-Titulo Original : The Secret History Of Home Economics How Trailblazing Women Harnessed The Power Of Home And Changed The Way We Live-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: The surprising, often fiercely feminist, always fascinating, yet barely known, history of home economics.The term “home economics” may conjure traumatic memories of lopsided hand-sewn pillows or sunken muffins. But common conception obscures the story of the revolutionary science of better living. The field exploded opportunities for women in the twentieth century by reducing domestic work and providing jobs as professors, engineers, chemists, and businesspeople. And it has something to teach us today.In the surprising, often fiercely feminist and always fascinating The Secret History of Home Economics, Danielle Dreilinger traces the field’s history from Black colleges to Eleanor Roosevelt to Okinawa, from a Betty Crocker brigade to DIY techies. These women and they were mostly women became chemists and marketers, studied nutrition, health, and exercise, tested parachutes, created astronaut food, and took bold steps in childhood development and education.Home economics followed the currents of American culture even as it shaped them. Dreilinger brings forward the racism within the movement along with the strides taken by women of color who were influential leaders and innovators. She also looks at the personal lives of home economics’ women, as they chose to be single, share lives with other women, or try for egalitarian marriages.This groundbreaking and engaging history restores a denigrated subject to its rightful importance, as it reminds us that everyone should learn how to cook a meal, balance their account, and fight for a better world. 16 pages of illustrations Review [A] captivating debut…Dreilinger charmed me with her account of home ecs fascinating past. Barbara Spindel, Wall Street JournalDreilingers lively account offers a thorough look at a profession that allowed women to participate in public life even as they were barred from most jobs and areas of study…We can thank home economics for a number of taken-for-granted features of contemporary life. Rachel Newcomb, The Washington PostA fascinating history of the field and of the contributions of some very determined women…[S]timulating. Katherine Powers, Minnesota Star TribuneDeeply researched and crisply written. Margaret Talbot, The New YorkerTheres one important thing youll fully understand after youve read The Secret History of Home Economics: our foremothers were not to be trifled with…Readers of womens history will love this book, as will general historians, feminists, and anyone with an interest in domestic arts. Terri Schlichenmeyer, Washington InformerHome economics turns out to be relevant, important, in some ways revolutionary. Dreilinger tells all in this entertaining journey that shows us that almost all of what we thought we knew on the subject is wrong. Stimulating and fun! Mark Bittman, author of Animal, Vegetable, JunkA pathbreaking book that unearths and presents part of the hidden history of economics, in this case as practiced largely by women, and often black women at that. Think of it as the science and craft of Beckerian household production but with a managerial emphasis. If you like books on paths not taken, this one is for you. Tyler CowenHome ec…may conjure up lessons in baking blueberry muffins and sewing dresses, but in her detail-filled and fascinating book, Danielle Dreilinger dynamites that cliche with glee. Air Mail[An] eye-opening history…[A] great reminder of the value of the field, and the importance of these skills for anyone at any age. Matthew Wheeland, Civil EatsI grew up in the 1960s when Home Economics was required for all ninth-grade girls and meant two things: cooking and sewing. We baked cookies and served them on silver trays to the boys in Wood Shop. We sewed wraparound skirts. Some of us complained, a lot. Danielle Dreilinger’s The Secret History of Home Economics is a revelation. That secret history is rich with gender and race issues, a...

-Titulo Original : Four Lost Cities A Secret History Of The Urban Age-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR and Science Friday A quest to explore some of the most spectacular ancient cities in human history and figure out why people abandoned them.In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes readers on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history of urban life. Investigating across the centuries and around the world, Newitz explores the rise and fall of four ancient cities, each the center of a sophisticated civilization: the Neolithic site of Çatalhoyuk in Central Turkey, the Roman vacation town of Pompeii on Italy’s southern coast, the medieval megacity of Angkor in Cambodia, and the indigenous metropolis Cahokia, which stood beside the Mississippi River where East St. Louis is today.Newitz travels to all four sites and investigates the cutting-edge research in archaeology, revealing the mix of environmental changes and political turmoil that doomed these ancient settlements. Tracing the early development of urban planning, Newitz also introduces us to the often anonymous workers slaves, women, immigrants, and manual laborers who built these cities and created monuments that lasted millennia.Four Lost Cities is a journey into the forgotten past, but, foreseeing a future in which the majority of people on Earth will be living in cities, it may also reveal something of our own fate. 4 maps Review [E]xcellent…fair, judicious, open-minded…the strength of the book arises from distrust of elites and preference for common people. Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, Wall Street Journal[An] astounding reflection on the rise and fall of civilisations…energising. Nilanjana Roy, Financial TimesThe book functions as a travel guide to places that no longer exist…[it] filled me with wonder. Russell Shorto, New York Times Book ReviewNewitz clearly draws parallels and lessons for the here and now from these once-vast settlements…Highly recommended. Booklist (starred review)[A] richly detailed, progressively minded history…Newitz skillfully fuses personal reflections with scientific observations, and offers a welcome tribute to the legacy of human resilience. Publishers Weekly[W]ell-researched, current, and directly applicable to our modern lives…An excellent contribution to literature on ancient civilization and complexity. Library JournalA revealing look at the ancient past that speaks thoughtfully to the global-warming present. Kirkus ReviewsCheerful, curious, amused, and amusing, Annalee Newitz is a fabulous tour guide through the latest archaeological perspectives on four of humankind’s most remarkable urban experiments. Along the way, Newitz dispels myths, evokes fascinating stories and makes us think hard about our own urban future. Charles Mann, author of 1491 and 1493Newitz always sees to the heart of complex systems and breaks them down with poetic ferocity. N. K. Jemisin, author of the Broken Earth trilogy and The City We BecameAnnalee Newitz is a brilliant writer with the heart of an archaeologist and the soul of a visionary. Four Lost Cities should open our eyes to all that may happen to our cities in the future. Vibrant and adventurous, this is a necessary book for turbulent times. Sarah Parcak, archaeologist and author of Archaeology from SpaceDrawing on four examples from the ancient world, Annalee Newitz gives us clear-eyed insight into how cities never are truly lost; they just change with their times. Newitz takes readers on a journey that reveals as much about the future of cities as it does about our urban past. Beautifully written, Four Lost Cities tells a fascinating tale of disaster and resilience that is welcome in our uncertain era. Andrew Lawler, author of The Secret TokenIn their fascinating book Four Lost Cities, Annalee Newitz journeys to a quartet of ancient ghost cities, asking not only why they once thrived but why they ultimately vanished. The result is a deeply i...

-Titulo Original : Letter To A Young Female Physician Thoughts On Life And Work-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Review [Koven] is rueful and delightful and keeps on building a careening and fascinating life... [Letter to a Young Female Physician] is a warm and wry epistle, the endless and near-perfect email you wish your mother, your mentor and your therapist would sit down and type out together. Laura Kolbe, Wall Street Journal[These] phenomenal essays...are full of acuity and generosity... [Kovens] writing is full of humor, candor, by turns (and often simultaneously) beautiful and heartbreaking shards of narrative, about her own life and the lives of her patients and colleagues. She’s also got a killer sense of humor and a fantastic eye for detail. Leslie Jamison, LitHubSuzanne Koven’s Letter to a Young Female Physician is so wise, beautifully written, tender, and full of heart that it should be required reading for every person young, female, physician, or otherwise. This is a transporting memoir, and an instructive one. Dani Shapiro, author of InheritanceIn Letter to a Young Female Physician, Suzanne Koven charts both the real and the spurious demands that the medical system makes on those who become doctors and care for us all. Her memoir is by turns reassuring and disturbing, comical and tragic, hopeful and dire. Medicine has advanced, but the particular difficulties facing young physicians have grown no less steep, and the impediments women continue to face even as they take a majority place in medical schools are considerable. Koven writes with style and wit and grace but, more significantly, with insight and compassion. Andrew Solomon, author of Far From the TreeSuzanne Koven has written a remarkable memoir about her life as a doctor that is at once heartwarming, poignant, and breathtaking in its precision; this is a book about the essence of medicine, and will be invaluable to any doctor. But in its compassionate reflections on caring for the human body, it is also a book about life, and what makes a good one. I couldn’t stop reading. Meghan O’Rourke, author of The Long GoodbyeFunny, touching, and self-deprecating... [A] thought-provoking and inspiring memoir. Booklist A warm and wry epistle, the endless and near-perfect email you wish your mother, your mentor and your therapist would sit down and type out together. Laura Kolbe, Wall Street JournalIn 2017, Dr. Suzanne Koven published an essay describing the challenges faced by female physicians, including her own personal struggle with imposter syndrome a long-held secret belief that she was not smart enough or good enough to be a “real” doctor. Accessed by thousands of readers around the world, Koven’s “Letter to a Young Female Physician” has evolved into a deeply felt reflection on her career in medicine.Koven tells candid and illuminating stories about her pregnancy during a grueling residency in the AIDS era; the illnesses of her child and aging parents during which her roles as a doctor, mother, and daughter converged, and sometimes collided; the sexism, pay inequity, and harassment that women in medicine encounter; and the twilight of her career during the COVID-19 pandemic. As she traces the arc of her life, Koven finds inspiration in literature and faces the near-universal challenges of burnout, body image, and balancing work with marriage and parenthood.Shining with warmth, clarity, and wisdom, Letter to a Young Female Physician reveals a woman forging her authentic identity in a modern landscape that is as overwhelming and confusing as it is exhilarating in its possibilities. Koven offers an indelible account, by turns humorous and profound, from a doctor, mother, wife, daughter, teacher, and writer who sheds light on our desire to find meaning, and on a way to be our own imperfect selves in the world. About the Author Suzanne Koven is a primary care physician and the inaugural writer-in-residence at Massachusetts General Hospital. Her writing has appeared in the New England Journal of Medici...

