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Science Since Babylon
Enlarged Edition
An eye-opening work for anyone concerned with the humanistic understanding of science "Enlightening reading for the scientist and non-scientist alike."—Times Educational Supplement
Almost Everyone's Guide to Science
The Universe, Life and Everything
This fascinating book is a guide for the perplexed—those who are interested in science but are scared off by the technical detail. John Gribbin, an award-winning writer, now stands back from the details and offers us a broad...
Winter Mythologies and Abbots
Michon’s exquisite short narratives transport us to the heart of the Middle Ages as witnesses to the double-edged power of belief This welcome volume brings to English-language readers two beautifully...
Two Lives
Gertrude and Alice
Winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography "How had the pair of elderly Jewish lesbians survived the Nazis?” Janet Malcolm asks at the beginning of this extraordinary work of literary...
The African Shore
A riveting and highly praised novel by Guatemala’s leading writer of fiction, now in English for the first time In the vein of the writings of Paul Bowles, Paul Theroux, and V. S. Naipaul, The African...
Nobility of Spirit
A Forgotten Ideal
An impassioned call to restore the conditions of freedom and human dignity, ideals our civilization seems to have lost In the pages of this slim, powerful book Rob Riemen argues with passion...
Iphigenia in Forest Hills
Anatomy of a Murder Trial
"Astringent and absorbing. . . . Iphigenia in Forest Hills casts, from its first pages, a genuine spell — the kind of spell to which Ms. Malcolm’s admirers (and I am one) have become addicted."—Dwight Garner,
The Origin of the World
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Long Day’s Journey into Night
“The definitive edition” (Boston Globe) of Eugene O'Neill's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece Eugene O’Neill’s autobiographical play Long Day’s Journey into Night is regarded as his finest...
The Corpse Washer
Acclaimed and celebrated in the Arab world for its vivid portrait of Iraq, this heartbreaking novel confronts the war-torn nation’s horrifying recent history Young Jawad, born to a traditional Shi'ite family...