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Winner of the National Book Award. The story of William "Skip" Sands, CIA - engaged in Psychological Operations against the Vietcong - and the disasters that befall him. This prize-winning novel is also... more info...

Hundreds of thousands of readers were enthralled by the luminous, tender voice of John Ames in Gilead, Marilynne Robinson's Pultizer Prize-winning novel. HOME is an entirely independent, deeply affecting... more info...

Set in January of 1946, this story follows writer Juliet Ashton as she struggles to find her next subject to write about. She receives a letter from a resident of Guernsey, the small island that had been... more info...

The United States has already spent close to a trillion dollars on the conflict in Iraq, and there are hundreds of billions in bills still due - including staggering costs to provide thousands of injured... more info...

A comedy about two teens thrust together for one hilarious, sleepless night of adventure in a world of mix tapes, late-night living, and, live, loud music. 192p. (Ages: 14 & up). more info...

(Twenty-fifth Anniversary Special Edition). This vividly expressed guide showcases ninety-six illustrators from thirteen countries; each entry highlights examples of recent work and includes the artist's... more info...

On the darkest night, amidst a terrifying storm, Dinah's parents go missing. With supplies dwindling and worry growing, Dinah and her brother and sister listen to their cousin Gage tell them an unlikely... more info...

(Collector's Edition). The true meaning of friendship is revealed in the 35 stories from seven books about the hippopotamus friends, collected here using effortless humor, deceptively simple drawings and... more info...

(Jewish Encounters series). The best-selling author of "How We Die" focuses his surgeon's eye and writer's pen on this greatest rabbinic figure, most challenging of Jewish philosophers, and most honored... more info...

The Swiss-born painter, like many of his contemporaries was interested in Transcendentalism and found nature an inexhaustible source of inspiration. Much of his oeuvre depicts gardens and parks - from... more info...

One was an acclaimed artist, the other an ardent collector of photography, a promoter, and author. Man Ray (1890-1976) and L. Fritz Gruber (1908-2005) nurtured professional and personal contact for more... more info...

A highly collectable, facsimile edition of the journal photographer Stephen Shore made during his influential road trip across America in 1973. LIMITED to 3,300 copies, plus 100 artist's proofs, each copy... more info...

(25th Anniversary Special Edition). Taschen's second installment in their Art Now series profiles the latest trends and hottest names on the contemporary art scene! Featuring over 135 artists in A-Z entries,... more info...

(A New Press People's History series, edited by Howard Zinn). Award-winning historian Vijay Prashad tells the story of how the Cold War created the Third World - at once a political project, an anti-imperialist... more info...

This volume includes: The Jungle Book; The Second Jungle Book; Just So Stories For Little Children; Puck of Pook's Hill; Captains Courageous; Stalky & Co.; Kim. B&W illus. 776p. more info...

This monograph presents images from four recent series by Georg Baselitz (b.1938): The Bridge Ghost's Supper; Bildweg (Remix); Schwarz-Weiss Negativ; Pace Piece. Also published are photographs of Baselitz... more info...

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After the success of the recent touring exhibition "My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love," Kara Walker's silhouetted cut-out figures are a now-familiar but still pungent presence in contemporary... more info...

In "The Other Half" author and Danish journalist Tom Buk-Swienty guides readers through the life and times of one of America's most heroic social reformers, and the father of photojournalism: Jacob Riis.... more info...

Irvine (Trainspotting) Welsh brings his brand of mayhem to the glitzed-out, drugs-and-danger state of Florida: In the wake of a nasty child-murder case, Detective Inspector Ray Lennox of the Edinburgh... more info...

The city's first guide to focus on one hundred unique, off-the-beaten-path destinations. Some are small museums, some are historic places long forgotten, some are stores that sell only odd things, and... more info...

By the time Bruno was burned at the stake as a heretic in 1600 on Rome's Campo dei Fiori, he'd been the peer of Erasmus, Shakespeare, and Galileo; a thinker whose vision of the world prefigures our own.... more info...

