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Reefer Madness and Other Tales from the American Underground Eric Schlosser Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 310pp, £10.99 Just how free is the Land of the Free? In his 1977 [...]

FROM BLUE TO BLACK Joel Lane Serpent's Tail, 224pp, £10 £8 at www.newstatesman.co.uk (+15% p&p) Joel Lane's debut is that rare thing: a novel about the darker edges of the [...]

The Measure of All Things: the seven-year odyssey that transformed the world Ken Alder Little, Brown, 466pp, £15.99 Discounts at www.newstatesman.co.uk These days, making a buck in the book business [...]

Leavinq Reality Behind: the battle for the soul of the Internet Adam Wishart and Regula Bochsler Fourth Estate, 359pp, £16.99 Discounts at www.newstatesman.co.uk Ever since the 1970s, when Californian academics [...]

Marc Atkins and Iain Sinclair Reaktion Books, 224pp, £14.95 £13.46 at www.newstatesman.co.uk From the opening page of this collaboration between the photographer Marc Atkins and the writer Iain Sinclair, we [...]

The astronaut Nell Armstrong - a man who has quite literally seen the whole world - once said of his extraterrestrial journey: 'Of all the spectacular views we had, the [...]

Mary-Kay Wilmers Faber & Faber, 476pp, £20 How Leon Trotsky met his end in Mexico in 1940 is well known-struck on the head with what Mary-Kay Wilmers calls 'the most [...]

Jan Morris Faber & Faber, 202pp, £14.99 From shards of her own experience, interstitial moments in a lifetime spent travelling the world, Jan Morris has compiled a rich collection of [...]

Simon & Schuster, 245 pp, [pounds sterling]14.99 Paul Chowder is a self-confessed "study in failure", a middle-aged poet who admits his career is a joke. His girlfriend has just left [...]

Orion, 402pp, £12.99 'Christ ... have you got any idea what's in that act? There are enough powers to dismantle democracy overnight,' mutters a worried Downing Street flunky in Henry [...]

The Thin Blue Line: How Humanitarianism Went to War Conor Foley Verso, 256pp, £1499 As a veteran aid worker of crisis zones around the world, Conor Foley writes vividly about [...]

The New Rome: the Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America Cullen Murphy Icon Books, 272pp, £14.99 According to the author, recent US history--in particular the country's status [...]

Boss of Bosses: How Bernardo Provenzano Saved the Mafia Clare Longrigg John Murray, 300pp, £20 Known as 'the tractor' for his brutality, the Sicilian Mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano had been [...]

Suckers: How Alternative Medicine Makes Fools of Us All Rose Shapiro Harvill Secker, 296pp, £12.99 From acupuncture to zero balancing, via homoeopathy and urine therapy, this provocative book is a [...]

Fighting the Banana Wars and Other Fairtrade Battles Harriet Lamb Rider Books, 256pp, £10.99 Since Fairtrade's humble beginnings 20 years ago, demand for its products has rocketed. It is estimated [...]

Panicology Simon Briscoe and Hugh Aldersley-Williams Viking, 304pp, £18.99 Aiming to counter our obsession with scare stories, the authors have conducted a reality check on the 'endless catalogue of disasters [...]

The Tiger That Isn't: Seeing Through a World of Numbers Michael Blastland, Andrew Dilnot Profile Books, 256pp, £12.99 This punchy book is about the numbers that saturate news reporting and […]

J K Galbraith: a 20th-Century Life Richard Parker Old Street Publishing, 820pp, £25 Speaking after the death of the liberal American economist J K Galbraith last year, Gordon Brown said [...]

Richistan: a Journey Through the 21st-Century Wealth Boom and the Lives of the New Rich Robert Frank Piatkus Books, 256pp, £12.99 Forget Paris Hilton, wealth is changing. Tim Blixseth is [...]

Joan Broadhurst Dixon and Eric J Cassidy (editors) Routledge, £45 and £14.99 William Gibson, in his 1984 novel Neuromancer, pioneered the idea of cyberspace as the new final frontier. In [...]

In Less Than Zero, Bret Easton Ellis' portrayal of the empty lives of the 1980s too-much-too-young generation, a rich kid takes a drive in Los Angeles: 'I pass the billboard [...]

Reyner Banham was an architectural critic compelled to take a drive down the wilder roads of pop. And in so doing he pioneered a kind of writing about 20th-century culture [...]