Already under fire for publishing the literary avant-garde into a world not ready for it, Margaret C. Anderson’s cutting-edge magazine The Little Review was a bastion of progressive politics and boundary-pushing writing from then-unknowns like T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, William Butler Yeats, and Djuna Barnes. And as its publisher, Anderson was a target. From Chicago to New York and Paris, this fearless agitator helmed a woman-led publication that pushed...

"Whether you want to stroll through the Mong Kok Markets, indulge in nightlife in Lan Kwai Fong, or visit Taoist and Buddhist temples, the local Fodor’s travel experts in Hong Kong are here to help! Fodor’s Hong Kong guidebook is packed with maps, carefully curated recommendations, and everything else you need to simplify your trip-planning process and make the most of your time. This new edition has been fully-redesigned with an easy-to-read...

"The Norse concept of the natural world in which animals and supernatural creatures of various types often played key roles in their daily lives. The Norse employed an array of non-human creatures to help demystify and better understand the natural forces that surrounded them"-- Provided by publisher.

"A high school-level exploration of the life, poetry, and prose of 19th-century American poet and writer Walt Whitman, whose literary work is known for its passionate celebration of American life and its direct, speechlike style"-- Provided by publisher.

"A high school-level exploration of the life and poetry of 19th-century American poet Emily Dickinson, whose literary work is known for its emotional depth as well as its unconventional rhythms and structure"-- Provided by publisher.

"A tiny ad in a local newspaper catches Cédric Sapin-Defour's eye: a litter of Bernese Mountain Dog puppies need homes. A lonely, single, gym teacher and mountain climber in the French Alps, Cédric visits the dogs and immediately falls for the puppy with a blue collar who steps over his siblings to get to him. Named Ubac for the north side of the mountain -- the rainy, cloudy slope -- the puppy upends Cédric's life. They go on hikes together, taking...

"A sharp, tender, sweeping history of three single Black mothers-the author's grandmother, mother, and the author herself-interwoven with the stories of the Black women they saw on the screen and heard on the radio every day. Here is a masterpiece of life writing by a thrilling new voice, a writer who will remake how we think of generations. We begin in a house along a bayou in Texas, a home bought and paid for-and run-by the author's grandmother....

"One August day, months after the fallout of her marriage, a heart-shaped cake tin fell at Bee Wilson's feet. Not just any cake tin-the one she had used to bake her wedding cake twenty-three years ago. This sudden discovery strikes a wave of emotion that will steer her on a sprawling exploration of kitchen objects and our emotional responses to them. Wilson finds others who have also invested objects with strong meanings and emotions, discovering...

"Americans have always fought over the meaning of freedom and equality. What is not commonly recognized is that these battles, from the framing of the Constitution to the decades-long backlash to the civil rights movement, have largely revolved around one issue-taxes. In The Price of Democracy, Vanessa S. Williamson challenges the myth that Americans are instinctively anti-tax, revealing that fights over taxes have always been proxies for deeper conflicts...

"Twenty years ago, when John McPhee began his journeys back and forth across the United States, he planned to describe a cross-section of North America at about the fortieth parallel and, in the process, come to an understanding not only of the science but of the style of the geologists he traveled with." "Like the terrain it covers, Annals of the Former World tells a many-layered tale, and the reader may choose one of many paths through it, guided...