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Longlisted for the Ondaatje Prize and the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction Shortlisted for the Stanford Travel Writing Award A revelatory portrait of Britain through its islands, The Britannias weaves...

This abridgement of The Oxford Companion to African American Literature will make the entries of the greatest general interest available to a wider audience, providing the same calibre of scholarship...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“Her best book yet.” —Harlan CobenThe million-copy bestselling Queen of Twists Alice Feeney returns with a gripping and deliciously dark thriller about marriage. . . ...

A powerful new collection from one of our most beloved, admired, and honored writers.In stories that are more personal than any that she’s written before, Alice Munro pieces her family’s history into...

Product DescriptionContemporary moral philosophers have produced an enormous amount of rich and varied published work on virtually all the issues falling within the scope of ethics and moral...

The definitive reference on the most current economics of development and institutionsThe essential role that institutions play in understanding economic development has long been recognized across...

This edited collection looks at two of the most important ancient Greek historians living in the 5th Century BCE who are considered to be the founders of the western tradition of historiography...

A New York Times bestseller, Turn of Mind is a literary thriller about a retired orthopedic surgeon suffering from dementia and accused of killing her best friend. With unmatched patience and a...

Bringing together new articles and essays from the controversial Berkeley conference of the same name, The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness presents a fascinating range of inquiry into the nature of...

A dazzling collection of poems from the Pulitzer Prize winner "This tireless activist has freed her mischievous, sensual, and spiritual poetic self to write of nature, love, friendship, courage, and...

The untold story of film as a chemical cousin to poison gas and nuclear weapons, shaped by centuries of violent extraction.   The history of film calls to mind unforgettable photographs, famous...

Read the original inspiration for the new, boldly reimagined film from producers Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg, starring Taraji P. Henson, Danielle Brooks, and Fantasia Barrino.Celebrating its...

This volume of The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein presents Einstein's writings for the two-year period starting in October 1909. The initial date marks Einstein's departure from the Swiss Patent...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Alice Austen uses her considerable gifts to remind us that the past and the present are more connected than we wish to believe, and that vigilance, loyalty and art hold the key...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Alice Austen uses her considerable gifts to remind us that the past and the present are more connected than we wish to believe, and that vigilance, loyalty and art hold the key...

This fourth edition is divided into two parts Industrial Democracy 1877-1920 and Mature Nation 1920 to the Present. The editors have selected articles written by scholars and journalists, presenting...

Computational vision deals with the underlying mathematical and computational models for how visual information is processed. Whether the processing is biological or machine, there are fundamental...

The development of physical theory is one of our greatest intellectual achievements. Its products--the currently prevailing theories of physics, astronomy, and cosmology--have proved themselves to...

Infectious disease accounts for more death and disability worldwide than either noninfectious disease or injury. This book contains a number of different quantitative approaches to understanding the...

Traditionally, Christian martyrdom is a repetition of the story of Christ’s suffering and death: the more closely the victim replicates the Christological model, the more legible the martyrdom. But...