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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...

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...

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...

A sweeping achievement from a poet whose "rhythms are as alive to the roll and tang of syllables on the tongue as they are to the circulation of blood and sap" (Rosanna Warren, Theodore Roethke...

The dramatic account of one of America?s most celebrated?and controversial?military campaigns: the Doolittle Raid. In December 1941, as American forces tallied the dead at Pearl Harbor, President...

Who?s really behind America?s appetite for foods from around the globe? This group biography from an electric new voice in food writing honors seven extraordinary women, all immigrants, who left an...

[A] thoroughly fascinating exploration of the long interplay between power and the technologies of communication. --Adam Frank, NPRAuthor: Douglas RushkoffPublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublication...

The internationally best-selling personal story of "the doctor on the front lines of the migrant crisis" (CNN).Author: Pietro Bartolo, Lidia TilottaPublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublication Date:...

Tesla's inventions transformed our world, and his visions have continued to inspire great minds for generations.Author: Richard MunsonPublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublication Date: October 15,...

?eliefs about men and women are as old as humanity itself, but Fine? funny, spiky book gives reason to hope that we?e heard Testosterone rex? last roar.??nnie Murphy Paul, New York Times Book Review...

A monumental exploration of soccer and society in our time?by its preeminent historian.Author: David GoldblattPublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublication Date: March 23, 2021Number of Pages: 576...

A jaw-dropping exploration of everything that goes wrong when we build AI systems and the movement to fix them.Author: Brian ChristianPublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublication Date: October 05,...

The newly updated workbook companion for putting the top anxiety management techniques into practice. Brimming with exercises, worksheets, tips, and tools, this complete how-to workbook companion...

A much-anticipated update to the classic personal road map, full of strategies to understand, manage, and conquer your stress. Do you feel a tightness in your chest and a racing heart anytime you...