Overview :Packed with fascinating facts, compelling images, and little-known nuggets of information, this new go-to illustrated guide to the history o... Read More
Overview :From ballet and Balanchine to tap and swing, a treasury of unforgettable writing about the beauty and magic of American dance. From the begi... Read More
Overview :"Perhaps the most remarkable book in the American canon. As dense as scripture, crowded with aphorism, Walden is full enough of ideas for a ... Read More
Overview :Intellectual freedom is a core value of librarianship, but fighting to keep controversial materials on the shelves can sometimes feel like a... Read More
Overview :All 4 of the major works by America's pioneering environmentalist, including Silent Spring and The Sea Around Us, in one deluxe hardcover bo... Read More
Overview :"A work tantalizingly subversive, and yet somehow if not affirming at least forgiving of the blind destructiveness of human nature and of na... Read More
Overview :The first of Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, The Pioneers introduces the character of Natty Bumppo, one of literature's most unforgettable h... Read More
Overview :Set against a glamorous Italian backdrop, here is William Dean Howell's classic comedy of errors, a pitch-perfect story of romantic confusio... Read More
Overview :In the spring of 1866, John Carter, a former Confederate captain prospecting for gold in the Arizona hills, slips into a cave and is overcom... Read More
Overview :Democracy in America examines the democratic revolution Tocqueville believed had been occurring over the previous several hundred years. The... Read More
Overview :More urgent than ever, two landmark essays by the legendary political theorist on the greatest threat to democracy, gathered with a new intr... Read More
Overview :Censorship has been an ongoing phenomenon even in "the land of the free." This examination of banned books across U.S. history examines the ... Read More
Overview :From the street game to March Madness to Jordan and LeBron, the greatest writing about the grit, grace, and glory of basketball Made in Amer... Read More