-Titulo Original : When Brains Dream Understanding The Science And Mystery Of Our Dreaming Minds-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: A truly comprehensive, scientifically rigorous and utterly fascinating account of when, how, and why we dream. Put simply, When Brains Dream is the essential guide to dreaming. Matthew Walker, author of Why We SleepQuestions on the origins and meaning of dreams are as old as humankind, and as confounding and exciting today as when nineteenth-century scientists first attempted to unravel them. Why do we dream? Do dreams hold psychological meaning or are they merely the reflection of random brain activity? What purpose do dreams serve?When Brains Dream addresses these core questions about dreams while illuminating the most up-to-date science in the field. Written by two world-renowned sleep and dream researchers, it debunks common myths that we only dream in REM sleep, for example while acknowledging the mysteries that persist around both the science and experience of dreaming.Antonio Zadra and Robert Stickgold bring together state-of-the-art neuroscientific ideas and findings to propose a new and innovative model of dream function called NEXTUP Network Exploration to Understand Possibilities. By detailing this model’s workings, they help readers understand key features of several types of dreams, from prophetic dreams to nightmares and lucid dreams. When Brains Dream reveals recent discoveries about the sleeping brain and the many ways in which dreams are psychologically, and neurologically, meaningful experiences; explores a host of dream-related disorders; and explains how dreams can facilitate creativity and be a source of personal insight.Making an eloquent and engaging case for why the human brain needs to dream, When Brains Dream offers compelling answers to age-old questions about the mysteries of sleep. 17 illustrations Review Fascinating…When Brains Dream steers a reasonable and broad-minded course between the many interpretive whirlpools that have swallowed previous explorers of dreams. The Washington PostA masterly narrative…One that neither dumbs down the research nor steps outside of what we know, and yet is still a page-turner…[Zadra and Stickgold] retain an infectious sense of the wonder of it all. Daniel J. Levitin, Wall Street JournalThe book wields dreamy anecdotes and complex neuroscience to try to grasp the importance of these phantasms [dreams]. Sarah Lewin Frasier, Scientific AmericanWhere do we go in our dreams at night? And why do we dream in the first place? Are we the only species that dreams? When Brains Dream provides a truly comprehensive, scientifically rigorous and utterly fascinating account of when, how, and why we dream. Put simply, When Brains Dream is the essential guide to dreaming. Matthew Walker, author of Why We Sleep[Readers] will especially relish the final chapters, which explore nightmares, lucid dreaming, narcolepsy, creativity via dreams, and even how to link a dream to waking-life events. Readers convinced that dreams reveal deep insights and those who dismiss them as meaningless will both enjoy a painless education on dreams and memory... An excellent update on the science behind dreams. Kirkus ReviewsThis smart mix of science and theory hits the mark. Publishers WeeklyEvery night, we turn out the light and go to the movies. For as long as humans have been conscious of our world, we’ve wondered what’s going on in that other world in which we spend a third of our lives. Some of my strangest dreams have been while I was asleep in Bob Stickgold’s lab. Finally, in When Brains Dream, I have a way to understand them. There’s more here than you ever dreamed of. Alan Alda, New York Times-bestselling author of If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?When Brains Dream unveils a novel neuroscientific model comprising an elegant and surprising piece of the puzzle of why we dream the way we do. If you are curious about the curiouser and curiouser qualia of dreams, read this book! Stephen LaBerge, author of Lu...

-Titulo Original : The Five Wounds A Novel-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Review Masterly...Quade has created a world bristling with compassion and humanity. The characters and the challenges they face are wholly realized and moving; their journeys span a wide spectrum of emotion and it is impossible not to root for [them]. Alexandra Chang, New York Times Book Review[A] fine-grained domestic saga...Quade is masterful with [her characters] fragility... [A] big-hearted novel. Mark Athitakis, USA TodayGorgeously textured... [Quades] sinewy sentences and emotional daring astound... Quade glides elegantly across a silken tightrope between comedy and tragedy, twists of fate that buoy her narrative to its resonant conclusion. The Five Wounds is destined to be one of this years most celebrated works of fiction. Hamilton Cain, Minneapolis Star TribuneKirstin Valdez Quades debut novel hooked me on page one...Its a wholehearted, radiant, and darkly funny exploration of family, faith, and forgiveness. Arianna Rebolini, BuzzfeedA gorgeously written, epic tale of one Latinx familys via dolorosa. O MagazineA masterful novel of family, faith, doubt. Quades storytelling gift is her ability to capture the mysterious pulse of belief and ground them in visceral ritual on the page. The MillionsIn this cruel and divisive era, Kirstin Valdez Quade has brought healing and regeneration with The Five Wounds. It is bracing and wise, and it breaks us in the best ways. Then builds us back up again. It should find many grateful readers. Luis Alberto Urrea, author of House of Broken AngelsKirstin Valdez Quade writes with exquisite precision about the fragility and resilience of the Padilla family…I loved The Five Wounds, which reminded me that growing pains are not confined to adolescence and that people can be newborn at any age. Even its most excruciating moments are charged with a luminous compassion. Karen Russell, author of Orange World and Other StoriesThe characters in this engrossing novel are created in luminous and memorable detail. Just as the pacing is perfect, so too are the tact and care with which each scene is made. Kirstin Valdez Quade, by concentrating on the truth of small moments, has brought a whole world into focus. Colm Toibin, author of The MagicianWith deep empathy, fierce intelligence, and subtle wit, Kirstin Valdez Quade has crafted an indelible portrait of a family living in precarity. The characters in The Five Wounds are so vivid, their grasping efforts toward love and redemption so finely wrought, and each page full of such immaculate prose, that I read this novel with ever-increasing breathless urgency. Phil Klay, author of MissionariesYou hold in your hands a small, complete universe vibrating with joy and grief, humor and absurdity and delight. All the fabulous mess of humanity is, somehow, in these pages. The Five Wounds is bighearted, tender, wise, and shot through with moments of pure grace. C Pam Zhang, author of How Much of These Hills Is GoldWith beautifully layered relationships and an honest yet profoundly empathetic picture of a rural community?where the families proudly trace their roots back to the Spanish conquistadors while struggling with poverty and a deadly drug epidemic?this novel is a brilliant meditation on love and redemption. Perfectly rendered characters anchor a novel built around a fierce, flawed, and loving family. Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Penetrating...The well-developed characters convey palpable emotion as Amadeos failures as a father, partner, entrepreneur, and even as Jesus translate into fits of rage and frustration. Quades rendering of a singular community is pitch perfect. Publishers Weekly (starred review)Profoundly affecting...Expertly crafted, this story of family and community introduces us to often needy characters for whom readers come to care deeply. Highly recommended. Library Journal (starred review)Quade ably delivers a story that is nuanced and authentic without a whiff of mel...

