaning Of Life, Anthony T. Kronman (Yale University Press) [1/29]

Death By Black Hole And Other Cosmic Quandaries, Neil DeGrasse Tyson (W. W. Norton & Company) [1/25]

Monk's Music: Thelonious Monk and Jazz History In The Making, Gabriel Solis (University of California Press) [1/25]

Darkness At Dawn: The Rise Of The Russian Criminal State, David Satter (Yale University Press) [1/24]

Printer's Devil: Mark Twain And The American Publishing Revolution, Bruce Michelson (University of California Press) [1/22]

The Coming Of The Walrus: What Really Happened In The '60s, James Riordan (Image Workshop) [1/18]

Marco Polo: From Venice To Xanadu, Laurence Bergreen (Alfred A. Knopf) [1/17]

"Can You Count on These Machines?" Clive Thompson in The New York Times Magazine, January 6, 2008 (cover story) [1/15]

The Innocence Commission: Preventing Wrongful Convictions And Restoring The Criminal Justice System, Jon B. Gould (New York University Press) [1/14]

The Greatest Battle: Stalin, Hitler, And The Desperate Struggle For Moscow That Changed The Course Of World War II, Andrew Nagorski (Simon & Schuster) [1/11]

Write It When I'm Gone: Remarkable Off-The-Record Conversations With Gerald R. Ford, Thomas M. DeFrank (G.P. Putnam's Sons) [1/10]

Power To Save The World: The Truth About Nuclear Energy, Gwyneth Cravens (Alfred A. Knopf) [1/8]

Godly Republic: A Centrist Blueprint For America's Faith-Based Future, John J. DiIulio, Jr. (University of  California Press) [1/7]

The Toothpick: Technology And Culture, Henry Petroski (Alfred A. Knopf) [1/4]

Taijiquan: The Art Of Nurturing, The Science Of Power, Yang Yang with Scott A. Grubisich, (Zhenwu Publications) [1/3]

The Invisible Cure: Africa, The West, And The Fight Against AIDS, Helen Epstein (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [1/3]

December 2007

The Mirage: Napoleon's Scientists And The Unveiling of Egypt, Nina Burleigh (HarperCollins Publishers) [12/21]

Total Cold War: Eisenhower's Secret Propaganda Battle At Home And Abroad, Kenneth Osgood (University of Kansas Press) [12/19]

The Design Of Future Things, Donald A. Norman (Basic Books) [12/18]

Complete Book Of Indian Cooking: 350 Recipes From The Regions Of India, Suneeta Vaswani (Robert Rose) [12/17]

The Far Traveler: Voyages Of A Viking Woman, Nancy Marie Brown (Harcourt, Inc.) [12/13]

The Secret History Of The War On Cancer, Devra Davis (Basic Books) [12/10]

The Science Of Leonardo: Inside The Mind Of The Great Genius Of The Renaissance, Fritjof Capra (Doubleday) [12/7]

Blood Of Brothers: Life And War In Nicaragua, Stephen Kinzer (Harvard University David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies) [12/6]

The Discovery Of France: A Historical Geography From The Revolution To The First World War, Graham Robb (W. W. Norton & Company) [12/5]

The Oil And The Glory: The Pursuit Of Empire And Fortune On The Caspian Sea, Steve LeVine (Random House) [12/4]

The Airmen And The Headhunters: A True Story Of Lost Soldiers, Heroic Tribesmen And The Unlikeliest Rescue Of World War II, Judith M. Heimann (Harcourt, Inc.) [12/3]

November 2007

Deception: Pakistan, The United States, And The Secret Trade In Nuclear Weapons, Adrian Levy & Catherine Scott-Clark (Walker & Company) [11/30]

The Whale Warriors: The Battle At The Bottom Of The World To Save The Planet's Largest Mammals, Peter Heller (Free Press) [11/29]

Governing Through Crime: How The War On Crime Transformed American Democracy And Created A Culture Of Fear, Jonathan Simon Oxford University Press) [11/28]

Thirst: Fighting The Corporate Theft Of Our Water, Alan Snitow, Deborah Kaufman, and Michael Fox (John Wiley & Sons, Inc. [11/21]

Privacy In Peril: How We Are Sacrificing A Fundamental Right In Exchange For Security And Convenience, James B. Rule (Oxford University Press) [11/20]

Playing With The Boys: Why Separate Is Not Equal In Sports, Eileen McDonagh and Laura Pappano (Oxford University Press) [11/16]

Extraordinary Evil: A Short Walk To Genocide, Barbara Coloroso (Nation Books) [11/15]

Miko Kings: An Indian Baseball Story, LeAnne Howe (Aunt Lute Books) [11/14]

Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became A Sickness, Christopher Lane (Yale University Press) [11/14]

Mongrels, Bastards, Orphans, And Vagabonds: Mexican Immigration And The Future Of Race In America, Gregory Rodriguez (Pantheon Books) [11/12]

Good Germs, Bad Germs: Health And Survival In A Bacterial World, Jessica Snyder Sachs (Hill And Wang) [11/8]

Ending Slavery: How We Free Today's Slaves, Kevin Bales (University of California Press) [11/7]

New Indians Old Wars, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn (University of Illinois Press) [11/6]

Nothing In The World: A Novella and All Over: Stories, Roy Kesey (Dzanc Books) [11/5]

Hanni And Beth Safe & Sound, Beth Finke illustrated by Anthony Alex LeTourneau (Blue Marlin Publications, Ltd.) [11/2]

October 2007

So Help Me God: The Founding Fathers And The First Great Battle Over Church And State, Forrest Church (Harcourt, Inc.) [10/26]

A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election Of 1800, America's First Presidential Campaign, Edward J. Larson (Free Press) [10/25]

"Al Qaeda: Self-Fulfilling Prophecy" Peter Bergen & Paul Cruickshank,  Mother Jones October 18, 2007 [10/24]

Innovation Nation: How America Is Losing Its Innovation Edge, Why It Matters, And What We Can Do To Get It Back, John Kao (Free Press) [10/24]

Alcohol Can Be a Gas: Fueling an Ethanol Revolution for the 21st Century, David Blume (Permaculture) [10/23]

The Last Refuge: Patriotism, Politics, And The Environment In An Age Of Terror, David W. Orr (Island Press) or Ecological Literacy: Education And The Transition To A Postmodern World, David W. Orr (State University of New York Press) [10/23]

Stoic Warriors:  The Ancient Philosophy Behind the Military Mind, Nancy Sherman (Oxford University Press) [10/22]

Sputnik: The Shock Of The Century, Paul Dickson (Walker & Company0 [10/19]

Stanley: The Impossible Life Of America's Greatest Explorer, Tim Jeal (Yale University Press) [10/18]

Roofwalker, Susan Power (Milkweed); and The Grass Dancer (Berkley Books) [10/15]

Auto Mania: Cars, Consumers, And The Environment, Tom McCarthy (Yale University Press) [10/12]

Prodigal Soldiers:  How the Generation of Officers Born of Vietnam Revolutionized the American Style of War, James Kitfield (Simon & Schuster) [10/11]

After The Reich: The Brutal History Of The Allied Occupation, Giles MacDonogh (Basic Books) [10/10]

Dancing In The No-Fly Zone: A Woman's Journey Through Iraq, Hadani Ditmars (Interlink Press) [10/3]

Acts Of Faith: The Story Of An American Muslim, The Struggle For The Soul Of A Generation, Eboo Patel (Beacon Press) [10/2]

September 2007

Joy Of Cooking, Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer, and Ethan Becker (Scribner) [9/24]

articles on Afghanistan by David Rohde in The New York Times, e.g. "How the 'Good War' in Afghanistan Went Bad", Sunday August 12, 2007 CLVI (54,034) [9/21]

Communication Revolution: Critical Junctures And The Future Of Media, Robert W. McChesney (New Press) [9/19]

