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Italian Identity in the Kitchen, or, Food and the Nation

by Massimo Montanari & Beth A. Brombert

Another entertaining and surprising food history by the scholar who has come to define the discipline, this volume draws readers into the far-flung story of how regional cuisine came to shape a collective Italian...

The Engine of Complexity: Evolution as Computation

by John Mayfield

The concepts of evolution and complexity theory have become part of the intellectual ether permeating the life sciences, the social and behavioral sciences, and more recently, management science and economics....

In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods

by Matt Bell

In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods tells the story of a newly married couple who take up a lonely existence in the title's mythical location. In this blank and barren plot far from the...

Hour of the Rat

by Lisa Brackmann

Iraq War vet Ellie McEnroe has a pretty good life in Beijing, representing the work of controversial dissident Chinese artist Zhang Jianli. Even though Zhang’s mysterious disappearance of over a year ago has...

Masaryk Station

by David Downing

Berlin, 1948. Still occupied by the four Allied powers and largely in ruins, the city has become the cockpit of a new Cold War. The legacies of the war have become entangled in the new Soviet-American conflict,...

Claudia Silver to the Rescue

by Kathy Ebel

In this gutsy debut novel, flawed but unsinkable Claudia Silver cuts a wide comic swath in her misguided attempts to find love and security in 1990s New York City.

Claire DeWitt and the Bohemian Highway

by Sara Gran

The second installment in the acclaimed Claire DeWitt mystery series, from an author who "reminds me why I fell in love with the genre" (Laura Lippman)

The Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus Collection #1: Citizen Girl, Dedication, and Between You and Me

by Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus

Three heartfelt stories from Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus, authors of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Nanny Diaries.

Citizen Girl

Working in a world where a college degree qualifies her to make photocopies...

The Gettin' Place

by Susan Straight

In the third novel by the author of Blacker Than a Thousand Midnights, the Thompson clan tries to deal with the chaos after their family patriarch finds the burning bodies of two white women on his property...

She Rises

by Kate Worsley

It is 1740 and Louise Fletcher, a young dairy maid on an Essex farm, has been warned of the lure of the sea for as long as she can remember--after all, it stole away her father and brother. But when she is offered...

A History of Food in 100 Recipes

by William Sitwell

A riveting narrative history of food as seen through 100 recipes, from ancient Egyptian bread to modernist cuisine.

We all love to eat, and most people have a favorite ingredient or dish. But how many of us know...

Jack Be Nimble

by Jack O'Brien

A warm, witty tell-all and history of American regional theater, from one of our best-loved directors

For Jack O’Brien, there’s nothing like a first encounter with a great performer, nothing like the sound...

Paris France

by Gertrude Stein & Adam Gopnik

Matched only by Hemingway's A Moveable Feast, Paris France is a "fresh and sagacious" (The New Yorker) classic of prewar France and its unforgettable literary eminences.Celebrated for her innovative literary...

The Fabliaux

by Nathaniel E. Dubin & R. Howard Bloch

Bawdier than The Canterbury Tales, The Fabliaux is the first major English translation of the most scandalous and irreverent poetry in Western literature.Composed between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries,...

Five Classic Spenser Mysteries: A Catskill Eagle, Early Autumn, God Save the Child, the Godwulf Manuscript, Mortal Stakes

by Robert B. Parker

“Robert B. Parker has taken his place beside Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Ross Macdonald,” The Boston Globe once wrote. But over the course of a legendary literary career, Parker single-handedly...

That's Not Funny, That's Sick: The National Lampoon and the Comedy Insurgents Who Captured the Mainstream

by Ellin Stein

The untold story behind a revolution in American comedy.Labor Day, 1969. Two recent college graduates move to New York to edit a new magazine called The National Lampoon. Over the next decade, Henry Beard and...

Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950

by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore

"Remarkable . . . an eye-opening book [on] the freedom struggle that changed the South, the nation, and the world." -Washington PostThe civil rights movement that looms over the 1950s and 1960s was the tip of...

Across the Pond: An Englishman's View of America

by Terry Eagleton

"Terry Eagleton has a gift for the kind of generalizations that at first appear outrageous but seem, on reflection, annoyingly perceptive. Were I one of the expressive Americans he describes, I'd call this book...

Teaching STEM in the Early Years: Activities for Integrating Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics

by Sally Moomaw

Weave STEM activities into young children’s daily experiences for well-rounded learning.

Vocabulary for the Common Core

by Marzano Robert J & Simms Julia A.

The Common Core State Standards present unique demands on students' ability to learn vocabulary and teachers' ability to teach it. The authors address these challenges in this resource. Work toward the creation...