Books from Pantheon Books
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The Fifties: Photographs of America
By Eve ArnoldA collection of black & white photographs showing life in the US during the decade of the 1950's.
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A Kind of Rapture
By Robert Bergman"Occasionally there arises an event or a moment that one knows immediately will forever mark a place in the history of artistic endeavor. Robert Bergman's portraits represent such a moment....
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John Henry, an American Legend
Caldecott Medalist Ezra Jack Keats's vibrant retelling of the popular African American folk ballad. Have you heard the tale? John Henry was born with a hammer in...
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Phi: A Voyage from the Brain to the Soul
By Giulio TononiAn influential neuroscientist presents a narrative exploration of consciousness that covers such topics as the important and less-important regions of the brain, the shifting of consciousness with sleep and the role of awareness in an ...
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The Pleasures of Diaries: Four Centuries of Private Writing
By Ronald BlytheHere are the world's greatest diaries from the 16th century to the 20th century. From Virginia Woolf and Anais Nin to Lord Byron and Philip Larkin, this volume collects a...
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Lust, Caution: The Story, the Screenplay, and the Making of the Film
By James Schamus, Eileen Chang, Huiling WangTo me, no writer has ever used the Chinese language as cruelly as Zhang Ailing (Eileen Chang), and no story of hers is as beautiful or as cruel as "Lust,...
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Blaming the Victim
By William RyanBlaming the Victim
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Fit for America: Health, Fitness, Sport, and American Society
By Harvey GreenProvides a history of American attitudes towards fitness prior to World War II, looks at gymnastics, calisthenics, and pseudo-medical treatments, and examines changes in diet and dress
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The Old Wives' Fairy Tale Book
By Angela CarterFairy tales, folk tales, stories from the oral tradition, are all of them the most vital connection we have with the imaginations of the ordinary men and women whose labour...
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And the Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank
By Steve OneyAnd the Dead Shall Rise brings to life a Dickensian cast of characters caught up in the Frank case -- zealous police investigators intent on protecting their department's reputation, even...
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Harold J. Laski on the Communist Manifesto: An Introduction
By Karl Marx, Harold Joseph LaskiHarold J. Laski on the Communist Manifesto: An Introduction
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Questions of the French Revolution: A Historical Overview
By Jacques SoléProvides an overview of the causes, development, events, issues and effects of the French Revolution
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Ethical Realism: A Vision for America's Role in the World
By Anatol Lieven, John HulsmanAmerica today faces a world more complicated than ever before, but both political parties have failed to envision a foreign policy that addresses our greatest threats. As a result, the...
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Every Employee's Guide to the Law: Everything You Need to Know about Your Rights in the Workplace--and what to Do...
By Lewin G. JoelComprehensive and easy to read, Every Employee's Guide to the Law takes you through each step of the employment process, from the job interview to post-employment benefits. Whether you work...
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Fire from Heaven
By Mary RenaultAlexander's life from childhood to the age of twenty when he succeeded his murdered father, King Philip of Macedon.
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Archives of the Universe: A Treasury of Astronomy's Historic Works of Discovery
By Marcia BartusiakAn unparalleled history of astronomy told through 100 primary documents--from the Maya's first recorded efforts to predict the cycles of Venus to the 1998 paper that posited an accelerating universe....
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Bearing Witness: A Photographic Chronicle of American Life, 1860-1945
By Michael LesyPhotographs document American daily life, wartime experiences, disasters, family life, agriculture, and industry
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Tin Soldiers on Jerusalem Beach
By Amia LieblichTin Soldiers on Jerusalem Beach
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Don't the Moon Look Lonesome: A Novel in Blues and Swing
By Stanley CrouchAs Don't the Moon Look Lonesome opens in Houston, Texas, we meet Carla, a nearly forty year-old woman, and Maxwell Davis, tenor saxophonist and jazz star, the man she deeply...
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Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class
By Barbara EhrenreichAn analysis of the professional middle class from the liberal elite of the 1960s to the yuppies of the 1980s and the amount of power and influence they wield over...