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In the tradition of Susan Cain's Quiet and Scott Stossel's My Age of Anxiety, Atlantic staff writer Olga Khazan reclaims the concept of "weird" and tu ...

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The fascinating stories behind the essential seven units of measurement that allow us to understand the physical world  “Entertaining popular science a ...

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A groundbreaking examination of a central question in international relations: Do states act rationally?   To understand world politics, you need to un ...

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A major new history of North and South Korea, from the late nineteenth century to the present day  “Cha and Pacheco Pardo have years of expertise in Ko ...

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A leading scientist’s guide to the way our immune system protects us—but only most of the time What is our immune system, and how does it work? A vast array of ...

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A vivid and intimate account of the Ukrainian Revolution, the rare moment when the political became the existential  “Shore brilliantly captures the co ...

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"A fascinating catalogue of the conditions and agency of ignorance"—Jeffrey Collins, Times Literary Supplement "A declaration of love for educati ...

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A FINANCIAL TIMES “BEST SUMMER BOOKS OF 2023: MONEY” AND “BEST SUMMER BOOKS OF 2023: ECONOMICS”“Historically informed and lucid.”—Martin Wolf, Financial Times & ...

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A compelling history of the Ptolemies, the decline of Egypt, and the rising power of the Roman Empire   The Ptolemaic era, Egypt’s last and one of its ...

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A lively reimagining of how the distant medieval world of war functioned, drawing on the objects used and made by crusaders Throughout the Middle Ages crusading ...

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The misguided forces driving conflict escalation between America and China, and the path to a new relationship"A timely, fluid, readable assessment of a te ...

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A concise history of the goddess-like figures who evade both Christian and pagan traditions, from the medieval period to the present day In this riveting accoun ...

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A global account of pirates and their modus operandi, from the Middle Ages to the present day In the twenty-first century piracy has regained a central place in ...

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GOLD MEDALLIST IN THE 2024 AXIOM BUSINESS BOOK AWARDSA bold new account of the state of globalization today—and what its collapse might mean for the world econo ...

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A copiously illustrated global history of magic books, from ancient papyri to pulp paperbacks Grimoires, textbooks of magic and occult knowledge, have existed t ...

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A "highly readable and compelling" account (Science) of brainwashing's pervasive role in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries"Riveting. . .. ...

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A fascinating look into how the transformative joys of mathematical experience are available to everyone, not just specialists   Math has a re ...

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One of our most brilliant minds offers a sweeping intellectual history that argues for the reclamation of culture's value Culture is a defining aspect of what i ...

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The first international history of the emergence of economic sanctions during the interwar period and the legacy of this development A Foreign Affairs Best Book ...

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WINNER OF THE 2022 ANISFIELD-WOLF BOOK AWARD (NONFICTION) A BLOOMBERG BEST NONFICTION BOOK "Does not pull its punches."-The Independent "Enthrall ...

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A wide-ranging new history of NATO, from its origins to the present day—published for the alliance’s seventy-fifth anniversary   For seven decades, NAT ...

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A rich and engaging guide to psychology, the science devoted to understanding human nature   What really drives our decisions? Where do language and me ...

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As in many postcommunist states, politics in Ukraine revolves around the issue of national identity. Ukrainian nationalists see themselves as one of the world's ...

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A fascinating, bottom-up exploration of contemporary Russian politics that sheds new light on why Putin's grip on power is more fragile than we think "Puti ...

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