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In the spirit of Dr. Strangelove and The Atomic Café, a blackly sardonic people's history of atomic blunders and near-misses revealing the hushed-up and forgotten episodes in which the great powers gambled with catastropheRudolph Herzog, the acclaimed author of Dead Funny, presents a devastating account of history's most irresponsible uses of nuclear technology. From the rarely-discussed nightmare of "Broken Arrows" (40 nuclear weapons lost du...

Wolf Haas is the real deal, and his arrival on the American book scene is long overdue." -Carl HiaasenTHE FIRST INSPECTOR BRENNER NOVELThe darkly comic book that launched the bestselling series . . .Wolf Haas is firmly established as one of the world's bestselling crime novelists. And now the novel that introduced Simon Brenner, Haas's inimitable protagonist-a detective who always gets where he's going, but never the way anyone else would-is a...

Understanding North Korea through its propaganda: A newly revised and updated edition that includes a consideration of Kim Jung Il's successor, Kim Jong-Un What do the North Koreans really believe? How do they see themselves and the world around them? Here B.R. Myers, a North Korea analyst and a contributing editor of The Atlantic, presents the first full-length study of the North Korean worldview. Drawing on extensive research into the regime...

The best biography of Lord Byron ever written, " according to Poet Laureate W. S. Merwin, is now back in print after decades.Of the hundreds of books on Byron and his work, not one has been devoted to the immediate aftermath of his life, and yet it is these first twenty posthumous years that yield the most unexpected and exciting discoveries about the character of the poet and the behavior of those who once surrounded him-wife, sister, friends...

Against all expectations Marcel Féron has made a "normal" life in a bucolic French suburb in the Ardennes. But on May 10, 1940, as Nazi tanks approach, this timid, happy man must abandon his home and confront the "Fate" that he has secretly awaited. Separated from his pregnant wife and young daughter in the chaos of flight, he joins a freight car of refugees hurtling southward ahead of the pursuing invaders. There, he meets Anna, a sad-looking...

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With death looming, Jacques Derrida, the world's most famous philosopher-known as the father of "deconstruction"-sat down with journalist Jean Birnbaum of the French daily "Le Monde." They revisited his life's work and his impending death in a long, surprisingly accessible, and moving final interview. Sometimes called "obscure" and branded "abstruse" by his critics, the Derrida found in this book is open and engaging, reflecting on a long car...

A wicked satire about the chaos that results when there's a rule for everything.In the over-legislated world of this outrageous black comedy, a death-row inmate becomes a darling of the media - and the tobacco conglomerates - after he demands his right to a final cigarette . . . in a smoke-free prison. Meanwhile, a little girl accuses a petty municipal bureaucrat of sexual perversion when she catches him sneaking a cigarette. Incredulously, he...

An important work of early Modernism--long unavailable in America--now in a stunning new translation Hailed by Jean Cocteau as a "masterpiece, " and by the Guardian as "Bret Easton Ellis's "Less Than Zero, " " avant la lettre, " this taut tale written by a teenager in the form of a frank "confession" is a gem of early twentieth century romanticism. Set in Paris during the first World War, it tells the story of Francois, the 16-year-old narrato...

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100 delightful excursions into the uses and abuses of words"--Cover.

First published in 1930, this is the vegetarian equivalent of the iconic "Silver Spoon" (published in the 1950s). Quite simply, this is a massive compendium of vegetarian recipes from Italy and around the world. The brainchild of Enrico Alliata, the Duke of Salaparuta, this book contains over 1000 recipes. Though much Italian fare is naturally vegetarian, the Duke worked tirelessly to remove meat from classic Italian dishes. All recipes have b...

A new collection of short stories from the co-author of "Double Down".

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