8/21/2008

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ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN
1000 New Designs & Where to Find Them

Another 100 of the World's Best Houses

100 of the World's Best Bars

Objects of Design: The Museum of Modern Art

The A-Z of Modern Design

Miami Interiors

MiMo: Miami Modern Revealed

The New American Townhouse

Meditative Spaces

Design Like You Give a Damn: Architectural Responses to Humanitarian Crises

The World's Coolest Hotel Rooms (The Cool Hunter)

ART & PHOTOGRAPHY
Inheriting Beauty

Michael Thompson: Images by Michael Thompson

Tim Walker Pictures

A Century of Movie Posters: From Silent to Art House

Graffiti World: Street Art from Five Continents

BEAUTY
Plastic Surgery Without the Surgery: The Miracle of Makeup Techniques

The Beauty Myth

BUSINESS
The Whuffie Factor: Using the Power of Social Networks to Build Your Business

War PLC

Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

Inside the FDA: The Business & Politics Behind the Drugs We Take & the Food We Eat

Murder by Injection: The Story of the Medical Conspiracy Against America

On the Take: How Medicine's Complicity with Big Business Can Endanger Your Health

Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine

Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda

Over Dose: The Case Against the Drug Companies

Selling Sickness: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All Into Patients

The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About it

The Whistleblower: Confessions of a Healthcare Hitman

Den of Thieves

Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street

Ugly Americans: The True Story of the Ivy League Cowboys Who Raided the Asian Markets for Millions

Rigged: The True Story of an Ivy League Kid Who Changed the World of Oil

The Wolf of Wall Street

Chasing Cool

Raise the Floor: Wages and Policies That Work for All of Us

The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One: How Corporate Executives and Politicians Looted the S&L Industry

CELEBS
Hollywood Undercover

Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women

Shut Up & Smile: Supermodels, The Dark Side

King of Cons: Exposing the Dirty, Rotten Scandals of the Washington Elite and Hollywood Celebrities

Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins: The Autobiography

CULTURE & SOCIETY
Cults in Our Midst

They Call Me Naughty Lola: Personal Ads from the London Review of Books

Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions

DIET & NUTRITION
Eat to Live

Sick and Tired?: Reclaim Your Inner Terrain

Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone

Local Flavors: Cooking and Eating from America's Farmers' Markets

Greens Cookbook

The Produce Bible: Essential Ingredient Information and More Than 200 Recipes for Fruits, Vegetables, Herbs and Nuts

Breaking the Vicious Cycle: Intestinal Health Through Diet

Cooking With Coconut Flour: A Delicious Low-Carb, Gluten-Free Alternative to Wheat

What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutritional Medicine May Be Killing You

Fats That Heal, Fats That Kill

Know Your Fats: The Complete Primer for Understanding the Nutrition of Fats, Oils and Cholesterol

Your Body's Many Cries for Water

Encyclopedia of Nutritional Supplements

Special Diets for Special Kids

ECONOMICS / FINANCE
A Demon of Our Own Design: Markets, Hedge Funds and the Perils of Financial Innovation

Common Wealth

Free Lunch

Perfectly Legal

Traders, Guns & Money: Knowns and Unknowns in the Dazzling World of Derivatives

Crash Proof: How to Profit from the Coming Economic Collapse

Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism

The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

The Mind of the Market

FICTION
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

Paint it Black by Janet Fitch

White Oleander by Janet Fitch

Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith

The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff

Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen

In the Dark by Mark Billingham

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

The Wasted Vigil by Nadeem Aslam

HEALTH
The Naked Man: A Study of the Male Body

Woman: An Intimate Geography

The V Book

Bitter Pills

Death by Prescription: The Shocking Truth Behind an Overmedicated Nation

Celiac Disease: A Hidden Epidemic

MEMOIR
How to Lose Friends and Alienate People by Toby Young

Goat: A Memoir by Brad Land MUSIC
The James Brown Reader

POLITICS
American Theocracy

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush

Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich

The Tyranny of Dead Ideas

PSYCHOLOGY
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook

SCIENCE
Ice: Beauty, Danger, History

SEX
Sex Sex & More Sex

She Comes First: The Thinking Man's Guide to Pleasuring a Woman

The Multi-Orgasmic Couple: Sexual Secrets Every Couple Should Know

The Multi-Orgasmic Man: Sexual Secrets Every Man Should Know

Nerve's Guide to Sex Etiquette for Ladies and Gentlemen

THE ENVIRONMENT
The Great Warming

Heat: How to Stop the Planet From Burning

Ecoholic: Your Guide to the Most Environmentally Friendly Information, Products and Services in Canada

THE INTERNET
Mafiaboy: How I Cracked the Internet and Why It's Still Broken