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Honored as one of "10 Favorite Books of 2014" —Dwight Garner, The New York TimesHonored as a "Standout Book of 2014" —American Poet magazine“Belieu oscillates between dark humor, self-consciousness,...

“I often said before starting, that I had no doubt I should frequently repent of the whole undertaking.” So wrote Charles Darwin aboard The Beagle, bound for the Galapagos Islands and what would...

NATIONAL BESTSELLERA wide-ranging, against-the-grain argument about the state of American culture―the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal bestseller--now in paperback with new material"Tyler...

"I met Aunt Augusta for the first time at my mother's funeral..." Described by Graham Greene as "the only book I have written just for the fun of it," Travels with My Aunt is the story of Hanry...

Book of My Nights is the first poetry collection in ten years by one of the world's most acclaimed young poets. In Book of My Nights, Li-Young Lee once again gives us lyrical poetry that fuses...

“When I say this book is a love story, I mean it is about things that cannot be gotten over—like this world, and some of the people in it.” In 1819, the poet John Keats wrote six poems that would...

"Mrs. Dalloway is a novel about almost everything. Virginia Woolf wrote in her diary: "I want to give life and death, sanity and insanity; I want to criticize the social system, and to show it at...

"when I admire a film | they say to me | yes, it's very pretty | but it's not | cinema | so | I asked myself | what it was" Phrases presents the spoken language from six films by Jean-Luc Godard:...

Named one of the best books of 2017 by The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, PopSugar, Financial Times, Chicago Review of Books, Huffington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Thrillist, Book Riot,...

August Strindberg (1849-1912) is the Golden Eagle of Swedish literature; at least this is his own depiction in one of his poems, and he has been viewed in this fashion, as larger and lonelier and...

An excavatory collection of poems tracing the connections between Jewish transfemininity, queer desire, and cultural histories.Selected by Sean Hill for the National Poetry Series, this collection is...

‘O Light! May I never look on you again, Revealed as I am, sinful in my begetting, Sinful in marriage, sinful in shedding of blood!’ The legends surrounding the royal house of Thebes inspired...

This classic work is an exploration of what natural history is, and a sustained effort to see how it relates to other areas of biology. Marston Bates did not attempt to overwhelm his audience with...

EVERYDAY LIFE IN ANCIENT GREECE BY C. E. ROBINSON PREFACE THERE is a story told of a certain English poet, who, as an undergraduate at Oxford, was compelled to undergo an examination in Divinity. His...

"These days, home gardeners know that many traditional, non-native garden plants-like English ivy, barberry, and burning bush-don't support our bees, butterflies, birds, and other creatures. And that...

Based on the most recent local research, this revisionist work surveys the history of workers in the heartland of German industry before World War I and reassesses the origins, development, and...

It is the first day of school in Chad, Africa. Children are filling the road."Will they give us a notebook?" Thomas asks. "Will they give us a pencil? Will I learn to read?"But when he and the other...

Between 1450 and 1750 Europe underwent tremendous political, religious and cultural change - change which laid the foundations for the Europe we know today. Henry Kamen has compiled an accessible...

"Like his subject matter Meister's writing is ominous, intangible and inescapable."—Publishers Weekly"The translators of Wallless Space were brave to take on Meister's dense and unusual poetry, and...

In this beautifully illustrated instructional guide, celebrated woodworker Aleksandra Zee offers a masterclass in creating beautiful, unique natural objects, and decorating with wood.“There’s just...