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Carbon, the building block of life here on Earth, has a long and intricate history... Created eons ago by the first supernovas, this element is a necessary component of our existence. Paradoxically, it... more info...

What happens when something is sucked into a black hole? Does it disappear? Three decades ago, Stephen Hawking claimed it did. While most scientists didn't recognize the import of this claim, American... more info...

An Edgar Award Winner; a New York Times Bestseller. In her debut thriller, three children leave their small Dubline neighborhood to play in the surrounding woods. Hours later, their mothers' call go unanswered.... more info...

Looking for a book that takes a fresh examination at the Cuban Missle Crisis? Look no further than Michael Dobbs's "One Minute to Midnight". Dobbs has researched previously untappedAmerican, Soviet, and... more info...

Published in conjunction with the erxnibition @the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 5.30.08-9.07.08. This volume documents the fourteen assembled works of Kapoor made since 1980, a period in which... more info...

Evolving from a series of road trips along the Mississippi River, "Sleeping by the Mississippi" captures America's iconic yet oft-neglected "third coast." Photographer AlanSoth's richly descriptive, large... more info...

Turning conventional wisdom on its head, Thich Nhat Hanh teaches us that true power comes from within and that what we seek, we already have. With colorful anecdotes, precise language, and concrete practices,... more info...

Published on the occasion of the exhibition @Whitney Museum of American Art/Summer 2008 (June - ), the book chronicles the profound career of visionary/architect Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983), including... more info...

An outrageous, uproarious compendium of absurdity, filth, racy paradox. gratuitous offensiveness, and mature philosophical reflection. This is the first book to trace the evolution of the joke all the... more info...

This first volume of the films of photographer/filmmaker Robert Frank features a booklet with several in-depth essays and new stills taken from the original films an videos as well as DVDs of: Pull My... more info...

This second volume of photographer/filmmaker Robert Frank's The Complete Film Works includes Ok End Here (32 minutes - 1963), a short film about inertia in a modern relationship that alternates between... more info...

This volume of the collected film works of the seminal photographer/filmmaker's work features three DVDs: Keep Busy (44 minutes - 1975), About Me: A Musical (30 minutes - 1971), and S-8 Stones Footage... more info...

Here they are, according to Ehrenreich, - the worst years of our lives: the 2000s. A time in which members of the moneyed elite can buy congressfolk while membes of the working class can barely afford... more info...

It's November in a presidential election year, and incumbent Charles Smith's chances for reelection are looking grim. Approval ratings are down, his money's running out, and nuclear war might be imminent.... more info...

The third in a series of collected short stories from Drawn & Quarterly by the legendary Japanese cartoonist, whose previous work has been selected for several annual "top 10" lists, including those compiled... more info...

In this collection of twenty essays, Coetzee examines the work of some of the 20th century's greatest writers, from Samuel Beckett and Gunter Grass to Gasbriel Garcia Marquez and Philip Roth. Brilliantly... more info...

Lively, original, and powerfully informative, this breakout bestseller is a not-so-reverent crash course through the great philosophical thinkers and traditions, from Existentialism (What do Hegel and... more info...

Written in 1990, Brida is Paulo Coelho's third book. It is the story of a young woman, Brida O'Fern, and her path through the Wicca pagan tradition. When only 21 years old, she meets a magician and asks... more info...

As riveting as a World War II thriller, The Forger's Spell is the true story of Jan Vermeer and the small-time Dutch painter who dared to impersonate him. The con man's markwas Hermann Goering, one of... more info...

In this 11th-century mystery, Sugawara Akitada is on his way to the bedside of his dying mother when bad weather forces him to take refuge in a temple whose central treasure is a brilliantly painted hell... more info...

(Penguin American Indian Library series). With the courage and resilience embodied by their legendary leader Tecumseh, the Shawnees waged a war of territorial and cultural resistance for more than half... more info...

This critically acclaimed book - available for the first time in paperback - reevaluates the career of this highly influential artist and focuses not only upon the impact of her early work but also onthe... more info...

The story of a murder through the eyes of the 19-year-old "survivor" of a family torn apart by intense media scrutiny. In this ingeniously (Oates has yet to run out of ingeniousness!) constructed novel,... more info...

