To The Best of Our Knowledge

A

• Elizabeth Abbot, A History of Celibacy (Scribner)
• Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Black Profiles in Courage: a legacy of African-American Achievement Morrow
• Jessica Abel, Artbabe (Fantagraphics Books)
• Marilyn J. Abraham, First We Quit Our Jobs: How One Work-Driven Couple Got on the Road to a New Life (Dell)
• Pearl Abraham, The Romance Reader Riverhead, Putnam
• Rachel Abramowitz, Is That a Gun in Your Pocket: Women's Experience of Power in Hollywood (Random House)
• Diane Ackerman, A Slender Thread (Random House)
• Diane Ackerman, Cultivating Delight: A Natural History of My Garden (Harper Collins)
• Diane Ackerman, Deep Play (Random House)
• Diane Ackerman, The Rarest of the Rare: Vanishing Aminals, Timeless Worlds Random House
• Amir Aczel, Fermat's Last Theorem: Unlocking the Secret of an Ancient Mathematical Problem Four Walls Eight Windows
• Noah Adams, Far Appalachia: Following the New River North (Delacorte Press)
• Noah Adams, Piano Lessons: Music, Love & True Adventures (Delta)
• Leila Ahmed, A Border Passage: From Cairo to America - A Woman's Journey (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• Bruce Aidells and Denis Kelly, The Complete Meat Cookbook (Houghton Mifflin)
• Lyle Victor Albert, Scraping the Surface/Objects in the Mirror (NeWest Press)
• John Alcock, In a Desert Garden: Love and Death Among the Insects (Norton)
• Paulette Bates Alden, Crossing the Moon: A Journey Through Infertility (Hungry Mind Press)
• John Alderman, Sonic Boom: Napster, MP3 , and the NewPioneers of Music (Perseus Publishing)
• Caroline Alexander, The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition (Knopf)
• Sherman Alexie, The Toughest Indian in the World (Atlantic Monthly)
• Tariq Ali, The Clash of Fundamentalisms
• Tariq Ali, The Stone Woman: a novel (Verso)
• Mary Allen, The Rooms of Heaven: A Story of Love, Death, Grief and the Afterlife (Knopf)
• Stewart Lee Allen, In the Devil's Garden: A Sinful History of Forbidden Food (Ballantine)
• Isabel Allende, Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses (Harper Flamingo/Harper Collins)
• Isabel Allende, Daughter of Fortune (Harper Collins)
• Isabel Allende has a brief commentary in the program Letters
• Catherine Allgor, Parlor Politics: In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government (University of Virginia)
• Susan Allport, A Natural History of Parenting Harmony
• David Almond, Skellig (Yearling), Kit's Wilderness (Delacorte)
• Julia Alvarez, How Tia Lola Came to Stay (Knopf)
• Lori Arviso Alvord and Elizabeth Cohen Van Pelt, The Scalpel and the Silver Bear: The First Navajo Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine and Traditional Healing (Bantam)
• Antonio D'Amasio, The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness (Harvest Books)
• Stephen Ambrose, Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army From the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany June 7, 1944 - May 7, 1945 (Simon & Schuster)
• Stephen E. Ambrose, Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Build the Transcontinental Railroad (Simon & Schuster)
• Mark Ames & Matt Taibbi, the eXile: sex, drugs, and libel in the New Russia (Grove Press)
• Martin Amis, Experience: A Memoir (Talk Miramax)
• Martin Amis, Night Train (Harmony Books)
• Cleveland Amory, Ranch of Dreams Viking
• Jon Lee Anderson, Che Guevara: a revolutionary life Grove Press
• Lori Andrews and Dorothy Nelkin, Body Bazaar: The Market for Human Tissue in the Biotechnology Age (Crown)
• Lori Andrews, The Clone Age: Twenty Years on the Forefront of Reproductive Technology Henry Holt
• Carole Angier, The Doubled Bond: Primo Levi: a biography (FSG)
• Natalie Angier, Woman: An Intimate Geography (Houghton Mifflin)
• Natalie Angier, The Beauty of the Beastly (Houghton Mifflin)
