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"An utterly unique journey down some of the mind's more mysterious byways . . . ranges from the shocking to the simply lovely."-Marya Hornbacher

From the pyramids to mortality tables, Galileo to Florence Nightingale, a vibrant history of numbers and the birth of statistics.

2012 Poetry Midwest Booksellers Choice Award winner "[Todd Boss] can make any rhyme feel like a concealed weapon." -Sherman Alexie

Understanding the physical properties that make life possible.

A remarkable account of a wildly artistic life, finally restored to its unexpurgated form, with a revealing new introduction by Joan Acocella.

Jeff Counts gets behind the wheel to take us cruising the eclectic neighborhoods that comprise the "culture stew" that is Motor City-Detroit.

"Thorough and just. . . . Quietly, surely in touch with its distinguished subject."-Richard Wilbur

"Graff offers a highly readable and down-to-earth perspective on some of the most ballyhooed issues in higher education today... By encouraging us to argue together, he may yet help us to reason together."-Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Bringing together auction theory and negotiation theory in a practical and accessible way, here is an authoritative guide to negotiating deals.

The most extensive new collection in this field published in more than three decades, English Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology surveys the astonishing, and astonishingly varied, dramatic works written and performed in Elizabethan and Jacobean England.

Grete Prytz Kittelsen's works are already design icons and popular collectors' items. This book situates her in the forefront of artist/craftspeople of the twentieth century.

Use the neuroscience of emotional learning to transform your teaching.

Cutting-edge skills for twenty-first-century learners and educators.

An attachment specialist and a clinical psychologist with neurobiology expertise team up to explore the brain science behind parenting.

A toolkit of "no mat" yoga strategies for you and your clients.

Creating a healthy, social classroom environment.

Published to coincide with the release of the HBO film Hemingway and Gellhorn, starring Nicole Kidman and Clive Owen.

"The perfect guide for blending up an icy avalanche of creamy concoctions."-David Lebovitz, author of The Perfect Scoop

"Nearly knocked me off my metaphoric stool."-Diann Blakely, Antioch Review

"The world in these poems, rendered from memory on a mythic tide, is at once palpable and numinous." -On the Seawall

A multilayered, beautifully textured novel about family and self, self-indulgence and generosity, against the vivid backdrop of contemporary Miami.

"A book the many fans of Heaney's Beowulf might take home and dip into, almost at random, for years." -Publishers Weekly

Goodbye, genetic blueprint. . . . The first book for general readers on the game-changing field of epigenetics.

A poetically faithful and compelling translation of Chaucer's classic.

"All you have to do is ask 'why' and open to any page. Good luck putting it down." -Alton Brown, host of Good Eats and Iron Chef

Four stimulating essays: "The Sportive Origin of the State," "Unity and Diversity of Europe," "Man the Technician," and "History as a System." The essays by Ortega in this volume were originally published under the title Toward a Philosophy of History.

A vital state of beautiful shores, natural bayous, vibrant history, unpretentious people, and amazing food and music culture, Louisiana's attractions are limitless.

"The general reader, if he looks to psychology for something more than entertainment or practical advice, will discover in this book a storehouse of searching criticism and brilliant suggestions from the pen of a rare thinker, and one who occupies a leading position in theoretical psychology today." -Atlantic Monthly

A contrarian analysis of how the United States can succeed in the technological race with Asia.