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This is a cultural history of walking in nineteenth-century England, assessing its importance in literature and in culture. Re-reading Wordsworth in the context of contemporary changes in...

An event-by-event look at how institutionalized racism harms the health of African Americans in the twenty-first centuryA crucial component of anti-Black racism is the unconscionable disparity in...

Since October 2023, Israel has carried out one of the most brutal military onslaughts in modern history on the Gaza Strip, in response to the Hamas-led attacks of October 7. But Gaza had long been in...

Since October 2023, Israel has carried out one of the most brutal military onslaughts in modern history on the Gaza Strip, in response to the Hamas-led attacks of October 7. But Gaza had long been in...

Taste your way through America with more than 125 recipes for our favorite historical cakes and frostings.Cakes in America aren't just about sugar, flour, and frosting. They have a deep, rich history...

`Her present life appeared like the dream of a distempered imagination, or like one of those frightful fictions, in which the wild genius of the poets sometimes delighted. Rreflections brought only...

An argument against treating our bodies as commodities No one wants to be treated like an object, regarded as an item of property, or put up for sale. Yet many people frame personal autonomy in...

Mind Fixers tells the history of psychiatry’s quest to understand the biological basis of mental illness and asks where we need to go from here. In Mind Fixers, Anne Harrington, author of The Cure...

The trailblazing book that influenced a generation of writers, and proves that mature reflection needn’t be lacking in attitude.In the beginning when everything was very sexual we talked about our...

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: THE WASHINGTON INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF BOOKS • HYPERALLERGIC • The most personal writing yet to come from a noted scholar of race: a bold and moving look at race,...

Once upon a time: the forgotten female fabulists whose heroines flipped the fairy tale script. People often associate fairy tales with Disney films and with the male authors from whom Disney often...

"A fascinating, easy-to-understand primer for anyone curious about horses."-- KirkusSet over a 24-hour period, meet fighting stallions, cute foals, and nosy donkeys in this nonfiction book for kids...

National Book Award Finalist TIME Magazine's #1 Nonfiction Book of 2012A New York Times Notable BookA Washington Post Top Ten Book of 2012Best Nonfiction of 2012: The Wall Street Journal, The Plain...

"Most histories of economic life explore how markets are built. This book looks instead at how they have been dismantled. Soon after the Bolsheviks seized power in Russia, they began the process of...

The definitive biography of a leading twentieth-century French writerA leading exponent of the nouveau roman, Nathalie Sarraute (1900–1999) was also one of France's most cosmopolitan literary...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WITH A NEW PREFACE • From the Pulitzer-prize winning author, an alarming account of how autocracies work together to undermine the democratic world, and how we should...

Why “the Muslim question” is really about the West and its own anxieties—not IslamIn the post-9/11 West, there is no shortage of strident voices telling us that Islam is a threat to the security,...

Boris, the round-headed child, reigns like a despot in the little house he lives in with his mother. His mother, Bulle, formerly known as Aglaia, was once the all-powerful queen of the country...

Cooperatives have been central to the development of New Orleans. Anne Gessler asserts that local cooperatives have reshaped its built environment by changing where people interact and with whom,...

An Essential And Lavishly Illustrated Visual Compendium On The Epoch-shifting Artist Whose Radical Vision Reshaped Art-and The Museum-forever More Than Any Other Modern Artist, Marcel Duchamp...