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Pages: 98, Paperback, Ancestry.com

Pages: 352, Hardcover, W. W. Norton & Company

Our newest Nobel Prize-winning economist shows how today''s crisis parallels the events that caused the Great Depression-and explains what it will take to avoid catastrophe.

“A lively new book . . . [that] readers will enjoy sprinting through.�—Jordan Ellenberg, New York Times Book Review

Insouciant, sexy, funny, and dead-on . . . a startlingly empathetic series of concise and slashing poems.

The Birders United Web site founder and author of Birds of the Sea, Shore, and Tundra presents a treasury of water-bird photography as taken throughout four continents, in a volume that includes essay-complemented shots of such exotic varieties as...(more)

Challenges popular beliefs about dire food shortages, outlining possible solutions based on actual western-world consumption, in a report that tours the world`s food industry to reveal how hunger issues could be amply addressed by strategically...(more)

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Sandra Bullock and Tim McGraw, The Blind Side tells the inspirational story of Michael Oher, a homeless black teen who, with the help of his new family, coaches, and tutors, becomes a star football player...(more)

Hage''s look at the underbelly of organized religion and immigrant life in Canada is unflinching and grim. . . . Cockroach''s finely wrought scenes build in tension toward a conclusion that''s fitting and yet...(more)

Long overlooked in American culture, African-American beauty finally get its due in this landmark work. Featuring the works of more than 100 photographers, Willis''s book challenges assumptions about what it means to be beautiful.