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An unjacketed, lower-priced edition of the acclaimed picture book. Caldecott Medalist Paul O. Zelinsky illustrates an outrageously silly story about the joys (and challenges) of friendship. Zebra...

A monumental new novel from the bestselling author of Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer's Here I AmHow do we fulfill our conflicting duties as...

James Olney examines the writings of seven men--Montaigne, Jung, George Fox, Darwin, Newman, Mills, and Eliot--and traces the essential and unique autobiographical impulse, and in a real sense makes...

A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR From “one of Russia’s smartest and best-sourced” (The New York Times) reporters—the first work by a Russian author to reveal his country’s history of oppressing...

The Description for this book, The Auden Generation: Literature and Politics in England in the 1930s, will be forthcoming.

A compassionate and captivating examination of evolving attitudes toward mental illness throughout history and the fight to end the stigma.For centuries, scientists and society cast moral judgments...

The whole observable world was, for the Ancient Egyptians, a symbolic representation. From the sun and the river Nile, to the animal kingdom and even architecture, different phenomena were seen to...

“The best introduction I have ever read to Ancient Greece. The author’s liveliness of mind and style has enabled him to make a mass of information appetizing and digestible” –Ray Mortimer in the...

Owen Chadwick stands out as the trustsed authority on Reformation history. Not only is his scholorly knowledge outlined with enough precision to impress any aspiring historian, but Chadwick also...

At the beginning of 1965, the U.S. seemed on the cusp of a golden age. Although Americans had been shocked by the assassination in 1963 of President Kennedy, they exuded a sense of consensus and...

The description for this book, C.P. Cavafy: Collected Poems, will be forthcoming.

This masterful blend of narrative and interpretation examines how key events in Irish history contributed to the creation of the "Irish Nation"In Modern Ireland: 1600-1972, R.F. Foster provides a...

The contribution of the Ancient Greeks to modern western culture is incalculable. In the worlds of art, architecture, myth, literature, and philosophy, the world we live in would be unrecognizably...

Revision features an updated discussion on the main topics in the philosophy of religion: the God concept/grounds for belief in God/grounds for disbelief in God/the problem of evil/revelation &...

Winner of the National Book Award for Poetry "During the halcyon days of the Abstract Expressionist and Imaginative Realism movements, Frank O'Hara was the laureate of the New York art scene...

"Kafka's Last Trial begins with Kafka's last instruction to his closest friend, Max Brod: to destroy all his remaining papers upon his death. But when the moment arrived in 1924, Brod could not bring...

"A mythic and emotionally charged hero's journey, Dune tells the story of Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, who must travel to the...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Historical fiction of the highest order . . . an absolute joy of a book, warm and romantic, and with so much to say about the lives of women in the years following World War I...