Hardcover Nonfiction

by P. J. O'Rourke · Entrekin/Atlantic Monthly

by Erma Bombeck · HarperCollins

The national #1 bestseller from "the wizard of the ordinary moment . . . always fun to read" (The New York Times Book Review). Bombeck is at her hilarious best in this tour de force of laughs, as she offers advice to world weary travelers. "Classic Bombeck".--Kirkus Reviews.

by Alan M. Dershowitz · Little, Brown

The well-known attorney discusses what it is like to be Jewish today, examining such issues as anti-Semitism, the Holocaust, assimilation, Zionism, civil rights, the role of Jews in the U.S.S.R., and changes in Eastern Europe.

by Robert Bly · Addison-Wesley

On the role of the male mentor, the author seeks to discover the truths about masculinity that gets beyond the stereotypes of our popular culture.

by Peter Mayle · Knopf

by Sam Keen · Bantam

Offers a guide for men seeking new personal ideals of strength, potency, and warriorship in their lives.

by Joseph F. O'Brien and Andris Kurins · Simon & Schuster

by Thomas C. Reeves · Free Press

by Bob Woodward · Simon & Schuster

Bob Woodward, the best investigative reporter in the country, spent six years examining the CIA using hundreds of inside sources and secret documents to paint a picture of the world's largest espionage apparatus.

by Dave Barry · Crown

by Dinesh D'Souza · Free Press

As it "illuminates the crisis of liberal education and offers proposals for reform which deserve full debate" (Morton Halperin, American Civil Liberties Union), "Illiberal Education" "documents how the politics of race and gender in our universities are rapidly eating away traditions of scholarship and reward for individual achievement" (Robert H. Bork). (Education/Teaching)

by Sonny Bono · Pocket

The hit singer and variety show star from the 1970s discusses his early career, his life and work with Cher, the music scene from the 1950s to the 1970s, Cher's tragic miscarriage and the birth of Chastity, and "The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour"

by Naomi Wolf · Morrow

In the fight for women's equality, one issue is still undiscussed, according to this book. The issue is women's compulsive pursuit of personal beauty. The book aims to confront this last taboo and expose it for what it really is - divisive, anti-erotic, hostile to love, not about women at all but about men.

by Peter Hernon and Terry Ganey · Simon & Schuster

by Eric Lax · Knopf