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Award-winning writer, columnist, and journalists Carl Zimmer selects twenty science and nature essays that represent the best examples of the form published in 2022.  "What's most compelling about a...

'Those most capable of being moved by passion are those capable of tasting the most sweetness in this life.' Descartes is most often thought of as introducing a total separation of mind and body...

As seen on THE TODAY SHOW! A 2023 Good Housekeeping Kids Book Award Pick! Want to write your own jokes? This book shows you how! Packed with fun-filled illustrations, easy-to-follow exercises, and...

A major collection of essays and interviews from an iconic 20th-century philosopher in five volumes, now all available together in paperback.Roland Barthes was a restless, protean thinker. A constant...

The work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau is presented in two volumes, together forming the most comprehensive anthology of Rousseau's political writings in English. Volume II contains the later writings...

From Anne Bradstreet's The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America in the seventeenth century, to Toni Morrison's Nobel Prize in 1993, women writers have woven a rich tapestry of voices across four...

Adam Gopnik presents the very best of S. J. Perelman, America's zaniest humorist.S. J. Perelman (1904-1979) wrote for the Marx Brothers films Horse Feathers and Monkey Business and won an Oscar for...

"This is one of the most exciting times in the history of science," New York Times-bestselling author Sam Kean proclaims in his introduction to The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2018...

The works of Samuel Johnson, whom many consider the father of English criticism, are themselves the object of thousands of pages of critical commentary and analysis. Edward Tomarken's study traces...

A comprehensive scholarly edition of the writings and correspondence of Thomas Paine Thomas Paine: Collected Writings is the first major new edition of Paine's works, bringing together all his...

Honored as one of "Nine Great Poetry Books of the Year" by The New Yorker."The Poem She Didn't Write is a breakup book, full of the kinds of invective and taunts honed by a person who has spent, as...

This Library of America collection presents Twain's best-known works, including Adventures of Hucklebery Finn, together in one volume for the first time. Tom Sawyer “is simply a hymn,” said its...

Volume two of the Journal includes Thoreau's extensive reminiscences of his 1839 excursion with his brother John along the Concord and Merrimack rivers and all his first impressions and observations...

Library of America presents the biggest, most comprehensive trade edition of Frederick Douglass's writings ever publishedEdited by Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer David W. Blight, this Library of...

This Library of America volume, along with its companion, surveys a literary trajectory that from the beginning of the 20th century to the end of World War II marked Gertrude Stein as a fearless and...

Volumes 5 and 6 contain some 25 pieces, including both original manuscripts as well as rare tracts. Many of these texts were first made available in this series.