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PAPERBACK ORIGINALA vibrant exploration of the world's newest language--where it came from, how it works, and where it's going.

From the acclaimed biographer of Buckminster Fuller, a riveting biography of the Nobel Prize-winning experimental physicist hailed as "the greatest scientific detective of the twentieth century."

A rich and intimate exploration of how women have used textile work to create meaningful lives, from ancient mythology to our current moment.

A celebrated food writer's expansive, audacious excavation of the development of modern queer identity and food culture.

The Unauthorized Court of Cocktails provides decadent, beautifully photographed recipes that evoke afternoons in the fae wild and evenings filled with lovelust, danger, and beauty. Enjoy an espresso martini that will fuel you to face your own unknowns; imagine yourself saving the realm with a tequila passionfruit sour that instills bravery and badass-ery; and when you're in the mood for celebration, mix up a bubbly that mirrors the night sky and invites visions of glitzy parties and glamorous trysts. You'll find recipes for cocktail-hour snacks like Cauldron Fondue and Tavern Pastries to satisfy your hunger while you mix up a drink or pick up a book. The Unauthorized Court of Cocktails invites you to stay in the fantasy a little longer, lean into your carnal desires, and harness the fearless power of a heroine during what would otherwise be simply "happy hour."

Arthritis and osteoporosis affect mobility, well-being, and longevity, so you can't leave protecting your joints and bones to chance or to a search algorithm. In tandem with the advice of your own healthcare provider, this easy-to-follow guide offers science-based strategies to start improving your musculoskeletal health today. Learn which nutrients most of us need, which anti-inflammatory ingredients to keep in your kitchen, and which exercises can help improve bone density. The great-tasting recipes provided help fight inflammation and strengthen bones at the same time, with options for omnivores to vegans. The exercises included require minimal equipment, promote balance and strength, and can help decrease the risk of injuries or falls. Specific routines may help even help alleviate pain in problem areas. With clear answers to common questions-including what to ask when you visit your doctor-this book offers the knowledge and confidence to help readers achieve stronger bones, healthier joints, and better mobility for life.

When readers think of New York, they likely picture the iconic city-but the state has much more to explore. Upstate New York is home to lakes, mountains, and woodland, as well as charming towns and historical sites. This guide gives explorers twenty of the best drives in the region. Road-trippers will see Upstate New York in a new light whether they're interested in the Hudson River and Catskill Mountains or traveling off the beaten path. With updated information on every drive, including new restaurants, shops, and lodging, this second edition has everything readers need for an adventure-packed road trip. They'll enjoy artwork along the Mural Mania drive, find new coverage of Watkins Glen State Park, and get tips on visiting the "Painted Village in the Sky," a unique district of brightly painted vintage buildings. Thanks to these itineraries and more, explorers will not waste a moment in the Empire State.

During the pandemic, Marjorie Perloff, one of our foremost scholars of global literature, found her mind ineluctably drawn to the profound commentary on life and death in the wartime diaries of eminent philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951). Upon learning that these notebooks, which richly contextualize the early stages of his magnum opus, the Tractatus-Logico-Philosophicus, had never before been published in English, the Viennese-born Perloff determinedly set about translating them. Beginning with the anxious summer of 1914, this historic, en-face edition presents the first-person recollections of a foot soldier in the Austrian Army, fresh from his days as a philosophy student at Cambridge, who must grapple with the hazing of his fellow soldiers, the stirrings of a forbidden sexuality, and the formation of an explosive analytical philosophy that seemed to draw meaning from his endless brushes with death. Much like Tolstoy's The Gospel in Brief, Private Notebooks takes us on a personal journey to discovery as it augments our knowledge of Wittgenstein himself.