-Titulo Original : Beloved Beasts Fighting For Life In An Age Of Extinction-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Winner of the Sierra Clubs 2021 Rachel Carson Award One of Chicago Tribunes Ten Best Books of 2021 Named a Top Ten Best Science Book of 2021 by Booklist and Smithsonian Magazine At once thoughtful and thought-provoking,” Beloved Beasts tells the story of the modern conservation movement through the lives and ideas of the people who built it, making “a crucial addition to the literature of our troubled time (Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction).In the late nineteenth century, humans came at long last to a devastating realization: their rapidly industrializing and globalizing societies were driving scores of animal species to extinction. In Beloved Beasts, acclaimed science journalist Michelle Nijhuis traces the history of the movement to protect and conserve other forms of life. From early battles to save charismatic species such as the American bison and bald eagle to today’s global effort to defend life on a larger scale, Nijhuis’s “spirited and engaging” account documents “the changes of heart that changed history” (Dan Cryer, Boston Globe).With “urgency, passion, and wit” (Michael Berry, Christian Science Monitor), she describes the vital role of scientists and activists such as Aldo Leopold and Rachel Carson, reveals the origins of vital organizations like the Audubon Society and the World Wildlife Fund, explores current efforts to protect species such as the whooping crane and the black rhinoceros, and confronts the darker side of modern conservation, long shadowed by racism and colonialism.As the destruction of other species continues and the effects of climate change wreak havoc on our world, Beloved Beasts charts the ways conservation is becoming a movement for the protection of all species including our own. 15 illustrations Review A comprehensive history of the conservation movement and a warning that we are not doing enough to prevent further animal mass extinction. USA TodaySpirited and engaging…Always attuned to ironies and anomalies, Nijhuis points out the changes of heart that changed history. Dan Cryer, Boston GlobeCapacious, engrossing, and timely…Nijhuis is the sort of writer who makes excavating arcane facts and dinner-party-worthy anecdotes look effortless. Erica Berry, OutsideA far-ranging, powerfully written history of the conservation movement. Alex Orlando, DiscoverExcellent…The book truly shines…when Nijhuis is brutally honest about how the conservation movement gained a reputation for being antihuman. Sarah Zielenski, Science News[Nijhuis] is a gifted storyteller, capturing both the heroism of those fighting extinction and the reality of biodiversity experts who warn that many, many species are in danger of disappearing within decades. National Book ReviewLavishly researched, Beloved Beasts is a compassionate look at what humans have done and need to do next to protect the natural world. Amy Brady, LithubBeloved Beasts raises questions that get to the heart of the conservation movements shortcomings…[A] much-needed critical history of conservation. Austin Price, Earth Island JournalAn environmental history that is essential reading for anyone committed to preserving life on Earth. Jason Mark, Sierra Club[An] exceptionally comprehensive and enlightening history of conservation. Booklist (starred review)With candor and authority, Nijhuis focuses on the intertwined relationships, backgrounds and paths of the fervent scientists and activists who spearheaded the conservation movement. Becky Libourel Diamond, BookpageAn engrossing history of conservation and its accomplishments…Compassionate yet realistic and candid throughout, Nijhuis makes a significant contribution to the literature on environmentalism. Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Nijhuis’s comprehensive survey is sure to delight nature enthusiasts and those concerned with disappearing species. Publishers WeeklyBeloved Beasts is the definitive h...

-Titulo Original : Himalaya A Human History-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: A magisterial history of the Himalaya: an epic story of peoples, cultures, and adventures among the world’s highest mountains. For centuries, the unique and astonishing geography of the Himalaya has attracted those in search of spiritual and literal elevation: pilgrims, adventurers, and mountaineers seeking to test themselves among the world’s most spectacular and challenging peaks. But far from being wild and barren, the Himalaya has been home to a diversity of indigenous and local cultures, a crucible of world religions, a crossroads for trade, and a meeting point and conflict zone for empires past and present. In this landmark work, nearly two decades in the making, Ed Douglas makes a thrilling case for the Himalaya’s importance in global history and offers a soaring account of life at the roof of the world. Spanning millennia, from the earliest inhabitants to the present conflicts over Tibet and Everest, Himalaya explores history, culture, climate, geography, and politics. Douglas profiles the great kings of Kathmandu and Nepal; he describes the architects who built the towering white Stupas that distinguish Himalayan architecture; and he traces the flourishing evolution of Hinduism, Islam, and Buddhism that brought Himalayan spirituality to the world. He also depicts with great drama the story of how the East India Company grappled for dominance with China’s emperors, how India fought Mao’s Communists, and how mass tourism and ecological transformation are obscuring the bloody legacy of the Cold War. Himalaya is history written on the grandest yet also the most human scale encompassing geology and genetics, botany and art, and bursting with stories of courage and resourcefulness. 16 pages of black-and-white photographs Review [ Himalaya] is the fruit of an enormous amount of research…[Douglas’s] observations are sharp, and in many passages, his writing glows. Jeffrey Gettleman, New York Times Book Review [An] ambitious, learned account….Douglas portrays a complex, populated landscape and an intricate patchwork of cultures. …His book seeks to reclaim humans from geography, and to recapture the lived experience of the Himalaya. Akash Kapur, New Yorker The candor of Douglas’s telling shows us that in the Western mind Utopias were simply orientalist fantasies projected on Himalaya. His gripping storytelling achieves a summit at a vista overlooking the Himalayas in words that no photo could conjure. Christopher King, Air Mail Douglas has achieved something more valuable than describe current events: he has examined the ancient origins of those events with a scholarly yet entertaining synthesis of hundreds of years of history. Victor Mallet, Financial Times An extraordinarily rich and wide investigation into the exhilarating story of the Himalaya. Ed Douglas knows this story in his bones, from his travels and a wonderful range of scholarship, which leaves him perfectly placed to fill a huge gap in our view of how the world fits together. Michael Pye, author of The Edge of the World About the Author Ed Douglas is an award-winning writer with a passion for the Himalaya. The author of a dozen books, including a biography of Tenzing Norgay, he has reported from the region for more than twenty-five years, covering the Maoist insurgency in Nepal and the Tibetan occupation. He lives in Yorkshire, England...

-Titulo Original : Useful Delusions The Power And Paradox Of The Self-deceiving Brain-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: A Behavioral Scientist Notable Book of 2021 A Next Big Idea Club Best Nonfiction of 2021 From the New York Times best-selling author and host of Hidden Brain comes a thought-provoking look at the role of self-deception in human flourishing.Self-deception does terrible harm to us, to our communities, and to the planet. But if it is so bad for us, why is it ubiquitous? In Useful Delusions, Shankar Vedantam and Bill Mesler argue that, paradoxically, self-deception can also play a vital role in our success and well-being.The lies we tell ourselves sustain our daily interactions with friends, lovers, and coworkers. They can explain why some people live longer than others, why some couples remain in love and others don’t, why some nations hold together while others splinter.Filled with powerful personal stories and drawing on new insights in psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy, Useful Delusions offers a fascinating tour of what it really means to be human. 1 illustration Review Powerful…[Vedantam] explains the phenomenon of deceit in general, and self-deception in particular, with the same plain language and gentle authority that his listeners have come to rely on. Katie Hafner, Washington PostVedantam and Mesler pepper hard data with compelling stories to make their case. Vedantam’s empathy and intuitive understanding of human nature, which shine on his popular Hidden Brain podcast, come through in Useful Delusions. Tali Sharot, New York Times Book ReviewA lively and digestible book…Perhaps the book’s most important point advises how to combat destructive delusions. Matthew Hutson, Wall Street Journal[A] scientifically informed, provocative and stylish study of self-deception. Andrew Robinson, NatureUseful Delusions takes us on a fascinating, enlightening tour of the human mind. Karen R. Koenig, New York Journal of BooksIngenious…A passionate, often counterintuitive, disturbingly convincing addition to the why-people-believe-stupid-things genre. Kirkus ReviewsThis excellent narrative nonfiction work will engage a variety of readers, and is a solid choice for book clubs who like to discuss current events. Library Journal (starred review) About the Author Shankar Vedantam is host of the Hidden Brain podcast and public radio show and the author of The Hidden Brain, a New York Times national bestseller. He lives in Washington, DC.Bill Mesler is the coauthor of A Brief History of Creation. He lives in Washington, DC...

-Titulo Original : Nobodys Normal How Culture Created The Stigma Of Mental Illness-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Review A rich history woven with insights from four generations of the Grinker family’s research, Nobodys Normal shows how a society’s needs and prejudices shape how it deals with mental illness... This book sings with [Grinkers] empathetic and authoritative voice. Virginia Hughes, New York Times Book ReviewAn unusually engaging history of mental illness and the stigma attached to it. Roy Richard Grinker threads together the attitudes of society toward psychiatric illness with the lives and work of his ancestors and his daughter’s experience of autism. The result is an informative and thoughtful book about mental illness: common, painful, usually treatable, and profoundly tied to the human condition. Kay Redfield Jamison, Pulitzer Prize finalist for Robert Lowell, Setting the River on FireThis landmark book could not be more timely, coming at the pivotal moment when our society is reevaluating its most basic assumptions about mental illness and health…[A] must-read for anyone interested in psychology, anthropology, the social model of disability, or the complex nature of being human. Nobody’s Normal is a masterpiece. Steve Silberman, author of NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of NeurodiversityIn Nobodys Normal, Roy Richard Grinker explores the way stigma has coalesced around mental illness and assesses the cumulative harm done by depressed or psychotic patients’ sense of humiliation…This engaging book is an able guide to how the problem might begin to be addressed, so that those who are ill bear only the burden of their illness itself. Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday DemonThe most important work on stigma in more than half a century. It tells two intertwined stories a meticulous, comparative history of mental illness from the Enlightenment to the present, highlighting the centrality of military medicine in times of war; and the story of [the author’s] own family…Roy Richard Grinker brilliantly unravels the tension between deviance and vulnerability by shaping the relationship between multiple generations. Sander L. Gilman, author of Seeing the InsaneNobody’s Normal is for everyone. Patients and their families will read the book as if it were written for them because it is so personal and empathic. Mental health professionals will read it as if it were written for them because it is so extensively researched and erudite…Beautifully written, a remarkable history. Alix Spiegel, cocreator of NPR’s InvisibiliaAn agile history... A highly readable, thoughtful study of how we perceive and talk about mental illness with luck, evermore respectfully. Kirkus ReviewsImpactful... This book will fascinate anyone drawn to the subjects of mental illness, psychology and psychiatry. Publishers Weekly A compassionate and captivating examination of evolving attitudes toward mental illness throughout history and the fight to end the stigma.For centuries, scientists and society cast moral judgments on anyone deemed mentally ill, confining many to asylums. In Nobody’s Normal, anthropologist Roy Richard Grinker chronicles the progress and setbacks in the struggle against mental-illness stigma from the eighteenth century, through America’s major wars, and into today’s high-tech economy.Nobody’s Normal argues that stigma is a social process that can be explained through cultural history, a process that began the moment we defined mental illness, that we learn from within our communities, and that we ultimately have the power to change. Though the legacies of shame and secrecy are still with us today, Grinker writes that we are at the cusp of ending the marginalization of the mentally ill. In the twenty-first century, mental illnesses are fast becoming a more accepted and visible part of human diversity.Grinker infuses the book with the personal history of his family’s four generations of involvement in psychiatry, including his grandfather’s analysis with Sigmu...

