Berkeley: The Center for Environmental Structure, (2002). Hardcover. Tall 4tos, blue cloth, x, 476pp, xviii, 636, xi, 697pp, x, 355pp, fully illus. Book One: The Phenomenon of Life; Book Two: The Process of Creating Life; Book Three: A Vision of a Living World; Book Four: The Luminous Ground. A revolutionary.....
Algonquin Books, 2020. Hardcover. A Most-Anticipated Book of the Year: O, The Oprah Magazine * The New York Times * The Washington Post *Vogue * Bustle * BuzzFeed * Ms. Magazine *The Millions * The Huffington Post * PopSugar * The Lily * Goodreads * Library Journal * LitHub *.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, one-half turquoise cloth, grey paper over boards, 311pp. A First Edition of this dystopian fantasy of a future puritanical Republic of Gilead which interprets the biblical Book of Genesis literally - and in which women's rights are sacrificed to a lesser.....
Anchor Books, 2020. Paperback. ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: NPR - THE ATLANTIC - THE MILLIONS - MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE - ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH - LIT HUB - LIBRARY JOURNAL - THE NEW YORK PUBLIC.....
Riverhead Books, 2020. Hardcover. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A GOOD MORNING AMERICA Book Club Pick! "Bennett's tone and style recalls James Baldwin and Jacqueline Woodson, but it's especially reminiscent of Toni Morrison's 1970 debut novel, The Bluest Eye." --Kiley Reid, Wall Street Journal "A story of absolute, universal timelessness.....
Picador USA, 2020. Paperback. WINNER OF THE 2020 PULITZER PRIZE IN GENERAL NONFICTIONThe Undying is a startling, urgent intervention in our discourses about sickness and health, art and science, language and literature, and mortality and death. In dissecting what she terms 'the ideological regime of cancer, ' Anne Boyer has.....
Random House, 2020. Hardcover. In hardcover for the first time, this tenth-anniversary edition of the game-changing #1 New York Times bestseller features a new foreword and brand-new tools to make the work your own.For over a decade, Brené Brown has found a special place in our hearts as a gifted.....
Knopf Publishing Group, 2020. Hardcover. A hilariously self-deprecating, highly obsessive account of the author's adventures, in the world of French haute cuisine, for anyone whose ever found joy in cooking and eating food with their family--from the author of the best-selling, widely acclaimed Heat. A New York Times Book Review.....
Clarkson Potter Publishers, 2020. Hardcover. From the chef behind Momofuku and star of Netflix's Ugly Delicious--an intimate account of the making of a chef, the story of the modern restaurant world that he helped shape, and how he discovered that success can be much harder to understand than failure."David puts.....
Minotaur Books, 2020. Hardcover. From Ann Cleeves--New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of the Vera and Shetland series, both of which are hit TV shows--comes the stunning new Vera Stanhope novel, The Darkest EveningAnn Cleeves is one of my favorite mystery writers.--Louise Penny As a huge fan of both.....
Pegasus Books, 2020. Hardcover. A star curator at the American Museum of Natural History widens the palette and shows how the physical, natural, and cultural context of color are inextricably tied to what we see right before our eyes. Is color a phenomenon of science or a thing of art.....
Little Brown and Company, 2020. Hardcover. In Dublin, 1918, a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu is a small world of work, risk, death, and unlooked-for love, in "Donoghue's best novel since Room" (Kirkus Reviews) In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power.....
New York: Macmillan Company, 1912. First American Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 5-3/8 x 7-7/8", blue-grey cloth, 838pp, deckled fore and bottom-edges, top-edge gilt. First American Edition, First Printing. Translated by Constance Garnett; from "The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume I" (half-title). A rare copy of Dostoevsky’s last novel and greatest masterpiece.....
Woodbridge, Suffolk: Antique Collectors' Club, 1994. Hardcover. Quart, 8-1/2 x 11-1/8", blue cloth,702pp, dictionary of painters, bibliography, index, 860 black & white illustrations, 165 colour plates. Combines "Collecting Miniatures" (1979) with the revised and updated biographical details of some 4,400 artists from the "Dictionary of British Miniature Painters" (first published.....
Little Brown and Company, 2020. Hardcover. The "unputdownable" (Dave Eggers, National Book award finalist) story of the most infamous American con man you've never heard of: James Strang, self-proclaimed divine king of earth, heaven, and an island in Lake Michigan, "perfect for fans of The Devil in the White City".....
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019. Paperback. From Jim Holt, the New York Times bestselling author of Why Does the World Exist?, comes an entertaining and accessible guide to the most profound scientific and mathematical ideas of recent centuries in When Einstein Walked with Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought.....
Basic Books, 2020. Hardcover. The epic history of African American women's pursuit of political power -- and how it transformed America.In the standard story, the suffrage crusade began in Seneca Falls in 1848 and ended with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. But this overwhelmingly white women's movement.....
Random House, 2020. Hardcover. The bold and boundlessly original debut novel from the Oscar(R)-winning screenwriter of Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and Synecdoche, New York. "A dyspeptic satire that owes much to Kurt Vonnegut and Thomas Pynchon . . . propelled by Kaufman's deep imagination.....
Pantheon Books, 2020. Hardcover. From the internationally best-selling author of You Should Have Left, Measuring the World, and F, a transfixing retelling of the German myth of Tyll Ulenspiegel: a story about the devastation of war and a beguiling artist's decision never to die Daniel Kehlmann masterfully weaves the fates.....
London: Published by the Author c/o Messrs. Wyman & Sons, 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. Small quarto, gilt decorated and titled maroon cloth over thick beveled boards, xiv, 510pp, xlv ads, index, frontis. portrait of the author, 8 coloured plates with tissue guards depicting 55 flies, gilt top-edge. First Edition. A......
Penguin Press, 2020. Hardcover. How a New York Times bestselling author and New Yorker contributor parlayed a strong grasp of the science of human decision-making and a woeful ignorance of cards into a life-changing run as a professional poker player, under the wing of a legend of the game It's.....
Dublin: Wolfhound Press, (1992). First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto, blue paper over boards, 192pp, fully ilus. The 9000 year legacy of the Irish vessel, the currach, from its origins as a small skin (or hide) boat to its development as a large, ocean-going craft which secured a primal place in the.....
Simon & Schuster, 2020. Hardcover. A "remarkable" (Los Angeles Times), "seductive" (The Wall Street Journal) debut from an extraordinary new voice in nonfiction, Why Fish Don't Exist is a dark and astonishing tale of love, chaos, scientific obsession, and--possibly--even murder. "At one point, Miller dives into the ocean into a......
Random House, 2020. Hardcover. The long-awaited new novel from the bestselling, prize-winning author of Cloud Atlas and The Bone Clocks. New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice - "Mitchell's rich imaginative stews bubble with history and drama, and this time the flavor is a blend of Carnaby Street and Chateau.....
Pantheon Books, 2020. Hardcover. An intimate and inspirational exploration of Stephen Hawking--the man, the friend, and the physicist.One of the most influential physicists of our time, Stephen Hawking touched the lives of millions. Recalling his nearly two decades as Hawking's collaborator and friends, Leonard Mlodinow brings this complex man into.....
