The Outsourced Self: What Happens When We Pay Others to Live Our Lives for Us
CURRENT EVENTS
by Arlie Russell Hochschild
available in April, paperback, Macmillan
"What happens to us as we outsource more and more of our personal—even intimate—tasks to paid 'coaches,' caretakers, companions, event planners and third world surrogate mothers? It takes a social thinker of great stature and scope to tackle this question, and a writer of immense charm to make the answer riveting. Arlie Hochschild is both, and this may be her best book ever." —Barbara Ehrenreich
Little America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Hacking Your Education: Ditch the Lectures, Save Tens of Thousands, and Learn More Than Your Peers Ever Will
by Dale J. Stephens
available in March, paperback, Penguin
Hackademics abandon society's linear path to success and bend institutions to fit their reality. The rules are quickly changing, and this is a handbook for the new order, packed with practical tips to succeed. Stephens helps readers thrive in a modern global economy by preparing them with the skills that schools aren't teaching but are requisite for success in the real world.
available in March, paperback, Vintage
Rajiv Chandrasekaran focuses on southern Afghanistan in the year of Obama's surge, and reveals the epic tug of war that occurred between the president and a military that, once on the ground, increasingly went its own way. This political battle's profound ramifications for the region and the world are laid bare through a cast of fascinating characters.
Race to Incarcerate: A Graphic Retelling
by Marc Mauer and Sabrina Jones available in April, paperback, The New Press
More than 2 million people are now imprisoned in the U.S., the highest rate of incarceration in the world. Michelle Alexander, author of the bestselling The New Jim Crow, calls the original edition of this book‚ "utterly indispensable." Comic artist Jones has collaborated with Mauer to update the book into a vivid comics narrative of the four decades of destructive prison expansion.
HEALTH
America's Deadliest Export: Democracy—The Truth About U.S. Foreign Policy and Everything Else by William Blum
available now, paperback, Macmillan
For over 65 years, the United States war machine has been on auto-pilot. Since World War II, the world has believed that U.S. foreign policy means well, and that America's motives in spreading democracy are honorable, even noble. William Blum demonstrates that nothing could be further from the truth.
The International Bank of Bob: Connecting Our Worlds One $25 Kiva Loan at a Time by Bob Harris
available in March, hardcover, Macmillan
After making hundreds of microloans online, Bob wanted to see the results first-hand, and in The International Bank of Bob he travels from Peru and Bosnia to Rwanda and Cambodia, introducing us to some of the most inspiring and enterprising people we've ever met, while illuminating day-today life—political and emotional—in parts of the world that Americans never see.
Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us by Michael Moss
available now, hardcover, Random House
This is the troubling story of the rise of the processed food industry and how it used salt, sugar and fat to addict us. From a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative reporter at The New York Times, this eye-opening book reveals how the makers of these foods have chosen to double down on their efforts to increase consumption and profits, gambling that consumers and regulators wouldn't figure them out.
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