SOCIAL
SCIENCES
ALGONQUIN
Candyfreak: A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America (Apr., $21.95) by Steve Almond offers a sugar-high tour through America's last independent candy companies. Ad/promo. 20-city author tour.
AMISTAD
Some of My Best Friends (Aug., $23.95) by Emily Bernard analyzes interracial friendships in the post—civil rights era.
ATRIA
Bone to Pick: Of Forgiveness, Reconciliation, Reparations, and Revenge (Apr., $22) by Ellis Cose offers a discussion on the power and possibilities of reconciliation.
BARRICADE BOOKS
Oilmen and Other Scoundrels (Apr., $24.95) by James M. Day is an exposé of those who control the world's most important natural resource. 30,000 first printing.
Sharks in the Desert (June, $24) by John L. Smith investigates the men in charge of Las Vegas's gambling industry. 30,000 first printing.
BASIC BOOKS
Same Difference: How Gender Myths Are Hurting Our Relationships, Our Children, and Our Jobs (Aug., $25) by Rosalind Barnett and Caryl Rivers shows how groundless beliefs about "natural" differences between the sexes have harmed both men and women. 60,000 first printing. Ad/promo. Author tour. 40-city radio satellite tour.
BASIC CIVITAS
Why White Kids Love Hip Hop (May, $23) by Bakari Kitwana argues that hip-hop has broken down more racial barriers than any other social development of the past three decades. Ad/promo. Author tour.
BEACON PRESS
The Buried Soul: How Humans Invented Death (July, $27.50) by Tim Taylor explores the rites and rituals of death around the world.
BLOOMSBURY
Mongo: Adventures in Trash (June, $23.95) by Ted Both looks into the weird and fascinating world of New York City's nonprofessional garbage collectors.
BROADWAY BOOKS
What Really Happened to the Class of '93: Start-ups, Dropouts, and Other Navigations Through an Untidy Decade (May, $22.95) by Chris Colin tells the stories of 17 classmates from a Washington, D.C.—area high school.
CORNELL UNIV. PRESS
Nobody's Home: Candid Reflections of a Nursing Home Aide (Mar., $21.95) by Thomas Edward Gass. A nursing home aide challenges Americans to rethink what our society has to offer the disabled and elderly.
GOTHAM BOOKS
The Obesity Myth: Why America's Obsession with Weight Is Hazardous to Your Health (May, $25) by Paul Campos blows the whistle on America's unhealthy obsession with weight by examining the science, culture and politics behind the war on fat.
HARCOURT
The Perfect Sister: What Draws Us Together, What Drives Us Apart (June, $25) by Marcia Millman provides insight into how some sisters stay close and loving while others exist at odds. 50,000 first printing.
HARPERCOLLINS
We're Still Family (June, $24.95) by Constance Ahrons. The author of The Good Divorce revisits the adult children of those she interviewed 20 years earlier to analyze the real legacy of divorce.
HYPERION
The Excellent 11: Qualities Shared by Children Who Love to Learn (June, $19.95) by Ron Clark consists of 11 sections, each focusing on a theme related to teaching and raising children. 250,000 first printing.
MORROW
My Life Among the Serial Killers (Mar., $24.95) by Helen Morrison and Harold Goldberg recounts the experiences of a female forensic psychiatrist who has profiled 80 serial killers over nearly 30 years. 75,000 first printing.
Ugly Americans (May, $24.95) by Ben Mezrich tracks the investment activity of a group of elite hedge fund cowboys who rode the Japanese markets to the brink of bankruptcy while they became millionaires still in their 20s. 100,000 first printing.
PANTHEON
The Pecking Order: Which Siblings Succeed and Why (Mar., $24) by Dalton Conley studies how individual American families both create and mirror economic inequality. Ad/promo. 11-city author tour. 20-city radio satellite tour.
POWERHOUSE/TRUE AGENCY
Transculturalism: How the World Is Coming Together (Mar., $35) by Claude Grunitzky looks at how certain curious, open-minded people manage to adapt to new cultures.
PROMETHEUS
Why We Hate (June, $26) by Jack Levin and Gordana Rabrenovic seeks to explain why hate exists and offers ways to create a more peaceable society.
ROUTLEDGE
Black Sexual Politics (Mar., $26) by Patricia Hill Collins explores how images of black sexuality have been used to maintain the color line and how those images threaten to spread a new brand of racism.
Freaks, Geeks and Cool Kids: American Teenagers, Schools, and the Culture Consumption (Mar., $27.50) by Murray Milner Jr. revisits the high school status system and shows how the consumers it breeds sets the tone for future relationships and values. Ad/promo.
SIMON & SCHUSTER
On Paradise Drive (June, $25) by David Brooks. The author of Bobos in Paradise studies the middle-class mentality that makes the U.S. a manic and discombobulating nation. Ad/promo. 8-city author tour. 20-city radio satellite tour.
UNIV. OF NEW MEXICO PRESS
Alambrista and the U.S.-Mexico Border: Film, Music, and Stories of Undocumented Immigrants (May; $49.95 with CD and DVD, paper $34.95 with CD and DVD), edited by David Carrasco and Nicholas J. Cull, includes a new director's cut of the film, a book of essays on immigration and a CD of the soundtrack.
