Hardcover Nonfiction
Bestseller List for February 3, 2005
from sales the week ending January 30, 2005
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Last Week/ Weeks on List
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French Women Don't Get Fat
Mireille Guiliano, Knopf, $22, 1400042127
Sacre bleu! Fresh ideas for slimming down from the U.S. CEO of a large French champagne company.
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5/4
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Blink
Malcolm Gladwell, Little Brown, $25.95, 0316172324
Gladwell does for first impressions what he did for memetics in his bestselling The Tipping Point.
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2/3
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Collapse
Jared Diamond, Viking, $29.95, 0670033375
The author of the popular Guns, Germs and Steel now turns his lens towards societies and how environmental factors impact their futures. Recommended by booksellers with Book Sense.
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1/5
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God's Politics
Jim Wallis, HarperSanFrancisco, $24.95, 0060558288
A timely discussion of Church and State.
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11/2
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He's Just Not That Into You
Greg Behrendt, Liz Tuccillo, S&S, $19.95, 068987474X
Ouch! The truth, the whole truth, from a horse's mouth.
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6/19
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Chronicles
Bob Dylan, S&S, $24, 0743228154
The life and influences of Bobby Z, from the man himself.
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9/17
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Eats, Shoots & Leaves
Lynne Truss, Gotham, $19.95, 1592400876
For word hounds and detail-oriented folks everywhere.
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4/42
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America (The Book)
Jon Stewart and The Daily Show Staff, Warner, $24.95, 0446532681
The funny, funny side of politics.
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3/19
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Animals in Translation
Temple Grandin, Catherine Johnson, Scribner, $25, 0743247698
An autistic herself, Temple Grandin relates the behavior of animals and autistics.
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8/3
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The South Beach Diet
Arthur Agatston, M.D., Rodale, $24.95, 1579546463
Finally a low-carb diet we can live with?
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10/87
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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
John Perkins, Berrett-Koehler, $24.95, 1576753018
An expose, of sorts, of the international money game being played to keep big American business in power and less developed nations status quo.
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12/5
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Witness
Amber Frey, Regan Books, $25.95, 0060799250
The star witness in the sensational trial of Scott Peterson eliminates any doubt about the verdict in this tell-all.
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7/3
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Your Best Life Now
Joel Osteen, Warner, $19.99, 0446532754
A well-known TV preacher offers inspiration.
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14/3
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Hallelujah! The Welcome Table
Maya Angelou, Random House, $29.95, 1400062896
Creole food as good as poetry.
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/3
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His Excellency
Joseph Ellis, Knopf, $26.95, 1400040310
The author of the bestselling Founding Brothers cannot tell a lie about our first President. A Book Sense/History Channel Top Ten recommended book.
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13/14
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ON THE RISE |
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102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers
Jim Dwyer, Kevin Flynn, Times Books, $26, 0805076824
Excellent reporting. Stories of people inside the towers on 9/11.
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