BASIC CIVITAS BOOKS
An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, from Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President (May, $26) by Randall Robinson explores the island's tragic history. Ad/promo. Author tour.
BERRETT-KOEHLER
The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics (Apr., $24.95) by Riane Eisler offers a holistic model for economics that values human needs.
BROOKINGS INSTITUTION PRESS
Journey into Islam: The Crisis of Globalization (May, $28.95) by Akbar Ahmed. The author led a team of young Americans through the Muslim world to learn how Muslims really view America. Ad/promo.
CARROLL GRAF
Monstering: Inside America's Policy of Secret Interrogations and Torture in the Terror War (June, $25.95) by Tara McKelvey describes private contractors' abuses in Abu Ghraib and one American lawyer's quest for justice.
CHELSEA GREEN
The Directive: A Tale of Global Markets, Everyday Products, and the Chemistry That Binds Them (May, $25) by Mark Schapiro examines the risks of unregulated toxic chemicals.
COLLINS REFERENCE
40 Days and 40 Nights (Apr., $25.95) by Matthew Chapman. The author, a descendant of Charles Darwin, brings his perspective to the recent Pennsylvania "intelligent design" case.
COLUMBIA UNIV. PRESS
Bomb Scare (Mar., $27.50) by Joseph Cirincione assesses the force behind, and potential solutions to, the proliferation of nuclear weapons. 9-city author tour.
CORNELL UNIV. PRESS
The Independent Diplomat: Dispatches from an Unaccountable Elite (May, $25) by Carne Ross. Disillusioned with the system, the former British diplomat began an independent firm to aid places such as Kosovo, Somaliland and more.
DA CAPO LIFELONG
Pushed: The American Birth Experience (May, $26) by Jennifer Block analyzes the increasing medical intervention at childbirth and women's quest for choice.
DUTTON
To Catch a Predator: Protecting Your Kids from Online Enemies Already in Your Home (Mar., $24.95) by Chris Hansen discusses predators' methods and offers strategies to foil them. Ad/promo. Author tour.
WM. B. EERDMANS
The End of Memory: Remembering Rightly in a Violent World (Mar., $22) by Miroslav Volf uses stories of persecution in the Balkans and the Christian story to discuss how to remember injustice.
ENCOUNTER BOOKS (dist. by NBN)
Bulldozed: Eminent Domain and the American Lust for Land (Aug., $25.95) by Carla Main exposes the practice of eminent domain.
HENRY HOLT
Tested: An American School's Struggle to Make the Grade (Aug., $25) by Linda Perlstein charts the impact of education reforms on a typical elementary school.
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN
The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn't, and Why (Apr., $26) by Jabari Asim untangles the twisted history and future of racism through its most volatile word.
Buy, Buy Baby: How Consumer Culture Manipulates Parents and Harms Young Minds (May, $25) by Susan Gregory Thomas examines how marketers exploit infants and toddlers and that exploitation's far-reaching impact.
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV. PRESS
The Panda's Black Box: Opening up the Intelligent Design Controversy (May, $20), edited by Nathaniel C. Comfort, uses writings from such notables as Pulitzer Prize—winner Edward J. Larson to both support and oppose evolution.
JOSSEY-BASS
The Battle over the Meaning of Everything: Evolution, Intelligent Design, and a School Board in Dover, Pa. (June, $24.95) by Gordy Slack delivers an eyewitness account of the 2005 courtroom drama over evolution.
LYONS PRESS
Do No Harm: A Doctor's Odyssey into Medicine's Secret Empire of Lies, Hardball and Poison (Apr., $24.95) by Cy Homer, M.D., exposes the ruthless, for-profit health-care systems foisted upon patients and doctors alike. 40,000 first printing. $50,000 ad/promo.
MCGRAW-HILL
Who Killed Healthcare? (Apr., $24.95) by Regina Herzlinger confronts our health-care crisis and suggests solutions for its betterment.
MIT PRESS
The Story of Cruel and Unusual (Mar., $14.95) by Colin Dayan finds the roots of the Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo abuses in the steady dismantling of the Eighth Amendment. A Boston Review book.
Making Aid Work (Mar., $14.95) by Abhijit Banerjee with Alice Amsden et al. lauds the potential for foreign aid to reduce poverty and challenges aid organizations on their spending. A Boston Review book.
NATION BOOKS
Blackwater: The Rise of the Most Powerful Mercenary Firm in the World (Mar., $25.95) by Jeremy Scahill reveals the story of the world's largest private army.
NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS
The Struggle for Iran (May, $22.95) by Christopher de Bellaigue traces Iran's political upheavals and its prospects for the future.
W.W. NORTON
The Terror Presidency: Law and Judgment Inside the Bush Administration (May, $24.95) by Jack Goldsmith. The clash between the rule of law and the necessity of defending America is detailed by one of the central players—Goldsmith was head of the Office of Legal Counsel.
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
Mission Al-Jazeera: Bridging the Divide Between the West and the Arab World (May, $24.95) by Josh Rushing. The former marine and current "face of Al-Jazeera" delivers his message. 75,000 first printing. Ad/promo. Author tour.
Betraying Our Troops: The Destructive Results of Privatizing War (June, $24.95) by Dina Rasor and Robert H. Bauman exposes the battleground effects of privatization. 75,000 first printing. Ad/promo. Author tour.
