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

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.

"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.

"A work of extraordinary distinction, one which is surely destined to be a permanent landmark in the long history of Homeric studies." -Whitney J. Oates, American Scholar

Here is Jemima Shore at her cleverest and Antonia Fraser at the top of her form.

This admirable study has now been revised and enlarged by Professor Finley in the light of the latest archeological evidence and relevant scholarship. It provides, succinctly and authoritatively, the background information needed for a proper understanding of classical Greek civilization

An introduction to the nature of poetry and the poetic experience.

This new novel features Jemima Shore, the delightful heroine of Antonia Fraser's highly praised first mystery, Quiet as a Nun.

Once patriarchal and phallocentric, psychoanalysis has now become strongly mother-centered. This book tells the story of that revolution through biographical portraits of four pioneering figures in the early institutions of psychoanalysis: Helene Deutsch, Karen Horney, Anna Freud, and Melanie Klein.

"More than a history of science; it is a tour de force in the genre."-New York Times Book Review

A dramatic, revisionist panorama of an age whose material triumphs and spiritual crises prefigure our own.

"As old as time itself and as fleet as its flying moments," the Arabian horse has remained practically unchanged throughout the more than 3,500 years of the history of the breed.

Although organ transplantation is the preeminent medical miracle of the last quarter of a century, Many Sleepless Nights is the first book to go beyond the headlines and describe the patients who have embraced this last chance to hold on to life, the intricate medical procedures that can save them, the surgeons and nurses who work in this emotionally charged world, and the ethics which complicate this 'miracle' high-tech therapy.

The one hundred years that preceded the French Revolution witnessed the rise of kings to unmatched power and influence in European affairs.

"Genuinely open-minded and inquiring. . . .it intelligently summarizes and shrewdly questions four central topics of Marxist thought-the dialectical approach to philosophy, the materialist interpretation of history, the socio-analysis of capitalism and the commitment to socialism." -Raymond Williams, Cambridge University

More than half of the country's population lives within a day's drive of West Virginia, and savvy travelers have known that it is the playground of the East.

A gentle hiking guide to the region's natural areas.

A travel guide and photography guide rolled into one that tells where to find picture-perfect shots and how to take them.

A complete new guide-the first of its kind-to the best fly-fishing in the streams, lakes, and ponds of southern New England.

These gentle hiking books are packed with information about the natural history of the region.They're ideal for birders, nature lovers, and weekend walkers.