Drawing on accounts from India to Africa and California to Tennessee, and on research in neuroscience, psychology, and animal behavior, G. A. Bradshaw explores the minds, emotions, and lives of elephants.

The eminent art critic and philosopher Arthur Danto presents an elegant and masterful portrait of Andy Warhol’s life, character, and lasting influence.

This portrait of Fred Astaire, widely acclaimed as America’s greatest male dancer, explores his life, his unforgettable movie performances with Ginger Rogers and other great dance partners, and how he came to represent the very essence of style, class, and charm.

Pulitzer-prize winning New Yorker critic Paul Goldberger contemplates the meaning, culture, and symbolism of architecture.

In this major new account of the fall of the Roman Empire, prizewinning author Adrian Goldsworthy examines the painful centuries of the superpower’s decline. Bringing history to life through the stories of the men, women, heroes, and villains involved, the author uncovers surprising lessons about the rise and fall of great nations.

In this lively exploration of Gone with the Wind, Molly Haskell traces the complexities of both the book and movie, and shows why Rhett and Scarlett’s saga is still riveting, more than seventy years after Margaret Mitchell created it.

This anthology presents a selection of 50 stories, recollections, essays, and poems featured in the Yale Anglers’ Journal during its first remarkable decade. Accompanied by original artwork from James Prosek, these writings all celebrate fish and the experience of fishing, yet they could hardly be more diverse. Some evoke a nostalgic earlier time, others...

In the pages of this slim, powerful book Rob Riemen argues with passion that “nobility of spirit” is the quintessence of a civilized world. It is, as Thomas Mann believed, the sole corrective for human history. Without nobility of spirit, culture vanishes. Yet in the early twenty-first century, a time when human dignity and freedom are imperiled, the conc...

This revealing biography of Gypsy Rose Lee—an American icon who brought striptease from the margins of American life to Broadway, Hollywood, and Main Street—uncovers the long-obscured facts of her life and sets her accomplishments in the context of mid-20th-century American culture.