November's Featured Non-Fiction Titles:
	All Souls: A Family Story From Southie by Michael Patrick McDonald Published by Beacon Press, hardcover Regular Price: $24.00 Our Price: $19.20 Impassioned, brilliant personal storytelling - the author's life cycle from a childhood in insular South Boston, to the race and class wars of the 1970s and their tragic effect on his family, to his eventual escape. Now an anti-violence activist in Southie, MacDonald brings us back to the neighborhood he can't help but love.		Alterity and Transcendence by Emanuel Levinas Published by Columbia University, hardcover Regular Price: $29.50 Our Price: $23.60 An acclaimed philosopher makes an impassioned case for the reality of transcendence in our times - as a commitment not to lofty higher powers but to our mortal relationships with others.
	The Arcades Project by Walter Benjamin Published by Harvard University Press, hardcover Regular Price: $39.95 Our Price: $31.96 In the glass-roofed shops that were early centers of consumerism in nineteenth-century Paris, Benjamin finds a decisive shift to the modern age. This montage of quotations and reflections on hundreds of published sources is a unique representation and critique of the bourgeois experience.		The Basque History of the World by Mark Kurlansky Published by Walker, hardcover Regular Price: $25.00 Our Price: $20.00 Human, economic, political, literary, and culinary history blended into a rich and heroic tale.
	The Best American Essays 1999 edited by Edward Hoagland and Robert Atwan Published by Houghton Mifflin, paperback Regular Price: $13.00 Our Price: $10.40 A wonderfully diverse collection, featuring such respected writers as Joan Didion, Annie Dillard, Ian Frazier, Mary Gordon, and Arthur Miller, and introducing us to a fine array of talented new voices.		Between Vengeance and Forgiveness: Facing History After Genocide and Mass Violence by Martha Minow Published by Beacon, paperback Regular Price: $15.00 Our Price: $12.00 Truth commissions in Argentina, East Germany, and South Africa; war-crime prosecutions in Nuremburg and Bosnia; reparations in America. A human legal mind examines our attempts to heal after large-scale tragedy.
	The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy by Nicholas Lemann Published by FSG, hardcover Regular Price: $27.00 Our Price: $21.60 The ideas, the people, and the politics behind a fifty-year-old utopian social experiment that changed modern America. The secret history of the Educational Testing Service is told through vibrant storytelling and thematic analysis.		The Code Book by Simon Singh Published by Doubleday, hardcover Regular Price: $24.95 Our Price: $19.96 A sweeping view of the subject of encryption, revealing its historic contributions to linguistics and computation, as well as its more dramatic effects on the outcomes of wars, monarchies and individual lives. It will forever alter your view of history and what drives it, and make you question just how private that email you just sent really is.
	The Cost of Living by Arundhati Roy Published by Modern Library, paperback Regular Price: $11.95 Our Price: $9.56 Merging her inimitable voice with moral outrage, imaginative sweep, and acrobatic language, Roy peels away her country's mask of democracy and prosperity to show the true cost of India's massive dam projects and first nuclear bomb.		The Elizabeth Cady Stanton-Susan B. Anthony Reader edited by Ellen Dubois Published by Northeastern, hardcover Regular Price: $15.95 Our Price: $12.76 "It is the way Dubois has chosen and positioned the letters and speeches that one feels most strongly the intelligent love she bears Stanton and Anthony" - Vivian Gornick, New York Times Book Review
	Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love by Dava Sobel Published by Walker, hardcover Regular Price: $27.00 Our Price: $21.60 Translated into English for the first time, Galileo's letters to his daughter are woven into a powerful and original biography.		Gore Vidal: A Biography by Fred Kaplan Published by Doubleday, hardcover Regular Price: $35.00 Our Price: $28.00 An accurate and entertaining picture of the culture critic, historian, comic satirist, image maker, homosexual, bisexual, controversial, confrontational, unflinching, cynical, idealistic chameleon and literary giant.
