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World-renowned Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt explores the playwright's insight into bad (and often mad) rulers.Author: Stephen GreenblattPublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublication Date:...

From the best-selling, award-winning author of Landmarks and The Old Ways, a haunting voyage into the planet's past and future.Author: Robert MacfarlanePublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublication...

Finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in History Finalist for the 2022 Lincoln Prize Winner of the 2022 John Nau Book Prize in American Civil War Era History One of NPR's Best Books of 2021 and a New...

A freewheeling, sharp-shooting indictment of a tech-besotted culture. With razor wit, Nicholas Carr cuts through Silicon Valley?s unsettlingly cheery vision of the technological future to ask a hard...

A New York Times Editors' Choice A Science Friday Best Science Book to Read This Summer A myth-busting voyage into the female body. A camera obscura reflects the world back but dimmer and inverted...

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by Literary Hub A leading microbiologist tackles the scientific and sociopolitical impact of viruses in twelve striking essays.Author: Joseph OsmundsonPublisher:...

Often considered Jean Rhys's most autobiographical novel, this masterful and moving work follows a chorus girl, Anna, who struggles to adjust to cold and inhospitable England after a childhood in the...

A harrowing exploration of the collapse of American diplomacy and the abdication of global leadership, by the winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in Public Service.Author: Ronan FarrowPublisher: W. W...

Beautifully written and deeply researched, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the...

Seven essays celebrating the beauty of the imperfect marriage. We hear plenty about whether or not to get married, but much less about what it takes to stay married. Clich?s around marriage?ternal...

This panoramic account of 1776 chronicles the other revolutions unfolding that year across North America, far beyond the British colonies. In this unique history of 1776, Claudio Saunt looks beyond...

The New York Times best-selling sequel to "Surely You?e Joking, Mr. Feynman!" Like the "funny, brilliant, bawdy" (The New Yorker) "Surely You?e Joking, Mr. Feynman!" this book? many stories?ome...

David R. Montgomery and Anne Bikl? take us far beyond the well-worn adage to deliver a new truth: the roots of good health start on farms. What Your Food Ate marshals evidence from recent and...

One of NPR's Best Books of the Year A finalist of the for the 2022 Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime The inside story of how a courageous FBI informant helped to bring down the KKK organization...

Author: Joy HarjoPublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublication Date: Aug 25, 2020Number of Pages: 496 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0393356809ISBN-13: 9780393356809

In Whistling Vivaldi, described as a 'beautifully-written account' of the relationship between stereotypes and identity, Claude Steele offers a vivid first-person detailing of the research that...

Takes readers on a journey through the history of architectural and structural disasters, from the Parthenon to the Tower of Pisa to the Tacoma Narrows BridgeAuthor: Matthys LevyPublisher: W. W...

Traces the development of architectural structure, ranging from the nomad's simple tent to the Sears TowerAuthor: Mario SalvadoriPublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublication Date: February 17,...

Author: Richard Overy, R. J. OveryPublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublication Date: May 17, 1997Number of Pages: 416 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 039331619XISBN-13: 9780393316193

An eye-opening exploration of the psychology of eating in today's unprecedented North American pantry of abundance, access, and excess.Author: Rachel HerzPublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublication...

Beautiful and wealthy Antoinette Cosway's passionate love for an English aristocrat threatens to destroy her idyllic West Indian island existence and her very life.Author: Jean RhysPublisher: W. W...

The ?nsightful [and] even-handed?(Outside) story of a heroic animal whose existence is in danger. The wild horse, popularly known as the mustang, is so ingrained in the American imagination that even...

One of Kirkus Review's Best Nonfiction Books of 2022 A deep-time history of animals and humans in North America, by the best-selling and award-winning author of Coyote America.Author: Dan...

The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, reissued with a new afterword for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare s death."Author: Stephen GreenblattPublisher: W. W. Norton &...

Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: And Other Questions About Dead BodiesAuthor: Caitlin Doughty, Diann?? RuzPublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublication Date: Sep 22, 2020Number of Pages: 256...

The first book to focus on black women and depression, seen through the personal journey of a young black woman's descent into despair. Meri Danquah, a "working-class broke," twenty-two-year-old...

100 imagination-stretching writing exercises inspired by the idea of creative constraints, from the author of The Making of a Story. When you are facing down a blank page (or screen), a...

Leading historian Lynn Hunt rethinks why history matters in today?s global world and how it should be written. Globalization is emerging as a major economic, cultural, and political force. In Writing...

Author: Loren Fishman, Carol ArdmanPublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublication Date: May 14, 2012Number of Pages: 208 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 039334312XISBN-13: 9780393343120

Author: Loren Fishman, Ellen SaltonstallPublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublication Date: Mar 01, 2010Number of Pages: 336 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0393334856ISBN-13:...