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The only edition of the beloved classic that is authorized by Fitzgerald’s family and from his lifelong publisher.This edition is the enduring original text, updated with the author’s own revisions,...

This volume was first published in 1957 and was intended as an appreciation of poetry, based on the study of authors' corrected manuscripts, revised published versions, transpositions of prose into...

In the 1960s the masters of crime fiction expanded the genre’s literary and psychological possibilities with audacious new themes, forms, and subject matter—here are five of their finest worksThis is...

In 1791, shortly after the United States won its independence, George Washington personally asked Pierre Charles L’Enfant—a young French artisan turned American revolutionary soldier who gained many...

* New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller multiple years running* Translated into 20 languages, with more than half a million copies sold worldwide* A Hudson and Indigo Best Book of the...

In 2004, the French government instituted a ban on the wearing of "conspicuous signs" of religious affiliation in public schools. Though the ban applies to everyone, it is aimed at Muslim girls...

Now a major film by Baz Luhrmann, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan and Tobey Maguire. Jay Gatsby’s parties are legendary. Night and day, the rich and beautiful descend upon his mansion to...

In the face of conflict and despair, we often console ourselves by saying that history will be the judge. Today's oppressors may escape being held responsible for their crimes, but the future will...

In this ethnography of the contemporary lived experience of Inuit in Arviat, Nunavut, van den Scott examines the relationship between colonialism and the built environment. As she introduces a...

This third collection of Fitzgerald's extremely popular short stories was published in 1926, in the wake of his most famous novel, The Great Gatsby. Though his novels have become enduring classics,...

Dr. King’s best-selling account of the civil rights movement in Birmingham during the spring and summer of 1963  On April 16, 1963, as the violent events of the Birmingham campaign unfolded in the...

In Mercenaries in Asymmetric Conflicts, Scott Fitzsimmons argues that small mercenary groups must maintain a superior military culture to successfully engage and defeat more numerous and...

After a chance meeting aboard the ocean liner Paris in 1924, Harvard University scholar and activist F. O. Matthiessen and artist Russell Cheney fell in love and remained inseparable until Cheney’s...

A riveting investigation of a beloved library caught in the crosshairs of real estate, power, and the people’s interests—by the reporter who broke the storyIn a series of cover stories for The Nation...

A masterful overview of the philosophy of language from one of its most important thinkersIn this book one of the world's foremost philosophers of language presents his unifying vision of the...

In the second book of the suspense-filled Gentleman Bastard Sequence, hailed by George R. R. Martin as “fresh, original, and engrossing,” Locke Lamora faces a caper so death-defying that nothing...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Scott Westerfeld comes a “masterful” (Cory Doctorow) novel-within-a-novel that you won’t be able to put down.Darcy Patel has put college on hold to...

For the first printing only! This hardcover features sprayed edges while the special edition supply lasts. A young woman must survive the deadly mythical creature she smuggled aboard an airship after...

Fans of all things creepy-crawly will become experts on insects and other tiny creatures with this informative, inventive, and entertaining nonfiction book! Do you know all there is to know about...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The first book of the epic fantasy caper Gentleman Bastard Sequence about a roguish group of conmen, which George R. R. Martin says “captured me right on the first page and...