Subjects Freshman Year Reading African American Studies African Studies American Studies Anthropology Art, Film, Music and Architecture Asian Studies Business and Economics Criminology Education Environmental Studies Foreign Language Instructional Materials Gender Studies History Irish Studies Jewish Studies Latin American & Caribbean Studies Law and Legal Studies Literature and Drama Literature in Spanish Media Issues, Journalism and Communication Middle East Studies Native American Studies Philosophy Political Science Psychology Reference Religion Russian and Eastern European Studies Science and Mathematics Sociology Study Aids


E-Newsletters: Click here to be notified of new titles in your field
Click here to request Desk/Exam copies
Freshman Year Reading
View Our Award Winners
Click here to view our Catalogs

6 Featured Titles

Sort: Author  Date  Format  Price  Title


Exam Copy
I Do and I Don't
A History of Marriage in the Movies
Written by Jeanine Basinger


Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $30.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-26916-4 (0-307-26916-7)

From one of our leading film historians and interpreters: a brilliantly researched, irresistibly witty, delightfully illustrated examination of “the marriage movie”; what it is (or isn’t) and what it has to tell us about the movies—and ourselves.

As long as there have been feature movies there have been marriage movies, and yet... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.

Exam Copy
Days That I'll Remember
Spending Time with John Lennon and Yoko Ono
Written by Jonathan Cott


Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Doubleday
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $25.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-53637-0 (0-385-53637-2)

Jonathan Cott met John Lennon in 1968 and was friends with him and Yoko Ono until John's death in 1980. He has kept in touch with Yoko since that time, and is one of the small group of writers who understands her profoundly positive influence on Lennon. This deeply personal book... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.

Exam Copy
Painting and Photography
1839-1914
Written by Dominique de Font-Reaulx


Format: Hardcover, 328 pages
Publisher: Flammarion
On Sale: February 5, 2013
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 978-2-08-020132-4 (2-08-020132-8)

Read more >

Exam Copy
Albert Speer
Architecture 1932-1942
Written by Leon Krier
Preface by Robert A. M. Stern


Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
Publisher: The Monacelli Press
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 978-1-58093-354-4 (1-58093-354-8)

Read more >

Exam Copy
The Beautiful and the Good
Reasons for Sustainable Fashion
Written by Marco Ricchetti and Maria Luisa Frisa


Format: Trade Paperback, 236 pages
Publisher: Marsilio
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $40.00
ISBN: 978-88-317-1260-6 (88-317-1260-8)

Read more >

Exam Copy
The Ordinary Acrobat
A Journey into the Wondrous World of the Circus, Past and Present
Written by Duncan Wall


Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: February 26, 2013
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27172-3 (0-307-27172-2)

The extraordinary story of a young man’s plunge into the unique and wonderful world of the circus—taking readers deep into circus history and its renaissance as a contemporary art form, and behind the (tented) walls of France’s most prestigious circus school.

When Duncan Wall visited his first nouveau cirque as a... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.
Page 1 of 1