The Queen

a film directed by Stephen Frears

I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman

by Nora Ephron

The Uses of Enchantment

by Heidi Julavits

Not a Suicide Pact: The Constitution in a Time of National Emergency

by Richard Posner

The Revenge of Gaia: Earth's Climate in Crisis and the Fate of Humanity

by James Lovelock

China Shifts Gears: Automakers, Oil, Pollution, and Development

by Kelly Sims Gallagher

Solar Revolution: The Economic Transformation of the Global Energy Industry

by Travis Bradford

WorldChanging:A User's Guide for the 21st Century

edited by Alex Steffen

Design Like You Give a Damn: Architectural Responses to Humanitarian Crises

edited by Architecture for Humanity

Bad Faith: A Forgotten History of Family, Fatherland and Vichy France

by Carmen Callil

The Unfree French: Life Under the Occupation

by Richard Vinen

Dangerous Nation

by Robert Kagan

Love in a Fallen City

by Eileen Chang,translated from the Chinese by Karen S. Kingsbury and Eileen Chang

Loud Sparrows: Contemporary Chinese Short-Shorts

edited by Aili Mu, Julie Chiu, and Howard Goldblatt

The Banquet Bug

by Geling Yan

Love and Revolution: A Novel about Song Qingling and Sun Yat-sen

by Ping Lu, translated from the Chinese by Nancy Du

The Curse of Ham: Race and Slavery in Early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

by David M. Goldenberg

Acts of Faith

by Philip Caputo

Adam's Fallacy: A Guide to Economic Theology

by Duncan K. Foley

The Getty Villa

by Marion True and Jorge Silvetti, with an introduction by Salvatore Settis