-Titulo Original : The Crooked Path To Abolition Abraham Lincoln And The Antislavery Constitution-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Review With this superb book, Oakes opens the way for a thorough retelling of the nation’s history from the American Revolution to the Civil War. Sean Wilentz, author of No Property in ManEleanor Roosevelt used to say, ‘If you must compromise, compromise up.’ The champion compromiser up was Lincoln, as Oakes proves, avoiding the simple views of him as just opportunist or just emancipator. He knew where he was going, even when he had to obscure the goal. Garry Wills, author of Lincoln at GettysburgA diamond of historical scholarship, with deep research and understanding shining brilliantly in every facet. Sidney Blumenthal, author of The Political Life of Abraham LincolnWith crisp and lucid prose, Oakes provides a map that guides the reader through the zigs and zags of the path to freedom. James M. McPherson, author of Battle Cry of FreedomBrilliant…A landmark contribution. David S. Reynolds, author of Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His TimesOn Lincoln, on the Civil War, on slavery’s downfall, on constitutional change this is an indispensable book. Amy Dru Stanley, author of From Bondage to ContractNo other scholar has shed more light on Lincoln’s way of dealing with slavery. Michael Burlingame, author of Abraham Lincoln: A LifeCogently argued, by one of our foremost historians of emancipation. Manisha Sinha, author of The Slave’s CauseI read this remarkable book with pleasure and admiration. Oakes writes like a dream. Don Herzog, author of Sovereignty, RIP Finalist for the 2022 Lincoln Prize An award-winning scholar uncovers the guiding principles of Lincoln’s antislavery strategies.The long and turning path to the abolition of American slavery has often been attributed to the equivocations and inconsistencies of antislavery leaders, including Lincoln himself. But James Oakes’s brilliant history of Lincoln’s antislavery strategies reveals a striking consistency and commitment extending over many years. The linchpin of antislavery for Lincoln was the Constitution of the United States.Lincoln adopted the antislavery view that the Constitution made freedom the rule in the United States, slavery the exception. Where federal power prevailed, so did freedom. Where state power prevailed, that state determined the status of slavery, and the federal government could not interfere. It would take state action to achieve the final abolition of American slavery. With this understanding, Lincoln and his antislavery allies used every tool available to undermine the institution. Wherever the Constitution empowered direct federal action in the western territories, in the District of Columbia, over the slave trade they intervened. As a congressman in 1849 Lincoln sponsored a bill to abolish slavery in Washington, DC. He reentered politics in 1854 to oppose what he considered the unconstitutional opening of the territories to slavery by the Kansas-Nebraska Act. He attempted to persuade states to abolish slavery by supporting gradual abolition with compensation for slaveholders and the colonization of free Blacks abroad.President Lincoln took full advantage of the antislavery options opened by the Civil War. Enslaved people who escaped to Union lines were declared free. The Emancipation Proclamation, a military order of the president, undermined slavery across the South. It led to abolition by six slave states, which then joined the coalition to affect what Lincoln called the King’s cure: state ratification of the constitutional amendment that in 1865 finally abolished slavery. About the Author James Oakes is one of our foremost Civil War historians and a two-time winner of the Lincoln Prize for his works on the politics of abolition. He teaches at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York...

-Titulo Original : A Man At Arms A Novel-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Review A master storyteller’s searing epic. Steven Pressfield brings to life a warrior’s limitless devotion and the total commitment to serving humanity. Powerfully told yet humbling, A Man At Arms will remain with you long after you put it down. General Jim Mattis, US Marines (Ret.) and 26th Secretary of DefenseAn enthralling epic from the master of historical fiction with tremendous character development, fast-paced action, and extraordinary combat scenes! A truly wonderful read. General David Petraeus, US Army (Ret.), former commander of the Surge in Iraq, US Central Command, and Coalition Forces in Afghanistan, and former director of the CIAAn incredible book that I devoured in one sitting. The master behind Gates of Fire does it again! Ryan Holiday, #1 New York Times best-selling author of Stillness Is the KeyA Man At Arms explores the warrior ethos through the eyes and heart of a mercenary whose calling is tested on a journey of transformation. A masterpiece! Jack Carr, Navy SEAL sniper and New York Times best-selling author of Savage SonA brilliant tour de force. Ann Scott Tyson, award-winning journalist and author of American SpartanA great warrior comes face to face with the only thing that could ever change him: a little girl who holds both hope and humanity in her heart. This is Pressfield’s best work. Jim Gant, ex-Green Beret, Silver Star recipient, and author of One Tribe at a TimeA Man at Arms captures not only the ferocity and shock of battle, but also the relationships and emotions that make warfare so awful and yet so glorious. Jocko Willink From the acclaimed master of historical fiction comes an epic saga about a reluctant hero, the Roman Empire, and the rise of a new faith.Jerusalem and the Sinai desert, first century AD. In the turbulent aftermath of the crucifixion of Jesus, officers of the Roman Empire acquire intelligence of a pilgrim bearing an incendiary letter from a religious fanatic to insurrectionists in Corinth. The content of this letter could bring down the empire.The Romans hire a former legionary, the solitary man-at-arms, Telamon of Arcadia, to intercept the letter and capture its courier. Telamon operates by a dark code all his own, with no room for noble causes or lofty beliefs. But once he overtakes the courier, something happens that neither he nor the empire could have predicted.In his first novel of the ancient world in thirteen years, the best-selling author of Gates of Fire and Tides of War returns with a gripping saga of conquest and rebellion, bloodshed and faith. About the Author Steven Pressfield is the author of the best-selling novels Gates of Fire and Tides of War, as well as The Legend of Bagger Vance. He is also the author of the classics on creativity The War of Art and Turning Pro. He lives in Los Angeles, California...

-Titulo Original : A World Beneath The Sands The Golden Age Of Egyptology-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: A thrilling history of the West’s scramble for the riches of ancient Egypt by the foremost Egyptologist of our time.From the decipherment of hieroglyphics in 1822 to the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb by Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon a hundred years later, the uncovering of Egypt’s ancient past took place in an atmosphere of grand adventure and international rivalry.In A World Beneath the Sands, acclaimed Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson chronicles the ruthless race between the British, French, Germans, and Americans to lay claim to its mysteries and treasures. He tells riveting stories of the men and women whose obsession with Egypt’s ancient civilization helped to enrich and transform our understanding of the Nile Valley and its people, and left a lasting impression on Egypt, too. Travelers and treasure-hunters, ethnographers and archaeologists: whatever their motives, whatever their methods, a century of adventure and scholarship revealed a lost world, buried for centuries beneath the sands. 16 pages of color illustrations; 23 black-and-white illustrations Review Riveting… [Wilkinson] has mastered the facts with painstaking research and allowed them to speak for themselves. Rarely do facts speak this clearly. Rosemary Mahoney, New York Times Book ReviewA fascinating new history. The EconomistWilkinson marshals a wealth of detail into a cohesive and entertaining narrative. The result is an essential portrait of how the rediscovery of [Egypt’s] ancient past paved the way for its modern rebirth. Publishers Weekly (starred review)Few can bring us ancient Egypt with such dynamism as Toby Wilkinson. In A World Beneath the Sands, he has excelled himself in bringing to life the intriguing and swashbuckling story of Egypt’s discovery. He shows us how much what we seek from the past has always told us about ourselves. Michael Scott, author of Ancient Worlds About the Author Toby Wilkinson is the New York Times best-selling author of The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt and A World Beneath the Sands. He is a Bye-Fellow of Clare College, University of Cambridge, and lives in England...