Recovering from a car crash in his daughter's home in Vermont, 72-year-old August Brill is unable to sleep, lying in bed, telling himself stories, struggling to push away thoughts about things he'd prefer... more info...

Tracing street art's origins in cave painting through the Paris walls photographed by Brassai in the '20s through the witty, sophisticated, imagery found on city streets today, the book also features new... more info...

This hilarious and informative guide is Michael Moore's (filmmaker of Fahrenheit 9/11 & Bowling for Columbine; author of Dude, Where's My Country?) effort to make sense of the 2008 race for the White House... more info...

In March 1949, Robert Frank mailed a birthday gift to his mother in Switzerland: a maquette of a series of photographs he'd made during a visit to Peru between June and December of the previous year. He... more info...

Designed as a companion book to his critically acclaimed monograph South Central, photographer Mark Steinmetz here turns his focus to Athens and Atlanta, New Orleans, Memphis and East Tennessee, and the... more info...

Since winning the prestigious Turner Prize in 2000 for his 1990s oeuvre of portraits and snapshots, German-born photographer Wolfgang Tillmans has increasingly gravitated towards the abstract and material-specific... more info...

Winner of the 2007 Man Booker Prize, Anne Enright's novel The Gathering went on to become a national bestseller acclaimed for its electrifying prose. Now, in "Yesterday's Weather," Enright presents a series... more info...

It is more apparent than ever today that journalists who report on their subjects in a subversive manner are putting themselves in danger. This can certainly be said of the Middle East conflict, though... more info...

(Twelfth edition). Inside you'll find the best of the New York Cty shopping scene, from Soho fashions to Madison Avenue boutiques; excellent values, from designer shoes and handbags to vintage clothes... more info...

An unprecedented account of the pains, the struggles, the humiliations, and the glories of the world's largest and least likely democracy. The book is a breathtaking chronicle of brutal conflicts that... more info...

In his first book-length journey into philosophy since the acclaimed Godel, Escher, Bach, philosopher Douglas Hofstadter argues that the key to understanding selves and consciousness is the "strange loop"... more info...

The Bronx had almost ceased to burn by 1979. The intensity and extent of the devastation permeated the landscape; the Bronx came undone in a confluence of unfortunate circumstances: it was destroyed for... more info...

The perennial guide that guides us all! The stars, the seasons, the tides! Everything you need to know about gardening and astrology! Information on Health & Home, Husbandry, Nature, the Outdoors. The... more info...

"For the Working project I went to the Yellow Pages and started with Accountant and finished with Veterinarian. I blend in with the crowd. I am middle class. I talk and look like everybody else, except... more info...

A collection of over twenty-five stories from the first decade of Jason's career (including the eponymous graphic novella that won him his earliest accolades), presented here for the very first time in... more info...

(25th Anniversary Special Edition). The iconic German photographer Karl Blossfeldt (1865-1932) took thousands of photographs over a thirty-year period, bridging the 19th/20th centuries of the plant kingdom,... more info...

A Japanese power plant, dilapidated slums, the patterned facades of an apartment complex in Paris - in the work of German art photographer Andreas Gursky (b. 1955, in Leipzig) bothindustrial & political... more info...

A book that investigates, explains, and offers advice for finding social success with the Caucasian persuasion. So kick back on your IKEAcouch (in your Portland loft with a pile of unread, subscribed-to... more info...

An astounding, sweeping portrait of China, its people and its history, circa 1949-2008. This massive, visual journey shows how the Chinese people have blossomed in spite of enduring previous decades of... more info...

NeoHooDoo, a phrase coined by the poet Ishmael Reed in the late 1960s, celebrates the practice of rituals, folklore, and spirituality in the Americas beyond the scope of Christianity and organized religion/... more info...

(Icons series). With its origins tied to the invention of the hyperlink, the web is defined by interaction: from news sites and blogs to commercial and public awareness sites, interactivity is the key... more info...

(Big Ideas, Small Books series). Using history, philosophy, books, movies, Lacanian psychoanalysis, and jokes, the philosopher, cultural critic, and agent provocateur Slavoj Zizek examines the ways we... more info...