A look at the increasing political polarization of America that locates its roots in, among other things, our increasing physical isolation from those with different views.
Francoise Gilot was a young painter in Pasis when she first met Picasso - he was sixty-two and she was twenty-one. During the following ten years they were lovers, worked closely together and she...
After World War II, most scientists in Germany maintained that they had been apolitical or actively resisted the Nazi regime, but the true story is much more complicated. In Serving the Reich,...
Ihre beste Freundin wird des Mordes an einer der schönsten Frauen der Welt verdächtigt und Eve Dallas, Lieutenant bei der New Yorker Polizei, nimmt die Ermittlungen auf. Gemeinsam mit ihrem...
Friedrich A. Hayek is regarded as one of the preeminent social theorists of the twentieth century as much for his work outside of economics as for his work within it. During a career spanning...
Witches occupy a clear place in contemporary imagination. We can see them, shadowy, in the corners of the past: mad, glamorous, difficult, strange. They haunt the footnotes of history - from...
From New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes incredible stories of science, history, language, and music, as told aby our own DNA. In The Disappearing Spoon, bestselling author Sam Kean...
For a century and a half, the artists and intellectuals of Europe have scorned the bourgeoisie. And for a millennium and a half, the philosophers and theologians of Europe have scorned the...
Beards--they're all the rage these days. Take a look around: from hip urbanites to rustic outdoorsmen, well-groomed metrosexuals to post-season hockey players, facial hair is everywhere. The...
No matter if you win or lose, today only comes once! The villagers have chosen handsome young calligrapher Seishuu Handa to compete in their famously competitive sports-festival relay race! While...
A gripping and heartrending recollection of the harrowing brink-of-death experience that propelled survivor Roberto Canessa to become one of the world's leading paediatric cardiologists.
One has conquered a city. The other covets an entire nation. Haern is the King's Watcher, protector against thieves and nobles who would fill the night with blood. Yet hundreds of miles away,...
From the New York Times bestselling authors of America's First Daughter comes the epic story of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton - a revolutionary woman who, like her new nation, struggled to define...
I Know Their Crimes. Star prosecutor Kristen Mayhew has a dangerous secret admirer. He seems to know her every thought, her every move. He sends her letters. And he kills the criminals she herself...
Hailed as "a tremendous novel, full of wisdom and pain" aby the Los Angeles Times, Youngblood Hawke is Pulitzer Prize winner Herman Wouk's classic portrait of a rising literary star in...
How far will you go to achieve a dream? That's the question a celebrated coach poses to Katie and Eric Knox after he sees their daughter Devon, a gymnastics prodigy and Olympic hopeful,...
From Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and culture critic Christina Binkley comes an updated revision of her New York Times bestelling account of sex, drugs, and the rise of Las Vegas. With a new...
Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. The earth has been invaded by a species that takes over the minds of their human hosts while leaving their bodies intact, and most of humanity has succumbed....
The paths of two women from different walks of life intersect amid counterculture of the 1960s in this haunting and provocative novel from the National Book Award-winning author of The Friend
In this 365-Day devotional, Joyce Meyer, #1 New York Times bestselling author, helps readers set aside time with God to grow ever closer in their faith
In this manga adaptation of the farcical fantasy light novels, a hapless young lad tries to find love and fortune alike in the gigantic, monster-ridden dungeons beneath the city of Orario.