Metropolitan Books imprint: 234 books
The Time Bind
When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001
The national bestseller that put "work/family balance" in the headlines and on the White House agenda, with a new introduction by the author.
When The Time Bind was first published in 1997, it was hailed as the decade's most influential study of our work/family crisis. In the short...
The White Bone
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2000
A thrilling journey into the minds of African elephants as they struggle to survive.
If, as many recent nonfiction bestsellers have revealed, animals possess emotions and awareness, they must also have stories. In The White Bone, a novel imagined entirely from the perspective of African elephants,...
A Small Treatise on the Great Virtues
The Uses of Philosophy in Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
An utterly original exploration of the timeless human virtues and how they apply to the way we live now, from a bold and dynamic French writer.
In this graceful, incisive book, writer-philosopher André Comte-Sponville reexamines the classic human virtues to help us under-stand "what we...
Helpless
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
From the internationally acclaimed author of The White Bone and The Romantic, a haunting and suspenseful novel of abduction and obsessive love
Nine-year-old Rachel Fox has the face of an angel, a heart-stopping luminosity that strikes all who meet her. Her single mother, Celia, working at a...
The Island Walkers
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
A powerful first novel about a family that slips from fortune's favor and a town broken by the forces of modernity
Across a bend of Ontario's Attawan River lies the Island, a working-class neighborhood of whitewashed houses and vine-freighted fences, black willows and decaying sheds. Here,...
by Astra Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
What is democracy really? What do we mean when we use the term? And can it ever truly exist? Astra Taylor, hailed as a “New Civil Rights Leader” by the Los Angeles Times, provides surprising answers.
There is no shortage of democracy, at least in name, and yet it is in crisis everywhere...
Dancing in the Streets
A History of Collective Joy
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2007
From the bestselling social commentator and cultural historian, a fascinating exploration of one of humanity's oldest traditions: the celebration of communal joy
In the acclaimed Blood Rites, Barbara Ehrenreich delved into the origins of our species' attraction to war. Here, she explores the...
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine
A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2019
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East, told through pivotal events and family history
In 1899, Yusuf Diya al-Khalidi, mayor of Jerusalem, alarmed by the Zionist call to create a Jewish national home in...
Gold Digger
The Outrageous Life and Times of Peggy Hopkins Joyce
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
A sparkling biography of the original blonde whom gentlemen preferred, a woman who made a career of marrying millionaires and became the first tabloid celebrity.
One of America's most talked about personalities during the Jazz Age, Peggy Hopkins Joyce was the quintessential gold digger, the...
One Country
A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2007
A provocative approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict—one state for two peoples—that is sure to touch nerves on all sides
The Israeli-Palestinian war has been called the world's most intractable conflict. It is by now a commonplace that the only way to end the violence is to divide...
Plague
A Story of Science, Rivalry, and the Scourge That Won't Go Away
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2004
A riveting account, at once a reconstruction of the race to find a cure, a history of bubonic plague, and an investigation into the threat of plague today
Plague. The very word carries an unholy resonance. No other disease can claim its apocalyptic or mythological power. It can lie dormant for centuries,...
Men
Notes from an Ongoing Investigation
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
From the notoriously contrarian author of Against Love, a witty and probing examination of why badly behaved men have been her lifelong fascination, on and off the page
It's no secret that men often behave in intemperate ways, but in recent years we've witnessed so many spectacular public displays...
The Road to Whatever
Middle-Class Culture and the Crisis of Adolescence
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2005
From the Pulitzer Prize finalist, a sharp and compassionate investigation of the root causes of the epidemic of drug abuse, violence, and despair among "mainstream" American teenagers
In the past few years, it has become painfully clear that all is not well with the children of middle-class...
Through the Language Glass
Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
A masterpiece of linguistics scholarship, at once erudite and entertaining, confronts the thorny question of how—and whether—culture shapes language and language, culture
Linguistics has long shied away from claiming any link between a language and the culture of its speakers: too much...