Barbara Ehrenreich's New York Times bestselling Bright-sided is a sharp-witted knockdown of America's love affair
with positive thinking and an urgent call for a new commitment to realism Americans are a positive people — cheerful, optimistic, and upbeat: This is ...
It's easy to live in the moment when you're immersed in Ackerman's glorious prose. —Washington
PostIn an eye-opening sequence of personal meditations through the cycle of seasons, one of our most celebrated storyteller-poet-naturalists awakens us to the world at dawn. ...
Examining the causes of the acute Latin American debt crisis that began in mid-1982, North
American analysts have typically focused on deficiencies in the debtor countries' economic policies and on shocks from the world economy. Much less emphasis has been ...
Part memoir and part investigative report, Eating Animals is the groundbreaking moral examination of vegetarianism,
farming, and the food we eat every day that inspired the documentary of the same name. Bestselling author Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his ...
“One of New York Times Top 10 Books of 2009” (Dwight Garner)"Captivating... By turns edgy,
moving, and hilarious, Farm City marks the debut of a striking new voice in American writing." —Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore's Dilemma and Food ...
In this exhaustive and enlightening biography—nearly two decades in the making—Gerald Martin dexterously traces the
life and times of one of the twentieth century’s greatest literary titans, Nobel Prize-winner Gabriel García Márquez. Martin chronicles the particulars of an ...
Award winning title! 'Globalization and Development' was selected as a 2003 'Notable Government Document' by
the American Librarian Association (ALA) and GODORT (Government Documents Round Table). In this book, the UNECLAC (United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the ...
How an evolving relationship with China and India is changing Latin America's political and economic
dynamics. In the years since China has adopted a going global strategy to promote its overseas investment, expand export markets, and gain much-needed access to ...
