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Hearts of the City
The Selected Writings of Herbert Muschamp
Written by Herbert Muschamp
Introduction by Nicolai Ouroussoff
Format: Hardcover, 912 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $50.00
From the late Herbert Muschamp, the former architecture critic of The New York Times and one of the most outspoken and influential voices in architectural criticism, a collection of his best work.
The pieces here—from The New Republic, Artforum, and The New York Times—reveal how Muschamp’s views were both ahead of their... Read more >
The Selected Writings of Herbert Muschamp
Written by Herbert Muschamp
Introduction by Nicolai Ouroussoff
Format: Hardcover, 912 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $50.00
From the late Herbert Muschamp, the former architecture critic of The New York Times and one of the most outspoken and influential voices in architectural criticism, a collection of his best work.
The pieces here—from The New Republic, Artforum, and The New York Times—reveal how Muschamp’s views were both ahead of their... Read more >
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Maximum City
Bombay Lost and Found
Written by Suketu Mehta
Format: eBook, 560 pages
On Sale: October 21, 2009
Price: $17.00
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Bombay Lost and Found
Written by Suketu Mehta
Format: eBook, 560 pages
On Sale: October 21, 2009
Price: $17.00
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One and the Same
My Life as an Identical Twin and What I've Learned About Everyone's Struggle to Be Singular
Written by Abigail Pogrebin
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $26.95
The author of Stars of David and a twin herself, journalist Abigail Pogrebin offers a poignant and personal look at what it's really like to live with your mirror image and tells the story of many twins who struggle to balance intimacy and individuality.
Writer. Mother. Wife. New Yorker. Abigail Pogrebin is... Read more >
My Life as an Identical Twin and What I've Learned About Everyone's Struggle to Be Singular
Written by Abigail Pogrebin
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $26.95
The author of Stars of David and a twin herself, journalist Abigail Pogrebin offers a poignant and personal look at what it's really like to live with your mirror image and tells the story of many twins who struggle to balance intimacy and individuality.
Writer. Mother. Wife. New Yorker. Abigail Pogrebin is... Read more >
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Sisters in War
A Story of Love, Family, and Survival in the New Iraq
Written by Christina Asquith
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: September 29, 2009
Price: $26.00
Caught up in a terrifying war, facing choices of life and death, two Iraqi sisters take us into the hidden world of women’s lives under U.S. occupation. Through their powerful story of love and betrayal, interwoven with the stories of a Palestinian American women’s rights activist and a U.S. soldier, journalist... Read more >
A Story of Love, Family, and Survival in the New Iraq
Written by Christina Asquith
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: September 29, 2009
Price: $26.00
Caught up in a terrifying war, facing choices of life and death, two Iraqi sisters take us into the hidden world of women’s lives under U.S. occupation. Through their powerful story of love and betrayal, interwoven with the stories of a Palestinian American women’s rights activist and a U.S. soldier, journalist... Read more >
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Traffic
Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)
Written by Tom Vanderbilt
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $16.00
A New York Times Notable Book
One of the Best Books of the Year
The Washington Post • The Cleveland Plain-Dealer • Rocky Mountain News
In this brilliant, lively, and eye-opening investigation, Tom Vanderbilt examines the perceptual limits and cognitive underpinnings that make us worse drivers than we think we are. He demonstrates why... Read more >
Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)
Written by Tom Vanderbilt
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $16.00
A New York Times Notable Book
One of the Best Books of the Year
The Washington Post • The Cleveland Plain-Dealer • Rocky Mountain News
In this brilliant, lively, and eye-opening investigation, Tom Vanderbilt examines the perceptual limits and cognitive underpinnings that make us worse drivers than we think we are. He demonstrates why... Read more >
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Wrestling with Moses
