Hardcover Nonfiction

by Erma Bombeck · McGraw-Hill

by Herman Tarnower, M.D. and Samm Sinclair Baker · Rawson, Wade

by Henry Kissinger · Little, Brown

by Robert J. Ringer · Harper & Row

by Nathan Pritikin with Patrick M. McGrady, Jr · Grosset and Dunlap

by James Herriot · St. Martin's Press

by Howard J. Ruff · Times Books

The author prescribes solid, easily understood, easily managed investment plan as hedges against inflation and details and where to acquire them safely, and even how to profit from the decisions when the economy eventually statilizes.

by Steve Martin · Putnam's

A collection of short humorous pieces including "Women Without Bones," "The Day the Dopes Came Over," "How to Fold Soup," Dogs in My Nose," "Cruel Shoes," and "What to Say When the Ducks Show up."

by Tom Wolfe · Farrar, Straus & Giroux

by Thomas Thompson · Doubleday

Tells the story of the crimes of a handsome young man and his accomplice, whose victims were tourists in Hong Kong, France, Greece, and Italy and whose methods were poisoning, burying, and burning

by Norman Cousins · Norton

This bestselling classic, which started the revolution in patients working with their doctors and using humor to boost their bodies' capacity for healing, is back in this new, updated edition.

by Albert J. Lowry · Simon & Schuster

by Paul Theroux · Houghton Mifflin

by Bill Russell and Taylor Branch · Random House

The controversial basketball star recounts the events of his life and career, offers an inside look at professional basketball, and sounds off about freedom, race, marriage, religion, and American culture

by Lewis Thomas · Viking Press

A Pulitzer Prize Finalist The medusa is a tiny jellyfish that lives on the ventral surface of a sea slug found in the Bay of Naples. Readers will find themselves caught up in the fate of the medusa and the snail as a metaphor for eternal issues of life and death as Lewis Thomas further extends the exploration of man and his world begun in The Lives of a Cell. Among the treasures in this magnificent book are essays on the human genius for making mistakes, on disease and natural death, on cloning, on warts, and on Montaigne, as well as an assessment of medical science and health care. In these essays and others, Thomas once again conveys his observations of the scientific world in prose marked by wonder and wit.