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American
Rhapsody
by Joe Eszterhas
American Rhapsody is a gleeful act of outrage, simultaneously an assault
on the Clintons and a bridge-burning, tell-all Hollywood memoir in the wicked
spirit of You'll
Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again. Joe Eszterhas's narrative is a torrent
of consciousness with no consistent sense of direction,..
The
First Days of School : How to Be an Effective Teacher
by Harry K. Wong, Rosemary Tripi Wong
Used by new and veteran teachers, college instructors, and administrators, this
is a beautifully designed book on classroom management, student achievement,
and teacher effectiveness. Color graphics.
Bobos
in Paradise : The New Upper Class and How They Got There
by David Brooks
You've seen them: They sip double-tall, nonfat lattes, chat on cell phones,
and listen to NPR while driving their immaculate SUVs to Pottery Barn to shop
for $48 titanium spatulas. They tread down specialty cheese aisles in top-of-the-line
hiking boots and think nothing of laying down $5 for an...
SellOut:
The Inside Story of President Clinton's Impeachment
by David P. Schippers, Alan P. Henry
While no one came out of the Monica Lewinsky scandal looking good, David Schippers,
the chief investigative counsel for the Clinton impeachment, wants to be sure
Americans know just who contributed to the debacle and how. A trial attorney
and a Democrat, Schippers was hired by Republican congressman...
Feeling
Your Pain : The Explosion and Abuse of Government Power in the Clinton-Gore
Years
by James Bovard
The Clinton-Gore years have been a catastrophe for individual liberty, writes
James Bovard in this libertarian broadside: Clinton
was the Nanny State champion incarnate--the person who autorbusght tens of millions
of Americans to look to government for relief from every irritation of daily
life--from
The
War Against Boys : How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men
by Christina Hoff Sommers
The author of the provocative bestseller Who
Stole Feminism? returns with an equally eye-opening follow-up. "It's
a bad time to be a boy in America," writes Christina Hoff Sommers. Boys are
less likely than girls to go to college or do their homework. They're more likely
to cheat on tests, wind up...
Voodoo
Science : The Road from Foolishness to Fraud
by Robert L. Park
Scientific error, says Robert Park, "has a way of evolving ... from self-delusion
to fraud. I use the term voodoo science to cover them all: pathological science,
junk science, pseudoscience, and fraudulent science." In pathological science,
scientists fool themselves. Junk science refers to...
Flux
: Women on Sex, Work, Kids, Love, and Life in a Half-Changed World
by Peggy Orenstein
After the release of her bestselling title, Schoolgirls:
Young Women, Self-Esteem, and the Confidence Gap, Peggy Orenstein toured
the country talking to groups of parents, teachers, and girls. It was after
one of these teen town hall meetings that she decided to write about the crucible
of...
Everything
You Think You Know About Politics...and Why You're Wrong
by Kathleen Hall Jamieson
Here are a few facts Kathleen Hall Jamieson thinks you don't know about politics:
most presidents try to keep their campaign promises, most candidate ads tell
the truth, campaign rhetoric has not become more negative in recent years, reporters
don't represent the content of candidate speeches very...
Rule
by Secrecy : The Hidden History That Connects the Trilateral Commission, the
Freemasons, and the Great Pyramids
by Jim Marrs
Set aside your preconceptions of the world, of what you've read in your history
textbooks, and what you see and hear from the mainstream media. Jim Marrs, award-winning
journalist and author of Alien Agenda and the New York Times bestseller
Crossfire, is about to change your perspective, as he...
Black
Mass: The Irish Mob, The FBI and A Devil's Deal
by Dick Lehr, Gerard O'Neill
In the spring of 1988, Boston Globe reporters Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill
set out to write the story of two infamous brothers from the insular Irish enclave
of South Boston: Jim "Whitey" Bulger and his younger brother Billy. Whitey was
the city's most powerful gangster and a living legend--tough,...