How Jane Jacobs Took On New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City
Written by Anthony Flint
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: July 28, 2009
Price: $27.00
To a young Jane Jacobs, Greenwich Village, with its winding cobblestone streets and diverse makeup, was everything a city neighborhood should be. The activist, writer, and mother of three grew so fond of her bustling community that it became a touchstone for her landmark book The Death and Life of Great... Read more >
How Jane Jacobs Took On New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City
Written by Anthony Flint
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: July 28, 2009
Price: $27.00
To a young Jane Jacobs, Greenwich Village, with its winding cobblestone streets and diverse makeup, was everything a city neighborhood should be. The activist, writer, and mother of three grew so fond of her bustling community that it became a touchstone for her landmark book The Death and Life of Great... Read more >
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Wrestling with Moses
How Jane Jacobs Took On New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City
Written by Anthony Flint
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 28, 2009
Price: $27.00
To a young Jane Jacobs, Greenwich Village, with its winding cobblestone streets and diverse makeup, was everything a city neighborhood should be. The activist, writer, and mother of three grew so fond of her bustling community that it became a touchstone for her landmark book The Death and Life of Great... Read more >
How Jane Jacobs Took On New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City
Written by Anthony Flint
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 28, 2009
Price: $27.00
To a young Jane Jacobs, Greenwich Village, with its winding cobblestone streets and diverse makeup, was everything a city neighborhood should be. The activist, writer, and mother of three grew so fond of her bustling community that it became a touchstone for her landmark book The Death and Life of Great... Read more >
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The World in a City
Traveling the Globe Through the Neighborhoods of the New New York
Written by Joseph Berger
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: June 24, 2009
Price: $25.95
“The whole world can be found in this city. . . .”
–from the Preface
Fifty years ago, New York City had only a handful of ethnic groups. Today, the whole world can be found within the city’s five boroughs–and celebrated New York Times reporter Joseph Berger sets out to discover it, bringing... Read more >
Traveling the Globe Through the Neighborhoods of the New New York
Written by Joseph Berger
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: June 24, 2009
Price: $25.95
“The whole world can be found in this city. . . .”
–from the Preface
Fifty years ago, New York City had only a handful of ethnic groups. Today, the whole world can be found within the city’s five boroughs–and celebrated New York Times reporter Joseph Berger sets out to discover it, bringing... Read more >
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Rogues' Gallery
The Secret History of the Moguls and the Money that Made the Metropolitan Museum
Written by Michael Gross
Format: Hardcover, 560 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $29.95
The Secret History of the Moguls and the Money that Made the Metropolitan Museum
Written by Michael Gross
Format: Hardcover, 560 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $29.95
“Behind almost every painting is a fortune and behind that a sin or a crime.”
With these words as a starting point, Michael Gross, leading chronicler of the American rich, begins the first independent, unauthorized look at the saga of the nation’s greatest museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In this...
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Rogues' Gallery
The Secret History of the Moguls and the Money that Made the Metropolitan Museum
Written by Michael Gross
Format: eBook, 496 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $29.95
“Behind almost every painting is a fortune and behind that a sin or a crime.”
With these words as a starting point, Michael Gross, leading chronicler of the American rich, begins the first independent, unauthorized look at the saga of the nation’s greatest museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In this... Read more >
The Secret History of the Moguls and the Money that Made the Metropolitan Museum
Written by Michael Gross
Format: eBook, 496 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $29.95
“Behind almost every painting is a fortune and behind that a sin or a crime.”
