654 results for '"Sarah Costley'

A vulnerable, searching collection about facing the beautiful & difficult parts of our humanness with compassion & wonder“This is a book that will make you feel simultaneously alive and less alone...

A biography of Vergil, Rome's greatest poet, by the acclaimed translator of the Aeneid "Ms. Ruden has converted the writer of the Aeneid from a noble and stodgy 'ancient' into our contemporary . ...

In Life after New Media, Sarah Kember and Joanna Zylinska make a case for a significant shift in our understanding of new media. They argue that we should move beyond our fascination with...

A spellbinding account of the real facts of the Central Park jogger case that powerfully reexamines one of New York City's most notorious crimes and its aftermath. •A must-read after watching Ava...

"You're told that if you "do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life." Whether it's working for "exposure" and "experience," or enduring poor treatment in the name of "being part of the...

An entrancing new telling of ancient Greek myths“This book is a triumph! . . . [A] magnificent retelling of the Greek myths.”—Alexander McCall Smith, author of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency...

Mothering is as old as human existence. But how has this most essential experience changed over time and cultures? What is the history of maternity--the history of pregnancy, birth, the encounter...

Long after the Mexican-American War brought the Southwest under the United States flag, Anglos and Hispanics within the region continued to struggle for dominion. From the arrival of railroads...

Acclaimed translator Sarah Ruden shares a fresh, myth-busting reading of Sylvia Plath's poems, revealing the full range and towering ambition of a great American poet.One of our leading interpreters...

*Updated and Expanded* The star-reviewed LGBTQ+ history book for young adults--now updated and expanded with 3 new profiles and a new foreword! Perfect for fans of fun, empowering pop-culture books...

A Best Horror Novel of All Time (Cosmopolitan) • WINNER of the 2023 British Fantasy Award for Best Horror Novel • One of the Best Horror Novels of 2022 (Vulture, Paste, NPR, and Teen Vogue) • A...

As we live our lives, hearing seems to be something that we simply have, not something that we do. Yet in a wide variety of occupations and activities, people must develop their hearing skills to...

What does it mean to be female? Sarah Blaffer Hrdy--a sociobiologist and a feminist--believes that evolutionary biology can provide some surprising answers. Surprising to those feminists who...

"In this book, Sarah Spence explores the role of Sicily in the European imagination through the myth of Proserpina, who was abducted by the god of the underworld from the same Mediterranean island...

Pondering the questions only kids would think to ask, this hilarious, poignant collection captures the wonder of a child’s imagination, brought to life by beloved New Yorker cartoonist Liana Finck...

Just one generation ago, lawyers dominated Mexico's political elite, and Mexican economists were a relatively powerless group of mostly leftist nationalists. Today, in contrast, the country is...

American Book Award Winner Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Finalist Chicago Tribune, 10 Best Books of the Year A Hyperallergic Best Book of the Year The award-winning art historian and founder of Vision &...

#1 New York Times BestsellerA 2025 best book of the year so far by The New York Times, The Economist, NPR, and more“Careless People is darkly funny and genuinely shocking...Not only does [Sarah...

Review "Winner of the 2006 William A. Douglass Award, American Anthropological Association""Winner of the 2007 Honor Book Award, New Jersey Council for the Humanities""Notes from the Balkans is...

FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE “Every sentence delivered. The pathos of truth-seeking left me thinking of Herman Melville."—Timothy Snyder, #1 New York Times bestselling author of On...