Overview :How America Eats: A Social History of U.S. Food and Culture, by food and social historian Jennifer Wallach, sheds a new and interesting ligh... Read More
Overview :In Homo Ludens, Johan Huizinga defines play as the central activity in flourishing societies. He identifies five characteristics of play: it... Read More
Overview :It seems Jung is usually seen as an idol or is condemned for his failings. Ronald Hayman neither ignores Jung's faults nor exaggerates them.... Read More
Overview :Plague is a terrifying mystery. In the Middle Ages, it wiped out 40 million people -- 40 percent of the total population in Europe. Seven hu... Read More
Overview :Los Angeles Times Bestseller "Authoritative and impressive." -Los Angeles Times"Monumental." -Guardian A magisterial, riveting movement hist... Read More
Overview :"Fascinating . . . An admirably lucid, level-headed history of outbreaks of joy from Dionysus to the Grateful Dead."--Terry Eagleton, The Na... Read More
Overview :From Leonardo Da Vinci to Oliver Sacks: the first history of the western polymath, from the Renaissance to the present "An absorbing group ... Read More
Overview :In his acclaimed Bowling Alone, Robert Putnam describes the United States as a nation in which we have become increasingly disconnected fro... Read More
Overview :From beloved columnist Michael Harriot comes a comprehensive and bitingly hilarious appraisal of American history, in which the dominant nar... Read More
Overview :The theme of this extraordinary book is the evolution of the modern conception of family life and the modern image; of the nature of childre... Read More
Overview :Ian Frazier's magnum opus: a love song to New York City's most various and alive borough. For the past fifteen years, Ian Frazier has been w... Read More
Overview :Chronologically recounting the story of history's silent assassin, Poison documents the gripping tales of the users and victims of these mys... Read More
Overview :Legendary novelist, poet, and essayist Margaret Atwood delivers a surprising look at the topic of "debt" -- a timely subject during our curr... Read More
Overview :NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A symphonic oral history about the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia, from Sv... Read More
Overview :Did mushroom tea kick-start ancient Greek philosophy? Was Alice's Adventures in Wonderland a thinly veiled psychedelic mushroom odyssey? Is ... Read More