With these words as a starting point, Michael Gross, leading chronicler of the American rich, begins the first independent, unauthorized look at the saga of the nation’s greatest museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In this... Read more >
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The Day the Earth Caved In
An American Mining Tragedy
Written by Joan Quigley
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: April 14, 2009
Price: $16.00
Beginning on Valentine’s Day, 1981, when twelve-year-old Todd Domboski plunged through the earth in his grandmother’s backyard in Centralia, Pennsylvania, The Day the Earth Caved In is an unprecedented and riveting account of the nation’s worst mine fire. In astonishing detail, award-winning journalist Joan Quigley, the granddaughter of Centralia miners, ushers... Read more >
An American Mining Tragedy
Written by Joan Quigley
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: April 14, 2009
Price: $16.00
Beginning on Valentine’s Day, 1981, when twelve-year-old Todd Domboski plunged through the earth in his grandmother’s backyard in Centralia, Pennsylvania, The Day the Earth Caved In is an unprecedented and riveting account of the nation’s worst mine fire. In astonishing detail, award-winning journalist Joan Quigley, the granddaughter of Centralia miners, ushers... Read more >
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The Marriage-Go-Round
The State of Marriage and the Family in America Today
Written by Andrew J. Cherlin
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: April 14, 2009
Price: $25.95
From one of the nation’s leading experts on the American family, a book that explores the state of marriage in America today; its evolution culturally; and with regard to religion and the law, how and why the present state of marriage—a merry-go-round of partnerships—developed, and the implications for parents and children.
During... Read more >
The State of Marriage and the Family in America Today
Written by Andrew J. Cherlin
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: April 14, 2009
Price: $25.95
From one of the nation’s leading experts on the American family, a book that explores the state of marriage in America today; its evolution culturally; and with regard to religion and the law, how and why the present state of marriage—a merry-go-round of partnerships—developed, and the implications for parents and children.
During... Read more >
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The Marriage-Go-Round
Written by Andrew J. Cherlin
Format: eBook, 300 pages
On Sale: April 14, 2009
Price: $25.95
From one of the nation’s leading experts on the American family, a book that explores the state of marriage in America today; its evolution culturally; and with regard to religion and the law, how and why the present state of marriage—a merry-go-round of partnerships—developed, and the implications for parents and children.
During... Read more >
Written by Andrew J. Cherlin
Format: eBook, 300 pages
On Sale: April 14, 2009
Price: $25.95
From one of the nation’s leading experts on the American family, a book that explores the state of marriage in America today; its evolution culturally; and with regard to religion and the law, how and why the present state of marriage—a merry-go-round of partnerships—developed, and the implications for parents and children.
During... Read more >
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The Pecking Order
A Bold New Look at How Family and Society Determine Who We Become
Written by Dalton Conley
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: February 25, 2009
Price: $14.00
We want to think of the family as a haven, a sheltered port from the maelstrom of social forces that rip through our lives. Within the family, we like to think, everyone starts out on equal footing. And yet we see around us evidence that siblings all too often diverge widely... Read more >
A Bold New Look at How Family and Society Determine Who We Become
Written by Dalton Conley
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: February 25, 2009
Price: $14.00
We want to think of the family as a haven, a sheltered port from the maelstrom of social forces that rip through our lives. Within the family, we like to think, everyone starts out on equal footing. And yet we see around us evidence that siblings all too often diverge widely... Read more >
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Too Safe for Their Own Good
How Risk and Responsibility Help Teens Thrive
Written by Michael Ungar
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: February 24, 2009
Price: $18.95
Canadian children are safer now than at any other time in history. So why are we so fearful for them? When they’re young, we drive them to playdates, fill up their time with organized activity, and cocoon them from every imaginable peril. We think we are doing what’s best for them... Read more >
How Risk and Responsibility Help Teens Thrive
Written by Michael Ungar
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: February 24, 2009
Price: $18.95
Canadian children are safer now than at any other time in history. So why are we so fearful for them? When they’re young, we drive them to playdates, fill up their time with organized activity, and cocoon them from every imaginable peril. We think we are doing what’s best for them... Read more >
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Comfortably Numb
How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation
Written by Charles Barber
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: February 10, 2009
Price: $15.95
American doctors dispense approximately 230 million antidepressant prescriptions every year, more than any other class of medication. Charles Barber explores this disturbing phenomenon, examining the ways in which pharmaceutical companies first create the need for a drug and then rush to fill it. Most importantly, he convincingly argues that, without an... Read more >
How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation
Written by Charles Barber
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: February 10, 2009
Price: $15.95
American doctors dispense approximately 230 million antidepressant prescriptions every year, more than any other class of medication. Charles Barber explores this disturbing phenomenon, examining the ways in which pharmaceutical companies first create the need for a drug and then rush to fill it. Most importantly, he convincingly argues that, without an... Read more >
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Beyond Civilization
Humanity's Next Great Adventure
Written by Daniel Quinn
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: February 4, 2009
Price: $12.95
In Beyond Civilization, Daniel Quinn thinks the unthinkable. We all know there's no one right way to build a bicycle, no one right way to design an automobile, no one right way to make a pair of shoes, but we're convinced that there must be only one right way to live... Read more >
Humanity's Next Great Adventure
Written by Daniel Quinn
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: February 4, 2009
Price: $12.95
In Beyond Civilization, Daniel Quinn thinks the unthinkable. We all know there's no one right way to build a bicycle, no one right way to design an automobile, no one right way to make a pair of shoes, but we're convinced that there must be only one right way to live... Read more >
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Gig
Americans Talk About Their Jobs
Edited by John Bowe and Marisa Bowe
Format: eBook, 688 pages
On Sale: February 4, 2009
Price: $16.95
“Amazing . . . a gem of a book that uses only the strength of the human voice to tell an American story -- sometimes dark, always fascinating.”
