180 results for '"Schalit, Joel'

Leading historians offer the first look at Biden’s four years in the White HouseThe Presidency of Joseph R. Biden presents a first draft of history by providing insights into how this one-term...

Imagine a world without things. There would be nothing to describe, explain, remark on, interpret, or complain about. Without things, we would, in short, stop speaking; we would become as mute as...

Red Sparrow is now a major motion picture starring Jennifer Lawrence and Joel Edgerton! From the bestselling, Edgar Award–winning author of the “terrifically good” (The New York Times) Red Sparrow,...

Atlantic City was born in the mid-nineteenth century and grew so big, so fast, that it captured the American imagination. It was 'the World's Playground'. Its hotels were the largest and finest, its...

When architecture serves as a tool for punishment through confinement and isolation, every design choice affects lives. What is prison architecture? Where do spaces of incarceration from jails to...

How consumer spending during the holidays generates enormous amounts of economic wasteChristmas is a time of seasonal cheer, family get-togethers, holiday parties, and . . . gift giving. Lots and...

“Unlike advocates who promote one-cause-fits-all explanations for human behavior, Fuentes appreciates the array of influences that make us human. This book is guaranteed to give the reader a more...

At the start of the twenty-first century, America was awash in a sea of evangelical talk. The Purpose Driven Life. Joel Osteen. The Left Behind novels. George W. Bush. Evangelicalism had become so...

For anyone interested in history, the physical traces of the past, especially historical places, hold a special fascination. Whether it is a battlefield or the home of a notable American, there is no...

From the bestselling literary magazine that took France by storm after its launch in the wake of the 2016 presidential election, a collection of pieces by today's leading Francophone writers that...

Philip J. Deloria’s classic exploration of white America’s drive to “play Indian,” from the Boston Tea Party to the New Age“[A] brilliant book. . . . This book reminds us that at least one question...

Winner of the 2017 Brendan Gill Prize from the Municipal Arts Society of New York"The maps themselves are things of beauty . . . A document of its time, of our time." —Sadie Stein, New York Times  ...

In the twentieth century, public sculpture has changed almost beyond recognition. Works inspired by classical and renaissance traditions--imposing equestrian monuments and triumphal arches--have been...

“One of the best investing books ever written.” —Charlie MungerFrom an award-winning financial journalist, a fresh and insightful book that draws on interviews with more than forty of the world’s...

A poet’s audio obsession, from collecting his earliest vinyl to his quest for the ideal vacuum tubes. A captivating book that “ingeniously mixes personal memoir with cultural history and offers us an...

The landscape of American literature was fundamentally changed when Flannery O'Connor stepped onto the scene with her first published book, Wise Blood, in 1952. Her fierce, sometimes comic novels and...

In nineteenth-century America, poetry was an integral part of everyday life. The two volumes of The Library of America’s American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century reveal the vigor and diversity of a...

To celebrate the centennial of America's National Park Service, Picturing America's National Parks brings together some of the finest landscape photography in the history of the medium, from...

On September 13, 1993, the world watched, thrilled and still disbelieving, as on the sunny White House lawn the prime minister of Israel, Yitzhak Rabin, and the president of the Palestinian...

Amrita Narlikar, Martin Daunton, and Robert M. Stern: Introduction Part I: Theory of Multilateral Trade Liberalization 1: Robert E. Baldwin: The Case for a Multilateral Trade Organization 2: Martin...