Bright-sided: How the Relentless Prom...
Barbara EhrenreichA sharp-witted knockdown of America's love affair with positive thinking and an urgent call for a new commitment to realismAmericans are a "positive" people—cheerful, optimistic, and ueat: this is our reputation as well as...
Everyday Survival: Why Smart People D...
Laurence GonzalesLaurence Gonzales turns his talent for gripping narrative, knowledge of the way our minds and bodies work, and bottomless curiosity about the world to the topic of how we can best use the lessons of our evolutionary history to overcom...
Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and ...
Annette LareauClass does make a difference in the lives and futures of American children. Drawing on in-depth observations of black and white middle-class, working-class, and poor families, Unequal Childhoods explores this fact, offering a picture ...
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in No...
Barbara DemickBarbara Demick's Nothing to Envy follows the lives of six North Koreans over fifteen years—a chaotic period that saw the death of Kim Il-sung and the unchallenged rise to power of his son, Kim Jong-il, and the devastation of a far-r...
The Statues That Walked: Unraveling t...
Terry HuntThe monumental statues of Easter Island, both so magisterial and so forlorn, gazing out in their imposing rows over the island's barren landscape, have been the source of great mystery ever since the island was first discovered by Eur...
Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stra...
Christopher RyanIn this controversial, thought-provoking, and brilliant book, renegade thinkers Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethá debunk almost everything we "know" about sex, weaving together convergent, frequently overlooked evidence fr...