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Henry D. Thoreau's classic A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers is published now as a new paperback edition and includes an introduction by noted writer John McPhee. This work--unusual for its...

Nothing is as elemental, as essential to human life, as the air we breathe. Yet around the world, in rich countries and poor ones, it is quietly poisoning us. Air pollution prematurely kills seven...

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A revelatory history of the laws that conditioned the everyday lives of Chinese people in the American West—and of those who negotiated, circumvented, and resisted discrimination.Legal discrimination...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY AND INDIE BESTSELLER!A #1 LibraryReads pick!An Indie Next pick!DELUXE EDITION—a gorgeous hardcover edition featuring beautiful mint green sprayed edges!New York...

A new, genre-defying volume that explores family, marriage, motherhood, place, and coming of age with singular wit and emotional clarity. What can we learn from an ordinary life observed with...

A blueprint for rescuing our fragile democracy by harnessing AI Democracy is in retreat at home and abroad. Our institutions and our politics are more broken than ever. At this delicate moment,...

Editing is an invisible art where the very best work goes undetected. Editors strive to create books that are enlightening, seamless, and pleasurable to read, all while giving credit to the author...

Witchcraft was at its height in Elizabethan London. Edward Jorden showed that hysteria and not demons lay behind the witch-craze. Edward Jorden's Briefe Discourse of a Disease Called the Suffocation...

A fascinating collection of questions and answers—about courtship, marriage, love, and sex—from a seventeenth-century periodical The Athenian Mercury—a one-page, two-sided periodical published in...

Mexico Since Independence brings together six chapters from Volumes III, V and VII of the Cambridge History of Latin America to provide in a single volume an economic, social and political history of...

The love letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett are among the most famous in history. Daniel Karlin's selection, based on a fresh examination of the original manuscripts, provides new...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY AND INDIE BESTSELLER!A #1 LibraryReads pick!An Indie Next pick!DELUXE EDITION—a gorgeous paperback edition featuring beautiful lavender sprayed edges! The...

This visually-led book contains a global selection of the best graphic design studios' work for the fashion industryfrom packaging and lookbooks to swing tags and invitationswith exclusive insights...

The complete Cambridge History of Latin America presents a large-scale authoritative survey of Latin America's unique historical experience from the first contact between Indians and Europeans at the...

On Haven, a six-mile long, half-mile-wide stretch of barrier island, Mira Banul and her Year-Rounder friends have proudly risen to every challenge. But then a superstorm defies all predictions and...