-Titulo Original : A Worse Place Than Hell How The Civil War Battle Of Fredericksburg Changed A Nation-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Matteson illuminates three harrowing months of the Civil War and their enduring legacy for America.December 1862 drove the United States toward a breaking point. The Battle of Fredericksburg shattered Union forces and Northern confidence. As Abraham Lincoln’s government threatened to fracture, this critical moment also tested five extraordinary individuals whose lives reflect the soul of a nation. The changes they underwent led to profound repercussions in the country’s law, literature, politics, and popular mythology. Taken together, their stories offer a striking restatement of what it means to be American.Guided by patriotism, driven by desire, all five moved toward singular destinies. A young Harvard intellectual steeped in courageous ideals, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. confronted grave challenges to his concept of duty. The one-eyed army chaplain Arthur Fuller pitted his frail body against the evils of slavery. Walt Whitman, a gay Brooklyn poet condemned by the guardians of propriety, and Louisa May Alcott, a struggling writer seeking an authentic voice and her father’s admiration, tended soldiers’ wracked bodies as nurses. On the other side of the national schism, John Pelham, a West Point cadet from Alabama, achieved a unique excellence in artillery tactics as he served a doomed and misbegotten cause.A Worse Place Than Hell brings together the prodigious forces of war with the intimacy of individual lives. Matteson interweaves the historic and the personal in a work as beautiful as it is powerful. 16 pages of illustrations; 2 maps Review [A] moving group portrait…[Matteson’s] firm grasp of detail, visible as well in his fine biographies of the Alcott family and Margaret Fuller, makes each of his characters vivid and distinctive. David S. Reynolds, Wall Street JournalMatteson deftly unfurls many stories within stories with a confident, novelistic flair. Ambitious, nuanced, and thoroughly rewarding. Kirkus Reviews (starred review)John Matteson has once again delivered a beautifully written, exhaustively researched, and brilliantly interpreted work of history. This is a riveting and eerily relevant account of America at its most divided, yet also seeking redemption. Debby Applegate, author of The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher, winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for BiographyIf you already know who won the Battle of Fredericksburg, you will soon forget, as John Matteson follows the intimate and intricate lives of five people who lived through it. Courage and valor vie with fear and anxiety on a wintertime battlefield, on the home front, and in field hospitals. This story of choices, mistakes, and shifting luck is also a portrait of war on a human scale. Martha Hodes, author of Mourning LincolnFredericksburg in 1862 became a true touchstone of history…John Matteson’s genius flows effortlessly through the entire narrative, taking us through the blast furnace of war and its battles and hospitals, and its suffering. This is the best book I’ve ever read on the impact and meaning of Fredericksburg, where ordinary lives were made extraordinary. Francis A. O’Reilly, author of The Fredericksburg Campaign: Winter War on the RappahannockIf the truest history is biography, as Emerson says, then seldom has history been better told than in this epic biography of five lives upended and transformed by the Civil War. John Matteson helps us see through the surface to the deeper currents beneath, revealing how one key battle became the inflection point transforming not only these men and women but the nation they composed, right down to the stories we tell, the poems we read, the monuments we build, the laws we live by, the prayers we utter even the buildings we live in. Not to be missed. Laura Dassow Walls, author of Henry David Thoreau: A Life About the Author John Matteson was awarded the Pulitzer Prize fo...

-Titulo Original : The Waste Land And Other Poems (norton Critical Editions)-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: “This splendid new edition of T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land will elucidate his legacy for a rising generation of students, teachers, and general readers. The inclusion of poems from Eliot’s first two collections, a substantial selection of background material and scholarship, expert annotation, and Michael North’s learned and incisive introduction detailing the development of Eliot’s poetic coming-of-age make this an invaluable resource.” Anita Patterson, Boston University This Norton Critical Edition includes: The first American edition of The Waste Land, with Eliot’s notes, joined by Prufrock and Other Poems (1917) and Poems (1920). Updated and expanded introductory materials and footnotes by Michael North. Extensive contextual materials on sources for The Waste Land, its composition, and publication history for all three featured collections. Eleven reviews and reactions to Eliot’s works include those by Ezra Pound, Virginia Woolf, and Ralph Ellison. Five new critical essays examine the themes and legacy of Eliot’s hallmark poems alongside eight classic literary critiques. A chronology and a selected bibliography.About the Series Read by more than 12 million students over fifty-five years, Norton Critical Editions set the standard for apparatus that is right for undergraduate readers. The three-part format annotated text, contexts, and criticism helps students to better understand, analyze, and appreciate the literature, while opening a wide range of teaching possibilities for instructors. Whether in print or in digital format, Norton Critical Editions provide all the resources students need. “This splendid new edition of T. S. Eliot’s landmark poem provides an authoritative 1922 edition of the text, the most vital materials for understanding it, and, for this supremely allusive poem, a collection of essential sources. It also brings together Eliot’s most pertinent essays and all the English poems in his earlier books, as well as an illuminating array of reviews and criticism published over the last hundred years.” Jahan Ramazani, University of Virginia About the Author T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) was one of the fathers of modernism and a defining voice in English-language poetry. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948.Michael North is a Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of The Dialect of Modernism: Race, Language, and Twentieth-Century Literature, The Final Sculpture: Public Monuments and Modern Poets, Reading 1922: A Return to the Scene of the Modern, The Political Aesthetic of Yeats, Eliot, and Pound, and Henry Green and the Writing of His Generation, as well as many articles on various aspects of twentieth-century literature...

-Titulo Original : The Far Side Of The World (aubrey/maturin Novels, 10)-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: The tenth installment in the beloved, epic Aubrey/Maturin series and inspiration for the major motion picture starring Russell Crowe. The War of 1812 continues, and Captain Jack Aubrey sets course for Cape Horn on a mission after his own heart: intercepting a powerful American frigate outward bound to wreak havoc with the British whaling trade. Meanwhile, Stephen Maturin has a mission of his own in the world of secret intelligence and comes face to face with the harsh realities for women of the age. Disaster in various guises awaits them in the Great South Sea and in the far reaches of the Pacific typhoons, castaways, shipwrecks, an ill-fated affair, murder, and criminal insanity as well as a bold rescue by a crew of seafaring female warriors. Review One does not get many pages into the Aubrey-Maturin sequence before falling under the spell of O’Brian’s prose, which is coiling and uncoiling, spare, elegantly paced, quietly witty. Katherine A. Powers, Atlantic MonthlyAlthough O’Brian is ingenious at devising new adventures, it is the richness of his characters which justifies his reader’s continuing enthusiasm. . . . O’Brian acknowledges Jane Austen as one of his inspirations, and she need not be ashamed of the affiliation. The New Yorker From the Back Cover Praise for the Aubrey/Maturin Series and Patrick O’Brian “The best historical novels ever written.” Richard Snow, New York Times Book Review “I love these books.… [They offer] the same sense of lived experience as Hilary Mantel.… They will sweep you away and return you delighted, increased and stunned. If the phrase ‘Napoleonic war fiction’ fills you with anticipation, then you don’t need me to convince you to read [Patrick] O’Brian. But for the rest of you.… [P]lease, just trust me.” Nicola Griffith, NPR “A few books work their way… onto [bestseller] lists by genuine, lasting excellence witness The Lord of the Rings, or Patrick O’Brian’s sea stories.” Ursula K. Le Guin “Like John LeCarre, [O’Brian] has erased the boundary separating a debased genre from ‘serious’ fiction. O’Brian is a novelist, pure and simple, one of the best we have.” Mark Horowitz, Los Angeles Times Book Review “[Patrick O’Brian has] the power of bringing near to the reader… savagery and tenderness, beauty and mystery and boldness and dignity.” Eudora Welty “O’Brian’s eloquent admirers include not merely distinguished critics and reviewers but… thousands upon thousands of fervent readers who thank the gods for him.… [H]is work accomplishes nobly the three grand purposes of art: to entertain, to edify, and to awe.” Stephen Becker, Paris Review “For escapist reading, I especially like the sea novels of Patrick O’Brian.” Bill Bryson “O’Brian’s narrative… provides endlessly varying shocks and surprises comic, grim, farcical and tragic. An essential of the truly gripping book for the narrative addict is the creation of a whole, solidly living world for the imagination to inhabit, and O’Brian does this with prodigal specificity and generosity.” A. S. Byatt “I prefer the Aubrey-Maturin series to all others.… Every book is packed to absolute straining with erudition, wit, history, and thunderous action.” Joe Hill “All of the Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O’Brian [is on my shelves].” Mindy Kaling, New York Times About the Author One of our greatest contemporary novelists, Patrick O’Brian is the author of the twenty volumes of the best-selling Aubrey/Maturin series, as well as many other books, including Testimonies, The Golden Ocean, The Unknown Shore, and biographies of Joseph Banks and Picasso...