The Cult Of The Amateur: How Today's Internet Is Killing Our Culture, Andrew Keen (Currency/Doubleday) [9/18]

God's Harvard: A Christian College On A Mission To Save America, Hanna Rosin (Harcourt, Inc.) [9/18]

Bipolar Expeditions: Mania And Depression In American Culture, Emily Martin (Princeton University Press) [9/12]

Lying In Weight: The Hidden Epidemic Of Eating Disorders In Adult Women, Trisha Gura (HarperCollinsPublishers) [9/10]

Maxed Out: Hard Times, Easy Credit, And The Era Of Predatory Lenders, James D. Scurlock (Scribner) [9/7]

Marriage, A History, Stephanie Coontz (Viking) [9/7]

Mao's Last Revolution, Roderick MacFarquhar and Michael Schoenhals (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press) [9/6]

Only A Promise Of Happiness: The Place Of Beauty In A World Of Art, Alexander Nehamas (Princeton University Press) [9/5]

August 2007

We're All Journalists Now: The Transformation Of The Press And Reshaping Of The Law In The Internet Age, Scott Gant (Free Press) [8/29]

In The Ruins Of Empire The Japanese Surrender And The Battle For Postwar Asia, Ronald H. Spector (Random House) [8/28]

Kind Of Blue The Making Of The Miles Davis Masterpiece, Ashley Kahn (Da Capo Press) [8/27]

Fantasies Of A Bollywood Love Thief: Inside The World Of Indian Moviemaking, Stephen Alter (Harvest Books) [8/27]

Betraying Our Troops:  The Destructive Results of Privatizing War, Dina Rasor and Robert Bauman (Palgrave Macmillan) [8/23]

Lights Out: The Electricity Crisis, The Global Economy, And What It Means To You, Jason Makansi (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.) [8/23]

Pursuing the American Dream:  Opportunity and Exclusion Over Four Centuries, Cal Jillson (University Press of Kansas) [8/22]

Spook Country, William Gibson (G. P. Putnam's Sons) [8/20]

Lost History: The Enduring Legacy Of Muslim Scientists, Thinkers, And Artists, Michael Hamilton Morgan (National Geographic) [8/16]

The Clash Within: Democracy, Religious Violence, And India's Future, Martha C. Nussbaum (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press) [8/17]

Presidential Secrecy And The Law, Robert M. Pallitto and William G. Weaver (The Johns Hopkins Press) [8/15]

Security First For A Muscular, Moral Foreign Policy, Amitai Etzioni (Yale University Press) [8/13]

The New Time Travelers: A Journey To The Frontiers Of Physics, David Toomey (W. W. Norton & Company) [8/2]

The Horse In The City: Living Machines In The Nineteenth Century, Clay McShane and Joel A. Tarr (The Johns Hopkins University Press) [8/1]

July 2007

Charter Schools Hope Or Hype? Jack Buckley and Mark Schneider (Princeton University Press) [7/31]

A Shadow Of Red: Communism And The Blacklist In Radio And Television, David Everitt (Ivan R. Dee) [7/30]

The Berlin Wall: A World Divided, 1961-1989, Frederick Taylor (HarperCollinsPublishers) [7/26]

The Political Brain: The Role Of Emotion In Deciding The Fate Of The Nation, Drew Westen (Public Affairs) [7/25]

The Republic Of Pirates: Being The True And Surprising Story Of The Caribbean Pirates And The Man Who Brought Them Down, Colin Woodard (Harcourt, Inc.) [7/23]

Legacy Of Ashes: The History Of The CIA, Tim Weiner (Doubleday) [7/20]

Divided: The Ferocious Power Struggle In American Politics, Earl Black and Merle Black (Simon & Schuster) [7/19]

The Iron Whim: A Fragmented History Of Typewriting, Darren Wershler-Henry (Cornell University Press) [7/18]

Meanwhile...A Biography Of Milton Caniff Creator Of Terry And The Pirates And Steve Canyon, Robert C. Harvey (Fantagraphics Books) [7/17]

Plutonium:  A History Of The World's Most Dangerous Element, Jeremy Bernstein (Joseph Henry Press) [7/16]

Blood Struggle:  The Rise of Modern Indian Nations, Charles Wilkinson (W.W. Norton) [7/3]

June 2007

Breathing Space: How Allergies Shape Our Lives And Landscapes, Gregg Mitman (Yale University Press) [6/28]

Mirage:  Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S., Cynthia Barnett (The University of Michigan Press) [6/27]

The Pentagon A History: The Untold Story Of The Wartime Race To Build The Pentagon--And To Restore It Sixty Years Later, Steve Vogel (Random House) [6/26]

The Age Of Lincoln, Orville Vernon Burton (Hill And Wang) [6/25]

Charm Offensive: How China's Soft Power Is Transforming The World, Joshua Kurlantzick (Yale University Press) [6/21]

The Next Christendom: The Coming Of Global Christianity, revised and expanded edition, Philip Jenkins (Oxford University Press) [6/20]

Statecraft And How To Restore America's Standing In The World, Dennis Ross (Farrar, Straus And Giroux) [6/15]

Balance: In Search Of The Lost Sense, Scott McCredie (Little,  Brown And Company) [6/13]

No Child Left Behind And The Public Schools, Scott Franklin Abernathy (The University of Michigan Press) [6/11]

The Devil Came On Horseback: Bearing Witness To the Genocide In Darfur, Brian Steidle (Public Affairs) [6/8]

The Clash Within: Democracy, Religious Violence, and India's Future, Martha C. Nussbaum (The Belknap Press of Harvard University) [6/7]

Ralph Ellison: A Biography, Arnold Rampersad (Alfred A. Knopf) [6/6]

How Doctors Think, Jerome Groopman, (Houghton Mifflin Company) [6/5]

Bobby and J. Edgar: The Historic Face-Off Between the Kennedys and J. Edgar Hoover that Transformed America, Burton Hersh (Carroll & Graf Publishers) [6/4]

The Best Old Movies for Families: A Guide to Watching Together, Ty Burr (Anchor Books) [6/1]

May 2007

Dwelling Place A Plantation Epic, Erskine Clarke (Yale University Press) [5/30]

The Black Swan: The Impact Of The Highly Improbable, Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Random House) [5/23]

Kindness Goes Unpunished: A Walt Longmire Mystery, Craig Johnson (Viking) [5/22]

The Lie Detectors: The History Of An American Obsession, Ken Alder (Free Press) [5/18]

Shattered Nerves: How Science Is Solving Modern Medicine's Most Perplexing Problem, Victor D. Chase (The Johns Hopkins University Press) [5/17]

Almost Human: Making Robots Think, Lee Gutkind (W. W. Norton & Company) [5/16]

Breach of Faith Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City, Jed Horne (Random House) [5/15]

Not By A Long Shot: A Season At A Hard Luck Horse Track, T. D. Thornton (Public Affairs) [5/14]

The Silence Of The Rational Center: Why American Foreign Policy Is Failing, Stefan Halper and Jonathan Clarke (Basic Books) [5/11]

Cell Of Cells: The Global Race To Capture And Control The Stem Cell, Cynthia Fox (W. W. Norton & Company) [5/10]

It Shouldn't Be This Way: The Failure Of  Long -Term Care, Robert L. Kane (Vanderbilt University Press) [5/8]

Long-Term Care In Six Countries: Implications For The United States, Robert L. Kane and Rosalie A. Kane (U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health) [5/8]

The Jamestown Project, Karen Ordahl Kupperman (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press) [5/7]

Wounded:  Vietnam to Iraq, Ronald J. Glasser, M.D. (George Braziller, Inc.) [5/3]

Blood And Religion: The Unmasking Of The Jewish Democratic State, Jonathan Cook (Pluto Press) [5/2]

April 2007

On Capitol Hill:  The Struggle to Reform Congress and Its Consequences, 1948-2000, Julian E. Zelizer (Cambridge University Press) [4/30]

