Knopf imprint: 1739 books
In the Name of Eugenics
Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
Daniel Kevles traces the study and practice of eugenics--the science of "improving" the human species by exploiting theories of heredity--from its inception in the late nineteenth century to its most recent manifestation within the field of genetic engineering. It is rich in narrative, anecdote,...
by Andrew Weil, M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2006
One of America's most brilliant and respected doctors gives us his famous program for improving and maintaining health—already the program of choice for hundreds of thousands.
Eight Weeks to Optimum Health focuses all of Andrew Weil's expertise in both conventional and alternative medicine...
by Christine Stansell
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
In this brilliant and vivid study of life in New York City during the years between the creation of the republic and the Civil War, a distinguished historian explores the position of men and women in both the poor and middle classes, the conflict between women of the laboring poor and those of the...
Stanton
Life And Times of Lincoln's Secretary of War
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
At the time of his death, renowned Lincoln biographer Benjamin Thomas was at work on a life of one of the most controversial figures in American history: Edwin McMasters Stanton, the man who marshaled the military forces of the Union in the Civil War and played a crucial role in the only presidential...
The Unwanted
America, Auschwitz, and a Village Caught In Between
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
**Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, a riveting story of Jewish families seeking to escape Nazi Germany
"What's most chilling about Dobbs's book is how his account of the early years of World War II echoes our politics today. Xenophobia, isolationism,...
Jesus, Jobs, and Justice
African American Women and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2010
“The Negroes must have Jesus, Jobs, and Justice,” declared Nannie Helen Burroughs, a nationally known figure among black and white leaders and an architect of the Woman’s Convention of the National Baptist Convention. Burroughs made this statement about the black women’s agenda in 1958, as...
Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom
China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
A gripping account of China’s nineteenth-century Taiping Rebellion, one of the largest civil wars in history. Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom brims with unforgettable characters and vivid re-creations of massive and often gruesome battles—a sweeping yet intimate portrait of the conflict that shaped...
by Kathy Santo
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2010
Whether you have a puppy or an adult dog, a home- or sleep-wrecker (or both), whether your dog has ingrained bad manners or simply hasn’t learned any good ones yet–Kathy Santo shines a light into the dark bedlam of life with an unruly dog. The secret of her ebullient and innovative guide to training:...
Slaying Goliath
The Passionate Resistance to Privatization and the Fight to Save America's Public Schools
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2020
From one of the foremost authorities on education and the history of education in the United States, "whistleblower extraordinaire" (The Wall Street Journal), former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education, author of the best-selling Reign of Error ("fearless"--Jonathan Kozol, NYRB)--an impassioned,...
by Richard Hofstadter
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
With eyewitness accounts and contemporary reports—linked together by succinct analytical commentaries—Richard Hofstadter and his young collaborator, Michael Wallace, have created a superb documentary reader that is, in effect, a history of violence in America through four centuries.
Here, as experienced...
by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Every generation of college students, no matter how different from its predecessor, has been an enigma to faculty and administration, to parents, and to society in general. Watching today’s students “holding themselves in because they had to get A’s not only on tests but on deans’ reports...
Until the End of Time
Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2020
From the world-renowned physicist, cofounder of the World Science Festival, and best-selling author of The Elegant Universe comes this utterly captivating exploration of deep time and humanity's search for purpose.
Brian Greene takes readers on a breathtaking journey from the big bang to the...
Life Is Meals
A Food Lover's Book of Days
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
From the PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author James Salter and his wife, Kay—amateur chefs and perfect hosts—here is a charming, beautifully illustrated tour de table: a food lover's companion that, with an entry for each day of the year, takes us from a Twelfth Night cake in January to a champagne...
by Helen Hoover
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
This is a book that takes us inside the Hoovers’ wilderness home during those sixteen Years of the Forest and lets us experience not only the joys and the techniques but also the challenges and travails of going it alone in the beautiful but not always accommodating wilderness, far from the technology...