Abrams Press imprint: 299 books
by Philip Carr-Gomm, Richard Heygate
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
Through experiments to try and places to visit, as well as a historical exploration of magic and interviews with leading magicians, The Book of English Magic will introduce you to the extraordinary world that lies beneath the surface. Magic runs through the veins of English history, part of daily...
To Kill a Tiger
A Memoir of Korea
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2010
Against the backdrop of modern Korea's violent and tumultuous history, To Kill A Tiger is a searing portrait of a woman and a society in the midst of violent change. Drawing on Korean legend and myth, as well as an Asian woman's unique perspective on the United States, Lee weaves her compelling personal...
Yemen
The Unknown Arabia
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
This New York Times Notable Book is “a vigorous, humorous debut that paints a delightful portrait of a distant land” (Kirkus Reviews).
Yemen is arguably the most fascinating and least known country in the Arab world. Located at the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula, it has been long...
Drinking Water
A History (Revised Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
When we turn on the tap or twist open a tall plastic bottle, we probably don’t give a second thought about where our drinking water comes from. But how it gets from the ground to the glass is far more convoluted than we might think.In this revised edition of Drinking Water, Duke University professor...
When They Go Low, We Go High
Speeches That Shape the World and Why We Need Them
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
When First Lady Michelle Obama approached the podium at the 2016 Democratic National Convention, nobody could have predicted that her rousing and emotional “When they go low, we go high? speech would go on to become the motto for the political left and an anthem for opponents of oppression worldwide....
Scandinavians
In Search of the Soul of the North
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Scandinavia is the epitome of cool: we fill our homes with Nordic furniture; we envy their humane social welfare system and their healthy outdoor lifestyle; we glut ourselves on their crime fiction; even their strangely attractive melancholia seems to express a stoic, commonsensical acceptance of...
The Idea of Europe
An Essay
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
The Idea of Europe finds George Steiner reckoning with Europe from a number of different angles. “Europe,? he writes, “is the place where Goethe’s garden almost borders on Buchenwald, where the house of Corneille abuts on the market-place in which Joan of Arc was hideously done to death.? It...
Hans Christian Andersen
A New Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2006
“Andersen provides a fascinating backdrop for the life of the acclaimed fairy tale writer . . . a budding genius placed in the context of his time.” —Publishers Weekly
Hans Christian Andersen was a storyteller for children of all ages, but he was more than that. He was a critical journalist...
by David Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
The “gripping” true story of the founder of psychoanalysis—and how he made it out of Austria after the Nazi takeover (The Independent).
Sigmund Freud was not a practicing Jew, but that made no difference to the Nazis as they burned his books in the early 1930s. Goebbels and Himmler wanted...
Whisperers
The Secret History of the Spirit World
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
“From the hair-raising to the eyebrow-raising, this is a scintillating account of meetings with spirits through history” (Mark Booth, New York Times–bestselling author).
It may seem incredible, but as bestselling novelist and occult expert J.H. Brennan reveals in this eye-opening new...
Miss Julie
A Play
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
Against a glittering jazz-age backdrop, mistress of the house Julie and ambitious servant John face off in a gripping, night-long encounter. As the balance of power shifts often and dangerously—-sometimes with exquisite subtlety, sometimes stark brutality-—LaBute masterfully reinterprets Strindberg’s...
Reporting America
The Life of the Nation 1946–2004
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Over fifty years of reportage from one of the twentieth-century’s greatest broadcasters, showcasing his “masterly discursive approach and splendid humor” (The Independent).
Reporting America is a fascinating account of history in the making. His beloved radio show, Letter From America, saw...
David & Winston
How the Friendship Between Lloyd George and Churchill Changed the Course of History
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2008
Both were outsiders. Neither attended university. Above all, both loved political sparring—often together, in the epic parliamentary battles of the start of the century. Theirs was a deeply personal friendship. Their real shared passion, however, was politics. For ten years between 1904 and 1914...
Our Woman in Havana
A Diplomat's Chronicle of America's Long Struggle with Castro's Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Our Woman in Havana chronicles the past several decades of US-Cuba relations from the bird’s-eye view of State Department veteran and longtime Cuba hand Vicki Huddleston, our top diplomat in Havana under Presidents Clinton and George W. Bush.After the US embassy in Havana was closed in 1961, relations...