Point imprint: 454 books
But Beautiful
A Book About Jazz
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
"May be the best book ever written about jazz."—David Thomson, Los Angeles Times
In eight poetically charged vignettes, Geoff Dyer skillfully evokes the music and the men who shaped modern jazz. Drawing on photos, anecdotes, and, most important, the way he hears the music, Dyer...
Conversations With Seth, Book 1: 25th Anniversary Edition (Delux Ed)
25th Anniverary Edition (Deluxe Ed)
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2005
In 1963, Jane Roberts met a spiritual entity named Seth. He spoke through her and the lessons he taught proved timeless and crucial. From 1968 to 1975, Roberts held an ESP class, during which she channeled Seth. Susan Watkins was a member of that class. The knowledge gained from Seth helped Watkins...
Ballet for Martha
Making Appalachian Spring
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
A picture book about the making of Martha Graham's Appalachian Spring, her most famous dance performance
Martha Graham : trailblazing choreographer
Aaron Copland : distinguished American composer
Isamu Noguchi : artist, sculptor, craftsman
Award-winning authors Jan Greenberg...
A Neutral Corner
Boxing Essays
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Fifteen previously unpublished boxing pieces written between 1952 and 1963.
Demonstrating A.J. Liebling's abiding passion for the "sweet science" of boxing, A Neutral Corner brings together fifteen previously unpublished pieces written between 1952 and 1963. Antic, clear-eyed, and...
Son of the Morning Star
Custer and The Little Bighorn
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Custer's Last Stand is among the most enduring events in American history--more than one hundred years after the fact, books continue to be written and people continue to argue about even the most basic details surrounding the Little Bighorn. Evan S. Connell, whom Joyce Carol Oates has described as...
by Thomas E. Griess
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
From the prewar development of the German war machine to the ultimate victory of the Allied coalition, here is an in-depth analysis of the battles that raged on the Western and Eastern Fronts. It examines the major strategies, the innovative tactics, and the new generation of weapons—along with the people who used them.
The Split History of World War II
A Perspectives Flip Book
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
When World War I ended in 1918, it was called, “the war to end all wars.” But it wasn't. Unsettled issues and resentments festered for the next 20 years, culminating in the outbreak of war in Europe and Asia in the 1930s. The Axis powers, led by Germany, Italy, and Japan, joined to fight the Allies,...
Bootleg
Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
It began with the best of intentions. Worried about the effects of alcohol on American families, mothers and civic leaders started a movement to outlaw drinking in public places. Over time, their protests, petitions, and activism paid off—when a Constitional Amendment banning the sale and consumption...
America Is Under Attack
September 11, 2001: The Day the Towers Fell
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
One of School Library Journal's Best Nonfiction Books of 2011One of Horn Book's Best Nonfiction Books of 2011
On the ten year anniversary of the September 11 tragedy, a straightforward and sensitive book for a generation of readers too young to remember that terrible day.
The events...
The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau
Selected and Edited by Lewis Hyde
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2002
Thoreau's major essays annotated and introduced by one of our most vital intellectuals.
With The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau, Lewis Hyde gathers thirteen of Thoreau's finest short prose works and, for the first time in 150 years, presents them fully annotated and arranged in the order of their...
Face of Freedom
How the Photos of Frederick Douglass Celebrated Racial Equality
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Frederick Douglass—abolitionist, writer, political activist, reformer—has been called the most important African-American of the 1800s. He was also the most photographed American of the 1800s. Douglass, who escaped enslavement to work tirelessly on behalf of his fellow African-Americans, realized...
The Whale and the Supercomputer
On the Northern Front of Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2005
In The Whale and the Supercomputer, scientists and natives wrestle with our changing climate in the land where it has hit first--and hardest
A traditional Eskimo whale-hunting party races to shore near Barrow, Alaska--their comrades trapped on a floe drifting out to sea--as ice that should...
Boy on the Lion Throne
The Childhood of the 14th Dalai Lama
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2009
From humble beginnings to world leader, a new biography focuses on the childhood of the Dalai Lama, as his country remains at the center of the world stage.
On a quiet winter morning in 1937, several men on horseback rode into the tiny Tibetan village of Taktser. Disguised as peasants, the...
by Rainer Maria Rilke
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2002
Rilke's prayerful responses to the french master's beseeching art
For a long time nothing, and then suddenly one has the right eyes.
Virtually every day in the fall of 1907, Rainer Maria Rilke returned to a Paris gallery to view a Cezanne exhibition. Nearly as frequently, he wrote dense...