Basic Books
The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Oct., $27.50) by Devra Davis centers on the author's personal experiences. Ad/promo. Author tour.
Beacon Press
The Missing Class: Portraits of the Near Poor in America (Sept., $26.95) by Katherine S. Newman and Victor Tan Chen gives voice to the 57 million Americans sandwiched between poor and middle class. Ad/promo. 3-city author tour.
Victory for Us Is to See You Suffer: In the West Bank with the Palestinians and the Israelis (Oct., $24.95) by Philip C. Winslow. A U.N. relief worker/journalist portrays the human aspects of suicide bombings and reprisals. Ad/promo.
Berrett-Koehler
Crunch: Everything You Wanted to Know About the Economy (but Were Always Too Busy to Ask) (Feb., $25.95) by Jared Bernstein penetrates everyday economic mysteries.
Bloomsbury
Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism (Jan., $26.95) by Ha-Joon Chang. A rising star in the field of economics attacks free-trade orthodoxy head-on. 50,000 first printing.
Brookings Institution Press
Blindside: How to Anticipate Forcing Events and Wild Cards in Global Politics (Oct., $27.95), edited by Francis Fukuyama, weighs how to deal with low-probability yet potentially catastrophic events.
Carroll & Graf
Crazy for God: How I Helped Found the Religious Right and Ruin America (Oct., $25.99) by Frank Schaeffer recounts the author's stint as an evangelist before departing the fold.
America in a Time of Terror (Nov., $26.99) by Tyler Drumheller with Elaine Monaghan. A CIA insider assesses how the mishandling of intelligence threatens national security.
Casemate
War on Two Fronts: An Infantry Commander's War in Iraq and the Pentagon (Oct., $29.95) by Col. Christopher P. Hughes. The author, transferred to Washington, D.C., after his tour in Iraq, mixes scenes of combat with analysis of the bureaucratic problems at home.
Cato Institute
The Best-Laid Plans: How Government Planning Harms Your Quality of Life, Your Pocketbook, and Your Future (Sept., $22.95) by Randal O'Toole argues for the repeal of federal planning laws and the closure of government planning offices. Ad/promo.
Continuum
The Home We Build Together: Moving Beyond Multiculturalism (Jan., $24.95) by Jonathan Sacks argues for a new approach to national identity.
Cornell Univ. Press
Securing Japan: Tokyo's Grand Strategy and the Future of East Asia (Sept., $29.95) by Richard J. Samuels reviews the new dynamics of Japan's security policy aimed at becoming more autonomous.
Crown Forum
If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans: Ann Coulter at Her Best, Funniest, and Most Outrageous (Oct., $22.95) by Ann Coulter collects vintage Coulterisms. 600,000 first printing. Ad/promo.
The Terrorist Watch: Inside the Desperate Race to Stop the Next Attack (Nov., $26.95) by Ronald Kessler shares unreported stories of breakthroughs and successes in stopping terrorists. 100,000 first printing. Ad/promo.
Doubleday
The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court (Sept., $27.95) by Jeffrey Toobin takes readers into the chambers of the most elite legal body in the country. 150,000 first printing. Author tour.
Grove Press
The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop? (Sept., $25) by Francisco Goldman revisits the murder investigation of a Guatemalan bishop. 50,000 first printing. 12-city author tour.
Harcourt
God's Harvard: A Christian College on a Mission to Save America (Sept., $25) by Hanna Rosin details the author's time at Patrick Henry College, a small Christian school whose students are groomed to become the nation's elite. 75,000 first printing.
Harvard Univ. Press
Worst-Case Scenarios (Nov., $24.95) by Cass R. Sunstein focuses on terrorism and climate change to explore two characteristic responses to catastrophes: panic and utter neglect.
Houghton Mifflin
The Big Con: The True Story of How Washington Got Hoodwinked and Hijacked by Crackpot Economists (Sept., $25) by Jonathan Chait claims that greedy zealots have gamed the political system so that bogus theories have gained support. 50,000 first printing. Ad/promo.
