Social science

Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation

von Michael Pollan

In Cooked, Michael Pollan explores the previously uncharted territory of his own kitchen. Here, he discovers the enduring power of the four classical elements-fire, water, air, and earth-to transform the stuff...

Control: Exposing the Truth About Guns

von Glenn Beck

When our founding fathers secured the Constitutional “right of the people to keep and bear arms,” they also added the admonition that this right SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED.

It is the only time this phrase appears...

Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality

von Christopher Ryan & Cacilda Jetha

Since Darwin's day, we've been told that sexual monogamy comes naturally to our species. Mainstream science—as well as religious and cultural institutions—has maintained that men and women evolved in families...

AA to Z: An Addictionary of the 12-Step Culture

von Christopher Cavanaugh

What does a codependent say to his mate when he wakes up?  

"Good  morning, how am I?"

--Overheard at a Codependents Anonymous meeting

Throughout the world today, more than two million alcoholics and hundreds...

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity

National Book Award for Non-Fiction 2012, Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest 2012

von Katherine Boo

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST

NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY

The New York Times • The Washington Post • O: The Oprah Magazine • USA Today •...

Eating Animals

von Jonathan Safran Foer

Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his teenage and college years oscillating between omnivore and vegetarian. But on the brink of fatherhood-facing the prospect of having to make dietary choices on a child's...

Chuck Klosterman on Media and Culture: A Collection of Previously Published Essays

von Chuck Klosterman

From Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs; Chuck Klosterman IV; and Eating the Dinosaur, these essays are now available in this ebook collection for fans of Klosterman’s writing on media and culture.

Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

von Chuck Klosterman

From the kid who brought you Fargo Rock City -- the first book in history to garner the praise of Stephen King, David Byrne, Donna Gaines, Sebastian Bach, Jonathan Lethem, and Rivers Cuomo -- comes Sex, Drugs,...

Blind Into Baghdad: America's War in Iraq

von James Fallows

In the autumn of 2002, Atlantic Monthly national correspondent James Fallows wrote an article predicting many of the problems America would face if it invaded Iraq. After events confirmed many of his predictions,...

The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America

von David Stockman

A New York Times bestseller

The Great Deformation is a searing look at Washington’s craven response to the recent myriad of financial crises and fiscal cliffs. It counters conventional wisdom with an eighty-year...

Morals and Dogma

von Albert Pike

Morals and Dogma has been described as "a collection of thirty-two essays which provide a philosophical rationale for the degrees (membership levels) of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite. The lectures provided...

Manifesto of the Communist Party

von Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels

The Communist Manifesto was first published on February 21, and it is one of the world's most influential political tracts. Commissioned by the Communist League and written by communist theorists Karl Marx and...

Foodopoly: The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in America

von Wenonah Hauter

Wenonah Hauter is the executive director of Food & Water Watch, but she also runs an organic family farm in Northern Virginia that provides healthy vegetables to over five hundred families in the Washington,...

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest 1997

von Anne Fadiman

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction

When three-month-old Lia Lee Arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion from which...

The American Practical Navigator

von Nathaniel Bowditch

This is the best selling boating book ever. 1,000,000 copies sold over 200 years. Everything a marine navigator could possibly need to know. Updated by National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency USA Government...

Going Natural: How to Fall in Love with Nappy Hair

von Mireille Liong-A-Kong

With 73 percent of African American women suffering from hair breakage due to the use of straightening chemicals, this guide is the perfect resource to help them on their endeavor to go natural. The book not...

The Crisis in Drug Prohibition

von David Boaz

Many of those converts, who have given the idea its new respectability, are included in this book: Baltimore mayer Kurt Schmoke, Nobel laureate Milton Friedman, columnists Anthony Lewis and William F. Buckley,...

The Whole Lesbian Sex Book: A Passionate Guide for All of Us

von Felice Newman

The Whole Lesbian Sex Book was the first-ever sex guide to offer information and encouragement for all women who desire women — lesbian, bisexual, butch, femme, androgynous, and transgender. First published...

The 9/11 Commission Report

von 9/11 Commission

Contains the final report of the he National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (also known as the 9-11 Commission), an independent, bipartisan commission created by congressional legislation...

Australia - The Immigrant's Guide to Retail - Volume I

von Hymie Zawatzky

Retail is a real challenge in Australia. With migration to Australia, the opening of retail businesses by these new arrivals has been one of the driving factors in the growth of Australian retail sector This...