Robert Alter’s award-winning translation of the Hebrew Bible continues with the stirring narrative of Israel’s
ancient history. To read the books of the Former Prophets in this riveting Robert Alter translation is to discover an entertaining amalgam of hair-raising action ...
“Excellent… and written in a gripping style.” The EconomistDuring the upheavals of 2007–09, the chairman
of the Federal Reserve had the name of one Victorian icon on the tip of his tongue: Walter Bagehot. Banker, man of letters, and inventor ...
A New York Times Critics’ Pick A career-spanning selection of the lucid, courageous, and boldly
political prose of National Book Award winner Adrienne Rich.Demonstrating the lasting brilliance of her voice and her prophetic vision, Essential Essays showcases Adrienne Rich’s singular ...
“A perfect volume to initiate majors into the discipline and delight of carefully examining presumptions,
priorities, language, and structures of both primary and secondary texts.” Stephen R. Honeygosky, University of PittsburghThis Norton Critical Edition includes:• The Second Quarto ...
Essays and writings by such varied writers as Dickens, Boswell, Dostoyevsky, Lenin, and Martin Amis
celebrate the city of London, its rich history, landmarks, people, culture, and more. 15,000 first printing. London has always been much more than a capital ...
Through ten examples of ingenious experiments by some of psychology's most innovative thinkers, Lauren Slater
traces the evolution of the century's most pressing concerns—free will, authoritarianism, conformity, and morality. Beginning with B. F. Skinner and the legend of a child ...
“This vivid and accessible translation captures the drama of Aeschylus’ poetry and the excitement of
the action in performance.” VICTORIA WOHL, University of Toronto“This critical edition provides a lavish and fulsome picture of ancient Greek tragedy’s most significant surviving ...
Illuminates the past with a mighty searchlight and clears away mountains of nonsense.Gabriel Schoenfeld, Wall
Street Journal Robert Conquest has been called by Paul Johnson our greatest living modern historian. As a new century begins, Conquest offers an illuminating examination ...