Male literary friendships are the stuff of legend, but what about the friendships of women writers? A Secret Sisterhood, drawing on letters and diaries, some never published before, brings to light a
“Both a pleasure and a revelation.”—Daniel Okrent, author of Nine Innings In 1968, two astounding pitchers would dominate the game as never before. One was black, the other white. Th
From the beloved host of PBS Kids’ Dinosaur Train, an easy-to-use guide for parents, teachers, and others looking to foster a strong connection between children and nature, complete with engaging acti
How an American teenager became the youngest person ever to build a working nuclear fusion reactor By the age of nine, Taylor Wilson had mastered the science of rocket propulsion. At eleven, his
As a journalist and life-long deli obsessive, David Sax was understandably alarmed by the state of Jewish delicatessen. A cuisine that had once thrived as the very center of Jewish life had become end
A wake-up call for a national crisis in parenting--and a deeply helpful book for those who want to see their own behaviors as parents with the greatest possible clarity. Harvard psychologist RichardWe
We treat disease as our enemy. Germs and infections are things we battle. But what if we’ve been giving them a bum rap? From the earliest days of life on earth, disease has evolved alongside us
A latest annual edition of short works by promising literary newcomers includes pieces selected from such prestigious writing programs and workshops as the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Sewanee, and Bread L
In The Way of the Guerrilla, Levinson guides both new and seasoned business owners into the next century. He prepares them for the inevitable changes and helps ensure their continued business and pers
This bestseller covers a single momentous year during Nin’s life in Paris, when she met Henry Miller and his wife, June. “Closer to what many sexually adventuresome women experience than
The riveting story of the American scientists, tinkerers, and nerds who solved one of the biggest puzzles of World War II―and developed one of the most powerful weapons of the war12 Seconds of Silence
“An engrossing story of audacious entrepreneurism and big-industry disruption, [this] is a tale for our times.” —Charles Duhigg, author of Smarter Faster Better This is the rema
From the moment Bob Langmuir, a down-and-out rare book dealer, spies some intriguing photographs in the archive of a midcentury Times Square freak show, he knows he's on to something. It turns out he'
Why do people dodge responsibility when things fall apart? Why the parade of public figures unable to own up when they screw up? Why the endless marital quarrels over who is right? Why can we see hypo
Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, taking lives and livelihoods and displacing thousands. Because the hurricane struck at the beginning of the school year, the city’s children were among
Part history, part autobiography, WALKING SINCE DAYBREAK tells the tragic story of the Baltic nations before, during, and after World War II. Personal stories of the survival or destruction of Modris
Each facsimile page of the original manuscript is accompanied here by a typeset transcript on the facing page. This book shows how the original, which was much longer than the first published version
A Brautigan omnibus, reissued in paperback in celebration of its twentieth anniversary, this one-volume edition includes three contemporary classics that embody the spirit of the 1960s.
The Nine Tailors is Dorothy L. Sayers's finest mystery, featuring Lord Peter Whimsey, and a classic of the genre. ? The nine tellerstrokes from the belfry of an ancient country church toll out the dea
The untold story of an Israeli spy’s epic journey to bring the notorious Butcher of Latvia to justice―a case that altered the fates of all ex-Nazis.Before World War II, Herbert Cukurs was a famous fig
“Gripping . . . A valuable recounting of a lurid and little-known episode in American history.”—Washington Post “Talty succeeds in vividly portraying Italian-American mo
In the past decade, we’veheard a lotabout the innate differences between males and females, so we’ve come to accept that boys can’t focus inthe classroom and girls
The remarkable Margaret Hardenbroeck Philipse arrived in New Amsterdam from Holland in 1659, a brash and ambitious twenty-two-year-old bent on making her way in the New World. She promptly built an e
Two experts from the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis explain how to assess everday health hazards, with tips on evaluating warnings and data in order to make informed decisions about risks.
From the dynamic head of the Anti-Defamation League, a provocative and impassioned argument about the looming risk of genocide in the United States, informed by the non-profit’s decades of research an
The cutting-edge, scientifically accurate, definitive book on the most popular behavioral issues that cats faceIn the United States, one of the predominant reasons that owners abandon or give up their
From “one of the most brilliant young psychologists of her generation” (Paul Bloom), a groundbreaking examination of how speech causes some of our deepest social divides―and how it can help us overcom
The wildly entertaining narrative of the outrageous 1981 Dodgers from the award-winning author of Dynastic, Fantastic, Bombastic and The Baseball CodesIn the Halberstam tradition of capturing a season
From the bawdy to the sublime, the best writing on language for word lovers, grammar mavens, and armchair linguists. A brilliant, witty, and engaging compendium on the uses and abuses of the English
On an April day in 1953, renowned American ornithologist, author, and illustrator Roger Tory Peterson met his British friend James Fisher, an authority on seabirds, in Newfoundland. There they began
A vivid account of the largest act of civil disobedience in US history, in Richard Nixon’s WashingtonThey surged into Washington by the tens of thousands in the spring of 1971. Fiery radicals, flower