	The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity by Roy Porter Published by Norton, paperback Regular Price: $17.95 Our Price: $14.36 From the Hippocratic Oath to the muddy ethical dilemmas of modern-day medicine, Ray Porter's charting of the evolution of medicine affords us an opportunity as never before to assess its culture and science and its costs and benefits.		High-Tech Heretic: Why Computers Don't Belong in the Classroom and Other Reflections By A Computer Contrarian by Clifford Stoll Published by Doubleday, hardcover Regular Price: $24.95 Our Price: $19.96 A thorough detonation of the hype surrounding computers, this book punctures the exaggerated benefits of the machines that have encroached on our lives.
	Hip-Hop America by Nelson George Published by Penguin, paperback Regular Price: $13.95 Our Price: $11.16 An insider's tour through a multimedia presentation of which rap music is the only audible manifestation, and also includes fashion, entrepreneurship, drugs, basketball, incarceration, and language.		I Will Beat Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years 1933-1941 by Victor Klemperer Published by Vintage, paperback Regular Price: $14.95 Our Price: $11.96 "This is color film of Nazi Germany after years of black and white...Klemperer's diary deserves to rank alongside that of Anne Frank" - Philip Kerr, London Sunday Times
	Intelligence Reframed: Multiple Intelligences for the 21st Century by Howard Gardner Published by Basic Books, hardcover Regular Price: $27.50 Our Price: $22.00 A much-needed report on the theory, its evolutions and revisions.		Iris And Her Friends: A Memoir of Memory and Desire by John Bayley Published by Norton, hardcover Regular Price: $22.95 Our Price: $18.26 Deepens the story of the extraordinary partnership between the author and his wife, novelist Iris Murdoch, first remembered in Elegy For Iris. As Murdoch succumbs to the terminal stages of Alzheimer's disease, Bayley is flooded with long-buried memories of his own - an inverse relationship in a classic of true love and sorrow.
	Kant & the Platypus: Essays by Umberto Eco Published by Harcourt Brace, hardcover Regular Price: $28.00 Our Price: $22.40 Philosophical and amusing. A series of common-sense explorations of perception and the relationship between language and experience. These yield an abundance of illustrative fables, often with animal protagonists. A position of prominence is reserved for the platypus.		King of the World by David Remnick Published by Vintage, paperback Regular Price: $13.00 Our Price: $10.40 Charts Muhammad Ali's rise to fame and his transformation of American attitudes and popular culture. Astute portrait of the era as well as the athlete, doing justice to to Ali's speed, grace, courage, humor, and ebullience.
	Lanterns: A Memoir of Mentors by Marian Wright Edelman Published by Beacon Press, hardcover Regular Price: $20.00 Our Price: $16.00 Stories from the author's life at the center of this century's civil rights struggles pay tribute to the mentors who helped light her way, including Dr. Benjamin E. Mays, Howard Zinn, Fannie Lou Hamer, Robert F. Kennedy, and Ella Baker.		Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong by James W. Loewen Published by New Press, hardcover Regular Price: $26.95 Our Price: $21.56 Startling revelations about sites we think we know: Valley Forge, Abraham Lincoln's log cabin, the Intrepid. Untold stories about the American past are brought to light, raising questions about what we as a nation choose to commemorate.
	The Lost Tomb by Kent R. Weeks Published by Morrow, paperback Regular Price: $16.00 Our Price: $12.80 "Kent Weeks' chronicle of the largest known tomb in the Valley of the Kings, its discovery and excavation, its context in the history of ancient Egypt, is an enthralling volume - an adventure story that is both captivating and scholarly." - Hugh Downs		Martin Heidegger: Between Good and Evil by Rudiger Safranski Published by Havard, paperback Regular Price: $17.95 Our Price: $14.36 "It is the first comprehensive biography of the man...and it offers a detailed account of Heidegger's intellectual development - relating his twists and turns, with great skill and remarkable concision." - Richard Rorty, New York Times Book Review
	Mobilizing Resentment: Conservative Resurgence from the John Birch Society to the Promise Keepers by Jean Hardesty Published by Beacon press, hardcover Regular Price: $25.00 Our Price: $20.00 An in-depth picture of the human element in right-wing movements, and a progressive map of current political battles.		A Necessary Evil by Garry Wills Published by Simo & Schuster, hardcover Regular Price: $25.00 Our Price: $20.00 An examination of anti-government attitudes from the colonial revolt to present-day justifications for gun-owning and term limits. Using a broad range of historical examples, Wills uncovers simple truths in our history to surprise us continually abou its larger meaning.
