A lustrous, beautifully written reimagining of the Brontë family—and of Emily Brontë’s passionate engagement with life. Enigmatic, intelligent, and fiercely independent, Emily Brontë refuses to bow to the conventions of her day: she is distrustful of marriage, prefers freedom above all else, and walks alone at night on the moors above t...more

This definitive text on ecological anthropology is the most complete discussion of environmental, physiological, behavioral, and cultural adaptive strategies available. Designed to help readers understand the multiple levels at which human populations respond to their surroundings, Human Adaptability discusses the development of ecological anthropo...more

A brilliant and companionable tour through all thirty-eight plays, Shakespeare After All is the perfect introduction to the bard by one of the country’s foremost authorities on his life and work. Drawing on her hugely popular lecture courses at Yale and Harvard over the past thirty years, Marjorie Garber offers passionate and revealing readings o...more