• William Anthony, The Art of Napping Larson Publications
• Anthony Appiah, The Dictionary of Culture (FSG)
• Peter Applebome, Dixie Rising: How the South is Shaping American Values, Politics and Culture Harcourt Brace
• Cindy Aron, Working at Play: A History of Vacations in the United States (Oxford)
• Stanley Aronowitz, From the Ashes of the Old: American Labor and America's Future (Houghton Mifflin)
• Raymond Arsenault, "The End of the Long Hot Summer: The Air Conditioner and Southern Culture" in Searching for the Sunbelt: Historical Perspectives on a Region ed, Raymond Mohl (University of Tennessee)
• Timothy Garton Ash, The File: A Personal History (Random House)
• Frances Ashcroft, Life At the Extremes: the Science of Survival (California)
• Stephen Asma, Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads: The Culture and Evolution of Natural History Museums (Oxford)
• Tom Athanasiou, Divided Planet: The Ecology of Rich and Poor Little, Brown
• James Atlas, Bellow: a Biography (Random House)
• David Attenborough, The Life of Birds (Princeton)
• David Attenborough, The Private Life of Plants Princeton University Press
• Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace Doubleday
• Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday)
• Ann Hagedorn Auerbach, Ransom: The Untold Story of International Kidnapping (Henry Holt)
• Jean Auel, The Shelters of Stone (Crown) Paul Auster, Timbuktu Henry Holt
• David Awbrey, Finding Hope in the Age of Melancholy (Little, Brown)
• Marilou Awiakta, Selu: Seeking the Corn Mother's Wisdom Fulcrum
• Bill Ayers, Fugitive Days (Beacon Press)
• William Ayers, A Kind and Just Parent: the Children of Juvenile Court Beacon

B

• Jimmy Santiago Baca, A Place to Stand (Grove Press)
• Jimmy Santiago Baca, Healing Earthquakes: Poems (Grove Press)
• Ellyn Bache, The Activist's Daughter (Spinsters Ink)
• Alfred Bader, Adventures of a Chemist Collector Weidenfeld and Nicolson
• Hans Christian von Baeyer, Maxwell's Demon: Why Warmth Disperses and Time Passes (Random House)
• Bruce Bagemihl, Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity (St. Martin's)
• Tara Bahrampour, To See and See Again: A Life in Iran and America (FSG)
• Beryl Bainbridge, The Birthday Boys Carrol and Graf
• Beryl Bainbridge new introduction for Robert Falcon Scott, Scott's Last Journals Carrol and Graf
• David Bainbridge, Making Babies: The Science of Pregnancy (Harvard)
• Christopher P. Baker, Mi Moto Fidel: Motorcycling Through Castro's Cuba (National Geographic Adventure Press)
• Kevin Baker, Dreamland (Harper Collins)
• Larry Baker, The Flamingo Rising (Ballantine)
• Neil Baldwin, Henry Ford and the Jews: The Mass Production of Hate (Public Affairs)
• Kevin Bales, Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy (University of California)
• Sally Banes, Dancing Women: Female Bodies on Stage (Routledge)
• Russell Banks, The Angel on the Roof (Harper Collins)
• Russell Banks, Cloudsplitter: A Novel (Harper Flamingo)
• Lesley Bannatyne, Halloween: An American Holiday, an American History (Pelican)
• Marc Ian Barasch, Healing Dreams: Exploring the Dreams That Can Transform Your Life (Riverhead)
• Elizabeth Wayland Barber, The Mummies of Urumchi (Norton)
• Coleman Barks, translator, The Soul of Rumi: a new collection of ecstatic poems (Harper San Francisco)
• Nigel Barley, Grave Matters: a lively history of death around the world Henry Holt
• Neal Barnard, Foods That Fight Pain: Revolutionary New Strategies for Maximum Pain Relief Harmony
• Connie Barlow, Green Space, Green Time Copernicus Books
• Julian Barnes, England, England (Knopf)
• Patricia Barnes-Svarney and Thomas Svarney, Skies of Fury: Weather Weirdness Around the World (Fireside)
• Louise Barnett, Ungentlemanly Acts: The Army's Notorious Incest Trial (Hill & Wang)
