Cancer Healing Odyssey: My Wife’s Remarkable Journey with Love, Medicine and Natural Therapie; Sarto Schickel, GAr’87; tells the story of a woman with stage IV ovarian cancer who used both conventional and alternative medicine to recover her health. Paperback $18.95.

Preparing Today’s Students for Tomorrow’s Jobs in Metropolitan America; edited by Laura W. Perna, professor in Penn’s Graduate School of Education; offers useful insights into how to provide urban workers with the educational qualifications and skills they need for real-world jobs; Penn Press. Cloth/eBook $65.

The Spirit of Compromise: Why Governing Demands It and Campaigning Undermines It; Amy Gutmann, Penn President and Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science, SAS; and Dennis Thompson, Harvard University; connects the political rejection of compromise to the domination of campaigning over governing in American democracy today. Hardcover $24.95.

For the Win: How Game Thinking Can Revolutionize Your Business; Kevin Werbach, associate professor of legal studies and business ethics, Wharton; and Dan Hunter, New York Law School; reveals how game thinking—addressing problems like a game designer—can motivate employees and customers and create engaging experiences that can transform a business; Wharton Digital Press. Paperback $15.99.

People, Places, Passions, Pursuits—A Penn Portrait; in this 130-page book, experience the stunning images that characterize the essence of the University; Hardcover $49.95.

Literacy in the Persianate World: Writing and the Social Order; edited by Brian Spooner, professor of anthropology and William L. Hanaway, professor emeritus of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations in SAS; comparative study of the historical role of writing in three languages, including two in non-Roman scripts, over a period of two and a half millennia; Penn Press. Cloth/eBook $59.95.

Design and Construction of High-Performance Homes: Building Envelopes, Renewable Energies and Integrated Practice; Franca Trubiano, assistant professor of architecture, Penn Design; discusses the requisite AEC (Architecture, Engineering and Construction) knowledge needed when building a high-performance home. Paperback $39.95.

The Morehouse Mystique: Becoming a Doctor at the Nation’s Newest African American Medical School; Marybeth Gasman, professor in Penn’s Graduate School of Education; and Louis W. Sullivan, physician and founder of the Morehouse School of Medicine; the engrossing history of one of only four predominantly Black medical schools in the US. Hardcover $35.

Code Name Verity; Elizabeth Wein, G’89, Gr’94; a novel about spies and friendship set in Nazi-occupied France. Hardcover $16.99.

Freeing Yourself from Anxiety: The 4-Step Plan to Overcome Worry and Create the Life You Want; Tamar Chansky, Gr’88; reveals the real secret to reducing stress: not positive thinking, but possible thinking. Paperback $16.

The Patient Survival Guide: 8 Simple Solutions to Prevent Hospital- and Healthcare-Associated Infections; Maryanne McGuckin, GEd’79, GrEd’78; Some 1.7 million patients a year acquire healthcare-associated infections, and close to 100,00 of them die. She offers advice to patients about how to prevent those infections. Paperback $16.95.

Unpopular Privacy: What Must We Hide?; Anita Allen, professor of law and philosophy, Penn Law; can the government stick us with privacy we don’t want? She says it can, it does, and it may need to do more of it. Hardcover $35.

Making Marriage Work: New Rules for an Old Institution; Lynn Toler, L’84; contains invaluable information couples can use today to secure their marriage tomorrow. Paperback $15.95.

A World of Gardens; John Dixon Hunt, professor emeritus of landscape architecture, Penn Design; a world tour of different periods in the making of gardens. Hardcover $45.

Why Good People Can’t Get Jobs: The Skills Gap and What Companies Can Do About It; Peter Cappelli, professor of management and director of Wharton’s Center for Human Resources; exposes real reasons good people can’t get hired, explores paradoxical forces bearing down on the American workplace and lays out solutions; Wharton Digital Press. Paperback $14.99.

Hollywood’s Copyright Wars: From Edison to the Internet; Peter Decherney, associate professor of cinema studies and English, SAS; follows the struggle of the film, television, and digital media industries to influence and adapt copyright law. Hardcover $34.50.

The Time of My Life: What Boomers and Other Kids Should Know, by a Guy Old Enough to be Their Dad; Jerome Zaslow, W’45; a story of ambition and unwavering determination to succeed against all odds. Paperback $16.99.

Sites of Slavery: Citizenship and Racial Democracy in the Post-Civil Rights Imagination; Salamishah Tillet, assistant professor of English and Africana studies, SAS; examines how contemporary African American artists and intellectuals turn to the subject of slavery in order to understand and challenge the exclusion of African Americans from US founding narratives. Paperback $23.95.

Capricious Fancy: Draping and Curtaining the Historic Interior, 1800-1930; Gail Caskey Winkler, lecturer in the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation, Penn Design; chronicles the changes in American and European curtain and drapery styles resulting from the Industrial Revolution. Includes 325 images and historical commentary; Penn Press. Cloth $85.

The Daily You: How the New Advertising Industry is Defining Your Identity and Your Worth; Joseph Turow, Robert Lewis Shayon Professor of Communication and associate dean for graduate studies in Penn’s Annenberg School for Communication; shows how advertisers have come to wield such power over individuals and media outlets—and what can be done to stop it. Hardcover $28.

Regulatory Breakdown: The Crisis of Confidence in US Regulation; edited byCary Coglianese, Edward B. Shils Professor of Law, professor of political science, and director of Penn Program on Regulation in Penn Law; brings clarity to the heated debate over regulation by dissecting the disparate causes of the current crisis as well as analyzing promising solutions; Penn Press. Cloth/eBook $49.95.

Man Up: Cracking the Code of Modern Manhood; Carlos Andrés Gómez, C’04; an agent for positive change, galvanizing men to rethink and redefine the way all men interact with women, deal with violence, handle fear and express emotion. Hardcover $26.

Historical Archaeology at Tikal, Guatemala: Tikal Report 37; Hattula Moholy-Nagy, consulting scholar in the American section of Penn Museum; chronicles documented visits to the pre-Columbian city of Tikal in the century following its discovery in 1848 and presents the post-Conquest material culture recovered by the Tikal Project in the course of its investigations; Penn Press. Cloth/eBook $59.95.

The Face-to-Face Book: Why Real Relationships Rule in a Digital Marketplace; Ed Keller, C’77, ASC’79; and Brad Fay, Keller Fay Group; offers key insights and recommendations for how businesses, both large and small, can best succeed in today’s socially motivated consumer marketplace by looking at how consumers act in real life as well as online. Hardcover $26.