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Lives of the Novelists: A History of Fiction in 294 Lives
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No previous author has attempted a book such as this: a complete history of novels written in the English language, from the genre’s seventeenth-century origins to the present day. In the spirit of Dr. Johnson’s Lives of the Poets, acclaimed critic and scholar John Sutherland selects 294 writers whose works illustrate the best of every kind of fiction – from gothic, penny dreadful, and pornography to fantasy, romance, and high literature. Each author was chosen because his or her books ar…
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How to Read New York: A Crash Course in Big Apple Architecture
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Charting both the key technical developments and aesthetic movements that have influenced architecture in the Bib Apple, this accessible guide: explores the evolution of New York’s celebrated skyline, from the Chrysler Building to the Trump Tower and beyond; examines in-depth the main architectural styles that have contributed to one of the most famous cityscapes in the world; and explains both the form and function of New York’s architectural icons using beautifully detailed illustration…
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Enemies: A History of the FBI
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This is the first definitive history of the FBI’s secret intelligence operations, from an author whose work on the Pentagon and the CIA won him the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. The consensus opinion of the CIA is that it operates as America’s police force. But secret intelligence is the Bureau’s first and foremost mission. This book tells the story of how presidents have used the FBI to conduct political warfare, and how the Bureau became the most powerful intelligence serv…
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WATERGATE : A Novel
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For all the monumental documentation that the Watergate scandal generated – uncountable volumes of committee records, court transcripts, and memoirs – it falls, at last, to a novelist – one of our most esteemed historical novelists, at that – to perform the work of inference (and invention) that allows us to solve some of the scandal’s greatest mysteries (i.e., who did erase those eighteen-and-a-half minutes of tape?). Thomas Mallon conveys the drama and high comedy of the Nixon presidenc…
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A first book by a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist profiles everyday life in the settlement of Annawadi as experienced by a Muslim teen, an ambitious rural mother of a prospective female college student and a young scrap metal thief, in an account that illuminates how their efforts to build better lives are challenged by regional religious, caste and economic tensions. 35,000 first printing.
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Frank Reade: Adventures in the Age of Invention
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Before Jules Verne’s flying machines, and H. G. Wells’s spaceship, there was Frank Reade, globe-trotting inventor. Frank Reade magazines were the world’s first science fiction periodicals, enthralling millions of readers with tales of fantastic inventions and adventures. Now many of the spectacular images from the vintage dime novel series are being reprinted for the first time in more than a century, along with excerpts from the action-packed stories. This lost legacy of American is inte…
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Zona: A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room
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In Zona, Geoff Dyer (Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi, Otherwise Known as the Human Condition) attempts to unlock the mysteries of a film that has haunted him ever since he first saw it thirty years ago: Andrei Tarkovsky’s “Stalker”, widely regarded as one of the greatest films of all time. Dyer guides readers into the zone of Tarkovsky’s imagination where it realized that the film is only the entry point for a radically original investigation of the enduring questions of life, faith, an…
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The Snow Child: A Novel
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A childless couple working a farm in the brutal landscape of 1920 Alaska discover a little girl living in the wilderness, with a red fox as a companion, and begin to love the strange, almost-supernatural child as their own. 60,000 first printing.
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Alain Ducasse: Nature: Simple, Healthy, and Good
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No fuss and no fat recipes that go a long way in producing tasty, healthful, and satisfying food based on a farm-to table model. With over 190 simple yet sublime dishes, Ducasse highlights a wide range of flavor combinations in which vegetables, fruits, and grains take pride of place while animal protein is used sparringly for flavor. The book is enhanced by line drawings and exqusite, mouthwatering photography. Index. 360p.
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Lillian Bassman: Lingerie
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As soon as she became a fashion photographer in the late 1940s, Lillian Bassman began to make images of women in intimate settings and quickly established herself as a specialist in lingerie – women’s underwear and nightclothes. As viewers have since observed, this body of work rises above its commercial roots to portray a private realm where women appear to be effortlessly self-possessed. Speaking of Bassman’s lingerie work in the New York Times, Ginia Bellafante pointed out that the pho…
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The Tragedy of Arthur: A Novel
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The bestselling author of Prague and The Song Is You spins this engrossing family saga, a tour de force whose doomed hero is Arthur Phillips, a young novelist struggling with a con artist father who works wonders of deception. Imprisoned for decades and nearing the end of his life, Arthur’s father reveals a treasure he’s kept secret for half a century: The Tragedy of Arthur, a previously unknown play by William Shakespeare. Arthur and his twin sister inherit their father’s mission: to see…
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Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1, Reader's Edition
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A publication of the Mark Twain Project of the Bancroft Library. The year 2010 marked the 100th anniversary of Mark Twain’s death. In celebration of this important milestone and in honor of the cherished tradition of publishing Mark Twain’s works, the University of California Press published Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume I, the first of a projected three-volume edition of the complete, uncensored autobiography. This Reader’s Edition, a portable paperback, republishes the main text o…
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In the poet’s fifth collection of poems, the rollicking line he has made his signature becomes the taut, more discursive means to describing beauty, singing a dirge, directing an ironic smile, or questioning who in any given setting is the master and who is the pupil. This is a book that explores the darker side of divisions and developments, which shows how the interstitial spaces of boonies, backstage, bathhouse, or bar are locations of desire. With D. A. Powell’s witty banter, emotiona…
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Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100
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The Science Channel host and author of Physics of the Impossible outlines a provocative vision of the role of science in daily life at the beginning of the next century, describing such technologies as mind-controlled computers, sensor-based health care and laser-propulsion spaceships. Reprint. A best-selling book.
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