• Nevada Barr, Blind Descent (Putnam)
• Andrea Barrett, The Voyage of the Narwhal (Norton)
• John Barrow, The Artful Universe Oxford
• John M. Barry, Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America Simon and Schuster
• Jacques Barzun, From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life (HarperCollins)
• Nicholas Basbanes, A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes and The Eternal Passion for Books Henry Holt
• Rick Bass, The New Wolves The Lyons Press
• Thomas Bass, The Predictors: How a Band of Maverick Physicists Used Chaos Theory to Trade Their Way to a Fortune on Wall Street (Henry Holt)
• Joan Bauer, Hope Was Here (Putman)
• Charles Baxter, Burning Down the House: essays on fiction Graywolf Press
• John Bayley, Iris and Her Friends: A Memoir of Memory and Desire (Norton)
• Jo Ann Beard, The Boys of My Youth (Back Bay Books, Little Brown)
• Jack Beatty, The World According to Peter Drucker Free Press
• Tom Beaudoin, Virtual Faith: The Irreverent Spiritual Quest of Generation X (Jossey-Bass)
• Jasper Becker, Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine Free Press
• Gavin de Becker, The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us From Violence Little Brown
• Marc Bekoff, Minding Animals: Awareness, Emotions, and Heart (Oxford)
• David Beers, Blue Sky Dream: A Memoir of America's Fall from Grace (Doubleday)
• Michael Behe, Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution Free Press
• Richard Bell, Simone Weil's Philosophy of Culture Cambridge
• Rudolph Bell, How to Do It: Guides to Good Living From Renaissance Italians (Chicago)
  • Children Lost and Found
  • The Good Doctor,
• Beryl Lieff Benderly, In Her Own Right: The Institute of Medicine's Guide to Women's Health Issues National Academy Press
• Jeff Benedict and Don Yaeger, Pros and Cons: The Criminals Who Play in the NFL (Warner)
• Gregory Benford, Cosm Avon
• Medea Benjamin, Don't Be Afraid, Gringo! Institute for Food and Policy Development
• David Bennahum, Extra Life: Coming of Age in Cyberspace (Basic)
• Scott Berg, Lindbergh Putnam
• William Berger, Wagner Without Fear: Learning to Love -- and Even Enjoy -- Opera's Most Demanding Genius (Vintage)
• Jacob B. Berkson, A Canary's Tale (P.O. Box 2041 Hagerstown, MD 21742)
• David Berlinski, The Advent of the Algorithm: The Idea that Rules the World (Harcourt)
• David Berlinski, A Tour of the Calculus Pantheon
• Anne Bernays & Justin Kaplan, The Language of Names Simon & Schuster
• Peter Bernstein, Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk Wiley
• Wendell Berry, A Timbered Choir: The Collected Sabbath Poems, 1979-1997 (Counterpoint)
• Michael Berube, Life As We Know It: A Father, A Family, and an Exceptional Child Pantheon
• Steven Biel, Down with the Old Canoe: A Cultureal History of the Titanic Disaster Norton
• Burkhard Bilger, Noodling for Flatheads: Moonshine, Monster Catfish, and Other Southern Comforts (Scribner)
• David Biro, One Hundred Days: My Unexpected Journey from Doctor to Patient (Pantheon)
• Peter Biskind, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood (Simon & Schuster)
• Buzz Bissinger, A Prayer for the City (Random House)
• Herbert P. Bix, Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (Harper Collins)
• Julia Blackburn, Daisy Bates in the Desert: Life Among the Aborigines Vintage
• Michael Blake, Marching To Valhalla: A Novel of Custer's Last Days (Villard)
• Brad Blanton, Practicing Radical Honesty (Sparrowhawk Publications)
• Brad Blanton, Radical Honesty Dell Trade Paperback
• David Blight, Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (Belknap Press)
• Nicholas Blincoe and Matt Thorne, editors, All Hail The New Puritans (Fourth Estate)
• Jacqueline Blix and David Heitmiller, Getting a Life: Real Lives Transformed by Your Money or Your Life (Viking)
