TROUT MAGIC is a warm and maverick look at trout fishing and its attendant lore. Robert Traver tells of a mysterious dancing fly, speaks pointedly about kiss-and-tell fishermen, debunks fly enthusiasts as the world's greatest snobs, and lets us in on the fishing story Life magazine missed. "There's [...]

Russian officials claim today that the USSR never possessed an offensive biological weapons program. In fact, the Soviet government spent billions of rubles and hard currency to fund a hugely expensive weapons program that added nothing to the country's security. This history is the first attempt to[...]

Eighteenth-century and Romantic readers had a peculiar habit of calling personified abstractions "sublime." This has always seemed mysterious, since the same readers so often expressed a feeling that there was something wrong with turning ideas into people--or, worse, turning people into ideas. In t[...]

What should you do if a gorilla charges right at you? Run away, climb a tree, or make a scary face? Find out the surprising answer and much more in this nonfiction book packed with amazing gorilla facts.[...]

Writing in the June 1965 issue of the "Economic Journal", Harry G. Johnson begins with a sentence seemingly calibrated to the scale of the book he set himself to review: 'The long-awaited "Monetary History of the United States" by Friedman and Schwartz is in every sense of the term a monumental scho[...]

Friedman and Schwartz's "A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960", published in 1963, stands as one of the most influential economics books of the twentieth century. A landmark achievement, the book marshalled massive historical data and sharp analytics to support the claim that monetary [...]

In this major retrospective, Milton Glaser, perhaps the most influential figure in the history of international design, looks to its future, providing an illuminating and insightful overview of his rich and varied oeuvre. Offering a rare and intimate glimpse into his personal artistic philosophy and[...]

The emergence of Japan as a political and economic global power has been one of the most remarkable success stories of modern history. Though small in geographic area, the archipelago is the tenth most populous country, with 128 million inhabitants crowded into an area the size of Montana. Its natur[...]

A scholarly analysis of the life and achievements of the head of the chocolate factory empire describes his fatherless upbringing by a strict Mennonite mother, his failures with two early candy companies, and his construction of the utopian Hershey village. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Th[...]