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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Sten Rynning
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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Samuel A. Greene,Graeme B. Robertson
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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Charles Clover
A fascinating study of the motivations behind the political activities and philosophies of Putin's government in Russia"Part intellectual history, part por ...
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Nigel Shadbolt,Roger Hampson
A new approach to the challenges surrounding artificial intelligence that argues for assessing AI actions as if they came from a human being “Elegant ...
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Matthew Rose
A bracing account of liberalism's most radical critics introducing one of the most controversial movements of the twentieth century"Powerful. . .. Bracing. ...
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Thomas Piketty
A chronicle of recent events that have shaken the world, from the author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century "What makes this manifesto noteworthy is th ...
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M.E. Sarotte
A leading expert on foreign policy reveals how tensions between America, NATO, and Russia transformed geopolitics in a Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2021 "S ...
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Hassan Abbas
The first account of the new Taliban-showing who they are, what they want, and how they differ from their predecessors Since the fall of Kabul in 2021, the Tali ...
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Odd Arne Westad,Jian Chen
The first thorough account of a formative and little understood chapter in Chinese history “Almost every page contains an eye-opening detail. . .. The ...
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Michael Mann
A history of wars through the ages and across the world, and the irrational calculations that so often lie behind them Benjamin Franklin once said, "There ...
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Richard Cockett
How can one European capital be responsible for most of the West's intellectual and cultural achievements in the twentieth century? Viennese ideas saturate the ...
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Sebastian Strangio
A timely look at the impact of China's booming emergence on the countries of Southeast Asia"An expert and lucid synthesis of the historical context and rec ...
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Dorothy P. Holinger
An original, authoritative guide to the impact of grief on the brain, the heart, and the body of the bereaved "Dorothy Holinger's exploration of the contou ...
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Kate Crawford
The hidden costs of artificial intelligence-from natural resources and labor to privacy, equality, and freedom"This study argues that [artificial intellige ...
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Steve Tibble
A gripping account of the Knights Templar, challenging received wisdom to show how these devout medieval knights played a profound role in making modern Britain ...
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Christopher Phillips
The essential guide to geopolitics in the modern Middle East The Middle East is in crisis. The shocking events of the war in Gaza have rocked the ent ...
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