Eurasia is a strategic prize without equal-which is why the world has been roiled, reshaped, and nearly destroyed by clashes over that supercontinent and the oceans around it. Since the early twentieth century, autocratic land powers, from Germany under Kaiser Wilhelm II to the Soviet Union, have sought to seize commanding positions in the world's strategic heartland. And offshore sea powers, namely the United Kingdom and America, have sought to make the world safe for democracy by keeping Eurasia in balance.Now China and Russia lead a new axis of authoritarians that aims to create a radically revised international order. If they succeed, America and other democracies will be vulnerable and insecure. The Eurasian Century explains the revolutions in technology and warfare, and the rise of toxic ideologies of conquest, that made Eurasia the center of twentieth-century geopolitics-with pressing implications for the struggles that will define the twenty-first.

Since the election of Donald Trump, politicians, historians, intellectuals, and media pundits have been faced with a startling and urgent question: Are we threatened by fascism? Some see striking connections between our current moment and the tumultuous interwar period in Europe. But others question if these connections really reflect our current political moment or if they are another example of Eurocentrism and American provincialism speaking over a much more complex global political landscape.?Did It Happen Here? collects, in one place, key texts from the sharpest minds in politics, history, and the academy beginning with classic pieces by Hannah Arendt, Angela Davis, Reinhold Niebuhr, Leon Trotsky, and others. The book's contemporary contributors include Ruth Ben-Ghiat on the trivialization of the term "fascism," Jason Stanley and Sarah Churchwell on the Black radical perspective, and Robert O. Paxton on Trump. These writers argue firmly that fascism is alive and well in America today, but another set of contemporary voices disagree. Samuel Moyn demonstrates the limitations of historical comparison. Rebecca Panovka examines the uses and abuses of Hannah Arendt's work. Anton Jager and Victoria De Grazia make the case that the social and communal conditions necessary for fascism do not exist in the United States. Still others, like Priya Satia and Pankaj Mishra, are critical of the narrow framework of this debate and argue for a global perspective.Did it Happen Here? brings together a range of brilliant intellectuals, offering vital takes on our evolving political landscape. The questions posed by editor Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins is one that readers will be debating for decades to come. Is fascism significantly influencing-even threatening to dominate-modern American politics? Is it happening here?

Nvidia is the darling of the age of artificial intelligence: its chips are powering the generative-AI revolution, and demand is insatiable. For all the current hype, however, Nvidia is not of our time. Founded more than three decades ago in a Denny's in East San Jose, for years it was known primarily in the then-niche world of computer gaming. In fact, the company's leather-jacketed leader, Jensen Huang, is the longest-serving CEO in an industry marked by near constant turmoil and failure.In The Nvidia Way, acclaimed tech writer Tae Kim draws on more than one hundred interviews-including Huang and his cofounders, the two original venture capital investors, early former employees, and current senior executives-to show how Nvidia played the longest of long games, repeatedly creating new markets and outmaneuvering the original semiconductor giant, Intel, which now finds itself well behind the upstart. A rare view into Nvidia's distinct culture and Huang's management style, The Nvidia Way is an instant classic of business history, with enduring lessons for entrepreneurs and managers alike.

Mamrie Hart, New York Times best-selling author, comedian, podcast host, and vegetarian, has whipped up robust plant-based meals and snacks for years on her various platforms, from YouTube to TikTok. Her millions of fans and followers have been clamoring for her recipes, and she now delivers just that and more with this unique, larger-than-life vegetarian cookbook. Organized by themed menus, the book features more than 100 mouthwatering dishes including Twist 'n' Sprout Brussels, That Butternut be Bone Marrow, and cocktails like Kiss from a Rose Mojito and, for the spirited, Absinthe Makes the Heart Grow Drunker. All I Think About Is Food promises to be the life of the party, giving readers confidence to share these exceptional recipes with their loved ones. The luscious, clever design and photographs, paired with Hart's humor and familiar tone, come together in a must-have collection for every campy home cook's shelf.

