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Nonfiction, July 2009

Anderson, Chris: Free: The Past and Future of a Radical Price (July 2009)

In his bestseller, The Long Tail, Anderson demonstrated how the online marketplace creates niche markets, allowing products and consumers to connect in a way that has never been possible before. Now, in Free, he makes the compelling case that in many instances businesses can profit more from giving things away than they can by charging for them.
Apter, Terri: What Do You Want from Me?: Learning to Get Along with In-Laws (July 2009)

Apter, a psychologist and author of books on family dynamics, takes a fresh look at the age-old problem of managing conflict with in-laws and explores what it takes to build healthy relationships with them.
Bass, Rick: The Wild Marsh: Four Seasons at Home in Montana (July 2009)

In his account of life in Montana, Bass emerges not just as a writer but as a father, a neighbor and a gifted observer, ensuring that though the wilderness is increasingly at risk, the voice of the wilderness will not disappear.
Collins, Paul: The Book of William: How Shakespeare's First Folio Conquered the World (July 2009)

One book above all others has transfixed connoisseurs for four centuries — William Shakespeare's First Folio of 1623. Collins, author of Sixpence House, , takes up the quest for this precious book.
Ellard, Colin: You Are Here: Why We Can Find Our Way to the Moon, But Get Lost in the Mall (July 2009)

A fascinating exploration of human navigation, both feat and foible, in the age of GPS and GoogleEarth.
Hartmann, Thom: Threshold: The Crisis of Western Culture (July 2009)

Writer and Air America host Hartmann looks at the deteriorating state of the planet, where the dynamics of environmental, economic and population change are boiling over the limits within which society can function.
Hedges, Chris: Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle (July 2009)

In the tradition of Christopher Lasch's The Culture of Narcissism, Pulitzer Prize-winner Hedges charts the dramatic and disturbing rise of a post-literate America that craves fantasy, ecstasy and illusion.
Johnson, Jeff: Tattoo Machine: Tall Tales, True Stories, and My Life in Ink (July 2009)

A behind-the-scenes tour of the fabled tattoo industry on the arm of a swashbuckling insider and natural-born storyteller. Author Jeff Johnson has been tattooing professionally for 18 years and is the co-owner of the Sea Tramp Tattoo Company, the oldest tattoo shop in Portland, Oregon.
Keefe, Patrick Radden: The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream (July 2009)

The Snakehead, referring to the Chinese word for smuggler, is a panoramic tale of international intrigue about the rise and fall of the Don Corleone of Chinatown.
Lynch, Zack: The Neuro Revolution: How Brain Science Is Changing Our World (July 2009)

History has already progressed through an agricultural revolution, an industrial revolution, and an information revolution. The Neuro Revolution foretells a fast approaching fourth epoch, one that will radically transform how we all work, live and play.
Nelson, Craig: Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon (July 2009)

The thrilling story of the Apollo Moon mission restores the mystery and majesty to an event that may have become too familiar for most people to realize what a stunning achievement it represented in planning, technology and execution.
Terzian, Peter: Heavy Rotation: Twenty Writers on the Albums That Changed Their Lives (July 2009)

Exploring music from the Talking Heads to the Hedwig and the Angry Inch soundtrack, this extraordinary anthology is a moving, funny, uplifting and unforgettable celebration of the unique and essential relationship between life and music.
Waxman, Henry: The Waxman Report: How Congress Really Works (July 2009)

One of America's most respected members of Congress offers an inside view of how Washington really works — and how it can work better.
Wilkins, Charles: In the Land of Long Fingernails: A Gravedigger in the Age of Aquarius (July 2009)

In the spirit of Thomas Lynch's The Undertaking and Mary Roach's Stiff , this darkly comic memoir tells of Wilkins's year as a 20-year-old student gravedigger in the 1960s.

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