"The most talked-about education book this semester." --"New York Times"
From the author of "Coming Apart," and based on a series of controversial "Wall Street Journal" op-eds, this landmark manifesto gives voice to what everyone knows about talent, ability, and intelligence but no one wants to [...]

From the bestselling author of Lo"sing Ground" and "The Bell Curve," this startling long-lens view shows how America is coming apart at the seams that historically have joined our classes. In "Coming Apart," Charles Murray explores the formation of American classes that are different in kind from an[...]

This classic book serves as a starting point for any serious discussion of welfare reform. Losing Ground argues that the ambitious social programs of the1960s and 1970s actually made matters worse for its supposed beneficiaries, the poor and minorities. Charles Murray startled readers by recommendin[...]

The ability to manipulate information has become the single most important element of success. High intelligence is an increasingly precious raw material. But despite decades of fashionable denial, the overriding and insistent truth about intellectual ability is that it is endowed unequally.
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For those starting out in their careers--and those who wish to advance more quickly--this is a delightfully fussy guide to the hidden rules of the road in the workplace and in life.
As bestselling author and social historian Charles Murray explains, at senior levels of an organization there are[...]

Respected author, scholar, and columnist Charles Murray has long challenged accepted notions of public and social policy issues. In this volume, originally published in 1988, Murray presents a persuasive and practical argument that reconsiders commonly held beliefs of what constitutes success in soc[...]

In the bestselling tradition of "Eats, Shoots & Leaves," a gently curmudgeonly but invaluable guide to the dos and don ts of the workplaceBestselling social historian Charles Murray has written a delightfully fussy and entertaining book on the hidden rules of the road in the workplace and in life fr[...]

Called by "Entertainment Weekly" "The best book on Hendrix," "Crosstown Traffic" rode their A-list for over two months and won the prestigious Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award. Roots-savvy British critic Charles Shaar Murray assesses the lifework of guitarist Jimi Hendrix in the context of black mu[...]

This work is designed for a first course in real analysis following the standard course in elementary calculus. It contains a treatment (with many illustrative samples and exercises) of the standard topics in infinite metric spaces, and vector field theory. It includes an assortment of exercises and[...]

The best and most ambitious book about Jimi Hendrix, being reissued with a new introduction on the 70th anniversary of Hendrix's birth.[...]