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Daniel Everett records the astonishing experiences and discoveries he made while he lived with the Piraha, a small tribe of Amazonian Indians in central Brazil. Intent originally on converting the tribe... more info...

Ghosts abound in Manhattan, and with the aid of Philip Ernest Schoenberg's extensive guide, readers can still hobnob with cultural icons such as Dorothy Parker and Sherwood Anderson or glimpse Harry Houdini's... more info...

Includes a new Afterword. This vivid ethnography - an international hit - reveals the inner workings of the sophisticated subcultures that make up the contemporary art world. In a series of day-in-the-life... more info...

Never before published in English, this acclaimed coming-of-age novel is set in northern Tuscany in the 1950s. Following the death of his beloved grandfather, the novel's teenage narratorbecomes increasingly... more info...

An irresistible invitation to experience life through the psyche of Maira Kalman, one of this country's most beloved artists. The result is a book that is part personal narrative, part documentary, part... more info...

This complete biography of the man known everywhere as "the Oracle of Omaha" is written by former financial analyst and business writer Alice Shroeder with the cooperation of Warren Buffett himself, who... more info...

To commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Discworld, the first two volumes of the remarkable Terry Pratchett's equally remarkable - and phenomenally successful - series were made available together, right... more info...

As near definitive as a one-volume work can be, Ted Gioia brings the same clear-eyed musical analysis and commonsense empathy to bear on the subject as he's long brought to bear on jazz. This is a remarkable... more info...

Michael Lewis has chosen more than fifty pieces of brilliant journalism for this anthology to illuminate the costliest upheavals in recent financial history, including the current subprime mortgage disaster.... more info...

Here, Nobel laureate Bellow writes comically and wisely about the tenacious claims of first love. Harry Trellman, an aging, astute businessman, has neber belonged anywhere: not in the Chicago orhanage... more info...

Authorized by Sartre to write his biography, Joh Gerassi conducted a long series of interviews between 1970 and 1974, which he has now edited to produce this revelatory and breathtaking portrait of one... more info...

A rare look into the life of literary/journalist legend Hunter S. Thompson, whose groundbreaksing style of "gonzo" journalism made him one of the greatest writers of his generation. Now for the first time,... more info...

Dictated directly into a microcassette recorder over a three-day weekend, this book contains Stephn Colbert's most deeply held knee-jerk beliefs on the American Family, Race, Religion, Sex, Sports, and... more info...

The classic locked-room mystery - a member of the Peculiar Crimes Unit killed inside a sealed morgue populated only by the dead and to which only four PCU members had a key. To make matters worse, the... more info...

(Young Readers Edition). (Young Readers Edition). In this book, you'll go undercover at the supermarket, delve behind the scenes of your dinner, and by the time you've digested the last page, you'll have... more info...

(The Best American series). Twenty-two judiciously selected essays selected from countless publications. Among this edition's contributors: Sue Allison, Wendell Berry, Patricia Hampl, Veryln Klinkenborg,... more info...

In this one-of-a-kind American road trip, (M*A*S*H)actor Mike Farrell departs Los Angeles with a rental car - a Prius he quickly nicknamed "Mule" - as his only companion. Here, he provides a funny account... more info...

(Volume II, The Kingdom of the Waves). In a tale of skirmish and flame, flight and fury, and battle on sea and land, a man transforms himself from a violinist playing airs for English officers into a true... more info...

Illustrated throughout with color photographs of each dish, GET COOKING gives you clear, step-by-step instructions for making everything from classic mashed potatoes to Broccoli-Cheddar Cheese Calzones... more info...

An epic account of the abiding quest for racial equality in states from Illinois to New York, and of how the intense northern struggle differed from and was inspired by the fight in the South. Thomas Sugrue's... more info...

(The Contemporary Art of the Novella series). Lori Segal's tour de force look at the New York literary scene was a hit when it was first released in the 1970s, winning the praise of the literary elite.... more info...

This gripping and significant book brings alive more than two hundred years of humanitarian interventions. It illuminates the passionate debates between conscience and imperialism ignited by the first... more info...

