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In a story spanning five decades, LAST NIGHT IN TWISTED RIVER - John Irving's twelfth novel - depicts the recent half-century in the United States as "a living replica of Coos County, where lethal hatreds... more info...

Edward Rutherfurd celebrates America's greatest city in a rich, engrossing saga that showcases his extraordinary ability to combine impeccable historical research and storytelling flair. He tells this... more info...

It's bad news when you wake up in the morning and find you've lost your head, especially if it's an especially agreeable and handsome head, but there you go! The best thing to do is make a new one. Andso... more info...

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... more info...

Andre Agassi was a captivating tennis player. His on-court demeanor showed the rebellious flashes of John McEnroe, the groundstroke of a young Ilie Nastase and a personality all his own. As he aged, however,... more info...

Tim Burton has reinvented Hollywood genre filmmaking over the past three decades - Bettle Juice, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. With a visual style... more info...

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The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao by Frank Gehry, the CCTV Headquarters by Rem Koolhaas, the Getty Center by Richard Meier, the Times Building by Renzo Piano: Pulitzer-Prize-winning critic Paul Goldberger's... more info...

An undisputed masterwork among Japanese photobooks, Eikoh Hosoe and Tatsumi Hijikata was originally released in 1969 as a limited edition. Hosoe, the renowned photographer, and Hijikata, the founder of... more info...

The isolate and emaciated figures of Aklberto Giacometti (1901-1966) speak of the extremes of solitude, but the artist's own social & familial world was populous, composed of a greatly and diversly talented... more info...

The photographer Dorothea Lange joined the New Deal Farm Security Administration in 1935, charged iwth the task of inventing an iconography that would record and convey the tales of Depression-eraAmerica.... more info...

With this fourth volume of the series, Segar's Poeye reaches one of its highest peaks in "Plunder Island," the glorious, epic-length Sunday-continuity adventure that ran for eight months and pitted the... more info...

Nobody who has experienced an installation by James Turrell forgets the encounter - he makes light tangible in ways that boggle perception and almost seem to defy physics, as if you could reach into the... more info...

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Winner of the Man Booker Prize. Hilary Mantel presents a vivid re-creation of British history during the reign of King Henry VIII. The pope and Catholic Europe both oppose the king's wish to annul his... more info...

For years in the making, this sequel to the New York Times bestselling Freakonomics asks not only the tough questions, but the unexpected ones: What's more dangerous, driving drunk, or walking drunk? Why... more info...

A richly illustrated documentation of the history of the city by means of the medium of cartography. Tracing the development of New Yokr - from its inception as a Dutch colonial trade post, through periods... more info...

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. "I've been summoned. Thursday, Ten sharp." This is how a day in the life of a young factory worker during Ceausescu's totalitarian regims, begins. Her crime? Sewing... more info...

Hundreds of pro-Obama posters appeared on deisngforobama.org, a website for artists and designers wanting to support his candidacy for president in 2008. This selectioof the very best, by renowned artists... more info...

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... more info...

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,... more info...

As a self-described "blackbelt sinner," award-winning author Mary Karr has already exposed much of soul in an earlier sequence of outstanding memoirs. Though, perhaps nothing will prepare readers for the... more info...

This XL tome presents the world's greatest magicians from the 1400as through the 1950s, tracing magic's performing arts and spellbinding visual culture in over 1,000 rare vintage posters, photographs,... more info...

Picking up where An Inconvenient Truth left off, OUR CRISIS provides a blueprint for solving the global climate crisis, drawing on Mr. Gore's 40-year career as a student, policymaker, author, filmmaker,... more info...

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,... more info...

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... more info...

(New York Review Books Classics). Written in Soviet Moscow in the 1920s - but considered too subversive even to show to a publisher - the seven tales included here attest to Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky's... more info...

From the mind of acclaimed writer Padgett Powell comes a thoughtful and unique literary experiment. As the title suggests, Powell's book "The Interrogative Mood" asks the reader a series of questions.... more info...

Debate of cinema's credibility as an art form is as old as the medium itself. To explore the various means by which artists are also using cinema to investigate a wider range of aesthetic issues that are... more info...

(Unabridged Text). Beautifully designed, the 64-page book includes the complete original text accompanied by the author's delicate illustrations brought to life through paper engineering. A perfect gift... more info...

