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Nonfiction, February 2008

Barcott, Bruce: The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw: One Woman's Fight to Save the World's Most Beautiful Bird (February 2008)

Barcott tells the true story of one woman's quest to stop a multinational corporation from exterminating the last scarlet macaws in the Cental American nation of Belize.
Barber, Charles: Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry is Medicating a Nation (February 2008)

Barber presents a timely, unflinching look at the overuse and abuse of psychiatric medicines across America today and reveals the increasing pressure Americans are under to medicate themselves.
Barlow, Maude: Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water (February 2008)

In Blue Gold the author exposed how a handful of corporations is gaining ownership and control of the Earth's dwindling water supply. This followup describes a powerful response to this trend: the emergence of an international, grassroots-led movement to have water declared a basic human right.
Brock, Pope: Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam (February 2008)

Witness the rise and fall of the greatest medical con man of all time in this enormously entertaining story of how a fraudulent surgeon made a fortune by inserting goats' testes into impotent American men.
Cojocaru, Steven: Glamour, Interrupted: How I Became the Best-Dressed Patient in Hollywood (February 2008)

An inspirational, engrossing and laugh-out-loud memoir that tracks Cojocaru's near-tragic battle with kidney disease and the unflagging positive outlook that helped him return to the A-list set.
Darwin, John E.: After Tamerlane: The Global History of Empire Since 1405 (February 2008)

After Tamerlane is a vivid, bold and innovative history of how empires rise and fall, from one of Britain’s leading scholars.
Delaney, Bob: Covert: My Years Infiltrating the Mob (February 2008)

In a riveting page-turner, NBA referee Delaney reveals the clandestine life he led before becoming one of professional basketballs most respected referees.
Elder, Larry: Stupid Black Men: Race-Baiting in America (February 2008)

The nationally syndicated radio host and best-selling author takes on an entrenched group of politicians, entertainment figures, educators and sports heroes who promote a message of racial oversensitivity that prevents those who listen from succeeding.
Goldberg, Gary David: Sit, Ubu, Sit: How I Went from Brooklyn to Hollywood with the Same Woman, the Same Dog, and a Lot Less Hair (February 2008)

Television scriptwriter and producer Goldberg, the creator of Family Ties and Spin City, recalls the road to his success that took him from Brooklyn to Hollywood with his longtime partner Diana and their Labrador, Ubu.
Gray, John: Why Mars and Venus Collide: Improving Relationships by Understanding How Men and Women Cope Differently with Stress (February 2008)

The author who revolutionized the understanding of male-female relations returns to the territory he intimately knows to help couples cope with everyday stress and keep their love strong.
Harford, Tim: The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World (February 2008)

In this deftly reasoned book, a columnist for The Financial Times and Slate argues that, despite the everyday insanity, life is logical after all, and explores the surprisingly rational choices that shape the world.
Hedeen, Stanley: Big Bone Lick: The Cradle of American Paleontology (February 2008)

Natural historian Stanley Hedeen presents a comprehensive and accessible narrative of Big Bone Lick, from its geological formation forward, explaining why the northern Kentucky site attracted first animals, then Native peoples of the region, European explorers and scientists, and eventually American pioneers and presidents.
Huddy, John: Storming Las Vegas: How a Cuban-Born, Soviet-Trained Commando Took Down the Strip to the Tune of Five World-Class Hotels, Three Armored Cars and $3 Million. (February 2008)

Immediately gripping and thoroughly harrowing, Storming Las Vegas tells the story of a remarkable true life crime spree, a story that was previously squashed so as not to disturb tourism.
McMillen, Sally Gregory: Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Woman's Rights Movement (February 2008)

Over the course of two days in July, 1848, a small group of women and men held a convention that would launch the woman's rights movement. McMillen unpacks, for the first time, the full significance of that revolutionary convention and the enormous changes it produced.
Myers, Dee Dee: Why Women Should Rule the World: A Memoir (February 2008)

In her first book, the former White House Press Secretary offers a provocative and inspiring look at women and leadership, interweaving her own experiences working in the highest echelons of power.
Rossmiller, Alex: Still Broken: A Recruit's Inside Account of Intelligence Failures, from Baghdad to the Pentagon (February 2008)

After 9/11, billions of dollars were spent to overhaul America's dysfunctional intelligence services, which were mired in bureaucracy, turf wars and dated technology. But in this book, A. J. Rossmiller, a former Defense Intelligence Agency analyst honored for his efforts here and in Iraq, reveals firsthand evidence that the intelligence system remains in disrepair.
Scheuer, Michael: Marching Toward Hell: America and Islam After Iraq (February 2008)

One of the leading authorities on counterterrorism and the author of Imperial Hubris offers a scathing indictment of the U.S. Iraqi War policy and its long-term consequences for American security.
Tattersall, Ian: World From Beginnings to 4000 BCE (February 2008)

In this lively and readable introduction, anthropologist Ian Tattersall thoroughly examines both the fossil and archeological records to trace human evolution from the earliest beginnings of our zoological family Hominidae, through the emergence of Homo sapiens, to the Agricultural Revolution.
Taylor, Blake: ADHD and Me: What I Learned from Lighting Fires at the Dinner Table (February 2008)

Blake Taylor's memoir, written when he was 17, offers a young person's account of what it's like to live and grow up with this common condition. Join Blake as he foils bullies, confronts unfair teachers, struggles with distraction and disorganization on exams, and goes sailing out-of-bounds and ends up with a boatload of spiders. The book features an introduction by psychologist Lara Honos-Webb, author of The Gift of ADHD and a leading advocate for kids with ADHD.
Willis, Gerri: Home Rich: How to Buy, Manage, Improve, and Sell the Most Valuable Investment of Your Life (February 2008)

With mortgage money getting tighter, more Americans are concerned with getting their sale price, and this guide shows how.
Wills, Garry: What the Gospels Meant (February 2008)

Pulitzer Prize-winner Wills interprets the four Gospels, examining the goals, methods and styles of the evangelists and discussing how these shaped their messages.
Wolfensohn, James D.: A Global Life: My Journey Among Rich and Poor, from Wall Street to the World Bank (February 2008)

A Global Life is the autobiography of the visionary financier and humanitarian who led the World Bank through one of its most intense and tumultuous decades in the struggle against global poverty.
Zoglin, Richard: Comedy at the Edge: How Stand-Up in the 1970s Changed America (February 2008)

Based on extensive interviews with club owners, agents and producers — and with access to the players themselves — this work is a no-holds-barred, behind-the-scenes look at one of the most influential and tumultuous decades in American popular culture.