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From the author of the internationally-acclaimed best-selling text The Developing Mind, and esteemed leader and educator in the field of...

"Backgrounds and Contexts" is arranged under three headings. "Composition and Publication History" combines modern scholarship with contemporary...

"Fiasco" is the shocking story of one man's education in the jungles of Wall Street. As a young derivatives salesman at Morgan Stanley,...

This collection represents the best work of the Nobel Prize-winning Polish poet, Wislawa Szymborska. Including an introduction aby Czeslaw...

Jan Swafford's colorful biography first unfolds in Ives's Connecticut hometown of Danbury, then follows Ives to Yale and on to his years...

Michael Lewis was fresh out of Princeton and the London School of Economics when he landed a job at Salomon Brothers, one of Wall Street...

Theories about how our ancestors lived - and why we should emulate them - are often based on pseudoscience and speculation rather than actual...

In Mind Fixers, "the preeminent historian of neuroscience" (Science magazine) Anne Harrington explores psychiatry's repeatedly frustrated...

"Astonishing... [Satyamurti's Mahabharata] brings [the] past alive... As though it were a novel in finely crafted verse."-Vinay Dharwadker

This Norton Critical Edition includes: Burton Raffel's masterful translation ("Indeed, Raffel seems to have created a Cervantine English"...

When we are first born, before we can speak or use language to express ourselves, we use our physical sensations, our body sense, to guide...

Hailed as the definitive book on Uber and Silicon Valley, Super Pumped is an epic story of ambition and deception, obscene wealth, and bad...

Patti Smith - poet, songwriter, performer. Collected here are selections from Smith's writings over the decade in which she made a lasting...

In this pioneering book, neuroscientist John T. Cacioppo unveils his groundbreaking research on the startling effects of loneliness: a sense...

An intrepid investigation into nature's restorative benefits by a prize-winning author.

From the foreword to the selected bibliography this is the most up-to-date and comprehensive documentary source for the study of Moby-Dick.

A masterpiece of science reporting that tracks the animal origins of emerging human diseases. Quammen takes the reader along on this astonishing...

Based on the 1848 edition text, the Brontes' gifted biographer provides a superlative Norton Critical Edition of Charlotte Bronte's classic...

Through what Joyce described as their "style of scrupulous meanness," the stories present a direct, sometimes searing view of Dublin in...

Four months after Cummings's death in September 1962, his widow, the photographer Marion Morehouse, collected the typescripts of 29 new...

A New York Times technology correspondent presents the dramatic rise and fall of Uber, set against the rapid upheaval in Silicon Valley...

Tender Branson--last surviving member of the Creedish Death Cult--is dictating his life story into the recorder of Flight 2039, cruising...

"An engrossing tale of obsession, adventure and scientific reasoning." -Betty Ann Kevles, Los Angeles Times

The strange, unlikely story of Silicon Valley is told through the life of one of it's greatest achievers--Jim Clark, who founded Silicon...

This Norton Critical Edition includes: The 1674 text of Paradise Lost, with emendations and adoptions from the first edition and from the...

In her new translation of Kafkas masterpiece, Susan Bernofsky strives to capture both the humor and the humanity in this macabre tale, underscoring...

"This fine version, with David Cronenberg's inspired introduction and the new translator's beguiling afterword, is, I suspect, the most...

Award-winning historian Michael Wallis has spent several years recreating the rich, anecdotal saga of "Billy the Kid" (1859-1881), a deeply...

Reluctantly leaving behind Pop Tarts and pop culture to battle flying rats, hissing cobras, forest fires, and decomposing corpses, Faith...

Now with a new introduction on how this book can help readers overcome any of life's obstacles, Deep Survival motivates and enlightens.

A harrowing exploration of the collapse of American diplomacy and the abdication of global leadership.

A unique view of the Khrushchev period as seen żeby two prominent Soviet dissidents.

An illustrated guide to woodworking tools and how to use them. It describes in detail the actions of the tools basic to good woodworking....

A classic text now in a new edition, George Felton s Advertising: Concept and Copy is an innovative approach to advertising creativity....

The story of how one young man rose from his impoverished childhood with a crack-addicted mother, through his discovery of American Football...

"Like a favorite recipe, a posy is meant to be savored and shared. Try it yourself, and... Welcome a bit of floral enchantment into your...

This wide-ranging survey looks at the history of mathematics from the invention of numbers and language, through the realms of arithmetic,...

From creamy and mild to sharp and sliceable, 60 dairy-free and delicious cheeses to make at home.

