"In the wake of the Olympian gods' clash with the Titans, Zeus punishes his former ally Prometheus for having dared to bring knowledge to humankind. Banished and chained in a desolate landscape,...

"Dionysus, son of Zeus, has journeyed to the land of his birth expecting to be received as a god. After being rejected by his kin, he drives the women of Thebes into a delirious frenzy. Dressed in...

"Following the conquest of Troy, its sole survivors, all women, have been enslaved by the Greeks. Mourning their families and their fate, they grapple with the trauma they have witnessed and...

"A revelatory history of how the Federal Reserve finances American power. Central banks, we are told, are economic superpowers that must remain independent of modern democratic governments. The US...

"A critical history of the recurring idea that technology will free us from work and bring about a truly democratic society. In popular thought, ancient Athens endures as a place ahead of its...

"When renowned British geneticist J. B. S. Haldane was asked what could be inferred about God from a study of his works, Haldane replied, "An inordinate fondness for beetles." With more than 350,000...

"A journey through space, time, biology, quantum physics, and the universe's past and future, to answer the question, What do we really know about life? In this sequel to his best-selling The...

"A personal treatise from distinguished social scientist Sandro Galea on the indelible effects of being an immigrant-and what it means for the greater good. "I am one of the lucky ones," writes...

"With US economic hegemony on the brink, what if economics is the problem? Galbraith examines how conventional economic policies are unequipped to account for the most daunting challenges of our...

"Perhaps Lyndon Johnson's closest presidential adviser, Walter Jenkins was arrested in 1964 for soliciting oral sex in a YMCA near the White House. This triggered a huge, if now forgotten, scandal...

"People strongly disagree about life-and-death issues, including vaccines, immigration, religion, and climate change. When it comes to changing someone's mind, many of the time-tested methods are...

“I’ve arrived in London without incident. There are few triumphs in my recent life, but I count this as one. My existence of the last three years has been nothing but incident.” The Year is 1883 and...

"Updated to take stock of recent developments, Tom Ginsburg and Aziz Z. Huq's prescient and insightful book shows how constitutional rules both hinder and hasten democratic decline. Around the world,...

The first English biography of the influential sixteenth-century Italian painter. In late sixteenth-century Bologna, Annibale Carracci reinvigorated painting through a renewed study of nature in...

A concise yet rich biography of the great eighteenth-century German philosopher. The great German philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) lived with a single-minded dedication to the moral education of...

Now available in a new format, the story of Bowie’s rebirth in Berlin, where a city’s revival shaped his most innovative work. In 1976, David Bowie left Los Angeles and the success of his celebrated...

"The Safekeep meets Portrait of a Lady on Fire in a gripping debut following a young Jewish painter in 1930s Berlin whose work is tampered with and exhibited under a man's name, reckoning with art...

"In this reissue of her electric debut collection, Madeline Cash, the author of Lost Lambs, synthesizes the godlessness of a digital age into a glimmering, life-affirming collage of stories"--...

The sentimental and culinary education of M.F.K. Fisher. In 1929, a newly married M.F.K. Fisher embarked on a journey that would change her life. In The Gastronomical Me, readers get a firsthand look...

“I do not know of any one in the United States who writes better prose.” —W. H. Auden A practical, culinary, and philosophical guide on how to eke out joy and delight in difficult times. There is...