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The Shadow of Vesuvius

Daisy Dunn

• Hardcover | Engels
• When Pliny the Elder perished at Stabiae during the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, he left behind an enormous compendium of knowledge, his thirty-seve... Lees meer

Rushing to Paradise

J G Ballard

• Paperback | Engels
• Led by a charismatic and slightly unhinged woman, a group of environmentalists wrest control over a small South Pacific island in hopes of cultivating... Lees meer

Being Elvis

Ray Connolly

• Hardcover | Engels
• Elvis Presley is a giant figure in American popular culture, a man whose talent and fame were matched only by his later excesses and tragic end. A god... Lees meer

Our Declaration

Danielle Allen

• Paperback | Engels
• Featured on the front page of the New York Times , Our Declaration is already regarded as a seminal work that reinterprets the promise of American dem... Lees meer

Counting

Deborah Stone

• Paperback | Engels
• In a post-Trumpian world where COVID rates soar and Americans wage near-civil war about election results, Deborah Stone's Counting promises to transfo... Lees meer

Germany 1923

Volker Ullrich

• Paperback | Engels
• As the great Austrian writer Stefan Zweig confided in his autobiography, written in exile, "I have a pretty thorough knowledge of history, but never, ... Lees meer

Inseparable

Yunte Huang

• Hardcover | Engels
• Nearly a decade after his triumphant Charlie Chan biography, Yunte Huang returns with this long-awaited portrait of Chang and Eng Bunker (1811-1874), ... Lees meer

Story of Mankind (Updated)

Hendrik Willem Van Loon, Robert Sullivan, John Merriman

• Paperback | Engels | Liveright Classics
• Winner of the first John Newberry Medal, Hendrik Willem van Loon's The Story of Mankind , originally written for the author's grandchildren, has charm... Lees meer

How the Internet Happened

Brian McCullough

• Hardcover | Engels
• The internet was never intended for you, opines Brian McCullough in this lively narrative of an era that utterly transformed everything we thought we ... Lees meer

1964

Paul McCartney

• Hardcover | Engels | Liveright
• Taken with a 35mm camera by Paul McCartney, these largely unseen photographs capture the explosive period, from the end of 1963 through early 1964, in... Lees meer

Political Brokers

National Journal

• Paperback | Engels
• Here, for the first time, are both the day-to-day operations and the long-term objectives of key Washington organizations. Here are the names of hundr... Lees meer

An Anthology of Pure Poetry

• Paperback | Engels
• Almost fifty years since the anthology's first appearance, it is still the only such one ever attempted. By "pure poetry" Moore meant lasting objects ... Lees meer

The Last Days of California

Mary Miller

• Paperback | Engels
• Fourteen-year-old Jess' beliefs falter when her evangelical father packs up the family, including her secretly pregnant older sister and her long-suff... Lees meer

Approaching Ali

Davis Miller

• Paperback | Engels
• In 1988, then struggling writer and video store worker Davis Miller drove to Muhammad Ali's mother's modest Louisville house, knocked on the door, and... Lees meer

The Second Coming of the KKK

Linda Gordon

• Paperback | Engels
• Extraordinary national acclaim accompanied the publication of award-winning historian Linda Gordon's disturbing and markedly timely history of the rea... Lees meer

Letters to a Young Scientist

Edward O Wilson

• Paperback | Engels
• Edward O. Wilson has distilled sixty years of teaching into a book for students, young and old. Reflecting on his coming-of-age in the South as a Boy ... Lees meer

The Social Conquest of Earth

Edward O Wilson

• Paperback | Engels
• Sparking vigorous debate in the sciences, The Social Conquest of Earth upends "the famous theory that evolution naturally encourages creatures to put ... Lees meer

Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982

Cho Nam-Joo

• Paperback | Engels
• One of the most notable novels of the year, hailed by both critics and K-pop stars alike, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 follows one woman's psychic deteriora... Lees meer

The Color of Law

Richard Rothstein

• Hardcover | Engels
• In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading authority on housing policy, explodes the myth that Ame... Lees meer

The Drowned World

J G Ballard

• Hardcover | Engels
• Appearing in hardcover in America for the first time, this neglected Ballardian masterpiece promises to be a touchstone for environmentalists the worl... Lees meer

Rediscovering Travel

Seth Kugel

• Hardcover | Engels
• By captivating millions during his six-year, fifty-country tenure as the New York Times 's "Frugal Traveler," Seth Kugel has become one of our most in... Lees meer

Tinderbox

Robert W Fieseler

• Hardcover | Engels
• Buried for decades, the Up Stairs Lounge tragedy has only recently emerged as a catalyzing event of the gay liberation movement. In revelatory detail,... Lees meer

We the Corporations

Adam Winkler

• Hardcover | Engels
• We the Corporations chronicles the astonishing story of one of the most successful yet least well-known "civil rights movements" in American history. ... Lees meer

Bolshoi Confidential

Simon Morrison

• Paperback | Engels
• A critical triumph, Simon Morrison's "sweeping and authoritative" ( Guardian ) work, Bolshoi Confidential , details the Bolshoi Ballet's magnificent h... Lees meer