Winner of the 74th National Jewish Book Award: The Jane and Stuart Weitzman Family Award for Food Writing and CookbooksA surprising history of how the pig has influenced Jewish identityJews do not eat pig. This (not always true) observation has been made...

In the wake of the September 11 attacks, US officials identified the so-called battle for hearts and minds as the "second front" in the war on terror. A wave of funding flowed into public diplomacy in the Middle East, seeking to change views of the...

This book presents the trailblazing political scientist Martin L. Kilson's essays on leading Black intellectuals of the twentieth century. Kilson examines the ideas and careers of several key thinkers, placing their intellectual odysseys in the context...

Today, macaroni and cheese is the ultimate comfort food, a staple of weeknight dinners, family gatherings, and Soul Food restaurants. Humble though the dish may seem, its history is filled with surprising twists and turns. Renaissance cardinals and popes...

A Stunning 45th Anniversary Release of Sharon Olds's Satan Says in a Deluxe Hardcover Edition for Fans of Olds's Poetry, All Poetry Enthusiasts, and Collectors Alike This 45th anniversary hardcover deluxe edition of the bestselling debut collection of...

USA TODAY bestselling author Rachel Reid's next Game Changers hockey romance sees a grumpy professional hockey player meet his match in an out-and-proud social media manager... The hits just keep coming for Troy Barrett. Traded to the worst team in...

In The Divine Mimesis, Pasolini reimagines Dante's descent into Hell not as allegory but as lived, historical reality-urban, political, and deeply personal. Written in the final years of his life, this unfinished and fiercely experimental work leads us...

The second annual Alchemy Lecture brought together four "Alchemists"--thinkers and practitioners working across disciplines and geographies--to share a constellation of ideas for the future. Their urgent, poignant and inventive lectures compose The City...

From two authors who made life-defining mistakes, a profound and entertaining exploration of mistakes, and the transformative power of confronting them.While very few people start enormous companies or discover lifesaving medical cures, we all make...

We all dream, but do we know why we dream? Discover what goes on behind our eyelids and what it means for our health.Do you have common recurring dreams of missing an exam, even though it has been years since you were in college? Do certain people keep...

From a New York Times bestselling authority on education and children’s mental health comes a groundbreaking guide to navigating classroom challenges through an approach that is aimed at meeting kids where they’re at and being responsive to the...

When nineteen-year-old Prince took the stage to perform I Wanna Be Your Lover on American Bandstand, those who watched couldn't reconcile how Prince's funky disco-pop sounds had hailed from a place like Minneapolis. But the Minneapolis Sound, Prince's...

In this “barn burner of a book” (The New York Times Book Review) New York magazine senior writer Sarah Jones blends personal stories and in-depth reporting to expose the harsh reality of America’s culture of inequality and the devastating impact of the...

A bold and provocative book centering the voices of trans women and femmes in the pursuit of pleasure and gender liberation.   What are the possibilities of pleasure when we stop labeling our desires? In Trans Pleasure, Brandon Andrew Robinson answers...

A New York Times Best Thriller of the Year A Macavity Award Finalist for Best First Mystery A fresh and vivid new voice brings a contemporary edge to the classic espionage novel.At twenty-six, Princeton grad Michael Wang is trapped. Stifled under the...

Federico Faggin is one of the greatest luminaries of high technology alive today. A physicist by education, he is the inventor of the microprocessor and the MOS silicon gate technology, both of which underlie the modern world's entire information...

The social, political, and historical context of the current Israeli-Palestinian War told through the stories of the author’s family and village. "Ramzy Baroud's sensitive, thoughtful, searching writing penetrates to the core of moral dilemmas."—Noam...

Set in the universe Africanfuturist luminary Nnedi Okorafor first introduced in the World Fantasy Award-winning Who Fears Death, The Daughter Who Remains is the breathtaking conclusion to the She Who Knows trilogy Featuring Najeeba, now older and wiser...

Best Book of the Year – Kirkus ReviewsA spirited biography of the prophetic and sympathetic philosopher who helped build the foundations of the modern world.Denis Diderot is often associated with the decades-long battle to bring the world’s first...