Hill And Wang imprint: 184 books
Malcolm X
A Graphic Biography
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2006
The age of multitasking needs better narrative history. It must be absolutely factual, immediately accessible, smart, and brilliantly fun. Enter Andrew Helfer, the award-winning graphic-novel editor behind Road to Perdition and The History of Violence, and welcome the launch of a unique line of graphic...
Sisters
The Lives of America's Suffragists
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2006
How the Personal Became Political In the Fight to Grant Women Civil Rights
They forever changed America: Lucy Stone, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frances Willard, Alice Paul. At their revolution's start in the 1840s, a woman's right to speak in public was questioned. By its conclusion...
To Tell the Truth Freely
The Life of Ida B. Wells
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2010
Born to slaves in 1862, Ida B. Wells became a fearless antilynching crusader, women's rights advocate, and journalist. Wells's refusal to accept any compromise on racial inequality caused her to be labeled a "dangerous radical" in her day but made her a model for later civil rights activists...
Margaret Sanger
A Life of Passion
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Undoubtedly the most influential advocate for birth control even before the term existed, Margaret Sanger ignited a movement that has shaped our society to this day. Her views on reproductive rights have made her a frequent target of conservatives and so-called family values activists. Yet lately...
Clarence Darrow
American Iconoclast
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
Clarence Darrow is best remembered for his individual cases, whether defending the thrill killers Leopold and Loeb or John Scopes's right to teach evolution in the classroom. In the first full-length biography of Darrow in decades, the historian Andrew E. Kersten narrates the complete life of America's...
As China Goes, So Goes the World
How Chinese Consumers Are Transforming Everything
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
In this revelatory examination of the most overlooked force that is changing the face of China, the Oxford historian and scholar of modern Asia Karl Gerth shows that as the Chinese consumer goes, so goes the world. While Americans and Europeans have become increasingly worried about China's competition...
Fortune's Formula
The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
In 1956, two Bell Labs scientists discovered the scientific formula for getting rich. One was mathematician Claude Shannon, neurotic father of our digital age, whose genius is ranked with Einstein's. The other was John L. Kelly Jr., a Texas-born, gun-toting physicist. Together they applied the science...
Beyond Oil
The View from Hubbert's Peak
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2006
"This book explains both why the decline of our most precious fuel is inevitable and how challenging it will be to cope with what comes next."—Richard E. Smalley, University Professor, Rice University, and 1996 Nobel laureate
With world oil production about to peak and inexorably...
Priceless
The Myth of Fair Value (and How to Take Advantage of It)
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Prada stores carry a few obscenely expensive items in order to boost sales for everything else (which look like bargains in comparison). People used to download music for free, then Steve Jobs convinced them to pay. How? By charging 99 cents. That price has a hypnotic effect: the profit margin of...
Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery"
The Authorized Graphic Adaptation
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Winner of the 2017 Solliès Comics Festival's Best Adult Graphic Novel
The classic short story--now in full color
Shirley Jackson’s short story “The Lottery” continues to thrill and unsettle readers nearly seven decades after it was first published. By turns puzzling and harrowing,...
by Michael F. Patton, Kevin Cannon
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
Philosophy like you've never seen it before
The latest in the celebrated Cartoon Introduction series, The Cartoon Introduction to Philosophy is an authoritative and engaging guide to the fundamental questions about our existence. In this indispensable primer, Kevin Cannon—one of the talented...
After We Kill You, We Will Welcome You Back as Honored Guests
Unembedded in Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
An unflinching account—in words and pictures—of America's longest war by our most outspoken graphic journalist
Ted Rall traveled deep into Afghanistan—without embedding himself with U.S. soldiers, without insulating himself with flak jackets and armored SUVs—where no one else would...
The Cartoon Introduction to Economics
Volume Two: Macroeconomics
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Need to understand today's economy? This is the book for you. The Cartoon Introduction to Economics, Volume Two: Macroeconomics is the most accessible, intelligible, and humorous introduction to unemployment, inflation, and debt you'll ever read.
Whereas Volume One: Microeconomics dealt with...
Moonbound
Apollo 11 and the Dream of Spaceflight
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
On a summer night in 1969, two men climbed down a ladder onto a sea of dust at the edge of an ancient dream. When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin first set foot on lunar soil, the moon ceased to be a place of mystery and myth. It became a destination.
Now, on the fiftieth anniversary of that...