Savage Peace: Hope And Fear In America 1919, Ann Hagedorn (Simon & Schuster) [4/27]

Stealing Lincoln's Body, Thomas J. Craughwell (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press) [4/26]

Havana: Autobiography Of A City, Alfredo Jose Estrada (Palgrave) [4/25]

Once Upon A Country: A Palestinian Life, Sari Nusseibeh (Farrar, Straus And Giroux) [4/24]

American Shaolin Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, And The Legend Of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey In The New China, Matthew Polly (Gotham Books) [4/23]

The Sacred And The Sovereign: Religion And International Politics, John D. Carlson and Erik C. Owens, Editors (Georgetown University Press) [4/18]

Children and Animals:  Exploring the Roots of Kindness and Cruelty, Frank R. Ascione (Purdue University Press) [4/11]

Ike's Final Battle: The Road To Little Rock And The Challenge Of Equality, Kasey S. Pipes (World Ahead Publishing, Inc.) [4/11]

The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, And Deadly Persistence Of The Product That Defined America, Allan M. Brandt (Basic Books) [4/6]

The Iron Cage: The Story Of The Palestinian Struggle For Statehood, Rashid Khalidi (Beacon Press) [4/6]

Hezbollah: A Short History, Augustus Richard Norton (Princeton University Press)[4/5]

The Best Old Movies For Families: A Guide To Watching Together, Ty Burr (Anchor Books) [4/3]

March 2007

The Last Mughal The Fall Of A Dynasty: Delhi, 1857, William Dalrymple (Alfred  A. Knopf) [3/30]

The Invisible Sex: Uncovering The True Roles Of Women In Prehistory, J.M. Adovasio, Olga Soffer & Jake Page (Smithsonian Books/Collins) [3/29]

The Accidental Mind: How Brain Evolution Has Given Us Love, Memory, Dreams, And God, David J. Linden (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press) [3/27]

The Averaged American: Surveys, Citizens, And The Making Of A Mass Public, Sarah E. Igo (Harvard University Press) [3/21]

The Illinois Report 2007 (Institute of Government & Public Affairs of the University of Illinois) [3/21]

Too Far From Home: A Story Of Life And Death In Space, Chris Jones (Doubleday) [3/20}

Sacred Games, Vikram Chandra (HarperCollins) [3/19]

The Perfect Thing: How The iPod Shuffles Commerce, Culture, And Coolness, Steven Long (Simon & Schuster) [3/16]

Designing Public Consensus:  The Civic Theater of Community Participation for Architects, Landscape Architects, Planners, and Urban Designers, Barbara Faga (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.) [3/14]

The Old Way: A Story Of The First People, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas (Farrar Straus Giroux) [3/13]

Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future, Jeff Goodell (Houghton Mifflin Company) [3/9]

Nixon And Mao: The Week That Changed The World, Margaret MacMillan (Random House) [3/8]

Consumer Reports April 2007 [3/8]

American Dreaming, Global Realities:  Rethinking U.S. Immigration History, Donna Gabaccia and Vicki L. Ruiz, editors (University of Illinois Press) [3/7]

The Limits of Dissent:  The Constitutional Status of Armed Civilian Militias, Thomas Halpern & Brian Levin (Aletheia Press) [3/6]

February 2007

Chutes And Ladders: Navigating The Low-Wage Labor Market, Katherine S. Newman (Harvard University Press) [2/23]

Marriage And Caste In America: Separate And Unequal Families In A Post-Marital Age, Kay S. Hymowitz (Ivan R. Dee) [2/22]

Insurgents, Terrorists, And Militias: The Warriors Of Contemporary Combat, Richard H. Shultz Jr. & Andrea J. Dew (Columbia University Press) [2/21]

Cronies:  Oil, the Bushes, and the Rise of Texas, America's Superstate, Robert Bryce (Public Affairs); and Pipe Dreams:  Greed, Ego and the Death of Enron, Robert Bryce (Public Affairs) [2/20]

Veretski Pass, Cookie Segelstein, Joshua Horowitz, Stuart Brotman (Golden Horn Records) [2/19]

A Forest Journey: The Role Of Wood In The Development Of Civilization, John Perlin (W.W. Norton & Company) [2/15]

Kettle: Poems By Carl Reisman (A Hot Lead Press Book) [2/14]

"Off The Record An Anthology Of Poetry By Lawyers", The Legal Studies Forum XXVIII (1 & 2) 2004 Edited by James R. Elkins

Supreme Conflict: The Inside Story Of The Struggle For Control Of The United States Supreme Court, Jan Crawford Greenburg (The Penguin Press) [2/12]

Blood Brothers: Among The Soldiers Of Ward 57, Michael Weisskopf (Henry Holt And Company) [2/9]

Power, Faith, And Fantasy America In The Middle East 1776 To The Present, Michael B. Oren (W. W. Norton & Company) [2/8]

What To Eat, What To Drink, What To Leave For Poison: Poetry, Camille T. Dungy (Red Hen Press) [2/8]

Prisoners: A Muslim & A Jew Across The Middle East Divide, Jeffrey Goldberg (Alfred A. Knopf) [2/6]

A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide And The Question Of Turkish Responsibility, Taner Akcam (Metropolitan Books) [2/5]

Man the Hunted:  Primates, Predators, and Human Evolution, Donna Hart (Westview/Perseus Press) [2/5]

Presidential Temples:  How Memorials and Libraries Shape Public Memory, Benjamin Hufbauer (University Press of Kansas) [2/2]

All Is Change: The Two-Thousand-Year Journey Of Buddhism To The West, Lawrence Sutin (Little, Brown And Company) [2/2]

January 2007

God Willing:  The Politics of Islamism in Bangladesh, Ali Riaz (Rowman & Littlefield) [1/30]

Among The Righteous: Lost Stories From The Holocaust's Long Reach Into Arab Lands, Robert Satloff (Public Affairs) [1/29]

A Needle In The Right Hand Of God: The Norman Conquest Of 1066 And The Making And Meaning Of  The Bayeux Tapestry, R. Howard Bloch (Random House) [1/26]

Blasphemy: Art That Offends, S. Brent Plate, (black dog publishing) [1/25]

The Children In Room E4: American Education On Trial, Susan Eaton (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill) [1/25]

Aldo Leopold's Odyssey: Rediscovering The Author Of A Sand County Almanac, Julianne Lutz Newton (Island Press/Shearwater Books) [1/24]

Right Wing Wrong Bird:  Why the Tactics of the Religious Right Won't Fly with Most Conservative Christians, Joel C. Hunter (Distributed Church Press) [1/24]

The Real Toy Story: Inside The Ruthless Battle For America's Youngest Consumers, Eric Clark (Free Press) [1/23]

Should I Be Tested for Cancer?:  Maybe Not and Here's Why, H.Gilbert Welch, MD, MPH (University of California Press) [1/23]

Thomas Paine: Enlightenment, Revolution, And The Birth Of Modern Nations, Craig Nelson (Viking) [1/19]

Thicker Than Oil: America's Uneasy Partnership With Saudi Arabia, Rachel Bronson (Oxford University Press) [1/18]

The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Stars, James B. Kaler (Cambridge University Press) [1/16]

The End Of The Line: How Overfishing Is Changing The World And What We Eat, Charles Clover (The New Press) [1/12]

The Rise And Fall Of HMO's: An American Health Care Revolution, Jan Gregoire Coombs (The University of Wisconsin Press) [1/11]

Tales From Spandau: Nazi Criminals And The Cold War, Norman J. W. Goda (Cambridge University Press) [1/10]

Dark Side Of The Moon: The Magnificent Madness Of The American Lunar Quest, Gerard J. Degroot (New York University Press) [1/8]

The Language Of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence For Belief, Francis S. Collins (Free Press) [1/8]

