
Literati Style Penjing: Chinese Bonsai Masterworks
Zhao Qingquan and Thomas S. Elias
Book
The art of bonsai is widely known in the West: from the Karate Kid to the American Bonsai...
Let the Right One in
Book
Audiences can't get enough of fang fiction. Twilight, True Blood, Being Human, The Vampire Diaries,...

The Wire
Book
Frequently described by creator David Simon as a novel for television, The Wire redefined the police...

Totally Awesome: The Greatest Cartoons of the Eighties
Andrew Farago and Russi Taylor
Book
Totally Awesome: The Greatest Cartoons of the Eighties is the ultimate guide to '80s cartoon...
Television cartoons
Seeking Refuge: Birds and Landscapes of the Pacific Flyway
William Cronon and Robert M. Wilson
Book
Each fall and spring, millions of birds travel the Pacific Flyway, the westernmost of the four major...

The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
Book
A revelatory look at our national power grid--how it developed, its current flaws, and how it must...
The Framers' Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution
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Most Americans revere their Constitution yet know relatively little about its origins. Indeed, until...
The New Boys of Summer: Baseball's Radical Transformation in the Late Sixties
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The 1960s were among the most compelling years in the history of the United States, from the...

WWI in Cartoons
Book
In an age before TV and radio the impact and importance of cartoon art was immense, especially when...

The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace
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From New York Times bestselling author H. W. Brands, a masterful biography of the Civil War general...