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Mark Bittman’s VB6: The Lifestyle Book Everyone’s Talking About

How manageable is the vegan lifestyle? Not very manageable to the newbie? How about the vegan lifestyle -- before six o'clock at night? Now you're talking.

May 16, 2013

Free Will: A Concise Study in Fact vs Illustion

Author Sam Harris has a theory: The concept of free will is an illusion and 'our wills are simply not of our own making. Read his book on this very subject and then decide, well, for yourself.

May 10, 2013

Next Up for Mary Roach: How Things Go Down in Gulp

Mary Roach brings her trademark scientific humor to a brand-new topic, with Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal. Sign us up.

May 6, 2013

8 Everest Facts Uncovered by the Author of The Vast Unknown

Broughton Coburn, the author of The Vast Unknown: America's First Ascent of Everest, shares with Everyday eBook a few interesting facts he uncovered while researching his latest book.

April 17, 2013

Why Biologists Never Give Up Hope, by Dan Drollette Jr.

The author of Gold Rush in the Jungle: The Race to Discover and Defend the Rarest Animals of Vietnam’s ‘Lost World’ stops by Everyday eBook to share a story of a species near-lost – and then found again.

April 12, 2013

A New Take on the Civil War: Bruce Levine’s The Fall of the House of Dixie

The Fall of the House of Dixie is an original take on the Civil War and that critical period in U.S. history. Bruce Levine does not concentrate on battles or politics, but on the aftereffects on the psychology and social fabric of the South.

March 30, 2013

Murder, Money, and Genius Behind Modern Film: Edward Ball’s The Inventor and the Tycoon

Eadweard Muybridge is the keystone to Edward Ball's rapturous retelling of a lawless nineteenth-century America, when a robber baron and an eccentric became the unlikely founders of modern cinema.

March 23, 2013

The Evolution of Our Culinary Culture: Bee Wilson’s Consider the Fork

We aren't what we eat so much as how we eat. Consider the Fork is an anthropological study of how, since the beginning of our existence, humans have turned the necessity of eating into a way of life.

March 19, 2013

Detroit City Is the Place to Be: But … What Happened?

Today, Detroit is burning. This book is the result of Mark Binelli's exploration of both the blight and the beacons he found in a city that has long symbolized the larger American narrative, and, possibly, resurgence.

March 15, 2013

The Curious Mystery of Perception: Oliver Sacks’ Hallucinations

Oliver Sacks' intriguing new eBook invites us to think about all the ways that humans routinely perceive things that don't exist, and in the process, stretch our understanding of how our brains work.

March 11, 2013

5 Pieces of Leadership Advice for Women at Work: Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead offers invaluable career advice for women in the workplace.

March 7, 2013

The Journey of Justice Sonia Sotomayor: My Beloved World

Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor delivers an unprecedented memoir that is earnest, humbling, and instantly inspiring. We get a sense of her contagious spirit and a better understanding of one of the most powerful women in the world.

March 6, 2013

Louisa May Alcott as You’ve Never Seen Her Before, Courtesy of Harriet Reisen

In Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women, Harriet Reisen brings to life more fully than any biographer previously the full range of Alcott's moods, and the often troubling, rarely easy life that spurned the author to fame.

March 5, 2013

Talking Scientology: A Q&A with Going Clear Author Lawrence Wright

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Lawrence Wright joined Everyday eBook for a fascinating conversation about scientology -- from the motivation of the church's beginnings to its future and more.

March 2, 2013

10 Astonishing Facts from China’s Silent Army

Authors Juan Pablo Cardenal and Heriberto Araujo, the authors of China's Silent Army, which examines the unprecedented growth of China's economic investment in the developing world and its impact at the local level, reveal ten incredible facts from their eye-opening book.