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Reducere. DescriptionLong heralded as a city treasure herself, expert "mudlarker" Lara Maiklem is uniquely trained in the art of seeking. Tirelessly trekking...

DescriptionTo be read alongside thrilling histories by Nathaniel Philbrick, Hampton Sides, and Rinker Buck, Black Flags, Blue Waters vividly reanim...

Reducere. The wandering poet has always been a feature of our cultural imagination. Odysseus journeys home, his famous flair for storytelling seducing friend...

In this groundbreaking portrait of the man who birthed an undying cultural icon, David J. Skal "pulls back the curtain to reveal the author who dre...

Reducere. Still fresh and strikingly contemporary, the stark realism of these stories carefully explores the dreams and emotions of Sherwood Anderson's unfor...

Reducere. Finalist -- National Book Award for Nonfiction - Excerpted in The New Yorker - Longlisted -- Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction - N...

Reducere. Over fifty years after his death, Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970) is celebrated as the greatest rock guitarist of all time. But before he was setting guit...

Reducere. "The Knowledge Machine is the most stunningly illuminating book of the last several decades regarding the all-important scientific enterprise." --R...

DescriptionThe book is the outcome of seven years' experimentation with conflicts in the human mind, during which time artificial complexes were se...

Reducere. History casts Tammany Hall as shorthand for the worst of urban politics: graft and patronage personified by notoriously crooked characters. In his ...

Reducere. Standing alongside Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis and Joe Sacco's Palestine, Nina Bunjevac's Fatherland renders the searing history of the Balkans in...

Reducere. National Book Critics Circle AwardWhether framed philosophically as "Why is there a world rather than nothing at all?" or more colloquially as "But...

DescriptionSo shattering were the aftereffects of Kishinev, the rampage that broke out in late-Tsarist Russia in April 1903, that one historian rem...

Reducere. DescriptionWilliam Monroe Trotter (1872- 1934), though still virtually unknown to the wider public, was an unlikely American hero. With the stylist...

Reducere. DescriptionGrinnell was born in Brooklyn in 1849 and grew up on the estate of ornithologist John James Audubon. Upon graduation from Yale, he dug f...

Reducere. In a revelatory work praised as "excellent and timely" (New York Times Book Review, front page), Adam Winkler, author of Gunfight, once again makes...

Reducere. Recalling the Balzacian conceit of assembling a vast parade of characters whose lives conspire to form a driving central plot, Menasse adapts this ...

What do a weak lion king, a grief-stricken rooster, a dim-witted bear, and one really angry wolf have in common? The answer is they've all been had...

A superb initiation into the mysteries of Miss Stein. -Christian Science Monitor

Reducere. Appearing in hardcover in America for the first time, this neglected Ballardian masterpiece promises to be a touchstone for environmentalists the w...

Reducere. DescriptionInterweaving the works of classic philosophers such as Hannah Arendt and Bertrand Russell and imposing them on a cybernetic future they ...

Reducere. This is the most comprehensive and authoritative work on its subject. The author traces Arabians from 1580 B.C. to the present and through all the ...

Reducere. Featured on the front page of the New York Times, Our Declaration is already regarded as a seminal work that reinterprets the promise of American d...

Invisible Armies presents an entirely original narrative of warfare, which demonstrates that, far from the exception, loosely organized partisan or...

Reducere. Eschewing the conventional wisdom that places the origins of the American women s movement in the nostalgic glow of the late 1960s, Feminism Unfini...

Continuing his groundbreaking examination of our "Anthropocene Epoch, " which he began with The Social Conquest of Earth, described by the New York...

Reducere. An opulent mythology for those without a pot to piss in, through the labyrinthine streets and pages ofJerusalem tread ghosts that sing of wealth an...

Reducere. DescriptionIn a shattering work that shifts between a woman's private anguish over the loss of her beloved baby cousin and a scholar's fierce criti...

Reducere. A ``bracingly strong`` (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) collection brimming with savage Southern charm, Always Happy Hour propels Mary Miller to ne...

Reducere. In Paris France (1940)--published here with a new introduction from Adam Gopnik--Stein unites her childhood memories of Paris with her observations...

Reducere. DescriptionThey believed they would live forever. So begins Mira Ptacin's haunting account of the women of Camp Etna--an otherworldly community in ...

Reducere. Larry McMurtry's "big hearted" fiction has been lauded for "taking us places we hadn't known existed" (Joyce Carol Oates, New York Review of Books)...

DescriptionWhen How to Make It in the New Music Business hit shelves in 2016, it instantly became the go-to resource for musicians eager to make a ...

One hundred and thirty-three years after its 1885 publication by Mark Twain, Elizabeth Samet has annotated this lavish edition of Grant's landmark ...

Reducere. A new Ku Klux Klan arose in the early 1920s, a less violent but equally virulent descendant of the relatively small, terrorist Klan of the 1870s. U...

