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Writing in the tradition of Susan Sontag and Elaine Scarry, Maggie Nelson has emerged as one of our foremost cultural critics with this landmark work about representations of cruelty and violence in art. From Sylvia Plath's poetry to Francis Bacon's…
Some people bounce back in response to setbacks; others break. We often think that these responses are hardwired but this is not the case. William B.Irvine combines key lessons from the ancient Stoics with modern psychological techniques to develop a…
A major bestseller in Japan, Financial Times Top Ten book of the year, Book-of-the-Month Club bestseller, and required reading at the best business schools, Thinking Strategically is a crash course in outmaneuvering any rival. This entertaining guide…
Claude M. Steele, who has been called "one of the few great social psychologists," offers a vivid first-person account of the research that supports his groundbreaking conclusions on stereotypes and identity. He sheds new light on American…
Nearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, today's world leaders are abandoning disarmament treaties, building up their nuclear arsenals, and exchanging threats of nuclear strikes. To survive this new atomic age, we must relearn the lessons of…
Taken with a 35mm camera by Paul McCartney, these largely unseen photographs capture the explosive period, from the end of 1963 through early 1964, in which The Beatles became an international sensation and changed the course of music history. Featuring…
Charlotte Salomon was a German-Jewish artist born in Berlin. She is remembered for her autobiographical series of paintings, Life? or Theater?, which consists of 769 individual works painted between 1941 and 1943 while she was in hiding from the Nazis…
A forceful argument against America's vicious circle of growing inequality bythe Nobel Prize-winning economist.
"[An] inspired tour of the post modern city...Invigorating." -Mark Kingwell, Harper's
From across strange aeons comes the annotated edition of "the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale" (Stephen King).
A journey through the otherworldly science behind Christopher Nolan's award-winning film, Interstellar, from executive producer and Nobel Prize-winning physicist Kip Thorne.
Winner of the Gourmand World Cookbook Award, Best Bread Book
Taste 5,000 years of brewing history as a time-travelling home-brewer rediscovers and re-creates the great beers of the past.
A dessert cookbook and portrait of an unconventional dessert maker.
The only cookbook of its kind, In a Nutshell is a complete guide to cooking and baking with nuts and seeds.
A New York Times best-selling call to arms from Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman.
"Passionate, cantankerous, and fascinating. Rather like Korea itself."--Nicholas D. Kristof, New York Times Book Review
A portable edition of the famous Red Book text and essay.
With Kate McDermott, making a pie is as easy as pie.
Three decades after the publication of Forrest Gump, Winston Groom returns to fiction with a sweeping epic.
The explosive account of how Republican legislators and political operatives fundamentally rigged American democracy through redistricting.
Be messy and everything else in your life will fall into place.
A penetrating, personal look at contemporary India-the world's largest democracy at a moment of transition.
The #1 New York Times Bestseller: The essential universe, from a celebrated and beloved astrophysicist.