In 1939, twenty-nine-year-old Nicholas Winton saved the lives of almost 700 children trapped in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia--a story that...

The era of autonomous weapons has arrived. Today around the globe, at least thirty nations have weapons that can search for and destroy...

From the Great Depression to the Second World War, and from post-war recovery to the present day, distinguished journalist Nicholas Wapshott...

An unflinching look at the aspiring city-builders of our smart, mobile, connected future.

Recipes and methods for grilling-the French way.

In?The End of Faith?, Sam Harris delivers a startling analysis of the clash between reason and religion in the modern world. He offers a...

Translated aby Charles Martin.

2500 years ago, the women of Athens slaved at home, virtual prisoners of their husbands, expected to provide the cloth and clothing for...

A novel of activism and natural-world power presents interlocking fables about nine remarkable strangers who are summoned in different ways...

In this revised edition, Paul Ekman, a renowned expert in emotions research and nonverbal communication, adds a new chapter to present his...

Identity, Erikson writes, is an unfathomable as it is all-pervasive. It deals with a process that is located both in the core of the individual...

New York Times Bestseller - Notable Book of the Year - Editors' Choice Selection One of Bill Gates' "Amazing Books" of the YearOne of Publishers...

Easy, Fresh Recipes to Make Ahead or Enjoy Right Now from I Heart Umami Going Paleo or low-carb but want a twist$284 Asian Paleo will satisfy...

James Lovelock proposes that all living species are components of that organism, as cells are components of the human body.

Cathartic, affirming, and steeped in the empathy and precise observations of character for which Dubus is celebrated, Gone So Long explores...

Based on remarkable research, eighteen years after the publication of "The Ants", this new volume expands our knowledge of social insects...

"The world's greatest naturalist" (Jeffrey Sachs) proposes a plan to save Earth's imperiled biosphere. Edward O. Wilson proposes that the...

Charles Rosen says of sonata form: "[It] is not a definite form like a minuet, a da capo aria, or a French overture; it is, like the fugue,...

This revised Norton Critical Edition is based on the first edition text (dated 1818, but likely issued in late 1817). The editor has spelled...

In the Second Edition, LaFeber has revised nearly every chapter in the book. In the early chapters, there is more attention to the origins...

Delicious teas to keep you hydrated and feeling young.

When Daniel Leader opened his bakery, Bread Alone, twenty years ago, he was determined to duplicate the whole-grain and sourdough breads...

Michael Reynolds was the supreme biographer of Ernest Hemingway. HBO s film concentrates on Hemingway s years with his third wife, the adventurous...

US foreign policy is undergoing a dire transformation, forever changing America's place in the world. Institutions of diplomacy and development...

"One of the best baseball-and management-books out... Deserves a place in the Baseball Hall of Fame."-Forbes

In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins...

The real story of the crash began in bizarre feeder markets where the sun doesn't shine and the SEC doesn't dare, or bother, to tread: the...

They typically have a wide array of symptoms, often classified under different combinations of comorbidity, which can make assessment and...

David Small, the prize-winning children's author, depicts a childhood from hell in this searing yet redemptive graphic memoir. One day Small...

Faced with an escalating arms race, rising crime and terrorism, environmental deterioration, and long-term economic decline, people have...

A day-by-day guide to clean, raw eating. This easy-to-follow plan includes 75 recipes, shopping lists and other ideas and tips.

In the twentieth century, however, the Enlightenment has often been judged harshly for its apparently simplistic optimism. Now a master...

For this new edition, the text has been reset in a larger typeface for ease of reading. "Backgrounds" helps readers understand Eliot s ideas...

The heart of man's dilemma, according to Rollo May, is the failure to understand the real meaning of love and will, their source and interrelation....

Written with undergraduate readers in mind, these essays cover the central issues raised in today's cinema courses and provide students...

In a landmark work of deep scholarship and insight, Eric Foner gives us a life of Lincoln as it intertwined with slavery, the defining issue...

A masterclass in contemporary art by one of the pre-eminent painters of our time.

It is time to worry again - our lifestyle choices do impact our genetic code and that of our children (and even grandchildren). Epigenetic...

Flash Boys is about a small group of Wall Street guys who figure out that the U.S. Stock market has been rigged for the benefit of insiders...

A commentary of the meetings that took place in the White House during the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Covers fundamentals using real-world examples and data while avoiding advanced-level mathematics.

Confined to a private edition for decades, a forthcoming Cummings volume sheds further light on his prodigious vision and imagination.

The young man at the center of this extraordinary and moving story will one day be among the most highly paid athletes in the National Football...

