Scott Schuman just wanted to take photographs of people that he met on the streets of New York who he felt looked great. His now-famous and much-loved blog, thesartorialist.com, is his showcase for the wonderful and varied sartorial tastes of real people across the globe. This book is a beautiful anthology of Scott ’s favorite images, accompanied by his insightful commentary. It includes photographs of well-known fashion figures alongside people encountered on the street whose personal style and taste demand a closer look. From the streets of New York to the parks of Florence, from Stockholm to Paris, from London to Moscow and Milan, these are the men and women who have inspired Scott and the many diverse and fashionable readers of his blog. After fifteen years in the fashion business, Scott Schuman felt a growing disconnect between what he saw on the runways and in magazines, and what real people were wearing. The Sartorialist was his attempt to redress the balance. Since its beginning, the b

This selection covers the full range of Kipling's shortstories throughout his career, with the subject matter ranging fromthe Indian to the occult and from animals to domestic comedy.

The first three books in von Ziegesar's Gossip Girls series are packaged together in this paperback boxed set. Includes "Gossip Girl, You Know You Love Me," and "All I Want Is Everything."

For over fifty years, Eudora Welty and William Maxwell, two ofour most admired writers, penned letters to each other. They sharedtheir worries about work and family, literary opinions andscuttlebutt, moments of despair and hilarity. Living half acontinent apart, their friendship was nourished and maintained bytheir correspondence. "What There Is to Say We Have Said" bearswitness to Welty and Maxwell's editorial relationships - both inhis capacity as New Yorker editor and in their collegial back-andforth on their work. It's also a chronicle of the literary world ofthe time; read talk of James Thurber, William Shawn, Katherine AnnePorter, J. D. Salinger, Isak Dinesen, William Faulkner, JohnUpdike, Virginia Woolf, Walker Percy, Ford Madox Ford, JohnCheever, and many more. It is a treasure trove of readingrecommendations.

As a young man Frank Oppenheimer followed in his famousbrothers footstepsgrowing up in a privileged Manhattan household,becoming a physicist, working on the atomic bomb. Tragically, Frankand Robert both had their careers destroyed by the Red Scare. Buttheir paths diverged. While Robert died an almost ruined man, Frankcame into his own, emerging from ten years of exile on a Coloradoranch to create not just a multimillion dollar institution but alsoa revolution that was felt all over the world. His Exploratoriumwas a "museum of human awareness" that combined art and sciencewhile it encouraged play, experimentation, and a sense of joy andwonder; its success inspired a transformation in museums around theglobe. In many ways it was Franks answer to the atom bomb. K. C.Colea friend and colleague of Franks for many yearshas drawn fromletters, documents, and extensive interviews to write a verypersonal story of the man whose irrepressible spirit would inspireso many.

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) One of the most popular Americanwriters of the twentieth century, Dashiell Hammett gave us crimefiction stripped down to its most subtle and searing essentialsand, at the same time, elevated to literature. The diamond-sharpprose and artfully manipulated intrigue for which he is known areon full display in the four classic short stories and two rivetingnovels published here in one volume. The Continental Op, Hammett'sanonymous antihero, was the indelible prototype for generations oftough-guy detectives. Single-minded, emotionally detached, anddecidedly unglamorous, he narrates the four linked storiescollected here--"The House in Turk Street," "The Girl with theSilver Eyes," "The Big Knockover," and "$106,000 Blood Money." InTHE DAIN CURSE, the Continental Op takes on his most bizarre case,that of a wealthy young woman who appears to be the victim of adeadly family curse. And THE GLASS KEY--Hammett's own favoriteamong his works--features his most cynical and morally ambiguoushero