• Chana Bloch, Mrs. Dumpty (Wisconsin)
• Claire Bloom, Leaving A Doll's House Little Brown
• Harold Bloom, How to Read and Why (Scribner)
• Stephen G. Bloom, Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America (Harcourt)
• Michael Bloomberg and Matthew Winkler, Bloomberg by Bloomberg Wiley
• Robert Bluestone, Convergence (Linares 1897 - CD)
• Deborah Blum, Sex on the Brain: The Biological Difference Between Men and Women Viking - also heard in our Human Origins - Violence program
• Laura Blumenfeld, Revenge: a story of hope (Simon & Schuster)
• Judy Blunt, Breaking Clean (Knopf)
• Robert Bly, The Sibling Society Addison Wesley
• David Bodanis, E=mc2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation (Walker)
• David Bodanis, The Secret Family Simon & Schuster
• Eric Bogosian, Mall (Simon & Schuster)
• Chris Bohjalian, The Law of Similars: A Novel (Harmony)
• Chris Bohjalian, Midwives Vintage
• Jonathan Bond and Richard Kirshenbaum, Under the Radar: Talking to Today's Cynical Consumer (Wiley)
• Paulina Borsook, Cyberselfish: A Critical Romp Through the Terribly Libertarian Culture of High-Tech (Public Affairs)
• Sylvia Boorstein, That's Funny: You Don't Look Buddhist Harper San Francisco
• Wayne Booth, For the Love of It: Amateuring and Its Rivals (University of Chicago)
• Marcus J. Borg and N.T. Wright, The Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions (Harper Collins)
• Marcus J. Borg, The God We Never Knew: Beyond Dogmatic Religion to a More Authentic Contemporary Faith Harper Collins
• Phil Borges, Enduring Spirit (Rizzoli)
• Amy Borkowsky, Amy's Answering Machine: Messages From Mom (Pocket Books/Simon & Schuster) CD available at: (http://www.sendamy.com)
• Kate Bornstein, Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and The Rest of Us (Vintage)
• Andy Borowitz, The Trillionaire New Door: The Greedy Investor's Guide to Day Trading (Harperbusiness)
• Alfred B. Bortz, To the Young Scientist: Reflections on Doing and Living Science (Watts)
• Laure-Anne Bosselaar, ed. Outsiders: Poems about Rebels, Exiles, and Renegades (Milkweed)
• Laure-Anne Bosselaar,ed. Urban Nature: Poems About Wildlife in the City (Milkweed Editions)
• Leon Botstein, Jefferson's Children: Education and the Promise of American Culture (Doubleday)
• Ruth Bottigheimer, The Bible for Children Yale
• Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Bloomsbury)
• Angela Bourke, The Burning of Bridget Cleary (Viking)
• Mark Bowden, Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War (Penguin)
• Neal Bowers, Words for the Taking: The Hunt for a Plagiarist (Norton)
• Jeanne Boylan, Portraits of Guilt (Pocket)
• T.C. Boyle, A Friend of the Earth (Viking)
• T.C.Boyle, After the Plague: and other stories (Viking)
• Svetlana Boym, Common Places: Mythologies of Everyday Life in Russia
• Svetlana Boym, The Future of Nostalgia (Basic Books)
• Arthur Bradford, Dogwalker: stories (Knopf)
• James Bradley, Flags of Our Fathers (Bantam)
• Hilary Bradt, Guide to Madagascar (Bradt Publications)
• Rick Bragg, All Over But the Shoutin' Pantheon
• Rick Bragg also heard in "Is Washington Obsolete?
• Taylor Branch, Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65 (Simon and Schuster)
• Stewart Brand, The Clock of the Long Now (Basic Books)
• Leo Braudy, The Frenzy of Renown: fame and its history Oxford
• Stephen Braun, Buzz: The Science and Lore of Alcohol and Caffeine Oxford
• Robert Brawer, Fictions of Business: Insights on Management From Great Literature (Wiley)
• David Breashears, High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places (Simon & Schuster)
• Karen Brennan, Being With Rachel: A Story of Memory and Survival (Norton)
• C. Brooks Brenneis, Recovered Memories of Trauma: Transferring the Present to the Past International Universities Press, Inc.
