Metropolitan Books imprint: 234 books
The Italian Boy
A Tale of Murder and Body Snatching in 1830s London
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
A thrilling history of England's great metropolis at a point of great change, told through the story of a young vagrant murdered by "resurrection men"
Before his murder in 1831, the "Italian boy" was one of thousands of orphans on the streets of London, moving among the...
The Race for What's Left
The Global Scramble for the World's Last Resources
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
From Michael Klare, the renowned expert on natural resource issues, an invaluable account of a new and dangerous global competition
The world is facing an unprecedented crisis of resource depletion—a crisis that goes beyond "peak oil" to encompass shortages of coal and uranium,...
The Outsourced Self
What Happens When We Pay Others to Live Our Lives for Us
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
From the famed author of the bestselling The Second Shift and The Time Bind, a pathbreaking look at the transformation of private life in our for-profit world
The family has long been a haven in a heartless world, the one place immune to market forces and economic calculations, where the personal,...
Here Comes Mrs. Kugelman
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
Here Comes Mrs. Kugelman is Minka Pradelski's enchanting novel of listening and telling, of the silence between Holocaust survivors and their children, and of the power of stories to mend broken bonds
When feisty young Tsippy Silberberg of the curious eating habits receives word from Tel Aviv that...
Wonder of Wonders
A Cultural History of Fiddler on the Roof
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
A sparkling and eye-opening history of the Broadway musical that changed the world
In the half-century since its premiere, Fiddler on the Roof has had an astonishing global impact. Beloved by audiences the world over, performed from rural high schools to grand state theaters, Fiddler is a supremely...
The Future We Want
Radical Ideas for the New Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
A stirring blueprint for American equality, from the "breakout stars" (The New York Times) of the young new left
Democrat, Republican -- the list of presidential candidates confirms that business is proceeding pretty much as usual. The Future We Want proposes something different....
Naked Airport
A Cultural History of the World's Most Revolutionary Structure
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
The first full cultural history of the ultimate modern structure: the airport, revealed as never before ...
Since its origins in the muddy fields of flying machines, the airport has arguably become one of the defining institutions of modern life. In Naked Airport, critic Alastair Gordon ranges...
Into the Tunnel
The Brief Life of Marion Samuel, 1931-1943
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2008
A generous feat of biographical sleuthing by an acclaimed historian rescues one child victim of the Holocaust from oblivion
When the German Remembrance Foundation established a prize to commemorate the million Jewish children murdered during the Holocaust, it was deliberately named after a...
The Culture of Defeat
On National Trauma, Mourning, and Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
A fascinating look at history's losers-the myths they create to cope with defeat and the steps they take never to be vanquished again
History may be written by the victors, Wolfgang Schivelbusch argues in his brilliant and provocative new book, but the losers often have the final word. Focusing...
Words to Outlive Us
Eyewitness Accounts from the Warsaw Ghetto
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2003
The story of the Warsaw Ghetto told through twenty-eight never-before-published accounts-a precious and historic find.
In the history of the Holocaust, the Warsaw Ghetto stands as the enduring symbol of Jewish suffering and heroism. This collective memoir-a mosaic of individual diaries, journals,...
Cities of Empire
The British Colonies and the Creation of the Urban World
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
An original history of the most enduring colonial creation, the city, explored through ten portraits of powerful urban centers the British Empire left in its wake
At its peak, the British Empire was an urban civilization of epic proportions, leaving behind a network of cities which now stand...
Anne Frank
The Biography
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 1999
"An invaluable complement to an immortal testimony." - Kirkus Reviews
The first biography of the girl whose fate has touched the lives of millions. For people all over the world, Anne Frank, the vivacious, intelligent Jewish girl with a crooked smile and huge dark eyes, has become...
Anne Frank
The Biography
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Updated and filled with striking new revelations, the bestselling, "superb" biography that "honors in full a life we thought we knew" (Newsweek)
Praised as "remarkable," "meticulous," and "long overdue," Anne Frank: The Biography, originally...
by Maria Alyokhina
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
A Pussy Rioter’s riveting, hallucinatory account of her years in Russia’s criminal system and of finding power in the most powerless of situations
In February 2012, after smuggling an electric guitar into Moscow’s iconic central cathedral, Maria Alyokhina and other members of the radical...