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Discusses the oppression of women in the developing world, sharing example stories about victims and survivors who are working to raise awareness, counter abuse, and campaign for women's rights...

A clerk in a Tokyo of the near future works in an organization that controls the flow of information to society--employing electronic brainwashing and other insidious techniques--a job that...

The award-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb describes the lesser-known technological talents of actress Hedy Lamarr and the collaborative work with avant-garde composer George Antheil...

Herculine Barbin (Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth Century French Hermaphrodite)Author: Michel FoucaultPublisher: VintagePublication Date: June 12, 1980Number of Pages: 224...

The president of Silicon Valley's Intel Corporation sets forth the three basic ideas of his management philosophy and details numerous specific techniques to increase productivity in the manager's...

A Brazilian man and a Dutch woman embark on an extraordinary journey of self-discovery as they travel by bus from Amsterdam to Kathmandu against a backdrop of the protests and sexual-liberation...

Hiroshima - 9780593082362Author: John HerseyPublisher: VintagePublication Date: Jun 23, 2020Number of Pages: 208 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0593082362ISBN-13: 9780593082362

A first-generation Chinese-American woman recounts growing up in America within a tradition-bound Chinese family, and confronted with Chinese ghosts from the past and non-Chinese ghosts of the...

Presents the story of embittered Korean War veteran Frank Money, who struggles against trauma and racism to rescue his medically abused sister and work through identity-shattering memories.Author:...

A moving reflection on the complicated nature of home and homeland, and the heartache and adventure of leaving an adopted country in order to return to your native land?this is a ?winsome memoir of...

Winner of the NBCC's John Leonard First Book Prize A New York Times Notable Book A Washington Post Notable Book One of the Best Books of the Year: NPR, San Francisco Chronicle, Oprah.com, Harper's...

Honey and Salt: Selected Spiritual Writings of Bernard of ClairvauxAuthor: St. BernardPublisher: VintagePublication Date: May 01, 2007Number of Pages: 496 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Hong KongAuthor: Jan MorrisPublisher: VintagePublication Date: Feb 04, 1997Number of Pages: 320 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0679776486ISBN-13: 9780679776482

At once intimate and wide-ranging, and as enthralling, surprising, and vivid as the place itself, this is a uniquely eye-opening tour of one of the great metropolises of the world, and its largest...

Hour of the Witch: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries)Author: Chris BohjalianPublisher: VintagePublication Date: Jul 1905Number of Pages: 496 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

FINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS PRIZE FOR NONFICTION ?ONE OF TIME'S 100 MUST-READ BOOKS OF THE YEAR ?ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S CRITICS' PICKS ?ONE OF THE BOSTON GLOBE? 55 BOOKS WE LOVED THIS...

A collection of essays by fifteen philosophers presenting a thoughtful, introductory guide to choosing a philosophy for living an examined and meaningful life. A VINTAGE ORIGINAL Socrates famously...

Originally published in hardcover: New York: Pantheon, c2010.Author: Charles YuPublisher: VintagePublication Date: June 28, 2011Number of Pages: 256 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Attempting to demythologize the process of dying, Nuland explores how we shall die, each of us in a way that will be unique. Through particular stories of dying--of patients, and of his own...

Author: Sherwin B. NulandPublisher: VintagePublication Date: May 26, 1998Number of Pages: 432 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0679781404ISBN-13: 9780679781400

Lorrie Moore?s first novel since A Gate at the Stairs?a daring, meditative exploration of love and death, passion and grief, and what it means to be haunted by the past, both by history and the human...

National Bestseller Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary To compose his stunning documentary film I Am Not Your Negro, acclaimed filmmaker Raoul Peck mined James Baldwin's published...

On seventeen occasions, Maggie O'Farrell has stared death in the face--and lived to tell the tale. In this astonishing memoir, she shares the near-death experiences that have punctuated and defined...

A collection of essays offers a humorous look at the ups and downs of being a woman of a certain age, discussing the tribulations of maintenance and trying to stop the clock, menopause, and empty...

A humorous collection of personal essays discusses the author's career in journalism, divorce, a long-anticipated inheritance with unanticipated results, and the evolution of her relationship with...

A stunning edition of James Baldwin's timeless novel, with a new introduction by bestselling novelist Brit Bennett From one of our greatest writers, James Baldwin's If Beale Street Could Talk is a...

The poet and classicist offers a new translation of the poetry of Sappho, presenting all the extant fragments in both English and the Greek, as well as furnishing an introduction to Sappho's life and...

No writer has rendered our boundariless, post-colonial world more acutely or prophetically than V. S. Naipaul, or given its upheavals such a hauntingly human face. A perfect case in point is this...

A haunting, virtuosic debut novel about two young men who fall in love during World War I ? ?Dazzling and wrenching, witty and wildly romantic, with echoes of Brideshead Revisited and Atonement.?...

National Best Seller From the best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize winner, a powerful nonfiction debut--an "honest, engaging, and very moving account of a writer searching for herself in words."...