Aude de Tocqueville
The uniquely designed Atlas of Lost Cities details the destinies of 44 once-thriving urban centers that are now vacant ruins and empty ghost towns. ...
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From the founding director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence comes a fascinating look at the remarkable capacity for intelligence exhibited by group ...
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The only Vatican sanctioned illustrated biography of the beloved pontiff filled with rarely seen photographs and 50 removable document facsimiles. ...
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Laura Miller
Literary Wonderlands is a thoroughly researched, wonderfully written, and beautifully produced book that spans two thousand years of creative endeavor. From Spe ...
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Protect yourselfby learning how to trust and act on your instinctswith the empowering #1bestseller from personal safety expert Gavin de Becker (Boston Globe).A ...
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Raymond Ibrahim,Victor Davis Hanson
A sweeping history of the often-violent conflict between Islam and the West, shedding a revealing light on current hostilities ...
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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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John J. Mearsheimer,Sebastian Rosato
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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Victor Cha,Ramon Pacheco Pardo
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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John Trowsdale
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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Marci Shore
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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Peter Burke
"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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Stephen D. King
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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Stephen Roach
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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Ronald Hutton
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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Owen Davies
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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Joel E. Dimsdale
A "highly readable and compelling" account (Science) of brainwashing's pervasive role in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries"Riveting. . .. ...
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David Bessis
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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Terry Eagleton
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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Nicholas Mulder
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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George Makari
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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