Seven minutes past midnight on 9 March 1945, nearly 300 American B-29s thundered into the skies over Tokyo. Their payloads of incendiaries...

"How are you feeling today?" We may think of emotions as universal responses, felt inside, but in Between Us, acclaimed psychologist Batja...

Every day, we face the same questions: How do I make the right decision$1112 How can I work more efficiently$1113 And, on a more personal...

She discusses the driving forces in the neuroses, the different stages of psychoanalytic understanding, the patient's and the analyst's...

In this brilliant portrayal of the world's most famous composer, Lewis Lockwood interweaves his discussion of Beethoven's life and works...

Award-winning graphic novelist Peter Kuper presents a mesmerising interpretation of fourteen iconic Kafka short stories.

The year is 1348. The Black Death has begun to ravage Europe. Ten young Florentines seven women and three men escape the plague-infested...

When it comes to artificial intelligence, we either hear of a paradise on earth or of our imminent extinction. It's time we stand face-to-digital-face...

Green drinks gone boozy.

"[The] biography that needed to be written, an attempt to set the record straight and clear the air."-The New York Times Book Review

This is the sourcebook for one of the most significant movements in twentieth-century psychology.

"Suicide, " writes the noted English poet and critic A. Alvarez, "has permeated Western culture like a dye that cannot be washed out." Although...

When Carl Jung embarked on the extended self-exploration he called his 'confrontation with the unconscious', the heart of it was "The Red...

A monumental novel about reimagining our place in the living world, by one of our most prodigiously talented novelists (The New York Times...

This revised "Critical Edition" represents a complete recasting of the 1968 edition; the first English edition (Blackwood's Magazine, 1900)...

Before the National Book Award-winning Just Kids, Patti Smith addressed the life and passing of her intimate friend, photographer Robert...

"The tragedy of life is not death but what dies inside us while we live." -Excerpt from Human Options

Walter Blanco's acclaimed translation of The Histories is now available in its entirety in this revised and expanded Norton Critical Edition....

The Bread Bible gives bread bakers 150 of the meticulous, foolproof recipes that are Rose Levy Beranbaum's trademark. Her knowledge of the...

Edith Hamilton buoyantly captures the spirit and achievements of the Greek civilization for our modern world.

The Mahabharata, originally composed some two thousand years ago, tells the story of a royal dynasty, descended from gods, whose feud over...

The cheap credit that rolled across the planet between 2002 and 2008 was more than a financial phenomenon: it was temptation, offering societies...

Mary Norris, The New Yorker's Comma Queen and best-selling author of Between You & Me, has had a lifelong love affair with words. In Greek...

Unless you aspire to perfection--to be, in short, a Cordon Bleu--you do not have to be born with a chef's hat on your head to become a good...

Glenn Gould was a child prodigy and a musical genius. He was also plagued aby lifelong depression, terrified of playing before live audiences...

All about baseball. "The most riveting sports book of the year" }The Observer{

The New York Times bestseller: 'You gotta read this. It is the most exciting book about Pluto you will ever read in your life.'-Jon Stewart...

In this book Professor Woolley, one of the world's foremost archaeologists, shows quite clearly that when Egyptian civilization began the...

Charles Wheelan's wonderfully whimsical, best-selling Naked series tackles the weird, surprisingly colorful world of money and banking.

The modernist masterpiece that is Arthur Rimbaud s Illuminations has been given new life with the publication of John Ashbery s dazzling...

The life of Robert E. Lee is a story of triumph - triumph in clearing his family name, triumph in marrying properly, triumph over the mighty...

In 1977, Feynman and his sidekick fellow drummer and geography enthusiast Ralph Leighton set out to make arrangements to visit Tuva, doing...

Tiki cocktails are a tasty mid-twentieth-century American classic, but their popularity suffered when syrupy drink mixes hit the scene....

The Artful Edit explores the many-faceted and often misunderstood or simply overlooked art of editing. The book brims with examples, quotes,...

E.E. Cummings' erotic poems and drawings are gathered here for the first time in a single volume. Many years ago the prodigious and famously...

This provocative history reveals how guns - not abortion, race or religion - are at the heart of America's cultural divide. In his examination...

A provocative and urgent analysis of the US-China rivalry.

Is Google making us stupid? When Nicholas Carr posed that question, in a celebrated Atlantic Monthly cover story, he tapped into a well...

Based on the 1854 fifth edition, Elizabeth Gaskell's (1810-1865) first novel is accompanied here żeby explanatory annotations. 'Contexts'...