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"Ai is a truthteller picking her way through the burning rocks of racial and sexual lies."-Joy Harjo

"This is a wonderful, forever book." -George Booth, cartoonist for The New Yorker

The lethal industry that lit the world, explained and illustrated by precise photographs of its weapons and equipment.

An unprecedented look at the life of Rose Kennedy reveals the private woman who became a political legend.

How a scientific outsider came up with a revolutionary theory of light and saved untold numbers of lives.

Two political titans forge a modern city and a vibrant public sector in this history of strong leadership at a time of national crisis.

The first biography in over sixty years of a great American artist whose paintings are more famous than the man who made them.

Once locked away in European archives, these early modernist photographs of America rival those of Steichen and Evans.

The articles deal with a wide range of problems and questions, from the soaring costs of medical care, medical manpower and training, biomedical research, ethics, delivery systems, technology, and insurance to the very meaning of health.

A safe, sustainable future is certainly not assured, granted the awesome power of vested interest and inert bureaucracies. But on the evidence provided in Rays of Hope, such a future appears well worth fighting for.

A collection of bold, insightful, and controversial essays by "a poetry critic of the very first order" (New York Times).

The finest photographic account of Jewish life in America.

An epistolary exchange that highlights two singular intellects, their disparate approaches to literature and their mutual admiration.

A profound, eloquent meditation on the history of writing, from Mesopotamia to multimedia.

Athletics and politics collide in a critical event for Nazi Germany and the contemporary world.

A literary testament showing how Mary Lee Settle's great novels followed the map of her remarkable life.

A lily pond, so the French riddle goes, contains a single leaf. Each day the number of leaves doubles-two leaves the second day, four the third, eight the fourth, and so on. Question: If the pond is completely full on the thirtieth day, when is it half full? Answer: On the Twenty-ninth day.

Louis Wright's masterful telling of South Carolina's story will fascinate residents and non-residents alike.

Whether built of stone, brick, wood, iron, steel, or concrete, bridges have captivated our imaginations more than any other man-made structures.

"Out of the screams and shouts of women demanding liberation rises the clear, true voice of Linda Pastan, who, seemingly, through love and intelligence and a sure sense of her craft, has been liberated all along." -Mona Van Duyn

Hugo's special senses of alone-ness, of places, and of other people are the forces behind his distinctively American and increasingly authoritative poetic voice.

The Snow Poems is the most recent book of poetry by an author who has been called "perhaps the most imaginative, innovative poet writing today."

Mr. Ammons' poetry has appeared in such publications as the Hudson Review, The Nation (for which he was at one time poetry editor), the New York Times, Poetry, and the Partisan Review.

Here is a collection of poems by a writer whom the poet Carolyn Kizer calls "one of the most passionate, energetic, and honest poets living."

Diversifications is a collection of shorter poems by the poet whose Collected Poems won the National Book Award.

Briefings brings together more than eighty short lyrics that, as Harold Bloom writes, "maintain an utterly consistent purity of detached yet radiant vision."

William Burford's poems are marked by deep vision, austere and passionate feeling, exactitude of diction, and gravity of presence.

A sparkling, lively record of a remarkable author/publisher relationship.