Zadie Smith

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

New York

Occasional Essays

"[These essays] reflect a lively, unselfconscious, rigorous, erudite, and earnestly open mind that's busy refining its view of life, literature, and a great deal in between." --Los Angeles Times

Split into five sections--Reading, Being, Seeing, Feeling, and Remembering--Changing My Mind finds Zadie Smith casting an acute eye over material both personal and cultural. This engaging collection of essays, some published here for the first time, reveals Smith as a passionate and precise essayist, equally at home in the world of great books and bad movies, family and philosophy, British comedians and Italian divas. Whether writing on Katherine Hepburn, Kafka, Anna Magnani, or Zora Neale Hurston, she brings deft care to the art of criticism with a style both sympathetic and insightful. Changing My Mind is journalism at its most expansive, intelligent, and funny--a gift to readers and writers both.

Changing My Mind

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Frima Fox Hofrichter

Joseph F. Jacobs

Ann S. Roberts

David S. Simon

Penelope J. E. Davies

David Simon

Huge Paperback (6 to 8 lbs)

History

Janson's History of Art: The Western Tradition, Reissued Eighth Edition presents the same content as the text's Eighth Edition, published in 2010, now reimagined for digital learning via REVEL. While remaining current with new discoveries and scholarship, the Reissued Eighth Edition maintains its focus on the object, its manufacture, and its visual character, and continues to consider the contribution of the artist as a key element of analysis. Throughout, the authors engage students by weaving a compelling narrative of how art has changed over time in the cultures that Europe has claimed as its heritage.

Janson's History of Art Volume 2 Revised Edition

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Nicholas V. Riasanovsky

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

This revised edition of a detailed one-volume history on Russia includes a new chapter on the Gorbachev years, from the initiation of glasnost and perestroika to the failed coup of August 1991, and an updated bibliography.

A History of Russia

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Suzanne Massie

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

The Beauty of Old Russia

Details the history of Russia from the religious revolution of 987 to the political revolution of 1917, graphically describing Russia's political and cultural environments under Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great, and Catherine the Great

Land of the Firebird

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Lauren Elkin

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London

An exhilarating, gender-bending walk through the lives of women who are enlivened by cities A flâneuse is, in Lauren Elkin’s words, “a determined resourceful woman keenly attuned to the creative potential of the city, and the liberating possibilities of a good walk.” Virginia Woolf called it “street haunting,” Holly Golightly epitomized it in Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and Patti Smith did it in her own inimitable style in 1960s New York. Part cultural meander, part memoir, Flâneuse traces the relationship between singular women and their cities as a way to map her own life—a journey that begins in New York and takes us to Paris, via Venice, Tokyo, and London—including the paths beaten by such flâneuses as the cross-dressing, nineteenth-century novelist George Sand, the Parisian artist Sophie Calle, the journalist Martha Gellhorn, and the writer Jean Rhys. With tenacity and insight, Elkin creates a mosaic of what urban settings have meant to women, charting through literature, art, history, and film women’s sometimes liberating, sometimes fraught relationship to the metropolis.

Flâneuse

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Robert B. Marks

A Global and Ecological Narrative from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-First Century

This clearly written and engrossing book presents a global narrative of the origins of the modern world from 1400 to the present. Unlike most studies, which assume that the "rise of the West" is the story of the coming of the modern world, this history, drawing upon new scholarship on Asia, Africa, and the New World, constructs a story in which those parts of the world play major roles. Robert B. Marks defines the modern world as one marked by industry, the nation state, interstate warfare, a large and growing gap between the wealthiest and poorest parts of the world, and an escape from "the biological old regime." He explains its origins by emphasizing contingencies (such as the conquest of the New World); the broad comparability of the most advanced regions in China, India, and Europe; the reasons why England was able to escape from common ecological constraints facing all of those regions by the 18th century; and a conjuncture of human and natural forces that solidified a gap between the industrialized and non-industrialized parts of the world. Now in a new edition that brings the saga of the modern world to the present, the book considers how and why the United States emerged as a world power in the twentieth century and became the sole superpower by the twenty-first century. Once again arguing that the rise of the United States to global hegemon was contingent, not inevitable, Marks also points to the resurgence of Asia and the vastly changed relationship of humans to the environment that may, in the long run, overshadow any political and economic milestones of the past hundred years.

The Origins of the Modern World

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Linda Rui Feng

A Novel

A lyrical novel set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution that follows a father's quest to reunite his family before his precocious daughter's momentous birthday, which Garth Greenwell calls "one of the most beautiful debuts I've read in years." How many times in life can we start over without losing ourselves? In the summer of 1986 in a small Chinese village, ten-year-old Junie receives a momentous letter from her parents, who had left for America years ago: her father promises to return home and collect her by her twelfth birthday. But Junie's growing determination to stay put in the idyllic countryside with her beloved grandparents threatens to derail her family's shared future. What Junie doesn't know is that her parents, Momo and Cassia, are newly estranged from one another in their adopted country, each holding close private tragedies and histories from the tumultuous years of their youth during China's Cultural Revolution. While Momo grapples anew with his deferred musical ambitions and dreams for Junie's future in America, Cassia finally begins to wrestle with a shocking act of brutality from years ago. In order for Momo to fulfill his promise, he must make one last desperate attempt to reunite all three members of the family before Junie's birthday--even if it means bringing painful family secrets to light. "A beautifully written, poignant exploration of family, art, culture, immigration, and most of all, love," (Jean Kwok, New York Times bestselling author of Searching for Sylvie Lee) Swimming Back to Trout River weaves together the stories of Junie, Momo, Cassia, and Dawn--a talented violinist from Momo's past--while depicting their heartbreak and resilience, tenderly revealing the hope, compromises, and abiding ingenuity that make up the lives of immigrants.

Swimming Back to Trout River

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Barbara Kingsolver

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Flight Behavior

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Changing My Mind

Frima Fox Hofrichter; Joseph F. Jacobs; Ann S. Roberts; David S. Simon; Penelope J. E. Davies; David Simon

Janson's History of Art Volume 2 Revised Edition

Nicholas V. Riasanovsky

A History of Russia

Suzanne Massie

Land of the Firebird

Lauren Elkin

Flâneuse

Robert B. Marks

The Origins of the Modern World

Linda Rui Feng

Swimming Back to Trout River

Barbara Kingsolver

Flight Behavior

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Changing My Mind

Frima Fox Hofrichter; Joseph F. Jacobs; Ann S. Roberts; David S. Simon; Penelope J. E. Davies; David Simon

Janson's History of Art Volume 2 Revised Edition

Nicholas V. Riasanovsky

A History of Russia

Suzanne Massie

Land of the Firebird

Lauren Elkin

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Robert B. Marks

The Origins of the Modern World

Linda Rui Feng

Swimming Back to Trout River

Barbara Kingsolver

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