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Three gorgeous poetic sequences that combine the intensity of lyric with the thematic scope and range of narrative and myth.

Natural disasters bedevil our planet, and each appears to be a unique event. Leading geologist Susan W. Kieffer shows how all disasters are connected.

One of the most beloved stories ever written about sharing one's life with a cat.

"Fascinating ... one of history's most important poisons-and most important murders."-Deborah Blum, author of The Poisoner's Handbook

A collection of poignant essays about the transformative power of knitting by twenty-seven extraordinary writers.

A vertiginous gothic masterpiece from the best-selling author of The Quincunx.

An unflinching look at the aspiring city-builders of our smart, mobile, connected future.

A savvy and opinionated tour of the contemporary world of wine.

Everything football fans need to know about the 101 most talked about teams in the world.

The colossal classic becomes even more colossal with a new chapter of recent urban legends.

For this newly expanded edition, Avi Shlaim has added fourchapters and an epilogue that address the prime ministershipsfrom Barak to Netanyahu in the "one book everyoneshould read for a concise history of Israel's relations withArabs" (Independent). What was promulgated as an "iron-wall"strategy-building a position of unassailable strength-was meant to yield to a further stage where Israel would bestrong enough to negotiate a satisfactory peace with itsneighbors. The goal still remains elusive, if not even furtheraway. This penetrating study brilliantly illuminates past progressand future prospects for peace in the Middle East.

The story of the explosion and contamination was and still is suppressed in the Soviet Union and, the author contends, by the CIA and other Western intelligence organizations fearful of public resistance to nuclear power plants. Now, after an intensive study of Soviet scientific articles (written to disguise the fact that they were about the Ural explosion) and after many interviews and reports from friends in the scientific community as well as from witnesses, the author has pieced together the story of what actually happened. He analyzes the extent and consequences of the contamination and draws forbidding conclusions about the possibility of similar disasters in the rest of the world.

Mermaids, kidnappers, and mercenaries hijack a tropical vacation in this genre-bending sendup of the American honeymoon.

Essays from a "great poet-critic-intellectual" (Daily Beast).

This richly researched, beautifully designed and illustrated volume strips away stereotypes and nostalgia to tell the story of the true Italian-American experience.

Stanford University linguist and MacArthur Fellow Dan Jurafsky dives into the hidden history of food.

The indispensable guide to year-round food preserving, including recipes to use what has been preserved.

An intimate portrait of Handel's life and inner circle, modelled after one of the composer's favourite forms: the fugue.

Why it took the United States so long to enter the Second World War.

Through parenting a child with a disability, a father discovers patience, acceptance, and unconditional love.

Giller Prize winning author Johanna Skibsrud spins a masterful tale about memory and war."

The fascinating story of how quantum mechanics went mainstream.

An entertaining history of how musicians learned to record music for all time, filled with art that sings.

The story of Oscar Wilde's 1882 American tour explains how this quotable literary eminence became famous for being famous.

"To speak or not to speak? That is the Gimmick!" -Francoise Sagan

In Poetry and Humanism, M. M. Mahood writes on the great religious poets of seventeenth-century England and their relationship to Renaissance humanism.

An elegant and richly evocative collection about the nature of paradise and the complexities of desire, these eight magical stories are about the Edenic spaces that people create in their lives and the serpents that subtly inhabit them.