In 1943, after parachuting into Sardinia to raid a German airfield, John Verney and several of his comrades from the British irregular forces were ...

Here is the book that John Vine and his wife, Joanne, wish they could have consulted when John was first diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease -- a no...

This seminal philosophical treatise, originally penned in 1605 and considered the first major philosophical work written in English, also offers th...

After years of crossing borders in search of new birds and new landscapes, Peter Cashwell's exploration of lines between states, between time zones...

Setting out in the spring of 1990 'to look for America', when patriotic travel was suddenly back in fashion, William Zinsser made first-time pilgri...

To reproduce promiscuously and to wreak havoc wherever they can find a home, this is the raison d’être of viruses, writes Dr. Warren Andiman, an HI...

In 1860 the empire of Japan sent 170 officials -- samurai and bureaucrats, inspectors and spies, half a dozen teenagers and one Confucian physician...

High school begins, and to Beatrice Bunson nothing is the same, not even her best friend, Nan. The "new" Nan doesn't hang out with Bea after school...

These three comedies provoke searching reflections on the religious nature of humanity: What are the psychological sources of piety? What is longed...

Through stories and portraits of the strong personalities around him, Nat Hentoff brings to life the political, familial, and musical forces that s...

Already a cult classic in Russia, this novel takes the form of a secret KGB-sponsored study in which Professor Raisa O Gibaydulina reports on the (...

Bitter, joyful, worn down, filled with wonder, acutely self-aware, and often deeply in need of perspective—such are the women at the center of Mary...

"Davey McGravy, a name to conjure with, to dream with by the cedar trees out in the rainy woods". In a misty, faraway-feeling "land of rain", Davey...

Part memoir -- starting with the epic quest for an Italian medical license -- and part portrait of Italy from a unique point of view, Dottoressa is...

Whether you are stumped by the "commutative law" in algebra or a whiz at multiplying three-digit numbers in your head, this book opens the door to ...

"A clear and vivid exposition of the essential ideas and methods of the theory of relativity...can be warmly recommended especially to those who ca...

At the crossroads of the Eastern and Western worlds, Salonica -- now Greece's third largest city Thessaloniki -- was an oasis in a desert of confli...

John Verdi probes how the inexplicable connections of words can help us understand the ever-changing connections of things that we actually see in ...

Thirteen-year-old February Callendar is upset to learn that a highway will soon be built through her family’s land. When she sees her father swipe ...

Eva Brann considers what the great philosophers on the passions and feelings have thought and written about them. She examines the relevant work of...

Drawing upon twenty-eight years of experience as the CEO and editorial director of St Martin's Press, Thomas McCormack gives practical guidance abo...

In this classic study, Harvard professor Reuben Brower guides the reader from noticing the alluring details of a well-made poem, novel, or play to ...

Taking the 2008 financial crisis as his jumping off point, Alex Pollock deftly illustrates how private firms and governments alike have failed to u...

"One of the great and lasting books about Greece." -- Patrick Leigh Fermor. In 1947, at the age of twenty-three, Kevin Andrews received a fellowshi...

In these shimmering "analects", photographer John Stewart offers gleanings of vivid experiences from more than ninety years of living. Though he ha...

In an extraordinary literary debut, Aldo Zargani reconstructs the lost world of his Jewish childhood during the perilous years 1938-45 when he and ...

Twelve-year-old February Callendar and her older brother Friday are home from boarding school for the summer. For fun, Friday has been digging a tu...

These stories, ten in all, take place in Ireland, New York City and Washington, D.C., and Virginia, Texas, and Colorado. The characters represent t...

The Republic dramatizes Socrates’ attempt to convince Plato’s brother Glaucon that the just life of philosophy is preferable to the unjust life of ...

My brother officers. Are they human? Thus reads the first journal entry of twenty-three-year-old John Verney, graduate of Eton and Oxford, lover of...

Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time (1927) challenged earlier thinking about the basic structures of human being, our involvement in practical affair...

In January 1942, Xan Fielding landed on German-occupied Crete with orders to disrupt the resupply of Rommel's Afrika Korps and establish an intelli...

In her latest collection of essays and lectures, Eva Brann explores the roots and essence of American ways. In "Mile-High Meditations", her flight'...

Whether readers are tackling the Odyssey and the Iliad for the first time or are already well acquainted with the works of Homer, they will uncover...

In its heyday in the 1930s and '40s, the Taft was the biggest hotel in midtown Manhattan. Stephen Lewis grew up in this New York landmark, where hi...

Eva Brann, who has been teaching at St. John’s College, Annapolis, for sixty years, wrote these essays largely as clarifying incitements to student...

"Where does happiness lie?" "What is the best life?" Aristotle ponders these abiding questions in his Nicomachean Ethics - a work which has profoun...

This book offers an entertaining, yet thorough, explanation of the concept of, yes, infinity. Accessible to non-mathematicians, this book also clev...

Stephan Wackwitz's family "never spoke about the fact that the scene of their childhood and the site of the century's greatest crime were separated...

"As iron filings configure themselves around a magnet, so these essays display Eva Brann’s form of oppositional, or polar, thinking. To introduce h...

Peter Kalkavage's The Logic of Desire guides the reader through Hegel's great work. Given the book's legendary difficulty, one may well ask, "Why e...

In his Vatican fresco The School of Athens, Raphael portrays the great thinkers and teachers of the ages talking and listening to one another. His ...

"Remembrance of Things Past" is more than a novel; it is a work in which a single person's life is transformed into a mythology, with its own panth...

From the moment she first held her new-born son in her arms, Anne Crosby knew something was wrong with him. Although the staff at the London hospit...

On Language, Memory, and Illness. As Tony Gorry recalls scenes from his earliest childhood and adolescence, he weaves his present reality with thes...

Written in 1159 and addressed to Thomas Becket, John of Salisbury's The Metalogicon presents -- and defends -- a thorough study of the liberal arts...

This portrait of jazz musicians Willie Ruff and Dwike Mitchell tells not just how these men became musicians but how they live their lives as music...

The Mediterranean coast of Turkey, also known as the "Turquoise Coast", is rich with natural beauty and historic remains. In the spring and summer ...