ACADEMIC FOUNDATION
(dist. by IPG)
Saving Afghanistan (Oct., $34.95), edited by V. Krishnappa and Priyanka Singh, provides analysis and multiple perspectives on such issues as counterinsurgency, stabilization and nation building.
AGATE BOLDEN
(dist. by PGW)
Forward from This Moment (Sept., $26) by Leonard Pitts collects the columns of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize winner.
AMACOM
Why Boys Fail: Saving Our Sons from an Educational System That's Leaving Them Behind (Jan., $24.95) by Richard Whitmire probes the problem of boys falling behind and suggests remedies.
BEACON PRESS
Hollowing Out the Middle: The Rural Brain Drain and What It Means for America (Oct., $26.95) by Patrick J. Carr and Maria J. Kefalas asks why small towns are jeopardizing their futures by losing young people.
BERRETT-KOEHLER
Women Lead the Way: Your Guide to Stepping up to Leadership and Changing the World (Oct., $24.95) by Linda Tarr-Whelan provides tools and resources to help women become decision makers.
BROOKINGS INSTITUTION PRESS
Shooting Up: Counterinsurgency and the War on Drugs (Nov., $28.95) by Vanda Felbab-Brown explores the symbiotic relationship between civil wars and illicit-drug markets.
CATO INSTITUTE
(dist. by NBN)
Mad About Trade: Why Main Street America Should Embrace Globalization (Nov., $24.95) by Daniel Griswold defends free trade and argues that a more global economy has lifted living standards.
CONTINUUM PUBLISHING
Global Warming: The Real Catastrophe (Dec., $29.95) by Christopher Booker and Richard North asserts that manmade global warming is a myth fitting a particular ideological pattern.
COUNTERPOINT
(dist. by PGW)
Egg on Mao: The Story of an Ordinary Man Who Defaced an Icon and Unmasked a Dictatorship (Oct., $26) by Denise Chong addresses the tale of Lu Decheng, one of the activists at the 1989 Tiananmen Square protest.
CROWN
The Fourth Star (Oct., $28) by David Cloud and Greg Jaffe. Lead reporters for the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, respectively, profile four generals crucial to the Iraq War. 100,000 first printing.
HARPERONE
Racing Toward Armageddon (Sept., $26.99) by Michael Baigent reveals the powerful forces conspiring to bring about the end of the world. 100,000 first printing.
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV. PRESS
Wrong Place, Wrong Time: Trauma and Violence in the Lives of Young Black Men (Dec., $24.95) by John A. Rich discusses the presumption that all injured young black men are criminals.
KAPLAN PUBLISHING
(dist. by Simon & Schuster)
Diabetes Rising: The Epic Hunt to Cure the Most Widespread Disease in History (Jan., $26.95) by Dan Hurley lays bare the dire health crisis.
LOUISIANA STATE UNIV. PRESS
Journalism's Roving Eye: A History of American Foreign Reporting (Sept., $45) by John Maxwell Hamilton chronicles the progress of and people who shape readers' perceptions of the world.
LYONS PRESS
The Fifth Hijacker: The Incredible Story of the Only INS Agent Who Stopped a 9/11 Terrorist (Sept., $24.95) by Michael Smerconish centers on José Meléndez-Pérez, who barred a would-be Flight 93 hijacker from the country.
Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks: An Epic Quest for Reality Among Role Players, Online Gamers, and Other Dwellers of Imaginary Dreams (Sept., $24.95) by Ethan Gilsdorf explains how gamers balance escapism with adulthood.
METROPOLITAN BOOKS
Bright-Sided: How Positive Thinking Undermines America (Oct., $23) by Barbara Ehrenreich trounces America's love of irrational optimism in favor of realism. 150,000 first printing. Author tour.
MIT PRESS
Radical, Religious and Violent: The New Economics of Terrorism (Oct., $24.95) by Eli Berman applies economic tools to elucidate both violent and benign behaviors of religious radicals of all faiths.
