Hill And Wang imprint: 184 books
Second Avenue Caper
When Goodfellas, Divas, and Dealers Plotted Against the Plague
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Winner of the 2015 Lambda Literary Award for Best LGBT Graphic Novel
A Village Voice Best Graphic Novel of 2014
The renowned graphic-book author Joyce Brabner's Second Avenue Caper is the true story of a tight-knit group of artists and activists living in New York City in the early 1980s who...
by Langston Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 1997
The Short Stories of Langston Hughes
This collection of forty-seven stories written between 1919 and 1963--the most comprehensive available--showcases Langston Hughes's literary blossoming and the development of his personal and artistic concerns. Many of the stories assembled here have long...
Strange Tools
Art and Human Nature
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
A philosopher makes the case for thinking of works of art as tools for investigating ourselves
In his new book, Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature, the philosopher and cognitive scientist Alva Noë raises a number of profound questions: What is art? Why do we value art as we do? What does...
by Elie Wiesel, Elie Wiesel
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
A New Translation From The French By Marion Wiesel
Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator, presents...
A Shopkeeper's Millennium
Society and Revivals in Rochester, New York, 1815-1837
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2004
A quarter-century after its first publication, A Shopkeeper's Millennium remains a landmark work--brilliant both as a new interpretation of the intimate connections among politics, economy, and religion during the Second Great Awakening, and as a surprising portrait of a rapidly growing frontier city....
Guarding the Golden Door
American Immigration Policy and Immigrants since 1882
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2005
As renowned historian Roger Daniels shows in this brilliant new work, America's inconsistent, often illogical, and always cumbersome immigration policy has profoundly affected our recent past.
The federal government's efforts to pick and choose among the multitude of immigrants seeking to enter...
Changes in the Land
Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize
Changes in the Land offers an original and persuasive interpretation of the changing circumstances in New England's plant and animal communities that occurred with the shift from Indian to European dominance. With the tools of both historian and ecologist,...
by Paul E. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2004
The true history of a legendary American folk hero
In the 1820s, a fellow named Sam Patch grew up in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, working there (when he wasn't drinking) as a mill hand for one of America's new textile companies. Sam made a name for himself one day by jumping seventy feet into the...
Adam's Tongue
How Humans Made Language, How Language Made Humans
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
How language evolved has been called "the hardest problem in science." In Adam's Tongue, Derek Bickerton—long a leading authority in this field—shows how and why previous attempts to solve that problem have fallen short. Taking cues from topics as diverse as the foraging strategies of...
CCB
The Life and Century of Charles C. Burlingham, New York's First Citizen, 1858-1959
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2005
The exemplary life of an extraordinary politician and reformer.
"A meticulously researched, substantial contribution to New York history." - Kirkus Reviews
Though he held no elected or appointed office, the New York City lawyer Charles C. Burlingham had great influence with...
Prague in Black and Gold
Scenes from the Life of a European City
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 1998
Prague is at the core of everything both wonderful and terrible in Western history, but few people truly understand this city's unique culture. In Prague in Black and Gold, Peter Demetz strips away sentimentalities and distortions and shows how Czechs, Germans, Italians, and Jews have lived and worked together for over a thousand years.
Night
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
A memorial edition of Elie Wiesel’s seminal memoir of surviving the Nazi death camps, with tributes by President Obama and Samantha Power
When Elie Wiesel died in July 2016, the White House issued a memorial statement in which President Barack Obama called him “the conscience of the world.”...
Encounters at the Heart of the World
A History of the Mandan People
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for History
Encounters at the Heart of the World concerns the Mandan Indians, iconic Plains people whose teeming, busy towns on the upper Missouri River were for centuries at the center of the North American universe. We know of them mostly because Lewis and...
Autumn Glory
Baseball's First World Series
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2004
A suspenseful account of the glorious days a century ago when our national madness began
A post-season series of games to establish supremacy in the major leagues was not inevitable in the baseball world. But in 1903 the owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates (in the well-established National League)...