Originally curated by Harvard President Charles W. Eliot as a complete liberal education in fifty volumes, the Harvard Classics gathers philosophy, science, literature, and history into a single indispensable library. Plato's dialogues and Marcus Aurelius's meditations sit alongside Dante's Divine Comedy, Francis Bacon's essays, Charles Darwin's scientific writing, and Benjamin Franklin's autobiography, tracing the foundations of Western thought from ancient Greece to the modern age. Homer...

Saddle up for nine voices who defined the American frontier: James Fenimore Cooper's frontier legend, Bret Harte's mining-camp wit, Washington Irving's early wilderness tales, and rising talents like Andy Adams, B.M. Bower, and Dane Coolidge, gathered here from A to Z. Cattle drives, outlaws, homesteaders, and the vast open range come alive across ten stories that helped shape an entire genre of American storytelling. This Chronicle Vault edition presents the complete, unabridged texts in ...

Leap, soar, and dance into the joyous life of a little boy whose dads are dazzling Broadway performers in this lyrical, rhyming picture book from one of Instagram and TikTok's Broadway Husbands.Where do parents go when they walk out the door for work?In this charming, vibrant picture book, a little boy's dads have a very special job—they're Broadway performers!By day, these two are like any other parents. They do the dishes, help with chores, and gi...

Ride into the untamed frontier where courage, danger, and justice meet. The Western in 10 Classics Vol. 1 brings together a selection of classic Western literature featuring the rugged landscapes, unforgettable characters, and adventurous spirit of the American frontier. From cowboys and outlaws to lawmen, pioneers, ranchers, and frontier wanderers, these stories transport readers to a world of dusty trails, isolated settlements, dangerous encounters, and the constant struggle between just...

A bold, provocative exploration of the tension between our evolutionary history and our modern woes – and what we can do about itWe are living through the most prosperous age in all of human history, yet we are listless, divided and miserable. Wealth and comfort are unparalleled, but our political landscape is unmoored, and rates of suicide, loneliness and chronic illness continue to skyrocket. How do we explain the gap between these truths? And how should we respo...

#1 New York Times BestsellerBret Baier makes the case for America—an inspiring defense of our history, values, and national character by Fox News Channel's Chief Political Anchor“An eloquently written and splendidly reasoned homage to the founding principles of the Declaration of Independence.” —Douglas BrinkleyCan the Founders’ ideals still inspire and unite the nation 250th years after the Dec...

This is not your run-of-the-mill fitness book. Developed by world-renowned gluteal expert Bret Contreras, Strong Curves offers an extensive fitness and nutrition guide for women seeking to improve their physique, function, strength, and mobility.Contreras spent the last eighteen years researching and field-testing the best methods for building better butts and shapelier bodies. In Strong Curves, he offers the programs that have proven effective time and time again with his clients, allowing y...

One young woman missing, two found murdered -- the gripping true story of Australia's longest-running homicide investigation** Winner of the Ned Kelly Award for True Crime 2021**In the early hours of January 27, 1996, after an evening spent celebrating at Club Bayview in the Perth suburb of Claremont, 18-year-old Sarah Spiers called a taxi to nearby Mosman Park. But when the cab arrived, she'd already gone.Sarah was never seen again...

Morristown, the winter of 1780: Washington's army is freezing and mutinous, a Jersey farmer's daughter is courted by two officers, and somebody is passing information. Harte made the California gold rush into literature and gave America its gamblers and its snowbound cabins; here he leaves the West for the Revolution, and the cold is as convincing as anything in his mining camps.

Two prospectors find a cabin in a fold of the California hills with a woman in it and no explanation, and the arrangement they come to shapes the next fifteen years. Harte made the gold rush into literature and gave America its gamblers and its snowbound cabins; this late novel is quieter than the famous stories and harder about what the camps did to the women in them.

WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLERIMPROVE YOUR PHYSIQUE, BUILD LEAN MUSCLE, AND INCREASE STRENGTHFor more than twenty years, Bret “the Glute Guy” Contreras has been on a quest to improve human performance, focusing his research on the gluteus maximus, the largest muscle in the human body. What started as an effort to improve his own weak, flat backside quickly evolved when he discovered the wide range of functional movements to which t...

This is not your run-of-the-mill fitness book. Developed by world-renowned gluteal expert Bret Contreras, Strong Curves offers an extensive fitness and nutrition guide for women seeking to improve their physique, function, strength, and mobility. Contreras spent the last eighteen years researching and field-testing the best methods for building better butts and shapelier bodies. In Strong Curves, he offers the programs that have proven effective time and time again with his clients, allowi...