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Here (Pantheon Graphic Novels)
Published: 2014-12-09
Hardcover: 304 pages
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From one of the great comic innovators, the long-awaited fulfillment of a pioneering comic vision. Richard McGuire’s Here is the story of a corner of a room and of the events that have occurred in that space over the course of hundreds of thousands of years.(With full-color illustrations...
From the New World: Poems 1976-2014
Published: 2015-02-17
Hardcover: 384 pages
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An indispensable volume of poems, selected from almost four decades of work, that tracks the evolution of one of our most renowned contemporary poets, Pulitzer Prize-winner Jorie Graham.The Poetry Foundation has named Jorie Graham “one of the most celebrated poets of the American post-wa...
Witches of America
Published: 2015-10-20
Hardcover: 288 pages
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"Witches are gathering."When most people hear the word "witches," they think of horror films and Halloween, but to the nearly one million Americans who practice Paganism today, witchcraft is a nature-worshipping, polytheistic, and very real religion. So Alex Mar discovers when she sets out...
The Weather Experiment: The Pioneers Who Sought to See the Future
Published: 2015-06-02
Hardcover: 416 pages
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In 1865 Admiral Robert FitzRoy locked himself in his dressing room and cut his throat. His grand meteorological project had failed. Yet only a decade later, FitzRoy's storm warning system and "forecasts" would return, the model for what we use today.In an age when a storm at sea was eviden...
The Unraveling: High Hopes and Missed Opportunities in Iraq
Published: 2015-04-07
Hardcover: 400 pages
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When Emma Sky volunteered to help rebuild Iraq after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in 2003, she had little idea what she was getting in to. Her assignment was only supposed to last three months. She went on to serve there longer than any other senior military or diplomatic figure, giving...
$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America
Published: 2015-09-01
Hardcover: 240 pages
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A revelatory account of poverty in America so deep that we, as a country, don’t think it exists Jessica Compton’s family of four would have no cash income unless she donated plasma twice a week at her local donation center in Tennessee. Modonna Harris and her teenage daughter Briann...
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
Published: 2015-11-09
Hardcover: 608 pages
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A sweeping, revisionist history of the Roman Empire from one of our foremost classicists.Ancient Rome was an imposing city even by modern standards, a sprawling imperial metropolis of more than a million inhabitants, a "mixture of luxury and filth, liberty and exploitation, civic pride an...
Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot
Published: 2015-06-02
Hardcover: 368 pages
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A poetic and nuanced exploration of the human experience of flight that reminds us of the full imaginative weight of our most ordinary journeys—and reawakens our capacity to be amazed. The twenty-first century has relegated airplane flight—a once remarkable feat of human ingenuity—t...
The Shape of the New: Four Big Ideas and How They Made the Modern World
Published: 2015-05-26
Hardcover: 512 pages
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This panoramic book tells the story of how revolutionary ideas from the Enlightenment about freedom, equality, evolution, and democracy have reverberated through modern history and shaped the world as we know it today. A testament to the enduring power of ideas, The Shape of the New...
The Prize: Who's in Charge of America's Schools?
Published: 2015-09-08
Hardcover: 246 pages
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A New York Times Bestseller Mark Zuckerberg, Chris Christie, and Cory Booker were ready to reform our failing schools. They got an education.When Mark Zuckerberg announced to a cheering Oprah audience his $100 million pledge to transform the downtrodden schools of Newark, New Jersey, the...
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