Authors:Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, L. Hunter Lovi,
Publisher: Back Bay Book
Keywords: revolution, industrial, creating, capitalism, natural
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2000-10-12
List price: $18.99
ISBN-10: 0316353000
ISBN-13: 9780316353007

In Natural Capitalism, three top strategists show how leading-edge companies are practicing "a new type of industrialism" that is more efficient and profitable while saving the environment and creating jobs. Paul Hawken and Amory and Hunter Lovins write that in the next century, cars will get 200 miles per gallon without compromising safety and power, manufacturers will relentlessly recycle their products, and the world’s standard of living will jump without further damaging natural resources. "Is this the vision of a utopia? In fact, the changes described here could come about in the de

Author: Tracy Kidder
Publisher: Back Bay Book
Keywords: machine, new, soul
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2000-06-01
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 0316491977
ISBN-13: 9780316491976

The computer revolution brought with it new methods of getting work done--just look at today’s news for reports of hard-driven, highly-motivated young software and online commerce developers who sacrifice evenings and weekends to meet impossible deadlines. Tracy Kidder got a preview of this world in the late 1970s when he observed the engineers of Data General design and build a new 32-bit minicomputer in just one year. His thoughtful, prescient book, The Soul of a New Machine, tells stories of 35-year-old "veteran" engineers hiring recent college graduates and encouraging them to work h

Author: Frances FitzGerald
Publisher: Back Bay Book
Keywords: vietnam, americans, vietnamese, lake, fire
Number of Pages: 496
Published: 2002-07-17
List price: $17.99
ISBN-10: 0316159190
ISBN-13: 9780316159197

This landmark work, based on Frances FitzGerald’s own research and travels, takes us inside Vietnam-into the traditional, ancestor-worshiping villages and the corrupt crowded cities, into the conflicts between Communists and anti-Communists, Catholics and Buddhists, generals and monks -and reveals the country as seen through Vietnamese eyes. With a clarity and authority unrivaled by any book before it or since, Fire in the Lake shows how America utterly and tragically misinterpreted the realities of Vietnam.

Author: J.D. Salinger
Publisher: Back Bay Book
Keywords: rye, catcher
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2001-01-30
List price: $13.99
ISBN-10: 0316769177
ISBN-13: 9780316769174

Since his debut in 1951 as The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield has been synonymous with "cynical adolescent." Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his sixteen-year-old life, just after he’s been expelled from prep school, in a slang that sounds edgy even today and keeps this novel on banned book lists. It begins, "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I do

Author: Phil Lesh
Publisher: Back Bay Book
Keywords: dead, grateful, life, sound, searching
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2006-04-25
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0316154490
ISBN-13: 9780316154499

Right in time for the Grateful Dead’s 40th anniversary, eccentric bass player extraordinaire Phil Lesh has delivered fans a most welcome gift: his autobiography. There are many books out there about the Dead told from the perspective of roadies, journalists, third party observers, and fans. However, with the exceptions of Jerry Garcia’s ramblings in Garcia: A Signpost to New Space and Conversations With the Dead, Lesh’s Searching for the Sound is the first time a founding member of America’s favorite band tells their own story of what it was like inside the Grateful Dea

Author: Nelson Mandela
Publisher: Back Bay Book
Keywords: mandela, nelson, autobiography, freedom, walk
Number of Pages: 656
Published: 1995-10-01
List price: $17.99
ISBN-10: 0316548189
ISBN-13: 9780316548182

1995 First editionThe famously taciturn South African president reveals much of himself in Long Walk to Freedom. A good deal of this autobiography was written secretly while Mandela was imprisoned for 27 years on Robben Island by South Africa’s apartheid regime. Among the book’s interesting revelations is Mandela’s ambivalence toward his lifetime of devotion to public works. It cost him two marriages and kept him distant from a family life he might otherwise have cherished. Long Walk to Freedom also discloses a strong and generous spirit that refused to be broken under the mo

Author: Uwem Akpa
Publisher: Back Bay Book
Keywords: club, book, oprah, one
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2009-09-18
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 0316086371
ISBN-13: 9780316086370

Each story in this jubilantly acclaimed collection pays testament to the wisdom and resilience of children, even in the face of the most agonizing circumstances. A family living in a makeshift shanty in urban Kenya scurries to find gifts of any kind for the impending Christmas holiday. A Rwandan girl relates her family’s struggles to maintain a facade of normalcy amid unspeakable acts. A young brother and sister cope with their uncle’s attempt to sell them into slavery. Aboard a bus filled with refugees—a microcosm of today’s Africa—a Muslim boy summons his faith to bear