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A Finalist for the 2022 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction One of NPR's Books We Love in 2022 - Named a Best Book of the Year: The New Yorker, Oprah Daily, Kirkus, Chicago Public Library, and Publishers...

Democracy is no longer writing the rules for capitalism; instead it is the other way around. With his deep insight and wide learning, Kuttner is among our best guides for understanding how we reached...

A fascinating look at the key components of romantic love--sex, idealization, aggression, self-pity, guilt, and commitment--argues that romance does not diminish in a long-term relationship,...

A taut historical thriller for fans of The Queen?s Gambit and James Bond. December 1803: A French invasion fleet is poised to cross the Channel and storm the beaches of southern England. A member of...

Cascade: StoriesAuthor: Craig DavidsonPublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublication Date: Oct 26, 2021Number of Pages: 256 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0393866904ISBN-13:...

An artful reconstruction of seventeenth-century Paris with riveting storytelling. ùThe New Yorker In the late 1600s, Louis XIV assigns Nicolas de la Reynie to bring order to Paris after the brutal...

Civilization and Its DiscontentsAuthor: Sigmund FreudPublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublication Date: August 09, 2010Number of Pages: 192 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

In this captivating bestseller, Korea's first paleoanthropologist offers fresh insights into humanity's dawn and evolution.Author: Sang-Hee Lee, Shin-Young YoonPublisher: W. W. Norton &...

Collected Poems: 1974Â??2004Author: Rita DovePublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublication Date: Nov 14, 2017Number of Pages: 448 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0393354938ISBN-13:...

A vivid, intimate, and inspiring exploration of how to write through persona, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning founder of an influential writing school.Author: Philip SchultzPublisher: W. W. Norton &...

In these poems, the joys and struggles of the everyday are played against the grinding politics of being human. Beginning in a hotel room in the dark of a distant city, we travel through history and...

A moving exploration of the most common but most mysterious procedure in medicine.Author: Henry Jay Przybylo MDPublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublication Date: November 20, 2018Number of Pages: 256...

Brilliant.... [Houston] takes women into grand spaces, both emotional and physical, and isolates them until there's nothing left to do but sit down and take a hard look at one's soul. --Los Angeles...

Insightful?Brings one of our finest?and most complicated?poets into view?Raw and honest. ?Los Angeles Review of Books In this transcendent memoir, grounded in tribal myth and ancestry, music and...

Love may not be original, but this funny, fervent novel is.--The New YorkerAuthor: Olivia LaingPublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublication Date: Sep 03, 2019Number of Pages: 160 pagesLanguage:...

A "must-read" (Vincent Rijmen) nuts-and-bolts explanation of cryptography from a leading expert in information security.Author: Keith MartinPublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublication Date: July 27,...

An archaeologist takes us into the ancient world of traditional crafts to uncover their deep, original histories.Author: Alexander LanglandsPublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublication Date: Jan 15,...

Offers an illuminating study of humanism that examines the work of Louis Armstrong, Sigmund Freud, Franz Kafka, Marcel Proust, and other notable philosophers, musicians, artists, humanists, and...

CIA case officer Sam Joseph is dispatched to Paris to recruit Syrian Palace official Mariam Haddad. The two fall into a forbidden relationship, which supercharges Haddad?s recruitment and creates...

A lively exploration of animal behavior in all its glorious complexity, whether in tiny wasps, lumbering elephants, or ourselves.Author: Marlene ZukPublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublication Date:...

A provocative and urgent analysis of the U.S.-China rivalry. It has become conventional wisdom that America and China are running a "superpower marathon" that may last a century. Yet Hal Brands and...

How the brain helps us to understand and navigate space--and why, sometimes, it doesn't work the way it should.Author: Christopher KempPublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublication Date: Jun 13,...

Sisters separated by war forge new identities as they are forced to choose between family, nation, and their own independence.Author: Zhuqing LiPublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublication Date: Jul...

In 1871, five young girls were sent by the Japanese government to the United States. Their mission: learn Western ways and return to help nurture a new generation of enlightened men to lead Japan...

Entertaining?arlson shifts deftly among sombre, macabre, and playful stories and shows how the death-tourism industry reveals more than amusing trivia. ?he New Yorker In Dead Presidents, public radio...

Colonial District Officer Simon Pilkings and his protege, Olunde, whose medical training in England Pilkings arranged, clash over Pilkings' determination to interfere with Olunde's father's ritual...

Death By Black Hole: And Other Cosmic QuandariesAuthor: Neil Degrasse TysonPublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublication Date: Sep 02, 2014Number of Pages: 384 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, beloved writer Pam Houston learns what it means to care for a piece of land and the creatures on it. Elk calves and bluebirds mark the changing...

Unique among survival books . . . stunning . . . enthralling.Survivalchilling, reading. Denver Post"Author: Laurence GonzalesPublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublication Date: January 10, 2017Number...

Desolation Island (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)Author: Patrick O'BrianPublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublication Date: Nov 16, 2021Number of Pages: 320 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...