How
to Be Invisible : A Step-By-Step Guide to Protecting Your Assets, Your Identity,
and Your Life
by J. J. Luna
It's hard to say how private investigators would react to books like J. J. Luna's
How to Be Invisible--while it makes their jobs a lot harder, most of
them are paid by the hour. If you want to withdraw from the snooping eyes of
the government, corporations, stalking ex-boyfriends, or practically...
Losing
the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America
by John McWhorter
McWhorter makes compelling arguments for the failure of African Americans to
achieve academic success. He posits three causes of this failure, which he characterizes
as victimology, separatism, and anti-intellectualism. McWhorter's "cult of victimology"
is the "transformation of victimhood from a...
Newjack
: Guarding Sing Sing
by Ted Conover
Most people know it's easier to get into prison than it is to get out. But for
a journalist, just getitbusng into Sing Sing, New York's notorious maximum-security
prison, isn't easy. In fact, Ted Conover was so stymied by official channels
that he took the only way in--other than crime--and became a...
The
Twilight of American Culture
by Morris Berman
"If you have finally had it with CNN and Hollywood and John Grisham and New
Age 'spirituality,' then pull up a chair, unplug your phone (beeper, TV, fax
machine, computer, etc.), and give me a few hours of your time. I promise to
do my best not to entertain you."
Prince
Albert: The Life and Lies of Al Gore
by David N. Bossie, Floyd G. Brown
John Fund, Editorial Board, Wall Street Journal
Prince Albert...is thoroughly researched and footnoted and facts are stubborn
things, as Al Gore will discover.
Water:
The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource
by Marq De Villiers, Marq De Villiers
Water is a curious thing, observed the economist Adam Smith: although it is
vital to life, it costs almost nothing, whereas diamonds, which are useless
for survival, cost a fortune. In Water, Canadian journalist de Villiers
says the resource is still undervalued, but it is becoming more precious...
"Fish!
A Remarkable Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results"
by Stephen C. Lundin et al.
If you liked "Who Moved My Cheese?" check out this fable about a "toxic energy
dump" business saved by lessons from the fun-loving fishmongers at Seattle's
Pike Place Market.
"The
Beatles Anthology"
by the Beatles
Get the Beatles'-eye view in an enormous group autobiography with 1,300-plus
pictures
"Merrick"
by Anne Rice
Just when you thought it was safe for a bloodsucker to go out in the dark, Rice
introduces her three top vampires to the gorgeous, scary witch Merrick Mayfair.
"Drowning
Ruth"
by Christina Schwarz
Oprah's latest book-club selection features a Wisconsin family with numerous
skeletons in the closet.
"Open
House"
by Elizabeth Berg
A plucky, witty divorcée finds love among the ruins in this Oprah-blessed
bestseller.
"Shopgirl:
A Novella"
by Steve Martin
The onetime wild-and-crazy guy follows his high-IQ hit "Picasso at the Lapin
Agile" with a literary fable about a beautiful artist, her millionaire swain,
and her female nemesis.
"The
Message of the Markets: How Financial Markets Foretell the Future--and How You
Can Profit from Their Guidance"
by Ron Insana
The market is shouting out how you can make money (and avoid losing it all),
says CNBC's Ron Insana. Are you listening? Or don't you like money?
"The
Amber Spyglass"
by Philip Pullman
Harry Potter, move over for Lyra Silvertongue and Will Parry, the greatest magical
heroes of fiction for adults and kids with taste and imagination.
"The
Last Precinct"
by Patricia Cornwell
Has Virginia's chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta ended up on the wrong end
of a grand jury murder investigation? You can find out when the bestseller is
released October 16.
"Nothing
Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1863-1869"
by Stephen E. Ambrose
Our favorite historian tells the amazing tale of how Abe Lincoln, brilliant
engineers, scurrilous financiers, and a quarrelsome rainbow coalition of brawny
immigrants built America's railroad.
"The
Truth About Dogs: An Inquiry into the Ancestry, Social Conventions, Mental Habits,
and Moral Fiber of Canis Familiaris"
by Stephen Budiansky
Atlantic Monthly's Budiansky explains Fido with new evidence from behavioral
science, archaeology, neuroscience--and the Dog Genome Project
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