It's something you see every where you go. For a dollar or two you can have one of your own. Bottled water is by far one of the most incredible phenomenons of our time, yet most of us never even take the... more info...

We've all been there right? Stuck in the airport and fuming at the fact that we've just been told our flight has been canceled, or that otherwise, we simply can't go where we were trying to, despite the... more info...

Why is it that though we may know the right thing to do, we sometimes choose the wrong thing? Why do we listen more closely to someone who is considered important? Why do we tend to want things onlyuntil... more info...

First published in 1965. Shot in the 1960s and '70s in the Tsavo lowlands during the elephant-habitat crisis and then in Uganda parks, Peter Beard's studies of elephant and hippo population dynamics document... more info...

An exploration of the centuries-old fascination with the large phallus. Profusely illustrated with over 400 historic photos of spectacular male endownments, the majority of which are dated from the 1970s.... more info...

A magnificent exploration of the role that chance plays in our lives. Often historical, occasionally hysterical, and consistently smart and funny, Mlodinow challenges everything we think we know about... more info...

The Sawtelles live on a quiet farm in northern Wisconsin, where they breed dogs known for their intelligence and faithfulness. Edgar was born mute and speaks only in signs, but he bonds closely with the... more info...

The United States' war on terror has failed, and acclaimed journalist Ahmed Rashid argues that this resulted from an inability to undertand the complex political structure of southern and central Asia.... more info...

Graffiti artists in Paris, much like in New York and Los Angeles, have transformed urban spaces - sidewalks, metro stations, staircases, abandoned buildings - into showrooms that exhibit their work in... more info...

Since its inception in 2005, MOME has bridged the gap between the contemporary graphic novel scene and the current cutting-edge literary scene, serving as a perfect sampler of today's best young graphic... more info...

For intermediate and advanced learners. You'll never again be in the dark about the meanings of idioms and colloquialisms used across the Spanish-speaking world. Features includeL 4,000 idioms arrangedaccording... more info...

This living history of the graffiti movement reproduces selections from the actual black books that graffiti artists use to hone and share their work. The book brings together hundreds of drawings, most... more info...

The seasonless system of food production which has developed over the last century is close to breaking. The shift away from local production has been accompanied by loosening standards of sustainability,... more info...

A celebrated critic for The New Yorker magazine, Peter Schjeldahl is considered one of America's most distinguished writers on the subject of art. This collection includes seventy-five of his pieces, and... more info...

When Tempest Landry is "acidentally" killed by a cop, he is barred from heaven for a few "minor trangressions," but refuses to be sent to hell. Returned to Harlem by Saint Peter, Landry must contend with... more info...

Riding a gathering storm of minimalist intensity, this here's the story of paramedic wannabe Ollie Cross and his first year on the job in mid-90s New York City, a city wracked by crack wars, unemployment... more info...

Issue 27 brings together a previously uncatagorized cadre of pithy draftsmen, genius doodlers, and fine-artistic cartoonists, and buffets them with articles examining just what it is that these people... more info...

This is the first book to put the visual crunch on this recent legendary downtown art/music scene. The era's convergence of punk rock, new wave, expermimental music, and the avant gardeart world produced... more info...

A contemporary portrait-in-photographs that is both cinematic and complex. For over a decade, Homma has turned the neutral gaze of his lens toward Tokyo's suburban environs and urban center. The photographer'svision... more info...

Edmund Wilson was the dominant American literary critic from the 1920s until his death in 1972, but he was also far more than that--a chronicler of his times, a historian of ideas, a probing observer of... more info...

(A Bellevue Literary Press Pathography). Delving into the annals of anemia and its treatment, Charles Bardes takes readers on an intriguing journey back through the history of medicine - from the Greeks... more info...

Controversy tends to dog the art of Chris Ofili, and former New York Mayor Giuliani's suspension of funding for the Brooklyn Museum upon its exhibition of his 1996 painting "The Holy Virgin Mary" in 1999... more info...

David Sedaris has given us his sixth book of essays in "When You are Engulfed in Flames". Subjects range from a parasitic worm in his mother-in-law's leg, an encounter with a dingo, and recreational uses... more info...