The River Of Lost Footsteps: Histories Of Burma, Thant Myint-U (Farrar, Straus And Giroux) [1/5]

America's Geisha Ally: Reimagining The Japanese Enemy, Naoko Shibusawa (Harvard University Press) [1/4]

Open Target:  Where America is Vulnerable to Attack, Clark Kent Ervin (Palgrave Macmillan) [1/3]

Arabesque: A Taste Of Morocco, Turkey, & Lebanon, Claudia Roden (Alfred A. Knopf) [1/3]

December 2006

The Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Hollis Robbins, editors (W. W. Norton & Company) [12/21]

The Best Intentions: Kofi Annan And The UN In The Era Of American World Power, James Traub (Farrar, Straus And Giroux) [12/20]

Nonviolence: Twenty-Five Lessons From The History Of A Dangerous Idea, Mark Kurlansky (The Modern Library) [12/19]

The Race Beat: The Press, The Civil Rights Struggle, And The Awakening Of A Nation, Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff (Alfred A. Knopf) [12/15]

Challenging Racism in Higher Education:  Promoting Justice, Mark Chesler, Amanda Lewis, and James Crowfoot (Rowman & Littlefield) and Race in the Schoolyard:  Negotiating the Color Line in Classrooms and Communities, Amanda E. Lewis (Rutgers University Press) [12/14]

The Cave Painters: Probing The Mysteries Of The World's First Artists, Gregory Curtis (Alfred A. Knopt) [12/13]

Breaking Open Japan: Commodore Perry, Lord Abe, and American Imperialism In 1853, George Feifer (Smithsonian Books) [12/12]

Not Condemned to Repetition:  The United States and Nicaragua, Robert A. Pastor (Westview Press) [12/8]

From Roosevelt To Truman: Potsdam, Hiroshima, And The Cold War, Wilson D. Miscamble (Cambridge University Press) [12/5]

Stem Cell Wars: Inside Stories From The Frontlines, Eve Herold (Palgrave Macmillan) [12/1]

November 2006

The Veil Unveiled:  The Hijab in Modern Culture, Faegheh S. Shirazi (University Press of  Florida) [11/30]

Medicare Meets Mephistopheles, David A. Hyman (Cato Institute) [11/28]

The Conservative Soul: How We Lost It How To Get It Back, Andrew Sullivan (HarperCollinsPublishers) [11/22]

Mishima's Sword: Travels In Search Of A Samurai Legend, Christopher Ross (Da Capo Press)  [11/21]

Women In The Line Of Fire: What Your Should Know About Women In The Military, Erin Solaro (Seal Press) [11/20]

Imperium: A Novel Of Ancient Rome, Robert Harris (Simon & Schuster) [11/16]

Thin, Lauren Greenfield (Chronicle Books) [11/15]

Defending the Holy Land:  A Critical Analysis of Israel's Security and Foreign Policy, Zeev Maoz (University of Michigan Press) [11/14]

Visual Shock: A History Of Art Controversies In American Culture, Michael Kammen (Alfred A. Knopf) [11/10]

Black Victory: The Rise And Fall Of The White Primary In Texas, Darlene Clark Hine (University of Missouri Press) [10/8]

Wood: Craft, Culture, History, Harvey Green (Viking) [11/8]

Blood And Thunder: An Epic Of The American West, Hampton Sides (Doubleday) [11/7]

All You Need Is Love: The Story Of Popular Music, Tony Palmer (Grossman Publishers) [11/6]

October 2006

Communication As Culture: Essays On Media And Society, James W. Carey (Unwin Hyman) [10/26]

James Carey: A Critical Reader, Eve Stryker Munson  and Catherine A. Warren, Editors (University of Minnesota Press) [10/26]

The Immortal Game: A History of Chess Or How 32 Carved Pieces On A Board Illustrated Our Understanding Of War, Art, Science, And The Human Brain, David Shenk (Doubleday) [10/24]

Now In Theaters Everywhere: A Celebration Of A Certain Kind Of Blockbuster, Kenneth Turan (Public Affairs) [10/24]

Choosing White-Collar Crime, Neal Shover and Andy Hochstetler (Cambridge University Press) [10/23]

Dangerous Nation: America's Place In The World From Its Earliest Days To The Dawn Of The Twentieth Century, Robert Kagan (Alfred A. Knopf) [10/23]

Rabindranath Tagore: A Biography, Uma Das Gupta (Oxford University Press) [10/19]

Imperial Life In The Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone, Rajiv Chandrasekaran (Alfred A. Knopf) [10/19]

The Way To Win: Taking The White House In 2008, Mark Halperin and John F. Harris (Random House) [10/17]

Shutting Out The Sun: How Japan Created Its Own Lost Generation, Michael Zielenziger (Doubleday) [10/13]

Diplomacy Lessons:  Realism for an Unloved Superpower, John Brady Kiesling (Potomac Books) [10/12]

Mind Set!, John Naisbitt (Collins) [10/11]

The Angle Of Sharpest Ascending: Poems By Ingrid Wendt (Word Tech Editions) [10/10]

Rainbows Of Stone, Ralph Salisbury (The University of Arizona Press) [10/10]

The Trojan War: A New History, Barry Strauss (Simon & Schuster) [10/6]

The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America's Pursuit Of Its Enemies Since 9/11, Ron Suskind (Simon & Schuster) [10/5]

Making Globalization Work, Joseph E. Stiglitz (W. W. Norton and Company) [10/4]

September 2006

Empire And Inequality: America And The World Since 9/11, Paul Street (Paradigm Publishers) [9/26]

The Long Tail: Why The Future Of Business Is Selling Less Of More, Chris Anderson (Hyperion) [9/22]

What Terrorists Want: Understanding The Enemy, Containing  The Threat, Louise Richardson (Random House) [9/19]

Guantanamo And The Abuse Of Presidential Power, Joseph Margulies (Simon & Schuster) [9/18]

Unbearable Cost: Bush, Greenspan And The Economics Of Empire, James Galbraith (Palgrave Macmillan) [9/13]

The Minds I: Fantasies And Reflections On Soul, Douglas Hofstadter  and Daniel C. Dennett (Basic Books, Inc.) [9/11]

Backdoor To Eugenics, 2d ed., Troy Duster (Routledge) [9/8]

Fiasco: The American Military Adventure In Iraq, Thomas Ricks (The Penguin Press) [9/6]

August 2006

James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life Of Alice B. Sheldon, Julie Phillips (St. Martin's Press) [8/31]

Licensed to Kill:  Hired Guns in the War on Terror, Robert Young Pelton (Crown) [8/30]

After Fidel: The Inside Story Of Castro's Regime And Cuba's Next Leader, Brian Latell (Palgrave Macmillan) [8/29]

Why Gender Matters: What Parents And Teachers Need To Know About The Emerging Science Of Sex Differences, Leonard Sax (Broadway Books) [8/28]

The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda  And The Road To 9/11, Lawrence Wright (Alfred A. Knopf) [8/25]

LBJ: Architect Of American Ambition, Randall B. Woods (Free Press) [8/23]

A Perfect Union: Dolley Madison And The Creation Of The American Nation, Catherine Allgor (Henry Holt And Company) [8/22]

Future Hype: The Myths Of Technology Change, Bob Seidensticker (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc) [8/21]

The Southern Past: A Clash Of Race And Memory, W. Fitzhugh Brundage (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press) [8/18]

The Senator And The Socialite: The True Story Of America's First Black Dynasty, Lawrence Otis Graham (HarperCollinsPublishers) [8/17]

The Places In Between, Rory Stewart (Harcourt, Inc.) [8/16]

The Prince Of The Marshes And Other Occupational Hazards Of A Year In Iraq, Rory Stewart (Harcourt, Inc.) [8/16]

Hollow Earth: The Long And Curious History Of Imagining Strange Lands, Fantastical Creatures, Advanced Civilizations, And Marvelous Machines Below The Earth's Surface, David Standish (Da Capo Press) [8/14]

