Abrams imprint: 1041 books
by Matt Zoller Seitz
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Wes Anderson is one of the most influential voices from the past two decades of American cinema. A true auteur, Anderson is known for the visual artistry, inimitable tone, and idiosyncratic characterizations that make each of his filmsBottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic...
The Christians
A Play
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Pastor Paul does not believe in Hell, and today, he's going to preach a sermon that finally says what he really believes. He thinks all the people in his church are going be happy to hear what he has to say. He's wrong.
Flowers for Lisa
A Delirium of Photographic Invention
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
Best known for his surreal camera obscura pictures and luminous black-and-white photographs of books, photographer Abelardo Morell now turns his transformative lens to one of the most common of artistic subjects, the flower. The concept for Flowers for Lisa emerged when Morell gave his wife, Lisa,...
by Lawrence Weschler, Cris Scorza
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Award-winning author Lawrence Weschler’s book on the young Mexican American artist Ramiro Gomez explores questions of social equity and the chasms between cultures and classes in America.
Gomez, born in 1986 in San Bernardino, California, to undocumented Mexican immigrant parents, bridges the...
Godforsaken Grapes
A Slightly Tipsy Journey through the World of Strange, Obscure, and Underappreciated Wine
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
There are nearly 1,400 known varieties of wine grapes in the world—from altesse to zierfandler—but 80 percent of the wine we drink is made from only 20 grapes. In Godforsaken Grapes, Jason Wilson looks at how that came to be and embarks on a journey to discover what we miss.
Stemming from...
The Cider Revival
Dispatches from the Orchard
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2019
Cider is having a major moment, and The Cider Revival charts its history, resurgence, and a year with the vanguard makers of heritage cider
Cider is the quintessential American beverage. Drank by early settlers and founding fathers, it was ubiquitous and pervasive, but following Prohibition...
Amy Herzog's Ultimate Sweater Book
The Essential Guide for Adventurous Knitters
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
Yarn and fiber enthusiasts everywhere will celebrate the latest addition to Amy Herzog’s beloved knitting series (which includes You Can Knit That, Knit to Flatter, and Knit Wear Love). This essential guide details every aspect of sweater knitting, starting with instructions for four basic sweater...
Identically Different
Why We Can Change Our Genes
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
In this book, a geneticist who studies identical twins “treats the view that genes are destiny with skepticism” (The New York Times).
How much are the things you choose to do every day determined by your genes and how much is your own free will? Drawing on his own cutting-edge research of identical...
A Mango in the Hand
A Story Told Through Proverbs
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Francisco is finally old enough to journey to the mango grove all by himself to gather the mangoes for a special dinner. But bees swarm the fruit, and Francisco has trouble picking them from the tree. He returns to his father several times, and each time his father shares a different proverb to inspire...
Russian Symbolist Theater
An Anthology of Plays and Critical Texts
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Although by writers better known for their verse and narrative prose, the plays of the Symbolists were not intended, like the dramatic poems of the Romantics, for the study rather than the stage. Instead, they are highly theatrical creations in a new style that demanded a new style of production....
by Rene Daumal
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
For this early 20th century French poet-philosopher, life, in its most dynamic sense, can only be experienced after the facade of self-identity has been systematically negated through a kind of metaphysical suicide. In Le Contre-Ciel, Daumal invites us, his readers, to go through this process of regeneration-through-negation...
The New Paris
The People, Places & Ideas Fueling a Movement
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
The city long-adored for its medieval beauty, old-timey brasseries, and corner cafés has even more to offer today. In the last few years, a flood of new ideas and creative locals has infused a once-static, traditional city with a new open-minded sensibility and energy. Journalist Lindsey Tramuta...
The Ring of Truth
The Wisdom of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Richard Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung is one of the greatest works of art created in modern times, and has fascinated both critics and devotees for over a century and a half. No recent study has examined the meaning of Wagner's masterpiece with the attention to detail and intellectual power that...
Vietnam: The Real War
A Photographic History by the Associated Press
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
To cover the Vietnam War, the Associated Press gathered an extraordinary group of superb photojournalists in its Saigon bureau, creating one of the great photographic legacies of the 20th century. Collected here are images that tell the story of the war that left a deep and lasting impression on American...