Rex Weyler This classic and accessible history of the American Indian Movement details an important part of Native peoples' continuing struggles against corporate and governmental development interests. Blood of the...

David and James Livingston On a blustery, overcast April day in 2003, David and James Livingston raced against each other in the 149th Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race, watched by over seven...

Nick Arnold Are you dying to find out what happens to food after you swallow it? Why dead people need a haircut? Which animals live on your eyelashes? This book...

Gabrielle Hamilton Before Gabrielle Hamilton opened her acclaimed New York restaurant Prune, she spent twenty hard-living years trying to find purpose and meaning in her life. Blood, Bones & Butter...

Paul Auster An intimate and powerful rumination on American gun violence by Paul Auster, one of our greatest living writers and “genuine American original” ( The Boston Globe ), in...

Ramona Koval I looked up the name in the phone book and rang the number. I tried to imagine the conversation that might ensue. ‘Hello? I was wondering if you’re...

Michael S Smith The 1st Marine Division's defensive positions were set up as a horseshoe containing Henderson Field and its Cactus Air Force. October 1, 2000 by Presidio Press

Chalmers Johnson Now available in paperback, Chalmers Johnson's take-no-prisoners account of the consequences of American global policies, hailed as "brilliant and iconoclastic" (Los Angeles Times)The term "blowback," invented by the...

Ming Tsai John Mariani has called Ming Tsai "the foremost interpreter of East-West cuisine in America today," and the appreciative diners at Blue Ginger, Ming's celebrated restaurant in Wellesley, Massachusetts,...

Edited by Peter Vernezze and Carl J Porter The legions of Bob Dylan fans know that Dylan is not just a great composer, writer, and performer, but a great thinker...

Bobbi Brown In this manual, Bobbi Brown strikes conventional thinking about beauty. To her way of thinking , there is no one "perfect" beauty standard but countless expressions of personalized...

Larry Tye “A multilayered, inspiring portrait of RFK . . . [the] most in-depth look at an extraordinary figure whose transformational story shaped America.”—Joe Scarborough, The Washington PostNEW YORK TIMES...