From the telegraph and telephone in the 1800s to the internet and social media in our own day, the public has welcomed new communication systems. Whenever people gain more power to share information, the assumption goes, society prospers. Superbloom tells a startlingly different story. As communication becomes more mechanized and efficient, it breeds confusion more than understanding, strife more than harmony. Media technologies all too often bring out the worst in us.A celebrated interpreter of technology's impacts on human life, Nicholas Carr guides the reader through the dark trends that have always shadowed progress: how telegrams disrupted diplomacy, how radio aided autocrats, how the Facebook feed sowed division, how AI now blurs reality and fantasy. With vivid examples from history, science, and politics, Superbloom unmasks a fundamental flaw in our perception of, and revolutionizes our understanding of, how media shapes society. It may be too late to curb the "superbloom" of information-but it's not too late to change ourselves.

In 1932, eighteen-year-old Black Communist Party organizer Angelo Herndon was arrested, had his rooms illegally searched, and his radical literature seized. He was charged with attempting to incite insurrection-a crime punishable by death. You Can't Kill a Man Because of the Books He Reads chronicles Herndon's five-year quest for freedom during a time when Blacks, white liberals, and the radical left joined forces to define the nation's commitment to civil rights and civil liberties.Herndon's champions included the young, Black Harvard Law School-educated attorney Benjamin J. Davis Jr.; the future historian C. Vann Woodward, who joined the interracial Herndon defense committee; the white-shoe New York lawyer Whitney North Seymour, who argued Herndon's appeals; and literary friends Ralph Ellison, Langston Hughes, and Richard Wright. With their support, Herndon reinvented himself as one of the most famous Black men in America and inspired a constitutional right to protest.

Witchcraft, a practice rooted in wellness and healing, has the capacity to transform your life. In this spell book and ritual guide, Carmen Spagnola offers practical ways to incorporate magic into your daily life to support your emotional well-being. Carmen's tool kit is part magic and part self-help, with the goal of developing strategies for stress management, self-regulation, and more. Spells for the Apocalypse will teach readers how to counteract unconscious behavior patterns, re-establish stability and restore resilience during periods of personal upheaval through a series of straightforward spells and 5-minute rituals. Whether you are new to witchcraft or an experienced practitioner, this beautifully illustrated treasure trove of practical magic is the key to healing and growing through the restorative power of witchcraft. When we align our thoughts, intentions, and actions with that life force energy, we call it magic.

Growing your own food is good for you and the planet. Backed by scientific research, Indigenous knowledge, and the authors' years of firsthand experience, Homegrown Handgathered offers field-tested techniques for beginners and experts alike to thrive off the bounty of the land with confidence. This complete manual for organic food production will show you how to select a site, plan your garden, source and start seeds, manage pests and weeds, compost, preserve your harvests, and more. Comprehensive growing guides for more than 15 essential crops-from beans, carrots, and corn to squashes, sweet potatoes, and tomatoes-detail favored growing conditions, processing tips, key nutrients, and more. Each crop chapter also features easy-to-follow recipes from a range of cultures that will transform your harvest into delicious, nourishing meals. From Jalapeño Cornbread and Oyster Mushroom Grits to Venison Borscht and Walnut-Shiitake Burgers, gardening never tasted so good!

Let's be real: Caring for a baby can be exhaustingly tedious. Enter Vered Benhorin, musician, therapist, and mother of three. In What Do I Do with My Baby All Day?, Benhorin builds on the foundations of attachment theory and blends practical tools with research to teach parents how to develop a more gratifying relationship with their baby. With her guidance, parents will step into the present with their baby and truly enjoy one another using her easy, guided activities. From a baby buddha massage to babble boost (singing nonsense words), small "bubble moments" throughout the day provide a shared experience between parent and child that benefits both. These moments also have practical applications, like soothing the baby when they're fussy, making bedtime more effective, strengthening routines, and increasing communication and language. This book is a must-have for new parents everywhere.

