T. J. Jackson Lears draws on a wealth of primary sources — sermons, diaries, letters — as well as novels, poems, and essays to explore the origins of turn-of-the-century American antimodernism. He examines the retreat to the exotic, the pursuit of...

A Penguin Classic“Age can never dull this kind of writing,” writes the Chicago Tribune of John Steinbeck’s dispatches from World War II, filed for the New York Herald Tribune in 1943, which vividly captured the human side of war. Writing from England in...

A Shorter Ulysses was intended to serve as a companion volume to Burgess's A Shorter Finnegans Wake, which he was commissioned to create in 1966. This is the first time that Burgess's shortened version of James Joyce's Ulysses has been published...

In essays covering everything from art and common sense to charisma and constructions of the self, the eminent cultural anthropologist and author of The Interpretation of Cultures deepens our understanding of human societies through the intimacies of...

A top tarotist's secrets to personal growth, one card at a time. The two volumes of Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom have inspired a whole generation of tarot students. It has often been described by readers, booksellers, and teachers as the "Bible...

Essential reading for students and anyone interested in the great philosophers, this book opened up appreciation of Martin Heidegger beyond the confines of philosophy to the reaches of poetry. In Heidegger's thinking, poetry is not a mere amusement or...

2025 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST“Exceptional. . . . When It All Burns is one of those books that immerses the reader in the nuances of a world most of us know only through the lens of tragedy and destruction. Thomas’ visceral, crystalline prose only...

Longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award for Poetry The striking sophomore poetry collection from the award-winning author of the “beautiful, vulnerable, honest” (Ross Gay, New York Times bestselling author) I Can’t Talk About the Trees Without the...

Longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award for Poetry Ms. Magazine’s Best Poetry of 2024 and 2025 The long-awaited sophomore poetry collection by award-winning writer Cathy Linh Che, on familial estrangement, the Vietnam War, and Francis Ford Coppola’s...

Elementary Numerical Analysis An Algorithmic Approach. S.D. Conte. Stated 3rd edition copyright 1980, McGraw-Hill, NY. Hardcover in very good condition. Binding is secure, cover and spine are clean with minimal wear. NO writing or highlighting was...