Books by Houghton Mifflin

At the center of Deep Blue Home?a penetrating exploration of the ocean as single vast current and of the creatures dependent on it?is Whitty?s description of the three-dimensional ocean river, far more powerful than the Nile or the Amazon, encircling the globe. It?s a watery force connected to the earth?s climate control and so to the eventual fate of the human race.   Whitty?s thirty-year career ... ...Read More »

Simon Garfield has contributed to The Error World: An Affair with Stamps as an author.Simon Garfield is the author of several acclaimed books, including The End of the Innocence: Britain in the Time of AIDS, which won the Somerset Maugham Award.

The simplest thing would be to describe Everything is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer's accomplished debut, as a novel about the Holocaust. It is, but that really fails to do justice to the sheer ambition of this book. The main story is a grimly familiar one. A young Jewish-American--who just happens to be called Jonathan Safran Foer--travels to the Ukraine in the hope of finding the woma... ...Read More »

Great Moments in Architecture is a wondrous portfolio that has to be seen to be fully savored-or even believed for that matter. Here are the plans for the Tower of Pisa-on a skewed drafting table, the Eiffel Tower tipped over across the Seine, the ruins of a McDonald's stand following some future Vesuvius, the disastrous meeting of the Great and Lesser Walls of China, and many other gems.A wond... ...Read More »

The principles of general chemistry, stressing the underlying concepts in chemistry, relating abstract concepts to specific real-world examples, and providing a programme of problem-solving pedagogy. ...Read More »

A celebration of an ancient symbol of shelter and harvest, with more than 200 full-color photographs and an informed text by two expert practitioners of the art and craft of barn restoration. Here is the barn as history, architecture, heritage, and, finally, as living space, an example of preserving authentic structures to fulfill present needs.A magnificant book of full-color photographs and t... ...Read More »

Here is the successor to COUNTRY WISDOM, the first in David Larkin's informative series about country ways and country life. COUNTRY ACRES takes the reader from country house to its outbuildings--barns, sheds, cribs--and on to its gardens, fields, trees, and ponds. In his charming fashion, Larkin offers information and guidance for country lovers of all levels of sophistication. 200 color photo... ...Read More »