A Crime So Monstrous: Face-To-Face with Modern-Day Slavery

by E. Benjamin Skinner

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Based on four years of research in over a dozen countries across the globe, journalist Skinner provides a shocking expos of the inner workings of the modern-day slave trade.

Happier Than God: Turn Ordinary Life Into an Extraordinary Experience

by Neale Donald Walsch

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n this fresh and timely book, New York Times bestselling author Walsch gives his particular spin on how a new understanding of God can change lives and change the world. He explains what few contemporary messengers of positive thinking have spelled out: Where God fits in.

Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy, and the West

by Benazir Bhutto

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Before her untimely death, the former Prime Minister of Pakistan wrote of the rapidly growing tension between Islam and the West. Reconciliation offers a realistic overview of ways to bridge the cultural, political, and economic chasms that separate these differing cultures.

The Road to Wealth: A Comprehensive Guide to Your Money: Everything You Need to Know in Good and Bad Times

by Suze Orman

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Completely revised and updated for the realities of today's world, The Road to Wealth is Orman's most authoritative and accessible resource for every stage of financial life.

Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East

by Robin Wright

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Dreams and Shadows is an extraordinary tour de horizon of the new Middle East, with on-the-ground reportage of the ideas and movements driving change across the region--and the obstacles they confront.

Silicon Dragon: How China Is Winning the Tech Race

by Rebecca A. Fannin

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It's time to face the facts: China is catching up to the United States as a global leader of technology--and, within a few years, may surpass every nation in the world. By modeling their new techno-based companies on successful American ones like Google and Yahoo, a new breed of entrepreneur is leading China through a second Industrial Revolution.

Canada Collects: The Passionate Eye

by Ken Lister

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Based on the Royal Ontario Museum exhibition, Canada Collects:Treasures from Across the Nation, this companion volume celebrates the art of collecting in Canada. More than seventy objects on loan from some fifty Canadian institutional and private collections are featured, from an original historic map and manuscript to contemporary paintings and sculptures.

Creating Wealth: Retire in Ten Years Using Allen's Seven Principles of Wealth

by Robert G. Allen

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This completely revised edition of Allen's bestseller on strategic wealth creation gives readers the basic principles needed to stop thinking poor and start growing rich.

How Come That Idiot's Rich and I'm Not?

by Robert Shemin

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Bestselling author Shemin reveals for the first time the inner-circle secrets of the mega-wealthy. The author illustrates, in a fun, witty manner, what it really takes to achieve financial abundance.

From Eden to Exile: Unraveling Mysteries of the Bible

by Eric H. Cline

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Cline examines some of the most puzzling mysteries from the Hebrew Bible, and, in the process, narrates the history of ancient Israel. Combining rigorous research with an accessible style, he proposes explanations that reconcile Scripture, science, and history.

Discovering God: The Origins of the Great Religions and the Evolution of Belief

by Rodney Stark

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A noted social historian answers the central historical question--did God create man, or did man create God? Stark argues that God was here all along, and that humankind discovered, rather than invented, God as man evolved intellectually and spiritually.

The Elephant, the Tiger, and the Cell Phone: Reflections on India: The Emerging 21st-Century Power

by Shashi Tharoor

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Over the past 25 years, India has moved from a largely impoverished, underdeveloped country to a bustling, innovative, fast-changing society. This book shows how and why.

The Third Jesus: The Christ We Cannot Ignore

by Deepak Chopra

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In The Third Jesus, bestselling author and spiritual leader Deepak Chopra provides an answer to this question that is both a challenge to current systems of belief and a fresh perspective on what Jesus can teach us all, regardless of our religious background. There is not one Jesus, Chopra writes, but three.

Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

by Dan Ariely

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In the tradition of Freakonomics and Blink, a behavioral economist argues that human behavior is often anything but rational--that thoughts are not random, but instead are systematic and predictable.

Project Renewment: The First Retirement Model for Career Women

by Helen Dennis

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Destined to become the landmark life guide for the 38 million Baby Boomer women facing retirement in the coming years, this groundbreaking book encourages women to deal with the end of their careers and to find a new, more satisfying way of life.

Dangerous World: Natural Disasters, Manmade Catastrophes, and the Future of Human Survival

by Helen Dennis

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In Dangerous World, de Villiers examines these questions in a time when we truly need to understand the dangers that we face, to act in such a way that we are not making things worse, and to prepare as best we can for the inevitable disasters when they come.