Strom: The Complicated Personal And Political Life Of Strom Thurmond, Jack Bass and Marilyn W. Thompson (Public Affairs) [8/14]

The New Lion Of Damascus: Bashar al-Asad And Modern Syria, David W. Lesch (Yale University Press) [8/8]

Democracy's Edge: Choosing To Save Our Country By Bringing Democracy To Life, Frances Moore Lappe, (Jossey-Bass) [8/4]

The Most Famous Man In America: The Biography Of Henry Ward Beecher, Debby Applegate (Doubleday) [8/3]

Democracy's Edge: Choosing To Save Our Country By Bringing Democracy To Life, Frances Moore Lappe (Jossey-Bass) [8/2]

July 2006

The Storm: What Went Wrong And Why During Hurricane Katrina--The Inside Story From One Louisiana Scientist, Ivor Van Heerden and Mike Bryan (Viking) [7/25]

Stealing Democracy: The New Politics Of Voter Suppression, Spencer Overton (W. W. Norton & Company) [7/21]

The House That Trane Built: The Story Of Impulse Records, Ashley Kahn (W. W. Norton & Company); and The House That Trane Built: The Best Of Impulse Records (Impulse!) [7/19]

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History Of Four Meals, Michael Pollan (The Penguin Press) [7/18]

River Of No Reprieve: Descending Siberia's Waterway Of Exile, Death, And Destiny, Jeffrey Tayler (Houghton Mifflin Company) [7/17]

Imaginary Weapons: A Journey Through The Pentagon's Scientific Underworld (Nation Books) [7/14]

Seven Fires: The Urban Infernos That Reshaped America, Peter Charles Hoffer (Public Affairs) [7/13]

Hooked: Pirates, Poaching, And The Perfect Fish, G. Bruce Knecht (Rodale) [7/12]

Secrets Of  The Savanna: Twenty-three Years In The African Wilderness Unraveling The Mysteries Of Elephants And People, Mark and Delia Owens (Houghton Mifflin Company) [7/11]

The Pale Blue Eye: A Novel, Louis Bayard (HarperCollinsPublisher) [7/10]

The Heartless Stone: A Journey Through The World Of Diamonds, Deceit, And Desire, Tom Zoellner (Saint Martin's Press) [7/7]

Tiger Force: A True Story Of Men And War, Michael Sallah and Mitch Weiss (Little, Brown And Company) [7/6]

June 2006

The Devil Is A Gentleman: Exploring America's Religious Fringe, J. C. Hallman (Random House) [6/30]

Heat: An Amateur's Adventures As Kitchen Slave, Live Cook, Pasta-Maker, And Apprentice To A Dante-Quoting Butcher In Tuscany, Bill Buford (Alfred A. Knopf) [6/29]

The Microeconomics Of Income Distribution Dynamics In East Asia And Latin America, Francisco H. G. Ferreira, et. al. (The World Bank and Oxford University) [6/29]

A Godly Hero: The Life Of William Jennings Bryan, Michael Kazin (Alfred A. Knopf) [6/28]

Medicare Matters: What Geriatric Medicine Can Teach American Health Care, Christine K. Cassel (University of California Press) [6/27]

The Journey Through Cancer: Healing And Transforming The Whole Person, Jeremy Geffen (Three Rivers Press) [6/26]

The Essential Guide To Prescription Drugs 2005, James J. Rybacki (Harper Resource) [6/26]

The Sky Unwashed: A Novel, Irene Zabytko (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill) [6/23]

The Social Impact Of The Chernobyl Disaster, David R. Marples (Macmillan Press) [6/22]

Knowledge And The Wealth Of Nations: A Story Of Economic Discovery, David Warsh (W. W. Norton & Company) [6/22]

Mark Twain: A Life, Ron Powers (Free Press) [6/20]

We Will Always Have The Movies: American Cinema During World War II, Robert McLaughlin and Sally E. Parry (The University of Kentucky Press) [6/19]

Kicking The Carbon Habit: Global Warming And The Case For Renewable And Nuclear Energy, William Sweet (Columbia University Press) [6/16]

Abraham: The First Historical Biography, David Rosenberg (Basic Books) [6/13]

Nature Noir: A Park Ranger's Patrol In The Sierra, Jordan Fisher Smith (Mariner Books) [6/12]

Taxing Ourselves: A Citizen's Guide To The Debate Over Taxes, 3rd ed., Joel Slemrod and Jon Bakija (The MIT Press) [6/9]

Assimilation, American Style, Peter D. Salins (Basic Books) [6/8]

Mr. Lincoln Goes To War, William Marvel (Houghton Mifflin Company) [6/2]

House Of War: The Pentagon And The Disastrous Rise Of American Power, James Carroll (Houghton Mifflin Company) [6/1]

May 2006

The Segregated Origins Of Social Security: African Americans And The Welfare State, Mary Poole (The University of North Carolina Press) [5/31]

Creating The Good Will: The Most Comprehensive Guide To Both The Financial And Emotional Sides Of Passing On Your Legacy, Elizabeth Arnold (Portfolio) [5/26]

The Great Match Race: When North Met South In America's First Sports Spectacle, John Eisenberg (Houghton Mifflin Company) [5/24]

Theft: A Love Story, Peter Carey (Alfred A. Knopf) [5/24]

Lake Monsters Mysteries: Investigating The World's Most Elusive Creatures, Benjamin Radford (The University Press of Kentucky) [5/23]

Fortunate Son: A Novel, Walter Mosley (Little, Brown And Company) [5/22]

Stem Cell Now: From The Experiment That Shook The World To The New Politics Of Life, Christopher Thomas Scott (Plume) [5/19]

Reporting: Writings From The New Yorker, David Remnick (Alfred A. Knopf) [5/16]

Hell In The Holy Land: World War I In The Middle East, David R. Woodward (The University Press of Kentucky) [5/12]

America's Constitution: A Biography, Akhil Reed Amar (Random House) [5/11]

Caregiving As Your Parents Age, Linda Rhodes (NAL Trade) Should Mom Be Left Alone?  Should Dad Be Driving?:  Your  Q & A Companion for Caregiving (NAL)  [5/10]

31 Days: The Crisis That Gave Us The Government We Have Today, Barry Werth (Doubleday) [5/8]

Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes On The World, Gordon G. Chang (Random House) [5/5]

Death In The Haymarket: A Story Of Chicago, The First Labor Movement And The Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America, James Green (Pantheon Books, New York) [5/2]

April 2006

The K Street Gang: The Rise And Fall Of The Republican Machine, Matthew Continetti (Doubleday) [4/27]

Among The Dead Cities: The History And Moral Legacy Of The WWII Bombing Of Civilians In Germany And Japan, A. C. Grayling (Walker & Company) [4/26]

A Crack In The Edge Of The World: America  And The Great California Earthquake Of 1906, Simon Winchester (HarperCollinsPublishers) [4/25]

The Judgment Of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave The World Impressionism, Ross King (Walker & Company) [4/25]

Why? What Happens When People Give Reasons...And Why? Charles Tilly (Princeton University Press) [4/24]

Terror On The Internet: The New Arena, The New Challenges, Gabriel Weimann (United States Institute of Peace Press) [4/20]

Secrets Of The Lean Plate Club: A Simple Step-By-Step Program To Help You Shed Pounds And Keep Them Off For Good, Sally Squires (St. Martin's Press) [4/20]

A Lesson Before Dying, Ernest J. Gaines (Vintage Contemporaries) [4/19]

The Obstacles: A Novel, Eloy Urroz (Dalkey Archive Press) [4/18]

Parking Management Best Practices, Todd Litman (American Planning Association) [4/18]

The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way In The New Century, Paul Krugman (W. W. Norton & Company) [4/13]

