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Lost on the TundraTo her small Eskimo village, she is known as Miyax; to her friend in San Francisco, she is Julie. When the village is no longer safe for her, Miyax runs away. But she soon finds...

A fresh, new prose translation of the classic Indian poem, ideally focused for students and teachers and for yoga teacher training The Bhagavad Gita, a small section of the massive Sanskrit epic the...

A Wall Street Journal Best Business Book of 2012A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2012In this revealing account of how the digital universe exploded in the aftermath of World War II, George Dyson...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST FICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE DECADE BY ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY AND BUZZFEED...

"The generation weaned on the Marvel Universe will find much to love in O’Connor’s 12-book series." —New York TimesNothing ever changes in the land of the dead. Deep in this hidden kingdom beneath...

Boom! Pow! Crash! Greek Gods as you’ve never seen them before! The strong, larger-than-life heroes of the Olympians can summon lightning, control the sea, turn invisible, or transform themselves into...

Just two weeks before his death in January 1999, George L. Mosse, one of the great American historians, finished writing his memoir, a fascinating and fluent account of a remarkable life that spanned...

Examine the ways in which expertise, reason, and manners are continually under attack in our institutions, courts, political arenas, and social venues with this collection from the Pulitzer...

The X Factor describes the elements of an athletes character and fitness; that which is often hard to explain but is evident to coaches, and athletes, sports journalists, and general managers.

Chronicles the history of the fundamentalist movement in the United States and discusses how the social, political, and intellectual aspects of Protestant fundamentalism affected the movement.

A work of genuine social history, this book leads the reader, as concretely as possible, into the real v illages and cities of European society. It begins with a des cription of family and community...

Woven from dreamlike and echoing images, After Image travels between life and death, between a living body and its absence. A house, an orchard, "a shudder of blossoms." A fountain, a bed, a sudden...

Is it time to embrace the so-called “Anthropocene”—the age of human dominion—and to abandon tried-and-true conservation tools such as parks and wilderness areas? Is the future of Earth to be fully...

Compellingly argues that good health is as much social as it is biological, and that the racial health gap and the racial wealth gap are mutually constitutive.The Danger Zone Is Everywhere shows that...

Jesus and Darwin do battle on car bumpers across America. Medallions of fish symbolizing Jesus are answered by ones of amphibians stamped "Darwin," and stickers proclaiming "Jesus Loves You" are...