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Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future

Bill Mckibben

Business & Investing

St. Martin's Griffin

"Masterfully crafted, deeply thoughtful and mind-expanding.""--Los Angeles Times" In this powerful and provocative manifesto, Bill McKibben offers the biggest challenge in a generation to the prevailing view of our economy. "Deep Economy "makes the compelling case for moving beyond "growth" as the paramount economic ideal and pursuing prosperity in a more local direction, with regions producing more of their own food, generating more of their own energy, and even creating more of their own culture and entertainment. Our purchases need not be at odds with the things we truly value, McKibben argues, and the more we nurture the essential humanity of our economy, the more we will recapture our own.

The Design of Everyday Things

Donald Norman

Business & Investing

Doubleday Business

A popular, entertaining, and insightful analysis of why some products satisfy customers while others only frustrate them.
B & W photographs and illustrations throughout.

The Desire to Heal: A Doctor's Education in Empathy, Identity, and Poetry

Rafael Campo

Biographies & Memoirs

W.W. Norton & Co.

Rafael Campo, the author of "The Other Man Was Me" and "What the Body Told", is both a doctor and an important contemporary poet. In "The Desire to Heal", he uses his gift for language to delineate and explicate the connections between his two vocations, writing and healing, and his roles as a gay man and an educator. Campo's topic is always the body; he understands its fragility and resistance, its power and grace. His prose is precise and poetic, and his insights are revelations. "The Desire to Heal" is a work of literary grace and compassion--a memoir that illuminates the world with new light and urgency.

The Development of Children

Michael Cole, Sheila R. Cole, Cynthia Lightfoot

Worth Publishers

The Development of Children

Michael Cole, Sheila R. Cole, Cynthia Lightfoot

Health, Mind & Body

Worth Publishers

Through four editions, "The Development of Children" has provided students and instructors with a rigorous textbook that encompasses both scientific research and the authors’ years of practical experience. For the "Fifth Edition", Michael and Shelia Cole are joined by Cynthia Lightfoot, whose expertise and engaging style further enhances this well-respected book. Throughout the text, all three authors encourage students to better understand their own lives, as well as the process of development.

The Disappearance of Seth

Kazim Ali

Etruscan Press

“The reader will see that such a desire infuses language with a passion for breathing and utterance equally.”—Fanny Howe
“A beautifully cadenced and charmed performance by a young writer of great soul and promise.”—Carole Maso
"The Disappearance of Seth" tells the interlocking stories of five New Yorkers, stumbling through their lives in the aftermath of the events of September 11 and connected by the paths of two figures—Seth, an alienated young man struggling to come to terms with his own penchant for violence, and Layla, an Iraqi artist who fled the violence of the first Gulf War and made a new home for herself in New York City. Written by a Muslim American, "The Disappearance of Seth" features characters both Muslim and non-Muslim, American and non-American in an arresting portrait of life in America at the beginning of the millennium. A lyrical, hypnotic narrative reminiscent of Sherman Alexie or Junot Díaz, it attempts to historicize the political events of recent years with the personal struggles of its protagonists.
Kazim Ali is the author of two poetry collections and the novel "Quinn’s Passage". He teaches at Oberlin College and the Stonecoast MFA program and is a founding editor of Nightboat Books.

Diversity and Society: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender

Joseph F. Healey

Nonfiction

Pine Forge Press

Diversity and Society: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender is derived from the Third Edition of Joseph Healey’s best-selling text Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Class. This brief edition retains the conceptual frameworks and organizational format of the larger version and highlights a few powerful theories and concepts rather than trying to cover all possible sociological paradigms.

Diversity and Society uses sociological theory to present and analyze the experiences of American minority groups as well as group relations around the globe. The book uses a macro-sociological, historical, comparative approach and de-emphasizes social-psychological concepts such as prejudice. Written in an accessible format, this relatively brief book will engage students and broaden their understanding of the past and present forces that have created and sustained the racial and ethnic groups that compose American society.

Features and Benefits:Each chapter includes opening photos that set the stage for the chapter contents.Chapter 5 contains new research on social networks and jobs."Focus On" boxes within the chapters offer enhanced coverage of gender and comparative issues.Review questions and Web-based research exercises at the end of each chapter encourage students to think critically about key issues.A new companion reader, Race, Ethnicity, and Gender: Selected Readings with Narrative Portraits, Current Debates and additional readings is also available and can be used alone or in conjunction with Diversity and Society. An online Student Study Site is available for students to test their knowledge with interactive quizzes.An Instructor’s Manual on CD-ROM provides instructors with examination questions, additional background material on discussion questions in the text, and other helpful aids.

