Life Studies: An Analytic Reader

Patrick Tierney - Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon

Examines the destructive impact of journalists, anthropologists, and scientists on the Yamomami Indians, one of the Amazon basin's oldest tribes, whose internecine warfare was triggered by repeated ...

Tina Rosenberg - The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism

The Pulitzer Prize-winning look at the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe

Orlando Patterson - Freedom: Freedom in the Making of Western Culture

Patterson links the birth of freedom in primitive societies with the institution of slavery and traces the evolution of three forms of freedom: personal, civic, and sovereign or organic (exercising ...

Robert Manson Myers - The Children of Pride: A True Story of Georgia and the Civil War

The remarkable Civil War letters of a Georgia plantation family, now available in a compact, illustrated volume for new readers and for all those who so greatly admired the original monumental ...

Leon Edel - Henry James: Literary Criticism French Writers Other European Writers the Prefaces to the New York Edition No 3

Gathers James essays about fiction, literary criticism, and the works of Alcott, Emerson, Hawthorne, Howells, Stowe, Arnold, Browning, Byron, Trollope, and Stevenson.

Wallace Stevens - The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

A celebrated collection of " the best and most representative American poet of our time " (Harold Bloom, Yale University)

Elizabeth Gilbert - The Last American Man

The author of Pilgrims moves from short fiction to nonfiction, offering a cultural examination of the modern American male, exploring the meaning of manhood in all of its contradictions, meaning, and ...

Sharon Olds - The Unswept Room

From Sharon Olds & #8212;a stunning new collection of poems that project a fresh spirit, a startling energy of language and counterpoint, and a moving, elegiac tone shot through with humor. < br > < ...

A. Scott Berg - Max Perkins: Editor of Genius

This " highly readable work of literary history " (New York Times Book Review) is the first to explore the professional and personal life of editor extraordinaire Maxwell Petkins -- guiding light ...