Out of the pungent soil and wind-struck orchards of Provence, this enchanting love story will make you believe, if you ever doubted it, in the power of love and the lengths people will go to keep it alive.
An essential companion for every art and museum lover, whether on the road or from your armchair.
"The Black Notebooks is the most profound document I have read on racism in America today. . . . [It] is not just one of the best books on race I have ever read but just simply one of the best books I have ever read."-Sapphire
This is the first major book to present a comprehensive overview of the current state of extinction studies. At the end of the journey, Raup has put forward the best science of the day to answer the question posed by the title: Bad genes or bad luck?
"Flayhart delivers a gripping chronicle of mishap and mayhem . . . filled with danger and heroism and rich with detail."-Sea Power
"A man is the sum of his misfortunes." -William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
From the author of Audition, a wickedly satirical and wildly funny tale of an intergenerational battle of the sexes.
"Alice Albinia is the most extraordinary traveler of her generation... A journey of astonishing confidence and courage."-Rory Stewart
Clarifies the reasons why the first attempt to secure meaningful civil liberties occurred in the World War I era.
Technology insider George Gilder delivers a "compelling" (Wired) look under the hood at a genius-fueled startup.
The antidote to fad diets: here is the original bestseller that revolutionized the way we think about food.
Tackles the pressing issue of international security and its ramifications on the health of our planet.
As a stamp-collecting boy always fascinated by remote places, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman was particularly taken by the diamond-shaped stamps from a place called Tannu Tuva deep within Outer Mongolia. He hoped, someday, to travel there.
Reprint. Originally published: New York: Norton, 1967.
Veteran angler Rich Giessuebel provides a wealth of detailed advice to help you zero in on Lake Ontario's trophy fish.
A comprehensive collection of 220 works from antiquity to the present.
The question of whether our ideas are our own or our employer's set off the greatest toy war of our time.
This sterling biography of Germany's greatest writer presents Johann Wolfgang von Goethe as if we are seeing him for the first time.
From the beet fields of North Dakota to the National Forest campgrounds of California to Amazon's CamperForce program in Texas, employers have discovered a new, low-cost labor pool, made up largely of transient older Americans. Finding that social security comes up short, often underwater on mortgages, these invisible casualties of the Great Recession have taken to the road by the tens of thousands in late-model RVs, travel trailers, and vans, forming a growing community of nomads: migrant laborers who call themselves "workampers."On frequently traveled routes between seasonal jobs, Jessica Bruder meets people from all walks of life: a former professor, a McDonald's vice president, a minister, a college administrator, and a motorcycle cop, among many others-including her irrepressible protagonist, a onetime cocktail waitress, Home Depot clerk, and general contractor named Linda May.In a secondhand vehicle she christens "Van Halen," Bruder hits the road to get to know her subjects more intimately. Accompanying Linda May and others from campground toilet cleaning to warehouse product scanning to desert reunions, then moving on to the dangerous work of beet harvesting, Bruder tells a compelling, eye-opening tale of the dark underbelly of the American economy-one that foreshadows the precarious future that may await many more of us. At the same time, she celebrates the exceptional resilience and creativity of these quintessential Americans who have given up ordinary rootedness to survive. Like Linda May, who dreams of finding land on which to build her own sustainable "Earthship" home, they have not given up hope.
Stephen Greenblatt-Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author of The Swerve and Will in the World-investigates the life of one of humankind's greatest stories.
Sixty years of poems from a National Book Award winner and pioneering writer, activist and intellectual.
"Gets it all in: the boozing and drugging ... but also the intelligence, the loyalty, the inherent decency." -Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post
Features speakers who seek their true selves amid the fallen cathedrals of America, and refuse to abandon hope in the power of imagination.
A doctor's bold analysis of the cultural disease that afflicts us all.
A comprehensive new guide to the best fly-fishing for trout and landlocked salmon in Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine.
"Brilliant.... A loving and detailed celebration of a diverse, beautiful and often astounding people."-Laurence Gonzales, Chicago Tribune
"It is difficult to imagine a juicier subject, or a more thoughtful, fluent, trustworthy guide for its exploration."-San Francisco Chronicle
A seminal discussion of literature by the author of The Revolt of the Masses.
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