Hardcover Nonfiction

by Erma Bombeck · McGraw-Hill

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

by Henry Kissinger · Little, Brown

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 Tom Wolfe · Farrar, Straus & Giroux

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

by Robert J. Ringer · Harper & Row

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 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 David Halberstam · Knopf

A Pulitzer Prize winner's in-depth look at four media-business giants: CBS-TV, Time magazine, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times. In this fascinating New York Times bestseller, the author of The Best and the Brightest, The Fifties, and other acclaimed histories turns his investigative eye to the rise of the American media in the twentieth century. Focusing on the successes and failures of CBS Television, Time magazine, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times, David Halberstam paints a portrait of the era when large, powerful mainstream media sources emerged as a force, showing how they shifted from simply reporting the news to becoming a part of it. By examining landmark events such as Franklin D. Roosevelt's masterful use of the radio and the unprecedented coverage of the Watergate break-in, Halberstam demonstrates how print and broadcast media as a whole became a player in society and helped shape public policy. Drawn from hundreds of exhaustive interviews with insiders at each company, and hailed by the Seattle Times as "a monumental X-ray study of power," The Powers That Be reveals the tugs-of-war between political ambition and the quest for truth in a page-turning read. This ebook features an extended biography of David Halberstam.

by Carl Sagan · Random House

Dr. Carl Sagan Takes Us on a Great Reading Adventure, Offering his Vivid and Startling Insight Into the Brain of Man and Beast, the Origin of Human Intelligence, the Function of our Most Haunting Legends -- and Their Amazing Links to Recent Discoveries. Book jacket.