-Titulo Original : Hold Fast A Novel (a Thomas Grey Novel, 1) (book 1)-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Review A Ripping Napoleonic War Adventure….an immersive, entertaining debut….[a] thoughtful, learned depiction of this deeply engrossing period in history. Michael Patrick Brady, The ARTeryPicture this: James Bond in a red coat, tight white breeches, and a powdered wig topped off with an odd mesalliance between a top hat and a cowboy hat.…[A] rip-roaring novel. Susan Lowell, Historical Novel SocietyBrilliant writing, vivid characters, thrilling battle scenes all the hallmarks of great historical fiction are to be found in this suspenseful tale of an English intelligence agent in the war against Napoleon. Fans of the late Patrick O’Brian will be enthralled. Ian W. Toll, New York Times best-selling author of Twilight of the GodsIn Hold Fast, J. H. Gelernter has given us a stirring adventure tale with a headlong narrative that never flags. Set midway through the Napoleonic Wars, its immensely resourceful and appealing hero, Thomas Grey (humorous; cool-minded; lethal but not bloodthirsty), cuts a spectacular path through a richly imagined early nineteenth-century world. Readers will know at once that if Mr. Gelernter can bring simmering suspense to each hand dealt in an antique French card game they have most likely never even heard of, he won’t disappoint them when it comes to warships hammering it out yardarm to yardarm, or in the more intimate violence of a rapier duel. Although most of the action takes place on land, the novel is imbued throughout with the spirit of the Royal Navy in the great age of fighting sail, and I hope to take many more voyages in the company of Captain Grey. Richard Snow, award-winning author of Iron DawnThis is superb, like a great Cold War thriller, smart, fast, twisty and dangerous. Highly recommended. Lee ChildGelernter keeps the suspense high without sacrificing plausibility. Bernard Cornwell fans will welcome this promising new talent. Publishers Weekly (starred review)Gelernter’s first novel is a pleasing romp through James Bond territory, set back a century and several decades and moved to Napoleonic France. David Keymer, Library Journal A desperate sea battle; a fortune risked on the turn of a card; a duel at dawn with the loser…Patrick O’Brian meets James Bond.It’s 1803. The Napoleonic Wars are raging, Britain is on her heels, and His Majesty’s Secret Service has just lost its best agent, Thomas Grey. Deeply depressed by his wife’s untimely death, Grey resigns from the service and accepts an offer to join a lumber firm in Boston. But when a sea battle with a privateer forces the ship carrying him west to make port in neutral Portugal, Grey is approached with a counteroffer: become a wealthy man by selling out Britain’s spy network to France. The French take Grey for a disgruntled ex-naval officer, blithely unaware that Grey had lost his wife to an unlucky shot from a French cannon.Now, after many years serving King and Country, Grey seizes the opportunity to fight a covert war of his own. He travels to Paris, and playing the part of the invaluable turncoat the French believe him to be proceeds to infiltrate the highest levels of Napoleon’s government. If he can outwit his handlers, outmatch his French counterparts, and outrun Napoleon’s secret police, Grey may just avenge his wife’s death and turn the tide of war in England’s favor. Bursting with action and intrigue, Hold Fast sends readers headlong into an unrelenting spy thriller. About the Author J. H. Gelernter lives in Connecticut. He is the author of the Captain Grey novels, Hold Fast and Captain Greys Gambit...

-Titulo Original : The Letter Of Marque (aubrey/maturin Novels, 12)-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Fine stuff...[The Letter of Marque] leaves the devotee of naval fiction eager for sequels. Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World Captain Jack Aubrey, a brilliant and experienced officer, has been struck off the list of post-captains for a crime he did not commit. His old friend Stephen Maturin, usually cast as a ship’s surgeon to mask his discreet activities on behalf of British Intelligence, has bought for Aubrey his former ship the Surprise to command as a privateer, more politely termed a letter of marque. Together they sail on a desperate mission against the French, which, if successful, may redeem Aubrey from the private hell of his disgrace. A nighttime battle with an unusual climax, a jewel of great value, and Maturin’s fondness for opium make this segment of Patrick O’Brian’s masterful series both original and profoundly exciting. Review Both serious and light-hearted, true and sentimental, as comic opera can be. Peter Campbell, London Review of BooksThere are two types of people in the world: Patrick O’Brian fans, and people who haven’t read him yet. Lucy Eyre, GuardianO’Brian’s books are as atypical of conventional sea stories as Conrad’s. Like John le Carre, he has erased the boundary separating a debased genre from ‘serious’ fiction. O’Brian is a novelist, pure and simple, one of the best we have. Mark Horowitz, Los Angeles Times Book Review From the Back Cover Praise for the Aubrey/Maturin Series and Patrick O’Brian “The best historical novels ever written.” Richard Snow, New York Times Book Review “I love these books.… [They offer] the same sense of lived experience as Hilary Mantel.… They will sweep you away and return you delighted, increased and stunned. If the phrase ‘Napoleonic war fiction’ fills you with anticipation, then you don’t need me to convince you to read [Patrick] O’Brian. But for the rest of you.… [P]lease, just trust me.” Nicola Griffith, NPR “A few books work their way… onto [bestseller] lists by genuine, lasting excellence witness The Lord of the Rings, or Patrick O’Brian’s sea stories.” Ursula K. Le Guin “Like John LeCarre, [O’Brian] has erased the boundary separating a debased genre from ‘serious’ fiction. O’Brian is a novelist, pure and simple, one of the best we have.” Mark Horowitz, Los Angeles Times Book Review “[Patrick O’Brian has] the power of bringing near to the reader… savagery and tenderness, beauty and mystery and boldness and dignity.” Eudora Welty “O’Brian’s eloquent admirers include not merely distinguished critics and reviewers but… thousands upon thousands of fervent readers who thank the gods for him.… [H]is work accomplishes nobly the three grand purposes of art: to entertain, to edify, and to awe.” Stephen Becker, Paris Review “For escapist reading, I especially like the sea novels of Patrick O’Brian.” Bill Bryson “O’Brian’s narrative… provides endlessly varying shocks and surprises comic, grim, farcical and tragic. An essential of the truly gripping book for the narrative addict is the creation of a whole, solidly living world for the imagination to inhabit, and O’Brian does this with prodigal specificity and generosity.” A. S. Byatt “I prefer the Aubrey-Maturin series to all others.… Every book is packed to absolute straining with erudition, wit, history, and thunderous action.” Joe Hill “All of the Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O’Brian [is on my shelves].” Mindy Kaling, New York Times About the Author One of our greatest contemporary novelists, Patrick O’Brian is the author of the twenty volumes of the best-selling Aubrey/Maturin series, as well as many other books, including Testimonies, The Golden Ocean, The Unknown Shore, and biographies of Joseph Banks and Picasso...

-Titulo Original : Master And Commander (aubrey/maturin Novels, 1)-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Review A few books work their way… onto [bestseller] lists by genuine, lasting excellence witness The Lord of the Rings, or Patrick O’Brian’s sea stories. Ursula K. Le GuinI love these books.… [They offer] the same sense of lived experience as Hilary Mantel.… They will sweep you away and return you delighted, increased and stunned. If the phrase ‘Napoleonic war fiction’ fills you with anticipation, then you don’t need me to convince you to read O’Brian. But for the rest of you.… [P]lease, just trust me. Nicola Griffith, NPR The classic first novel of the epic Aubrey/Maturin series, widely considered “the best historical novels ever written” (Richard Snow, New York Times).Ardent, gregarious British naval officer Jack Aubrey is elated to be given his first appointment as commander: the fourteen-gun ship HMS Sophie. Meanwhile after a heated first encounter that nearly comes to a duel Aubrey and a brilliant but down-on-his-luck physician, Stephen Maturin, strike up an unlikely rapport. On a whim, Aubrey invites Maturin to join his crew as the Sophie’s surgeon. And so begins the legendary friendship that anchors this beloved saga set against the thrilling backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars.Through every ensuing adventure on which Aubrey and Maturin embark, from the witty parley of their lovers and enemies to the roar of broadsides as great ships close in battle around them, O’Brian “provides endlessly varying shocks and surprises comic, grim, farcical and tragic.… [A] whole, solidly living world for the imagination to inhabit” (A. S. Byatt). From the Back Cover Praise for the Aubrey/Maturin Series and Patrick O’Brian “The best historical novels ever written.” Richard Snow, New York Times Book Review “I love these books.… [They offer] the same sense of lived experience as Hilary Mantel.… They will sweep you away and return you delighted, increased and stunned. If the phrase ‘Napoleonic war fiction’ fills you with anticipation, then you don’t need me to convince you to read [Patrick] O’Brian. But for the rest of you.… [P]lease, just trust me.” Nicola Griffith, NPR “A few books work their way… onto [bestseller] lists by genuine, lasting excellence witness The Lord of the Rings, or Patrick O’Brian’s sea stories.” Ursula K. Le Guin “Like John LeCarre, [O’Brian] has erased the boundary separating a debased genre from ‘serious’ fiction. O’Brian is a novelist, pure and simple, one of the best we have.” Mark Horowitz, Los Angeles Times Book Review “[Patrick O’Brian has] the power of bringing near to the reader… savagery and tenderness, beauty and mystery and boldness and dignity.” Eudora Welty “O’Brian’s eloquent admirers include not merely distinguished critics and reviewers but… thousands upon thousands of fervent readers who thank the gods for him.… [H]is work accomplishes nobly the three grand purposes of art: to entertain, to edify, and to awe.” Stephen Becker, Paris Review “For escapist reading, I especially like the sea novels of Patrick O’Brian.” Bill Bryson “O’Brian’s narrative… provides endlessly varying shocks and surprises comic, grim, farcical and tragic. An essential of the truly gripping book for the narrative addict is the creation of a whole, solidly living world for the imagination to inhabit, and O’Brian does this with prodigal specificity and generosity.” A. S. Byatt “I prefer the Aubrey-Maturin series to all others.… Every book is packed to absolute straining with erudition, wit, history, and thunderous action.” Joe Hill “All of the Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O’Brian [is on my shelves].” Mindy Kaling, New York Times About the Author One of our greatest contemporary novelists, Patrick O’Brian is the author of the twenty volumes of the best-selling Aubrey/Maturin series, as well as many other books, including Testimonies, The Golden Ocean, The Unknown Shore, and biographies of Joseph Banks and Picasso...

