In Junk English, Ken Smith takes on the misuse, abuse, and downright decay of the English languag...

Millions of people in New York and New Jersey consider the Hudson River as familiar as their own ...

The imaginations of many Cold War scientists were fed by science fiction literature, and companie...

Melvin Burkhart the Anatomical Wonder; Zip the Pinhead; Chang and Eng, the original Siamese twins...

The San Francisco Bay can be viewed as a geographic paradox: a place and a void. The collective B...

The perfect tonic for anyone who's sick of inspiring tales of triumph over adversity, 'Raw Deal' ...

'In 1970, sitting on a park bench, Thomas Bernhard delivered a powerful monologue over the course...

An insider's guide to the Bible with a focus on sex, gore and lunacy.

The author discusses what he sees as 'the mutual attraction between presidents and celebrities fr...

Strangely beautiful, utterly unique, 'Specimens of Hair' presents the obsessive work of a 19th-ce...

Guillotine

Alone with the President

Three quarters of a million people visit Graceland each year--40,000 of them during 'Elvis Week',...

The first book on the Mütter Museum contain artful images of the museum's fascinating exhibits sh...

After the grit and the glory of the Gold Rush had passed, many fortune seekers remained, adapting...

After scouring obscure educational films for nine years, the author offers a fascinating stroll d...

Eighteenth-century anatomist Honore Fragonard's ecorches--preserved dissected real animal and hum...

The Drug User

This is the first book of portraits of android and humanoid robots¿robots made in the likeness of...

As early as the 1840s, against admonishments to maintain secrecy, medical students and their inst...

In the summer of 1971, Michael Lesy and a friend found most of the snapshots in Snapshots 1971–77...

Home to over 20,000 mind-boggling anatomic specimens, plaster casts, wax models, and paintings, t...

In 2012 the Center for Land Use Interpretation acquired a set of seven rolodexes from the dispers...

When Charles Darwin first stepped off the HMS Beagle and into the harsh and formidable world of t...

Included in this volume is a selection from a remarkable series of letters between Leopold von Sa...

A sumptuous monograph presenting for the first time the extraordinarily imaginative and delightfu...

Written so that the ordinary writer and speaker of English can readily see the manipulations of l...

A unique meeting of two transformative talents in American photography, Walker Evans (Let Us Now ...

'Moske, an archivist at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, delves in his textured debut into two for...