COMPETITION DEMYSTIFIED
A Radically Simplified Approach
to Business Strategy
By Bruce Greenwald and Judd Kahn
Portfolio; 399pp; $26.95

WORLD AS LABORATORY
Experiments with Mice, Mazes, and Men
By Rebecca Lemov
Hill and Wang -- 291pp -- $30.00

RESONANT LEADERSHIP
Renewing Yourself and Connecting with Others
Through Mindfulness, Hope, and Compassion
By Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee
Harvard Business School Press; 286pp; $25.95

ONE BILLION CUSTOMERS
Lessons from the Front Lines
of Doing Business in China
By James McGregor
Wall Street Journal Books
336 pages; $27

BEYOND GLORY
Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling, and a World on the Brink
By David Margolick
Knopf -- 423pp -- $26.95

THE MORAL CONSEQUENCES
OF ECONOMIC GROWTH
By Benjamin M. Friedman
Knopf; 592pp; $35

IMPERIAL GRUNTS
The American Military on the Ground
By Robert Kaplan
Random House; 421pp; $27.95

THE TEN FACES OF INNOVATION
IDEO's Strategies for
Beating the Devil's Advocate &
Driving Creativity Throughout
Your Organization
By Tom Kelley with Jonathan Littman
Currency/Doubleday; 276pp; $29.95

CRASH COURSE
Imagining a Better Future
for Public Education
By Chris Whittle
Riverhead Books; 269pp; $24.95

A CRACK IN THE EDGE OF THE WORLD
America and the Great California
Earthquake of 1906
By Simon Winchester
HarperCollins; 462 pp; $27.95

UNTOUCHABLES
My Family's Triumphant
Journey Out of the Caste
System in Modern India
By Narendra Jadhav
Scribner; 295pp; $26

END OF THE LINE
The Rise and Coming Fall
of the Global Corporation
By Barry C. Lynn
Doubleday; 312pp; $26

FORTUNE'S FORMULA
The Untold Story of the
Scientific Betting System
That Beat the Casinos
and Wall Street
By William Poundstone
Hill and Wang; 386pp; $27

THE SEARCH
How Google and Its Rivals
Rewrote the Rules of Business
and Transformed Our Culture
By John Battelle
Portfolio; 311pp; $25.95

BAIT AND SWITCH
The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
By Barbara Ehrenreich
Metropolitan; 237pp; $24

THE GREAT AMERICAN JOBS SCAM
Corporate Tax Dodging and
the Myth of Job Creation
By Greg LeRoy
Berrett-Koehler; 290pp; $24.95

1491
New Revelations of the
Americas Before Columbus
By Charles C. Mann
Knopf; 465pp; $30

MOONDUST
In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth
By Andrew Smith
Fourth Estate; 372pp; $24.95

BINGE
What Your College
Student Won't Tell You
By Barrett Seaman
Wiley; 310pp; $25.95

DAM!
Water, Power, Politics, and Preservation
in Hetch Hetchy and Yosemite National Park
By John Warfield Simpson
Pantheon; 356pp; $28.50

THE RESCUE ARTIST
A True Story of Art, Thieves, and
the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece
By Edward Dolnick
HarperCollins; 270pp; $25.95

TWILIGHT IN THE DESERT
The Coming Saudi Oil Shock
and the World Economy
By Matthew R. Simmons
Wiley; 422pp; $24.95

THE EMPEROR OF WINE: The Rise of Robert M. Parker, Jr.,
and the Reign of American Taste
By Elin McCoy
Ecco -- 342pp -- $25.95

DEVILS ON THE DEEP BLUE SEA
The Dreams, Schemes and Showdowns That Built America's Cruise-Ship Empires

By Kristoffer A. Garin
Viking -- 366pp -- $24.95

KREMLIN RISING
Vladimir Putin's Russia
and the End of Revolution
By Peter Baker and Susan Glasser
Scribner; 453pp; $27.50

THE PRISON ANGEL
Mother Antonia's Journey from Beverly
Hills to a Life of Service in a Mexican Jail
By Mary Jordan and Kevin Sullivan
Penguin Press ; 237pp ; $24.95

THE GENIUS FACTORY
The Curious History of the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank
By David Plotz
Random House ; 262pp ; $24.95

Has America become a conservative country -- or is it just going through a phase? The sources of the country's current rightward tilt are examined in The Right Nation: Conservative Power in America (Penguin, $16)

THREE BILLION NEW CAPITALISTS
The Great Shift of Wealth
and Power to the East
By Clyde Prestowitz
Basic Books; 321pp; $26.95

BLIND SPOT
The Secret History of
American Counterterrorism
By Timothy Naftali
Basic Books; 399pp; $26

MEDICI MONEY
Banking, Metaphysics, and Art
in Fifteenth-Century Florence
By Tim Parks
Atlas Books/Norton -- 273pp -- $22.95

EVERYTHING BAD IS GOOD FOR YOU
How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter
By Steven Johnson
Riverhead Books -- 238pp -- $23.95

1776
By David McCullough
Simon & Schuster -- 386pp -- $32

109 EAST PALACE
Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos
By Jennet Conant
Simon & Schuster -- 424pp -- $26.95

THE FLIGHT OF THE CREATIVE CLASS
The New Global Competition for Talent
By Richard Florida
HarperBusiness; 326pp; $25.95

HOT PROPERTY
The Stealing of Ideas in an Age of Globalization
By Pat Choate
Knopf -- 352pp -- $26.95

ALL THOSE MORNINGS... AT THE POST
The 20th Century in Sports from Famed
Washington Post Columnist Shirley Povich
Eds. Lynn, Maury, and David Povich and George Solomon
PublicAffairs; 404pp; $27.50

FAB
The Coming Revolution
on Your Desktop --
from Personal Computers
to Personal Fabrication
By Neil Gershenfeld
Basic Books; 278pp; $26

THE WORLD IS FLAT
A Brief History of
the Twenty-First Century
By Thomas L. Friedman
Farrar, Straus & Giroux -- 488pp -- $27.50

THE END OF POVERTY
Economic Possibilities for Our Time
By Jeffrey D. Sachs
Penguin Press; 396pp; $27.95

BLUE OCEAN STRATEGY
How to Create Uncontested Market Space and
Make the Competition Irrelevant
By W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne
Harvard Business School Press -- 240pp -- $27.95

MORE THAN HUMAN
Embracing the Promise
of Biological Enhancement
By Ramez Naam
Broadway -- 276pp -- $24.95

THE BIG PICTURE
The New Logic of
Money and Power in Hollywood
By Edward Jay Epstein
Random House -- 396pp -- $25.95

CONSPIRACY OF FOOLS
A True Story
By Kurt Eichenwald
Broadway -- 742pp -- $26

THE BOTTOMLESS WELL
The Twilight of Fuel,
the Virtue of Waste,
and Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy
By Peter W. Huber and Mark P. Mills
Basic Books -- 214pp -- $26

SPLENDID SOLUTION
Jonas Salk and the
Conquest of Polio
By Jeffrey Kluger
Putnam; 373pp; $25.95