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An exquisite exploration of the power of flowers, placing them at the center of the story of how evolution created the world we know todayWe live on a floral planet, yet flowers don’t get the credit...

Para Steiner la «revolución lingüística» producida desde la última década del siglo XIX ha tenido como consecuencia un cambio de actitud radical no sólo en la filosofía, la lógica, la teoría social y...

In the decades around 1900, postcards were Twitter, email, Flickr and Facebook, all wrapped into one. A postcard craze swept the world, and billions of cards were bought, mailed and pasted into...

Most of us have heard the dire predictions about global warming. Some experts insist that warming has already started, and they warn of such impending disasters as the sea level rising to flood...

How Obama overestimated the power of rhetoric and persuasion during his presidencyWhen Barack Obama became president, many Americans embraced him as a transformational leader who would fundamentally...

Photographs, memorabilia, and stories provide a rich tapestry of American life, family traditions, quirks, and celebrations

The Fascist Revolution is the culmination of George L. Mosse's groundbreaking work on fascism. Originally published posthumously in 1999, the volume covers a broad spectrum of topics related to...

Until 1997, few people had heard of the seasonal current that Peruvians nicknamed El Niño. But when meteorologists linked it to devastating floods in California, severe droughts in Indonesia, and...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “One of our most inventive purveyors of the form returns with pitch-perfect, genre-bending stories that stare into the abyss of our national character. . . . An exquisite...

Until recently, black holes were often considered as exotic objects of dubious existence. In the last decade, observations have provided overwhelming evidence in favour of the presence of...

Why does it always seem like the elevator is going down when you need to go up? Is it really true that 0.99999 . . . with an infinite number of 9s after the decimal point, is equal to 1? What do tea...

Millions of Americans—including many experienced politicians—viewed Barack Obama through a prism of high expectations, based on a belief in the power of presidential persuasion. Yet many who were...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the Booker Prize–winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us...

Esta es la summa del pensamiento de Steiner, una clase inigualable.The ObserverB+No nos quedan mas comienzosB; es la primera frase de este nuevo libro de George Steiner, que explora la idea de la...

A new account of the central role developmental processes play in evolutionA new scientific view of evolution is emerging—one that challenges and expands our understanding of how evolution works...

Texte etabli et traduit par Georges Lafaye. 3 tomes. 1er tome, edition revue et corrigee par Jean Fabre, 1ere edition 1925. Tome II: edition revue et corrigee par Henri Le Bonniec. 1ere edition 1928...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZEThe “devastatingly moving” (People) first novel from the author of Tenth of December: a moving and original father-son story featuring...

An exploration of the interaction of aesthetics and politics in Bertolt Brecht's “photoepigrams.”From 1938 to 1955, Bertolt Brecht created montages of images and text, filling his working journal...

The U.S. took in more than a million immigrants per year in the late 1990s, more than at any other time in history. For humanitarian and many other reasons, this may be good news. But as George...