From the bestselling author of Quantum Computing for Everyone, a concise, accessible, and elegant approach to mathematics that not only illustrates concepts but also conveys the surprising nature of...

Busting the myth of "groupthink," a powerful look at how our ability to influence one another can accelerate individual and collective intelligence. A leading expert on social networks and behavior...

"The book explores the concept of epistemic autonomy in the context of our dependence on social and technological systems for knowledge. It challenges the Cartesian ideal of self-sufficient knowledge...

Poetry that considers art, family history, and creativity. This collection charts the life of an artist and her passion for nature through the making of a painting. Poems revel in the space humans...

"A long-awaited memoir from an award-winning novelist-a candid, riveting account of her complicated, bohemian childhood and her return home to care for her ailing mother. In March 2020, Martha...

Edgar Award winner Otto Penzler—“detective fiction’s best editor and champion” (The Washington Post)—returns with a new anthology of exhilarating mysteries, assembling Victorian society's lords and...

Where did God come from? What do the bible stories really tell us? Who or what was Jesus Christ? This book challenges everything we think we know about the nature of religion. -The ancient fertility...

The first complete history of US industry's most influential and controversial lobbyist Founded in 1895, the National Association of Manufacturers--NAM--helped make manufacturing the basis of the US...

"Duane Michals' Portraits presents for the first time a comprehensive overview of more than a half-century of portrait photographs--many of iconic cultural figures--by one of our era's most...

A book that shines fresh light on the world's major religions to help us build bridges between faiths and rediscover a creative and spiritual engagement with holy texts--from the New York Times...

Nancy Fraser's powerful new book documents the "movements of feminism" and the shifts in the feminist imaginary since the 1970s. Fraser follows the history of feminism from the ferment of the New...

"Whole food, vegetarian recipes for quick weeknight meals full of flavor, spice, color, and nutrition from New York Times bestselling author Heidi Swanson. Chapters feature recipes for make-ahead...

"This kaleidoscopic portrait of an unprecedented time brings together some of our most treasured writers today--Edwidge Danticat, Layli Long Soldier, Monica Youn, Julia Alvarez, Reginald Dwayne...

"For those who could read between the lines, the censored news out of China was terrifying. But the president insisted there was nothing to worry about. Fortunately, we are still a nation of skeptics...

In the spring of 1983 Terry Tempest Williams learned that her mother was dying of cancer. That same season, The Great Salt Lake began to rise to record heights, threatening the Bear River Migratory...

Championed by Salman Rushdie in The New Yorker, Qurratulain Hyder is one of the "must reads" of Indian literature. Fireflies in the Mist is Hyder's capstone to her astonishing River of Fire, which...

Gate of the Sun is the first magnum opus of the Palestinian saga. After their country is torn apart in 1948, two men remain alone in a deserted makeshift hospital in the Shatila camp on the outskirts...

When John Harmon--who has been left a fortune if he will marry the girl his miserly father chose for him--is found floating dead in the Thames, he sets in motion a story overflowing with cases of...

An anthology of poetry and fiction by American women canvasses three hundred fifty years of writing to include the works of Puritan-era through contemporary authors.

Aristotle was the first philosopher in the Western tradition to address politics systematically and empirically, and he remains a central figure in political theory. This essential volume presents...