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Shares observations about the subculture of contemporary art, in a narrative that tours such arenas as a Christie's auction and the Basel Art Fair to reveal how art has become an entertainment venue,...

One of Literary Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2022 A "brilliant London historian" (BBC Radio) tells the story of Britain as never before--through its abandoned villages and towns.Author: Matthew...

Author: Keith HoustonPublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublication Date: Oct 20, 2014Number of Pages: 352 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0393349721ISBN-13: 9780393349726

A collection of poems in which Joy Harjo explores themes of female despair, awakening, power, and love.Author: Joy HarjoPublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublication Date: December 17, 2008Number of...

Breathtaking tales of climbers and hunters, runners and racers, winners and losers by the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter. New York Times reporter John Branch?s riveting, humane pieces about ordinary...

A war correspondent? masterful blow-by-blow account of the Battle of Khe Sanh, reissued with a new preface by Mark Bowden for the battle? 50th anniversary. The six-month siege of Khe Sanh in 1968 was...

A people's history of the Bay Area... McClelland carefully layers each dot, each narrative, and with it, a little window into the Bay Area widens until you step back and see it: the full picture. --...

A poetic translation of the classic Arthurian story is an edition in alliterative language and rhyme of the epic confrontation between a young Round Table hero and a green-clad stranger who compels...

The best-selling author of Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers now trains her considerable wit and curiosity on the human soul. What happens when we die? Does the light just go out and that's...

Author: Ian W. TollPublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublication Date: Mar 01, 2008Number of Pages: 592 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 039333032XISBN-13: 9780393330328

Morbid and illuminating (Entertainment Weekly) a young mortician goes behind the scenes of her curious profession."Author: Caitlin DoughtyPublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublication Date: September...

A delightful novel...impossible to resist.?Barbara Kingsolver, Los Angeles Times Book Review Sofia and her fated daughters, Fe, Esperanza, Caridad, and la Loca, endure hardship and enjoy love in the...

Renowned reggae historian Roger Steffens's riveting oral history of Bob Marley's life draws on four decades of intimate interviews with band members, family, lovers, and confidants--many speaking...

Latin America's great poet rendered into English by the world's most celebrated translator of Spanish-language literature.Author: Juana In?s de la CruzPublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublication...

Deliciously bizarre and utterly American . . . a Coen brothers movie come to life. . . . I couldn't put it down.-- Caitlin Doughty, best-selling author of Smoke Gets in Your EyesAuthor: Jessica...

The astrophysicist director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York discusses the future of space travel and the importance of its exploration for the United States' economy, security, and morale...

Author: David QuammenPublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublication Date: Sep 09, 2013Number of Pages: 592 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0393346617ISBN-13: 9780393346619

One of the funniest and most unusual books of the year....Gross, educational, and unexpectedly sidesplitting.--Entertainment Weekly Stiff is an oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the...

A brilliant, sweeping history of the contemporary women's movement told through the lives and works of the literary women who shaped it. Forty years after their first groundbreaking work of feminist...

The author recounts in graphic novel format his troubled childhood with a radiologist father who subjected him to repeated x-rays and a withholding and tormented mother, an environment he fled at the...

Stories Of GodAuthor: Rainer Maria Rilke, Herter Norton, M. D. (Mary Dows)Publisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublication Date: Apr 17, 1992Number of Pages: 139 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

The inspiration for Alfred Hitchcock s classic 1951 film, the novel that established Patricia Highsmith as a master of noir fiction."Author: Patricia Highsmith, Paula HawkinsPublisher: W. W. Norton &...

An insightful exploration of political polling and a bold defense of its crucial role in a modern democracy.Author: G. Elliott MorrisPublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublication Date: Jul 11,...

?A pleasure to read. . . . Alter has given fresh life to some of the most beloved . . . books in our heritage.??Philadelphia Inquirer The Song of Songs; Ruth; Esther; Jonah; and Daniel offer readers...

Backed by billions in venture capital dollars and led by Travis Kalanick, a brash and ambitious founder, Uber promised to revolutionize the way we move people and goods through the world. But in June...

The outrageous exploits of one of this century's greatest scientific minds and a legendary American original.Author: Richard P. FeynmanPublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublication Date: February 06,...

Named One of the Most Anticipated Books of 2022 by Kirkus and Literary Hub The tech elite have a plan to survive the apocalypse: they want to leave us all behind.Author: Douglas RushkoffPublisher: W...

Brilliantly satiric and savagely funny, Survivor is a wild amphetamine ride through the vagaries of fame and the nature of belief. ?San Francisco Chronicle Tender Branson?last surviving member of the...

We're often told that swearing is outrageous or even offensive, that it's a sign of a stunted vocabulary or a limited intellect. Dictionaries have traditionally omitted it and parents forbid it. But...

Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction: Blending domestic thriller and psychological horror, this compelling page-turner follows a mother fleeing her estranged husband. Lydia MilletÆs...