-- USA Today
“The accounts are wonderfully revealing, with gritty and almost shockingly honest detail. For all their variety, they weave a cohesive, passion-filled story... Read more >
Americans Talk About Their Jobs
Edited by John Bowe and Marisa Bowe
Format: eBook, 688 pages
On Sale: February 4, 2009
Price: $16.95
“Amazing . . . a gem of a book that uses only the strength of the human voice to tell an American story -- sometimes dark, always fascinating.”
-- USA Today
“The accounts are wonderfully revealing, with gritty and almost shockingly honest detail. For all their variety, they weave a cohesive, passion-filled story... Read more >
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Root Shock
How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, and What We Can Do About It
Written by Mindy Fullilove
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: February 4, 2009
Price: $14.95
They called it progress. But for the people whose homes and districts were bulldozed, the urban renewal projects that swept America starting in 1949 were nothing short of assault. Vibrant city blocks—places rich in history—were reduced to garbage-strewn vacant lots. When a neighborhood is destroyed its inhabitants suffer “root shock”: a... Read more >
How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, and What We Can Do About It
Written by Mindy Fullilove
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: February 4, 2009
Price: $14.95
They called it progress. But for the people whose homes and districts were bulldozed, the urban renewal projects that swept America starting in 1949 were nothing short of assault. Vibrant city blocks—places rich in history—were reduced to garbage-strewn vacant lots. When a neighborhood is destroyed its inhabitants suffer “root shock”: a... Read more >
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Fool's Paradise
Players, Poseurs, and the Culture of Excess in South Beach
Written by Steven Gaines
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: January 27, 2009
Price: $25.95
From the acclaimed bestselling author of Philistines at the Hedgerow comes a remarkably revealing profile of the Miami Beach no one knows–a tale of fabulous excess, thwarted power, and rekindled lives that will take its place among the decade’s best works of social portraiture.
Created from a mix of swampland and dredged-up... Read more >
Players, Poseurs, and the Culture of Excess in South Beach
Written by Steven Gaines
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: January 27, 2009
Price: $25.95
From the acclaimed bestselling author of Philistines at the Hedgerow comes a remarkably revealing profile of the Miami Beach no one knows–a tale of fabulous excess, thwarted power, and rekindled lives that will take its place among the decade’s best works of social portraiture.
Created from a mix of swampland and dredged-up... Read more >
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Fool's Paradise
Players, Poseurs, and the Culture of Excess in South Beach
Written by Steven Gaines
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 27, 2009
Price: $25.95
From the acclaimed bestselling author of Philistines at the Hedgerow comes a remarkably revealing profile of the Miami Beach no one knows–a tale of fabulous excess, thwarted power, and rekindled lives that will take its place among the decade’s best works of social portraiture.