(A Bilingual New York Review Books Original). One of the masterpieces of 18th-century French libertine literature, this tale of seduction is itself a seduction, with a plot that could be said to slowly... more info...

In the First Circle is Nobel laureate Solzhenitsyn's Cold War masterpiece, first written between 1955 and 1958. In order to pass through Soviet censors, many essential scenes - including nine full... more info...

A memoir on mortality, one that touches on faith and science and family, as well as a rich array of exemplary figures who over the centuries have confronted the same questions Julian Barnes now poses about... more info...

To this day, America views itself as a Puritan nation, but Sarah Vowell investigates what that means. She takes readers from the modern-day reenactment of an indian massacre to the Mohegan sun casino,... more info...

Hang the DJ compiles what the contributors might once have idly scribbled in the backs of their school notebooks when they - like all of us at one point - were sure that they alone were the guardians of.... more info...

With a new introduction & updated final chapter, the book mines deeply into the most important periods in Goldman Sachs history to chronicle the brilliant individuals who built one of the world's largest... more info...

A searing visionary memoir of founding Black Panther Huey P. Newton, in a dazzling graphic package. From Newton's impoverish childhood on the streets of Oakland, California to his adolescence and 'struggles... more info...

The first in an epic trilogy, this remarkably vibrant saga has plenty of action and adventure a la Dumas, but moments also of Tolstoyan penetration. At the book's heart is a vast ship, the Ibis, her destiny... more info...

Winner of the Lincoln Prize; New York Times Bestseller. This rare, fresh take on one of the most written about yet enigmatic figures in American history, offers a revelatory portrait of leadership during... more info...

The biggest, hungriest, undeadliest collection of vampire stories ever assembled. Dark, stormy, and delicious, once it sinks its teeth into you there's no escape. With over eighty stories, including works... more info...

Robert Alter's THE BOOK OF PSALMS captures the simplicity, the physicality, and the coiled rhythmic power of the Hebrew, restoring the remarkable eloquence of these ancient poems. His learned and insightful... more info...

An incisive history of New York's seminal music scenes, encompassing the ways in which the city's indigenous art, literature, theater, and political movements converged to create such unique sounds, as... more info...

This groundbreaking analysis of alternative medicine examines more than thirty of the most popular treatments - including acupuncture, homeopathy, aromatherapy, reflexology, chiropraticand herbal medicines... more info...

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... more info...

In this combative, major new work, philosphical provocateur Slavoj Zizek looks for the kernel of truth in the totalitarian politics of the past. Examining Heidegger's seduction by fascism and Foucault's... more info...

The first book to tell the whole story of the long and tumultuous relationship between America and Great Britain. Historian Kathleen Burk draws on her unrivaled knowledge of both countries to explore the... more info...

How does one young man survive the deaths of his entire family and manage to make something of his life? The insecure son of a misunderstood genius of quantum mechanics, indie rocker Mark Oliver Everett... more info...

The first collection of essays by the award-winning author of The Ten-Cent Plague, Postively 4th Street, and Lush Life. Eclectic and controversial, Hajdu's essays take on topics as varied as pop music,... more info...

This groundbreaking collaboration sets out to explore the inner workings of a crack gang, the truth about real estate agents, the secrets of the Ku Klux Klan, and much more.Through forceful storytelling... more info...

Nearly everyone collects something, even those who don't think of themselves as collectors. William Davies King, on the other hand, has devoted decades to collecting nothing - and a lot of it! Here, he... more info...

This indispensable guide connects the dots and sets the record straight on a host of greedy gurus and murderous messiahs, crepuscular cabals and suspicious coincidences. Some topics are familiar - the... more info...

Living in the complicated and dangerous world that we do, requires a working knowledege as to whether or not Iran's nascent nuclear capability is an actual threat to the West, or to the Middle East regionitself,... more info...

The Lower East Side has given rise to some of the city's most iconic restaurants, shopping venues, and architecture. It has also welcomed generations of immigrants, from Italians and Jews to Latinos and... more info...