Relies on charts, graphs, maps, and illustrations to present information about world issues such as health and nutrition, politics and government, drugs and crime, money, science, sports, and education.

"Growing Prosperity could well be as important in shaping our future as Keynes' General Theory. . . . A work as meticulous as it is powerful, as promising as it is persuasive."—Robert Heilbroner, author of The Worldly Philosophers "Bluestone and Harrison have alerted us to the key issue confronting America: how to achieve growth with equity. This country needs a powerful dialogue on how to continue growth while deepening its benefits to all Americans. This is the blueprint for the terms of that debate."—U.S. Representative Richard Gephardt

In The Rating Game, renowned researcher Les Krantz has compiled fun facts, bizarre statistics, and odd averages of everything from the number of breast enlargements per year to the number of people having sex, from the number of bankruptcies filed per year to the number of baseball players making over $5 million. By painting a portrait of average America, The Rating Game allows you to compare yourself, your lifestyle, and your leisure activities to those of your fellow citizens.

C.1, GIFT, 5/18/2010, $25.00.

First published in 1949 and praised in The New York Times Book Review as "full of beauty and vigor and bite," A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with a call for changing our understanding of land management.