ALASKA GEOGRAPHIC
Inupiat and Yupik People of Alaska (Sept., $23.95) by Ann Fienup-Riordan, Jana Harcharek and Susie Silook profiles the indigenous people of northern and western Alaska.
BROOKINGS INSTITUTION
The Fabulous Decade: Macroeconomic Lessons from the 1990s (Sept., $13.95) by Alan S. Blinder and Janet L. Yellen analyzes the 1990s’ U.S. economy.
FACTS ON FILE
Strange Crimes and Criminals and America’s Most Vicious Criminals (Nov., $17.95 each) by Carl Sifakis profile the most extreme crimes and perpetrators in America’s past .
HARPERENTERTAINMENT
Cemetery Stories: Creepy Graveyards, Embalming Secrets, and the Life of a Corpse After Death (Oct., $13) by Katherine Ramsland exposes the morbid world of corpses and cemeteries. Ad/promo. 25-city radio satellite tour.
HAWORTH PRESS
Marital and Sexual Lifestyles in the United States: Attitudes, Behaviors, and Relationships in Social Context (Oct., $34.95) by Linda P. Rouse examines the diversity of intimate relationships in contemporary America.
Popular Culture in a New Age (Oct., $24.95) by Marshall W. Fishwick explores the phenomenal growth of popular culture in the last decade and the roles that technology and the Internet have played.
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN/MARINER
The Essential Galbraith (Oct., $16) by John Kenneth Galbraith features selections from classic works by the world’s eminent economist. 15,000 first printing. Ad/promo.
NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIV. PRESS
Wondrous Healing: Shamanism, Human Evolution, and the Origin of Religion (Nov.; $19.95, cloth $40) by James M. McClenon argues that the evolution of mysterious anomalies and age-old healing rituals created the physiological foundation for shamanism, humankind’s first religion.
PERENNIAL
Reprint: Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (Jan., $14) by Eric Schlosser. 125,000 first printing.
PROMETHEUS BOOKS/HUMANITY BOOKS
Stronger Than Dirt: A Cultural History of Advertising Personal Hygiene in America, 1875 to 1940 (Sept., $28) by Juliann Sivulka chronicles the transformation of soap from a luxury item to an everyday staple.
RAYO
The Hispanic Condition: The Power of a People (Nov., $14) by Ilan Stavans offers a revised and updated analysis of the five major Hispanic cultures. 20,000 first printing. Author publicity. 25-city radio satellite tour.
LYNNE REINER
White Supremacy and Racism in the Post—Civil Rights Era (Nov.; $19.95, cloth $49.95) by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva exposes the superficially nonracial social arrangements that maintain white supremacy in America today.
ROUTLEDGE
Soul Babies (Feb.; $19.95, cloth $85) by Mark Anthony Neal traces the transformation of values in black life and culture after the civil rights era.
SQUARE ONE
Evil in Our Midst (Sept., $14.95) by David E. Jones offers a glimpse of 50 of the world’s most feared and frightening demons.
UNIV. OF ALABAMA PRESS
Heart of Creation: The Mesoamerican World and the Legacy of Linda Schele (Feb., $29.95), edited by Andrea Stone, reviews Mayan hieroglyphics and cosmology, and serves as a tribute to a noted pioneer.
UNIV. OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Cyberculture (Oct., $17.95) by Pierre Levy, trans. by Robert Bononno, offers a provocative look at the impact that new technologies will have on world societies.
YALE UNIV. PRESS
The Fragile Middle Class: Americans in Debt (Sept.; $17.95, cloth $40) by Teresa A. Sullivan, Elizabeth Warren and Jay Lawrence Westbrook considers the economic factors that threaten financial security and what they imply for the future vitality of the middle class.
