Books from Pantheon Books

  • For Reasons of State
    For Reasons of State
    By Noam Chomsky

    An essential record of Chomsky's political and social thought as it was sharpened during the upheavals in domestic and international affairs of the early 1970s, For Reasons of State includes...

  • A Paper House: The Ending of Yugoslavia
    A Paper House: The Ending of Yugoslavia
    By Mark Thompson

    Timely and incisive, A Paper House powerfully evokes what was once Yugoslavia and gives a cogent analysis of its violent disintegration, which has become headline news the world over. In...

  • The Waking Giant: Gorbachev's Russia
    The Waking Giant: Gorbachev's Russia
    By Martin Walker

    Arguing that Gorbachev's aim is to make the USSR competitive with the world's leading industrial economies, a journalist analyzes the obstacles hindering Gorbachev's plans and consequences if he succeeds

  • The Nuclear Delusion: Soviet-American Relations in the Atomic Age
    The Nuclear Delusion: Soviet-American Relations in the Atomic Age
    By George Frost Kennan

    "Since the World War II, critics have warned us about the futility of a new war that would be fought with nuclear arms and about the dangers involved in relying...

  • Bringing it All Back Home: 25 Years of American Music at Folk City
    Bringing it All Back Home: 25 Years of American Music at Folk City
    By Robbie Woliver

    Traces the history of Folk City, a Greenwich Village music club, and shares the memories of top folk artists who performed there

  • Stop the Violence: Overcoming Self Destruction
    Stop the Violence: Overcoming Self Destruction
    By National Urban League

    The story of the Stop the Violence movement among rap music artists and music industry colleagues is told, along with the story of a video that was produced as part...

  • Not in Our Genes: Biology, Ideology, and Human Nature
    Not in Our Genes: Biology, Ideology, and Human Nature
    By Richard C. Lewontin, Steven Peter Russell Rose, Leon J. Kamin

    Three eminent scientists analyze the scientific, social, and political roots of biological determinism.

  • The Lines of My Hand
    The Lines of My Hand
    By Robert Frank

    This retrospective study of the work and life of Robert Frank demonstrates the artistry, innovations, and magnificent images of the distinguished photographer in more than 350 photographs

  • A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story
    A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story
    By Elaine Brown

    I have all the guns and all the money. I can withstand challenge from without and from within. Am I right, comrades? With these words, Elaine Brown proclaimed to the...

  • Transit of Venus: Travels in the Pacific
    Transit of Venus: Travels in the Pacific
    By Julian Evans

    From Marco Polo, Magellan, and Captain Cook to James Michener and Rodgers and Hammerstein, the South Pacific has exercised a profound influence on the Western imagination. It conjures dreams of...

  • Mother Nature: A History of Mothers, Infants, and Natural Selection
    Mother Nature: A History of Mothers, Infants, and Natural Selection
    By Sarah Blaffer Hrdy

    We are tempted to think of maternal instinct as a quality a woman has or lacks. But the belief that mothers instinctively nurture their offspring--one of the West's most cherished...

  • Work is Dangerous to Your Health: A Handbook of Health Hazards in the Workplace and what You Can Do about...
    Work is Dangerous to Your Health: A Handbook of Health Hazards in the Workplace and what You Can Do about...
    By Jeanne Mager Stellman, Susan M. Daum

    Work is Dangerous to Your Health: A Handbook of Health Hazards in the Workplace and what You Can Do about...

  • True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor
    True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor
    By David Mamet

    The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, director, & teacher gives us a blunt, irreverent, unsparingly honest guide to acting that overturns conventional truths & tells aspiring actors what they really need to...

  • Pandora's Box: The Changing Aspects of a Mythical Symbol
    Pandora's Box: The Changing Aspects of a Mythical Symbol
    By Erwin Panofsky, Dora Panofsky

    Pandora's Box: The Changing Aspects of a Mythical Symbol

  • Alternadad
    Alternadad
    By Neal Pollack

    A few years ago, Neal Pollack was probably the least likely father you’ve ever met: a pop-culture-obsessed writer and self-styled party guy known mostly for outrageous literary antics. In typical...

  • Equality
    Equality
    By William Ryan

    In this timely book William Ryan, author of Blaming the Victim, analyzes how and why the "vulnerable majority" of Americans, though "created equal," lives under the permanent and shaming threat...

  • Pig Earth
    Pig Earth
    By John Berger

    Set in a small village in the French Alps, Pig Earth relates the stories of sceptical, hard-working men and fiercely independent women. This book is an act of reckoning that...

  • Selling Hitler
    Selling Hitler
    By Robert Harris

    Spring 1983: it seemed that one of the most startling discoveries of the century had been made, and that one of the world's most sought after documents had finally come...

  • The Undeserving Poor: From the War on Poverty to the War on Welfare
    The Undeserving Poor: From the War on Poverty to the War on Welfare
    By Michael B. Katz

    For the first time in over twenty-five years. the issue of poverty -- and our failure to deal with it -- is back at the top of the policy agenda...

  • Abbey Lubbers, Banshees, & Boggarts: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Fairies
    Abbey Lubbers, Banshees, & Boggarts: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Fairies
    By Katharine Mary Briggs

    A Who's Who of fairyland, with entries by fairy name and additional legends, songs, and anecdotes within each entry.