Andrea Barrett
1996 National Book Award Winner for Fiction.More
Stephen Jay Gould
Revised & Expanded
The definitive refutation to the argument of The Bell Curve.More
Robert Darnton
Robert Darnton's work is one of the main reasons that cultural history has become an exciting study central to our understanding of the past.More
Marilyn Hacker
Here is a rich collection of work from five books by one of America's most controversial poets. Marilyn Hacker's poems have been praised for their technical virtuosity, forthright feminism, political acuity, and unabashed eroticism.More
Marilyn Hacker
Nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award.More
Kip S. Thorne, Stephen W. Hawking
Ever since Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity burst upon the world in 1915 some of the most brilliant minds of our century have sought to decipher the mysteries bequeathed by that theory, a legacy so unthinkable in some respects that even Einstein himself rejected them.More
Stephen Jay Gould
"Lively and fascinating. . . . [Gould] writes beautifully about science and the wonders of nature."—Tracy KidderMore
Barry Unsworth
Winner of the 1992 Booker Prize for Fiction: "Possibly the best novel I've read in the last decade."—David HalberstamMore
William Cronon
Awarded the 1992 Bancroft Prize and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Award for Best Nonfiction Book of 1991.More
François Rabelais, Burton Raffel
Biting and bawdy, smart and smutty, lofty and low, Gargantua and Pantagruel is fantasy on the grandest of scales, told with an unquenchable thirst for all of human experience.More
Stephen Jay Gould
"[An] extraordinary book. . . . Mr. Gould is an exceptional combination of scientist and science writer. . . . He is thus exceptionally well placed to tell these stories, and he tells them with fervor and intelligence."—James Gleick, New York Times Book ReviewMore
Dean Acheson
With deft portraits of many world figures, Dean Acheson analyzes the
processes of policy making, the necessity for decision, and the role of
power and initiative in matters of state.More