A captivating biography of one of the world’s greatest adventurers, the itinerant Mughal Princess Gulbadan, based on her long-forgotten memoirLonglisted for the 2024 Cundill History Prize“Ruby Lal coaxes the remarkable Gulbadan out from the shadows of...

A Biography Of Vergil, Rome's Greatest Poet, By The Acclaimed Translator Of The Aeneid The Aeneid Stands As A Towering Work Of Classical Roman Literature And A Gripping Dramatization Of The Best And Worst Of Human Nature. In The Process Of Creating This...

A Leading Legal Scholar Asks A Fundamental Question: Do We Need A Theory Of Constitutional Interpretation? Do We Need A Theory Of Constitutional Interpretation? It Is A Common Argument Among Originalists That However Objectionable You May Find Their...

A bold challenge to a central assumption in modern moral and legal thinking, showing that wrongs and rights are not flip sides of the same coin but instead represent fundamentally distinct moral phenomena.It is commonplace to regard rights and wrongs as...

"Leaving navigates the chasm between responsibility and desire when two long-lost lovers reconnect. This beautiful book will sweep you away." ―People MagazineWhat risks would you be willing to take to fall in love again?“I never thought I’d see you...

A leading historian of World War II sheds new light on the purposes and impact of the U.S. incendiary and atomic bombing of Japan's cities in 1945.

A brilliantly conceived and provocative work from an award-winning historian that examines how seven twentieth-century social movements transformed America.How do social movements arise, wield power, and decline? Renowned scholar Linda Gordon...

The remarkable story of how confession became a defining rite for American Catholics―and then, beginning in the 1970s, all but disappeared.For generations, American Catholics went faithfully to confession, admitting their sins to a priest and accepting...

Spells, rituals and elemental magick for dealing with the stress and strain of 21st-century life.The modern world has pushed many of us to breaking point. Our bodies and minds are burnt out, and we can feel anxious, inadequate and lonely. This is because...

The Italian film-maker Pier Paolo Pasolini was first and always a poet—the most important civil poet, according to Alberto Moravia, in Italy in the second half of this century.His poems were at once deeply personal and passionately engaged in the...

Dialectic of Enlightenment is undoubtedly the most influential publication of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. Written during the Second World War and circulated privately, it appeared in a printed edition in Amsterdam in 1947. "What we had set...

Bataille's first novel: a legendary shocker that uncovers the dark side of the erotic by means of forbidden obsessive fantasies of excess and sexual extremes.A classic of pornographic literature, Story of the Eye finds the parallels in Sade and Nietzsche...

A clear-eyed, timely investigation of the threat posed by Artificial Intelligence to individual freedom, social cohesion, and the democratic process—and a radical proposal on how to fight back.In this sharp, urgent book, philosopher, psychoanalyst, and...

A woman goes home to Naples after her mother’s mysterious death in a “tour de force” by the New York Times–bestselling author of My Brilliant Friend (Seattle Times).Following her mother’s untimely and unexplained drowning, which was preceded by a series...

Identify New Jersey birds with this easy-to-use field guide, organized by color and featuring full-color photographs and helpful information.Make bird-watching in New Jersey even more enjoyable. With Stan Tekiela’s famous bird guide, field identification...

“There is so much at play in this wondrous novel. Vi, struggling to place herself in any context that makes sense within the world, earnestly leads us into a wild experiment, to turn a blob into the man of her dreams, and I was transfixed by her voice...

JAMES BOND PLAYS A DEADLY GAME OF CHANCE IN IAN FLEMING’S LEGENDARY FIRST 007 NOVEL“Le Chiffre” is a ruthless operative and the accountant for a soviet SMERSH cell in France, but he’s on the verge of disaster after gambling away his client’s money...

From the international bestselling author and illustrator of Big Panda and Tiny Dragon and The Cat Who Taught Zen comes a beautifully illustrated adult fable of a lost young puppy, the old wolf who rescues her, and their journey to follow the moon—with...