Books from Pantheon Books
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An Encyclopedia of Fairies: Hobgoblins, Brownies, Bogies, and Other Supernatural Creatures
By Katharine Mary BriggsA complete guide to fairy lore from the Middle Ages to the present that recounts and examines fairy tales, describes the food, sports, sizes, and powers of fairies, and calls...
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Blood of Spain: An Oral History of the Spanish Civil War
By Ronald FraserConversations taped between June 1973 and May 1975 with more than three hundred survivors of the Spanish Civil War provide a chronological account of the fratricidal struggle, which brought violence...
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Who Built America?: From conquest and colonization through Reconstruction and the great uprising of 1877
By American Social History ProjectAt last, an American history about working Americans: what they thought, what they did, what happened to them. Volume One takes us from conquest & colonization through industrial expansion, the...
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Petrolio: Translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein
By Pier Paolo PasoliniA work in progress at the time of Pasolini's murder, Petrolio is made up of a series of notes - some extended and polished narrative passages, others cryptic messages from...
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Life as We Know it: A Father, a Family, and an Exceptional Child
By Michael BérubéWhen James Berube was born in 1991 his parents knew little about Down syndrome other than that it would render their child "disabled". As they sought to understand exactly what...
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The Paradox of American Democracy: Elites, Special Interests, and the Betrayal of the Public Trust
By John B. JudisJohn B. Judis, one of our most insightful political commentators, most rational and careful thinkers, and most engaged witnesses in Washington, has taken on a challenge that even the most...
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Emma Goldman: An Intimate Life
By Alice WexlerBased on newly discovered correspondence, this book reveals the private life behind the public legend of "Red Emma," a Jewish immigrant, anarchist, and supporter of women's rights and sexual freedom
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Albion's Fatal Tree: Crime and Society in Eighteenth-century England
By Peter Linebaugh, John Rule, Douglas HayExplores the contrasts between the genteel, aristocratic side of 18th century British society and criminal elements characterized by raucous public hangings marked by insubordination and riot.
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The Royal Navy and the Slavers: The Suppression of the Atlantic Slave Trade
By William Ernest Frank WardThe Royal Navy and the Slavers: The Suppression of the Atlantic Slave Trade
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Einstein for Beginners
By Joseph SchwartzAmusing, irreverent, sophisticated and highly accessible, Einstein for Beginners is the perfect introduction to Einstein's life and thought. Reaching back as far as Babylon (for the origins of mathematics) and...
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India's China War
By Neville MaxwellDocuments the events and issues of the 1962 Sino-Indian border war in an analysis of its historical causes and its implications for Indian politics and world affairs.
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Mixed Blessings: New Art in a Multicultural America
By Lucy R. LippardIn America today there is a little-known explosion of creative art by women and men from many different ethnic backgrounds. Mixed Blessings is the first book to discuss the crosscultural...
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Petunia, Beware!
By Roger DuvoisinOriginally published in 1958 and long unavailable, this timeless tale works equally well as a read-aloud to young children or as a story slightly older children can enjoy reading all by themselves.
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Hugo Black: A Biography
By Roger K. NewmanHugo Black's odyssey was long, varied, unlikely, and remarkably successful. It began in 1886 in the Alabama hill country and ended in 1971, when Americans were demonstrating in the streets....
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This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland
By Gretel EhrlichFor the last decade, Gretel Ehrlich has been obsessed by an island, a terrain, a culture, and the men and women who long for and love the complex frailties and...
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Police Power: Police Abuses in New York City
By Paul ChevignyPolice Power: Police Abuses in New York City
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Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West
By Donald WorsterWhen Henry David Thoreau went for his daily walk, he would consult his instincts on which direction to follow. More often than not his inner compass pointed west or southwest....
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The Archaeology of Knowledge
By Michel FoucaultIn France, a country that awards its intellectuals the status other countries give their rock stars, Michel Foucault was part of a glittering generation of thinkers, one which also included...
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Objects of Desire
By Adrian FortyIn this provocative and original examination of the role played by design in people's lives, historian Adrian Forty shows why so many manufactured goods--appliances, clothing, conveyances, equipment--have an infinite variety...
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Objects of Desire: The Lives of Antiques and Those who Pursue Them
By Thatcher FreundAmong the many desirable objects on offer during the 1991 Americana Week in New York - the annual high point of antiques sales - are three prized pieces. One stands...