Author: Thomas L. Friedman
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Keywords: renew, america, revolution, need, crowded, flat
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2008-09-08
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0374166854
ISBN-13: 9780374166854

Thomas L. Friedman’s no. 1 bestseller The World Is Flat has helped millions of readers to see globalization in a new way. Now Friedman brings a fresh outlook to the crises of destabilizing climate change and rising competition for energy—both of which could poison our world if we do not act quickly and collectively. His argument speaks to all of us who are concerned about the state of America in the global future. Friedman proposes that an ambitious national strategy— which he calls “Geo-Greenism”—is not only what we need to save the planet from overheating;

Author: Thomas L. Friedman
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Keywords: twenty, first, century, history, brief, flat, updated, expanded, world
Number of Pages: 616
Published: 2006-04-18
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0374292795
ISBN-13: 9780374292799

The World Is Flat is Thomas L. Friedman’s account of the great changes taking place in our time, as lightning-swift advances in technology and communications put people all over the globe in touch as never before—creating an explosion of wealth in India and China, and challenging the rest of us to run even faster just to stay in place. This updated and expanded edition features more than a hundred pages of fresh reporting and commentary, drawn from Friedman’s travels around the world and across the American heartland—from anyplace where the flattening of the world is be

Author: Joan Didion
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Keywords: novel, lays, play
Number of Pages: 214
Published: 2005-11-15
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0374529949
ISBN-13: 9780374529949

A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Play It as It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society reflected in spare prose that blisters and haunts the reader. Set in a place beyond good and evil-literally in Hollywood, Las Vegas, and the barren wastes of the Mojave Desert, but figuratively in the landscape of an arid soul-it remains more than three decades after its original publication a profoundly disturbing novel, riveting in its exploration of a woman and a society in crisis and stunning in the still-startling intensity of its prose.

Author: B. Mark Smith
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Keywords: stock, market, modern, evolution, exuberance, rational
Number of Pages: 342
Published: 2001-05-01
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0374281777
ISBN-13: 9780374281779

To an unprecedented degree, the health of the American economy, and the financial well-being of the average American, is tied to the stock market. Toward Rational Exuberance tells the story of how the market came to be what it is today, providing an in-depth understanding of the theories that drive investor behavior, the vivid personalities who have dominated the stock market’s turbulent history, and the processes by which the market has evolved to its present state -- elements essential to anyone seeking to understand the workings of the modern economy. The stock market is big news now

Authors:Roland Barthes,  Annette Laver,
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Keywords: mythologies
Number of Pages: 159
Published: 1972-01-01
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0374521506
ISBN-13: 9780374521509

"[Mythologies] illustrates the beautiful generosity of Barthes’s progressive interest in the meaning (his word is signification) of practically everything around him, not only the books and paintings of high art, but also the slogans, trivia, toys, food, and popular rituals (cruises, striptease, eating, wrestling matches) of contemporary life . . . For Barthes, words and objects have in common the organized capacity to say something; at the same time, since they are signs, words and objects have the bad faith always to appear natural to their consumer, as if what they say is eternal, tru

Author: Robert Pinsky
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Keywords: poems, collected, new, wheel, figured
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1997-04-07
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 0374525064
ISBN-13: 9780374525064

Katha Pollitt writes that these are "extraordinarily accomplished and beautiful poems." Pinsky is a respected critic and translator and, as a poet, is a genius of sound and lineation. He also excels at the startling image, as when he describes a brain as "humming to itself, / Like a fat person eating M&Ms in the bathtub." The vividness of the image grabs our attention even as its poignancy and cruel edge complicate the tone of this intricate poem ("History of My Heart"). An impressive and moving collection.The Figured Wheel fully collects the first four books of poetry, as well as twenty-one n

Authors:Kate Banks,  Boris Kulikov,
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Keywords: words, max
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2006-08-08
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0374399492
ISBN-13: 9780374399498

Maxâ??s brothers have grand collections that everyone makes a big fuss over. Benjamin collects stamps and Karl collects coins, and neither one will share with their little brother. So Max decides to start a collection of his own. Heâ??s going to collect words. He starts with small words that he cuts out of newspapers and magazines, but soon his collection has spilled out into the hall. All the while, his brothers are watching. Benjamin brags that he has one thousand stamps. Karl is just a few coins short of five hundred. But a thousand stamps is really just a bunch of stamps, and a lot of co