How Markets Fail

John Cassidy describes the rising influence of what he calls utopian economics - thinking that is blind to how real people act and that denies the many ways an unregulated free market can produce disastrous... (Save 20%) more...

Interesting Times

Spanning a decade that includes the September 11, 2001 attacks and the election of Barack Obama, journalist George Packer brings insight and passion to his accounts of the war on terror, Iraq, political... (Save 20%) more...

Lacuna

Born in the United States, reared in a series of provisional households in Mexico - from a coastal island jungle to 1930s Mexico City - Harrison Shepherd finds precarious shelter but no sense of home on... (Save 20%) more...

Bowie

All the saints, all the madmen, and all the young dudes, whether born in 1917 or 1984, realize the amazing changes and contributions David Bowie made to music history. From wishful beginnings, the future... (Save 20%) more...

Obamanos!

The New Yorker's celebrated political essayist observes the astounding presidential campaign of 2007-2008 unfold to reveal the reinvigoration of the Democratic Party, the stupendous Republican tailspin,... (Save 20%) more...

The Kingdom of New York

A jauntiful chronicling of the Rise and Fall and Rise of New York City, as personified by the protagonists and antagonists of the past twenty years, told in archival pastiche - a breathtaking sprint of... (Save 20%) more...

Contact Sheet

Featuring a diverse collection of original contact sheets from over forty international photographers, THE CONTACT SHEET allows in-depth insight into the subject matter and the photographic process - often... (Save 20%) more...

When Art Worked

A monumental, extensively illustrated book about the artists, architects, photographers, and designers put to work during the Great Depression - with a focus on the consequences of the art and architecture... (Save 20%) more...

Googled: The End of the World As We Know It by Ken Auletta

Critically examines the influence of Google on today's dynamic media landscape, profiling company founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin while offering insight into their lucrative business processes... (Save 20%)

This Time is Different

Throughout history, rich & poor countries alike have been lending, borrowing, crashing--and recovering--their way through an extraordinary range of financial crises. Each time, the experts have chimed,... (Save 20%) more...

Thucydides

Donald Kagan's magisterial 4-volume history of the Peloponnesian War and its single-volume adaptation are recognized as landmarks of classical scholarship. In THUCYDIDES, Kagan turns his attention from... (Save 20%) more...

First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

In this take-no-prisoner analysis, Slavoj Zizek frames the moral failures of the modern world in terms of the epoch-making events of the first decade of this century. What he finds is the old one-two punch... (Save 20%) more...