Breakthrough: The Death of Environmentalism and the Politics of Possibility (Oct., $25) by Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus insists that political demand for solutions to ecological issues will grow as prosperity increases in China, India and Brazil. 60,000 first printing. Author tour.
Johns Hopkins Univ. Press
A Contract with the Earth (Nov., $20) by Newt Gingrich and Terry L. Maple provides a “10-point contract with the earth” to make America the environmental leader of the world. 50,000 first printing.
Lyons Press
Opium Season (Nov., $24.95) by Joel Hafvenstein chronicles the odyssey of an American in Afghanistan who nearly lost his life while trying to reduce the opium harvest.
Macadam/Cage
Choice: True Stories of Birth, Contraception, Infertility, Adoption, Single Parenthood, and Abortion (Oct., $24), edited by Karen Bender and Nina de Gramont, anthologizes personal essays to humanize the debate over reproductive choice. Ad/promo.
Mcgraw-Hill Professional
Freedom from Oil (Oct., $26.95) by David Sandalow narrates in an epistolary fashion how the next president can end the U.S. addiction to oil.
Metropolitan Books
The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post 9/11 America (Oct., $26) by Susan Faludi dissects the American mindset in the attack's aftermath.
Middle Passage Press
(dist. by IPG)
The Latino Challenge to Black America: Toward a Conversation Between African-Americans and Hispanics (Oct., $19.95) by Earl Ofari Hutchinson delves into the issues that conflict and unite blacks and Latinos.
Nation Books
Collateral Damage: America's War Against Iraqi Civilians (Nov., $24.99) by Chris Hedges with Laila Al-Arian. U.S. soldiers serving in Iraq recount atrocities there.
Thomas Nelson
Come On, People: On the Path from Victims to Victors (Oct., $25.99) by Bill Cosby and Alvin F. Poussaint, M.D., offers a vision for families and communities to strengthen America.
W.W. Norton
The Conscience of a Liberal (Oct., $25.95) by Paul Krugman. The bestselling author of The Great Unraveling challenges America to reclaim the values that made it great. 15-city author tour.
Other Press
The Lost Years: Radical Islam, Intifada, and Wars in the Middle East, 2001—2006 (Dec., $25.95) by Charles Enderlin chronicles the bitter dispute between Israel and Palestine. Author tour.
Oxford Univ. Press
Faith in the Halls of Power: How Evangelicals Joined the American Elite (Oct., $24.95) by D. Michael Lindsay compiles 360 interviews with influential evangelicals.
Palgrave macmillan
The Deadliest Lies: The Israel Lobby and the Myth of Jewish Control (Sept., $24.95) by Abraham H. Foxman debunks the fiction of “The Jewish Lobby.” 75,000 first printing. Ad/promo. Author tour.
Light of the Crescent Moon: An Undercover Journey to the Soul of Radical Islam(Oct., $24.95) by Theo Padnos presents a first-hand account of the Yemeni camps that trained radical Islamists. 50,000 first printing.
Penguin Press
Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet (Jan., $27.95) by Jeffrey D. Sachs predicts global economic collapse unless his map for equitable prosperity is heeded.
Phaidon
The Endless City (Nov., $59.95) by Ricky Burdett and Deyan Sudjic illustrates the future of the modern city.
Potomac Books
Losing the Golden Hour: An Insider's View of Iraq's Reconstruction (Nov., $23.95) by James Stephenson comes from a senior official in the reconstruction program.
Princeton Univ. Press
The Next Justice: Repairing the Supreme Court Appointments Process (Nov., $27.95) by Christopher L. Eisgruber makes the case for judicial moderates.
Prometheus Books
Under the Gun in Iraq: My Year Training the Iraqi Police (Sept., $25.95) by Robert Cole as told to Jan Hogan. A retired California police officer relates his experiences.
Energy Victory: Winning the War on Terror by Breaking Free of Oil (Oct., $25.95) by Robert Zubrin articulates a plan for breaking OPEC's economic stranglehold.
Spotlight Press
25 Years inUSA Today (Sept., $24.95) by USA Today supplies a retrospective of the paper's news coverage over the past quarter-century. 50,000 first printing.
