Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group: 7208 books
Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom
China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
A gripping account of China’s nineteenth-century Taiping Rebellion, one of the largest civil wars in history. Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom brims with unforgettable characters and vivid re-creations of massive and often gruesome battles—a sweeping yet intimate portrait of the conflict that shaped...
Slaying Goliath
The Passionate Resistance to Privatization and the Fight to Save America's Public Schools
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2020
From one of the foremost authorities on education and the history of education in the United States, "whistleblower extraordinaire" (The Wall Street Journal), former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education, author of the best-selling Reign of Error ("fearless"--Jonathan Kozol, NYRB)--an impassioned,...
by William Safire
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Good news! America’s master wordsmith strikes again with a new collection of erudite, witty, provocative, sometimes barbed, frequently hilarious “On Language” columns. Published in The New York Times and syndicated in more than three hundred other newspapers, these opinions from the “Supreme...
by Richard Hofstadter
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
With eyewitness accounts and contemporary reports—linked together by succinct analytical commentaries—Richard Hofstadter and his young collaborator, Michael Wallace, have created a superb documentary reader that is, in effect, a history of violence in America through four centuries.
Here, as experienced...
What If This Were Enough?
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
***A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2018*
*A Bustle Best Nonfiction Book of 2018*
*One of Chicago Tribune's Favorite Books by Women in 2018*
*A Self Best Book of 2018 to Buy for the Bookworm in Your Life*
By the acclaimed critic, memoirist, and advice columnist behind the popular "Ask...
Until the End of Time
Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2020
From the world-renowned physicist, cofounder of the World Science Festival, and best-selling author of The Elegant Universe comes this utterly captivating exploration of deep time and humanity's search for purpose.
Brian Greene takes readers on a breathtaking journey from the big bang to the...
Life Is Meals
A Food Lover's Book of Days
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
From the PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author James Salter and his wife, Kay—amateur chefs and perfect hosts—here is a charming, beautifully illustrated tour de table: a food lover's companion that, with an entry for each day of the year, takes us from a Twelfth Night cake in January to a champagne...
by Helen Hoover
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
This is a book that takes us inside the Hoovers’ wilderness home during those sixteen Years of the Forest and lets us experience not only the joys and the techniques but also the challenges and travails of going it alone in the beautiful but not always accommodating wilderness, far from the technology...
Tightrope
Americans Reaching for Hope
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2020
The Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of the acclaimed, best-selling Half the Sky now issue a plea--deeply personal and told through the lives of real Americans--to address the crisis in working-class America, while focusing on solutions to mend a half century of governmental failure.
With stark...
by Jill Krementz
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
In these wonderfully straightforward accounts of what it means to children to be adopted, nineteen boys and girls, from eight to sixteen years old—and from every social background—confide their feelings about this crucial fact of their lives. It is deeply affecting to listen to these children...
The San Francisco Experience
The Romantic Love Behind the Fabulous Facade of the Bay Area
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
The San Francisco experience is not an encounter you can enjoy in an hour or a day or at a particular time or location. It is a composite of innumerable experiences over long periods of time in the entire region around the bay. San Francisco as a social and cultural entity long ago spilled over the...
by Sally Carrighar
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
To Beetle Rock, in the High Sierra, the city folk come in summer to camp, to rest, and to look at the magnificent sky over their heads and the broad sweep of the valley 6,500 feet below them. But they see little of the life that lies about them in the bush and tress—the life, by turns tense, dramatic,...
A Beginner's Guide to Japan
Observations and Provocations
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2019
From the acclaimed author of The Art of Stillness--one of our most engaging and discerning travel writers--a unique, indispensable guide to the enigma of contemporary Japan.
After thirty-two years in Japan, Pico Iyer can use everything from anime to Oscar Wilde to show how his adopted home...
by Tom McHugh
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
According to the Blackfoot creation myth, the spirits first rolled moist earth in their hands and threw the magic symbol to the ground to make men and women. “Next they made earthen images of buffalo, blowing on them to bring them to life.” And it is the profound interrelationship of earth, animal,...