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award, TheSoul of a New Machine was a bestseller on its first publication in1981. With the touch of an expert thriller writer, Tracy Kidderrecounts the feverish efforts of a team of Data General researchersto create a new 32-bit superminicomputer. A compelling account ofindividual sacrifice and human ingenuity, The Soul of a New Machineendures as the classic chronicle of the computer age and themasterminds behind its technological advances. "A superb book," said Robert Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art ofMotorcycle Maintenance. "All the incredible complexity and chaosand exploitation and loneliness and strange, half-mad beauty ofthis field are honestly and correctly drawn." The Washington PostBook World said, "Kidder has created compelling entertainment. Heoffers a fast, painless, enjoyable means to an initialunderstanding of computers, allowing us to understand thecomplexity of machines we could only marvel at before, and toappreciate the skills

From the acclaimed author of Conquistador comes this thrillingaccount of one of history’s greatest adventures of discovery. Withcinematic immediacy and meticulous attention to historical detail,here is the true story of a legendary sixteenth-century explorerand his death-defying navigation of the Amazon—river of darkness,pathway to gold. In 1541, the brutal conquistador Gonzalo Pizarro and hiswell-born lieutenant Francisco Orellana set off from Quito insearch of La Canela, South America’s rumored Land of Cinnamon, andthe fabled El Dorado, “the golden man.” Driving an enormous retinueof mercenaries, enslaved natives, horses, hunting dogs, and otheranimals across the Andes, they watched their proud expedition beginto disintegrate even before they descended into the nightmarishjungle, following the course of a powerful river. Soon hopelesslylost in the swampy labyrinth, their numbers diminishing dailythrough disease, starvation, and Indian attacks, Pizarro andOrellana made a fateful decisi

The Spartans is a compelling narrative that explores theculture and civilization of the most famous "warrior people": theSpartans of ancient Greece, by the world's leading expert in thefield. Sparta has often been described as the original Utopia--aremarkably evolved society whose warrior heroes were forbidden anyother trade, profession, or business. As a people, the Spartanswere the living exemplars of such core values as duty, discipline,the nobility of arms in a cause worth dying for, sacrificing theindividual for the greater good of the community (illustrated bytheir role in the battle of Thermopylae), and the triumph of willover seemingly insuperable obstacles--qualities that today arefrequently believed to signify the ultimate heroism. Paul Cartledgeis the distinguished scholar and historian who has long been seenas the leading international authority on ancient Sparta. He tracesthe evolution of Spartan society--the culture and the people, aswell as the tremendous influence they had on their worl

An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaurDNA has been discovered. Creatures once extinct now roam JurassicPark, soon-to-be opened as a theme park. Until something goeswrong...and science proves a dangeroustoy...."Wonderful...Powerful."THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD "Fromthe Paperback edition."

Daniel Johnson -- journalist, editor, scholar, and chessenthusiast who once played Garry Kasparov to a draw in asimultaneous exhibition -- is the perfect guide to one of history'smost remarkable periods, when chess matches were front-page newsand captured the world's imagination. The Cold War played out inmany areas: geopolitical alliances, military coalitions,cat-and-mouse espionage, the arms race, proxy wars -- and chess. Anessential pastime of Russian intellectuals and revolutionaries, andlater adopted by the Communists as a symbol of Soviet power, chesswas inextricably linked to the rise and fall of the "evil empire."This original narrative history recounts in gripping detail thesingular part the Immortal Game played in the Cold War. Fromchess's role in the Russian Revolution -- Marx, Lenin, and Trotskywere all avid players -- to the 1945 radio match when the Sovietscrushed the Americans, prompting Stalin's telegram "Well donelads!"; to the epic contest between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spasskyin 197

Philip Schultz, winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for poetry,has been celebrated for his singular vision of the Americanimmigrant experience and Jewish identity, his alternately fierceand tender portrayal of family life, and his rich and riotousevocation of city streets. His poems have found enthusiasticaudiences among readers of Garrison Keillor's "Writer's Almanac,""Slate," "The New Yorker," and other publications. His willingnessto face down the demons of failure and loss, in his previous bookparticularly, make him a poet for our times, a poet who can write"If I have to believe in something, I believe in despair." Yet heremains oddly undaunted: "sometimes, late at night, we, myhappiness and I, reminisce, lifelong antagonists enjoying eachother's company.""The God of Loneliness," a major collection ofSchultz's work, includes poems from his five books ("Like Wings,""Deep Within the Ravine," "The Holy Worm of Praise," "Living in thePast," "Failure") and fourteen new poems. It is a volume tocherish, fro

