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A Pulitzer Prize–winning, #1 New York Times bestseller, Angela’s Ashes is Frank McCourt’s masterful memoir of his childhood in Ireland—now with a new introduction by Patrick Radden Keefe. “When I...

'This is the story of my ch . . . ch . . . changes, which took me from insanity to clarity, from egocentricity to altruism, from alcoholism to activism. These changes have marked an evolution in what...

Mark Graber looks at the history of abortion law in action to argue that the only defensible, constitutional approach to the issue is to afford all women equal choice--abortion should remain legal or...

Fought on what to Westerners was a remote peninsula in northeast Asia, the Korean War was a defining moment of the Cold War. It militarized a conflict that previously had been largely political and...

"[Jonathan Taplin] was the one who made Mean Streets and The Last Waltz possible, for which I will always be grateful. We had quite a few adventures on both projects, and they're all chronicled in...

Heralded as "an epoch-making book" by F. F. Bruce when it first appeared, Robert H. Gundry's commentary on the Gospel of Matthew stands as a benchmark in biblical scholarship to modern methodology...

Finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in FictionNominated for the 2022 NBCC John Leonard PrizeLonglisted for the Mark Twain American Voice In Literature AwardNamed a Best Book of the Year by NPR,...

A reissue of Alexander Kluge's kaleidoscopic view of a historically important day and its effects on many people’s lives.April 30, 1945, marked an end of sorts in the Third Reich. The last business...

Whether you are a politician caught carrying on with an intern or a minister photographed with a prostitute, discovery does not necessarily spell the end of your public career. Admit your sins...

Silicon Valley, Singapore, and Tel Aviv - the global hubs of entrepreneurial activity - all bear the marks of government investment. Yet, for every public intervention that spurs entrepreneurial...

A major rethinking of the European novel and its relationship to early evolutionary scienceThe 120 years between Henry Fielding's Tom Jones (1749) and George Eliot's Middlemarch (1871) marked both...

A bloody episode that epitomised the political dilemmas of the eighteenth centuryIn 1798, members of the United Irishmen were massacred by the British amid the crumbling walls of a half-built town...

Whether you are a politician caught carrying on with an intern or a minister photographed with a prostitute, discovery does not necessarily spell the end of your public career. Admit your sins...

It is a widely held belief today that there are too many lawsuits, too many lawyers, too much law. As readers of this engaging and provocative essay will discover, the evidence for a "litigation...

FINALIST FOR THE 2025 PULITZER PRIZE IN FICTION"One of our greatest living authors."—Lauren LeBlanc, The Boston Globe Marking a dramatic new direction for Jones, a riveting tale set in the Post WWII...

Glide along the canals and meander down cobblestone alleys as you soak up the art, history, and culture of Venice with Rick by your side. Inside Rick Steves Venice you'll find: Fully updated,...

Astonishing, unconstrained, and often unsettling—the presidential pardon is one of the most powerful tools in American government, and this indispensable book is your guide to how it defines the...

The page-turning story of three women reporters and the way they changed the world, work, and journalism. Emily "Mickey" Hahn, Rebecca West, Martha Gellhorn. The lively salons of Shanghai,...

The compelling story of the great Irish pioneers who left their homeland and in the process profoundly influenced their adoptive countries.From the first voyages of Saint Brendan in the early sixth...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “A tremendous accomplishment. It does every last blessed thing a masterpiece is supposed to—and a few things we never even knew to expect.”—San Francisco Chronicle“Brilliant . ...