Books from Pantheon Books

  • No Nature: New and Selected Poems
    No Nature: New and Selected Poems
    By Gary Snyder

    Snyder has been one of the more scene since the publication of his first book, Riprap, in 1959. From his association with the Beats to his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Turtle...

  • Problems of Knowledge and Freedom
    Problems of Knowledge and Freedom
    By Noam Chomsky

    In the first half of this wide-ranging work, Chomsky takes up Russell's lifelong search for the empirical principles of human understanding, in a philosophical overview referencing Hume, Leibniz, Wittgenstein, and...

  • The Age of Empire, 1875-1914
    The Age of Empire, 1875-1914
    By Eric J. Hobsbawm

    A Braudel for the modern world--a masterful recreation of the years that formed our century--by England's leading social historian. 50 black-and-white photographs in three inserts.

  • American Fun: Four Centuries of Joyous Revolt
    American Fun: Four Centuries of Joyous Revolt
    By John Beckman

    The award-winning author of The Winter Zoo analyzes the American traditions of cutting loose, "partying" or engaging in mischief to take breaks from work and sobriety, describing the activities of earlier centuries while sharing stories ...

  • Heartbreaker
    Heartbreaker
    By Robert Ferrigno

    lt opens with a killing on a south Florida beach. Val Duran, an undercover cop, is forced to witness the murder of his partner, which has been arranged by a...

  • Art, Dialogue, and Outrage: Essays on Literature and Culture
    Art, Dialogue, and Outrage: Essays on Literature and Culture
    By Wole Soyinka

    By "unquestionably Africa's most versatile writer and arguably her finest" (New York Times), Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka, Art, Dialogue, and Outrage is a fierce and provocative contribution to the debate...

  • Confronting Crime: An American Challenge
    Confronting Crime: An American Challenge
    By Elliott Currie, Professor of Criminology Law and Society Elliott Currie

    This book examines the causes and response to the growing rates of crime in the U.S., and argues that it is not caused by the ‘softness’ of the system (as...

  • Reading Capital
    Reading Capital
    By Louis Althusser, Étienne Balibar

    Reading Capital

  • The Selected Letters of Vanessa Bell
    The Selected Letters of Vanessa Bell
    By Vanessa Bell

    Here now is new insight into one of Bloomsbury's major figures with these more than three hundred never-before-published letters of Vanessa Bell. The daughter of the eminent Victorian writer Sir...

  • I Put a Spell on You: The Autobiography of Nina Simone
    I Put a Spell on You: The Autobiography of Nina Simone
    By Nina Simone, Stephen Cleary

    Simone grew up during the Depression in a small North Carolina town where, thanks to a farsighted music teacher and caring neighbors who paid for her lessons, she was trained...

  • The Chicken and the Egg
    The Chicken and the Egg
    By Iela Mari, Enzo Mari

    In this story without words a hen lays and hatches an egg and the baby chick begins to grow into an adult.

  • The Ivan Moffat File: Life Among the Beautiful and Damned in London, Paris, New York, and Hollywood
    The Ivan Moffat File: Life Among the Beautiful and Damned in London, Paris, New York, and Hollywood
    By Ivan Moffat

    Here is a fascinating portrait of Hollywood screenwriter Ivan Moffat, whose lonely, aristocratic childhood led to a precociously fashionable and sensual life in London’s High Bohemia in the late 1930s,...

  • Philosophies of India
    Philosophies of India
    By Heinrich Zimmer, Heinrich Robert Zimmer

    We of the Occident , writes Zimmer, are about to arrive at a crossroads that was reached by the thinkers of India some seven hundred years before Christ. This is...

  • Over the Counter Pills that Don't Work
    Over the Counter Pills that Don't Work
    By Joel Kaufman

    Reports on the ineffectiveness of many drugs, with ratings of different brand-name products and suggestions for simple and inexpensive substitutes

  • Appetite for Change: How the Counterculture Took on the Food Industry, 1966-1988
    Appetite for Change: How the Counterculture Took on the Food Industry, 1966-1988
    By Warren James Belasco

    The author presents a witty and original chapter in the history of the counterculture: how the health food movement became big business as Americans came to believe we are what...

  • All Under Heaven: The Chinese World
    All Under Heaven: The Chinese World
    By Jonathan Porter, Eliot Porter

    Explores the Chinese mind and spirit, illuminated by a stunning collection of photographs.

  • Necessary Dreams: Ambition in Women's Changing Lives
    Necessary Dreams: Ambition in Women's Changing Lives
    By Anna Fels

    In this groundbreaking book about how women perceive, are prepared for, and cope with ambition and achievement, psychiatrist Anna Fels examines ambition at the deepest psychological level. Cutting to the...

  • Earth's Shifting Crust: A Key to Some Basic Problems of Earth Science
    Earth's Shifting Crust: A Key to Some Basic Problems of Earth Science
    By Charles H. Hapgood, James H. Campbell

    Earth's Shifting Crust: A Key to Some Basic Problems of Earth Science

  • Seriously Funny: The Rebel Comedians of the 1950s and 1960s
    Seriously Funny: The Rebel Comedians of the 1950s and 1960s
    By Gerald Nachman

    The comedians of the 1950s and 1960s were a totally different breed of relevant, revolutionary performer from any that came before or after, comics whose humor did much more than...

  • More Stories We Tell: The Best Contemporary Short Stories by North American Women
    More Stories We Tell: The Best Contemporary Short Stories by North American Women
    By Wendy Martin

    The second collection drawn together by editor Wendy Martin, these twenty-four exquisite examples of contemporary writing feature stories by Joyce Carol Oates, Margaret Atwood, Mary Gaitskill, Alice Munro, Sandra Cisneros,...