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Resisting the traditional model of nineteenth-century fiction, Joris-Karl Huysman produced in 1884 a novel unlike any other of his time. Against Nature is the story of Des Esseintes, an aesthete who attempts to escape Paris and, along with it, the vulgarity of modern life....

Against Odds: A Detective StoryIt was I, Carl Masters, of the secret service, so called, who uttered this exclamation, although not a person of the exclamatory school; and small wonder, for I was standing beneath the dome of the Administration Building, and I had...

"Prodigiously documented... Alison Weir must be highly commended for throwing such a brilliantly hard light on the relationship between the United States and Israel. I hope this marvelous book gets all the attention it deserves." - Ambassador Andrew Killgore Soon after WWII, US statesman...

The bestselling feminist classic that revolutionized the way we think about rape, as a historical phenomenon and as an urgent crisis--essential reading in the era of #MeToo. "A major work of history."--The Village Voice - One of the New York Public Library's 100 Books...

A bold and imaginative critique of the hidden costs of digital life - and a manifesto for a better future . . . At the turn of the millennium, digital technologies seemed to have immense promise for transforming our society. With these powerful new...

To define 'progress' is to lay claim to the future. Seminal thinker Slavoj Zizek turns essayist to interrogate the competing visions which form the horizons of human possibility and ask: Can things, which have never seemed worse, get better? What would a better world...

When bioethicist and professor Ashley Shew became a self-described "hard-of-hearing chemobrained amputee with Crohn's disease and tinnitus," there was no returning to "normal." Suddenly well-meaning people called her an "inspiration" while grocery shopping or viewed her as a needy recipient of technological wizardry. Most...

When bioethicist and professor Ashley Shew became a self-described "hard-of-hearing chemobrained amputee with Crohn's disease and tinnitus," there was no returning to "normal." Suddenly well-meaning people called her an "inspiration" while grocery shopping or viewed her as a needy recipient of technological wizardry. Most...

Against TetrarchRod Harrow pawed futilely at the whirling sands in the gryxon mines on Tetrarch IV. Dimly, as through a dark mist, he could see the line of bobbing lamps that etched the tunnel outlines. He raised his pick for another weary stroke, when...

A celebration of the artists, activists, writers and resisters from the borderlands of the American Southwest. James Beard Award winning Nabhan (Agave Spirits) profiles agents of change like Dolores Huerta, John Steinbeck, Cesar Chavez, and many more. A century ago, William Carlos Williams's In...

Against the Current: Simple Chapters from a Complex LifeAgainst the Current Simple Chapters from a Complex Life. 12mo, cloth, net $1.25 The Immigrant Tide Its Ebb and Flow Illustrated, 8vo, cloth, net $1.50 On the Trail of the Immigrant 4th Edition. Illustrated, 12mo, cloth,...

A New York Times Bestseller - A Washington Post Best Book of the Year - A New York Times Notable Book "[Pynchon's] funniest and arguably his most accessible novel." --The New York Times Book Review "Audacious, bodacious, entropic, synoptic, electric, eclectic, entertaining, hyperbraining, high-roller,...

'Then King Darius sent this message to the people of every race and nation and language throughout the world: "I decree that everyone throughout my kingdom should tremble with fear before the God of Daniel. For he is the living God, and he will...

Daniel's story is one of extraordinary faith in God lived out at the pinnacle of executive power. It tells of four teenage friends, born in the tiny state of Judah about twenty-six centuries ago, but captured by Nebuchadnezzar, emperor of Babylon. Daniel describes how...

Der Bestseller zur Risikobewertung jetzt als Broschurausgabe. Das ganze Leben ist ein einziges Risiko. Menschen in allen Bereichen des Lebens - Politiker, Wissenschaftler, Geschäftsleute, sogar Familien - müssen regelmä ig Entscheidungen treffen, die in irgendeiner Form Risiken bergen. Die Fähigkeit, das Ausma des Risikos...

Against the GrainThe Floressas Des Esseintes, to judge by the various portraits preserved in the Chteau de Lourps, had originally been a family of stalwart troopers and stern cavalry men. Closely arrayed, side by side, in the old frames which their broad shoulders filled,...

Detective Peter Diamond goes undercover at a seasonal festival in this delightful and bittersweet conclusion to the multi-award-winning series. Detective Peter Diamond, chief of the Avon and Somerset Murder Squad, is taking a short holiday in the country. His former colleague Julie Hargreaves has...

An account of all the new and surprising evidence now available that contradicts the standard narrative for the beginnings of the earliest civilizations An Economist Best History Book 2017 "Scott is one of those rare academics whose writing is a thing of beauty."--Rana Dasgupta,...

Arab American Book Award Winner 2021 Aspen Words Literary Prize Finalist 2020 Athenaeum Literary Award Finalist 2020 Palestine Book Awards Winner Longlisted for Rathbones Folio Prize "Susan Abulhawa possesses the heart of a warrior; she looks into the darkest crevices of lives, conflicts, horrendous...

How a force that's hard to name, but which we all feel, is reshaping what it means to be human In Against the Machine, "furiously gifted" (The Washington Post) novelist, poet, and essayist Paul Kingsnorth presents a wholly original--and terrifying--account of the technological-cultural matrix...