Spiegel Grau imprint: 193 books

Through a Dog's Eyes

Understanding Our Dogs by Understanding How They See the World

by Jennifer Arnold
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010

A “transformative,”* inspiring book with the power to change the way we understand and communicate with our dogs. Few people are more qualified to speak about the abilities and potential of dogs than Jennifer Arnold, who for twenty years has trained service dogs for people with physical...

Darwin's Ghosts

The Secret History of Evolution

by Rebecca Stott
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK “[An] extraordinarily wide-ranging and engaging book [about] the men who shaped the work of Charles Darwin . . . a book that enriches our understanding of how the struggle to think new thoughts is shared across time and space and people.”—The Sunday Telegraph...

Outcasts United

An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference

by Warren St. John
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009

BONUS: This edition contains a reader's guide. The extraordinary tale of a refugee youth soccer team and the transformation of a small American town Clarkston, Georgia, was a typical Southern town until it was designated a refugee settlement center in the 1990s, becoming the first American...

Orange Is the New Black

My Year in a Women's Prison

by Piper Kerman
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010

NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES • #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER With a career, a boyfriend, and a loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the reckless young woman who delivered a suitcase of drug money ten years before. But that past has caught up with her. Convicted and sentenced to fifteen...

The Other Wes Moore

One Name, Two Fates

by Wes Moore
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010

The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his. Two kids named Wes Moore were born blocks apart within a year of each other. Both grew up fatherless in similar Baltimore neighborhoods and had difficult childhoods; both hung out on...

The Hidden Brain

How Our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars, and Save Our Lives

by Shankar Vedantam
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2010

The hidden brain is the voice in our ear when we make the most important decisions in our lives—but we’re never aware of it. The hidden brain decides whom we fall in love with and whom we hate. It tells us to vote for the white candidate and convict the dark-skinned defendant, to hire the thin...

Meat Eater

Adventures from the Life of an American Hunter

by Steven Rinella
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012

“Revelatory . . . With every chapter, you get a history lesson, a hunting lesson, a nature lesson and a cooking lesson. . . . Meat Eater offers an overabundance to savor.”—The New York Times Book Review Steven Rinella grew up in Twin Lake, Michigan, the son of a hunter who taught his...

The Scavenger's Guide to Haute Cuisine

How I Spent a Year in the American Wild to Re-create a Feast from the Classic Recipes of French Master Chef Auguste Escoffier

by Steven Rinella
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015

When outdoorsman, avid hunter, and nature writer Steven Rinella stumbles upon Auguste Escoffier’s 1903 milestone Le Guide Culinaire, he’s inspired to assemble an unusual feast: a forty-five-course meal born entirely of Escoffier’s esoteric wild game recipes. Over the course of one unforgettable...

The MeatEater Fish and Game Cookbook

Recipes and Techniques for Every Hunter and Angler

by Steven Rinella
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018

From the host of the television series and podcast MeatEater, the long-awaited definitive guide to cooking wild game, including fish and fowl, featuring more than 100 new recipes “As a MeatEater fan who loves to cook, I can tell you that this book is a must-have.”—Andrew Zimmern When...

Underground

A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet

by Will Hunt
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019

A panoramic investigation of the subterranean landscape, from sacred caves and derelict subway stations to nuclear bunkers and ancient underground cities—an exploration of the history, science, architecture, and mythology of the worlds beneath our feet When Will Hunt was sixteen years old,...

Tattoo Machine

Tall Tales, True Stories, and My Life in Ink

by Jeff Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2009

As the proprietor of the legendary Sea Tramp Tattoo Company, in Portland, Oregon, Jeff Johnson has inked gangbangers, age-defying moms, and sociopaths; he’s defused brawls and tended delicate egos. In Tattoo Machine, Johnson illuminates a world where art, drama, and commerce come together in highly...

Petite Anglaise: A True Story

In Paris. In Love. In Trouble.

by Catherine Sanderson
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2008

A young Englishwoman in Paris, juggling a dying romance and the demands of motherhood, discovers escape, excitement, and—possibly—true love when she reinvents herself with a click of the mouse as … Petite Anglaise. She has a job in Paris, the city of her dreams, a handsome Frenchman,...

Avedon

Something Personal

by Norma Stevens, Steven M. L. Aronson
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017

An intimate biography of Richard Avedon, the legendary fashion and portrait photographer who “helped define America’s image of style, beauty and culture” (The New York Times), by his longtime collaborator and business partner Norma Stevens and award-winning author Steven M. L. Aronson. Richard...

Double Cup Love

On the Trail of Family, Food, and Broken Hearts in China

by Eddie Huang
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016

From the author of Fresh Off the Boat, now a hit ABC sitcom, comes a hilarious and fiercely original story of culture, family, love, and red-cooked pork Eddie Huang was finally happy. Sort of. He’d written a bestselling book and was the star of a TV show that took him to far-flung places...
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