Drawn from more than two decades of pathbreaking writing, the iconic and bestselling David Graeber's most important essays and interviews. "The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently," wrote David Graeber. A renowned anthropologist, activist, and author of such classic books as Debt and the breakout New York Times bestseller The Dawn of Everything (with David Wengrow), Graeber was as well-known for his sharp, lively e...

A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American Cities has, since its first publication in 1961, become the standard against which all endeavors in that field are measured. In prose of outstanding immediacy, Jane Jacobs writes about what makes streets safe or unsafe; about what constitutes a neighborhood, and what function it serves within th...

A trailblazing and inspiring collection of essays on art, feminism, neuroscience, psychology by the internationally bestselling novelist Siri Hustvedt

In this vivid memoir originally published in German, Anne Groschler (1888-1982) recounts her 1944 escape from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp to Mandatory Palestine via “Transport 222”, an exchange transport of 222 Jews for “Aryan" prisoners of war.

A valuable and timely account of attention, from neuroscience to surfing.

Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short formWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NATALIE HAYNESWhen this book was first published in 1949 it was to outrage and scandal.

A collection of absorbing stories and inspirational wisdom from one of our best-loved writers, Maya Angelou.

Judith de Kom werd in 1931 geboren als het vierde kind van Anton de Kom en Petronella Borsboom. Judith was twee jaar oud toen het gezin naar Suriname verhuisde, waar haar vader het middelpunt werd van historische antikoloniale opstanden in Paramaribo. Na de verbanning van haar vader woonde het gezin in Den Haag. Judith was dertien toen haar vader in 1944 op een dag niet thuiskwam, de Hongerwinter brachten zij en de rest van het gezin in onzekerheid door. Pas zestien jaar later werden de stoff...