Abrams Press imprint: 299 books
It's Not Over 'Til It's Over
The Stories Behind Most Magnificent Heart-Stopping Sports Miracles of Our Time
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2004
Find inspiration in these “enjoyable” accounts of historic last-minute victories—both legendary and little-known—in the world of sports (Booklist).
From a former editor of Sport magazine, this book is a journey through a century of athletic endeavor, from baseball to boxing and beyond—filled...
Invisible Women
Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
Data is fundamental to the modern world. From economic development, to healthcare, to education and public policy, we rely on numbers to allocate resources and make crucial decisions. But because so much data fails to take into account gender, because it treats men as the default and women as atypical,...
Grocery
The Buying and Selling of Food in America
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
In Grocery, bestselling author Michael Ruhlman offers incisive commentary on America's relationship with its food and investigates the overlooked source of so much of it—the grocery store.
In a culture obsessed with food—how it looks, what it tastes like, where it comes from, what is good...
The Wolves
A Play: Off-Broadway Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
One of the most-talked about new plays of the 2016 Off-Broadway season, Sarah DeLappe’s The Wolves opened to enthusiastic acclaim, including two sold-out, extended runs at The Playwrights Realm/The Duke on 42nd Street.The Wolves follows the 9 teenage girls—members of an indoor soccer team—as...
The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?
Broadway Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2004
Three-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Edward Albee’s most provocative, daring, and controversial play since Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, The Goat won every major award for best new play of the year: the Tony, New York Drama Critics Circle, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Awards. In the play,...
Monsters of the Week
The Complete Critical Companion to The X-Files
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
In Monsters of the Week: The Complete Critical Companion to The X-Files, TV critics Zack Handlen and Emily Todd VanDerWerff look back at exactly what made the long-running cult series so groundbreaking. Packed with insightful reviews of every episode—including the tenth and eleventh seasons and...
Breaking Bad 101
The Complete Critical Companion
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
AMC’s Breaking Bad is among the most beloved, critically acclaimed American television series of our time. Created by Vince Gilligan, the series charts the transformation of high school science teacher Walter White (played by Bryan Cranston) into a cold, calculating meth kingpin. Breaking Bad 101...
by Matt Zoller Seitz, Alan Sepinwall
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
On January 10, 1999, a mobster walked into a psychiatrist’s office and changed TV history. By shattering preconceptions about the kinds of stories the medium should tell, The Sopranoslaunched our current age of prestige television, paving the way for such giants as Mad Men, The Wire, Breaking Bad,...
The Displaced
Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
In January 2017, Donald Trump signed an executive order stopping entry to the United States from seven predominantly Muslim countries and dramatically cutting the number of refugees allowed to resettle in the United States each year. The American people spoke up, with protests, marches, donations,...
The Downtown Pop Underground
New York City and the literary punks, renegade artists, DIY filmmakers, mad playwrights, and rock 'n' roll glitter queens who revolutionized culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
The 1960s to early ’70s was a pivotal time for American culture, and New York City was ground zero for seismic shifts in music, theater, art, and filmmaking. The Downtown Pop Underground takes a kaleidoscopic tour of Manhattan during this era and shows how deeply interconnected all the alternative...
by Jennifer Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
Everything from "Did Beatrix Potter ever write a book about dinosaurs?" to "Did Charles Dickens ever write anything fun?" Anyone who has ever worked in retail will nod knowingly at requests like "I’ve forgotten my glasses, can you read me the first chapter?" Or the...
by David Crystal
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2005
The English language is now accepted as the global lingua franca of the modern age, spoken or written in by over a quarter of the human race. But how did it evolve? How did a language spoken originally by a few thousand Anglo-Saxons become one used by more than 1,500 million? What developments can...
Florence Foster Jenkins
The Life of the World's Worst Opera Singer
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
"Probably the most complete and absolute lack of talent ever publicly displayed." —Life MagazineMadame Jenkins couldn't carry a tune in a bucket: despite that, in 1944 at the age of 76, she played Carnegie Hall to a capacity audience and had celebrity fans by the score. Her infamous 1940s...
Elvis Has Left the Building
The Death of the King and the Rise of Punk Rock
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
“An interesting look at how 1977 marked the explosion of punk alongside this heartbreaking (though not altogether surprising) loss of a legend” (USA Today).
In the late 1970s, punk music was setting out to destroy everything Elvis Presley had come to represent. But punk couldn’t destroy The...