Immersive and exquisite; evocative and powerful, Common Ground is a unique evocation of how, over the course of one year, Rob Cowen came to discover a forgotten realm and its inhabitants.      This was not some distant jungle or craggy peak, but half a...

Discover Mya-Rose Craig's moving and life-affirming memoir about family, searching for rare birds, and the power of our natural world. 'Lyrical, poignant and insightful' MARGARET ATWOOD (on Twitter) 'Filled with hope and energy' Guardian In her memoir,...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2022 A REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2021 A rich, magical new novel from the Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World - now a top 10 Sunday Times...

Ostriches are curious birds, comfortably fitting into no single biological category--for which reason Carl von Linné, the taxonomist, called it Struthio camelus , the "sparrow-camel." An Arab folktale confirms Linné's choice, relating that when it was...

The ostrich is one of nature's misfits: a gigantic bird that can neither fly nor sing. But the fin-de-siecle fetish for feathers made ostrich plumes more precious than gold. Rob Nixon grew up near the South African desert where ostriches first boomed,...

“A fine book, a rich, achingly painful story that is made for all of us who have ever felt a hunger for the mountains. Few books have so accurately described the way stony heights can define one's sense of joy and rightness. And it is an exquisite...

Revisit the Salem Witch Trials, the Underground Railroad, and other resistance movements of American history to get a bold new understanding of how resistance shaped our past—and how its principles can change our future. The United States was shaped by...

A novelist once wrote, “There are stories one must tell, and years when one must tell them.” Jill Biden’s time to discuss her four years in the White House is now. Jill Biden became First Lady at a complicated moment in US history, at the height of the...

The New York Times bestselling author and former U.S. Attorney offers a piercing exposé on the escalating threat of far-right politics—and a clear roadmap for saving our democracy.In The Fix, McQuade draws on her decades of experience as a federal...

For as long as Judaism has been a religion, "Jewish" has been a culture-one whose unique blend of ritual and realism has kept its people going for some 3,000 years. In The Jewish Way to a Good Life, Rabbi Shira Stutman invites readers of every faith-and...

Marx for the twenty-first centuryThe first new English translation in fifty years—and the only one based on the last German edition revised by Marx himselfFeaturing extensive original commentary, including a foreword by acclaimed political theorist Wendy...

A new perspective on the Springs-and-Autumns period, China’s longest experiment with polycentrism The Springs-and-Autumns period (770–453 BCE)—the longest aristocratic age in Chinese history—marks a break from what is often associated with the normative...

The definitive biography of Charles Darwin—now in one abridged and fully updated volumeBased on the two-volume National Book Critics Circle Award–winning biography hailed as “the definitive Darwin biography” (Newsday) • “a wonderful and well-rounded...

The scramble for distant riches has featured centrally in the history of the Global South―from the first forays of European imperialists to the recent fascination with emerging markets. In the mid-nineteenth century, fortune hunters turned their...

Paul M. Sweezy was one of the greatest Marxist political economists of the twentieth century. Born in 1910, his upbringing during the Depression deepened his understanding of capitalism, especially its tendency toward stagnation—the inability of...

A sudden murder in an English village pub sets off the twenty-sixth novel in the bestselling series starring superintendent Richard Jury, from bestselling author Martha Grimes, still "one of the most fascinating mystery writers today" (Houston Chronicle)...

This is a working camera that pops up from the pages of a book..The book concisely explains--and actively demonstrates--how a structure as humble as a folded piece of paper can tap into the intrinsic properties of light to produce a photograph.The book...

When Christen Civiletto Sold Tour Tickets In Niagara Falls In The 1980s, She Got A Frequent Question From Visitors: What Happened To This City? Next To The World-famous Natural Wonder, Smokestacks Belched Poisonous Gasses And Toxic Chemicals Tainted The...

A delightful full-color graphic adaptation of the beloved Yi Jing—or I Ching—by bestselling comic-artist C. C. Tsai In this volume, acclaimed comic-artist C. C. Tsai uses his virtuosic skill and sly humor to create an entertaining and enlightening...

The award-winning, bestselling author of Hamnet and The Marriage Portrait returns with a soaring historical novel set in Ireland in the years before and after the Blight.On a windswept peninsula stretching out into the Atlantic, Tomás and his reluctant...