	The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story by Michael Lewis Published by Norton, hardcover Regular Price: $25.95 Our Price: $20376 A ride through a strange landscape of geeks and billionaires, the inside story of the battle between Netscape and Microsoft.		New York: An Illustrated History by Ric Burns and James Sanders Published by Knopf, hardcover Regular Price: $60.00 Our Price: $48.00 A lavish and handsomely produced portrait of the city that has epitomized the entire parade of modern life. Essays by prominent New Yorkers, including Robert A. Caro and Robert A.M. Stern. A companion volume to the 12-hour PBS television series.
	Not For Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns Published by Knopf, hardcover Regular Price: $35.00 Our Price: $28.00 The relationship between two women and its effect on the suffrage movement are richly depicted vy Ward and Burns, and in accompanying essays by Ellen Carol DuBois, Ann D. Gordon, and Martha Saxton. The companion volume to the forthcoming film on PBS.		One Nation Under God?: Religion and American Culture by Marjorie Garber and Rebecca L. Walkowitz Introduction by Cornel West Published by Routledge, paperback Regular Price: $19.99 Our Price: $15.99 From the relationship between law and religion to the sacralization of Elvis, a wide-ranging consideration of how the secular and the sacred converge in America's religious experience.
	Pharaohs of the Sun: Akhenaten, Nefertiti, and Tutankhamen by Rita Freed, et al. Published by Museum of Fine Arts, hardcover Regular Price: $60.00 Our Price: $48.80 Essays by leading Egyptian scholars describe the Amarna Perios of ancient Egypt, a time of unprecedented change in Egyptian art and architecture, technology, the role of women, and religion. Accompanies the millennial exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts.		Reading Rilke: Reflections on the Problems of Translation by Wiliam H. Gass Published by Knopf, hardcover Regular Price: $25.00 Our Price: $20.00 The greatly admired essayist, novelist, and philosopher, author of Finding A Form, reflects on the art of translation and on Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies - and gives us his own translations of Rilke's masterwork.
	The River: A Journey to the Source of HIV and AIDS by Edward Hooper Published by Little Brown, hardcover Regular Price: $35.00 Our Price: $28.00 Meticulously researched and highly readable, drawing on more than 4,000 sources and 600 interviews. A provocative true-life medical detective story investigating the most terrible epidemic in the 20th Century.		Shadows in the Sun: Travels to Landscapes of Spirit and Desire by Wade Davis Published by Broadway Books, paperback Regular Price:$13.00 Our Price: $10.40 Inspired by cultures as diverse as the Inuit of the Arctic and Haitian Voodoo practitioners, an homage to the wisdom of lives lived hand in hand with the unseen. By the globe-hopping author of The Serpent and the Rainbow.
	20th Century Dreams by Nik Cohn and Guy Peellaert Published by Knopf, paperback Regular Price:$25.00 Our Price: $20.00 From Elvis to Einstein, Max Vail knew everyone - kept their secrets, did their deals, and never forgot where the bodies were buried - yet he himself was virtually unknown. His private diaries form a priceless narrative and a rare gift to the millennium.		Weaving the Web: The Original Design anf Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web by Its Inventor by Tim Berners-Lee Published by HarperCollins, hardcover Regular Price:$26.00 Our Price: $20.80 A firsthand account of the Web's origins, from its creator's childhood to his current position as director of the MIT-based World Wide Web Consortium. A well-articulated personal vision and ambitious plan for the future.

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