(25th Anniversary Special Edition). (Basic Art series). Focusing on New Media art as a specific art historical movement, this volume explores its technologies, thematic content and conceptual strategies,... more info...

Chuck has chronicled rock music, film, and sports for almost fifteen years. He's covered extreme metal, extreme nostalgia, disposable art, disposable heroes, life on the road, life through the television,... more info...

On the brink of fatherhood, writer Jonathan Safran Foer (Everything is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close), facing the prospect of having to make dietary choices on a child's behalf, set... more info...

In this first complete, impartial biography of the writer and philosopher, Anne C. Heller traces the controversial author's life from her childhood in Russia during the Bolshevik Revolution to her years... more info...

At the start of 1989, six European nations were Soviet vassal states. By year's end, they had all declared national independence, embarking on the road to democracy. How did it happen so quickly? Why did... more info...

In 1950 and 1951, Irving Penn created portraits of workers in Paris, London and New York who are dressed in their work clothes and carrying the tools of their occupations. SMALL TRADES constitutes Penn's... more info...

This book, published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same title (Milan, Spring 2009), is produced in collaboration with Dlce & Cabbana. Always audacious, sometimes outrageous, Vogue's imagesdistinguish... more info...

In the past decade, author and journalist Malcolm Gladwell has written three bestselling books that have gone on to radically change how we understand the world and ourselves. Now, in "What the Dog Saw,"... more info...

There is no better introduction to this amazing, experimental novelist than by reading "The Unfortunates." A legendary 1960s experiment in form, the work is the author's famous "book in a box," in which... more info...

The Wire is an award-winning independent magazine renowned for its expert coverage of a vast range of alternative, experimental and underground music. Now that knoweldge has been distilled into THE WIRE... more info...

A volume of ten new adventures, in which Pooh and his friends anticipate the return of Christopher Robin, meet a new friend, and solve the mystery of some missing bees. Color illus. For all ages. more info...

2,000 recipes that represent the patrimony of Italian country cooking! Each recipe is labeled with its region of origin, and it's not just the ingredients but also the techniques thatchange with the geography.... more info...

In this provocative book, Emmanuel Faye uses excerpts from unpublished seminars to show that Heidegger's philosophical writings are fatallycompromised by an adherence to National Socialist ideas. In other... more info...

Published on the occasion of the traveling exhibition which installs @Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC, Sept.17.2009-Jan.17.2010. Beginning with charcoal drawings made in 1915, which wereamong the most... more info...

Thelonius Monk is revered as a ground-breaking jazz pianist and composer, and, with his trademark goatee, dark glasses, and beret, he was the personification of cool. Here, Robin Kelley delves behind the... more info...

From the best-selling author who brought you "The Time Traveler's Wife" comes another spellbinding tale of love, identity, and secrets. Like many young adults, twenty-year-old twins Julia and Valentina... more info...

The secretive, Pentagon-led agency known as DARPA, may very well be America's greatest idea factory. Founded by President Eisenhower in response to Sputnik and the Soviet spaceprogram, DARPA mixes military... more info...

(Third Edition). Features include color-coded chapters: Charting your trip; History & culture; Lower Manhattan; the Villages; Midtown South; Midtown North; Upper East Side; Central Park; Upper West Side;... more info...

Best remembered as the old master with the penchant for fleshy pink nudes, Peter Paul Rubens, in his time, however, had no equal: his contemporaries revered him as the greatest painter of his era, if not... more info...

This large-format volume is the definitive work on Louis Vuitton's art, architecture, fashion, and photography, a symbiotic world that knows no parallel. Of all modern luxury brand, Louis Vuitton can claim... more info...

As guest editor of Witness Number 7, Todd Hido creates a relationship between his own photographs of vacant interiors of foreclosed homes and portraits made by Leon Borenstein during the 1980s. Hido's... more info...

This culminating work presents forty definitive publications from the era, piecing together a previously invisible history from some of the most influential works, as well as from forgotten gems, and situating... more info...

Thirteen novels of a science fiction master in one definitive collector's edition. The Library of America has gathered all three volumes of Jonathan Lethem's definitive Philip K. Dick edition in a boxed... more info...

Lift-the-flap and die-cut pages reveal portraits of many animals composed from typographic initials. (Ages: 4-8). more info...