For a culinary tour of Italy, or a master class in creating the nation's many regional gems in your home kitchen, you couldn't ask for a better tour guide than Cathy Whims. In her debut cookbook, Cathy brings together dishes from Italy's many and varied regions, united by her masterful interpretation of cucina povera-literally "food of the poor," which means fresh produce, local meats, handmade pasta and pizza, and simple cooking methods. These recipes for drinks, appetizers, pasta, pizza, risottos, meat and fish, and desserts are united not by region but by feeling: everything is authentically Italian yet easy for the home cook to create no matter where they live. Step-by-step instructions demystify essential skills like how to make fresh pasta, cook a perfect risotto, and craft heavenly, light-as-a-cloud gnocchi. Readers will find tips and techniques from professional chefs and everyday home cooks, seasoned with Cathy's always-engaging wit and reflections on history and on food, life, travel, and more.

In this new edition of the "essential guide for hiking in Maryland" (Victoria and Frank Logue, authors of The Appalachian Trail Backpacker), avid hiker Leonard Adkins has provided updated maps and revised headnotes with the latest information for every hike and walk-plus you'll find a brand-new hike at Monocacy National Battlefield. No matter where you are in Maryland, you're less than a 30-minute drive from one of the hikes in this book, and most routes are easily accessible from Baltimore and Washington DC. Whether you're exploring the Atlantic shoreline, part of the Appalachian Trail, or one of the many walks through Catoctin Mountain National Park, each route includes Adkins's fascinating and entertaining asides on the natural and historical points of interest you'll encounter along the way. With hikes and trails for all skills and abilities, this is a perfect resource and hiking companion.

Weather and time change everything, even the hiking trails in the Green Mountain State. This revised definitive hiker's guide to Vermont is updated to include all the latest information about popular and off-the-beaten-trail hiking routes in the state. A full-color book with maps and elevation profiles, 50 Hikes in Vermont includes classic peaks like Camel's Hump, Mount Mansfield, and Mount Ascutney, as well as revealing many lesser-known gems. Hikes range in length from a half-mile stroll to overnight backpacking trips. Each hike description includes a topographic map, mile-by-mile directions, and information on distance, difficulty, terrain, and hiking time. Every route is enlivened by knowledgeable commentary on the area's geology, history, and wildlife. From gentle nature trails to rugged peak climbs, from remote ponds to historic ghost towns, from rushing waterfalls to the rare peregrine falcon habitat, the Green Mountain State is a classic hiking destination.

Get more plants into your diet with minimal fuss and delicious results. Plan your next meal around favorites such as carrots, cauliflower, or sweet potatoes, or try your hand at the underused asparagus, Brussels sprouts, or kale, turning them into more than just side dishes. Transform corn into Elote Grilled Cheeses, spinach into Pesto Pasta, cucumbers into No-Roll Sushi Bowls, and tomatoes into Farro Caprese, and even add more veggies to pizza night. Recipes appear by cook and prep times so you can whip up something fast or enjoy more hands-on dishes for every kind of eater: omnivores, vegetarians, and vegans. This must-have cookbook provides all the expert guidance and practical tools that you need to make plant-powered cooking a reality: checklists, tips, variations, meal plans, and versatile flowcharts to help you decide what to make for dinner. All you have to do is start with a vegetable.

Sisters Belinda Kelly and Venise Cunningham have grown a successful business together, Simple Goodness Farm, embracing nostalgia, nature, and a back-to-basics way of living. They've given a unique cottagecore spin to their cocktails and family-friendly happy hours with the syrups, tinctures, juices, spirits, shrubs, cocktails, and mocktails showcased in Drink Your Garden. Perfect for a green thumb or great farmers' market shopper alike, the book shares how to capture the intense, pure flavors of a season and naturally preserve them, and offers basic instructions for gardening everything drink-worthy from simple windowsill herbs to vegetables and flowers. Novice bartenders and gardeners of all skill levels will find unique inspiration, while the environmentally conscious consumer will resonate with Kelly and Cunningham's farm-to-table approach that supports a zero-waste lifestyle. Complete with recipes for alcoholic, low-alcoholic, and alcohol-free drinks, there's something for everyone in Drink Your Garden!

