The Art of Choosing
0-446-40614-7/ 978-0-446-40614-7
$23.99

Is the desire for choice innate or bound by culture? Why do we sometimes choose against our best interests? How much control do we really have over what we choose? Sheena Iyengar's award-winning research reveals that the answers are surprising and profound.

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When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead
978-0446548151
$27.99
April 2010

Here is the story of Jerry Weintraub: the self-made, Brooklyn-born, Bronx-raised impresario, Hollywood producer, legendary deal maker, and friend of politicians and stars. No matter where nature has placed him he has found a way to put on a show and sell tickets at the door.

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War
9780446556248
$26.99
May 2010

Sebastian Junger turns his brilliant and empathetic eye to the reality of combat—the fear, the honor, and the trust among men in an extreme situation whose survival depends on their absolute commitment to one another.

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Hitch 22
978-0-446-54033-9
$26.99
June 2010

#1 New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award finalist Christopher Hitchens—one of the most admired and controversial public intellectuals of our time—shares his personal life story.

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Rich Boy
978-0-446-56318-5
$24.99
August 2010

Robert Vishniak is the favored son of Oxford Circle, a working-class Jewish neighborhood in 1970s Philadelphia. Handsome, charming and clever, he employs his considerable gifts to move ever higher on his social ladder.

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AH-CHOO!: The Uncommon Life of Your Common Cold
9780446541152
$22.99
September 2010

From one of the nation’s most acclaimed science writers comes an entertaining look at the common cold—including the best advice on prevention and reducing symptoms.

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God and Sex: What the Bible Really Says
978-0-446-54525-9
$24.99
October 2010

A highly engaging examination of sex and the Bible, by one of the leading biblical scholars in the United States.

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Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices
9780446580571
$29.99 ($32.00 in Canada)
November 2010

A tiny, ebullient Jew who started as America’s leading liberal and ended as its most famous judicial conservative. A Klansman who became an absolutist advocate of free speech and civil rights. A backcountry lawyer who started off trying cases about cows and went on to conduct the most important international trial ever. A self-invented, tall-tale Westerner who narrowly missed the presidency but expanded individual freedom beyond what anyone before had dreamed.

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The Sherlockian: A Novel
0-446-57259-4
$24.99
December 2010

In December 1893, Sherlock Holmes-adoring Londoners eagerly opened their Strand magazines-- anticipating the detective's next adventure-- only to find the unthinkable: his creator, Arthur Conan Doyle, had killed their hero off. London spiraled into mourning -- crowds sported black armbands in grief -- and railed against Conan Doyle as his assassin.

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