1294 results for '"Aihong, Li'

CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARDS GOLD MEDAL WINNER FOR NONFICTION From the bestselling and award-winning author of novels Bone and Steer Toward Rock, Fae Myenne Ng's Orphan Bachelors is an extraordinary memoir...

CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARDS GOLD MEDAL WINNER FOR NONFICTION From the bestselling and award-winning author of novels Bone and Steer Toward Rock, Fae Myenne Ng's Orphan Bachelors is an extraordinary memoir...

Our early ancestors lived in small groups and worked actively to preserve social equality. As they created larger societies, however, inequality rose, and by 2500 bce truly egalitarian societies were...

In The Tourist, Olen Steinhauer—twice nominated for the Edgar Award—tackles an intricate story of betrayal and manipulation, loyalty and risk, in an utterly compelling novel that is both thoroughly...

Why society needs to reclaim the power to create moneyAt the heart of capitalism lies the ability of private banks to create money at the stroke of a key. Why have we ignored this unique privilege...

“Wildly entertaining.”—New York Times Book ReviewFrom the bestselling and award-winning author comes a wickedly clever and fast-paced novel of greed, revenge, obsession—and quite possibly the perfect...

“Full of moral and political urgency . . . Excellent.” —Ursula K. Le Guin, The GuardianIn 1938 Paris, Pierre Pain, a lonely bachelor and a beleaguered mesmerist, receives a telegram from his friend...

THE LADIES REIGN. THE PALACE ROTS. THE BEAST RISES.Five starred reviews from Kirkus, Booklist, BookPage, Library Journal, and Shelf Awareness.“The West Passage is a dangerous book of secrets.”...

An account of criticism as an urgent response to what moves us.Criticism begins when we put down a book to tell someone about it. It is what we do when we face a work or event that bowls us over and...

Logic deals with the inevitable - those consequences which follow inescapably from a given set of premisses. This fact has caused it to be seen as different from other more self-questioning branches...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A rollicking and hilarious novel from the bestselling author of Squeeze Me and “Florida’s most entertainingly indignant social critic” (New York Times Book Review).Jack Tagger’s...

International Bestseller: Take charge of your personal development—and dive deep into the realms of consciousness—with this groundbreaking road map to understanding human behavior and emotions.The...

The Strega Award-winning Italian author's "scalding and incisive" novel of marriage and family bonds that come undone in the wake of an affair (Library Journal, starred review). A New York Times...

A comprehensive, readable analysis of the key issues of the Black Lives Matter movement, this thought-provoking and compelling anthology features essays by some of the nation’s most influential and...

“A house of wonders itself. . . . Wonderland inspires grins and well-what-d'ya-knows” —The New York Times Book Review From the New York Times–bestselling author of How We Got to Now and Extra Life, a...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Democracy Awakening, "the most comprehensive account of the GOP and its competing impulses" (Los Angeles Times) When Abraham Lincoln helped create the...

In the tradition of Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle, a darkly humorous modern classic of Scottish literature about a doomed adolescent growing up in the mid-19th...

In 1995, politicians from both parties proposed legislation to reduce funding for welfare programs and mandated a new block grant system designed to eliminate entitlement to assistance. This defense...

What do the occult sciences, séances with the souls of the dead, and appeals to saintly powers have to do with rationality? Since the late nineteenth century, modernizing intellectuals, religious...

Did you know that...The "contemporary" fashion of living together before marriage is far from new, and was frequently practiced in earlier days...Self-divorce, although never legal, was once a...