Conceived in the Gilded Age, the Ferry Building opened in 1898 as San Francisco's portal to the world-the terminus of the transcontinental railway and a showcase of civic ambition. In silent films and World's Fair postcards, nothing said "San Francisco" more than its soaring clocktower.But as acclaimed architectural critic John King recounts in Portal, the rise of the automobile and double-deck freeways severed the city from its beloved structure and its waterfront-a connection that required generations to restore.King's narrative spans the rise and fall and rebirth of the Ferry Building. Rich with feats of engineering and civic imagination, his story introduces colorful figures who fought to preserve the Ferry Building's character (and the city's soul)-from architect Arthur Page Brown and legendary columnist Herb Caen to poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Senator Dianne Feinstein.In King's hands, the saga of the Ferry Building is a microcosm of a larger evolution along the waterfronts of cities everywhere. Portal traces the damage inflicted on historic neighborhoods and working dockyards by cars, highways, and top-down planning and "urban renewal." But when an earthquake destroyed the Embarcadero Freeway, city residents seized the chance to reclaim their connection to the bay. Transporting readers across 125 years of history, this tour de force explores the tensions impacting urban infrastructure and public spaces, among them tourism, deindustrialization, development, and globalization. Portal culminates with a rich portrait of San Francisco's vibrant esplanade today, visited by millions, even as sea level rise and earthquakes threaten a landmark that remains as vital as ever.A book for city lovers and visitors, architecture fans and pedestrians, Portal is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of San Francisco and the future of American cities.

In this astonishing volume of poems and lyric prose, Whiting Award-winner A. Van Jordan draws comparisons to Black characters in Shakespearean plays-Caliban and Sycorax from The Tempest, Aaron the Moor from Titus Andronicus, and the eponymous antihero of Othello-to mourn the deaths of Black people, particularly Black children, at the hands of police officers. What do these characters, and the ways they are defined by the white figures who surround them, have in common with Tamir Rice, Trayvon Martin, and other Black people killed in the twenty-first century?Balancing anger and grief with celebration, Jordan employs an elastic variety of poetic forms, including ekphrastic sestinas inspired by the photography of Malick Sidibé, fictional dialogues, and his signature definition poems that break down the insidious power of words like "fair," "suspect," and "juvenile." He invents a new form of window poems, based on a characterization exercise, to see Shakespeare's Black characters in three dimensions, and finds contemporary parallels in the way these characters are othered, rendered at once undesirable and hypersexualized, a threat and a joke.At once a stunning inquiry into the roots of racist violence and a moving recognition of the joy of Black youth before the world takes hold, When I Waked, I Cried to Dream Again expresses the preciousness and precarity of life.

Evangeline Hussey has made a home for herself on Nantucket, though she knows she is still an outsider to the island's small, close-knit community, one that by 1849 has started to feel the decline of a once-thriving whaling industry. Her husband, Hosea, and the life they built together, was once all she needed-but now Hosea is gone, lost at sea. Evangeline is only able to hold on to his inn, and her place on the island, by employing a curious gift to glimpse and re-form the recent memories of those who would cast her out.One night, an idealistic sailor appears on her doorstep asking her to call him Ishmael. He seeks only a warm bed and a bowl of chowder, and yet suddenly, unsettlingly, her careful illusion begins to fracture. He soon sails away with Ahab to hunt an infamous white whale, and Evangeline is left to forge a new life from the pieces that remain.Her choices ripple through generations, across continents, and into the depths of the sea, in a narrative that follows Evangeline and her descendants from mid-nineteenth century Nantucket to Boston, Brazil, Florence, and Idaho. Moving, beautifully written, and elegantly conceived, Wild and Distant Seas takes Moby-Dick as its starting point, but Tara Karr Roberts brings four remarkable women to life in a spellbinding epic all her own.