Alan Lee, the Oscar-winning conceptual designer for the Lordof the Rings movie trilogy, discusses his approach to depictingTolkien's imaginary world. The book presents more than 150 of Lee'scelebrated illustrations to show how his imagery for both theillustrated Lord of the Rings and the films progressed from conceptto finished art. In addition, the book contains 20 full-colorplates and numerous examples of the conceptual art produced forPeter Jackson's film adaptation. The Lord of the Rings Sketchbookprovides a wealth of background information and will be of interestto those who know and love Tolkien's work, from books to films toDVDs, as well as to budding artists and illustrators interested inhow to approach book illustration.

Dubbed "the American Tolkien" by "Time" magazine, #1 "New YorkTimes" bestselling author George R.R. Martin is a giant in thefield of fantasy literature and one of the most excitingstorytellers of our time. Now he delivers a rare treat for readers:a compendium of his shorter works, collected into two stunningvolumes, that offer fascinating insight into his journey from youngwriter to award-winning master. Gathered here, in Volume I, are thevery best of George R.R. Martin's early works, includingnever-before-published fan pieces, his Hugo, Nebula, and BramStoker Award-winning stories--plus the original novella "The IceDragon, "from which Martin's "New York Times" bestsellingchildren's book of the same title originated. A dazzling array thatfeatures extensive author commentary, Dreamsongs, Volume I," " isthe perfect collection for both Martin devotees and a newgeneration of fans.

The Tin Drum, one of the great novels of the twentiethcentury, was published in Ralph Manheim's outstanding translationin 1959. It became a runaway bestseller and catapulted its youngauthor to the forefront of world literature. To mark the fiftiethanniversary of the original publication, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,along with Grass's publishers all over the world, is bringing out anew translation of this classic novel. Breon Mitchell, acclaimedtranslator and scholar, has drawn from many sources: from a wealthof detailed scholarship; from a wide range of newly-availablereference works; and from the author himself. The result is atranslation that is more faithful to Grass's style and rhythm,restores omissions, and reflects more fully the complexity of theoriginal work. After fifty years, THE TIN DRUM has, if anything,gained in power and relevance. All of Grass's amazing evocationsare still there, and still amazing: Oskar Matzerath, theindomitable drummer; his grandmother, Anna Koljaiczek; his mother,Agnes;

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Franz Kafka's imagination so faroutstripped the forms and conventions of the literary tradition heinherited that he was forced to turn that tradition inside out inorder to tell his splendid, mysterious tales. Scrupulouslynaturalistic on the surface, uncanny in their depths, these storiesrepresent the achieved art of a modern master who had the gift ofmaking our problematic spiritual life palpable and real. Thisedition of his stories includes all his available shorter fictionin a collection edited, arranged, and introduced by GabrielJosipovici in ways that bring out the writer's extraordinary rangeand intensity of vision. Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir

The writer, naturalist, and artist David Carroll illuminatesthe ecology and life histories the tree frogs, hawks, foxes, andthe increasingly rare wood and spotted turtles he has been trackingfor decades with the precision and passion that won him a 2006MacArthur "genius" award. "Following theWater "is the intenselyobserved chronicle of Carroll's annual March-to-November wetlandsimmersion--from the joy of the first turtle sighting in March tothe gorgeously described, vibrant trilling of tree frogs ("lichenwith eyes") in late May to the ancient sense of love and lossCarroll experiences each autumn when it is time once again to partwith open water. Illustrated with the author's fine pen-and-inkdrawings, "Following theWater "is a gorgeous evocation of nature,an utterly unique "admission ticket to a secret corner of theworld" (Bill McKibben).