From a surrealistic lab in wartime Poland comes one of the great untold accounts of moral and intellectual heroism of the Second World War.
A New York Times Bestseller. A "fascinating" (Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times) look at how digital technology is transforming our work and our lives.
"Shows that the story of metrology . . . can in the right hands make for a riveting read."-The Economist
"[An] elegantly constructed web of stories about Russian-Jewish immigrants....Warm, true and original."-New York Times Book Review
This breakthrough volume appropriates the vernacular notion of "rolling deep" to explore human intimacy and war.
From eco-poetics to the erotic, Scavenger Loop measures the dimensions of the pastoral and the elegy in contemporary lyric poetry.
In this Bonnie and Clyde story of love and betrayal, a band of outlaws fight for control of the brutal Brazilian outback.
A guide to the best science writing, which tells the centuries-long story of our striving to understand the world.
In this intense, illuminating collection of poems, Sandra Beasley examines how intimacy is lost and gained during our travels.
A fly-on-the-wall narrative of the Oval Office in the wake of the Cuban Missile Crisis, using JFK's secret White House tapes.
The companion to Rick Bayless's Mexican Everyday.
A Best Photo Book of 2012 by American Photo. A new look at the legendary folklorist and his work.
Surprising and richly satisfying" (Megan Marshall); beautifully crafted . . . subtle, polished, and poised (Stacy Schiff)."
Skirting the law once defined America's relation to the world.
The amazing story of how certain ancient animals chose to live near humans, thus sealing their evolutionary fate.
The American Revolution's progress shown in 60 spectacular contemporary maps.
"Powerful and disturbing. No one who cares about the future of our public life can afford to ignore this book." -Jackson Lears
A story about the thrills and perils of renovating an old farm on a shoestring, a warm and wise book about living simply in the country while pursuing the writer's craft.
Hemingway's triumphs as a writer during the 1940s and 1950s accompanied a life of risk and danger.
Steeped in legend, shrouded in folklore, the real David Crockett, American frontiersman and cultural icon, finally emerges in this engrossing biography.
A powerful history of emancipation that reshapes our understanding of Lincoln, the Civil War, and the end of American slavery.
The Solutions Manual contains worked solutions to all the end-of-chapter review problems.
"Superbly reported and written with clarity, insight, and great skill." -Washington Post Book World
"In Darwin and the Barnacle...ideas light up like matches on each page."-John Leonard, Harper's
Unlike a leg in a cast, invisible chronic illness (ICI) has no observable symptoms.
"A wonderful book ... will be enjoyed by anyone with interest in either birds or the impact that humanity is having on its fellow travelers on spaceship earth." -Paul R. Ehrlich, author of The Population Bomb
"A challenging thesis about Greek prehistory-that the miraculous jump into the Greece of our history was made in the eleventh century B.C., during the pre-Christian Dark Ages. . . . An exciting book to read, eloquently written and beautifully illustrated." -The New Yorker
How do today's computers perform such a wide variety of tasks? Davis illustrates how the answer lies in the fact that computers are essentially engines of logic. Their hardware and software embodies concepts developed by logicians sugh as Gottfried Leibniz, Kurt Godel and Alan Turing.
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