In The Hunter, the first volume in the series, Parker roars into New York City, seeking revenge o...

Hermann von Helmholtz was a towering figure of nineteenth-century scientific and intellectual lif...

'You have heard of Pangea, the single landmass that broke apart some 175 million years ago to giv...

'In Black Paper, Teju Cole meditates on what it means to keep our humanity--and witness the human...

Vertigo and the Anxieties of Unknowingness. On the surface, The Philosophical Hitchcock Vertigo a...

'The topic of werewolves has flared in the popular imagination in recent years, but the case of T...

In September 1940, Walter Benjamin committed suicide in Port Bou on the Spanish-French border whe...

Among the brilliant writers and thinkers who emerged from the multicultural and multilingual worl...

'The new field of spatial history has been driven by digital mapping tools that can readily show ...

'In Everyone Loves Live Music, Fabian Holt takes us through transformations in musical performanc...

War on Drugs has done almost nothing to prevent drugs from being sold or used, but it has nonethe...

WHAT S BECOME OF WARING (1939) satirizes a small independent publisher in London run by two broth...

'This work looks into the Colombian government's efforts to demobilize rebel FARC fighters and tr...

A star par excellence, Dolly Parton is one of country music's most likable personalities. Even a ...

'High from the earth I heard a bird'Emily DickinsonEric Fitch Daglish (1892-1966) was a wood engr...

Our stories of industrial innovation tend to focus on individual initiative and lone breakthrough...

The line that separated Eastern Christendom from Western on the medieval map is similar to the 'i...

The thief Parker teams up with some crooks to steal half a million dollars from a TV evangelist. ...

As the only child of a renowned Russian Jewish pianist, Gordon grew up in the cosmopolitan world ...

The eighty-nine cetacean species that swim our seas and rivers are as diverse as they are intelli...

Innerhalb des umfangreichenuvres von Heinz Mack stellen die Reliefs einen zentralen Werkaspekt da...

In this intriguing blend of the commonplace and the ancient, Jean Bottéro presents the first exte...

Make Room For TV combines a powerful analysis of growth of electronic culture with a nuanced soci...

From Ivy: Butterflies and moths are among the most studied creatures in nature. Caterpillars, the...

'The freedoms established by the Bill of Rights are celebrated as a part of America's national id...

Johann Wilhelm Weinmann was an apothecary who established a botanic garden in Regensburg and set ...

Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) came to America in 1831 to see what a great republic was like. Wh...

Some commentators on the Left have been raising alarms about the lethal combination of money, pow...

Our oceans are becoming increasingly inhospitable to life--growing toxicity and rising temperatur...

Properly analyzed, the collective mythological and religious writings of humanity reveal that aro...

'Originally published by Alfred A. Knopf, 2009, with the participation of the Collection and W. E...

A forceful reckoning with the relationship between energy and power through the history of what w...

Over three million years ago, our ancient ancestors realized that rocks could be broken into shar...

'We are in the midst of a new space race that pairs billionaire space barons with governments in ...

'If you could ask a dolphin one question, what would it be? What might a dolphin ask you? In her ...

'For a widely dreaded, mundane task, organizing one's possessions has taken a surprising hold on ...

A revelatory look at modern liberalism's historical evolution and enduring impact on contemporary...

'Viruses are the smallest living things known to science, and yet they hold the entire planet in ...

From global navigation to natal charts to memory palaces and beyond, a thrilling journey through ...

A groundbreaking retelling of the advent of British rule in Sri Lanka.How did the modern nation o...

'Love cannot be everlasting, much as we might desire it to be so. So, what is love in a life that...

Has American democracy outstripped its constitutional accommodations? Faith in the resilience and...

'In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, European artists grappled with an enormou...

Has American democracy outstripped its constitutional accommodations? Faith in the resilience and...

A nuanced reassessment of US democratic responsiveness and public opinion on economic policy that...

This story collection is a welcome port of entry for any reader not yet familiar with Marguerite ...

Presents cutting-edge scholarship by preeminent criminology scholars.Since 1979, Crime and Justic...

The surprising story of how declining marriage rates are driving many of the country's biggest ec...