Books from Atlantic

  • The Raising
    The Raising
    By Laura Kasischke

    If you liked The Secret History or The Virgin Suicides you'll love this hypnotic, haunting story of a college obsessed by a student's sudden death. Unsettling, unputdownable and unforgettable.

  • The National Short Story Prize 2006
    The National Short Story Prize 2006
    By Limited, Atlantic Books

    The National Short Story Prize is a major new annual award designed to honour Britain's finest short story writers and to re-establish the importance of the short story as a...

  • The Raising
    The Raising
    By Laura Kasischke

    A powerful gothic tale of sex, death and sorority sisters set in a claustrophobic New England college.

  • The Last Crusade: The Epic Voyages of Vasco Da Gama
    The Last Crusade: The Epic Voyages of Vasco Da Gama
    By NIGEL CLIFF

    "In 1498 a young captain named Vasco da Gama sailed from Portugal, circumnavigated Africa, crossed the Indian Ocean, and discovered the sea route to the Indies and, with it, access to the fabled wealth of the East.

  • Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
    Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
    By Paul Kriwaczek

    Historian Kriwaczek (Yiddish Civilization) brings to life the world of ancient Mesopotamia and the city of Babylon, tracing their rise from a loose federation to a monarchy to the rise of ancient Sumerian civilization, with its tales of the ...

  • Neoconservatism
    Neoconservatism
    By Irwin M. Stelzer

    A landmark collection of writings by some of the most admired, influential and reviled political thinkers in the world. In the United States a small group, known as 'neo-conservatives', stand...

  • Oscar and the Lady in Pink
    Oscar and the Lady in Pink
    By Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt

    "First published in France as Oscar et la dame rose by Editions Albin Michel, S.A., 2002"--T.p. verso.

  • Maine
    Maine
    By Courtney Sullivan

    The Kelleher clans beachfront holiday house creaks under a weight of secrets.

  • The Generals' War: The Inside Story of the First Gulf War
    By Michael R. Gordon, Bernard E. Trainor

    A behind-the-scenes account and analysis of the planning and execution of the Persian Gulf War.

  • A Brief History of Crime: The Decline of Order, Justice and Liberty in England
    A Brief History of Crime: The Decline of Order, Justice and Liberty in England
    By Peter Hitchens

    Crime is a political football - both left and right are terrified of seeming soft on the issue, but for all their efforts, or apparent efforts, crime rates continue to...

  • The Joy of X: A Guided Tour of Mathematics, from One to Infinity
    The Joy of X: A Guided Tour of Mathematics, from One to Infinity
    By Steven Strogatz

    How does Google search the internet? Why does the stock market swing so often, and so wildly? In this book, the author explains the great ideas of maths, from negative numbers to calculus, and fat tails to infinity.

  • Self-made Man: My Year Disguised as a Man
    Self-made Man: My Year Disguised as a Man
    By Norah Vincent

    Narrated with exquisite insight, humor, and empathy, the author uses her firsthand experience--the 18 months she masqueraded as a man--to explore the many remarkable mysteries of gender identity.

  • To the End of the Earth: The Race to Solve Polar Exploration's Greatest Mystery
    To the End of the Earth: The Race to Solve Polar Exploration's Greatest Mystery
    By Tom Avery

    Weaving fascinating arctic expedition history with thrilling extreme adventure, "To the End of the Earth" is Avery's story of how he and his team risked their lives to solve polar exploration's greatest mystery.

  • The Cold Eye of Heaven
    The Cold Eye of Heaven
    By Christine Dwyer Hickey

    Farley is dying and we are by his side.

  • Chung Kuo
    Chung Kuo
    By David Wingrove

    The revolution over, rebellion now threatens China's dominion. Can the kingdom weather the storm? The second installment of David Wingrove's epic masterpiece Chung Kuo.

  • Into the Silent Land: Travels in Neuropsychology
    Into the Silent Land: Travels in Neuropsychology
    By Paul Broks

    How does the brain construct a "self," the essence of who we are as individuals? And how does the "self" respond to the deconstruction of its brain? A neuropsychologist with...

  • Humanity: An Emotional History
    Humanity: An Emotional History
    By Stuart Walton

    In Humanity: An Emotional History, Walton examines the history of each of our core emotions - fear, anger, disgust, sadness, jealousy, contempt, shame, embarrassment, surprise and happiness - in turn.

  • Fortune's Daughters: The Extravagant Lives of the Jerome Sisters - Jennie Churchill, Clara Frewen and Leonie Leslie
    Fortune's Daughters: The Extravagant Lives of the Jerome Sisters - Jennie Churchill, Clara Frewen and Leonie Leslie
    By Elisabeth Kehoe

    The story of the three Jerome sisters is one of love, glamor, and money in equal measure. Their father, Leonard, was a profligate New York stockbroker whose beautiful wife, Clara...

  • Marx's Das Kapital: A Biography
    Marx's Das Kapital: A Biography
    By Francis Wheen

    First published in 1867, 'Das Kapital' was an original criticism of the capitalist world. Its ideas would alter the course of history and affect the lives of millions. But, as...

  • Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto
    Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto
    By Stewart Brand

    With a combination of scientific rigor and passionate advocacy, Brand shows exactly where the sources of environmental dilemmas lie and offers a bold and inventive set of policies and solutions for creating a more sustainable society.