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  • Art, Architecture, and Personalities
    Dec 22, 2010
    As an arts writer and architecture groupie who has been writing about San Diego since the early eighties, I thought I had a good knowledge of UCSD’s architecture. After all, during the campus building boom of the early nineties, I wrote several critical articles for the San Diego edition of the Los Angeles Times.
  • Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks
    Dec 21, 2011
    Jeopardy! champion warns against relying too much on technology for spatial thinking, arguing for the importance of studying old-fashioned maps.
  • The Book in the Renaissance
    Dec 21, 2011
    The story of the tumultuous early days of print—a medium which struggled in the face of opposition from political and religious instutitions
  • Retromania
    Dec 21, 2011
    British Music critic says pop music is diminishing itself by rehashing old styles instead of innovating.
  • Confidence Men
    Dec 21, 2011
    A portrait of an overwhelmed President Obama and a condemnation of a political system filled with self-serving individuals.
  • Inside of a Dog
    Dec 21, 2011
    A analysis of how dogs perceive the world through their senses and how this explains their compatibility with humans.
  • American Nations
    Dec 21, 2011
    A cross-country journey that examines the diverse regional subcultures that comprise the United States of America.
  • The Wave
    Dec 21, 2010
    Recently published, The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks and Giants of the Ocean, by Susan Casey, is an astonishing book about colossal, ship-swallowing rogue waves and the surfers who seek them out. The Wave was already number 26 on the New York Times Best-Selling Hardcover Nonfiction list when we went to press in mid-December.
  • Obama’s problem with business
    Nov 22, 2010
    Barack Obama is the most anti-business president in a generation, perhaps in American history. Thanks to him, the era of big government is back. Obama runs up taxpayer debt not in the billions, but in the trillions.
  • A Stolen Life: A Memoir
    Sep 16, 2011
    Jaycee Dugard was abducted at age 11 and held captive for 18 years by now-convicted rapist Phillip Garrido and his wife, Nancy, bearing two daughters to Phillip over that time.
  • Unnatural Selection
    Sep 16, 2011
    In nature, 105 boys are born for every 100 girls. Any other number is the result of unnatural events.
  • Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean
    Sep 16, 2011
    This book examines the histories of three once vibrant cities along the Mediterranean Sea—Alexandria, Smyrna and Beirut—that have since become known for violence and ?cruelty in the 20th century.
  • Hot X: Algebra Exposed!
    Sep 16, 2011
    An actress seems an unlikely math teacher but “Hot X-Algebra Exposed!,” a high-school level book by former Wonder Years actress Danica McKellar, aims to take the monotony out of mathematics and infuse it with a dose of pep and sparkle.
  • House on Fire: The Fight to Eradicate Small Pox
    Sep 16, 2011
    Dr. William Foege, a medical missionary and public health leader, provides a personal account of his role in the campaign to eradicate smallpox around the globe, a mission that found success more than 30 years ago due to the ingenuity of Foege and his team to come up with radical solutions to halt the spread of the deadly disease.
  • The Wages of Appeasement: Ancient Athens, Munich, and Obama’s America
    Sep 16, 2011
    Wages of Appeasement combines narrative history and cultural analysis to show how a reliance on ideas.
  • Onward
    Jul 27, 2011
    In 2000, Starbucks founder and CEO Howard Schultz, author of Pour Your Heart into It, stepped down from daily oversight of the company and assumed the role of chairman.
  • Reckless Endangerment
    Jul 27, 2011
    Readers of this history of the financial crisis will know, by the end, exactly who created the meltdown of 2008 and how they accomplished it.
  • Lobster: A Global History
    Jul 27, 2011
    Other than tasting delicious with butter, what do you know about the armored, scarlet creature staring back at you from your fancy dinner plate? Food writer Elisabeth Townsend here charts the global rise of the lobster as delicacy.
  • In the Garden of Beasts
    Jul 27, 2011
    This vivid portrait of Berlin during the early years of Hitler’s reign is conveyed through the true stories of two people:
  • The Man With the Pan
    Jul 27, 2011
    Look who’s making dinner! Twenty-one writers and chefs expound upon the joys—and perils—of feeding their families.
  • Hell on Two Wheels
    Jul 27, 2011
    This is a stunning account of what it’s like to take part in one of the most epic endurance sport events in the world.
  • Bringing Up Bebe
    Apr 12, 2012
    Pamela Druckerman is an American writer who moved to Paris ten years ago with her British husband, raising three children in the interim. In this work...
  • Lost Kingdom
    Apr 12, 2012
    When Lili’uokalani’s brother, David Kalakaua, became king in 1874, the Hawaiian monarchy was already very dependent on American businessmen...
  • Change.edu
    Apr 12, 2012
    Mr. Rosen, chief executive of Kaplan, Inc., which offers higher education programs and test prep services, ...
  • Coming Apart
    Apr 12, 2012
    The American values of religious faith, hard work and marriage are much more prevalent in upper-class white America than in working-class populations of whites.
  • Eat People
    Apr 12, 2012
    No, it’s not a call to eat your local barista for dinner! When Kessler says “Eat People,” he means to “eat” (i.e., eliminate) worthless jobs in order to maximize wealth creation.
  • The Orphan Master’s Son
    Apr 12, 2012
    Years of research by the author, including a journey to North Korea, lends an eerie authenticity to this fictional tale set in that mysterious country...
  • Alone in the Universe
    Apr 6, 2012
    Although the prospect of finding intelligent life elsewhere in the universe has tantalized our imaginations for generations.
  • Ameritopia
    Apr 6, 2012
    Levin’s book examines the historical and philosophical foundations of the utopian vision and how this informs the liberal worldview.
  • Boomerang
    Apr 6, 2012
    Lewis’ follow-up to his 2010 best-seller, The Big Short, paints a more international picture of the places hit hard by the financial crisis, including Greece, Iceland and Ireland.
  • Steve Jobs
    Apr 6, 2012
    Biographer Isaacson, who has already tackled such subjects as Albert Einstein and Ben Franklin.
  • A Nation of Moochers
    Apr 6, 2012
    Sykes’ has chosen the term “moochers” to describe everyone from big companies like GM to individuals accepting government welfare because it “perfectly captures the new culture of bailouts and irresponsible grasping.”
  • Constitution 3.0: Freedom and Technological Change
    Apr 5, 2012
    Concepts like public and private space, freedom of speech and individual autonomy are being tested in ways our Founding Fathers could never have dreamed because of products like GPS systems, Google and YouTube.
  • “The Yugo: The Rise and Fall of the Worst Car in History”
    Apr 2, 2010
    Toyota owners, who are worried about all the headlines about safety problems plaguing the brand, might consider picking up “The Yugo: The Rise and Fall of the Worst Car in History” by Jason Vuic.
  • Why America Must Not Follow Europe
    Mar 28, 2011
    On a U.S. talk-radio show recently, I was asked what I thought about the notion that Barack Obama had been born in Kenya. “Pah!” I replied. “Your president was plainly born in Brussels.”
  • Living with Only 100 Personal Possessions
    Mar 3, 2011
    Currently there is a growing national movement of people who are paring down their possessions and spending habits—rather than acquiring more belongings—with the goal of simplifying their lives.
  • History of Rancho Santa Fe
    Feb 25, 2010
    Local author releases new book featuring stunning collection of vintage photographs.