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The exquisite new collection by the award-winning poet Mary Jo Bang, author of The Last Two Seconds and ElegyWe were ridiculous—me, with my high jinks and hat. Him, with his boredom and drink. I look...

Proposes that we can best understand literature’s relationship to sex through a renewed focus on masochism. In a series of readings that engage American and European works of fiction, drama, and...

"An essential exploration of what's holding men and sports back--and how to overcome it." --Washington PostIn You Throw Like a Girl, former Syracuse University quarterback and NFL veteran Don...

Gerald is careful. Piggie is not.Piggie cannot help smiling. Gerald can.Gerald worries so that Piggie does not have to.Gerald and Piggie are best friends.In Watch Me Throw the Ball!, Gerald is...

What do you do when you lose a tooth? Delightful descriptions and cheerful art celebrate the surprising things that children do around the world when they lose a tooth. When you lose a tooth, do...

From narrowly surviving World War II through enduring the profound rigors of traditional Zen training, Tangen Harada’s fascinating life story and teachings present a classic picture of the Buddhist...

Why doesn’t the explosive growth of companies like Facebook and Uber deliver more prosperity for everyone?What is the systemic problem that sets the rich against the poor and the technologists...

"Hey Mister, throw me some beads!" is a phrase that is iconic in New Orleans' Mardi Gras street argot. Strings of beads, doubloons, and other trinkets are passed out or thrown from the floats in the...

Stephen Kinzer's Overthrow provides a fast-paced narrative history of the coups, revolutions, and invasions by which the United States has toppled fourteen foreign governments -- not always to its...

* Selected as ONE of the BEST BOOKS of the 21st CENTURY by The New York Times * NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST * New York magazine’s #1 Book of the Year * Best Book of the Year by: The Wall Street...

Selected by Kazim Ali as a winner of the 2019 National Poetry Series, Thrown in the Throat “gloriously stakes new territory in queerness.”Finalist for the 2022 Kate Tufts Discovery AwardA Boston...

From an award-winning historian, a new global history of CommunismWhen the USSR collapsed in 1991, the world was certain that Communism was dead. Today, three decades later, it is clear that it was...

The 120th winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize celebrates the voice felt twice--once in the body, once in the world Isabel Neal's prizewinning volume bears with confidence its central...

A brilliant evocation of the diverse nature of New World slavery in the Revolutionary Age.

A REESE'S YA BOOK CLUB PICK! "No one can blend family, humor, satire, and love into a single perfect story like Maurene Goo can." --Marie Lu, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Skyhunter "Funny...

In this concise introduction to the history of cartography, Norman J. W. Thrower charts the intimate links between maps and history from antiquity to the present day. A wealth of illustrations,...

How access to resources and policymaking powers determines the balance of power between the legislative and executive branchesThe specter of unbridled executive power looms large in the American...