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The Sublime Engine: A Biography of the Human Heart, by Stephen Amidon and Thomas Amidon (Rodale)
interview date: Wednesday, February 08, 2012

Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone, by Eric Klinenberg (The Penguin Press)
interview date: Wednesday, February 08, 2012

The Five Percent: Finding Solutions to Seemingly Impossible Conflicts, by Peter T. Coleman (Public Affairs)
interview date: Thursday, February 02, 2012

Money Well Spent? The Truth Behind the Trillion-Dollar Stimulus, the Biggest Economic Recovery Plan in History, by MichaelGrabell (Public Affairs)
interview date: Wednesday, February 01, 2012

County: LIfe, Death and Politics at Chicago's Public Hospital, by David Ansell (Academy Chicago Publishers)
interview date: Monday, January 30, 2012

Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China, by Ezra Vogel (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press)
interview date: Monday, January 30, 2012

Haiti: The Aftershocks of History, by Laurent Dubois (Metropolitan Books)
interview date: Friday, January 27, 2012

Powering The Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology, by Alexis Madrigal (Da Capo Press)
interview date: Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners, by Michael Erard (Free Press)
interview date: Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Organize Your Mind and Your Life: Train Your Brian to Get More Done in Less Time, by Paul Hammerness and Margaret Moore with John Hanc (Harlequin)
interview date: Thursday, January 19, 2012

Luminarium: A Novel, by Alex Shakar (Soho Press)
interview date: Wednesday, January 18, 2012

The Midwestern Native Garden Native Alternatives to Nonnative Flowers and Plants: An Illustrated Guide, by Charlotte Adelman and Bernard L. Schwartz (Ohio University Press)
interview date: Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Too Big To Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room, by David Weinberger (Basic Books)
interview date: Friday, January 13, 2012

America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our Liberty, & Our Democracy, by Gar Alperovitz (Democracy Collaborative Press)
interview date: Friday, January 13, 2012

The Concussion Crisis: Anatomy of a Silent Epidemic, by Linda Carroll and David Rosner (Simon & Schuster)
interview date: Thursday, January 12, 2012

Fatal Embrace:Christians, Jews, and the Search for Peace in the Holy Land, by Mark Bravervman (Synergy Books)
interview date: Wednesday, January 11, 2012

All the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals, by David Scheffer (Princeton University Press)
interview date: Wednesday, January 11, 2012

One for the Road: Drunk Driving Since 1900, by Barron H. Lerner (The Johns Hopkins University Press)
interview date: Tuesday, January 10, 2012

The Korean War: A History, by Bruce Cumings (Modern Library)
interview date: Monday, January 09, 2012

Gun Fight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America, by Adam Winkler (W. W. Norton & Company)
interview date: Friday, January 06, 2012

Eisenhower The White House Years, by Jim Newton (Doubleday)
interview date: Wednesday, January 04, 2012

Pay For Play: A History of Big-Time College Athletic Reform, by Ronal A. Smith (University of Illinois Press)
interview date: Tuesday, January 03, 2012

Lions of the West: Heroes and Villains of the Westward Expansion, by Robert Morgan (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)
interview date: Wednesday, December 21, 2011

The Nursing Home Guide: A Doctor Reveals What You Need to Know About Long-Term Care, by Joshua Schor (Berkeley Books, New York)
interview date: Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Remedy and Reaction: The Peculiar American Struggle Over Health Care Reform, by Paul Starr (Yale University Press)
interview date: Monday, December 19, 2011

Reading between the Wines, by Terry Theise (University of California Press)
interview date: Friday, December 16, 2011

The Struggle for Egypt: From Nasser to Tahrir Square, by Steven A. Cook (Oxford University Press)
interview date: Thursday, December 08, 2011

Alone and Invisible No More: How Grassroots Community Action and 21st Century Technologies Can Empower Elders to Stay in Their Homes and Lead Healthier, Happier Lives, by Allan S. Teel (Chelsea Green Publishing)
interview date: Wednesday, December 07, 2011

A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Hope, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown, by Julia Scheeres (Free Press)
interview date: Monday, December 05, 2011

