Product Description: In this warm, funny, and wise new book, NPR’s award-winning and beloved Scott Simon tells the story of how he and his wife found true love with two tiny strangers from the other side of the world. It’s a book of unforgettable moments: when Scott and Caroline get their first thumb-size pictures of their daughters, when the small girls are placed in their arms, and all the laughs and tumbles along the road as they become a real family...read more

Product Description: In a novel as brawling and boisterous as Chicago itself, Scott Simon delivers a tale both laugh-out-loud funny and deeply moving, capturing the multiethnic tumult of big city politics.The mayor of Chicago is found in his office late at night, murdered, facedown in a pizza...read more

Product Description: The universally respected NPR journalist and bestselling memoirist Scott Simon makes a dazzling fiction debut. In Pretty Birds, Simon creates an intense, startling, and tragicomic portrait of a classic character–a young woman in the besieged city of Sarajevo in the early 1990s...read more

Written in the form of a diary, a stark account of life in twenty-first-century Russia offers an unflinching account of the plight of millions of Russian citizens and the corruption of the Putin presidency, in a final work by the acclaimed Russian journalist, murdered in October 2006. By the author of Putin's Russia. 40,000 first printing.

Product Description: Male Bulimia: My Dark Demon is a powerful, firsthand account of author Scott Simon’s triumph over a lifelong deadly disease—bulimia. After developing bulimia while participating in school sports, Scott learned how to hide his disorder...read more

Product Description: Tanners of Taiwan is an ethnography of identity construction set in the leather-tanning communities of Southern Taiwan. Through life history analysis and ethnographic observation, Simon examines what it means to be Chinese - or alternatively Taiwanese - in contemporary Taiwan...read more

Product Description: Sweet and Sour explores the experiences of women entrepreneurs amidst the contradictions of a freewheeling commercial culture set within the patriarchal constraints of contemporary Taiwan. To what extent are Taiwanese women empowered by entrepreneurship? What challenges do they face as women in their families and in the marketplace? How do they construct physical and social space for themselves in a traditionally male-dominated society? Most important, how do they perceive their businesses, their families, and their personal identities both as women and as business owners? Focusing on the voices and perspectives of the women themselves, Scott Simon draws from life-narratives of women from various ages, ethnic groups, social classes, and occupations to provide a diverse set of rarely heard native voices speaking out on gender and entrepreneurship in Taiwan...read more

Product Description: "An extraordinary book . . . invitingly written and brisk."--Chicago Tribune"Perhaps no one has ever told the tale [of Robinson's arrival in the major leagues] so well as [Simon] does in this extended essay."--The Washington Post Book World"Scott Simon tells a compelling story of risk and sacrifice, profound ugliness and profound grace, defiance and almost unimaginable courage...read more

Writings on the consequences of the pursuit of material wealth examine its origins and evolution, citing the impact of materialism on families, communities, and the environment while suggesting strategies for implementing healthier and healing practices. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

A devout sports fan and NPR commentator describes how the world of sports has shaped his life, discussing sports as a means of enhancing communication between fathers and sons, as well as the influence of sports and larger-than-life sports figures--from Ernie Banks to Michael Jordan--on his own life. Reprint. 30,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Preformations is a collection of philosphic essays concerning debates both ancient and contemporary. Epistemology and Phenomenology are two important topics of focus. Philosophers analyzed include Plato, Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, Hans Jonas, Merleau-Ponty, and Michel Foucault...read more

Presents a selection of humorous novels, including 'Borgel', in which Melvin Spellbound and his great-granduncle Borgel journey through space to find the Great Popsicle.