Anchor imprint: 1481 books
The Seventh Heaven
Supernatural Tales
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2010
Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz draws on his homeland’s rich engagement with the afterlife–and his own near-death experience at the hands of a would-be assassin–in these newly translated, brilliantly mysterious stories of the supernatural.
Among those who haunt these tales are...
Labyrinths of Reason
Paradox, Puzzles, and the Frailty of Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2011
This sharply intelligent, consistently provocative book takes the reader on an astonishing, thought-provoking voyage into the realm of delightful uncertainty--a world of paradox in which logical argument leads to contradiction and common sense is seemingly rendered irrelevant.
Dire Cartographies
The Roads to Ustopia and The Handmaid's Tale
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
In honor of the thirtieth anniversary of The Handmaid’s Tale: Margaret Atwood describes how she came to write her utopian, dystopian works.
The word “utopia” comes from Thomas More’s book of the same name—meaning “no place” or “good place,” or both. In “Dire Cartographies,”...
by Plato
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2012
A compilation of the essential works of Plato in one paperback volume: The Republic, The Symposium, Parmenides, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, and Phaedo.
The Empiricists
Locke: Concerning Human Understanding; Berkeley: Principles of Human Knowledge & 3 Dialogues; Hume: Concerning Human Understanding & Concerning Natural Religio
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
The rise and fall of British Empiricism is philosophy's most dramatic example of pushing premises to their logical--and fatal--conclusions. Born in 1690 with the appearance of Locke's Essay, Empiricism flourished as the reigning school until 1739 when Hume's Treatise strangled it with its own cinctures...
Social and Political Philosophy
Readings From Plato to Gandhi
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012
An anthology of basic statements by the most influential social and political philosophers of Western civilization. Includes Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Jefferson, Thoreau, Mill, Marx and Engels, Lenin, Mussolini, Hitler, Dewey, and Gandhi.
Reflections on the Revolution In Europe
Immigration, Islam, and the West
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2009
In light of cultural crises such as the Danish cartoon controversy and the terrorist attack on the Charlie Hebdo newspaper in Paris, Christopher Caldwell’s incisive perspective has never been more timely or indispensible. Reflections on the Revolution in Europe is destined to become the classic...
The Geopolitics of Emotion
How Cultures of Fear, Humiliation, and Hope are Reshaping the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
In the first book to investigate the far-reaching emotional impact of globalization, Dominique Moïsi shows how the geopolitics of today is characterized by a “clash of emotions.” The West, he argues, is dominated and divided by fear. For Muslims and Arabs, a culture of humiliation is quickly...
Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea
Why the Greeks Matter
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2010
In Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea, his fourth volume to explore “the hinges of history,” Thomas Cahill escorts the reader on another entertaining—and historically unassailable—journey through the landmarks of art and bloodshed that defined Greek culture nearly three millennia ago.
In the...
The Prince of Risk
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
**At the crossroads of high finance and international terrorism, a New York hedge-fund manager searches for the truth behind his father’s murder.
The master of the financial thriller returns.
“Christopher Reich is a superstar.”—Lee Child**
Bobby Astor is a fearless New...
Eugene McCarthy
The Rise and Fall of Postwar American Liberalism
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Eugene McCarthy was one of the most fascinating political figures of the postwar era: a committed liberal anti-Communist who broke with his party’s leadership over Vietnam and ultimately helped take down the political giant Lyndon B. Johnson. His presidential candidacy in 1968 seized the hearts...
Legacy of Ashes
The History of the CIA
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2008
With shocking revelations that made headlines in papers across the country, Pulitzer-Prize-winner Tim Weiner gets at the truth behind the CIA and uncovers here why nearly every CIA Director has left the agency in worse shape than when he found it; and how these profound failures jeopardize our national security.
The Dark Side
The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2009
The Dark Side is a dramatic, riveting, and definitive narrative account of how the United States made self-destructive decisions in the pursuit of terrorists around the world—decisions that not only violated the Constitution, but also hampered the pursuit of Al Qaeda. In spellbinding detail, Jane...
A Pretext for War
9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2005
A Pretext for War reveals the systematic weaknesses behind the failure to detect or prevent the 9/11 attacks, and details the Bush administration’s subsequent misuse of intelligence to sell preemptive war to the American people. Filled with unprecedented revelations, from the sites of “undisclosed...