Charles C. Mann, Author . Knopf $30 (480p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4006-3
In a riveting and fast-paced history, massing archeological, anthropological, scientific and literary evidence, Mann debunks much of what we thought we knew about pre-Columbian America. Reviewing the latest, not widely reported research in Indian...
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Charles C. Mann, Author , read by Peter Johnson. HighBridge Audio $34.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-56511-978-9
This production is—as most nonfiction audios ought to be—a "reading" as distinct from a "performance." Johnson renders this thoroughly researched, well-written history of early North and South American Indian populations...
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Charles C. Mann. Knopf, $28.95 (640p) ISBN 978-0-307-96169-3
Journalist Mann (1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created) clearly illustrates two opposing outlooks for dealing with major problems facing humankind, using two 20th-century scientists as exemplars. Mann straightforwardly states that this...
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Charles C. Mann, Author, David H. Freedman, With Simon & Schuster $24 (320p) ISBN 978-0-684-82464-2
An obsessive, meticulous pattern of virtual break-ins is plaguing the computers of MIT, NASA and other allegedly secure systems. As it becomes clear that one user is systematically gaining access to the machines, the FBI, as in other similar cases,...
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Charles C. Mann, Author, Jonathan B. Segal, Editor, Mark L. Plummer, With Knopf Publishing Group $25 (420p) ISBN 978-0-394-57894-1
The fierce, global competition for a share of the $25 billion analgesic trade based on aspirin, the 100-year-old, multipurpose drug, and its derivatives (Bufferin, Alka Seltzer etc.), and rival analgesics (Tylenol, Advil etc.) is vividly recounted...
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Charles C. Mann, Author, Mark L. Plummer, With Alfred A. Knopf $29.95 (302p) ISBN 978-0-679-42002-6
In Oklahoma, a highway to improve access to a hospital that serves poor people was delayed for more than four years to protect a beetle. In enforcing the Endangered Species Act, do we put insects above human needs? Mann and Plummer, coauthors of The
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