Named one of the 100 Best Novels Ever Written in English (The Guardian)Loos’s classic tale shows that questions of women and power—more relevant today than ever—can come in the most alluring of packages.
“The world’s greatest naturalist” (Jeffrey Sachs) proposes a plan to save Earth’s imperiled biosphere.
"No one else has ever made avant-garde, experimental poems so attractive to both the general and the special reader."—Randall Jarrell
Revealing the central yet intentionally obliterated role of Africa in the creation of modernity, Born in Blackness vitally reframes our understanding of world history.
Challenging a purely mechanistic view of human existence, Edward O. Wilson examines what makes human beings supremely different from all other species.
This “powerful and disturbing history” (The New York Times Book Review) exposes how American governments deliberately imposed racial segregation on metropolitan areas throughout America
Virginia Woolf’s groundbreaking novel, in a lushly illustrated hardcover edition with illuminating commentary from a brilliant young Oxford scholar and critic.
The extraordinary story of the Nazi-era scientific genius who discovered how cancer cells eat—and what it means for how we should.
Epic verse and pulsating paintings merge to shed light on time travel, black holes, gravitational waves and the birth of the universe
Nearly a century after the publication of Rilke’s inspirational work, the missing letters of the young poet himself finally appear in this canonical edition.
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up meets Nudge in this irresistible design method from Japan.