SOCIAL
SCIENCES
ANDREWS MCMEEL
Coming Clean: The Best and Worst of DailyConfession.com (June, $9.95) by Greg Fox retrieves the most entertaining confessions from the popular Web site.
BARRICADE BOOKS
Reprint: Sex and the Office (Apr., $14) by Helen Gurley Brown, 30,000 first printing.
BROADWAY BOOKS
The Fabulous Girl's Guide to Grace Under Pressure: Extreme Etiquette for the Stickiest, Trickiest, Most Outrageous Situations of Your Life (June, $14.95) by Kim Izzo and Ceri Marsh claims to have all the answers.
DISINFORMATION CO.
The Disinformation Book of Lists (May, $22.95) by Russ Kick reveals press stories that were spiked, five transgendered military leaders and more. 30,000 first printing. Advertising.
NORTHEASTERN UNIV. PRESS
Listening to Olivia: Violence, Poverty and Prostitution (May; $20, cloth $50) by Jody Raphael recounts an African-American woman's descent into addiction and abuse and her recovery.
OREGON STATE UNIV. PRESS
Up All Night (Apr., $16.95) by Martha Gies introduces the unseen workers who keep our cities humming after dark.
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
"There She Is, Miss America": The Politics of Sex, Beauty and Race in America's Most Famous Pageant (Aug., $19.95), edited by Elwood Watson and Darcy Martin, looks at a variety of perspectives on the contest celebrating talent and beauty.
PENN STATE UNIV. PRESS
Farming for Us All: Practical Agriculture and the Cultivation of Sustainability (May; $22.50, cloth $75) by Michael Mayerfeld Bell discusses possibilities for social, environmental and economic change.
POPULAR PRESS (dist. by Univ. of Wisconsin Press)
Mystery, Violence, and Popular Culture (Apr.; $21.95, cloth $65) by John G. Cawelti surveys the effects of violence in literature, film and television.
QUILL
Reprint: Goddesses in Every Woman (Mar., $12.95) by Jean Shinoda Bolen.
RAYO
Reprint: Spanglish (Aug., $13.95) by Ilan Stavans.
ROUTLEDGE
Therapy Culture: Cultivating Vulnerability in an Uncertain Age (Mar.; $19.95, cloth $90) by Frank Furedi suggests that vulnerability is increasingly presented as the defining feature of a person's psychology. Ad/promo.
STANFORD UNIV. PRESS
Globalizing L.A.: Trade, Infrastructure and Regional Development (Mar., $21.95) by Steven P. Erie explains how a place with no natural harbor and 20 miles from the coast became the world's ninth largest city economically.
STONE BRIDGE PRESS
Being Japanese American: A JA Sourcebook for Nikkei, Hapa... and Their Friends (June, $14.95) by Gil Asakawa perceives Japanese-American culture as not quite Japanese.
TRANSACTION
Conservatism Revisited: The Revolt Against Ideology (Apr., $24.95) by Peter Viereck asserts that responsible conservatism is vital to contemporary society.
Black Sheep and Kissing Cousins: How Our Family Stories Shape Us (May, $24.95) by Elizabeth Stone examines how family legends shape members' identity.
WALKER
Reprint: Forever Barbie: The Unauthorized Biography of a Real Doll (Mar., $13) by M.G. Lord.
