Atrandom imprint: 14 books
Men Seeking Women
Love and Sex On-line
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2001
Men Seeking Women: Love and Sex On-line is an exciting and original collection of new short fiction by men about men seeking women, and women seeking men in the digital age.
The Internet revolution has altered the look of the traditional relationship. Through e-mail correspondence, chat room...
Lost in Mongolia
Travels in Hollywood and Other Foreign Lands
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2001
Find yourself in the midst of a heated battle over a sitcom laugh track. Learn to get away with spectacular crimes. Get lost with the reindeer people in the mountains of Mongolia.
In Lost in Mongolia a collection of Tad Friend's most original, witty, and wide-ranging articles and essays from...
Radical Sanity
Commonsense Advice for Uncommon People
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2001
Miss Wurtzel is back, and this time she's armed with advice for the modern woman. She's found the secret of life, and it's within everyone's reach. It's about enjoying your mistakes. It's about being strong. It's about eating dessert. It's about having opinions. It's about adoring feminism. It's...
The Godfather of Silicon Valley
Ron Conway and the Fall of the Dot-coms
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2001
Gary Rivlin tells the story of Ron Conway, the man who has placed more bets on Internet start-ups than anyone eise in Silicon Valley. Conway is a reader-friendly way into the realm of angel financing, where independently wealthy investors link up with companies just as they are being born. King of...
Mistress Ruby Ties It Together
A Dominatrix Takes on Sex, Power, and the Secret Lives of Upstanding Citizens
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2001
Equal parts memoir, how-to and social satire, Mistress Ruby Ties it Together is a guided tour through New York's S underworld, where the author worked as a professional dominatrix to subsidize her writing career. As Mistress Ruby, this former Catholic school girl took confessions from some of the...
Untruth
Why the Conventional Wisdom Is (Almost Always) Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2001
In Untruth, Newsweek and Washington Post columnist Robert J. Samuelson explains why our political, economic and cultural debates so routinely traffic in misinformation--popular fads that, like meteors, momentarily burn brightly in public consciousness and then fizzle out. Advocacy groups, politicians...
by Lewis Lapham
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2001
For fifteen years, Lewis Lapham has written a monthly column in Harper's Magazine, for which he won a 1995 National Magazine Award for his "exhilarating point of view in an age of conformity." This major collection of Lapham's essays defines his distinct view of the way the world really...
Hair!
Mankind's Historic Quest to End Baldness
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2001
Hair! Mankind's Historic Quest to End Baldness is a social history of one of humanity's most irksome problems: male pattern baldness.
Throughout the centuries, Man (not his real name) has tried everything to hide, treat and repair baldness, as well as a host of nostrums designed to coax hair...
Arguing A.I.
The Battle for Twenty-first-Century Science
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2002
Few scientific topics since the theory of biological evolution have inspired as much controversy as artificial intelligence has. Even now, fifty years after the term first made its appearance in academic journals, many philosophers and more than a few prominent scientists and software programmers...
Because She Is Beautiful
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2001
"Kim wondered: What had she ever truly sacrificed? She didn't believe in anything. Still, she had come this far. Had she ever relied on anyone? These men, their gifts-she had not asked for them. But she had accepted them. Wasn't it an accomplishment that she had just managed to survive? Robert would...
Out There
One Man's Search for the Funniest Person on the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2001
Join investigative humorist Henry Alford as he navigates the wild world of internet personalities — celebrating individuals ranging from the movie reviewer Filthy Critic to the cartoonist Angry Little Asian Girl; from online stack trader Tokyo Joe, who conducts much of his business in the nude,...
How to Go to Therapy
Making the Most of Professional Help
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2001
How do you choose among hundreds of available therapies—offered by psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and counselors—to help you conquer painful feelings, unbearable anxiety, dysfunctional relationships, or out-of-control behavior? What are the sessions like? How will you know if your...
by Ian Smith
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2001
The amount of medical information available on the Internet is mindboggling, if not mind-numbing. And what do you find once you wade into these cyberwaters is often so contradictory, confusing, or suspect that it is easy to feel more addled than assisted by the plethora of articles, advertising, and...
The Valley of the Fallen
And Other Places
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2001
Few writers can match journalist Donald Katz’s ability to make an exotic locale familiar or transform an ordinary place into something peculiar if not completely weird. The Valley of the Fallen and Other Places gathers a pastiche of stories from around the world, each of which subtly underlines...