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Desmond and Moore provide a major reexamination of Darwin's life and work. Drawing on a wealth of fresh manuscripts, unpublished letters, notebooks, diaries, and ships' logs, they argue that the driving force behind Darwin's theory of evolution was not simply his love of truth or personal ambition — it was his fierce hatred of slavery. Darwin's abolitionism had deep roots in his mother's family, and it was reinforced by his voyage on the Beagle as well as by events in America... (read more)

Other Colors is a brilliant and moving collection of work the gives the reader insight into the mind of a writer. We are greatly honored to have his book Other Colors in The Heathman Hotel library collection. (read more)

In his new book, economist Dean Baker debunks the myth that conservatives favor the market over government intervention. In fact, conservatives rely on a range of "nanny state" policies that ensure the rich get richer while leaving most Americans worse off. It's time for the rules to change. Sound economic policy should harness the market in ways that produce desirable social outcomes - decent wages, good jobs and affordable health care. Dean Baker is co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research.
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Drawing on seven years of his own research and the work of other esteemed Lincoln scholars, Shenk reveals how the sixteenth president harnessed his depression to fuel his astonishing success. Lincoln found the solace and tactics he needed to deal with the nation's worst crisis in the coping strategies he had developed over a lifetime of persevering through depressive episodes and personal tragedies....By consciously shifting his goal away from personal contentment (which he realized he could not attain) and toward universal justice, Lincoln gained the strength and insight that he, and America, required to transcend profound darkness. (read more)

This book addresses a host of issues concerning credit reporting in the United States. The book is designed to help readers gain a greater understanding of the credit reporting and scoring system, and how it impacts them. As the disclaimer states, this book does not give legal advice. Legal advice can only be given case-by-case by a lawyer, which this author is not. (read more)

"Mercer explains his memoir's title this way: 'Hard time goes slowly and painfully and leaves a man bitter.... Time at Shakespeare and Company was as soft as anything I'd ever felt.' His graceful narrative follows struggling writers as they live on potato soup and dreams at Paris's famous expatriate bookshop. Mercer, a former Ottowa Citizen crime reporter, finds himself at Shakespeare one gloomy Parisian day in 1999, in his late 20s, with not much money and no plans for the future, trying to evade some angry newspaper sources back home.... Mercer portrays the assorted characters and their adventures with an eye for detail and a wry sense of humor." Publishers Weekly (read more)

"Weinstein is a passionate and lucid teacher, one of the most graceful expositors of literature in the nation. In this literary appreciation-cum-memoir, he puts his gifts to work for an unpopular cause: the continuing relevance of the great books that 'read us,' as he claims — that recover the reader's life through their experimental investigations into time, relationship, gender, and history." Gabriel Hankins, The Virginia Quarterly Review (read more)

This novel is not the breezy, young-man-discovers-himself tale it might appear to be at first glance. Never losing its heart or its sense of humor, Indecision is a novel that deftly explores the malaise that plagues so many of this country?s privileged twenty-somethings. Tin House magazine (read more)