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To many outsiders, mathematicians appear to think like computers, grimly grinding away with a strict formal logic and moving methodically--even algorithmically--from one black-and-white deduction to another. Yet mathematicians often describe...

By any measure, the Pythagorean theorem is the most famous statement in all of mathematics, one remembered from high school geometry class by even the most math-phobic students. Well over...

Albrecht Durer is the most significant and admired artist of the northern Renaissance. Tracing his work and influence from his earliest career to his powerful posthumous role within German culture,...

A landmark work that demystifies the rich tradition of Indian art, Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization analyzes key motifs found in legend, myth, and folklore taken directly...

This modern classic is being reissued in recognition of the bicentennial of the French Revolution. From a review of an earlier edition: "This is wholly an admirable book: it is...

How has computer science changed mathematical thinking? In this first ever comprehensive survey of the subject for popular science readers, Arturo Sangalli explains how computers have brought a new practicality...

A testament to the enduring strength of the human spirit, family, and, above all, hope, this "vivid memoir of a woman who lost her youth and family to the Nazis"...

A great deal of Holocaust survival stories revolve around disguise--many Jews were forced into impersonation by the desperateness of their plight. Imagine if a person, by the accident of birth,...

#1 New York Times Bestseller Edith Hahn was an outspoken young woman in Vienna when the Gestapo forced her into a ghetto and then into a slave labor camp. When...

Victory at Sea brings together in one encyclopedic volume all the facts, figures, and details of the Pacific theater of World War II, containing much information that is unfamiliar or...

"Nureyev: His Life," the first full-scale biography of the legendary Russian dancer, traces Nureyev's remarkable climb out of poverty in the war-torn Soviet Union to become one of our century's...

Challenges the belief that the Neandertal was the first true human species, revealing the existence of humans fifty thousand years earlier, and considering why the Neandertal species died out.

This self-help resource demonstrates how some of life's most important and joyous lessons can come from life's hardest knocks.

Internationally renowned therapist, family expert and mediator Isolina Ricci, Ph.D. presents this definitive and newly updated guide to divorce and making shared custody work for parents and children. The ground-breaking...

From the bestselling author of Midwives and The Flight Attendant , a comic and life affirming novel of the clash between progress and tradition, science and magic: " one of...

From Simon & Schuster, The Koran Interpreted is an English translation of the Muslim holy book portrays the spirit, rather than the exact context and rhythm, of the original Arabic...

The Pie and Pastry Bible is your magic wand for baking the pies, tarts, and pastries of your dreams-the definitive work by the country's top baker. -More than 300 recipes,...

In the fall of 1944, Fey von Hassell, the 24-year-old wife of Italian Detalmo Pirzio-Biroli, was seized by the SS at her villa at Brazza near Venice and shuttled by...

The underground masterpiece of twentieth-century Russian fiction, this classic novel was written during Stalin's regime and could not be published until many years after its author's death. When the devil...

Part diary and part reportage, The Soccer War is a remarkable chronicle of war in the late twentieth century. Between 1958 and 1980, working primarily for the Polish Press Agency,...

From the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of A Sense of an Ending comes a comedy of sexual awakening in the 1960s that is "wonderfully fresh, crackling with nostalgic irreverence" (...

One of the most influential works of this century, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays is a crucial exposition of existentialist thought. Influenced by works such as Don Juan...

Between 1927 and his death in 1973, W. H. Auden endowed poetry in the English language with a new face. Or rather, with several faces, since his work ranged from...

"Fitzgerald's [translation] is so decisively the best modern Aeneid that it is unthinkable that anyone will want to use any other version for a long time to come." - New...

Shalimar the Clown is a masterpiece from one of our greatest writers, a dazzling novel that brings together the fiercest passions of the heart and the gravest conflicts of our...

Longlisted for the 2014 National Book Award The astonishing story of aunique missionary project and the America it embodied from award-winning historian John Demos. Near the start of the nineteenth...

In this provocative and illuminating book, Marianna Torgovnick explores the psychology of our profound attraction to cultures we call "primitive." Whether located in Africa, the South Pacific, or the American...

The Fifties is a sweeping social, political, economic, and cultural history of the ten years that Halberstam regards as seminal in determining what our nation is today. Halberstam offers portraits...

A former KGB major who defected to the West after a meteoric rise in the Soviet secret service, Vladimir Kuzichkin breaks all the rules of secrecy in a book that...

Sixteen-year-old Nomi Nickel longs to hang out with Lou Reed and Marianne Faithfull in New York City's East Village. Instead she's trapped in East Village, Manitoba, a small town whose...

It is the end of an historical epoch, but to an old professor of physics, Victor Jakob, sitting in his unlighted study, eating dubious bread with jam made from turnips,...

This fifth and final volume in an award-winning series charts the inner history of our times from the tumult of World War I to the 1990s. Nine historians present a...

This adventure reveals the crew members of the Starship Enterprise in mortal combat against the most savage enemy they have ever encountered - themselves. Set in the 24th century, a...

From the author of The Atlantic Campaign comes a historic account of the greatest naval conflict: the Pacific campaign of World War II. Dan van der Vat's naval histories have...

Three hundred years ago, the "S.S. Valiant" was destroyed during an ill-fated attempt to cross the legendary Galactic Barrier. Starfleet had always assumed that the "Valiant" had perished with all...

In the heart of the bayou, Ruby Landry lives a simple, happy life. But innocence can't last forever... The only family Ruby Landry has ever known are her loving guardian,...

Nancy Eldredge leads a quiet life on Cape Cod until a newspaper article and her children's disappearance bring to light her trial for murder in California.

This brilliant and concise account of the lives and ideas of the world's great philosophers -Plato, Aristotle, Bacon, Spinoza, Voltaire, Kant, Schopenhauer, Spencer, Nietzsche, Bergson, Croce, Russell, Santayana, James, and...