Viking, June 2018. Hardcover. "The Infinite Jest of climate books." --The Baffler "Incontestably important." --The San Francisco Chronicle An eye-opening look at the consequences of coal mining and oil and natural gas production--the second of a two volume work by award-winning author William T. Vollmann on the ideologies of energy... More
Vintage, January 2006. Trade Paperback. Coming this October: Killing Commendatore, the much-anticipated new novel from Haruki Murakami Kafka on the Shore displays one of the world's great storytellers at the peak of his powers. Here we meet a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who is on the run, and Nakata, an... More
Viking, June 2018. Hardcover. A dive into the secret lives of whales, from their evolutionary past to today's cutting edge of science Whales are among the largest, most intelligent, deepest diving species to have ever lived on our planet. They evolved from land-roaming, dog-sized creatures into animals that move like... More
Broadway Books, March 2017. Trade Paperback. WINNER OF THE 2017 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NONFICTION In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur "Genius" Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they struggle to keep a roof over their heads. Hailed as "wrenching and revelatory" (The Nation), "vivid and unsettling" (New... More
Broadway Books, September 2017. Mass Market PaperBack. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read The bestselling cult classic--now a major motion picture directed by Steven Spielberg. At once wildly original and stuffed with irresistible nostalgia, READY PLAYER ONE is a spectacularly genre-busting, ambitious, and... More
Penguin Press, May 2018. Hardcover. The #1 New York Times bestseller. A brilliant and brave investigation into the medical and scientific revolution taking place around psychedelic drugs--and the spellbinding story of his own life-changing psychedelic experiences When Michael Pollan set out to research how LSD and psilocybin (the active ingredient... More
Tor Books, August 2018. Hardcover. Drew Williams's The Stars Now Unclaimed is a fun, adventure-filled space opera set in a far-future galaxy. Jane Kamali is an agent for the Justified. Her mission: to recruit children with miraculous gifts in the hope that they might prevent the Pulse from once again... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, March 2018. Hardcover. The continuation of a groundbreaking study of the Rwandan genocide, and the story of the survivor generation In Rwanda from April to June 1994, 800,000 Tutsis were slaughtered by their Hutu neighbors in the largest and swiftest genocide since World War II. In... More
Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, August 2018. Hardcover. The award-winning journalist Lisa Margonelli, national bestselling author of Oil on the Brain: Petroleum's Long, Strange Trip to Your Tank, investigates the environmental and economic impact termites inflict on human societies in this fascinating examination of one of nature's most... More
The MIT Press, August 2016. Paper Back. The real story of how our brains and nervous systems change throughout our lifetimes--with or without "brain training." Fifty years ago, neuroscientists thought that a mature brain was fixed like a fly in amber, unable to change. Today, we know that our brains... More
Princeton University Press, April 1970. Oversize Softcover. The description for this book, American Painting From the Armory Show to the Depression, will be forthcoming. More
Hoover Institution Press, September 1986. First Edition. Cloth. The historical background, the present position, and the future prospects of both the non-Russian and Russian peoples are considered in their many aspects, as are the maneuvers of the Communist regime to suppress, appease, or make use of them. The future of... More
Modern Library, January 1969. Cloth. Shelf wear and minor edge chipping on the jacket. Mylar wrapped. Name in pen and an Ex-Libris plate on the front endpapers. More
Hill and Wang, 1985. Trade Paperback. The life of Georg Buchner was short, intense, and tragic--and extremely significant for the development of modern drama. His three plays, Danton's Death, Leonce and Lena, and Woyzeck, were greatly ahead of their time in their penetrating dramatic and psychological treatment. They served as... More
City Lights Publishers, January 2001. Trade Paperback. From one of Guatemala's finest young writers, these twenty-six stories--at once brutal and intensely lyrical--are peopled with sorcerers, ghosts, and assassins. Springing from myth and beliefs indigenous to Central America and North America, where their action occurs, Rey Rosa's tales give the sense... More
New Directions Publishing Corporation, June 1964. Trade Paperback. Skipper, an ex-World War II naval Lieutenant and the narrator of Second Skin, interweaves past and present what he refers to as his "naked history" in a series of episodes that tell the story of a volatile life marked by pitiful losses... More
Random House Inc (P), March 1984. Trade Paperback. More
Grove, 1970. Trade Paperback. More
Bantam, October 1999. Trade Paperback. More
Vintage, January 1998. Trade Paperback. Christopher Isherwood is the narrator of Goodbye to Berlin. His story evokes the gathering storm in Berlin before and just after the rise to power of the Nazis, as seen through the eyes of a series of individuals. More
Dover Pubns, June 1978. Trade Paperback. More
Harvest Books, June 1977. Trade Paperback. ONE OF THE GREATEST AMERICAN SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS In 1955, with this short story collection, Flannery O'Connor firmly laid claim to her place as one of the most original and provocative writers of her generation. Steeped in a Southern Gothic tradition that would become... More
Black Sparrow, 1993. Trade Paperback. From iconic tortured artist/everyman Charles Bukowski, Hollywood is the fictionalization of his experience adapting his novel Barfly into a movie by the same name. Henry Chinaski, Bukowski's alter-ego, is pushed to translate a semi-autobiographical book into a screenplay for John Pinchot. He reluctantly agrees, and... More
Birkhäuser, June 1999. Hardcover. Die Architektur von Helmut Richter ist von der Idee des Fortschritts bestimmt: seine GebAude sind Wegweiser der bautechnischen Entwicklung; seine rAumlichen Konzepte nehmen, insbesondere in seinen zahlreichen Wohnprojekten, neue soziale Verhaltensweisen vorweg. Richters Werk, das in diesem Buch erstmals zusammenfassend dargestellt wird, ist von einer auf... More
