-
The shamama case
How a nineteenth-century lawsuit over the estate of a wealthy Tunisian Jew shines new light on the history of belongingIn the winter of 1873, Nissim Shamama, a wealthy Jew from Tunisia, died suddenly in his palazzo in Livorno, Italy. His passing initiated a fierce lawsuit over his large estate. B...
Read MoreRegular price $37.00Sale price $37.00 Regular price $37.00Unit price per -
Horizon work
A new way of thinking about the climate crisis as an exercise in delimiting knowable, and habitable, worldsAs carbon dioxide emissions continue to rise, Earth’s fragile ecosystems are growing increasingly unstable and unpredictable. Horizon Work explores how climate change is disrupting our funda...
Read MoreRegular price $37.00Sale price $37.00 Regular price $37.00Unit price per -
Russia leaves the war
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Bancroft Prize, and the Parkman PrizeFrom acclaimed diplomat and historian George Kennan, a landmark history of the crucial months in 1917–1918 that forged the pattern of Soviet-American relationsWhen the Bolsheviks seized power in Novemb...
Read MoreRegular price $29.95Sale price $29.95 Regular price $29.95Unit price per -
Minds wide shut
A timely exploration of intellectual dogmatism in politics, economics, religion, and literature—and what can be done to fight itPolarization may be pushing democracy to the breaking point. But few have explored the larger, interconnected forces that have set the stage for this crisis: namely, a r...
Read MoreRegular price $22.95Sale price $22.95 Regular price $22.95Unit price per -
Radical by nature
A major biography of the brilliant naturalist, traveler, humanitarian, and codiscoverer of natural selectionAlfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913) was perhaps the most famed naturalist of the Victorian age. His expeditions to remote Amazonia and southeast Asia were the stuff of legend. A collector of ...
Read MoreRegular price $39.95Sale price $39.95 Regular price $39.95Unit price per -
Impermanent blackness
Revisiting an almost-forgotten American interracial literary culture that advanced racial pluralism in the decades before the 1960sIn Impermanent Blackness, Korey Garibaldi explores interracial collaborations in American commercial publishing—authors, agents, and publishers who forged partnership...
Read MoreRegular price $29.95Sale price $29.95 Regular price $29.95Unit price per -
Pde control of string-actuated motion
New adaptive and event-triggered control designs with concrete applications in undersea construction, offshore drilling, and cable elevatorsControl applications in undersea construction, cable elevators, and offshore drilling present major methodological challenges because they involve PDE system...
Read MoreRegular price $74.00Sale price $74.00 Regular price $74.00Unit price per -
Postcards from absurdistan
A sweeping history of a twentieth-century Prague torn between fascism, communism, and democracy—with lessons for a world again threatened by dictatorshipPostcards from Absurdistan is a cultural history of Prague from 1938, when the Nazis destroyed Czechoslovakia’s artistically vibrant liberal dem...
Read MoreRegular price $35.00Sale price $35.00 Regular price $35.00Unit price per -
Back to the moon
A scientist’s inspiring vision of our return to the Moon as humanity’s next thrilling step in space explorationJust over half a century since Neil Armstrong first stepped foot on the lunar surface, a new space race to the Moon is well underway and rapidly gaining momentum. Laying out a vision for...
Read MoreRegular price $19.95Sale price $19.95 Regular price $19.95Unit price per -
Viral justice
From the author of Race After Technology, an inspiring vision of how we can build a more just world—one small change at a time“A true gift to our movements for justice.”—Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim CrowLong before the pandemic, Ruha Benjamin was doing groundbreaking research on race...
Read MoreRegular price $29.95Sale price $29.95 Regular price $29.95Unit price per -
Aftermath
A powerful personal narrative of recovery and an illuminating philosophical exploration of traumaOn July 4, 1990, while on a morning walk in southern France, Susan Brison was attacked from behind, severely beaten, sexually assaulted, strangled to unconsciousness, and left for dead. She survived, ...
Read MoreRegular price $24.95Sale price $24.95 Regular price $24.95Unit price per -
Deep time
How the concept of “deep time” began as a metaphor used by philosophers, poets, and naturalists in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuriesIn this interdisciplinary book, Noah Heringman argues that the concept of “deep time”—most often associated with geological epochs—began as a metaphorical lang...
Read MoreRegular price $35.00Sale price $35.00 Regular price $35.00Unit price per -
Talking cure
An invigorating exploration of the pleasures and social importance of conversationTalking Cure is a timely and enticing excursion into the art of good conversation. Paula Marantz Cohen reveals how conversation connects us in ways that social media never can and explains why simply talking to each...
