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Francis of Assisi
The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Saint
First published in France, where it was awarded the Prix Chateaubriand, this masterful new biography of Francis is now available in English In this towering work, André Vauchez draws on the vast body of...
A Blueprint for War
FDR and the Hundred Days That Mobilized America
In the cold winter months that followed Franklin Roosevelt’s election in November 1940 to an unprecedented third term in the White House, he confronted a worldwide military and moral catastrophe. Almost all the European democracies...
Wild Soundscapes
Discovering the Voice of the Natural World
Revised Edition
A founder of soundscape ecology offers a pioneering field guide for listening to and recording the sounds of the wild Through his organization Wild Sanctuary, Bernie Krause has traveled the globe to hear...
Boxing Pandora
Rethinking Borders, States, and Secession in a Democratic World
A timely and provocative challenge to the foundations of our global order: why should national borders be unchangeable? The inviolability of national borders is an unquestioned pillar of the post–World War...
Grenadine
Neil Wechsler’s Grenadine has been chosen as the second winner of the Yale Drama Series. The play was selected by Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright and contest judge Edward Albee. Grenadine is...
Frankly, My Dear
"Gone with the Wind" Revisited
An exploration of the book, the movie, and the author of one of the most captivating stories ever told How and why has the saga of Scarlett O’Hara kept such a tenacious hold on our national imagination...
The Possessor and the Possessed
Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, and the Idea of Musical Genius
The concept of genius intrigues us. Artistic geniuses have something other people don’t have. In some cases that something seems to be a remarkable kind of inspiration that permits the artist to exceed his own abilities. It is as if...
If Mayors Ruled the World
Dysfunctional Nations, Rising Cities
Can cities solve the biggest problems of the twenty-first century better than nations? Is the city democracy’s best hope? In the face of the most perilous challenges of our time—climate change, terrorism,...
A Garland of Bones
Child Runaways in India
An intimate portrait of India’s child runaways, and the sociopolitical forces shaping their lives This intimate portrait examines the tracks, journeys, and experiences of child runaways in northern India....
Bottle Fly
An earthy, cruel, and hilarious family drama of profound and reckless love Set in a bar in the Florida Everglades, this biting, brutally funny multigenerational family drama concerns a Gulf Coast couple,...