Hogarth, May 2023. Paper Back. NATIONAL BESTSELLER - "Propulsive . . . An absorbing look at small-town Maine and the thwarted dreams of a family trying to transcend it."--Lee Cole, The New York Times (Editors' Choice) "I tore through the saga of the Thatch family in two nights. The Midcoast..... More
Vintage, February 2010. Trade Paperback. In this captivating double life, Adam Gopnik searches for the men behind the icons of emancipation and evolution. Born by cosmic coincidence on the same day in 1809 and separated by an ocean, Lincoln and Darwin coauthored our sense of history and our understanding of..... More
Houghton Mifflin, September 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. In the 1880's, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and largely unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a genocidal plundering of the Congo, he looted its rubber, brutalized its..... More
Mariner Books, October 1999. Trade Paperback. In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a genocidal plundering of the Congo, he looted its rubber, brutalized its people..... More
Penguin USA, March 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. From the earliest years of the American republic, Paris has provoked an extraordinary American literary response. An almost inevitable destination for writers and thinkers, Paris has been many things to many Americans: a tradition-bound bastion of the old world of Europe; a hotbed..... More
McGraw-Hill, June 1966. Trade Paperback. As is. Stained cover. More
Random House, October 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The "fascinating" (Rachel Maddow) inside account of American democracy in its darkest hour, from the rise of autocracy unleashed by Trump to the January 6 insurrection, and a warning that those forces remain as potent as ever--from..... More
Digital Ventures, LLC, February 2017. Paper Back. Covers gently worn from handling, mildly damp-stained/moderately scuffed at rear; Spine-length un-creased; Pages free of markings; A great reading copy. More
Modern Library, January 1994. Hardcover. But, as Andrew Skinner reveals in his introduction to this edition, the real sophistication of "The Wealth of Nations" lies less in individual areas of economic analysis than in its overall picture of a vast analytical system--a capitalist economy--in which all the parts can be..... More
Liveright, March 2023. Hardcover. For decades now, Adam Gopnik has been one of our most beloved writers, a brilliantly perceptive critic of art, food, France, and more. But recently, he became obsessed by a more fundamental matter, one he had often meditated on in The New Yorker: How do masters..... More
Little Brown and Company, June 1996. Oversize Softcover. The highly successful, one-of-a-kind atlas to the beloved novels of Patrick O'Brian is back in a revised and expanded edition. Since the release of the first edition, two new Aubrey -- Maturin novels have appeared -- The Yellow Admiral and The Hundred..... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, February 2023. Hardcover. A stunning, intimate collection by the late, great Polish poet Adam Zagajewski. . . . I think I sought wisdom (without resignation) in poems and also a certain calm madness. I found, much later, a moment's joy and melancholy's dark contentment. In True..... More
Penguin Group USA Inc, August 1970. Trade Paperback. But, as Andrew Skinner reveals in his introduction to this edition, the real sophistication of "The Wealth of Nations" lies less in individual areas of economic analysis than in its overall picture of a vast analytical system--a capitalist economy--in which all the..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, November 2022. Hardcover. Control is a book about eugenics, what geneticist Adam Rutherford calls "a defining idea of the twentieth century." Inspired by Darwin's ideas about evolution, eugenics arose in Victorian England as a theory for improving the British population, and quickly spread to America..... More
Mariner Books, October 2022. Hardcover. National Bestseller - One of the year's most acclaimed works of nonfiction A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: New York Times, Washington Post, New Yorker, Chicago Tribune, Kirkus, New York Post, Fast Company From legendary historian Adam Hochschild, a "masterly" (New York Times) reassessment of..... More
Penguin Books, September 2002. Trade Paperback. James Boswell's "The Life of Samuel Johnson" is the most celebrated of all biographies, acknowledged as one of the greatest and most entertaining books in the English language. Yet Boswell himself has generally been considered little more than an idiot and condemned by posterity..... More
Astra House, August 2022. Paper Back. It's precisely Soto's refusal to be 'weighted' down by decades of genre tradition, to instead turn the trope on its head and in doing so remind us that no-one but ourselves is coming to save us, that makes This Weightless World such an exciting..... More
Berkley Publishing Group, May 2014. Trade Paperback. THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER: "Beautifully told."--CNN - "A remarkable story...worth retelling and celebrating."--USA Today - "Oh, it's a good one!"--Fox News A "beautiful story of a brotherhood between enemies" emerges from the horrors of World War II in this New York Times bestseller by..... More
New York University Press, January 1963. Trade Paperback. More
W. W. Norton & Company, January 2008. Hardcover. Over the last ten years, through essays in The New Republic, The New Yorker, and other magazines, Adam Kirsch--"one of the most promising young poet-critics in America" (Los Angeles Times)--has established himself among the most controversial and fearless critics writing today. Sure..... More
Faber & Faber, June 1963. Paper Back. Previous owner's name. More
Houghton Mifflin, February 2006. Trade Paperback. Adam Hochschild's Bury the Chains is the taut, gripping account of one of the most brilliantly organized social justice campaigns in history--the fight to free the slaves of the British Empire. Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History A National Book..... More
Routledge, January 1998. Trade Paperback. In one of the truly great classics of twentieth-century political economy, R. H. Tawney addresses the question of how religion has affected social and economic practices. He does this by a relentless tracking of the influence of religious thought on capitalist economy and ideology since..... More
Harper Paperbacks, November 2016. Trade Paperback. An insightful and highly readable portrait of a writer and a man who has often been as elusive and enigmatic as his fictional heroes." --Michiko Kakutani, New York Times The definitive biography of the internationally adored author of The Spy Who Came in from..... More
Farrar Straus Giroux, August 2001. First American. Hardcover. A heroic, brilliantly detailed portrait of the biographer as artist. James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson is the most celebrated of all biographies, acknowledged as one of the greatest and most entertaining books in the English language. Yet Boswell himself was regarded..... More
