Cooking for Geeks: Real Science, Great Hacks, and Good Food —Jeff Potter
Coincidences, Chaos, and All That Math Jazz: Making Light of Weighty Ideas —Edward B. Burger & Michael Starbird
Law
The Dictator’s Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics —Bruce Bueno de Mesquita & Alastair Smith
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty —Daron Acemoglu & James Robinson
On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society —Dave Grossman
Medicine
In the Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor’s Journey in the Saudi Kingdom —Qanta A. Ahmed
God’s Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine—Victoria Sweet
White Coat, Black Hat: Adventures on the Dark Side of Medicine —Carl Elliot
Fashion Technology
Women from the Ankle Down: The Story of Shoes and How They Define Us —Rachelle Bergstein
Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty (Metropolitan Museum of Art) —Andrew Bolton, Solve Sundsbo (photographer), Tim Blanks (contributor), Susannah Frankel (contributor)
House of Versace: The Untold Story of Genius, Murder, and Survival —Deborah Ball
Architecture
Le Corbusier Talks with Students —Le Corbusier
Architecture: Form, Space, and Order —Francis D.K. Ching
The Architecture of Happiness —Alain de Botton
Mass Communication
War, Politics and Superheroes: Ethics and Propaganda in Comics and Film —Marc DiPaolo
We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People —Dan Gillmor
The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-67 (The Fear and Loathing Letters, Vol. 1) —Hunter S. Thompson, Douglas Brinkley (editor), William J. Kennedy (foreword)