The Information Bomb

The Information Bomb spans everything from Fukuyama to Larry Flynt. Virilio explores the dominion of techno-science, cyberwar and the new information technologies over our lives.

Code And Other Laws of Cyberspace
Lawrence Lessig
$16.00 pb / HBS $12.80

The man that the Washington Post called "one of the most brilliant legal minds of his generation" examines the common belief that cyberspace cannot be regulated, and is beyond the control of the government or anyone else. Lessig is a professor at Harvard Law School and a fellow of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

The Immaculate Invasion
Bob Shacochis
$14.95 pb / HBS $11.96

"Every war brings forth one perfect book.... Now we have The Immaculate Invasion, the masterpiece of the 1994 U.S. assault on and occupation of Haiti."--James Zug, Chicago Tribune

The Global Transformations Reader: An Introduction the the Globalization Debate
David Held and Anthony McGrew, Editors
$26.95 pb / HBS $21.56

This reader brings together the most original contributions from a range of disciplines, and from all sides of the argument about the forces and processes of contemporary globalization.

The dramatic story of interracial adoption at the turn of the century. Gordon brilliantly recreates and dissects the tangled intersection of family and racial values in a gripping story that resonates with today's conflicts over the "best interests of the child."

It Ain't Necessarily So: The Dream of the Human Genome and Other Illusions
Richard Lewontin
$24.95 / HBS $19.96

In these essays from The New York Review of Books, Lewontin casts an ever-vigilant and deflationary eye on the temptation to overstate the power of biology to explain everything we want to know about ourselves.

Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition
Wendell Berry
$21.00 / HBS $16.80

A thought-provoking and concise rebuttal to E.O. Wilson's Concilience. Berry demonstrates that Wilson's proposed reconciliation of science with religion and art is nothing more than the subjugation of the latter two. "Like Thoreau, he marches to a different drummer we would do well to be aware of."--San Francisco Chronicle

Norris seeks to bridge the divide between continental and Anglo-American analytic philosophy, challenging the notion that there is no room for productive engagement between mainstream analytic philosophers and post-Kantian continental thinkers.

Of Two Minds: The Growing Disorder in American Psychiatry
T.M. Luhrmann
$26.95 / HBS $21.56

Do we treat people's brains or their minds? Luhrmann places us at the heart of the struggle concerning mood-altering drugs, and the present state of psychiatry. Through extensive interviews and fieldwork, one of America's most respected anthropologists shows us how psychiatrists are trained, how they develop their particular way of interacting with patients, what makes a psychiatrist successful, and how the enormous ambiguities in the field affect its practitioners and patients.

The Students Are Watching: Schools and the Moral Concept
Theodore R. Sizer and Nancy Faust Sizer
$12.00 pb / HBS $9.60

In this groundbreaking book, the coprincipals of the Francis W. Parker Charter School show that students learn not just from their classes but from their school's routines and rituals, especially about matters of character. They convince us once again of what we may have forgotten: We need to create schools that constantly demonstrate a belief in their students.

A Marxist counterattack on the onslaught of obscurantism, from New Age paganism to the emerging religious sensitivity within deconstructionism itself. "Zizek will entertain and offend, but never bore."--The Stranger

Indivisible by Four: A String Quartet in Pursuit of Harmony
Arnold Steinhardt
$14.00 pb / HBS $11.20

A story from the inside of the Guarneri Quartet, fabled for its unique longevity and high-spirited virtuosity. Steinhardt reveals the process by which four individualists master and then overcome the confining demands of ensemble playing.

A recent surge of popular interest in Melville calls for Hardwick's rich analysis of "the whole of Melville's works, uneven as it is, and the challenging shape of his life...a story of the creative history of an extraordinary American genius."

Home and Exile
Chinua Achebe
$18.95 / HBS $15.16

Renowned African novelist Achebe reveals the inner workings of the human conscience through the predicament of Africa and his own intellectual life.

Trading Twelves: The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray
Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray
$24.95 / HBS $19.96

Two great American writers spill it all--their struggles, frustrations, ambitions, fears, literary gossip, opinions on jazz, and photography--in an ecstatic exchange of ideas and emotions.

Writing New York: A Literary Anthology

An expanisve range of more than one hundred voices, including Mary McCarthy, Edgar Allen Poe, Langston Hughes, Henry James, E.B. White, Edna St. Vincent Millay, John Cheever and many others.

The Best of The Nation 1990-2000: Selections from the Independent Magazine of Politics and Culture
Victor Navasky and Katrina Vanden Heuvel, Editors
$18.95 pb/ HBS $15.16

Contributors include Susan Faludi, Gore Vidal, Barbara Ehrenreich, Molly Ivins, Katha Pollitt, Edward Said, Christopher Hitchens, and Toni Morrison.