Soar across 46 North American territories to uncover the secrets of 7 magnificent shorebirds, the world’s greatest nonstop travelersAn immersive travelogue that belongs on every birder's bookshelf, with 30 gorgeous black-and-white illustrations and a...

The definitive history of Russia’s most secret spy program, from the earliest days of the Soviet Union to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, and a revelatory examination of how that hidden history shaped both Russia and the West.More than a century ago, the...

Near the Forest, By the Lake is a personal exploration of the wonders of the natural world close to home. In this collection of essays, Angela E. Douglas reflects on the lives and habits of the plants, birds, insects, and other creatures inhabiting the...

Memories from the Jungle is set in an unspecified future in which Earth has been rendered uninhabitable by pollution and war. Most humans live in orbital stations surrounding the globe, while only animals still survive on the African continent, along...

In Conjurors, a major poet is revealed for the first time. Julian Orde (1917- 74) published only in magazines during her lifetime. A friend of Stevie Smith and an intimate of Dylan Thomas and W.S. Graham, she was one of those 'peripheral figures' who...

Who will defend Europe? The answer should be obvious: Europe should be able to defend itself. Yet, for decades, most of the continent enjoyed a defence holiday, outsourcing protection to the United States while banking an increasingly illusory 'peace...

What is truth? What value should we see in or attribute to it?The war over the meaning and utility of truth is at the center of contemporary philosophical debate, and its arguments have rocked the foundations of philosophical practice. In this book, the...

A delightful, queer quest for love, and a comic jaunt across Europe that’s “sharp, funny and clever, and fresh as new paint” (The Times).When 19-year-old Susan takes a job with Finkelheim, the shady bookseller down the street from her flat in London’s...

"Many a humanities major has been asked the dreaded question, "So, what are you going to do with that?" The common wisdom is that college programs in the humanities encourage a lot of high-minded thinking useless outside of a rarefied college campus...

A scintillating conversation on capitalism and crisis from two of our most incisive political philosophersCapitalism, by the twenty-first century, has brought us an era of escalating, overlapping crisis–ecological, political, social–which we may not...

A searing critique of our contemporary policy agenda, and a call to implement radical change.Although it is well known that the United States has an inequality problem, the social science community has failed to mobilize in response. Social scientists...

Watch the PBS companion documentary “A Citizen’s Guide to Preserving Democracy”“An indispensable guide to good citizenship in an era of division and rancor.” —Anne ApplebaumThere is no question that the United States faces dangerous threats from without;...

The New York Times bestselling author of Inheritance delivers her most intimate and powerful work: a piercing, life-affirming memoir about marriage and memory, sorrow and love. • "A beautiful book by a writer of rare talent.”—Cheryl Strayed, bestselling...

A young artist pursues a search for knowledge through the treatment of homosexuality and the collapse of morality in middle class France.

In the highly acclaimed bestselling A Call to Action, President Jimmy Carter addresses the world’s most serious, pervasive, and ignored violation of basic human rights: the ongoing discrimination and violence against women and girls.President Carter was...

The instant #1 New York Times bestseller!A bold new vision for optimizing our health now and in the futureWhat if depression, anxiety, infertility, insomnia, heart disease, erectile dysfunction, type 2 diabetes, Alzheimer’s, dementia, cancer and many...

Marjorie Agosín writes of a beloved childhood nanny: "Since I was Jewish she baptized me with holy water brought forth from the fonts of nearby churches. She told me to stay very still so I wouldn't sprout horns. . . . I was somewhere between taciturn...

This book brings new attention to Simon Rawidowicz (1897–1957), the wide-ranging Jewish thinker and scholar who taught at Brandeis University in the 1950s. At the heart of Myers’ book is a chapter that Rawidowicz wrote as a coda to his Hebrew tome...

The nation--particularly in Exodus and Numbers--is not an abstract concept but rather a grand character whose history is fleshed out with remarkable literary power. In her innovative exploration of national imagination in the Bible, Pardes highlights the...

There is one critical way we honor great tragedies: by never forgetting. Collective remembrance is as old as human society itself, serving as an important source of social cohesion, yet as Jeffrey Andrew Barash shows in this book, it has served novel...