Boston played a crucial role in the development of American photography in the second half of the twentieth century. This book accompanies a landmark exhibition at the DeCordova Museum that includes such artists as Berenice Abbott, Harry Callahan, Paul Caponigro, Marie Cosindas, Harold Edgerton, Nan Goldin, Jerome Liebling, and others.

Brilliantly weaving together multiple narrative lines and a wealth of historic detail, Great Fortune is a vast tapestry of New York in its first flush of world-dominating wealth and power.

Discussing personal views on the evolution of the human species, the author of People of the Lake relates the distinctions that set humans apart from apes and explains how and why we developed social and cultural organizations.

A magical novel about loneliness, love, and the profound connection between mother and daughter, Eva Moves the Furniture fuses the simplicity of a fairy tale with the complexity of adult passions.

We have first edition, first printing editions of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize winner - the astonishing tale of a gene that passes down through three generations of a Greek-American family and flowers in the body of a teenage girl.

These fifteen essays take as their points of departure such approaches as deconstruction, feminism, critical theory, hermeneutics, pragmatism, and psychoanalysis, as well as phenomenology and existentialism.

The world-renowned epidemiologist Devra Davis confronts the public triumphs and private failures of her lifelong battle against environmental pollution. By turns impassioned and analytic, she documents the shocking toll of a public-health disaster -- 300,000 deaths a year in the U.S. and Europe from the effects of pollution -- and asks why we remain silent.

This is the stunning new collection of twelve stories by Lorrie Moore, one of our finest authors at work today. With her characteristic wit and piercing intelligence she unfolds a series of portraits of the lost and unsettled of America; her trademark humor fuels each story with heartbreaking pathos and warm understanding.