NEW PRESS
The Moral Underground: How Ordinary Americans Subvert an Unfair Economy (Jan., $24.95) by Lisa Dodson tackles middle-class Americans' silent movement for economic justice. 30,000 first printing.
NYU PRESS
The Guantánamo Lawyers: Inside a Prison Outside the Law (Dec., $32.95) by Mark Denbeaux and Jonathan Hafetz collects 100 personal accounts from lawyers representing detainees.
OXFORD UNIV. PRESS
What I Believe (Oct., $12.95) by Tariq Ramadan lays out the basic ideas the author has been developing for the past 20 years.
The Future of Islam (Feb., $24.95) by John Esposito. A leading Western scholar of Islam considers its position in the world today.
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
The New American Economy: The Failure of Reganomics and a New Way Forward (Oct., $28) by Bruce Bartlett provides an explanation of how economic theories lose validity, from a domestic policy advisor to Ronald Reagan.
PENGUIN PRESS
Command and Control (Oct., $27.95) by Eric Schlosser details an H-bomb accident and assesses the grave threat of nuclear weapons.
PRINCETON UNIV. PRESS
Crossing the Finish Line: Completing College at America's Public Universities (Sept., $27.95) by William G. Bowen et al. discovers disparities in graduation rates and time-to-degree at 21 flagship universities.
PROMETHEUS BOOKS
Rising Plague: The Global Threat from Deadly Bacteria and Our Dwindling Arsenal to Fight Them (Sept., $26) by Brad Spellberg, M.D. An infectious disease specialist recommends ways to reverse a potentially catastrophic health crisis.
PUBLICAFFAIRS
Worse than War: Genocide, Eliminationism, and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity (Sept., $29.95) by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen investigates the reasons for genocide and how the international community can stop it. 100,000 first printing.
REGNERY
After America: The Death of the American Idea (Jan., $27.95) by Mark Steyn reveals the changes in store for America under the new government.
RIVERHEAD
The Ground Truth: The Untold Story of America Under Attack on 9/11 (Sept., $26.95) by John Farmer. The senior counsel to the 9/11 Commission offers a real-time portrayal of the day and explains how we're still at risk.
RUTGERS UNIV. PRESS
Making Reform Work: The Case for Transforming American Higher Education (Sept., $25.95) by Robert Zemsky argues that we need faculty leadership and large-scale strategy to change the system.
SEVEN STORIES PRESS
(dist. by Consortium)
“Only the Superrich Can Save Us” (Oct., $27.50) by Ralph Nader. This work of imagination mixes current events with the real possibility of a group of influential billionaires. Author tour.
ST. MARTIN'S/THOMAS DUNNE
Reckless! (Sept., $24.99) by Sen. Byron Dorgan examines the causes of the current economic crisis and considers solutions. 100,000 first printing.
The Test of Our Times (Sept., $25.99) by Tom Ridge. The first secretary of homeland security, looks at the challenges faced in the aftermath of 9/11. 50,000 first printing.
UNIV. PRESS OF ARIZONA
Labor Market Issues Along the U.S.—Mexico Border (Dec. $49) edited by Marie T. Mora and Alberto Dávila takes an in-depth look at economic disparity and other issues on the border.
VIKING
Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan (Dec., $25.95) by Greg Mortenson and Mike Bryan outlines Mortenson's vision and his thoughts on military matters, Islam and women. 12-city author tour.
WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON
(dist. by Sterling)
Globalising Hatred: The New Antisemitism (Sept., $19.95) by Denis MacShane calls for tolerance and a resolution to illuminate a form of hatred that mobilizes politics across continents.
WILEY
The Truth About Sarah (Oct., $25.95) by Matthew Berger uses the story of Sarah Palin to illustrate how the U.S. treats a woman as a political candidate.
YALE UNIV. PRESS
The Making of Americans: Democracy and Our Schools (Sept., $25) by E.D. Hirsch articulates how and why schools have veered off course and how to steer them back.
