Ayn Rand made a profound impact as both a philosopher who founded a school of social thought, Objectivism, and as a novelist of penetrating insight and vision. Her works are founded on heroic ideals, demonstrating the maxim that, ?man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress.? 
 The photos and illustrations in this volume have been hand-selected from the Ayn Rand Archives, and most have never been published. They include personal mementos of a Petersburg childhood, her family and their home on Nevsky Prospect; photos from her early years in America; personal papers, including her list of the twelve publishers who passed on "The Fountainhead"; original newspaper articles, film posters, notes, drawings, and much more. 
 In a recent poll conducted by the Library of Congress and the Book-of-the-Month Club, Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" was voted the novel most influential to American readers. This latest volume of the acclaimed Overlook Illustrated Lives series gives her legions of fans an unprecedented chance to better understand the author they adore.

Ayn Rand

Biographies & Memoirs

Press, The Overlook

Britting, Jeffrey

Britting, Jeffery

Arts & Literature

Abrams Press

Presents essays that explore the design process, discussing such topics as texture, scale, and spontaneity, in a volume in which the designer compares her own creations with works from ancient and contemporary cultures.

Eva Zeisel on Design

Arts & Photography

Zeisel, Eva

Individual Artists

Amulet Books

In a small town ravaged by a tuberculosis epidemic, two very different men--Robert Maser, a traveling garment salesman who is actually fugitive Nazi leader Martin Borman, and Lars, a local schoolteacher--wander the countryside in search of the world's finest hash.

Hash

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Lindgren, Torgny

Regional & International

A humorous, witty novel about a generation of naïve, overreaching young people caught in the burst of the dot.com bubble in New York follows the fortunes of a CEO who spends the late 1990s covering up the fact that his start-up company is actually bankrupt.

Boomtown

Literature & Fiction

Williams, Greg

United States

The Overlook Press

A delectable cookbook celebrating the dual culinary heritage of Italian and Jewish cuisine introduces sixty-four recipes that range from typical Jewish fare to quintessential Italian dishes, accompanied by heartwarming anecdotes and reminscences of family meals.

The Jewish-Sicilian Cookbook

Vincent, Pamela Hensley

The author traces the fascinating history of this remarkable plant, from its initial uses as an aid to Buddhist meditation in China during the fourth century B.C. through its remarkable explosion of popularity all around the world, becoming a valued commodity that would change world history. 17,500 first printing.

The Empire Of Tea

MACFARLANE, ALAN

MacFarlane, Iris

A poundingly paced thriller that evokes with razor-sharp detail the atmosphere of modern Shanghai's noodle shops, bars, prisons, back alleys, and cultural spectacles, Dragon's Eye is a masterful debut that introduces a great modern detective, Chief Investigator Sun Piao.

Dragon's Eye

Oakes, Andy

Contemporary

Overlook Books

The continent of Africa has always exerted a strong pull on the imagination of the adventurous, through the mystery of its native art and artifacts, the promise of untold riches, and the lure of the unknown. "The Exploration of Africa" documents the history of this passion in a large format, with a vivid and concise text and hundreds of beautiful photos and illustrations. 
 Though the mouth of the Congo river was discovered by Portuguese explorers in 1483, much of the African continent remained terra incognita until the eighteenth century, when merchants and arms traders opened trade routes within the continent. In 1871, the journey of journalist Henry Morton Stanley to rescue the explorer David Livingstone captured the public imagination and sparked a craze for African art and artifacts. After the continent was partitioned by the Berlin Conference of 1885, school textbooks featured edifying images of African natives and makers of commercial goods used stereotyped portrayals of natives in their advertisements, belying the fact that, deep within the continent, rapacious profiteers were turning the jungles into the ?heart of darkness? that Joseph Conrad documented. 
 "The Exploration of Africa" offers the unique opportunity to share the sights and impressions of the actual explorers?both in their words and with photographs of what they saw?and to see how their adventures resonated in the public imagination, with reproductions of the art and ephemera, newspaper and magazine illustrations, that were inspired by them.

The Exploration Of Africa

Guèriviere, Jean de la

Photography & Video

This is the story of the four inhabitants of 127 Martha Street in the poor white suburb of Triomf. Living on the ruins of old Sophiatown, the freehold township razed to the ground as a so-called 'black spot', they await with trepidation their country's first democratic elections. It is a date that coincides fatefully with the fortieth birthday of Lambert, the oversexed misfit son of the house. There is also Treppie, master of misrule and family metaphysician; Pop, the angel of peace teetering on the brink of the grave; and Mol, the materfamilias in her eternal housecoat. Pestered on a daily basis by nosy neighbors, National Party canvassers and Jehovah's Witnesses, defenseless against the big city towering over them like a vengeful dinosaur, they often resort to quoting to each other the only consolation that they know; we still have each other and a roof over our heads. Triomf relentlessly probes Afrikaner history and politics, revealing the bizarre and tragic effect that apartheid had on exactly the white underclass who were most supposed to benefit. It is also a seriously funny investigation of the human endeavor to make sense of life even under the most abject of circumstances.

Triomf

Van Niekerk, Marlène

Niekerk, Marlene Van

Literary

A compelling new biography of the Soviet leader draws on research into previously unavailable archives, recently revealed evidence, and personal experiences during and after the Stalin regime to refute commonly held myths, inaccuracies, and misconceptions about Stalin's life, political career, death, and influence. 25,000 first printing.

The Unknown Stalin

Medvedev, Zhores

Medvedev, Roy.

Historical

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