The Gowanus Canal is a 1.8-mile-long waterway connecting Upper New York Bay (the bay in between Brooklyn, Manhattan, New Jersey, and Staten Island) with the formerly industrial interior of Brooklyn. O
An illuminating in-depth study of one of the most well-known and recited of all the Buddhist texts—by the renowned modern translator. Now in paperback.The first-century classic Prajnaparamita Hridaya
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From the dazzlingly original Pulitzer Prize-winning poet hailed for her “extraordinary range and ambition” (The New York Times Book Review): a quietly potent memoir that explores coming-of-age and the
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A sweeping history of the extraordinarily rich culture and turbulent politics that defined New York City in the mid-twentieth-century and ensured its place on the world stage.When Franklin Delano Roos
From the Pulitzer and Story Prize winner: sixteen new stories—provocative, funny, disturbing, enchanting—that delve into the secret lives and desires of ordinary people, alongside retellings of myths
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STEP INTO THE FOLD.IT’S PERFECTLY SAFE. The folks in Mike Erikson's small New England town would say he's just your average, everyday guy. And that's exactly how Mike likes it. Sure, the life he's cho
Who You Think You Are is Not as Important as Who God Says You Are Many of us wrestle with the gap between our weaknesses and our dreams, between who we are and who God says we are meant to be
For more than sixteen hundred years, Nick Medea has followed and guarded the Gate that keeps the mortal realm and that of Feirie separate, seeking in vain absolution for the fatal errors he made when
Beautifully illustrated and unparalleled in scope, this is an elegant visual celebration befitting the life and work of the “prince of the piano.”Duke Ellington was the undisputed fa
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Staying Alive makes clear why our current development paradigm—implemented through enclosure, privatization, corporate piracy, marginalization, and violence against nature and women—is more accurately
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A visual history of the FIAT 500, the ultimate lifestyle car that hasremained a timeless classic and design legend.Considered to be one of the most popular models in automotive history, the FIAT 500 h
The idea of contemporary art sometimes allows us to pretend we have made a clean break with the past. InThe Perpetual Guest, poet and critic Barry Schwabsky demonstrates that any robust understanding
The idea of contemporary art sometimes allows us to pretend we have made a clean break with the past. InThe Perpetual Guest, poet and critic Barry Schwabsky demonstrates that any robust understanding
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From the best-selling author of How to Live, a spirited account of one of the twentieth century’s major intellectual movements and the revolutionary thinkers who came to shape it Paris, 1933:
The author of the highly acclaimed Overdiagnosed describes seven widespread assumptions that encourage excessive, often ineffective, and sometimes harmful medical care. You might think the bi
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Shimon Adaf and Lavie Tidhar are two of Israel’s most subversive and politically outspoken writers.Growing up on opposite sides of the Israeli spectrum – Tidhar in the north of Israel in the Zio
A spiritual sequel to The Man In The High Castle, focusing on the New Japanese Empire, from an acclaimed author and essayist.The Axis won WWII and now, in the late 1980s, the Japanese Empire
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Set in the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, a young man finds himself caught between desire and conventional morality. With a sharp, probing imagination, James Baldwin's no
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