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New Releases in Nonfiction
Build your taste profile and get better suggestions. You've rated 0 of 12 books. Want more suggestions? Launch Quick Rate- The People's Money: How Voters Will Balance the Budget and Eliminate the Federal Debt
By Scott Rasmussen, 2012
ISBN 1451666101
For years, Americans have elected candidates who promise to reduce spending. Yet spending has steadily increased for more than half a century. For just as long, politicians have blamed voters, claiming a lack of public support for the necessary cuts to reduce the budget deficit.
- All Business Is Local: Why Place Matters More Than Ever in a Global, Virtual World
By John A. Quelch, 2012
ISBN 1591844657
Today's business leaders are so obsessed with all things global and virtual that they risk neglecting the critical impact of physical place. It's a paradox of the Internet age: now that it's possible for businesses to be everywhere at once, they need to focus on what it means to be one specific...
- Thinking the Twentieth Century
By Tony Judt, 2012
ISBN 1594203237
The final book of the brilliant historian and indomitable public critic Tony Judt, Thinking the Twentieth Century maps the issues and concerns of a turbulent age on to a life of intellectual conflict and engagement. The twentieth century comes to life as an age of ideas -- a time when, for good and...
- Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone
By Eric Klinenberg, 2012
ISBN 1594203229
In 1950, only 22 percent of American adults were single. Today, more than 50 percent of American adults are single, and 31 million -- roughly one out of every seven adults -- live alone. People who live alone make up 28 percent of all U.S. households, which makes them more common than any other...
- The Quantum Universe: (And Why Anything That Can Happen, Does)
By Brian Cox, 2012
ISBN 0306819643
In The Quantum Universe, Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw approach the world of quantum mechanics in the same way they did in Why Does E=mc2? and make fundamental scientific principles accessible -- and fascinating -- to everyone. The subatomic realm has a reputation for weirdness, spawning any number of...
- Heart 411: The Only Guide to Heart Health You'll Ever Need
By Marc Gillinov, 2012
ISBN 0307719901
Are you one of the eighty-two million Americans currently diagnosed with cardiovascular disease -- or one of the millions more who think they are healthy but are at risk? Whether your goal is to get the best treatment or stay out of the cardiologist's office, your heart's health depends upon...
- White Girl Problems
By Babe Walker, 2012
ISBN 1401324541
Babe Walker, center of the universe, is a painstakingly manicured white girl with an expensive smoothie habit, a proclivity for Louboutins, a mysterious mother she's never met, and approximately 50 bajillion Twitter followers. But now her "problems" have landed her in shopping rehab -- that's what...
- Paris versus New York: A Tally of Two Cities
By Vahram Muratyan, 2012
ISBN 0143120255
When Vahram Muratyan began his online travel journal, Paris versus New York, he had no idea how quickly it would become one of the most buzzed-about sites on the Internet -- it garnered more than a million and a half page views in just a few months, and the attention of savvy online critics.
- The Rules of Inheritance
By Claire Bidwell Smith, 2012
ISBN 1594630887
Claire Bidwell Smith -- an only child -- was just fourteen years old when both of her parents were diagnosed with cancer within months of each other. "I've already come to the conclusion that I will probably be parentless by the time I am thirty," Claire writes in her powerful debut.
- Sister Queens: The Noble, Tragic Lives of Katherine of Aragon and Juana, Queen of Castile
By Julia Fox, 2012
ISBN 0345516044
The history books have cast Katherine of Aragon, the first queen of King Henry VIII of England, as the ultimate symbol of the Betrayed Woman, cruelly tossed aside in favor of her husband's seductive mistress, Anne Boleyn. Katherine's sister, Juana of Castile, wife of Philip of Burgundy and mother...
- Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Hetrosexuality
By Hanne Blank, 2012
ISBN 0807044431
Heterosexuality is not a fact of nature, it's a nineteenth-century invention, only about as old as the traffic light. In this surprising chronicle, historian Hanne Blank digs deep into the past of sexual orientation while simultaneously exploring its contemporary psyche.