Microeconomics, Paul Krugman and Robin Wells (Worth Publishers); and, Macroeconomics, Paul Krugman and Robin Wells (Worth Publishers [4/13]

"Family Mealtime As A Context Of Development And Socialization", Reed W. Larson, Angela R.Wiley, Kathryn R. Branscomb, editors New Directions For Child And Adolescent Development 111 Spring 2006 [4/12]

War Of Nerves: Chemical Warfare From World War I To Al-Qaeda, Jonathan B. Tucker (Pantheon Books) [4/11]

Roam, Susan B. A. Somers-Willett (Crab Orchard Press and Southern Illinois University Press) [4/10]

Before The Next Attack: Preserving Civil Liberties In An Age Of Terrorism, Bruce Ackerman (Yale University Press) [4/7]

The Balkans: Nationalism, War And The Great Powers, 1804-1999, Mischa Glenny (Viking) [4/6]

The Revenge Of Thomas Eakins, Sidney D. Kirkpatrick (Yale University Press) [4/5]

The New Lion Of Damascus: Bashar al-Asad And Modern Syria, David W. :Lesch (Yale University Press) [4/4]

March 2006

Reclaiming The Ivory Tower: Organizing Adjuncts To Change Higher Education, Joe Berry  (Monthly Review Press) [3/31]

Living Our Stories, Telling Our Truths: Autobiography And The Making Of The African-American Intellectual Tradition, V.P. Franklin (Scribner) [3/30]

Black Males Left Behind, Ronald B. Mincy (Urban Institute Press) [3/30]

Liberation, Imagination, And The Black Panther Party, Kathleen Cleaver and George Katsiaficas, editors (Routledge) [3/29]

A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule The Future, Daniel H. Pink (Riverhead Books) [3/29]

Lost Mountain: A Year In The Vanishing Wilderness, Radical Strip Mining And The Devastation Off Appalachia, Erik Reece (Riverhead Books) [3/27]

"The Fate Of The Ocean" by Julia Whitty in Mother Jones March + April 2006,  32-48 [3/23]

Pets In America: A History, Katherine C. Grier (The University of North Carolina Press) [3/22]

The Unnatural Metropolis: Wresting New Orleans From Nature, Craig E. Colten (Louisiana State University Press) [3/21]

Consumer Reports April 2006, "Best & Worst Cars 2006" [3/15]

The Historian: A Novel, Elizabeth Kostova (Little, Brown And Company) [3/10]

Restoring Shakertown: The Struggle To Save The Historic Shaker Village Of Pleasant Hill, Thomas Parrish (The University of Kentucky Press) [3/9]

Night Draws Near: Iraq's People In The Shadow Of America's War, Anthony Shadid (Henry Holt And Company) [3/8]

In Darkest Hollywood: Exploring The Jungles Of Cinema's South Africa, Peter Davis (Ravan Press) [3/7]

New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years Of Writings From The City, Andrei Codrescu (Algonquin Books Of Chapel Hill) [3/2]

February 2006

Refugee Women, Susan Forbes Martin (Lexington Books) [2/24]

Hollywood's Road To Riches, David Waterman (Harvard University Press) [2/23]

Desdemona's Fire, Ruth Ellen Kocher (Lotus Press) [2/22]

Blog! How The Newest Media Revolution Is Changing Politics, Business, And Culture, David Kline and Dan Burstein (cds books) [1/21]

The Philosopher And The Druids: A Journey Among The Ancient Celts, Philip Freeman (Simon & Schuster) [2/21]

Blindspot:  The Secret History of American Counterterrorism, Timothy F. Naftali(Basic) [2/20]

Dying to Kill:  The Allure of Suicide Terror, Mia Bloom (Columbia University Press) [2/17]

American Vertigo: Traveling America In The Footsteps Of Tocqueville, Bernard-Henri Levy (Random House) [2/16]

Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are, Frans de Waal (Riverhead Books) [2/15]

Envisioning The Future Of Doctoral Education: Preparing Stewards of Discipline, Chris M. Golde and George E. Walker, Editors (Jossey-Bass) [2/14]

Invented Eden: The Elusive, Disputed History Of The Tasaday, Robin Hemley (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [2/9]

The Essential Guide To Prescription Drugs 2005: Everything You Need To Know For Safe Drug Use, James J. Rybacki (HarperResource) [2/8]

A Question Of Torture: CIA Interrogation, From The Cold War To The War On Terror, Alfred W. McCoy (Metropolitan Books) [2/2]

January 2006

What It Means To Be Daddy: Fatherhood For Black Men Living Away From Their Children, Jennifer Hamer (Columbia University Press) [1/27]

Flying One One Engine: The Bloomberg Book Of Master Market Economists, Fourteen views On The World Economy, edited by Thomas R. Keene (Bloomberg Press) [1/26]

Madame Dread: A Tale Of Love, Voodou, And Civil Strife In Haiti, Kathie Klarreich (Nation Books) [1/25]

The Fated Sky: Astrology In History, Benson Bobrick (Simon & Schuster) [1/24]

Stepin Fetchit: The Life & Times Of Lincoln Perry, Mel Watkins (Pantheon Books, New York) [1/20]

The Wal-Mart Effect: How The World's Most Powerful Company Really Works--And How It's Transforming The American Economy, Charles Fishman (The Penguin Press) [1/18]

Black Men And Depression: Saving Our Lives, Healing Our Families And Friends, John Head (Harlem Moon Broadway Books) [1/17]

The City Of Falling Angels, John Berendt (The Penguin Press) [1//9]

Off Center: The Republican & The Erosion Of American Democracy, Jacob S. Hacker & Paul Pierson (Yale University Press) [1/6]

The Next Attack: The Failure Of The War On Terror And A Strategy for Getting It Right, Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon (Times Books) [1/5]

Steal This Vote: Dirty Elections And The Rotten History Of Democracy In America, Andrew Gumbel (Nation Books) [1/4]

December 2005

Soldiers To Citizens: The G. I. Bill And The Making Of The Greatest Generation, Suzanne Mettler (Oxford University Press) [12/20]

The Good Doctor's Guide To Colds And Flu, Neil Schachter (Collins) [12/21]

Downsizing the Federal Government, Chris Edwards (Cato Institute) [12/19]

Powerful Times: Rising To The Challenge Of Our Uncertain World, Eamonn Kelly (Wharton School Publishing) [12/16]

The Reindeer People: Living With Animals And Spirits In Siberia, Piers Vitebsky (Houghton Mifflin Company) [12/14]

Henry Adams And The Making Of America, Garry Wills (Houghton Mifflin Company) [12/13]

Basic Instinct: The Genesis Of Behavior, Mark Blumberg (Thunder's Mouth Press) [12/8]

The Google Story, David A. Vise and Mark Malseed, (Delacorte Press) [12/8]

The Rise Of American Democracy: Jefferson To Lincoln, Sean Wilentz (W. W. Norton & Company) [12/7]

Dark Bargain: Slavery, Profits, And The Struggle For The Constitution, Lawrence Goldstone (Walker & Company) [12/5]

Confederate Emancipation: Southern Plans To Free And Arm Slaves During The Civil War, Bruce Levine (Oxford University Press) [12/2]

Responsible Children And Adolescents, Peter L. Benson (Jossey-Bass) [12/2]

Holding Back The Sea: The Struggle On The Gulf Coast To Save America, Christopher Hallowell (Harper Perennial) [12/1/]

November 2005

Mighty Fitz: The Sinking Of The Edmund Fitzgerald, Michcael Schumacher (Bloomsbury) [11/30]

Going Sane: Maps Of Happiness, Adam Phillips (Fourth Estate) [11/21]

Theology For The Third Millennium: An Ecumenical View, Hans Kung, translated by Peter Heinegg, (Doubleday) {11/16]

The Lost Painting: The Quest For A Caravaggio Masterpiece, Jonathan Harr (Random House) [11/15]

