Product DescriptionFrom the acclaimed, award-winning author comes an extraordinary new series about a real hero, and the real Deep South. With terrific, infl...
This is the story of how America awakened to its race problem, of how a nation that longed for unity after World War II came instead to see, hear, and learn about the shocking indi...
Amazon.com ReviewBook Description"This is not a book about the decline of America, but rather about the rise of everyone else." So begins Fareed Zakaria's important new ...
SUMMARY: When Australian Julie Reagan discovers a book written about wild Malaysia in the 1970s, she decides to find out more about the author - her great aunt. Why did her grandmo...
Henry Petroski traces the origins of the pencil back to ancient Greece and Rome, writes factually and charmingly about its development over the centuries and around the world, and ...
From Publishers WeeklyAfter graduating from college with a business administration degree—and very uncertain about his career path—Aiken embarked on a yearlong journey throughout C...
Product DescriptionThe first title in a classic trilogy about the giants of the Forgotten Realms world. The Ogre's Pact is the first novel in a trilogy that deals with the giants o...
SUMMARY: From the bestselling author of The Dogs of Babel comes a dazzling literary mystery about the lengths to which some people will go to rewrite their past. Bestselling noveli...
ReviewMichael Walzer, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton“Evgeny Morozov is wonderfully knowledgeable about the Internet—he seems to have studied every use of...
50th Anniversary Edition With a New Preface and Two Bonus EssaysThe most influential critique of psychiatry ever written, Thomas Szasz's classic book revolutionized thinking about ...