Reducere. DescriptionLos Angeles, 1947. A housewife out for a walk with her baby notices a cloud of black flies buzzing ominously in Leimert Park. An "unsigh...

Long defined by popular film adaptations that have reductively portrayed Aladdin as a simplistic rags-to-riches story for children, this work of da...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Hart CraneBegun in 1923 and published 1930, The Bridge is Crane's major work. "Very roughly, " he wrote a friend, "it conce...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Dennis TedlockEditor: Barbara TedlockThis collection of writings is from authors who are either Indians who have tried to m...

In this magisterial biography of Karl Marx, likely to be definitive for many years to come (John Gray, New York Review of Books), historian Jonatha...

Reducere. In the summer of 1998, Walter Kirn--then an aspiring novelist struggling with impending fatherhood and a dissolving marriage--set out on a peculiar...

Published to great acclaim and fierce controversy in 1866, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment has left an indelible mark on global literature...

Reducere. DescriptionAs seen in the Summer Reading Previews of Esquire - NYLON - BuzzFeed - BookRiot - Southern LivingThe World Doesn't Require You announces...

Reducere. When a class war erupts inside a luxurious apartment block, modern elevators become violent battlegrounds and cocktail parties degenerate into mara...

Reducere. Larry McMurtry burst onto the American literary scene with a force that would forever redefine how we perceive the American West. His first three n...

Reducere. Mankind has a distinct advantage over other terrestrial species: we talk to one another. But how did we acquire the most advanced form of communica...

Reducere. The arsons started on a cold November midnight and didn't stop for months. Night after night, the people of Accomack County waited to see which bui...

Widely acclaimed as a progenitor of twentieth-century Latin American fiction, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908), the son of a mulatto fath...

Reducere. “If Chaucer were a Texan writing today . . . this is how he would have written and this is how he would have felt.”― New York Times In Leaving Chey...

Reducere. The Last Picture Show (1966) is both a rambunctious coming-of-age story and an elegy to a forlorn Texas town trying to keep its one movie house ali...

In order to stave off the mass extinction of species, including our own, we must move swiftly to preserve the biodiversity of our planet, says Edwa...

So shattering were the aftereffects of Kishinev, the rampage that broke out in late-Tsarist Russia in April 1903, that one historian remarked that ...

Reducere. A stunning literary debut, Horseman, Pass By (1961) exhibits the "full-blooded Western genius" (Publishers Weekly) that would come to define McMurt...

In the spare wing of a church-run sanatorium, some zealous youths create "the Library, " a space where lonely citizens can read one another's perso...

Reducere. In this artful, unfailingly human, and understandable (Boston Globe) account inspired by his own experiences becoming a doctor, Terrence Holt puts ...

Reducere. First published posthumously in 1987, Pauli Murray's Song in a Weary Throat was critically lauded, winning the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award and the...

"Remarkably, a nineteen-year-old, writing her first novel, penned a tale that combines tragedy, morality, social commentary, and a thoughtful exami...

Reducere. Before embarking on what would become one of the most prominent writing careers in American literature, spanning decades and indelibly shaping the ...

Reducere. The scarcely populated town of Sweetland clings to the shore of a remote Canadian island. Its slow decline has finally reached a head, with the mai...

Reducere. In this "comically subversive work of fiction" (Joyce Carol Oates, New York Review of Books), Larry McMurtry chronicles the closing of the American...

Reducere. Finalist for the Pulitzer PrizeWidely hailed as a "powerfully written" history about America's beginnings (Annette Gordon-Reed), New England Bound ...

Combining Thoreau's controlled belligerence with the brash abandon of an uninhibited bohemian, E. E. Cummings, together with Ezra Pound, T. S. Elio...

Reducere. Lauded for "bringing a bracing and much-needed dose of reality about the Founders' views of sexuality" (New York Review of Books), Geoffrey R. Ston...

Reducere. A young writer hits the dusty Texas highway for the California coast in this “brilliant . . . funny and dangerously tender” (Time) tale of art and ...

Loos’s classic tale shows that questions of women and power—more relevant today than ever—can come in the most alluring of packages. This delirious...

Reducere. New York Times Bestseller - National Book Critics Circle Finalist - Wall Street Journal Best Books of 2015 - Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2015 - Ec...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Bertrand Russell"Sufficient dynamite to blast a carload of ordinary sex popularizers from the face of the earth . . . deals...

This edition features a new introduction by Harold Bloom as a centenary tribute to the visionary of White Buildings (1926) and The Bridge (1930). H...

Reducere. It's hardly a secret that mobility has always been limited, if not impossible, for African Americans. Before the Civil War, masters confined their ...

Reducere. In his most urgent book to date, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and world-renowned biologist Edward O. Wilson states that in order to stave off the ...