Diversity and Society is an excellent text for undergraduate courses on ethnic, gender, minority relations and related topics.

Dog Years: A Memoir

Mark Doty

Harper Perennial

When Mark Doty decides to adopt a dog as a companion for his dying partner, he brings home Beau, a large, malnourished golden retriever in need of loving care. Joining Arden, the black retriever, to complete their family, Beau bounds back into life. Before long, the two dogs become Doty's intimate companions, and eventually the very life force that keeps him from abandoning all hope during the darkest days.
"Dog Years" is a poignant, intimate memoir interwoven with profound reflections on our feelings for animals and the lessons they teach us about living, love, and loss.

Domesticity and Power in the Early Mughal World

Ruby Lal

Arts & Photography

Cambridge University Press

Ruby Lal explores domestic life and the place of women in the Mughal court of the sixteenth century. Challenging traditional, orientalist interpretations of the haram that have portrayed a domestic world of seclusion and sexual exploitation, she reveals a complex society where noble men and women negotiated their everyday life and public-political affairs. Combining Ottoman and Safavid histories, she demonstrates the richness as well as ambiguity of the Mughal haram, which was pivotal in the transition to institutionalization and imperial excellence.

The Doomsday Myth: 10,000 Years of Economic Crises

Charles Maurice, Charles W. Smithson

Business & Investing

Hoover Institution Press

In "The Doomsday Myth", Charles Maurice and Charles Smithson show that although doom merchants have been predicting imminent collapse from resource shortages as long as civilization has existed, no nation has ever fallen because of the depletion of a resource. They also show that government intervention has not been the solution to these crises. Instead, freely functioning markets with individuals acting in their own self-interest have eliminated shortages, and averted doomsday. The free market theme is the same one used by Adam Smith in "The Wealth of Nations" in 1776, but the need to restate it for new generations is urgent. The authors concluded that a resource-based doomsday will arrive only if we suspend the functioning of free markets.

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

Barack Obama

Biographies & Memoirs

Three Rivers Press

In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father—a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man—has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey—first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother’s family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his father’s life, and at last reconciles his divided inheritance.

Pictured in lefthand photograph on cover: Habiba Akumu Hussein and Barack Obama, Sr. (President Obama's paternal grandmother and his father as a young boy). Pictured in righthand photograph on cover: Stanley Dunham and Ann Dunham (President Obama's maternal grandfather and his mother as a young girl).

Drugs and the Human Body with Implicatons for Society

Ken Liska

Health, Mind & Body

Prentice Hall

A book loaded with facts about drugs in our culture, "Drugs and the Human Body" contains current applications of drugs in our society and up-to-date topics. Written by a health professional, its clear, comprehensive style is well-suited to many different readers. The material is presented in a thorough manner but is not bogged down with unnecessary detail. Comprehensive chapters cover such topics as: what a drug is; where they come from; federal laws; drug metabolism; narcotic analgesics; stimulants; barbiturates; alcohol; tranquilizers; marijuana; hallucinogens, street drugs, designer drugs, club drugs, and predatory drugs; the contraceptive pill; non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs; and other over-the-counter drugs and chemicals. With its complete appendices, this book is invaluable as a reference work for nurses, aides, and other medical personnel, family counselors, drug/alcohol abuse counselors, public health administrators, health educators.

Dude, Where's My Country?

Michael Moore

Entertainment

Warner Books

From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Stupid White Men comes a hilarious act of sedition to overthrow the 'Thief in Chief'-and effect the kind of change that just may save the country. Michael Moore is on a mission: He aims to unseat the man who slithered into the White House on tracks laid by guilty Enron execs and greased with his daddy's oil associations. And as for 'The Left,' they're just as satisfied to stand idly by as the chasm between the 'haves' and 'have nots' grows wider and wider. That's right, Michael Moore is back with a new book that reveals what's gone wrong in America and, more importantly, how it can be fixed. In his characteristic style that is at once fearless and funny, Moore takes readers on another wild ride to the political edge of righteous laughter and divine revenge.

E-Commerce 2009

Kenneth Laudon, Carol Guercio Traver

Business & Investing

Prentice Hall

This comprehensive, market-leading text emphasizes the three major driving forces behind e-commerce to provide a coherent conceptual framework for understanding the field: technology change, business development, and social issues.
Technology Infrastructure for E-commerce; the Internet and WWW; Building and E-commerce web site; Security and Payment; Business Concepts and Social Issues; Online Retailing and Services; Online Content and Media; Social Networks, Auctions, and Portals; B2B Ecommerce
For anyone looking for an up-to-date book that covers the three major driving forces behind e-commerce, technology change, business development, and social issues, to provide a coherent conceptual framework for understanding the field.