Nothing to Hide: The False Tradeoff between Privacy and Security, by Daniel J. Solove (Yale University Press)
interview date: Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Ask the Pilot: Everything You Need to Know About Air Travel, by Patrick Smith (Riverhead Books)
interview date: Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Stars and their Spectra: An Introduction to the Spectral Sequence, by James B. Kaler (Cambridge University Press)
interview date: Monday, November 28, 2011

Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State, by Dana Priest and William M. Arkin (Little, Brown and Company)
interview date: Tuesday, November 22, 2011

The Annotated Peter Pan: The Centennial Edition, by Maria Tatar (W. W. Norton & Company)
interview date: Monday, November 21, 2011

The Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of India, by Siddhartha Deb (Faber and Faber, Inc.)
interview date: Thursday, November 17, 2011

Abandoned in the Heartland: Work, Family, and Living in East St. Louis, by Jennifer F. Hamer (University of California Press)
interview date: Tuesday, November 08, 2011

The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade, by Andrew Feinstein (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)
interview date: Monday, November 07, 2011

How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like, by Paul Bloom (W. W. Norton and Company)
interview date: Monday, October 31, 2011

Collision Course: Ronald Reagan, the Air Traffic Controllers, and the Strike That Changed America, by Joseph A. McCartin (Oxford University Press)
interview date: Friday, October 28, 2011

Grant's Final Victory: Ulysses S. Grant's Heroic Last Year, by Charles Bracelen Flood (Da Capo Press)
interview date: Thursday, October 27, 2011

The Hands of Strangers: Poems from the Nursing Home, by Janice N. Harrington (BOA Editions, Ltd.)
interview date: Wednesday, October 26, 2011

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration, by Isabel Wilkerson (Vintage Books)
interview date: Wednesday, October 26, 2011

DarkMarket: Cyberthieves, Cybercops and You, by Misha Glenny (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)
interview date: Friday, October 21, 2011

The Essential Guide to Prescription Drugs 2005: Everything You Need to Know for Safe Drug Use, by James J. Rybacki (HarperResource)
interview date: Thursday, October 20, 2011

The Price of Civilization: Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity, by Jeffrey D. Sachs (Random House)
interview date: Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Songs...with Repercussions (CD), by Ronny Cox (Wind River Records)
interview date: Friday, October 14, 2011

A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos, by Dava Sobel (Walker & Company)
interview date: Thursday, October 13, 2011

The Funny Man: A Novel, by John Warner (Soho Pess)
interview date: Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President, by Candice Millard (Doubleday)
interview date: Monday, October 10, 2011

Emus Loose in Egnar: Big Stories from Small Towns, by Judy Muller (University of Nebraska Press)
interview date: Monday, October 03, 2011

Lost in Transition: The Dark Side of Emerging Adulthood, by Christian Smith (Oxford University Press)
interview date: Thursday, September 29, 2011

Boneheads: My Search for T. Rex, by Richard Polsky (Council Oak Books)
interview date: Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Where China Meets India: Burma and the New Crossroads of Asia, by Thant Myint-U (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)
interview date: Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Glass Ceilings & 100-Hour Couples: What the Opt-Out Phenomenon Can Teach Us about Work and Family, by Karine Moe and Dianna Shandy (The University of Georgia Press)
interview date: Monday, September 26, 2011

A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter, by William Deresciewicz (Penguin Press)
interview date: Friday, September 23, 2011

Getting Wasted: Why College Students Drink Too Much and Party So Hard, by Thomas Vander Ven (New York University Press)
interview date: Thursday, September 22, 2011

Evening's Empire: a History of the Night in Early Modern Europe, by Craig Koslofsky (Cambridge University Press)
interview date: Tuesday, September 20, 2011

The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us, by James Pennebaker (Bloomsbury Press)
interview date: Monday, September 19, 2011

The Buddha in the Attic, by Julie Otsuka (Alfred A. Knopf)
interview date: Friday, September 16, 2011

Death of the Mantis: A Detective Kubu Mystery, by Michael Stanley (Harper Paperbacks)
interview date: Tuesday, September 13, 2011

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