When E.J. Levy arrived in northern Brazil on a fellowship from Yale at the age of 21, she was hoping to help save the Amazon rain forest; she didn’t realize she would soon have to save herself.Amazons: A Love Story recounts an idealistic young woman’s coming of age against the backdrop of the magnificent rain forest and exotic city of Salvador. This elegant and sharp-eyed memoir explores the interaction of the many forces fueling deforestation—examining the ecological, eco...

"Poetry was declining/ Painting advancing/ we were complaining/ it was '50," recalled poet Frank O'Hara in 1957. Criminal Ingenuity traces a series of linked moments in the history of this transfer of cultural power from the sphere of the word to that of the image. Ellen Levy explores the New York literary and art worlds in the years that bracket O'Hara's lament through close readings of the works and careers of poets Marianne Moore and John Ashbery and assemblage artist Joseph Co...

Many of Ellen’s intimate, playful stories will make you laugh. Her natural exuberance and fascination with life is contagious. She rivaled her grandmother’s catering career with a love of cooking, fine foods, and gluttony. Her “Brownie” camera pictures led her collecting enough photographs to fill this book (and many others.) Stories of her love of travel will make you want to hop on a plane. Her passions (chocolate, sex, cats, the arts, etc.) may become your temptations. Even her most pai...

In the shadow of death, Levi Shalit wrote to remember—so we would never forget.So We Died: A Memoir of Life and Death in the Ghetto of Šiauliai, Lithuania (Azoy zaynen mir geshtorbn) is a powerful eyewitness account of the Shavl ghetto during the Nazi occupation of Lithuania. Written in Yiddish by Levi Shalit and available now for the first time in English, the work fills a stark void in historical records.Shalit divided his work ...

Longlisted for the Historians of British Art (HBA) Book Prize 2022Scottish zoologist D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson's visionary ideas in On Growth and Form continue to evolve a century after its publication, aligning it with current developments in art and science. Practitioners, theorists, and historians from art, science, and design reflect on his ongoing influence. Overall, the anthology links evolutionary theory to form generation in both scientific and cul...

In "A Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-53," Ellen Clacy presents a compelling and vivid account of her travels to the Australian goldfields during the height of the gold rush. Written in an accessible yet sophisticated narrative style, Clacy's work interweaves personal anecdotes with meticulous observations, creating a rich tapestry of life in a tumultuous period of Australian history. Her descriptions not only capture the fervor and chaos surrounding gold discovery b...

Good Will Toward Men 1994/2025 is a collection of interviews with twenty-two progressive women, most of whom identify as feminist and one of whom was the national president of NOW from 1974 to 1977.They talk about fairness, social justice and respect between men and women as a two-way street.Updated in 2025 with a new Introduction and three Appendices to examine and comment on the question of whether good will toward men has increased or decreased since 1994, wheth...

We say we want the best, not only for ourselves but also for those around us; our nearest and dearest, our friends and colleagues too. But is that really the case? In this volume the stories by our classic authors explore that trait of humanity that rarely stands up to questioning.1 - Short Stories Showing the Dangers of Jealousy - An Introduction2 - Roman Fever by Edith Wharton3 - Bernice Bobs Her Hair by F Scott Fitzgerald4 - With Other Eyes by Luigi Piran...

Seventeen marvelous essays introducing the habitats, ecology, plants, and animals of the Central and South American rainforest.A lively, lucid portrait of the tropics as seen by two uncommonly observant and thoughtful field biologists. Its seventeen marvelous essays introduce the habitats, ecology, plants, and animals of the Central and South American rainforest. Includes a lengthy appendix of practical advice for the tropical traveler.

A new translation from the French by Marion Wiesel. Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps.This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author's original intent. And in a substantive new preface, Elie reflects on the enduring importance of Nig...

From the bestselling author of the acclaimed Chaos and Genius comes a thoughtful and provocative exploration of the big ideas of the modern era: Information, communication, and information theory.Acclaimed science writer James Gleick presents an eye-opening vision of how our relationship to information has transformed the very nature of human consciousness. A fascinating intellectual journey through the history of communication and information, from the language o...

**A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“The fights against hunger, homelessness, poverty, health disparities, poor schools, homophobia, transphobia, and domestic violence are feminist fights. Kendall offers a feminism rooted in the livelihood of everyday women.”—Ibram X. Kendi, #1 *New York Times-*bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist, in The Atlantic“One of the most important books of the current moment.”—Time**“A rousing c...