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Here, from one of the masters of the short story, is an unforgettable collection of haunting and strange tales.  >> more

Every chess player needs a set of openings he can trust.  >> more

Chess strategy is the long-term planning at the heart of winning chess.  >> more

This book saves you years of hit-and-miss reading and sporadic improvement because it gathers together the crucial, game-winning knowledge in one easy-to-carry volume.  >> more

We believe that marriage is a bond between two individuals.  >> more

With a multiracial president, a Latino population that is now the largest minority, and steadily growing Asian and Native American populations, race is both the most dynamic facet of American identity and the defining point of American disunity.  >> more

Our chemist, our window cleaner, our colleague—they populate our days but we often take them for granted.  >> more

With a novelist’s skill and a scholar’s attention to detail, Fawn M. Brodie portrays Thomas Jefferson as he wrestled with the issues of his time: revolution, religion, power, race and love.  >> more

Anton Chekhov is a unique force in modern drama, his works cherished for their brilliant wit and insight into the human condition.  >> more

Anton Chekhov is a unique force in modern drama, his works cherished for their brilliant wit and insight into the human condition.  >> more

Anton Chekhov is a unique force in modern drama, his works cherished for their brilliant wit and insight into the human condition.  >> more

Led by an award-winning nature writer, Swimming with Piranhas at Feeding Time takes the reader on a thrilling journey deep in to the domains of strange—and often dangerous—animals.  >> more

From Astaire to Steinbeck, this timely and long-awaited history of the 1930s sets the creative energies of the Great Depression against a backdrop of poverty and economic disaster.  >> more

“Brilliantly demonstrated in Thinking
Strategically (ISBN 978 0 393 31035 1), game theory is bursting with lessons for us all” (The Observer).  >> more

In this lyric narrative inspired by history, a former US Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winner imaginatively re-creates the life of a nineteenth-century virtuoso violinist.  >> more

In 1876 the abolitionist Frederick Douglass observed, "No man can say anything that is new of Abraham Lincoln.  >> more

Dark energy. Dark matter. These strange and invisible substances sound mysterious and their unexpected appearance in the cosmic census is upending long-held notions about the nature of the Universe.  >> more

Warning Shadows is a brilliantly insightful and witty examination of beloved and little-known films, directors and stars by esteemed critic, Gary Giddins.  >> more

The blues grew out of the plantations and prisons, the swampy marshes and fertile cotton fields of the Mississippi Delta.  >> more

Dorothea Lange’s photographs define how the American Depression is remembered; this evocative biography defines her creative struggles and enduring legacy.  >> more