From the celebrated author of the international bestseller The End of History and the Last Man and other books on the most important political questions of our time, comes a strikingly personal...

When everyone can make themselves heard, who cares to listen? How can we learn to pay attention without simply waiting for our turn to speak? What does it truly mean to be a good listener? Miriam...

"Nick, in the wake of a failed marriage, settles for the relative ease of a well-paid job captaining a luxury yacht, but it leaves little time for his seven-year-old daughter Natalie. In a stroke of...

Several blocks from Independence Hall, City Tavern was a hub of life in colonial Philadelphia and its dining table an important political and social meeting place. Like George Washington’s “Rising...

"Ambitious... With meticulous research and in lively style, Jones presents us with the man beyond the Shakespeare character."—The New York Times “The best biography yet of England’s greatest king...

"A tribute to one of the great singers of modern times and a national treasure who broke racial barriers"-- Provided by publisher.

Milton Resnick: Painter in the Age of Painting is the first biography to explore Resnick’s life and work, and his place among the New York City artists who became known as the abstract expressionists...

The captivating, compassionate account of a moral panic that swept across Britain in the decades before the Salem Witch Trials, leaving hundreds of so-called witches dead in its wake, by acclaimed...

"Devastating and gorgeous," the New York Times Book Review proclaims. “Perhaps it’s a ghost story, perhaps it’s a fantasy story, but it’s refreshingly oblique. The images are heightened and stylized,...

The syndicated Simpsons newspaper comic strip, written and illustrated by notable comics creators almost 30 years ago--reprinted and collected for the first time The Simpsons have been a part of...

"Since World War II, US presidents of both parties have relied on an economic hit man strategy. They have used the four pillars of that strategy (fear, debt, anxiety over insufficiency, and divide...

In this latest installment of Alexander McCall Smith’s beloved No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency Series, Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi volunteer for an important case up north involving an elephant...

"The catastrophic event that became the catalyst for animal rights and mass transportation and led to a new understanding of disease theory"-- Provided by publisher.

An award-winning neurologist on the Stone-Age roots of our screen addictions, and what to do about them.The human brain hasn’t changed much since the Stone Age, let alone in the mere thirty years of...

"On March 24, 1965, Nina Simone performed at a rally for twenty-five thousand people on the last night of the Selma to Montgomery civil rights march. Though luminaries like Martin Luther King Jr.,...

From the celebrated scientist and bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics comes a radical new vision of reality, mapping a watershed moment in both physics and philosophy.We are living...

A strange and speculative text from one of the most innovative writers of their generation. I am still transitioning, but I am unsure into what. Who are all these Evas? They puncture and disrupt...

A coming-of-age memoir set in late 20th century Dublin, recounting writer and critic Brian Dillon's first encounters with pivotal writers in his life—Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett, Walter Benjamin,...

A gripping, on-the-ground account of the growing movement against state violence, featuring interviews with those on the frontlines of the fight for immigrant justice and what it means to belong...

"Civil rights lawyer Joseph Margulies insists that those who commit even the most heinous crimes are one of us and should be judged in a spirit of forgiveness. He explains that American society is...