Stackpole
Wars of Blood and Faith: The Conflicts That Will Shape the Twenty-First Century (Sept., $27.95) by Ralph Peters evaluates today's crucial issues, especially collisions of ethnicity and religion.
Band of Sisters: American Women at War in Iraq (Sept., $27.95) by Kirsten Holmstedt. Interviews with female troops exposed to extreme combat illuminate women's war experiences. Author tour.
State Univ. of New York Press
Negotiating Democracy: Media Transformations in Emerging Democracies (Oct., $75), edited by Isaac A. Blankson and Patrick D. Murphy, utilizes the backdrop of globalization to explore the relationship between media and democracy.
St.Martin's/Thomas Dunne
Until Proven Innocent (Sept., $24.95) by Stuart Taylor Jr. with K.C. Johnson looks at the full story behind the Duke lacrosse team rape case. 25,000 first printing.
Stone bridge Press
China Fever: Fascination, Fear, and the World's Next Superpower (Oct., $24.95) by Frank S. Fang gives an insider's view of China.
Twelve
Microtrends: The Small Forces Behind Tomorrow's Big Changes (Sept., $25.99) by Mark J. Penn with E. Kinney Zalesne identifies small cultural patterns that are significantly influencing business, politics, leisure and religion.
The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation (Feb., $27) by Philip Shenon. The New York Times reporter tells the inside story of the most critical federal commission since the Warren Commission. 75,000 first printing. Ad/promo.
Union Square Press
(dist. by Sterling)
Regret the Error: How Media Mistakes Pollute and Endanger the Press (Nov., $19.95) by Craig Silverman brings together a slew of journalistic slipups. Ad/promo.
Univ. of California Press
Ending Slavery: How We Free Today's Slaves (Sept., $24.95) by Kevin Bales distills the author's antislavery efforts over the past seven years.
Univ. of Michigan Press
Chic Ironic Bitterness (Sept., $25.95) by R. Jay Magill Jr. reflects on irony in contemporary American culture.
Univ. of Minnesota Press
A Call for Heresy: Why Dissent Is Vital to Islam and America (Sept., $24.95) by Anouar Majid concludes that adherence to religious, political and economic orthodoxies has deepened the conflict between the U.S. and the Islamic world.
Univ. of Virginia Press
Train Time: Railroads and the Imminent Reshaping of the United States Landscape (Oct., $29.95) by John R. Stilgoe casts a keen gaze on the spatial consequences of railways.
Univ. Press of Florida
Swimming Up the Tigris: Real Life Encounters with Iraq (Oct., $24.95) by Barbara Nimri Aziz channels the voices of everyday Iraqis.
Univ. Press of Kansas
ISpy: Surveillance and Power in the Interactive Era (Sept., $29.95) by Mark Andrejevic traces the tradeoff between interactive media technologies and the power to monitor ordinary citizens.
Univ. Press of Kentucky
From Berlin to Baghdad: America's Search for Purpose in the Post—Cold War World (Jan., $45) by Hal Brands surveys various attempts to devise a new grand strategy following communism's collapse.
Virgin Books USA
Sissy Nation: How American Became a Culture of Wimps & Stoopits (Feb., $16.95) by John Strausbaugh reveals how the country has gone soft, and offers ways to snap out of it.
Walker & co.
Deception: Pakistan, the United States, and the Secret Trade in Nuclear Weapons (Oct., $26.95) by Adrian Levy and Catherine Scott-Clark exposes the complicity of the West in the spread of nuclear capability. 50,000 first printing.
Wiley
Leading by Example: How We Can Inspire an Energy and Security Revolution (Nov., $25.95) by Bill Richardson explains the New Mexico governor's proposals to minimize American dependence on foreign oil and to get the U.S. out of the Middle East.
Wnd Books
(dist. by Midpoint Trade)
Schmoozing with Terrorists (Sept., $25.95) by Aaron Klein. The journalist, an Orthodox Jew, reveals his interviews with members of terrorist groups.
Yale Univ. Press
Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the United States (Oct., $28) by Trita Parsi synthesizes the shifting relations among nations from 1948 to the present to document how Middle Eastern stability has been undermined.