Broken:  The Troubled Past and Uncertain Future of the FBI, Richard Gid Powers (Free Press) [11/15]

Degree Mills: The Billion-Dollar Industry That Has Sold Over A Million Fake Diplomas, Allen Ezell and John Bear (Prometheus Books) [11/14]

Indivisible By Two: Lives Of Extraordinary Twins, Nancy L. Segal (Harvard University Press) [11/11]

Making Enemies: War And State Building In Burma, Mary P. Callahan (Cornell University Press) [11/10]

Big Bang: The Origin Of The Universe, Simon Singh (Harper Perennial) [11/9]

The Highly Civilized Man: Richard Burton And The Victorian World, Dane Kennedy (Harvard University Press) [11/7]

Abducted: How People Come To Believe They Were Kidnapped By Aliens, Susan A. Clancy (Harvard University Press) [11/4]

Wolf Point: A Novel, Edward Falco (Unbridled Books) [11/3]

The Cutter Incident: How America's First Polio Vaccine Led To The Growing Vaccine Crisis, Paul A. Offit (Yale University Press) [11/1]

October 2005

Teaching Reading To Black Adolescent Males: Closing The Achievement Gap, Alfred Tatum (Stenhouse Publishers) [10/31]

Mao: The Unknown Story, Jung Chang and Jon Halliday (Alfred A. Knopf) [10/28]

Cinnamon Kiss: A Novel, Walter Mosley (Little, Brown And Company) [10/27]

Beyond Glory: Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling, And A World On The Brink, David Margolick (Alfred A. Knopf) [10/26]

At The Entrance To The Garden Of Eden: A Jew's Search For Hope With Christians And Muslims In The Holy Land, Yossi Klein Halvei (Perennial) [10/24]

Curse Of The Narrows, Laura M. Mac Donald (Walker & Company) [10/21]

The Man From Beyond: A Novel, Gabriel Brownstein (W. W. Norton & Company) [10/20]

Johnny Depp Starts Here, Murray Pomerance (Rutgers University Press) [10/19]

Big Cotton: How A Humble Fiber Created Fortunes, Wrecked Civilizations, And Put America On The Map, Stephen Yafa (Viking) [10/19]

Odysseus Unbound: The Search For Homer's Ithaca, Robert Bittlestone with James Diggle and John Underhill (Cambridge University Press) [10/14]

Andrew Jackson: His Life And Times, H. W. Brands (Doubleday) [10/12]

Cascade Experiment: Selected Poems, Alice Fulton (W. W. Norton & Company) [10/11]

Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making Of A Movie Star, Tab Hunter with Eddie Muller (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill) [10/10]

Crash Course: Imagining A Better Future For Public Education, Chris Whittle (Riverhead Books) [10/7]

The Health Care Mess: How We Got Into It And What It Will Take To Get Out, Julius B. Richmond and Rashi Fein (Harvard University Press) [10/6]

I Is For Infidel: From Holy War To Holy Terror, Kathy Gannon (Public Affairs) [10/4]

September 2005

Night Draws Near: Iraq's People In The Shadow Of America's War, Anthony Shadid (Henry Holt And Company) [9/29]

In Giriot Time: An American Guitarist In Mali, Banning Eyre (Temple University Press) [9/28]

Guitar: An American Life, Tim Brookes (Grove Press) [9/26]

Admission Matters: What Students And Parents Need To Know About Getting Into College, Sally P. Springer and Marion R. Franck (Jossey-Bass) [9/23]

Digital Phoenix: Why The Information Economy Collapsed And How It Will Rise Again, Bruce Abramson (The MIT Press) [9/22]

Fear's Empire: War, Terrorism, And Democracy, Benjamin Barber (W. W. Norton & Company) [9/21]

Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension Of Segregation In America, James Loewen (The New Press) [9/20]

Beyond Choice: Reproductive Freedom In The 21st Century, Alexander Sanger (Public Affairs) [9/19]

Immigration The World Over: Statutes, Policies, And Practices, James P. Lynch and Rita J. Simon (Rowan & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.) [9/12]

Living At The Epicenter, Allison Funk (Northeastern University Press) [9/12]

Exodus! Religion, Race, And Nation In Early Nineteenth-Century Black America, Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. (The University of Chicago Press) [9/6]

On The Ridge Between Life And Death: A Climbing Life Reexamined, David Roberts (Simon & Schuster) [9/2]

The Great American Jobs Scam: Corporate Tax Dodging And The Myth Of Job Creation, Greg LeRoy (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc.) [9/1]

August 2005

The Accidental Masterpiece On The Art Of Life And Vice Versa, Michael Kimmelman (The Penguin Press) [8/31]

The Ice Maiden: Inca Mummies, Mountain Gods, And Sacred Sites In The Andes, Johan Reinhard (National Geographic) [8/26]

Self-Help Books: Why Americans Keep Reading Them, Sandra K. Dolby (University of Illinois Press) [8/25]

How America Lost Iraq, Aaron Glantz (Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin) [8/24]

The Hummingbird's Daughter, Luis Alberto Urrea (Little, Brown And Company) [8/23]

The End Of Detroit: How The Big Three Lost Their Grip On The American Care Market, Micheline Maynard (Currency Doubleday) [8/17]

Working Toward Whiteness: How America's Immigrants Became White, David R. Roediger (Basic Books) [8/17]

With God On Our Side: The Rise Of The Religious Right In America, William Martin (Broadway Books) [8/16]

Better Off: Flipping The Switch On Technology, Eric Brende (Harper Perennial) [8/15]

Biodiesel:  Growing a New Energy Economy, Greg Pahl (Chelsea Green) Natural Home Heating:  The Complete Guide to Renewable Energy Options, Greg Pahl (Chelsea Green) [8/11]

The United States Of Wal-Mart, John Dicker (Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin) [8/10]

Perils Of Dominance: Imbalance Of Power And The Road To War In Vietnam, Gareth Porter (University of California Press) [8/5]

Past Imperfect: Facts, Fictions, Fraud--American History From Bancroft And Parkman To Ambrose, Bellesiles, Ellis, And Goodwin, Peter Charles Hoffer (Public Affairs) [8/9]

Perils Of Dominance: Imbalance Of Power And The Road To War In Vietnam, Gareth Porter (Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin) [8/5]

Message in a Bottle:  The Making of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, Janet Golden (Harvard University Press) [8/4]

Against Depression, Peter D. Kramer (Viking) [8/3]

Zarqawi: The New Face Of Al-Qaeda, Jean-Charles Brisard in collaboration with Damien Martinez (Other Press) [8/2]

July 2005

The Dark Sides Of Virtue: Reassessing International Humanitarianism, David Kennedy (Princeton University Press) [7/29]

God's Politics: Why The Right Gets It Wrong And The Left Doesn't Get It, Jim Wallis (HarperSanFrancisco) [7/28]

Huck's Raft: A History Of American Childhood, Steven Mintz (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press) [7/27]

Empires At War: The French And Indian War And The Struggle For North America, 1754-1763, William M. Fowler, Jr. (Walker& Company) [7/26]

Cancer-Gate:  How to Win the Losing Cancer War, Samuel S. Epstein, M.D. (Baywood Publishing Company, Inc.) [7/25]

Martha Washington: An American Life, Patricia Brady (Viking) [7/21]

The Lake, The River & The Other Lake, Steve Amick (Pantheon Books) [7/20]

Kremlin Rising: Vladimir Putin's Russia And The End Of Revolution, Peter Baker and Susan Glasser (Scribner) [7/19]

American Gothic: A Life Of America's Most Famous Painting, Steven Biel (W. W. Norton & Company) [7/13]

Dangerous Doses: How Counterfeiters Are Contaminating America's Drug Supply, Katherine Eban (Harcourt, Inc.) [7/13]

The Icarus Girl: A Novel, Helen Oyeyemi (Doubleday) [7/11]

