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"[I] can't recommend this joint enough. ... An illuminating and discomfiting read." --Ta-Nehisi Coates "Essential reading." --New York Review of Books A shocking, heart-wrenching investigation...

Chess is the ultimate fun strategy game - and this is the perfect introduction to chess, whether you're a budding master or you've never played before. In simple, fun stages, readers will learn what...

When IQ agrees to track down a painter's missing mother, he unexpectedly encounters a dangerous paramilitary operation -- and must escape a trap so deadly that even a genius can't see it coming...

A novel of suspense and psychological tension set in the world of international humanitarian aid by a founder of Doctors Without Borders. The four men accompanying Maud, a young French idealist, on...

The Charles E. Merrill Trust -- The Private School? -- Amherst And Others -- Religion -- Reaching The Outsider -- Picking Up The Pieces -- Medicine -- Growing Old And Dying -- Culture --...

For close to a decade, technology analyst Dan Wang--"a gifted observer of contemporary China" (Ross Douthat)--has been living through the country's astonishing, messy progress. China's towering...

With his first book, Hitler’s Willing Executioners, Daniel Jonah Goldhagen dramatically revised our understanding of the role ordinary Germans played in the Holocaust. Now he brings his formidable...

Part I. Considering Hillbilly Elegy. Interrogating. Hillbilly elitism / T.R.C. Hutton -- Social capital / Jeff Mann -- Once upon a time in "Trumpalachia": Hillbilly Elegy, personal choice, and the...

A trenchant case for a novel philosophical position: that our political thinking is driven less by commitments to freedom or fairness than by an aversion to hierarchy.Niko Kolodny argues that, to a...

Few whites who violently resisted the civil rights struggle were charged with crimes in the 1950s and 1960s. But the tide of a long-deferred justice began to change in 1994, when a Mississippi jury...

The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Britain saw the proposal of so many endeavors called "projects"—a catchphrase for the daring, sometimes dangerous practice of shaping the future—that...

This book, first published in 1985, assembles essential facts on Samuel Beckett and makes vital but elusive information available. It contains a comprehensive checklist of all the writer's plays,...

Samuel Beckett n'a cessé de lire Dante depuis ses années d'étude à Dublin jusqu'à sa mort, en 1989. Sa lecture n'est pas critique : elle est une source, une énergie qui apparaît, disséminée dans ses...

"The acclaimed bestselling author of Sandwich is back with a wonderful novel, full of laughter and heart, about marriage, family, and what happens when life doesn't go as planned. If you loved Rocky...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction. A major work of history that for the first time reveals the violence and terror at the heart of Britain's civilizing mission in Kenya.As part of the...

Robin Robertson's fourth collection is an intense, moving, bleakly lyrical, and at times shocking book. These poems are written with the authority of classical myth, yet sound utterly contemporary...

In the latest novel in New York Times bestselling author Stuart Gibbs’s FunJungle series, Teddy Fitzroy returns as FunJungle’s resident sleuth to solve his most improbable mystery yet—with a victim...

A 50-card deck offering guidance and inspiration for anyone rethinking their relationship with alcohol, from the hosts of the award-winning podcast, Recovery Rocks.Filled with practical tools and...

What economic rules govern sports? How does the sports business differ from other businesses? Playbooks and Checkbooks takes a fascinating step-by-step look at the fundamental economic relationships...