Created from a mix of swampland and dredged-up... Read more >
Players, Poseurs, and the Culture of Excess in South Beach
Written by Steven Gaines
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 27, 2009
Price: $25.95
From the acclaimed bestselling author of Philistines at the Hedgerow comes a remarkably revealing profile of the Miami Beach no one knows–a tale of fabulous excess, thwarted power, and rekindled lives that will take its place among the decade’s best works of social portraiture.
Created from a mix of swampland and dredged-up... Read more >
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Against Love
A Polemic
Written by Laura Kipnis
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: January 16, 2009
Price: $14.00
“Will all the adulterers in the room please stand up?” So begins Laura Kipnis’s profoundly provocative and waggish inquiry into our never-ending quest for lasting love, and its attendant issues of fidelity and betrayal. In the tradition of social critiques such as Christopher Lasch’s The Culture of Narcissism, Against Love keenly... Read more >
A Polemic
Written by Laura Kipnis
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: January 16, 2009
Price: $14.00
“Will all the adulterers in the room please stand up?” So begins Laura Kipnis’s profoundly provocative and waggish inquiry into our never-ending quest for lasting love, and its attendant issues of fidelity and betrayal. In the tradition of social critiques such as Christopher Lasch’s The Culture of Narcissism, Against Love keenly... Read more >
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Elsewhere, U.S.A.
How We Got from the Company Man, Family Dinners, and the Affluent Society to the Home Office, BlackBerry Moms, and Economic Anxiety
Written by Dalton Conley
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 13, 2009
Price: $24.00
Over the past three decades, our daily lives have changed slowly but dramatically. Boundaries between leisure and work, public space and private space, and home and office have blurred and become permeable. How many of us now work from home, our wireless economy allowing and encouraging us to work 24/7? How... Read more >
How We Got from the Company Man, Family Dinners, and the Affluent Society to the Home Office, BlackBerry Moms, and Economic Anxiety
Written by Dalton Conley
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 13, 2009
Price: $24.00
Over the past three decades, our daily lives have changed slowly but dramatically. Boundaries between leisure and work, public space and private space, and home and office have blurred and become permeable. How many of us now work from home, our wireless economy allowing and encouraging us to work 24/7? How... Read more >
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America Unzipped
In Search of Sex and Satisfaction
Written by Brian Alexander
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2008
Price: $13.95
Welcome to the America we don’t usually talk about, a place where that nice couple down the street could be saddling up for “pony play,” making and selling their own porn DVDs, or hosting other couples for a little flogging. As award-winning journalist Brian Alexander uncovers, fringe experimentation has gone suburban... Read more >
In Search of Sex and Satisfaction
Written by Brian Alexander
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2008
Price: $13.95
Welcome to the America we don’t usually talk about, a place where that nice couple down the street could be saddling up for “pony play,” making and selling their own porn DVDs, or hosting other couples for a little flogging. As award-winning journalist Brian Alexander uncovers, fringe experimentation has gone suburban... Read more >
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A Memory, a Monologue, a Rant, and a Prayer
Edited by Eve Ensler
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: December 24, 2008
Price: $13.95
Selections from the “Until the Violence Stops” Festival
Featuring writings by Abiola Abrams • Edward Albee • Tariq Ali • Maya Angelou • Periel Aschenbrand • Patricia Bosworth • Nicole Burdette • Kate Clinton • Kimberle Crenshaw • Michael Cunningham • Edwidge Danticat • Ariel Dorfman • Mollie Doyle • Slavenka Drakulic... Read more >
Edited by Eve Ensler
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: December 24, 2008
Price: $13.95
Selections from the “Until the Violence Stops” Festival
Featuring writings by Abiola Abrams • Edward Albee • Tariq Ali • Maya Angelou • Periel Aschenbrand • Patricia Bosworth • Nicole Burdette • Kate Clinton • Kimberle Crenshaw • Michael Cunningham • Edwidge Danticat • Ariel Dorfman • Mollie Doyle • Slavenka Drakulic... Read more >
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