33 results for '"GOPNIK,A"'

"We need books like this one." --Steven PinkerAt last, stupidity explained! And by some of the world's smartest people, among them Daniel Kahneman, Dan Ariely, Alison Gopnik, Howard Gardner, Antonio...

From iconic American humorist James Thurber, a celebrated and poignant memoir about his years at The New Yorker with the magazine’s unforgettable founder and longtime editor, Harold Ross“Extremely...

An unflinching exploration of aging from one of the twentieth century's most influential photographersFor more than half a century, Richard Avedon sought to represent advancing age in the faces of...

Winner of the Duff Cooper PrizeWinner of the Elizabeth Longford PrizeA New Yorker, Financial Times, Spectator, Times, and Telegraph Book of the YearIn this definitive biography of the mythic general...

From the recipient of the National Jewish Book Award for Lifetime Achievement, a "hugely entertaining and irreverent" (Adam Gopnik, New Yorker) account of the art of translating the Hebrew Bible into...

Richly illustrated with images from Art Spiegelman’s Maus (“the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust” —The Wall Street Journal), Maus Now includes work from...

Foreword --Introduction --A journey into the animal mind (from The Atlantic) /Ross Andersen --Sleep no more (from Wind) /Kelly Clancy --What remains (from the California Sunday magazine) /Daniel...

ULTIMATE NERD GIFT for Peanuts fans!A one-of-a-kind celebration of America's greatest comic strip--and the life lessons it can teach us--from a stellar array of writers and artistsOver the span of...

Drawing from the horizons of science, today's leading thinkers reveal the hidden threats nobody is talking about—and expose the false fears everyone else is distracted by.What should we be worried...

AN ECONOMIST AND NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A fresh, exciting, “readable and informative” history (The New York Times) of seventeenth-century England, a time of revolution when society was on...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALCOTT PRIZE 'Her poetry stands unsurpassed in its popularity and technical accomplishment - there's no better contemporary writer of forms such as the triolet - and in the wit,...

New York Times Bestseller!A School Library Journal Best Book of the YearA never-before-published, previously unfinished Mark Twain children’s story is brought to life by Philip and Erin Stead,...

New York Times Bestseller!A School Library Journal Best Book of the YearA never-before-published, previously unfinished Mark Twain children’s story is brought to life by Philip and Erin Stead,...