Irresistible Empire: America's Advance Through 20th-Century Europe, Victoria de Grazia (The Belknap Press of the Harvard University Press) [7/7]

Equity And Excellence In American Higher Education, William G. Bowen, Martin A. Kurzweil, and Eugene M. Tobin (University of Virginia Press) [7/6]

Spices Of Life: Simple And Delicious Recipes For Great Health, Nina Simonds (Alfred A. Knopf) [7/6]

June 2005

The Last Voyage Of Columbus: Being The Epic Tale Of The Great Captain's Fourth Expedition, Including Accounts Of Swordfight, Mutiny, Shipwreck, Gold, War, Hurricane, And Discovery, Martin Dugard (Little, Brown And Company) [6/29]

The Evolution-Creation Struggle, Michael Ruse (Harvard University Press) [6/28]

The Deep Dark: Disaster And Redemption In America's Richest Silver Mine, Gregg Olsen (Crown Publishers) [6/27]

Why Birds Sing: A Journey Into The Mystery Of Bird Song, David Rothenberg (Basic Books) [6/24]

Marriage, A History: From Obedience To Intimacy Or How Love Conquered Marriage, Stephanie Coontz (Viking) [6/23]

Racing The Enemy: Stalin, Truman, And The Surrender Of Japan, Tsuyoski Hasegawa (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press) [6/22]

No Place To Hide, Robert O'Harrow, Jr. (Free Press) [6/21]

Why White Kids Love Hip Hop: Wankstas, Wiggers, Wannabes, And The New Reality Of Race In America, Bakari Kitwana (Basic Books) [6/17]

What's Wrong With Children's Rights, Martin Guggenheim (Harvard University Press) [6/15]

Hosack's Folly: A Novel Of Old New York, Gillen D'Arcy Wood (Other Press) [6/14]

The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius And His Tragic Quest To Rid The World Of Mental Illness, Jack El-Hai (John Wiley & Sons) [6/13]

Iron Tears America's Battle For Freedom, Britain's Quagmire: 1775-1783, Stanley Weintraub (Free Press) [6/10]

Putting Faith in Partnerships:  Welfare-to-Work in Four Cities, Stephen V. Monsma (University of Michigan Press) [6/10]

God vs. The Gavel: Religion And The Rule Of Law, Marci A. Hamilton (Cambridge University Press) [6/9]

Boss Tweed: The Rise And Fall Of The Corrupt Pol Who Conceived The Soul Of Modern New York, Kenneth D. Ackerman (Carroll & Graf Publishers) [6/8]

A History Of The World In 6 Glasses, Tom Standage (Walker & Company) [6/87]

The Golden Spruce: A True Story Of Myth, Madness, And Greed, John Vaillant (W. W. Norton & Company [6/3]

The End Of Poverty: Economic Possibilities For Our Time, Jeffrey D. Sachs (The Penguin Press) [6/1]

May 2005

Listener Supported: The Culture And History Of Public Radio, Jack W. Mitchell (Praeger) [5/26]

Making a Killing:  How Corporations Use Armed Force to Do Business, Madelaine Drohan (Lyons Press) [5/20]

Testosterone Dreams: Rejuvenation, Aphrodisia, Doping, John Hoberman (University of California Press) [5/18]

Bound For Canaan: The Underground Railroad And The War For The Soul Of America, Fergus M. Bordewich (Amistad) [5/17]

The Eighties: America In The Age Of Reason, John Ehrman (Yale University Press) [5/16]

The Death Of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account Of Wrongful Executions, Sister Helen Prejean (Random House) [5/13]

Before The Fallout: From Marie Curie To Hiroshima, Diana Preston (Walker & Company) [5/12]

Metropolis: A Novel, Elizabeth Gaffney (Random House) [5/6]

William Maxwell:  A Literary Life, Barbara Burkhardt (University of Illinois Press) [5/3]

April 2005

The Asian Mystique: Dragon Ladies, Geisha Girls, & Our Fantasies Of The Exotic Orient, Sheridan Prasso (Public Affairs) [4/29]

Sharing the Land of Canaan:  Human Rights and the Israeli-Palestinian Struggle, Mazin B. Qumsiyeh (Pluto Press) [4/28]

Ponzi's Scheme: The True Story Of A Financial Legend, Mtichell Zuckoff (Random House) [4/27]

Copeland's Cure: Homeopathy And The War Between Conventional And Alternative Medicine, Natalie Robins (Alfred A. Knopf) [4/26]

The Long Arc Of Justice: Lesbian And Gay Marriage, Equality, And Rights, Richard D. Mohr (Columbia University Press) [4/25]

Buddha's Warriors: The Story Of The CIA-Backed Tibetan Freedom Fighters, The Chinese Invasion, And The Ultimate Fall Of Tibet, Mikel Dunham (Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin) [4/21]

First Hand: Poems, Linda Bierds (G. P. Putnam's Sons) [4/20]

Freethinkers: A History Of American Secularism, Susan Jacoby (A Metropolitan/Owl Book) [4/19]

Perilous Times:  Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism (W.W. Norton & Company) [4/15]

Stealing History: Tomb Raiders, Smugglers, And The Looting Of The Ancient World, Roger Atwood (St. Martin's Press) [4/14]

Mad Mary Lamb: Lunacy And Murder In Literary London, Susan Tyler Hitchcock (W. W. Norton & Company) [4/5]

March 2005

Born Losers: A History Of Failure In America, Scott A. Sandage (Harvard University Press) [3/31]

Terry Jones's War On The War On Terror: Observations And Denunciations By A Founding Member Of The Monty Python, Terry Jones (Thunder's Mouth, Nation Books) [3/25]

Science Friction: Where The Known Meets The Unknown, Michael Shermer (Henry Holt  And Company) [3/23]

Consumer Reports April 2005 (Consumers Union of the U.S., Inc.) [3/21]

The Future of Music:  Manifesto for the Digital Music Revolution, David Kusek and Gerd Leonhard (Berklee Press) [3/18]

It's My Party Too: The Battle For The Heart Of The GOP And The Future Of America, Christine Todd Whitman (The Penguin Press) [3/15]

Powerful Medicines: The Benefits, Risks, And Costs Of Prescription Drugs, Jerry Avorn (Alfred A. Knopf) [3/15]

Drugs And The Athlete, Gary I. Wadler and  Brian Hainline (F. A. Davis Company) [3/14]

Boarding School Seasons:  American Indian Families, 1900-1940,
Brenda J. Child (University of Nebraska Press) [3/11]

God In The Machine: What Robots Teach Us About Humanity And God, Anne Foerst (Dutton) [3/10]

Wrigley Field:  The Unauthorized Biography, Stuart Shea (Brassey's, Inc.) [3/9]

The Obesity Myth: Why America's Obsession With Weight Is Hazardous To Your Health, Paul Campos (Gotham Books) [3/8]

Blink: The Power Of Thinking Without Thinking, Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown And Company) [3/7]

Without Apology: Girls, Women, And The Desire To Fight, Leah Hager Cohen (Random House) [3/1]

February 2005

The Making of Environmental Law, Richard J. Lazarus (University of Chicago
Press) [2/25]

Racial Culture: A Critique, Richard T. Ford (Princeton University Press) [2/24]

The Price Of Smoking, Frank A. Sloan, et. al. (The MIT Press) [2/23]

The Rapture Exposed:  The Message of Hope in the Book of Revelation, Barbara Rossing (Westview Press) [2/23]

American Mania: When More Is Not Enough, Peter C. Whybrow (W. W. Norton & Company) [2/22]

The Fearless Man: A Novel Of Vietnam, Donald Pfarrer (Random House) [2/18]

Election 2004: How Bush Won And What You Can Expect In The Future, Evan Thomas and the Staff of Newsweek (Public Affairs) [2/16]

You Remind Me Of Me, Dan Chaon (Ballentine Books) [2/15]

Happiness: Lessons From A New Science<