"A modern classic....Thrilling and constantly illuminating."—Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book World
Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize: “Thought-provoking, poignant, brutal, amusing, and always beautiful.”—Elizabeth Berg
"Meticulously researched history…look[s] at how wine and Western civilization grew up together." —Dave McIntyre, Washington Post
The Black Unicorn is a collection of poems by a woman who, Adrienne Rich writes, "for the complexity of her vision, for her moral courage and the catalytic passion of her language, has already become, for many, an indispensable poet."
"A broad and deep look at how electronic media are changing storytelling…Completely fascinating." —Booklist, starred review
Calling upon metaphors, vignettes, jokes, innuendos, and certain other "right-hemispheric" language games, Paul Watzlawick shows how we can (and do) make everyday life miserable.
"This book will last and last, because it contains the wisdom of two wonderfully knowing observers of our human destiny."—Robert Coles
The eighteenth-century Enlightenment marks the beginning of the modernage, when the scientific method and belief in reason and progress cameto hold sway over the Western world.
A startling psycholinguistic exploration of the boundaries of love and knowledge.
"An overwhelmingly eloquent book of the purest and most simple writing on Vietnam."—David Halberstam
One of four extraordinary graphic novels celebrating the Big Apple, from the master of American comics art.
An unflinching look at the aspiring city-builders of our smart, mobile, connected future.