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 :Los Angeles Times Bestseller "Authoritative and impressive." -Los Angeles Times"Monumental." -Guardian A magisterial, riveting movement hist... 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 :Our era is one of sexual upheaval. Roe v. Wade was overturned in the summer of 2022, school systems across the country are banning books wit... Read More
Overview :NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - When did America give up on fairness? The author of Fantasyland tells the epic history of how America decided th... Read More
Overview :They came in the holds of overcrowded ships, packed in among cargo and animals. They were sold to others to work as hard and under as dismal... Read More
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 :Nicholas Ostler's Empires of the Word is the first history of the world's great tongues, gloriously celebrating the wonder of words that bin... Read More
Overview :NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Welcome and necessary...illuminating and revelatory." - The New Yorker The history of Silicon Valley, from railroads t... Read More
Overview :Saidiya Hartman has been praised as "one of our most brilliant contemporary thinkers" (Claudia Rankine, New York Times Book Review) and "a l... 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
Overview :Have the poor fared best by participating in conventional electoral politics or by engaging in mass defiance and disruption? The authors of ... Read More
Overview :From the internationally bestselling author of The Etymologicon, a lively and fascinating exploration of how, throughout history, each civil... Read More
Overview :A rich mosaic of diary entries and letters from Marilyn Monroe, Cesar Chavez, Susan Sontag, Albert Einstein, and many more, this is the stor... Read More
Overview :What terrifying discovery would make the Vatican turn to Robert Langdon, the man who cracked historys most controversial code? When Langdon ... Read More
Overview :"Immensely rich and exciting . . . Christopher Hill has that supreme gift of being able to show us the seventeenth-century world from the in... Read More