Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets by Penguin $16.00
In this "riveting"(The New York Times) work of nonfiction, a sociologist infiltrates the world of Chicago's crack-dealing gangs First presented in Freakonomics, the story of a young sociologist who embedded himself in Chicago's most notorious gang and captured the world's attention. Gang Leader for a Day is the fascinating full story of how Sudhir Venkatesh gained entrance into the lives of a...

Down These Mean Streets (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) by Turtleback $25.70
FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. The author recalls his early experiences with poverty and discrimination, his involvement with drugs and gangs, and his prison sentence for armed robbery which led to his rehabilitation and work with street gangs and drug addicts.

Report from Engine Co. 82 by Buccaneer Books $27.95
From his bawdy and brave fellow firefighters to the hopeful, hateful, beautiful and beleaguered residents of the poverty-stricken district where he works, Dennis Smith tells the story of a brutalising yet rewarding profession.

Manson in His Own Words: The Shocking Confessions of 'The Most Dangerous Man Alive' by Nuel Emmons $14.00
Distilled from hundreds of hours of interviews, Manson's story reveals an enormous amount of new information about his life and how it led to the 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders, and provides grim insight into the making of a criminal mind. 16 pages of photos.

Morrie : In His Own Words by $7.97

Otto Neurath: The Language of the Global Polis by NAi Publishers $45.00
Austrian sociologist Otto Neurath was a seminal Modernist figure. Much attention has been given to his achievements in the fields of graphic design and philosophy (Neurath was a member of the Vienna Circle, founder of the Museum of Society and Economy, inventor of the ISOTYPE pictorial system and champion of the Unity of Science movement), yet his involvement with urbanism and architecture has...

Cosmic Trigger III : My Life After Death by New Falcon Publications $16.95
This, the long-awaited third volume of the Cosmic Trigger series, includes Wilson's witty and humorous observations about the widely spread (and, happily, premature) announcement of his demise. And, of course, what Wilson masterpiece would be complete without synchronicities, religious fanatics, UFOs, crop circles, paranoia, pompous scientists, secret societies, high tech, black magic, quantum...

Still Life With Rice: A Young American Woman Discovers the Life and Legacy of Her Korean Grandmother by Scribner $24.00
As told by her granddaugher, the biography of Hongyoung Baek, born in 1912 in Korea, into a socially repressive, male-dominated society, describes her struggles to overcome the pains of war, loss, and discrimination. 20,000 first printing. Tour.

Pimps Whores and Welfare Brats: From Welfare Cheat to Conservative Messenger by Atria $23.00
The African-American entrepreneur describes her disadvantaged life and the convictions that prompted her to overcome the challenges of her past while presenting her personal secrets of self-empowerment. Tour.

With a Daughter's Eye: Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, A by Harper Perennial $16.00
In With a Daughter's Eye, writer and cultural anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson looks back on her extraordinary childhood with two of the world's legendary anthropologists, Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson. This deeply human and illuminating portrait sheds new light on her parents' prodigious achievements and stands alone as an important contribution for scholars of Mead and Bateson. But for...