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Spider Silk
Evolution and 400 Million Years of Spinning, Waiting, Snagging, and Mating
Spiders, objects of eternal human fascination, are found in many places: on the ground, in the air, and even under water. Leslie Brunetta and Catherine Craig have teamed up to produce a substantive yet entertaining book for...
Explorers of the Nile
The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure
From the best-selling author of Stanley, a riveting account of the explorers who risked everything in their search for the source of the Nile Nothing obsessed explorers of the mid-nineteenth...
Léon Blum
Prime Minister, Socialist, Zionist
From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a new appreciation of the extraordinary life and legacy of Léon Blum, the first Jewish prime minister of France"A valuable introduction and guide to one of the...
Gustav Mahler
The definitive biography of the celebrated composer, published in English to coincide with the centenary of his death A best seller when first published in Germany in 2003, Jens Malte Fischer's Gustav...
The Event of Literature
A renowned literary theorist reconsiders previous stances and offers his latest thinking on the nature of literature and literary study In this characteristically concise, witty, and lucid book, Terry...
The Making of the English Gardener
Plants, Books and Inspiration, 1560-1660
The people and publications at the root of a national obsession In the century between the accession of Elizabeth I and the restoration of Charles II, a horticultural revolution took place in England,...
Britain and the Defeat of Napoleon, 1807-1815
This account of the final years of Britain's long war against Revolutionary and Napoleonic France places the conflict in a new—and wholly modern—perspective. Rory Muir looks beyond the purely military aspects of the struggle to show...
The Cost Disease
Why Computers Get Cheaper and Health Care Doesn't
Why are the costs of health care and higher education rising so dramatically? How can we keep them affordable for lower- and middle-income American families? The exploding cost of health care in the...
The Voting Wars
From Florida 2000 to the Next Election Meltdown
The problems uncovered during the debacle of the 2000 presidential election persist, and we can expect far more trouble unless we fix the way we run elections In 2000, just a few hundred votes out of...
Surge
My Journey with General David Petraeus and the Remaking of the Iraq War
The first full insider account of the troop surge in Iraq, told by a member of General David Petraeus’s personal staffSurge is an insider’s view of the most decisive phase of the Iraq War. After...