Factory@home, by Hod Lipson and Melba Kurman (Wiley & Sons, 2013)

Hod Lipson and Melba Kurman have written a very exciting proposal, Factory @home. Our relationship to the physical world is about to change.  An emerging manufacturing technology, 3D printing, will give regular people the ability to rip, mix and burn our physical world.  As 3D printing continues to nudge its way from industrial to mainstream use, the general public is growing increasingly interested in the wild, wacky and frequently practical applications of this emerging technology. Factory@home will provide readers with a vivid answer to the question “how will this technology change my life?”   A leading faculty member in Cornell University’s College of Engineering, Hod has been described as “the father of modernity.” Co-author Melba Kurman is a popular blogger and veteran technology marketer who will tell the story of 3D printing in lucid and vivid language to appeal to a mainstream, non-technical audience.
 

Seeing Alzheimer's Differently: Love, Loss and Laughter, by Cathy Greenblat
(Lyons Press, 2012)

Cathy Greenblat challenges the dominant images of people with dementia as "empty shells." Seeing Alzheimer's Differently: Love, Loss and Laughter offers a positive vision of what person-centered care can achieve and speaks to the universal fears of aging and memory decay. Love, Loss and Laughter provides personal anecdotes, poetry, and insightful statements from an international group of care partners, researchers, medical experts, social care providers, activists, and people with dementia themselves. 150 color photographs from 5 countries accompany the narrative.

Wanderings in the Wilderness, by Joshua Safran
(Hyperion, 2012)

Well-known social justice lawyer Joshua Safran has garnered national recognition for his heroic advocacy on behalf of battered women. His outlandish childhood and remarkable triumph over adversity are the backstory to the film, Crime After Crime, documenting Safran's seven-year struggle to free a wrongfully imprisoned survivor of domestic violence. The award-winning film, an Official Selection at this year's Sundance Film Festival, was recently purchased by the Oprah Winfrey Network.  Now Safran is chronicling the exceptional story of his countercultural and abusive childhood in a forthcoming memoir to be published by Hyperion Books.  His stories are compelling and humorous, illustrating a remarkable childhood living off-the-grid in the rural West amongst revolutionaries and rednecks, hippies and artists, lunatics and violent alcoholics. Safran's inspiring journey out of the wilderness of chaos, paganism, and poverty is guided by his unlikely reconnection with the God of his Hebrew ancestors and his emerging revelation that mainstream society is not the evil empire he was taught to fear. 

Strangehold: How the Political Class is Suffocating American Democracy,
by Doug Schoen
(Roman and Littlefield, 2012)

Preeminent political analyst Douglas E. Schoen will provide a fresh, compelling analysis of how the political class is systematically undermining American democracy. Schoen will argue that the political class' disregard for the population's distrust of institutions could lead to the fraying of the basic fabric of our society. Schoen argues that the political class' disregard for the population's distrust of institutions could lead to the fraying of the basic fabric of our society. This unique book is filled with proprietary poll data that has not appeared anywhere else, and real-world examples and people that bring to life the poll statistics and findings. Doug Schoen had worked on the campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Ed Koch and has worked with heads of state of over 15 countries including Tony Blair and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berulusconi and three Israeli Prime Ministers. Doug Schoen is the author of Mad as Hell: How the Tea Party Movement s Fundamentally Remaking Our Two-Party System and The Threat Closer to Home: Hugo Chávez and the War Against America  and the author of Declaring Independence: The Beginning of the End of the Two-Party System, The Power of the Vote: Electing Presidents, Overthrowing Dictators, and Promoting Democracy Around the World, and On the Campaign Trail: The Long Road of Presidential Politics, 1860-2004. Doug is also a political anaylst for Fox News and a columnist for the Daily Beast.