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yield true meaning and fulfillment.
Mind Change: How Digital Technologies Are
Leaving Their Mark on
Our Brains by Susan Greenfield (Feb. 10, hardcover,
$28, ISBN 978-0-8129-
9382-0). Renowned neuroscientist Greenfield addresses
a problem as pervasive and
wide-spread as climate
change: the digital age has
already altered our cultural landscape,
fueled an epidemic of oversharing, and
transformed how we learn, remember, and
spread information.
RIVERHEAD
The End of College: Creating the
Future of Learning and the University
of Everywhere by Kevin Carey (Mar. 3,
hardcover, $27.95, ISBN 978-1-59463-
205-1). A renowned education writer,
Carey delivers a paradigm-changing examination of the rapidly changing world of
college that every parent, student, educator, and investor needs to understand
today.
So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed by
Jon Ronson (Mar. 31, hardcover, $27.95,
ISBN 978-1-59448-713-2). For the past
three years, Ronson, the bestselling author
of The Psychopath Test, has been immersing
himself in the world of modern-day public
shaming—meeting famous shamees,
shamers, and bystanders who have been
affected.;The result is a exploration of one
of our world’s most underappreciated
forces.
SKYHORSE
The Autism Job Club: How Adults
with Autism Will Find Work in Today’s
Employment Market by Michael Ber-nick and Richard Holden (Mar. 3, hardcover, $27.99, ISBN 978-1-63220-696-
1) reviews the high unemployment rates
among adults with autism and other
neuro-diverse conditions more than two
decades after the ADA. The authors ana-
lyze national data and outline six strate-
gies that could reshape employment for
adults with autism. 10,000-
copy announced first printing.
The Hands of Peace: A
Holocaust Survivor’s Fight
for Civil Rights in the
American South by Marione
Ingram (June 2, hardcover,
$24.99, ISBN 978-1-63220-
289-5). Born in Hamburg in
the 1930s, Marione Ingram
fled Nazi Germany, only
to find racism as pervasive in
the American South as anti-
Semitism was in Europe. This is her
empowering story of courage, strength,
and determination.
ST. MARTIN’S
Saltwater Cowboy: The Rise and Fall
of a Marijuana Empire by Tim McBride,
with Ralph Berrier Jr. (Apr. 7, hardcover,
$25.99, ISBN 978-1-250-05128-8). In the
spirit of Blow and Doctor Dealer, the story
of an all-American boy who became the
head of a multimillion-dollar marijuana
smuggling ring.
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UNIV. OF CHICAGO
The Purposeful Graduate: Why Colleges Must Talk to Students About
Vocation by Tim Clydesdale (Mar. 23,
hardcover, $27.50, ISBN 978-0-226-
23634-6). Clydesdale makes the case for
giving students an explicit sense of purpose
or calling at university, arguing that if
learning is aimed at an end, or a goal in life,
it can make for better education.
UNIV. OF NORTH CAROLINA
Born to Be Wild: The Rise of the
American Motorcyclist by Randy D.
McBee (May 10, hardcover, $35, ISBN
978-1-4696-2272-9). In the late 1940s,
the leather-clad biker emerged in the
American consciousness as a menace to
law-abiding motorists and small towns.
Yet a few decades later, the motorcyclist
became mainstream. McBee narrates the
evolution of motorcycle culture.
UNIV. OF TEXAS
Border Odyssey: Travels along the
U.S./Mexico Divide by Charles D.
Thompson Jr. (Apr. 15, hardcover, $27.50,
ISBN 978-0-292-75663-2). This compelling chronicle of a journey along the entire
U.S.-Mexico border shifts the conversation
away from danger and fear to the shared
histories and aspirations that bind Mexicans and Americans despite the border
walls.
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The Happiness Industry: How the
Government and Big Business Sold Us
Well-Being by William Davies (May 12,
hardcover, $26.95, ISBN 978-1-78168-
845-8). In this brilliant dissection of our
times, political economist Davies shows
that the science of happiness is less a science
than an extension of hypercapitalism.
25,000-copy announced first printing.
VIKING
Creative Schools: The Grassroots
Revolution That’s Transforming Education by Ken Robinson and Lou Aronica
(Apr. 21, hardcover, $27.95, ISBN 978-0-
670-01671-6). Robinson, New York Times
bestselling author of The Element and
Finding Your Element,offers revolutionary reappraisal of how to educate our children and
young people.
YALE UNIV.
Pax Technica: How the Internet of
Things May Set Us Free or Lock Us Up
by Philip N. Howard (Apr. 28, hardcover,
$28, ISBN 978-0-300-19947-5). Should
we fear or welcome the Internet’s evolution? A professor and frequent commenter
on digital life looks at the most powerful
political tool ever created.
