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With the realism of John Updike and the psychological astuteness of Alice Hoffman, this "absorbing, elegant novel . . . remains surprising to the end" (Suzanne Berne).

Three classic Greek tragedies are translated and critically introduced by Edith Hamilton.

"Meticulously researched and elegantly written, this book answers questions about the ocean I didn't even know I had. For the first time, I feel I truly understand the other two-thirds of our planet. Anyone who loves the sea should read this book." -Sebastian Junger, author of The Perfect Storm

Douglas Moore, whose Listening to Music has made him known to a large audience of music lovers, has here written a book which will be welcomed by every ambitious listener who would develop his musical assurance and broaden his taste so as to achieve the greatest possible enjoyment from his musical experiences.

This is a book for patients and their families, for doctors to recommend to their patients, for specialists, psychiatrist, medical students, theologians, and anyone concerned with the dignity of the human condition.

A history of those men and women-English, European, and African-who transformed America from a geographical expression into a new nation.

"An extraordinary acute interpretation of these poets and their aims and accomplishments." -Virginia Quarterly Review

A veritable around-the-world of soup recipes, all scaled down to feed one, two or a few.

An historic publication in which the legendary dramatist emerges, quite like Goethe, as a poet driven by Eros.

The great energy transition from fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy is under way.

Exploring the global politics of restitution from 1945 Germany to present-day Bosnia.

A gripping account of how al-Qaeda in Yemen rebounded from an initial defeat to once again threaten the United States.

An absolutely fascinating blend of history, design, sociology, and cultural poetics highly recommended. Maria Popova, Brain Pickings"

The story of the explosion and contamination was and still is suppressed in the Soviet Union and, the author contends, by the CIA and other Western intelligence organizations fearful of public resistance to nuclear power plants. Now, after an intensive study of Soviet scientific articles (written to disguise the fact that they were about the Ural explosion) and after many interviews and reports from friends in the scientific community as well as from witnesses, the author has pieced together the story of what actually happened. He analyzes the extent and consequences of the contamination and draws forbidding conclusions about the possibility of similar disasters in the rest of the world.

"To speak or not to speak? That is the Gimmick!" -Francoise Sagan

In Poetry and Humanism, M. M. Mahood writes on the great religious poets of seventeenth-century England and their relationship to Renaissance humanism.

"One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman."-Simone de Beauvoir

An elegant and richly evocative collection about the nature of paradise and the complexities of desire, these eight magical stories are about the Edenic spaces that people create in their lives and the serpents that subtly inhabit them.

"Zooks! At last, the culture, folklore, and mythology of computing. Here's the digital dirt from our computer age...collected and retold by Karla Jennings." -Cliff Stoll, author of The Cuckoo's Egg

"Giant Killers is one of the rare books that is fun to read, fascinating and educational about the realities of modern Washington lobbying. Mike Pertschuk has done a great service, with good humor and lively anecdotes." -Joseph A. Califano, Jr., former Secretary of Health and Human Services

In many respects early Pennsylvania was the prototype of North American development. Its conservative defense of liberal individualism, its population of mixed national and religious origins, its dispersed farms, county seats, and farm-service villages, and its mixed crop and livestock agriculture served as models for much of the rural Middle West. To many western Europeans in the eighteenth century life in early Pennsylvania offered a veritable paradise and refuge from oppression. Some called it "the best poor man's country in the world." The Best Poor Man's Country was the winner of the Albert J. Beveridge Award of the American Historical Society.

"BioGraffiti is a highly diverting mix of the whimsical and scholarly, of science and art. It will be read-and reread-by those interested in biology and life." -Paul R. Ehrlich

Fig Tree John was an enigma to the whites around him, a proud and mysterious man whose passionate tale unfolds in this long-neglected American classic now republished by Liveright.

On New Hampshire's thin, cold soil, strewn with rocks, generations of resourceful, tough, independent men and women created a landscape of meadows and pastures, of stone walls and weathered barns and clapboard houses, that has affected the American imagination.

Peter Theroux describes Los Angeles, the City of Dreams, from a variety of angles: he encounters the diversity of citizens and immigrants, attends movie premieres, smells the incense for sale on the boardwalk in Venice and drives along a six-lane highway.