Farrar Straus And Giroux imprint: 2581 books
Short Letter, Long Farewell
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1974
Short Letter, Long Farewell tells the story of a young Austrian--evidently modeled on the author--on a month's journey across the United States. The book opens in Providence, where a letter awaits the un-named narrator from his estranged wife, Judith. "I am in New York," it says. "Please...
The World Beyond Your Head
On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
A groundbreaking new book from the bestselling author of Shop Class as Soulcraft
In his bestselling book Shop Class as Soulcraft, Matthew B. Crawford explored the ethical and practical importance of manual competence, as expressed through mastery of our physical environment. In his brilliant...
Manifesta [10th Anniversary Edition]
Young Women, Feminism, and the Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010
In the year 2000, girl culture was clearly ascendant. From Lilith Fair to Buffy the Vampire Slayer to the WNBA, it seemed that female pride was the order of the day. Yet feminism was also at a crossroads; "girl power" feminists were obsessed with personal empowerment at the expense of politics,...
Grassroots
A Field Guide for Feminist Activism
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2005
From the authors of Manifesta, an activism handbook that illustrates how to truly make the personal political.
Grassroots is an activism handbook for social justice. Aimed at everyone from students to professionals, stay-at-home moms to artists, Grassroots answers the perennial question: What...
Tiffky Doofky
A Picture Book
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
Tiffky Doofky, garbage collector for the town of Popville, is proud of his calling, and quite a gay dog into the bargain. One fine spring morning, while he's making his rounds, it comes to him that something special is going to happen. Madame Tarsal, the fortuneteller, confirms his hunch and predicts...
by Daniel Altman
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2008
What if you could look behind the headlines of the global economy to see how it really worked? Instead of listening to pundits, politicians, and protestors, you could see firsthand how everyone from migrant workers to central bank governors lived their lives. Then you could decide for yourself where...
The Brain Electric
The Dramatic High-Tech Race to Merge Minds and Machines
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
The gripping and revelatory story of the dramatic race to merge the human brain with machines
Leading neuroscience researchers are racing to unlock the secrets of the mind. On the cusp of decoding brain signals that govern motor skills, they are developing miraculous technologies to enable...
Dark Harbor
The War for the New York Waterfront
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2010
What if the world of the old New York waterfront was as violent and mob-controlled as it appears in Hollywood movies? Well, it really was, and the story of its downfall, told here in high style by Nathan Ward, is the original New York mob story.
New York Sun reporter Malcolm "Mike"...
How to Hack a Party Line
The Democrats and Silicon Valley
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
The gripping story of the emergence of a powerful new force in American politics
Sara Miles's How to Hack the Party Line is the first book to explain the political significance of the high-technology industry, and to show the birth of a relationship between the new millionaires of the Information...
by George Packer
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
An acclaimed journalist and novelist explores the legacy and future of American liberalism through the history of his family's politically active history
George Packer's maternal grandfather, George Huddleston, was a populist congressman from Alabama in the early part of the century--an agrarian...
Critical Mass
How One Thing Leads to Another
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2006
Are there any "laws of nature" that influence the ways in which humans behave and organize themselves? In the seventeenth century, tired of the civil war ravaging England, Thomas Hobbes decided that he would work out what kind of government was needed for a stable society. His approach was...
by Adam Phillips, Barbara Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
Kindness is the foundation of the world's great religions and most-enduring philosophies. Why, then, does being kind feel so dangerous? If we crave kindness with such intensity, why is it a pleasure we often deny ourselves? And why—despite our longing—are we often suspicious when we are on the...
Imagining Numbers
(particularly the square root of minus fifteen)
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2004
How the elusive imaginary number was first imagined, and how to imagine it yourself
Imagining Numbers (particularly the square root of minus fifteen) is Barry Mazur's invitation to those who take delight in the imaginative work of reading poetry, but may have no background in math, to make...
Bad Science
Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
Have you ever wondered how one day the media can assert that alcohol is bad for us and the next unashamedly run a story touting the benefits of daily alcohol consumption? Or how a drug that is pulled off the market for causing heart attacks ever got approved in the first place? How can average readers,...