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David Sedaris, the "champion storyteller," (Los Angeles Times) returns with his first new collection of personal essays since the bestselling Calypso Back when restaurant menus were still printed on...

An exploration of one of England’s great ancient monuments: the 360-foot-long chalk White Horse at Uffington.The White Horse at Uffington is an icon of the English landscape—a prehistoric, nearly...

From Mad Men to MAGA: how nostalgia came to be and why we are so eager to indulge it. From movies to politics, social media posts to the targeted ads between them, nostalgia is one of the most potent...

"Intellectually salacious...Deep in its gut, Mamet's gripping play argues everything in America is still about race." -Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune "Tasty dialogue, spiky confrontations and more than...

Cultural Writing. Essays. David Roediger teaches History and African-American Studies at University of Illinois and is a pioneering figure in whiteness studies, a vital branch of thought that...

Nietzsche and Heidegger saw in modernity a time endangered by nihilism. Starting out from this interpretation, David Levin links the nihilism raging today in Western society and culture to our...

From David Graeber, the bestselling author of The Dawn of Everything and Debt—“a master of opening up thought and stimulating debate” (Slate)—a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless,...

Science writer David Quammen explains how recent discoveries in molecular biology can change our understanding of evolution and life’s history, with powerful implications for human health and even...

The perfect tool for finding the perfect word, the Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus is an invaluable source of inspiration as well as an authoritative guide to selecting and using vocabulary...

"The arch-genius…has some radical ideas about the supremacy of the human mind…[Gelernter] is a computer virtuoso who happens to find human consciousness even more entrancing than the most amazing...

A monumental exploration of soccer and society in our time—by its preeminent historian.The Age of Football proves that whether you call it football or soccer, you can’t make sense of the modern world...

David Levering Lewis is the Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of History at Rutgers University and was recently awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919 received...

"Meticulously researched and unapologetically romantic, How the Hippies Saved Physics makes the history of science fun again." —Science In the 1970s, an eccentric group of physicists in Berkeley,...

Fine in a Near-Fine dust jacket. First Edition. Square quarto, ~8 ¼” w x 8 ¼” h, 51 pp. Light-blue boards with title plate set to front, in a matching unclipped jacket with...

Explore the tradition of the political essay with this brilliant anthology.David Bromwich is one of the most well-informed, cogent, and morally uncompromising political writers on the left today. He...

Shedding new light on the institutionalization of literature as a kind of secular scripture in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, David G. Riede explores the ways in which major...

Winner of the 2012 Award for Concept Analysis from the International Political Science AssociationHow do transitional democracies deal with officials who have been tainted by complicity with prior...

New York Times Book Review Top 100 Books of 2024Explore the “comprehensive and compelling” (Jon Meacham) biography of civil rights leader John Lewis, celebrated as “the conscience of Congress,”...

Beloved birds of North America take center stage in this fun and informative 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzle featuring illustrations by preeminent birding authority, David Allen Sibley. Experienced and...

The aside is a familiar convention in drama, but surprisingly little has been written about it in connection with Greek theater, where the aside originated and developed. In Actors and Audience,...