ALASKA GEOGRAPHIC
Inupiat and Yupik People of Alaska (Sept., $23.95) by Ann Fienup-Riordan, Jana Harcharek and Susie Silook profiles the indigenous people of northern and western Alaska.
BROOKINGS INSTITUTION
The Fabulous Decade: Macroeconomic Lessons from the 1990s (Sept., $13.95) by Alan S. Blinder and Janet L. Yellen analyzes the 1990s’ U.S. economy.
FACTS ON FILE
Strange Crimes and Criminals and America’s Most Vicious Criminals (Nov., $17.95 each) by Carl Sifakis profile the most extreme crimes and perpetrators in America’s past .
HARPERENTERTAINMENT
Cemetery Stories: Creepy Graveyards, Embalming Secrets, and the Life of a Corpse After Death (Oct., $13) by Katherine Ramsland exposes the morbid world of corpses and cemeteries. Ad/promo. 25-city radio satellite tour.
HAWORTH PRESS
Marital and Sexual Lifestyles in the United States: Attitudes, Behaviors, and Relationships in Social Context (Oct., $34.95) by Linda P. Rouse examines the diversity of intimate relationships in contemporary America.
Popular Culture in a New Age (Oct., $24.95) by Marshall W. Fishwick explores the phenomenal growth of popular culture in the last decade and the roles that technology and the Internet have played.
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN/MARINER
The Essential Galbraith (Oct., $16) by John Kenneth Galbraith features selections from classic works by the world’s eminent economist. 15,000 first printing. Ad/promo.
NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIV. PRESS
Wondrous Healing: Shamanism, Human Evolution, and the Origin of Religion (Nov.; $19.95, cloth $40) by James M. McClenon argues that the evolution of mysterious anomalies and age-old healing rituals created the physiological foundation for shamanism, humankind’s first religion.
PERENNIAL
Reprint: Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (Jan., $14) by Eric Schlosser. 125,000 first printing.
PROMETHEUS BOOKS/HUMANITY BOOKS
Stronger Than Dirt: A Cultural History of Advertising Personal Hygiene in America, 1875 to 1940 (Sept., $28) by Juliann Sivulka chronicles the transformation of soap from a luxury item to an everyday staple.
RAYO
The Hispanic Condition: The Power of a People (Nov., $14) by Ilan Stavans offers a revised and updated analysis of the five major Hispanic cultures. 20,000 first printing. Author publicity. 25-city radio satellite tour.
LYNNE REINER
White Supremacy and Racism in the Post—Civil Rights Era (Nov.; $19.95, cloth $49.95) by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva exposes the superficially nonracial social arrangements that maintain white supremacy in America today.
ROUTLEDGE
Soul Babies (Feb.; $19.95, cloth $85) by Mark Anthony Neal traces the transformation of values in black life and culture after the civil rights era.
SQUARE ONE
Evil in Our Midst (Sept., $14.95) by David E. Jones offers a glimpse of 50 of the world’s most feared and frightening demons.
UNIV. OF ALABAMA PRESS
Heart of Creation: The Mesoamerican World and the Legacy of Linda Schele (Feb., $29.95), edited by Andrea Stone, reviews Mayan hieroglyphics and cosmology, and serves as a tribute to a noted pioneer.
UNIV. OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Cyberculture (Oct., $17.95) by Pierre Levy, trans. by Robert Bononno, offers a provocative look at the impact that new technologies will have on world societies.
YALE UNIV. PRESS
The Fragile Middle Class: Americans in Debt (Sept.; $17.95, cloth $40) by Teresa A. Sullivan, Elizabeth Warren and Jay Lawrence Westbrook considers the economic factors that threaten financial security and what they imply for the future vitality of the middle class.
Fall 2001 Trade Paperbacks: Social Sciences
Aug 16, 2001
A version of this article appeared in the 08/13/2001 issue of Publishers Weekly under the headline:
