by Jim Malusa  With plenty of sunscreen and a cold beer swaddled in his sleeping bag, writer and botanist Jim Malusa bicycled alone to the lowest point on each of six continents, a six-year series of "anti-expeditions" to the "anti-summits." With a scientist's eye, he vividly observes local landscapes and creatures. A large-hearted narrative of what happens when a friendly, perceptive American puts himself at the mercy of strange landscapes and their denizens, Into Thick Air presents one of the most talented new voices in contemporary travel writing. (read more) Your Price $16.95 (New - Trade Paper) 
by Jasper Fforde It's been fourteen years since Thursday pegged out at the 1988 SuperHoop, and Friday is now a difficult sixteen year old. However, Thursday's got bigger problems. Sherlock Holmes is killed at the Rheinback Falls and his series is stopped in its tracks. And before this can be corrected, Miss Marple dies suddenly in a car accident, bringing her series to a close as well. When Thursday receives a death threat clearly intended for her written self, she realizes what's going on — there is a serial killer on the loose in the Bookworld. And that's not all — the Goliath Corporation is trying to deregulate book travel. Naturally, Thursday must travel to the outer limits of acceptable narrative possibilities to triumph against increasing odds. (read more) Your Price $24.95 (New - Hardcover)
by Cass R. Sunstein In 1944, Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave a State of the Union Address that was arguably the greatest political speech of the twentieth century. Many of the great legislative achievements of the past sixty years stem from Roosevelt's proposal for a Second Bill of Rights. Yet these rights have never been written into the Constitution, and they remain the subject of passionate debate. This is an ambitious, sweeping book that argues for a new vision of FDR, of constitutional history, and of our current political scene. The Second Bill of Rights is an integral part of the American tradition and the starting point for contemporary political reform. (read more) Your Price $16.95 (New - Trade Paper)
by Salman Rushdie "Shalimar the Clown is a welcome addition to the Rushdie canon. Moving across the globe, Rushdie follows his characters from terrorist camps to the privileged world of Los Angeles, motivated by shades of love, curiosity, and burning vengeance. His prose is as gorgeous and playful as ever, and the themes he illuminates here face us dead-on as we look forward across the twentieth-first century." Jill, Powells.com (read more) Your Price $18.16 (Sale - Hardcover)
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by EPIC and Privacy International This annual report by EPIC and Privacy International provides an overview of key privacy topics and reviews the state of privacy in over 75 countries around the world. The report outlines legal protections, new challenges, and important issues and events relating to privacy. Privacy and Human Rights 2006 is the most comprehensive report on privacy and data protection ever published. (read more) Your Price $75.00 (New - Trade Paper) 
by Katherine Atwell Herbert They say in L.A. everybody is writing a screenplay. With The Perfect Screenplay, everybody everywhere will be writing well-presented, saleable screenplays. Packed with tips from an insider on how Hollywood operates, testing script ideas, building structure, and marketing the final screenplay, this book is the key to getting work read and sold. A resource list gives Web sites, agents, and more. Writers will be thanking the little people — and The Perfect Screenplay. (read more) Your Price $16.95 (New - Trade Paper)
by Claire Chi-ah Lyu "If Baudelaire had the popular reach of Dr. Phil, this book would be an instant bestseller, so inspirational is its message, so articulate its conclusions. In evocative prose and far-reaching scholarship, Lyu attempts to distill the astounding, impulsive power of poetry ? its spiritual value, its serious frivolity ? and succeeds beautifully. Poetry, Lyu writes in her powerful prologue, "insists that we abandon and awaken from the deceptive comforts of habit and addiction. Risk is the willingness to open up the limited and limiting circle of the familiar and the easy ?" Wade Edwards, The Virginia Quarterly Review (read more) Your Price $30.00 (New - Hardcover)
by Marcel Proust and Lydia Davis One of the great pieces novels of the twentieth century, rescued by Lydia Davis?s mesmerizing new translation. Sentence by sentence, it will change your life. Tin House magazine (read more) Your Price $14.00 (New - Trade Paper)
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