Acclaimed engineer and historian Henry Petroski explores our core infrastructure from both historical and contemporary perspectives, explaining how essential their maintenance is to America's economic
The award-winning author of I Had Brain Surgery, What's Your Excuse? traces her decision to have a child after years of waiting, sharing the story of how she pursued medical treatments to conceive bef
Traces the more than 150-year legal, political and moral campaign for equality that led to Harry Truman's 1948 desegregation of the U.S. military, documenting the contributions of black troops since t
Gloria Steinem was quoted in 2015 (the New Yorker) as saying the National Women's Conference in 1977 "may take the prize as the most important event nobody knows about." After the United Nations estab
Set in depleted, post-recession suburbia, with its endlessly interlocking cul-de-sacs, mega-parking lots and big box stores, The Infinite Tides tells the story of star astronaut Keith Corcoran's retur
A psychological profile of the revered photographer draws on revelatory materials from her work and interviews with her therapist to interpret Arbus's life through four central mysteries including her
From the highly praised author of The Last Days of Old Beijing, a brilliant portrait of China today and a memoir of coming of age in a country in transition. In 1995, at the age of twenty-three, Micha
Celebrated historian Diana Preston presents betrayals, escapes, and survival at sea in her account of the mutiny of the Bounty and the flight of convicts from the Australian penal colony.The story of
A tale of lust, greed, and danger set in seventeenth-century Venice, The Pindar Diamond is a gripping and superbly told historical novel. In a small town on the Italian coast, a mysterious woman wash
“A cautionary tale and a great read … Those of us who were around back in the day will be ruefully reminded of those bygone times. And those who weren’t will be scratching their hea
This remarkable history of late-seventeenth- and early-eighteenth-century France introduces the age when comfort became a new ideal. Home life, formerly characterized by stiff formality, was revoluti
While researching the story of a child from Regency England who painted an exquisite album of watercolors, novelist Julie Myerson is haunted by lost potential. Mary Yelloly, the young artist, died at
Meet the Patel-JonesesBabo, Sian, Mayuri, and Beanin their little house with orange and black gates next door to the Punjab Women’s Association in Madras. Babo grew up here, but he
In Odessa, Ukraine, Daria, a whip-smart engineer, spends her days underemployed as a secretarya job she was lucky to get in this rotten economy. She spends her evenings moonlighting as an inter
"In Runaway Dream, Louis P. Masur dissects the making of the albumand the legacy it has left behind with the meticulous eye of a scholar and the unabashed affection of a true fan." —Associated PressTo
Four centuries ago, Henry Hudson discovered the majestic river that now bears his name. Douglas Hunter’s Half Moon is the first book-length history of the 1609 adventure that would ultimately r
Meet Karl Floor: friendless, orphaned, melancholy, living with his loudmouth stepfather and sleepwalking through his job as a high schoolmath teacher. Karl returns home one day to discover his house
Buenos Aires, 1976. In the heat of summer, the Ferrero family escapes to the lush expanse of Tigre. Osvaldo, a distinguished middle-aged doctor, and his wife Yolanda gather with their daughters, sensi
