Alan Dugan - Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry

This is the only collection of Dugan's poetry in print, chronicling a 40-year career and its shifting concerns. Here Alan Dugan adds to his body of work with nearly three dozen new poems. Eloquent, ...

Philip Roth - Sabbath's Theater: Library Edition

Mickey Sabbath, an aging, misanthropic puppeteer, embarks on a journey into his checkered past when his long-time mistress dies. His journey turns into succession of disasters. And while Sabbath wants ...

David Brion Davis - The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823

Brion Davis displayed his mastery not only of a vast source of material, but also of the highly complex, frequently contradictory factors that influenced opinion on slavery. He has now followed this ...

Philip J. Davis, Elena Marchisotto, Reuben Hersh - The Mathematical Experience

This is the classic introduction for the educated lay reader to the richly diverse world of mathematics: its history, philosophy, principles, and personalities.

Tim Weiner - Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

A < IT > New York Times < RO > reporter offers a powerful indictment of the CIA and its intelligence-gathering capabilities as he traces the history of the organization from the end of World War II ...

William Meredith - Effort at Speech: New and Selected Poems

This, the definitive collection of Meredith's life work, contains poems chosen by Meredith from Love Letter from an Impossible Land, Ships and Other Figures, the Open Sea, and etc. Several new poems ...

John Updike - The Centaur

This portrait of small-town life in Pennsylvania is seen through the eyes of Chiron, the centaur of Greek mythology. On the surface, this is a novel about teenager Peter Caldwell and his father George ...

Algernon Blackwood - The Centaur

Erik H. Erikson - Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence

A Western psychoanalyst and historian presents a detailed examination of the philosophies accepted by Gandhi and his attempts to convert the British through nonviolence.

Wanda Coleman - Mercurochrome

This 11th collection, by the 1999 recipient of the Academy of American Poets Lenore Marshall Prize, uses vivid, visceral language to examine issues of identity and relationships. This volume was ...