University of Chicago Press, March 2013. Paper Back. A year in Paris . . . since World War II, countless American students have been lured by that vision-and been transformed by their sojourn in the City of Light. Dreaming in French tells three stories of that experience, and how it..... More
Univ of Chicago Pr, September 1994. Soft Cover. Brilliantly uniting the personal and the critical, "French Lessons" is a powerful autobiographical experiment. It tells the story of an American woman escaping into the French language and of a scholar and teacher coming to grips with her history of learning. Kaplan..... More
Harper Perennial, June 2015. Paper Back. "There is much to praise in this extensively researched book, which is certainly one of the finest biographies of a sadly underrated man. . . . [Kaplan is] a master historian and biographer. . . . If he could read this biography, Adams would..... More
Harper, June 2017. Hardcover. "Anyone who wants to understand the United States' racial divisions will learn a lot from reading Kaplan's richly researched account of one of the worst periods in American history and its chilling effects today in our cities, legislative bodies, schools, and houses of worship." -- St..... More
Catapult, October 2025. Hardcover. Longlisted for the NBCC Award for Autobiography A deeply reflective memoir weaving together the personal story of Hester Kaplan's acclaimed biographer father and his fraught effect on her artistic development with a rich portrait of twentieth century intellectual life and a meditation on family intimacy, identity..... More
Clash Books, March 2026. Paper Back. When a metal band's lead singer vanishes in the woods, the mushrooms in the forest might know more than they're letting on in this mycelium-metal horror novel from Shirley Jackson Award-nominated author Jo Kaplan. The dead collect in low places. That's what Brynn Werner..... More
Simon & Schuster, April 1974. First Edition. Cloth. In edgeworn dustjacket with sunned spine. Flap not clipped. Navy blue cloth covered boards with silver lettering upon spine. Spine tightly bound, yet somewhat cocked. Remainder mark bottom textblock. Textblock top edge moderate foxing and darkening top and fore-edge. Sky blue end..... More
Seal Press (CA), October 2025. First Edition. Hardcover. The "remarkable" (Dr. Jane Goodall) story of a beagle's past, and the future of animal research Winner of an ASJA Book Award When journalist Melanie D.G. Kaplan adopted her beagle Hammy, all she knew was that he had spent nearly four years..... More
Random House Inc, February 1997. Paper Back. In The Ends of the Earth, Robert D. Kaplan travels from the devastated countries of West Africa and the fundamentalist enclaves of Egypt and Iran to the culturally explosive lands of Central Asia, India, Pakistan, and Southeast Asia with hardly more than a...... More
Vintage Books, November 2001. Trade Paperback. First time in paperback, with a new Introduction and final chapter World affairs expert and intrepid travel journalist Robert D. Kaplan braved the dangers of war-ravaged Afghanistan in the 1980s, living among the mujahidin--the "soldiers of god"--whose unwavering devotion to Islam fueled their mission..... More
Vintage, February 2001. Paper Back. Robert Kaplan, bestselling author of Balkan Ghosts, offers up scrupulous, far-ranging insights on the world to come in a spirited, rousing, and provocative book that has earned a place at the top of the reading lists of the world's policy makers. The end of the..... More
Random House (NY), August 1998. Hardcover. Traveling, like Tocqueville and John Gunther before him, through a political and cultural landscape in transition, Kaplan reveals a nation shedding a familiar identity as it assumes a radically new one. "An Empire Wilderness" opens in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where the first white settlers..... More
Random House (NY), February 1996. Hardcover. The bestselling author of Balkan Ghosts takes readers on a journey through troubled regions where age-old cultural rivalries threaten to reshape the world of tomorrow. From West Africa to the fundamentalist enclaves of Egypt and Iran to the culturally explosive lands of Central Asia..... More
Random House Trade Paperbacks, January 2015. Trade Paperback. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY FINANCIAL TIMES From Robert D. Kaplan, named one of the world's Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine, comes a penetrating look at the volatile region that will dominate the future..... More
Penguin Classics, 1987. Trade Paperback. When A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court was published in 1889, Mark Twain was undergoing a series of personal and professional crises. Thus what began as a literary burlesque of British chivalry and culture grew into a disturbing satire of modern technology and social..... More
Penguin Classics, 1987. Trade Paperback. When A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court was published in 1889, Mark Twain was undergoing a series of personal and professional crises. Thus what began as a literary burlesque of British chivalry and culture grew into a disturbing satire of modern technology and social..... More
