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#1 New York Times Bestseller"A useful and funny purse-sized manual that could easily replace all the diet books on your bookshelf." —Tara Parker-Pope, The New York TimesA definitive compendium of...

Engaging encounters, personal anecdotes, and jargon-free critical insights into some of the liveliest creative minds in modern art, by an international art-world insider.Praised by The Art Newspaper...

“A bright, shiny gift to popular-science collections.”―Booklist Trained as a musician, amateur scientist William Herschel found international fame after discovering the planet Uranus in 1781. Though...

Established by the Dungannon Foundation in 1986 to honor living American writers who have made a significant contribution to the short story form, the annual Rea Award for the Short Story has become...

A history of wars through the ages and across the world, and the irrational calculations that so often lie behind them Benjamin Franklin once said, "There never was a good war or a bad peace...

From one of the world's greatest writers on ancient history--a new work that explores the colorful decline of the Roman Empire during the reign of the Severans, the first non-Italian dynasty, whose...

WINNER OF THE BELIEVER'S READER SURVEY, BEST BOOK OF POETRY*SELECTED AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR:The New York Times * Slate * The New York Observer * Commonweal * Books & Culture * Vol. 1 Brooklyn *...

"We had become the land of flickering lights, in which the standard of success was not what we were doing for the next generation of Americans, or to enhance our role in the world, but instead...

A delicious and extensive sampling spanning 44 years of poetry from the published collections and new work of Michael Blumenthal, of whom Howard Nemerov, former Poet Laureate, said, "I know of no...

Distinguishing four sources of power in human societies – ideological, economic, military, and political – The Sources of Social Power traces their interrelations throughout human history. In this...

From Michael Cunningham, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours, comes the acclaimed novel of two boyhood friends A Home at the End of the World, now a feature film starring Colin Farrell and...

In this concise, single-authored text, renowned scholar and professor Michael Boylan examines the moral justifications underlying key global justice issues and provides students with the analytical...

"Ten stories cut like gems from American family life . . . [with] a gracious patina and a drawl of violence." --Los Angeles Times "A writer of the first rank. . . . [Knight] writes gently and with...

The #1 New York Times bestseller: "It is the work of our greatest financial journalist, at the top of his game. And it's essential reading."—Graydon Carter, Vanity Fair The real story of the crash...

In The Genealogical Imagination Michael Jackson juxtaposes ethnographic and imaginative writing to explore intergenerational trauma and temporality. Drawing on over fifty years of fieldwork, Jackson...

The evolution and philosophy of color field painting, as revealed by four masters of the movement.Developed at the tail end of the abstract expressionist movement, color field painting is...

In this "well-researched guide," two of the world's most respected scientists reveal the forces behind the dangerous anti-science movement--and offer "powerful ideas about how to fight back" (Bill...

Andrea Palladio (1508-1580) may well be the single most influential architect ever, and by conspicuously adopting his vocabulary, Michael Graves, Philip Johnson and the post-modernists have made him...

V. 1. Opuscula Logica, Physica, Allegorica, Alia -- V. 2. Opuscula Psychologica, Theologica, Daemonologica. Ediderunt J.m. Duffy Et D.j. O'meara. Text In Greek, Preface In Latin. Cover Title:...