Pantheon imprint: 214 books
by Richard A. Posner
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009
A concise, lively, and bracing exploration of an issue bedeviling our cultural landscape–plagiarism in literature, academia, music, art, and film–by one of our most influential and controversial legal scholars. Best-selling novelists J. K. Rowling and Dan Brown, popular historians Doris Kearns...
by Brent Staples
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017
From Pulitzer Prize winner Brent Staples, an evocative memoir that poses universal questions: Where does the family end and the self begin? What do we owe our families, and what do we owe our dreams for ourselves? What part of the past is a gift and what part a shackle? For Brent Staples there is...
The Supreme Doctrine
Psychological Studies in Zen Thought
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
(With an Introduction by Aldous Huxley)
In its Eastern aspects—Chinese, Hindu, and Japanese—Zen Buddhism has proved a puzzle, although a stimulating one, to the Western mind. Himself a Westerner, Dr. Benoit has approached it through an occidental manner of thinking. “For the first time,...
by Harry Mulisch
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
It is the winter of 1945, the last dark days of World War II in occupied Holland. A Nazi collaborator, infamous for his cruelty, is assassinated as he rides home on his bicycle. The Germans retaliate by burning down the home of an innocent family; only twelve-year-old Anton survives.
Based...
The Ice Palace That Melted Away
Restoring Civility and Other Lost Virtues to Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
With The Ice Palace That Melted Away, Bill Stumpf, the designer of the first ergonomic chair, addresses the symbiotic relationship between design and the way we live, the often deadening effect of technology, and his hopes for a more humane future. As a designer associated with Herman Miller, Inc.,...
Connect
12 Vital Ties that Open your Heart, Lengthen your Life, and Deepen your Soul
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
The promise of wellness and satisfaction has never been as ubiquitous in our culture as it is now. Images of happy people stare out at us from magazine pages and television screens; they are successful and busy, hurrying from the office to the opera, eating healthfully and acting responsibly. We...
by Yi-Fu Tuan
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
To be human is to experience fear, but what is it exactly that makes us fearful? Here is one geographer’s striking exploration of our landscapes of fear as they change throughout our lives and have changed throughout history. Yi-fu Tuan investigates landscapes of the natural environment which are...
The Schoolhouse Gate
Public Education, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for the American Mind
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
An award-winning constitutional law scholar at the University of Chicago (who clerked for Judge Merrick B. Garland, Justice Stephen Breyer, and Justice Sandra Day O’Connor) gives us an engaging and alarming...
Death and Oil
A True Story of the Piper Alpha Disaster on the North Sea
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
The first full account of the most tragic oil rig disaster in history, the human story behind it, and the true nature of its legacy.
July 6, 1988, began as a normal day on Piper Alpha, the biggest offshore oil rig on the North Sea. But just after 10:00 p.m., a series of explosions rocked the platform,...
Some Assembly Required
Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2020
The author of the best-selling Your Inner Fish gives us a lively and accessible account of the great transformations in the history of life on Earth--a new view of the evolution of human and animal life that can help to determine whether our presence here is accidental or inevitable.
Over the...
Dance for Two
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2011
For the last twenty years, Alan Lightman has been writing essays that display his genius for bringing literary and scientific concerns into harmony. Dance for Two gathers the best of Lightman's work. Here are pieces that touch on both the ethereal and the corporeal; the dependence of a ballerina on...
This View of Life
Completing the Darwinian Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
It is widely understood that Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution completely revolutionized the study of biology. Yet, according to David Sloan Wilson, the Darwinian revolution won’t be truly complete until it is applied more broadly—to everything associated with the words “human,” “culture,”...
The Goodness Paradox
The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
“A fascinating new analysis of human violence, filled with fresh ideas and gripping evidence from our primate cousins, historical forebears, and contemporary neighbors.”
—Steven Pinker, author of The Better Angels of Our Nature
We Homo sapiens can be the nicest of species and also the...
by David Reid
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
Los Angeles is the labyrinth at the end of the American Dream, a city often celebrated, often condemned—rarely understood. In this fascinating and unusual collection David Reid has gathered together the novelists, journalists, and cultural critics who could best debunk the myths, define the truths,...