ARCADE
Celebrity: A Star-Studded Look at Consuming Fame (July, $25) by Daniel Harris examines the dynamics of celebrity culture.
BASIC BOOKS
BASIC BOOKS
Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human (June, $26.95) by Richard Wrangham argues that the invention of cooking led to the creation of the human species. Author tour.
CROWN
Fool's Paradise: Players, Poseurs, and the Culture of Excess in South Beach (Jan., $25.95) by Steven Gaines profiles the neighborhood's con artists, gangsters and fashionistas. 60,000 first printing.
CYPRESS HOUSE
Envy: A Survey of Its Psychology and History (Mar., $29.95) by Victoria C.G. Greenleaf, M.D., studies its impact on psychoanalysis and contemporary human interaction.
GALLAUDET UNIV. PRESS
From Integration to Inclusion: A History of Special Education in the 20th Century (May, $75) by Margret A. Winzer provides an overview of the paradigms that shaped special ed.
KEY PORTER BOOKS
(dist. by PGW)
The Ego Boom (June, $25.95) by Steve Maich and Lianne George examines the seductive promise of self-actualization. 25,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo.
W.W. NORTON/ISSUES OF OUR TIME
More than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City (Mar., $24.95) by William Julius Wilson considers the causes of the persistence of racial inequality.
PENGUIN PRESS
Acceptance (Aug., $26.95) by David L. Marcus follows a high school guidance counselor who uses self-revelation rather than grades or test scores to facilitate college acceptances.
UNIV. OF MASSACHUSETTS PRESS
The Vietnam War in American Memory (Apr., $49.95) by Patrick Hagopian highlights the role of Vietnam veterans in shaping public memory of the war.
UNIV. OF NEW MEXICO PRESS
Fire—The Spark That Ignited Human Evolution (Apr., $34.95) by Frances D. Burton explores the physical and biological impact of fire on human evolution.
UNIV. OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS
If That Ever Happens to Me: Making Life and Death Decisions After Terri Schiavo (June, $28) by Lois Shepherd shows why simple answers are not right for end-of-life decisions.
VIKING
And Then There's This: How Stories Live and Die in Viral Culture (June, $24.95) by Bill Wasik looks at the online frontier and how culture is now created from the ground up.