-Titulo Original : Post Captain (aubrey/maturin Novels, 2)-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Review Master and Commander raised almost dangerously high expectations, Post Captain triumphantly surpasses them… a brilliant book. Mary Renault[Patrick O’Brian] has created characters and stories that are part of my life.… His Aubrey-Maturin series, 20 novels of the Royal Navy in the Napoleonic Wars, is a masterpiece. David Mamet, New York Times “If Jane Austen had written rousing sea yarns, she would have produced something very close to the prose of Patrick OBrian.” TimeIt’s 1802. The Treaty of Amiens has brought an end to the hostilities between Great Britain and France. Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend, naval surgeon Stephen Maturin, are enjoying the respite in the English countryside, besotted with two beautiful cousins, Sophie Williams and Diana Villiers until Aubrey loses his fortune and they flee to France to escape his creditors. While in France, Napoleon smashes the Peace of Amiens and war begins anew. Aubrey and Maturin, now finding themselves behind enemy lines, make their way back to England. Maturin is sent to Spain on an intelligence-gathering mission and the now-solvent Aubrey assumes command of a strange warship, pursuing his quarry straight into the mouth of a French-held harbor. Amidst the rollicking adventures at sea and mishaps on land, Aubrey and Maturin’s friendship is tested by their romantic entanglements with the cousins in this brilliant second installment of the epic series. From the Back Cover Praise for the Aubrey/Maturin Series and Patrick O’Brian “The best historical novels ever written.” Richard Snow, New York Times Book Review “I love these books.… [They offer] the same sense of lived experience as Hilary Mantel.… They will sweep you away and return you delighted, increased and stunned. If the phrase ‘Napoleonic war fiction’ fills you with anticipation, then you don’t need me to convince you to read [Patrick] O’Brian. But for the rest of you.… [P]lease, just trust me.” Nicola Griffith, NPR “A few books work their way… onto [bestseller] lists by genuine, lasting excellence witness The Lord of the Rings, or Patrick O’Brian’s sea stories.” Ursula K. Le Guin “Like John LeCarre, [O’Brian] has erased the boundary separating a debased genre from ‘serious’ fiction. O’Brian is a novelist, pure and simple, one of the best we have.” Mark Horowitz, Los Angeles Times Book Review “[Patrick O’Brian has] the power of bringing near to the reader… savagery and tenderness, beauty and mystery and boldness and dignity.” Eudora Welty “O’Brian’s eloquent admirers include not merely distinguished critics and reviewers but… thousands upon thousands of fervent readers who thank the gods for him.… [H]is work accomplishes nobly the three grand purposes of art: to entertain, to edify, and to awe.” Stephen Becker, Paris Review “For escapist reading, I especially like the sea novels of Patrick O’Brian.” Bill Bryson “O’Brian’s narrative… provides endlessly varying shocks and surprises comic, grim, farcical and tragic. An essential of the truly gripping book for the narrative addict is the creation of a whole, solidly living world for the imagination to inhabit, and O’Brian does this with prodigal specificity and generosity.” A. S. Byatt “I prefer the Aubrey-Maturin series to all others.… Every book is packed to absolute straining with erudition, wit, history, and thunderous action.” Joe Hill “All of the Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O’Brian [is on my shelves].” Mindy Kaling, New York Times About the Author One of our greatest contemporary novelists, Patrick O’Brian is the author of the twenty volumes of the best-selling Aubrey/Maturin series, as well as many other books, including Testimonies, The Golden Ocean, The Unknown Shore, and biographies of Joseph Banks and Picasso...

-Titulo Original : H. M. S. (aubrey/maturin Novels, 3)-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Review As sinewy and virile as its predecessors, this is a copper-bottomed investment for the numerous fans of Jack Aubrey. Sarah Lake, Daily TelegraphIt has been said that this series is some of the finest historical fiction of our time.… Aubrey and Maturin have been described as better than Holmes and Watson, the equal of Quixote and Panza.… All this is true. And the marvel is, it hardly says enough. John Balzar, Los Angeles Times Few, very few books have made my heart thud with excitement. H.M.S. Surprise managed it. Helen Lucy Burke, Irish PressIn H.M.S. Surprise, British naval officer Jack Aubrey and surgeon Stephen Maturin face near-death and tumultuous romance in the distant waters ploughed by the ships of the East India Company. Tasked with ferrying a British ambassador to the Sultan of Kampong, they find themselves on a prolonged voyage aboard a Royal Navy frigate en route to the Malay Peninsula. In this new sphere, Aubrey is on the defensive, pitting wits and seamanship against an enemy who enjoys overwhelming local superiority. But somewhere in the Indian Ocean lies the prize that could secure him a marriage to his beloved Sophie and make him rich beyond his wildest dreams: the ships sent by Napoleon to attack the China Fleet. From the Back Cover Praise for the Aubrey/Maturin Series and Patrick O’Brian “The best historical novels ever written.” Richard Snow, New York Times Book Review “I love these books.… [They offer] the same sense of lived experience as Hilary Mantel.… They will sweep you away and return you delighted, increased and stunned. If the phrase ‘Napoleonic war fiction’ fills you with anticipation, then you don’t need me to convince you to read [Patrick] O’Brian. But for the rest of you.… [P]lease, just trust me.” Nicola Griffith, NPR “A few books work their way… onto [bestseller] lists by genuine, lasting excellence witness The Lord of the Rings, or Patrick O’Brian’s sea stories.” Ursula K. Le Guin “Like John LeCarre, [O’Brian] has erased the boundary separating a debased genre from ‘serious’ fiction. O’Brian is a novelist, pure and simple, one of the best we have.” Mark Horowitz, Los Angeles Times Book Review “[Patrick O’Brian has] the power of bringing near to the reader… savagery and tenderness, beauty and mystery and boldness and dignity.” Eudora Welty “O’Brian’s eloquent admirers include not merely distinguished critics and reviewers but… thousands upon thousands of fervent readers who thank the gods for him.… [H]is work accomplishes nobly the three grand purposes of art: to entertain, to edify, and to awe.” Stephen Becker, Paris Review “For escapist reading, I especially like the sea novels of Patrick O’Brian.” Bill Bryson “O’Brian’s narrative… provides endlessly varying shocks and surprises comic, grim, farcical and tragic. An essential of the truly gripping book for the narrative addict is the creation of a whole, solidly living world for the imagination to inhabit, and O’Brian does this with prodigal specificity and generosity.” A. S. Byatt “I prefer the Aubrey-Maturin series to all others.… Every book is packed to absolute straining with erudition, wit, history, and thunderous action.” Joe Hill “All of the Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O’Brian [is on my shelves].” Mindy Kaling, New York Times About the Author One of our greatest contemporary novelists, Patrick O’Brian is the author of the twenty volumes of the best-selling Aubrey/Maturin series, as well as many other books, including Testimonies, The Golden Ocean, The Unknown Shore, and biographies of Joseph Banks and Picasso...

