Examines the history of the American labor movement and recommends reforms in the structure and organization of labor unions

Strange and scary days for an ecology movement that was conceived in fierce opposition to power. Fractured, as ever, by divisions and competing agendas, the movement must now confront the dangerous tendency of those in power to invoke nature’s laws as a...

The Description for this book, David Hume: Common-Sense Moralist, Sceptical Metaphysician, will be forthcoming.

Jean Bethke Elshtain has been hailed as one of this country's most influential public intellectuals. Michael Walzer called her award-winning Democracy on Trial "the work of a truly independent, deeply serious, politically engaged, and wonderfully...

The development of photomontage techniques during the early 1920s and 1930s in the US, Germany and Soviet Union had a profound influence on contemporary art and mass media. Montage and Modern Life uncovers the roots of this complex relationship. Through...

"In an age of too much wishful, faith-based conventional wisdom on the right and left, and too much intellectual endeavor squeezed into prefab ideological containers, Freakonomics is politically incorrect in the best, most essential way. Levitt and...

Toussaint L'Ouverture was the leader of the Haitian Revolution in the late eighteenth century, in which slaves rebelled against their masters and established the first black republic. In this collection of his writings and speeches, former Haitian...

From comforting oven bakes and hearty stews, to vibrant salads and mouth-watering pasta dishes (and, of course, a whole chapter dedicated to potatoes!), Poppy has you covered with 90 fuss-free, flavour-packed one-pan recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner...

"A supernova of creativity whose light is still arriving at our shores." - Giles Harvey, The New Yorker A North American journalist in Paris is woken at 4 a.m. by a mysterious caller with urgent information. For V. S. Naipaul, the prevalence of sodomy in...

REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “A shocking story, made all the more stunning by the fact that it has its roots in true history.”—Jodi Picoult, author of By Any Other Name “A new generation of survival story . . . an extraordinary book...

In the mode of Flights, a novel about the rich stories of small places, from the Nobel Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author. When the narrator of House of Day, House of Night arrives with her husband in a village in remote southwest Poland,...

A novel about art, desire, and mortality, Casanova 20: Or, Hot World follows a young man isolated by his extraordinary beauty and his strange friendship with an older painterCursed by an extreme and unrelenting beauty, Adrian has drawn the frenzied...

A novel about the rich stories of small places, from the Nobel Prize–winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Books of Jacob and Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the DeadA woman settles in a remote Polish village where she knows no one. It has...

In 1933, George Balanchine arrived in the United States, brought by even younger sponsors who had dreamed of inventing an American ballet. He came with extraordinary skills: he had trained as a child in Russia's imperial dance academy, he had absorbed...

Turning is a personal account of the author's journey to God that eloquently demonstrates how deep and complex the process of conversion can be--and how its beauty and power can be a source of inspiration to us all. This book is unlike most others of its...

A series of reflections surveying the events of an ailing country traversed by civil war on multiple fronts.What is it to be Black in America? It is to be constantly given unsolicited advice on how to run your life by people of all stripes, cultures,...