• Jonathan Brent, Annals of Communism (25 Volumes) (Yale)
• John Brewer, The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• Bob Brier, The Murder of Tutankhamun (Berkley Pub Group)
• Andre Brink, The Rights of Desire (Harcourt Brace)
• Joel Brinkley, Defining Vision: The Battle for the Future of Television Harcourt Brace
• Susan J. Brison, Aftermath: Violence and the Remaking of a Self (Princeton)
• William J. Broad, The Universe Below: Discovering the Secrets of the Deep Sea Simon and Schuster
• John Brockman, ed., The Greatest Inventions of the Past 2,000 Years: Today's Leading Thinkers Choose the Creations That Shaped Our World (Simon & Schuster)
• David Broder, Democracy Derailed: Initiative Campaigns and the Power of Money (Harcourt)
• Virginia Warner Brodine, Seed of the Fire: A Novel (International Publishers)
• Hugh Brody, Maps and Dreams: Indians and the British Columbia Frontier (Jill Norman and Hobhouse, London 1981)
• Hugh Brody, The Other Side of Eden: Hunters, Farmers, and the Shaping of the World (North Point Press)
• Po Bronson, The First $20 Million is Always the Hardest: A Silicon Valley Novel Random House
• Richard Brookhiser, Alexander Hamilton, American (Free Press)
• David Brooks, Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There (Simon & Schuster)
• Mr. Brooks contributed a commentary to Can You Trust Reporters? 01-03-18-A
• Terry Brooks, Angel Fire East (Ballantine)
• Mikita Brottman, editor, Car Crash Culture(Palgrave)
• Kurt Brown, ed., Verse & Universe: Poems About Science and Mathematics (Milkweed)
• Mildred Brown with Chloe Ann Rounsely, True Selves: Understanding Transexualism Jossey-Bass Publishers
• Anthony Browne, Willy the Champ (Knopf)
• Jane Brox, Here and Nowhere Else Beacon
• Joseph Bruchac, Lasting Echoes: An Oral History of Native American People (Harcourt Brace)
• Joan Jacobs Brumberg, The Body Project: an intimate history of American girls Random House
• Bill Bryson, A Walk in the Woods (Broadway)
• Bill Bryson, In a Sunburned Country (Broadway)
• Matthew Brzezinski, Casino Moscow: A Tale of Greed and Adventure on Capitalism's Wildest Frontier (Free Press)
• James Buchan, Frozen Desire: The Meaning of Money Farrar, Straus Giroux
• Stephen Buchmann and Gary Paul Nabhan, The Forgotten Pollinators Island Press
• Art Buchwald, I'll Always Have Paris: A Memoir Putnam
• Christopher Buckley and John Tierney, God is My Broker Random House
• Christopher Buckley, Wry Martinis Random House
• William F. Buckley, Nearer, My God: an autobiography of faith Doubleday
• Stephen Budiansky, The Nature of Horses Free Press
• Stephen Budiansky, Nature's Keepers: The New Science of Nature Management Free Press
• Carmel Budiardjo, Surviving Indonesia's Gulag Cassell
• Dan Buettner, MayaQuest: The Interactive Expedition Onion Press
• A'Lelia Bundles, On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madame C.J. Walker (Washington Square Press)
• Ian Buruma, Bad Elements: Chinese Rebels from Los Angeles to Beijing (Random House)
• Ramiro Burr, The Billboard Guide to Tejano and Regional Mexican Music
• Richard Bushman, The Refinement of America Knopf
• Robert Olen Butler, The Deep Green Sea (Henry Holt)
• Robert Olen Butler, Fair Warning (Atlantic Monthly Press)
• Brian Butterworth, What Counts: How Every Brain is Hardwired for Math (Free Press)
• A.S. Byatt, Babel Tower Random House
• A.S. Byatt, The Biographer's Tale: a novel (Knopf)
• Richard Byrne, The Thinking Ape: Evolutionary Origins of Intelligence Oxford