-Titulo Original : A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man (norton Critical Editions)-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: About the Author James Joyce was one of innovators of postmodernism. He is widely considered one of the most important writers of the 20th century. Born in Dublin, James Joyce (1882-1941) was a modernist and proponent of the stream-of-consciousness writing style and is widely considered one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. His works feature primarily Dublin figures such as in the short story collection Dubliners (1914), and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Ulysses (1922) and Finnegans Wake (1939).John Paul Riquelme is Professor of English at Boston University. He is the author of Teller and Tale in Joyce’s Fiction: Oscillating Perspectives and Harmony of Dissonances: T.S. Eliot, Romanticism, and Imagination. His edited works include Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Dracula, Joyce’s Dislocutions: Essays on Reading as Translation, and Gothic and Modernism: Essaying Dark Literary Modernity. “This richly filled Norton Critical Edition contains a reliably edited and annotated text of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; extracts from some of Joyce’s other works; historical, religious, aesthetic, and literary writings from the novel’s time period; and recent critical essays that consider the novel from a wide range of positions and approaches. This edition is sure to be welcomed by instructors, students, and readers of all kinds.” Michael Groden, Western University, Canada This Norton Critical Edition includes: Hans Walter Gabler’s acclaimed text of Joyce’s 1916 coming-of-age novel, accompanied by Gabler’s introduction and textual notes. Preface and revised and expanded explanatory annotations by John Paul Riquelme. Other writings by James Joyce closely related to A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, new to the Second Edition. Nine illustrations. “Backgrounds and Contexts,” including a wealth of materials, topically organized: “Political Nationalism: Irish History, 1798-1916,” “The Irish Literary and Cultural Revival,” “Religion,” and “Aesthetic Backgrounds.” Twelve major critical assessments, seven of them new to the Second Edition. A selected bibliography. About the SeriesRead by more than 12 million students over fifty-five years, Norton Critical Editions set the standard for apparatus that is right for undergraduate readers. The three-part format annotated text, contexts, and criticism helps students to better understand, analyze, and appreciate the literature, while opening a wide range of teaching possibilities for instructors. Whether in print or in digital format, Norton Critical Editions provide all the resources students need. “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a work essential to a complete understanding of the Modernist movement. The Norton Critical Edition presents Joyce’s novel impeccably edited by Hans Walter Gabler and a series of background and critical essays astutely chosen by John Paul Riquelme. It will enhance any high school, college, or graduate course in which it is taught.” Michael Patrick Gillespie, Florida International University...

-Titulo Original : The Mauritius Command (aubrey/maturin Novels)-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Jacks assignment: to capture the Indian Ocean islands of Reunion and Mauritius from the French. That campaign forms the narrative thread of this rollicking sea saga. But its substance is more beguiling still. Elizabeth Peer, Newsweek The year is 1810 and Great Britain is again at war with France. British naval officer Captain Jack Aubrey is ashore on half pay without a command, living in domestic bliss with his young family until his friend Stephen Maturin arrives with secret orders for Aubrey to take a frigate to the Cape of Good Hope under a commodore’s pennant and mount an expedition against the French-held islands of Mauritius and La Reunion. But the difficulties of carrying out these orders are compounded by two of Aubrey’s own captains: Lord Clonfert, a pleasure-seeking dilettante, and Captain Corbett, whose severity pushes his crew to the verge of mutiny. Meanwhile, news from home that will change the course of Aubrey’s life struggles to reach him. Review O’Brian’s Aubrey-Maturin volumes actually constitute a single 6,443-page novel, one that should have been on those lists of the greatest novels of the 20th century. George Will[Reading the Aubrey/Maturin series was] like tripping on heroin. I started on those books and couldn’t stop. E. O. Wilson, Boston Globe From the Back Cover Praise for the Aubrey/Maturin Series and Patrick O’Brian “The best historical novels ever written.” Richard Snow, New York Times Book Review “I love these books.… [They offer] the same sense of lived experience as Hilary Mantel.… They will sweep you away and return you delighted, increased and stunned. If the phrase ‘Napoleonic war fiction’ fills you with anticipation, then you don’t need me to convince you to read [Patrick] O’Brian. But for the rest of you.… [P]lease, just trust me.” Nicola Griffith, NPR “A few books work their way… onto [bestseller] lists by genuine, lasting excellence witness The Lord of the Rings, or Patrick O’Brian’s sea stories.” Ursula K. Le Guin “Like John LeCarre, [O’Brian] has erased the boundary separating a debased genre from ‘serious’ fiction. O’Brian is a novelist, pure and simple, one of the best we have.” Mark Horowitz, Los Angeles Times Book Review “[Patrick O’Brian has] the power of bringing near to the reader… savagery and tenderness, beauty and mystery and boldness and dignity.” Eudora Welty “O’Brian’s eloquent admirers include not merely distinguished critics and reviewers but… thousands upon thousands of fervent readers who thank the gods for him.… [H]is work accomplishes nobly the three grand purposes of art: to entertain, to edify, and to awe.” Stephen Becker, Paris Review “For escapist reading, I especially like the sea novels of Patrick O’Brian.” Bill Bryson “O’Brian’s narrative… provides endlessly varying shocks and surprises comic, grim, farcical and tragic. An essential of the truly gripping book for the narrative addict is the creation of a whole, solidly living world for the imagination to inhabit, and O’Brian does this with prodigal specificity and generosity.” A. S. Byatt “I prefer the Aubrey-Maturin series to all others.… Every book is packed to absolute straining with erudition, wit, history, and thunderous action.” Joe Hill “All of the Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O’Brian [is on my shelves].” Mindy Kaling, New York Times About the Author One of our greatest contemporary novelists, Patrick O’Brian is the author of the twenty volumes of the best-selling Aubrey/Maturin series, as well as many other books, including Testimonies, The Golden Ocean, The Unknown Shore, and biographies of Joseph Banks and Picasso...

-Titulo Original : They Say / I Say-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: The little book that demystifies academic writing, reading, and research. Used and loved by millions of students for its lively and practical advice, this is the book that demystifies academic writing and shows how to engage with the views of others. Extensively revised in response to feedback from our community of adopters, this edition of “They Say / I Say” is an even more practical companion for students, featuring a new chapter on research, new exercises, expanded support for reading, and an expanded chapter on Revising. Book Description with Ebook, The Little Seagull Handbook Ebook, and InQuizitive for Writers About the Author Gerald Graff, Emeritus Professor of English and Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago and 2008 President of the Modern Language Association of America, has had a major impact on teachers through such books as Professing Literature: An Institutional History, Beyond the Culture Wars: How Teaching the Conflicts Can Revitalize American Education, and Clueless in Academe: How Schooling Obscures the Life of the Mind.Cathy Birkenstein is a lecturer in English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has published essays on writing in College English, and, with Gerald Graff in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Academe, and College Composition and Communication...

-Titulo Original : The Odyssey-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: A New York Times Notable Book of 2018 Wilson’s language is fresh, unpretentious and lean…It is rare to find a translation that is at once so effortlessly easy to read and so rigorously considered. Madeline Miller, author of CirceComposed at the rosy-fingered dawn of world literature almost three millennia ago, The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; about wealth, poverty and power; about marriage and family; about travelers, hospitality, and the yearning for home.This fresh, authoritative translation captures the beauty of this ancient poem as well as the drama of its narrative. Its characters are unforgettable, none more so than the “complicated” hero himself, a man of many disguises, many tricks, and many moods, who emerges in this version as a more fully rounded human being than ever before.Written in iambic pentameter verse and a vivid, contemporary idiom, Emily Wilson’s Odyssey sings with a voice that echoes Homer’s music; matching the number of lines in the Greek original, the poem sails along at Homer’s swift, smooth pace.A fascinating, informative introduction explores the Bronze Age milieu that produced the epic, the poem’s major themes, the controversies about its origins, and the unparalleled scope of its impact and influence. Maps drawn especially for this volume, a pronunciation glossary, and extensive notes and summaries of each book make this is an Odyssey that will be treasured by a new generation of readers. 3 maps Review A masterpiece of translation. Rowan Williams, University of CambridgeA revelation. Never have I been so aware at once of the beauty of the poetry, the physicality of Homer’s world, and the moral ambiguity of those who inhabit it. Susan Chira, New York Times Book ReviewEmily Wilson’s crisp and musical version is a cultural landmark.… This translation will change the way the poem is read in English. Charlotte Higgins, GuardianIn the history of Odyssey translations, few have exerted such a cultural influence that they become ‘classics’ in their own right.… I predict that Emily Wilson will win a place in this roll-call of the most significant translations of the poem in history. She certainly deserves the honour. Edith Hall, Daily TelegraphEmily Wilson has given us a staggeringly superior translation true, poetic, lively and readable, and always closely engaged with the original Greek that brings to life the fascinating variety of voices in Homer’s great epic. Richard F. Thomas, Harvard UniversityWhen I first read these lines…, I was floored. I’d never read an Odyssey that sounded like this. It had such directness, the lines feeling not as if they were being fed into iambic pentameter because of some strategic decision but because the meter was a natural mode for its speaker. Wyatt Mason, New York Times MagazineIn her powerful new translation, Emily Wilson… has chosen immediacy and naturalism over majestic formality. She preserves the musicality of Homer’s poetry, opting for an iambic pentameter whose approachable storytelling tone invites us in, only to startle us with eruptions of beauty.… Wilson’s transformation of such a familiar and foundational work is… astonishing. Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, AtlanticWilson’s translation is a superb achievement and a striking departure from the tradition of Homeric translation into English.… There is no elaborate or antiquated diction, just a crispness and clear-headedness that will seem quite alien to anyone familiar with earlier versions.… Wilson has produced a wonderfully distinctive and modern version of the poem. Henry Power, Evening StandardIrresistibly readable, Wilson’s Odyssey turns Homeric epic into a poetic feast. Froma Zeitlin, Princeton UniversityThis translation is a marvel! Bold and timely and ever so exciting.… As majestic as literature gets. Max Porter, author of Grief Is the Thing With Feathers About the Author Emily Wilson is ...