Picasso
Written by Philippe Dagen

Format: Hardcover, 512 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $150.00

Art critic and scholar Philippe Dagen approaches Picasso as a subject through a series of questions. What does it mean to be an artist in the twentieth century? What does it mean to be an artist in the time of newspapers and museums, in a time when the art market has... Read more >

The Age of Entanglement
Written by Louisa Gilder

Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $17.00

In The Age of Entanglement, Louisa Gilder brings to life one of the pivotal debates in twentieth century physics. In 1935, Albert Einstein famously showed that, according to the quantum theory, separated particles could act as if intimately connected–a phenomenon which he derisively described as “spooky action at a distance.” In... Read more >

The Black Book
Edited by Middleton A. Harris, Ernest Smith, Morris Levitt and Roger Furman
Foreword by Toni Morrison

Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $35.00

Seventeenth-century sketches of Africa as it appeared to marauding European traders. Nineteenth-century slave auction notices. Twentieth-century sheet music for work songs and freedom chants. Photographs of war heroes, regal in uniform. Antebellum reward posters for capturing runaway slaves. An 1856 article titled “A Visit to the Slave Mother Who Killed Her... Read more >

A Truth Universally Acknowledged
Edited by Susannah Carson
Foreword by Harold Bloom

Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $25.00

For so many of us a Jane Austen novel is much more than the epitome of a great read. It is a delight and a solace, a challenge and a reward, and perhaps even an obsession. For two centuries Austen has enthralled readers. Few other authors can claim as many fans... Read more >

The Bedside Book of Beasts
Written by Graeme Gibson

Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $35.00

In a wonderfully diverse selection of writings and gorgeous illustrations, this stunning companion to The Bedside Book of Birds explores the relationship between predators and their prey.

The intricate, complex connection between the hunter and the hunted has defined animal life on earth throughout time. In The Bedside Book of Beasts, Graeme... Read more >

Defend the Realm
Written by Christopher Andrew

Format: Hardcover, 1056 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $40.00

An unprecedented publishing event: to mark the centenary of its foundation, the British Security Service, MI5, has for the first time opened its archives to an independent historian. The book reveals the precise role of the Security Service in twentieth-century British history, from its foundation by Captain Kell of the British... Read more >

Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean
Written by Edward Kritzler

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $15.00

In this lively debut work of history, Edward Kritzler tells the tale of an unlikely group of swashbuckling Jews who ransacked the high seas in the aftermath of the Spanish Inquisition. At the end of the fifteenth century, many Jews had to flee Spain and Portugal. The most adventurous among them... Read more >

The Landmark Xenophon's Hellenika
Edited by Robert B. Strassler

Format: Hardcover, 672 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $40.00

From the editor of the widely praised The Landmark Thucydides and The Landmark Herodotus, here is a new edition of Xenophon’s Hellenika, the primary source for the events of the final seven years and aftermath of the Peloponnesian War.

Hellenika covers the years between 411 and 362 B.C.E., a particularly dramatic... Read more >

5 Simple Steps to Take Your Marriage from Good to Great
Written by Terri L. Orbuch

Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $26.00

What makes marriages last? What makes couples happy?
Is it possible for a so-so marriage to become a great one?

From Dr. Terri Orbuch, the renowned therapist and nationally recognized relationship expert known as The Love Doctor®, comes a book that breaks new ground in marital relationships. The head researcher in a... Read more >

The Snowball
Written by Alice Schroeder

Format: Trade Paperback, 832 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $20.00

Here is THE book recounting the life and times of one of the most respected men in the world, Warren Buffett. The legendary Omaha investor has never written a memoir, but now he has allowed one writer, Alice Schroeder, unprecedented access to explore directly with him and with those closest to... Read more >