PANTHEON
Mongrels, Bastards, Orphans, and Vagabonds: Mexican Immigration and the Future of Race in America (Aug., $25.95) by Gregory Rodriguez details the history and future of Mexican-American assimilation. Ad/promo. 7-city author tour.
PENGUIN PRESS
Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East (Apr., $25.95) by Robin Wright grapples with the changes engulfing this region. 5-city author tour.
Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet (Aug., $27.95) by Jeffrey D. Sachs offers a road map to equitable global prosperity—and the coming collapse if it's not followed. 5-cityauthor tour.
PRINCETON ARCHITECTURAL PRESS
Breaking News: How the Associated Press Has Covered War, Peace, and Everything Else (June, $40) by reporters of the Associated Press, foreword by David Halberstam, gathers more than a century's reports.
PROMETHEUS BOOKS
The Day of Islam: The Annihilation of America and the Western World (Apr., $25) by Paul L. Williams presents new info on terrorist activities aimed at achieving a radical Muslim dream.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS
The Devil Came on Horseback: A Witness to Genocide in Darfur (Apr., $24.95) by Brian Steidle and Gretchen Steidle Wallace narrates the former marine's awakening to conscience and his on-the-ground view of the genocide.
REGNERY
The Extreme Makeover of Hillary (Rodham) Clinton (May, $27.95) by Bay Buchanan recounts Clinton's efforts to transform herself into a presidential candidate. 100,000 first printing. $75,000 ad/promo.
ROWMAN LITTLEFIELD
The Politics of Life: 25 Rules for Survival in a Brutal and Manipulative World (Apr., $17.95) by Craig Crawford uses Machiavelli as inspiration for a new set of rules.
Islamophobia: Making Muslims the Enemy (Aug., $19.95) by Peter Gottschalk and Gabriel Greenberg shows how political cartoons casually demonize and demean Muslims and Islam.
SANTA MONICA PRESS (dist. by IPG)
Tower Stories: An Oral History of 9/11 (Aug., $27.95) by Damon DiMarco collects the stories of police, firefighters, paramedics, volunteers and others who witnessed the attacks.
ST. MARTINS/THOMAS DUNNE
It Can Happen Here: Star-Spangled Fascism in Bush's America (Mar., $24.95) by Joe Conason tells how the U.S. is slowly but surely turning into a fundamentalist, authoritarian state. 150,000 first printing. Ad/promo. Author publicity.
The World Without Us ($25.95) by Alan Weisman explores how our planet would respond if humans disappeared and nature no longer had the pressure put upon it by humans.
TIMES BOOKS
The Trappings of Success: Selling Out to Stay Afloat (Apr., $23) by Daniel Brook laments the effect of losing our best and brightest to corporate America.
UNIV. OF CHICAGO PRESS
Dark Hope: Working for Peace in Israel and Palestine (May, $22) by David Shulman discusses the writer's work with Ta'ayush, a nonviolent Palestinian rights organization.
UNIV. OF GEORGIA PRESS
Grounded Globalism: How the U.S. South Embraces the World (July, $26.95) by James Peacock examines the impact of globalism on the Southern identity.
UNIV. OF MICHIGAN PRESS
Mirage: Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S. (Apr., $24.95) by Cynthia Barnett issues a wakeup call about the steady disappearance of water in Florida and the eastern seaboard.
UNIV. OF MINNESOTA PRESS
OurSpace: Resisting Corporate Control of Culture (May, $24.95) by Christine Harold discusses how hoaxes, pranks and parodies, from Adbusters to Yes Men, defy corporate control.
UNIV. OF NEW MEXICO PRESS
Antonio's Gun and Delfino's Dream: Tales of Mexican Migration (Apr., $24.95) by Sam Quinones examines the experiences of Mexican immigrants to the U.S. and the impact of those experiences on Mexico itself.
UNIV. PRESS OF KANSAS
Patrolling Baghdad: A Military Police Company and the War in Iraq (Apr., $34.95)by Mark R. DePue chronicles the experiences of an Illinois National Guard unit in Baghdad.
UNIV. PRESS OF NEW ENGLAND
Selling Anxiety: How the News Media Market Scare Stories to Women (Apr., $24.95) by Caryl Rivers exposes the media's distortions of stories about women.
VIKING
Once upon a Quinceañera: Coming of Age in the USA (Aug., $23.95) by Julia Alvarez explores the phenomenon of the Latina "sweet 15" celebration that's quickly becoming an American event. 8-city author tour.
WALKER CO.
28: Stories of AIDS in Africa (May, $24.95) by Stephanie Nolen puts a face on 28 of the continent's 28 million people with AIDS. 35,000 first printing.
WILEY
Blasphemy: How the Religious Right Is Hijacking Our Declaration of Independence (June, $22.95)by Alan Dershowitz shows how the religious right misuses the founding document in hopes of Christianizing America.
YALE UNIV. PRESS
The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace (Apr., $28) by Ali A. Allawi. The former Iraqi minister of defense and finance outlines the relationships and political factors that led to the country's current situation.
Bound Together: A Brief History of Globalization (May, $25) by Nayan Chanda traces the paths of historical migrations and connections of traders, preachers and warriors.
