Society

The Opening
Brothel: Mustang Ranch and Its Women
by Alexa Albert, M.D.
When Harvard medical student Alexa Albert conducted a public-health study as the Mustang Ranch brothel in Nevada, the only state in the union where prostitution is legal, neither she nor the brothel could have predicted the end result.

The Great Story of Our Era: Average People Better Off
The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse
by Gregg Easterbrook
Gregg Easterbrook draws upon three decades of wide-ranging research and thinking to make the persuasive assertion that almost all aspects of Western life have vastly improved in the past century - and yet today, most men and women feel less happy

Through the Looking Glass
The Death of Right and Wrong: Exposing the Left's Assault on Our Culture and Values
by Tammy Bruce
If you believe children should be seduced into warped sexual behavior by the Gay Elite, if you think confessed murderers should be set free by defense attorneys who know how to wield the race card, if you feel promiscuous gay men should be empowered

Part 1
Shutting Out the Sun; How Japan Created Its Own Lost Generation
by Michael Zielenziger
The world's second-wealthiest country, Japan once seemed poised to overtake America as the leading global economic powerhouse. But the country failed to recover from the staggering economic collapse of the early 1990s.

Part 1
Primary Colors; A Novel of Politics
by Joe Klein
A brilliant and penetrating look behind the scenes of modern American politics, Primary Colors is a funny, wise, and dramatic story with characters and events that resemble some familiar, real-life figures.

Prologue
The Running Mate
by Joe Klein
Acclaimed journalist and author Joe Klein returns with another brilliant and slyly subversive novel set in the gladiatorial arena he knows so well: politics in modern-day America. U.S. senator Charlie Martin is a hot political property, dashing, honorable

The Burden of Southern History
Politics Lost: From RFK to W: How Politicians Have Become Less Courageous and More Interested in Keeping Power than in Doing What's Right for America
by Joe Klein
People on the right are furious. People on the left are livid. And the center isn't holding. There is only one thing on which almost everyone agrees: there is something very wrong in Washington. The country is being run by pollsters.

Prologue
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
by Barack Obama
In July 2004, Barack Obama electrified the Democratic National Convention with an address that spoke to Americans across the political spectrum. One phrase in particular anchored itself in listeners' minds

Which Way to the Promised Land?
Yet A Stranger: Why Black Americans Still Don't Feel at Home
by Deborah Mathis
Forty years after the Civil Rights movement, divisions between white and black America still remain. Whites feel that 'progress' has mostly solved the problem, but blacks know all too well that it has addressed only the surface symptoms of racism.

Crime and Its Causes
by William Douglas Morrison
This volume, as its title indicates, is occupied with an examination of some of the principal causes of crime, and is designed as an introduction to the study of criminal questions in general.

Girls and Women
by Harriet E. Paine
I cannot say how it is in other places, but every one who knows much of society girls in Boston must have been struck with a certain earnest note which sounds through all their frivolity. Few of them are satisfied to be simply society girls.

An Uncovered Self
by Kenji Yoshino
In this remarkable and elegant work, acclaimed Yale Law School professor Kenji Yoshino fuses legal manifesto and poetic memoir to call for a redefinition of civil rights in our law and culture.

Equal = Equal
The 51% Minority; How Women Still Are Not Equal and What You Can Do About It
by Lis Wiehl
Women make up 51% of the American population, yet still aren't treated equally to men in areas that matter most. In this provocative new book, Lis Wiehl, one of the country's top federal prosecutors, reveals the legal and social inequalities women

Part 1
A Match Made in Heaven: American Jews, Christian Zionists, and One Man's Exploration of the Weird and Wonderful Judeo-Evangelical Alliance
by Zev Chafets
In a time of jihad 'against Jews and Crusaders,' the Jews of America and Israel find themselves with a powerful albeit unlikely ally: tens of millions of American evangelicals. As the conflict in the Middle East roils and divisions harden, Israel

Taking the Lead
Stand For Something: The Battle for America's Soul
by John Kasich
John Kasich calls it like he sees it. A former longtime U.S. congressman, a respected author and popular television host, Kasich has been around the neighborhood a few times.

Part One
740 Park: The Story of the World's Richest Apartment Building
by Michael Gross
For seventy-five years, it's been Manhattan's richest apartment building, and one of the most lusted-after addresses in the world. One apartment had 37 rooms, 14 bathrooms, 43 closets, 11 working fireplaces, a private elevator, and his-and-hers saunas

Teaching Black Children to Love Themselves
Strength for Their Journey: 5 Essential Disciplines African-American Parents Must Teach Their Children and Teens
by Robert L. Johnson, M.D., Paulette Stanford, M.D.
In this opening chapter, we talk about the importance of fostering self-love in children. We explore the special challenges parents who raise black boys and girls face, and show you how to construct the towers of self-love: resilience and self-esteem.

Narcissism
The End of Blackness: Returning the Souls of Black Folk to Their Rightful Owners
by Debra Dickerson
What is racism but a fascination with oneself? Why, a seventeenth-century European newly arrived in Africa must have mused, are these odd creatures not pale, not straight-haired, not freckled, not wearing filthy pantaloons, and not praying to two pieces

Taking the Words Out Of Black Mouths
The End of Blackness: Returning the Souls of Black Folk to Their Rightful Owners
by Debra Dickerson
Black people are not crazy. They're not paranoid. They're punch-drunk, or as Carter G. Woodson put it, 'the Negro's mind has been brought under the control of his oppressor. The problem of holding the Negro down, therefore, is easily solved.

Eminem: The New White Negro
Everything But the Burden: What White People Are Taking from Black Culture
by Greg Tate (Editor)
Pentheus, the protagonist of Euripides' The Bacchae, was a young moralist and anarchical warrior who sought to abolish the worship of Dionysus (god of tradition, or perhaps better said, god of the re-cyclical, who causes the loss of individual identity