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"No sociologist now writing is able to capture and describe American manners and morals better than Alan Wolfe."-David Brooks

"A must for every armchair cosmic voyager."-Science News

In the final months of World War II, with the Allied forces streaming into Germany on two fronts, a major decision had to be made: where to draw a stop line to prevent an accidental clash between the Russian and the Anglo-American armies.

"Campo's gift is being able to describe the evolution of his manhood... fearlessly and with breathtaking honesty. He is truly a doctor of the soul."-Abraham Verghese

A time of tumult, your children's transition from high school to college can also be a time of growth. This book shows you how.

Here in her intense and beautiful fifth collection, Sandra Gilbert gathers the poems she wrote in memory of her husband's unexpected and inexplicable death.

Identity: Youth and Crisis collects Erik H. Erikson's major essays on topics originating in the concept of the adolescent identity crisis.

"Superb. . . . Rosovsky has written an important book-probing, wise, shrewd, fair. . . . Deserves to be widely read." -James O. Freeman, Washington Post

Time's Power is a new book by a major American poet, and a landmark in a distinguished ongoing career.

An illuminating portrait of the nation's earliest-and most passionate-advocate for the total separation of church and state.

Thoroughly updated to reflect the post-crisis, global, and digital economy.

In this book Walter Piston again displays those qualities that distinguished his earlier books, Harmony and Counterpoint.

"Frost was the first American who could be honestly reckoned a master-poet by world standards."-Robert Graves

"All the figures in this book...are irresistible comic manifestations."-The New Yorker

Anxiously embarking on her first teaching job, Lucy Winter arrives at a New England women's college and shortly finds herself in the thick of a crisis: she had discovered a dishonest act committed by a brilliant student who is a protegee of a powerful faculty member.

In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading authority on housing policy, explodes the myth that America's cities came to be racially divided through de facto segregation-that is, through individual prejudices, income differences, or the actions of private institutions like banks and real estate agencies. Rather, The Color of Law incontrovertibly makes clear that it was de jure segregation-the laws and policy decisions passed by local, state, and federal governments-that actually promoted the discriminatory patterns that continue to this day.Through extraordinary revelations and extensive research that Ta-Nehisi Coates has lauded as "brilliant" (The Atlantic), Rothstein comes to chronicle nothing less than an untold story that begins in the 1920s, showing how this process of de jure segregation began with explicit racial zoning, as millions of African Americans moved in a great historical migration from the south to the north.As Jane Jacobs established in her classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities, it was the deeply flawed urban planning of the 1950s that created many of the impoverished neighborhoods we know. Now, Rothstein expands our understanding of this history, showing how government policies led to the creation of officially segregated public housing and the demolition of previously integrated neighborhoods. While urban areas rapidly deteriorated, the great American suburbanization of the post-World War II years was spurred on by federal subsidies for builders on the condition that no homes be sold to African Americans. Finally, Rothstein shows how police and prosecutors brutally upheld these standards by supporting violent resistance to black families in white neighborhoods.The Fair Housing Act of 1968 prohibited future discrimination but did nothing to reverse residential patterns that had become deeply embedded. Yet recent outbursts of violence in cities like Baltimore, Ferguson, and Minneapolis show us precisely how the legacy of these earlier eras contributes to persistent racial unrest. "The American landscape will never look the same to readers of this important book" (Sherrilyn Ifill, president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund), as Rothstein's invaluable examination shows that only by relearning this history can we finally pave the way for the nation to remedy its unconstitutional past.

Helping readers focus on well-being and optimal functioning in many areas of life.

Step by step, learn powerful mindfulness-based techniques to feel happier and more alive.

"Latiolais is as close to Alice Munro as a writer can get, but with a more modern edge."-Los Angeles Times

Heralding the arrival of a profoundly moving new talent, Hold Still explores the weight of culpability and the depths and limits of a mother's love.

A ground-breaking historical work that explicates Thomas Jefferson's vision of himself, the American Revolution, Christianity, slavery and race.

This magesterial and thrilling history argues that the story of American mountaineering is the story of America itself.

The best-selling author of Naked Statistics takes us on a romp through the colourful world of monetary policy and history.

The true story of the greatest mystery of Arctic exploration-and the rare mix of marine science and Inuit knowledge that led to the shipwreck's recent discovery.

Haunting views of the early twentieth century's most significant events flank pictures of the last remnants of the premodern world.

This Norton Critical Edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne's most widely read novel appears during the bicentennial anniversary year of his birth.

The twenty-first-century revival of James Purdy continues with his classic novel of innocence and corruption.

"[S]o good that almost any novel you read immediately after it will seem at least a little bit posturing."-Jonathan Franzen