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STRANGER MUSIC: Selected Poems and SongsA collection of the song lyrics and poetry of the Canadian p..

Jacques Cousteau: The Sea KingJacques Cousteau opened up the undersea world as no one has done befor..

Analyzes the circumstances that led to the Holocaust, discusses the prewar political and social orde..

Measuring the World: A NovelThe young Austrian writer Daniel Kehlmann conjures a brilliant and gentl..

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Provides directions for more than one hundred new games based on cooperation rather than competition..

Loneliness and Time: The Story of British Travel WritingA study of travel writing as a literary art ..

Analyzes the growing use of children as soldiers in global conflicts, explaining how youngsters are ..

The Truth About the Savolta CaseThe nightly ambiance of Barcelona in the shadow of World War I comes..

Containing an eyewitness account of the first human courtship ever, a study of the lives of an every..

Up in the Old Hotel and Other StoriesWaterfront workers, people on the Bowery, Mohawk Indians workin..

Are men literally born to cheat? Does monogamy actually serve women's interests? These are among the..

In his first novel since The Satanic Verses, Rushdie gives readers a masterpiece of controlled story..

Interesting Times: A Twentieth-Century LifeEric Hobsbawm is considered by many to be our greatest li..

A split-page format enlivens this comic story of a hungry stray who wanders from one end of town to ..

YIDDISH FOLKTALES (Pantheon Fairy Tale & Folklore Library)Nearly 200 tales in this collection of Jew..

Although Gustav Mahler was a famous conductor in Vienna and New York, the music that he wrote was co..

Selected EssaysOn the occasion of his seventy-fith birthday, Pantheon is publishing a gathering of J..

The Politics of LawEssays explore legal reasoning, labor relations, race discrimination, free speech..