The Book That Made Las Vegas Change the RulesOver 1,000,000 Copies in Print Edward O.
Thorp is the father of card counting, and in this classic guide he shares the revolutionary point system that has been successfully used by professional and amateur ...
In this collection of brief lives (and deaths) of nearly two hundred of the world's
greatest thinkers, noted philosopher Simon Critchley creates a register of mortality that is tragic, amusing, absurd, and exemplary. From the self-mocking haikus of Zen masters ...
A compelling debut love story set in a deceptively bucolic Louisiana countryside, where blacks, Cajuns,
and whites maintain an uneasy coexistenceby the award-winning author of A Lesson Before Dying and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. After living in San ...
A searing, provocative satire by one of the most important African-American novelists of the twentieth
century that lays bare the abiding racism and the legacy of slavery on the psyche of white America. Mitchell Pierce is a well-off New York ...
James Baldwin’s groundbreaking novel about love and the fear of love is set among the
bohemian bars and nightclubs of 1950s Paris.In the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, a young man finds himself caught between desire and ...
In these fifteen superb stories, this essential author of African American fiction gives us compelling
portraits of a wide range of unforgettable characters, from sassy children to cunning old men, in scenes shifting between uptown New York and rural North ...
A concise, lively, and bracing exploration of an issue bedeviling our cultural landscape–plagiarism in literature,
academia, music, art, and film–by one of our most influential and controversial legal scholars. Best-selling novelists J. K. Rowling and Dan Brown, popular historians Doris ...
Established in 1918 as a memorial to O. Henry, this annual literary tradition has presented
a remarkable offering of stories over its 76-year history. O. Henry first-prize winners have included Dorothy Parker, William Faulkner, Truman Capote, John Cheever, John Updike, ...