The Art of Possibility
Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander $22.50 / HBS $18.00

A life-altering approach to fulfilling dreams large and small.

Best American Essays 2000
Alan Lightman, Editor
$13.00pb / HBS $10.40

Alan Lightman makes his mark on the "always outstanding collection [that] seems to outdo itself every year."--Boston Globe

Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon
Patrick Tierney
$27.95 / HBS $22.36

An explosive account of how obsessed journalists and scientists placed one of the Amazon basin's oldest tribes on the cusp of exinction. What Guns, Germs, and Steel did for colonial history, tierney's book will do for present-day anthropology.

The Feeling of What Happens: Body & Emotion in the Making of Consciousness
Antonio Damasio
$15.00pb / HBS $12.00

A gifted medical clinician with decades of caring for patients with brain damage, a great scientific thinker, and an extraordinary writer, Damasio offers a new understanding of the biological roots of consciousness and its role in survival.

Hooking Up
Tom Wolfe
$25.00 / HBS $20.00

Wolfe ranges from coast to coast chronicling everything from the sexual manners and mores of teenagers to fundamental changes in the ways human beings now regard themselves thanks to genetics and neuroscience, to the inner workings of television's magazine-show sting operations.

Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy
John Rawls
$19.95 / HBS $15.96

In three decades of teaching at Harvard, Rawls had a profound influence on the way philosophical ethics is approached and understood today. These lectures on Leibniz, Hume, Kant, Hegel, etc., comprise a superb course, and afford a unique insight into Rawls' work.

Lives of Moral Leadership
Robert Coles
$23.95 / HBS $19.16

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Children of Crisis and The Moral Intelligence of Children explores what it takes to be a moral leader and its importance today. Coles draws upon the stories of JFK, Dorothy Day, a Boston bus driver, and other famous and ordinary people whose moral leadership inspires.

Me Talk Pretty One Day
David Sedaris
$22.95 / HBS $18.36

A hilarious new collection from the author of Naked and Barrel Fever.

Quarrel and Quandary: Essays
Cynthia Ozick
$25.00 / HBS $20.00

"Her arguments are plots...they twist and turn, digress, slow and speed up, surprise with sudden illuminations....Insight, feeling, and writer's art come together."--New York Times Book Review

Reading Rilke: Reflections on the Problems of Translation
William Gass
$15.00pb / HBS $12.00

"A rich, ambitious, densely interconnected set of musings on the life and work of Rilke."--New York Times Book Review

Sex & Real Estate
Marjorie Garber
$24.00 / HBS $19.20

A witty, informative, and thought-provoking study of our complex relation to the ideas and actualities of house and home.

Social Construction of What?
Ian Hacking
$16.95pb / HBS $13.56

Hacking explores an array of different notions of social construction, revealing the deep issues underlying contentious accounts of reality.

Tales from the Couch
Jason Shinder, Editor
$24.00 / HBS $19.20

Nineteen award-winning authors present entertaining and intimately revealing personal essays about their adventures in psychotherapy. Contributors include Diane Ackerman, Mark Doty, Notzake Shange, and George Plympton.

The Talmud & the Internet: A Journey Between Worlds
Jonathan Rosen
$16.00 / HBS $12.80

Rosen blends religious history, memoir, and literary reflection in this profound and ultimately hopeful meditation.

Where We Stand: Class Matters
bell hooks
$16.95pb / HBS $13.56

A personal, straightforward, and rigorously honest reflection on how our dilemmas of class and race are intertwined, and how we can find ways to think beyond them.