This is a story about a dangerous idea-one which ignited revolutions in America, France, and Haiti; burst across Europe in the revolutions of 1848; and returned to inflame a new generation of intellectuals to lead the abolition movement-the idea that all men are created equal.In their struggle against the slaveholding oligarchy of their time, America's antislavery leaders found their way back to the rationalist, secularist, and essentially atheist inspiration for the first American Revolution. Frederick Douglass's unusual interest in radical German philosophers and Abraham Lincoln's buried allusions to the same thinkers are but a few of the clues that underlie this propulsive philosophical detective story. With fresh takes on forgotten thinkers like Theodore Parker, the excommunicated Unitarian minister who is the original source of some of Lincoln's most famous lines, and a feisty band of German refugees, philosopher and historian Matthew Stewart tells a vivid and piercing story of the battle between America's philosophical radicals and the conservative counterrevolution that swept the American republic in the first decades of its existence and persists in new forms up to the present day. In exposing the role of Christian nationalism and the collusion between northern economic elites and slaveholding oligarchs, An Emancipation of the Mind demands a significant revision in our understanding of the origins and meaning of the struggle over slavery in America-and offers a fresh perspective on struggles between democracy and elite power today.

For numerous centuries, the Talmud-an extraordinary work of Jewish ethics, law, and tradition-has compelled readers to grapple with how to live a good life. Full of folk legends, bawdy tales, and rabbinical repartee, it is inspiring, demanding, confounding, and thousands of pages long. As Liel Leibovitz enthusiastically explores the Talmud, what has sometimes been misunderstood as a dusty and arcane volume becomes humanity's first self-help book. How the Talmud Can Change Your Life contains sage advice on an unparalleled scope of topics, which includes communicating with your partner, dealing with grief, and being a friend.Leibovitz guides readers through the sprawling text with all its humor, rich insights, compulsively readable stories, and multilayered conversations. Contemporary discussions framed by Talmudic philosophy and psychology draw on subjects ranging from Weight Watchers and the Dewey decimal system to the lives of Billie Holiday and C. S. Lewis. Chapters focus on fundamental human experiences-the mind-body problem, the power of community, the challenges of love-to illuminate how the Talmud speaks to our daily existence. As Leibovitz explores some of life's greatest questions, he also delivers a concise history of the Talmud itself, explaining the process of its lengthy compilation and organization.With infectious passion and candor, Leibovitz brilliantly displays how the Talmud's wisdom reverberates for the modern age and how it can, indeed, change your life.

We are told that the present moment bears a strong resemblance to Reconstruction, the era after the Civil War when the victorious North attempted to create an interracial democracy in the unrepentant South. That effort failed-and that failure serves as a warning today about violent backlash to the mere idea of black equality.In The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic, acclaimed historian Manisha Sinha expands our view beyond the accepted temporal and spatial bounds of Reconstruction, which is customarily said to have begun in 1865 with the end of the war, and to have come to a close when the "corrupt bargain" of 1877 put Rutherford B. Hayes in the White House in exchange for the fall of the last southern Reconstruction state governments. Sinha's startlingly original account opens in 1860 with the election of Abraham Lincoln that triggered the secession of the Deep South states, and take us all the way to 1920 and the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, which granted women the right to vote-and which Sinha calls the "last Reconstruction amendment."Within this grand frame, Sinha narrates the rise and fall of what she calls the "Second American Republic." The Reconstruction of the South, a process driven by the alliance between the formerly enslaved at the grassroots and Radical Republicans in Congress, is central to her story, but only part of it. As she demonstrates, the US Army's conquest of Indigenous nations in the West, labor conflict in the North, Chinese exclusion, women's suffrage, and the establishment of an overseas American empire were all part of the same struggle between the forces of democracy and those of reaction. The main concern of Reconstruction was the plight of the formerly enslaved, but its fall affected other groups as well: women, workers, immigrants, and Native Americans. From the election of black legislators across the South in the late 1860s to the Great Railroad Strike of 1877 to the colonial war in the Philippines in the 1890s, Sinha narrates the major episodes of the era and introduces us to key individuals, famous and otherwise, who helped remake American democracy, or whose actions spelled its doom.A sweeping narrative that remakes our understanding of perhaps the most consequential period in American history, The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic shows how the great contest of that age is also the great contest of our age-and serves as a necessary reminder of how young and fragile our democracy truly is.