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Highlights how low-wage residents have struggled to live and work in a place usually thought of as affluent: suburbia.There is a familiar narrative about American suburbs: after 1945, white residents...

"Over six decades, Helen Levitt (1913-2009) explored the streets of her native New York with a handheld camera. Influenced by Henri Cartier-Bresson, she found inspiration in the theatre and...

A freelance journalist who is short three hundred dollars for his father's coffin--and fresh out of ideas. An unemployed man whose last shred of hope revolves around an abandoned couch outside his...

The legendary bestseller that made millions look at the world in a radically different way returns in a new edition, now including an exclusive discussion between the authors and bestselling...

"Vladimir Jankélévitch stands alongside Emmanuel Levinas as one of the most admired French ethicists of the twentieth century, known for his work on everything from the possibility of forgiveness...

Celebrating the twentieth anniversary of this classic picture book lullaby from Caldecott Medalist Uri Shulevitz, this dreamy board book edition of So Sleepy Story is the perfect bedtime read for...

Why the world’s most resilient dictatorships are products of violent revolutionRevolution and Dictatorship explores why dictatorships born of social revolution—such as those in China, Cuba, Iran, the...

In this groundbreaking union of art and science, rocker-turned-neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin explores the connection between music—its performance, its composition, how we listen to it, why we...

In celebration of the 10th anniversary of the landmark book Freakonomics comes this curated collection from the most readable economics blog in the universe. It’s the perfect solution for the...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • STONEWALL HONOR BOOK • LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLIST"You have to read this.” —Rainbow Rowell, bestselling author of Eleanor & Park and Carry...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A call to reform our antiquated political institutions before it’s too late—from the authors of How Democracies Die“[Levitsky and Ziblatt] write with terrifying clarity...

"Witty, romantic, and deeply satisfying." -Emma Straub, New York Times bestselling author of This Time Tomorrow A charming, tender novel about an unlucky-in-love wedding singer trying to find the...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER One of Smithsonian's 10 Best Science Books of the Year "No one else in the universe could have written this book." --Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist Neuroscientist and New...

"Revolution and Dictatorship explores why dictatorships born of social revolution--such as those in China, Cuba, Iran, the Soviet Union, and Vietnam--are extraordinarily durable, even in the face of...

The final work from celebrated Caldecott Award–winning illustrator Uri Shulevitz, this gripping and revealing true story follows a young Polish exile fighting to survive in war-torn Europe.Born in...

The book explores the possibility of extending the notions of "Grassmannian" and "Gauss map" to the PL category. They are distinguished from "classifying space" and "classifying map" which are...

Snow is a 1998 New York Times Outstanding Book of the Year and a 1999 Caldecott Honor Book."It's snowing, said boy with dog."It's only a snowflake," said grandfather with beard.No one thinks one or...