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The Post-American World - Fareed Zakaria
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 ... -
The Passion of Artemisia - Susan Vreeland
Recently rediscovered by art historians, and one of the few female post-Renaissance painters to achieve fame during her own era, Artemisia Gentileschi led a remarkably "modern" lif... -
The Mimic Men - V. S. Naipaul
A profound and moving novel that evokes a colonial man's experience in the postcolonial world. Born of Indian heritage, raised in the British-dependent Caribbean island of Isabella... -
The Man With the Iron Heart - Harry Turtledove
SUMMARY: What if V-E Day didn’t end World War II in Europe? What if, instead, the Allies had to face a potent, even fanatical, postwar Nazi resistance? Such a movement, based in th... -
The High King of Montival_ A No - S. M. Stirling
EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The *New York Times* bestselling author continues his post- apocalyptic series chronicling a modern world without technology. ** With *The Sword of the Lady*, R... -
The Hidden Brain - Shankar Vedantam
From Publishers WeeklyWashington Post science journalist Vedantam theorizes that there's a hidden world in our heads filled with unconscious biases, often small, hidden errors in .... -
The Good Son_ A Novel - Michael Gruber
EDITORIAL REVIEW: ***New York Times***** bestselling author Michael Gruber, a member of "the elite ranks of those who can both chill the blood and challenge the mind" (*The Denver ... -
The Face of Another - Kobo Abe
Like an elegantly chilling postscript to The Metamorphosis, this classic of postwar Japanese literature describes a bizarre physical transformation that exposes the duplicities of ... -
The Dream of Scipio - Iain Pears
Amazon.com ReviewLike his elegant debut, An Instance of the Fingerpost, Iain Pears's The Dream of Scipio is an inventive, gloriously detailed historical novel told f... -
The Distant Hours - Kate Morton
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. A letter posted in 1941 finally reaches its destination in 1992 with powerful repercussions for Edie Burchill, a London book editor, in this e...