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Faulkner and Love
The Women Who Shaped His Art, A Biography
The deeply moving, untold story of America’s greatest twentieth-century novelist and the three women at the center of his imaginative life This book is about the making of the writer William Faulkner. It...
Sunday
A History of the First Day from Babylonia to the Super Bowl
The mere mention of "Sunday" will immediately conjure up a rich mix of memories, associations, and ideas for most anyone of any age. Whatever we think of-be it attending church, reading a bulky newspaper, eating brunch, or...
Treasures of the Earth
Need, Greed, and a Sustainable Future
A pioneering exploration of human wants and needs and the natural resources we consume. Would the world be a better place if human societies were somehow able to curb their desires for material goods?...
Why the Dreyfus Affair Matters
From the prize-winning author of Wartime Lies, an anatomy of the infamous prosecution of a Jewish officer attached to the French Army’s General Staff, with profound implications for our own time....
Ralph Ellison in Progress
From "Invisible Man" to "Three Days Before the Shooting . . . "
A major reassessment of Ralph Ellison’s literary legacy that explores the mysteries surrounding his unfinished second novel Ralph Ellison may be the preeminent African-American author of the twentieth...
The Lomborg Deception
Setting the Record Straight About Global Warming
A compelling exposé of the highly problematic scholarship of Bjørn Lomborg, the world’s leading global warming skeptic In this major assessment of leading climate-change skeptic Bjørn Lomborg, Howard...
The Meaning of Property
Freedom, Community, and the Legal Imagination
From the bestselling author of For Common Things, a brilliant and ambitious rethinking of the meaning of property in democratic society In his latest book, Jedediah Purdy takes up a question of...
True Friendship
Geoffrey Hill, Anthony Hecht, and Robert Lowell Under the Sign of Eliot and Pound
True Friendship looks closely at three outstanding poets of the past half-century—Geoffrey Hill, Anthony Hecht, and Robert Lowell—through the lens of their relation to their two predecessors in genius, T. S. Eliot and...
From the Abode of Islam to the Turkish Vatan
The Making of a National Homeland in Turkey
How does a people move from tribal and religiously based understandings of society to a concept of the modern nation-state? This book examines the complex and pivotal case of Turkey. Tracing the shifting valences of vatan
The Tragedy of Child Care in America
Why the United States has failed to establish a comprehensive high-quality child care program is the question at the center of this book. Edward Zigler has been intimately involved in this issue since the 1970s, and here he...