Lady Chatterley's Lover

D. H. Lawrence

Constance Chatterley feels trapped in her sexless marriage to the invalid Sir Clifford. Unable to fulfil his wife emotionally or physically, Clifford encourages her to have a liaison with a man of their own class. But Connie is attracted instead to her husband's gamekeeper and embarks on an affair that ...

Pema Chodron's Compassion Card Deck

Pema Chodron

59 beautifully designed cards on the classic Buddhist practice of "lojong" for everyday inspiration and contemplation--with instructive commentaries by Pema Chodron to make the teachings accessible and applicable to contemporary life. Originally appearing in "The Compassion Box," the "lojong" cards feat...

On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint

Maggie Nelson

Now in paperback, an enduring work of criticism from one of the most important writers of our time.   So often deployed as a jingoistic, even menacing rallying cry, or limited by a focus on passing moments of liberation, the rhetoric of freedom both rouses and repels.  Does it remain key to autonomy, j...

Hitler's American Gamble: Pearl Harbor and the German March to Global War

Brendan Simms, Charles Laderman

A riveting account of Pearl Harbor and the five history-making days that followedThis gripping book dramatizes the extraordinarily compressed and terrifying period between the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and Hitler's declaration of war on the United States. These five days transformed much ...