Our annual anthology of finalists and winners of the National Magazine Awards 2014 includes Jonathan Franzen's eloquent rumination in "National Geographic" on the damage we continue to inflict on the environment and its long-lasting consequences; William T. Vollman's blackly comic reflections in " Harper's" magazine on being the target of an extensive FBI investigation into whether he could be the Unabomber, an anthrax mailer, or a jihadi terrorist; and Ariel Levy's account of extreme travel and great escape to a remote land -- while pregnant -- in the "New Yorker."

Other essays include Wright Thompson's bittersweet profile of Michael Jordan's fifty-something second act ( "ESPN"); Jean M. Twenge's revealing look at fertility myths and baby politics ( "The Atlantic"); David Kamp's poignant portrait of a small town recovering from one of the nation's worst mass shootings ( "Vanity Fair"); Janet Reitman's controversial study of the Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev ( "Rolling Stone"); Ted Conover's eye-opening account of working undercover in a commercial slaughterhouse ( "Harper's"); and Wells Tower's wild tale of bonding with his father at a notorious art and music festival ( "GQ"). The collection also features a short story by the critically acclaimed author Zadie Smith ( "The New Yorker").

Other contributors: Steven Brill ( "Time")Emily DePrang ( "Texas Observer")Kyle Dickman ( "Outside")Steve Friedman ( "Runner's World")J. Hoberman ( "Tablet Magazine")Stephen Rodrick ( "New York Times Magazine")Witold Rybczynski ( "Architect")Matthew Shaer ( "The Atavist")

In the third classic book in the saga of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, Tom, Huck and Jim set sail to Africa in a futuristic hot air balloon, where they face lions and thieves as they see some of the world's greatest wonders. Join us for a Jules-Verne-esque adventure story, with Tom Sawyer Abroad.

The little-known sequel to "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." This unjustly neglected work, among the most enjoyable of Mark Twain's novels, follows Tom, Huck, and Jim as they travel across the Atlantic in a balloon in a parody of Jules Verne-esque adventure stories. When Tom, Huck Finn, and Jim go to see the unveiling of an experimental airship, they are kidnapped by the inventor, who plans to fly around the world and crash the ship in flames. The Professor, as he is called, is determined to prove the value of his invention to the unbelieving world, and then sink it and all aboard into the ocean so the world can never learn its secrets. But when the madman falls overboard during an Atlantic storm, Tom and his friends are left to their own devices on the out-of-control airship. Complete and unabridged.

'Tom Sawyer Abroad' continues the story of Tom, Huck and Jim as they engage in a series of Jules Verne-like escapades, setting sail to Africa in a ballon, facing danger from wild animals and even wilder humans.

The clp project is creating a general lexicon of psychotherapy procedures in its website: www.commonlanguagepsychotherapy.org. Therapists from round the world describe operationally what they do with clients. They show overlaps and differences across procedures used in varying approaches. Clp entries are practical descriptions of therapists' procedures - what they do, not why they do it - though procedure and theory can be hard to unravel. Each entry briefly describes one of a broad range of psychotherapy procedures in plain language, and includes a short Case Illustration. The growing A-Z website already includes procedures from many therapy approaches, with entries coming so far from Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, and USA. This volume shows the first 80 entries