Read MoreRegular price $24.95Sale price $24.95 Regular price $24.95Unit price per -
The lion
An authoritative, accessible, and gorgeously illustrated exploration into the lives of these remarkable animalsLions are the only social cat. They hunt together, raise cubs together, and defend territories together against neighbors and strangers. Lions also rest atop their ecological pyramid, wi...
Read MoreRegular price $39.95Sale price $39.95 Regular price $39.95Unit price per -
The enjoyment of math
The classic book that shares the enjoyment of mathematics with readers of all skill levelsWhat is so special about the number 30? Do the prime numbers go on forever? Are there more whole numbers than even numbers? The Enjoyment of Math explores these and other captivating problems and puzzles, in...
Read MoreRegular price $19.95Sale price $19.95 Regular price $19.95Unit price per -
Three roads back
From their acclaimed biographer, a final, powerful book about how Emerson, Thoreau, and William James forged resilience from devastating loss, changing the course of American thoughtIn Three Roads Back, Robert Richardson, the author of magisterial biographies of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David T...
Read MoreRegular price $22.95Sale price $22.95 Regular price $22.95Unit price per -
Complicit
What all of us can do to fight the pervasive human tendency to enable wrongdoing in the workplace, politics, and beyondIt is easy to condemn obvious wrongdoers such as Elizabeth Holmes, Harvey Weinstein, and the Sackler family. But we rarely think about the many people who supported their unethic...
Read MoreRegular price $17.95Sale price $17.95 Regular price $17.95Unit price per -
How to say no
An entertaining and enlightening collection of ancient writings about the philosophers who advocated simple living and rejected unthinking conformityThe Cynics were ancient Greek philosophers who stood athwart the flood of society’s material excess, unexamined conventions, and even norms of polit...
Read MoreRegular price $18.95Sale price $18.95 Regular price $18.95Unit price per -
Life is short
Why life’s shortness—more than anything else—is what makes it meaningfulDeath might seem to render pointless all our attempts to create a meaningful life. Doesn’t meaning require transcending death through an afterlife or in some other way? On the contrary, Dean Rickles argues, life without death...
Read MoreRegular price $29.95Sale price $29.95 Regular price $29.95Unit price per -
"you are not expected to understand this"
Leading technologists, historians, and journalists reveal the stories behind the computer coding that touches all aspects of life—for better or worseFew of us give much thought to computer code or how it comes to be. The very word “code” makes it sound immutable or even inevitable. “You Are Not E...
Read MoreRegular price $19.95Sale price $19.95 Regular price $19.95Unit price per -
Nehru's india
An iconoclastic history of the first two decades after independence in IndiaNehru’s India brings a provocative but nuanced set of new interpretations to the history of early independent India. Drawing from her extensive research over the past two decades, Taylor Sherman reevaluates the role of Ja...
Read MoreRegular price $42.00Sale price $42.00 Regular price $42.00Unit price per -
The aesthetic cold war
How decolonization and the cold war influenced literature from Africa, Asia, and the CaribbeanHow did superpower competition and the cold war affect writers in the decolonizing world? In The Aesthetic Cold War, Peter Kalliney explores the various ways that rival states used cultural diplomacy and...
Read MoreRegular price $48.00Sale price $48.00 Regular price $48.00Unit price per -
Adam smith’s america
The unlikely story of how Americans canonized Adam Smith as the patron saint of free marketsOriginally published in 1776, Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations was lauded by America’s founders as a landmark work of Enlightenment thinking about national wealth, statecraft, and moral virtue. Today, Sm...
Read MoreRegular price $45.00Sale price $45.00 Regular price $45.00Unit price per -
When galaxies were born
One of today’s leading astronomers takes readers inside the decades-long search for the first galaxies and the origin of starlightAstronomers are like time travelers, scanning the night sky for the outermost galaxies that first came into being when our universe was a mere fraction of its present ...
Read MoreRegular price $35.00Sale price $35.00 Regular price $35.00Unit price per -
Resurrecting the jew
An in-depth look at why non-Jewish Poles are trying to bring Jewish culture back to life in Poland todaySince the early 2000s, Poland has experienced a remarkable Jewish revival, largely driven by non-Jewish Poles with a passionate new interest in all things Jewish. Klezmer music, Jewish-style re...
Read MoreRegular price $34.00Sale price $34.00 Regular price $34.00Unit price per -
A philosophy of beauty
An engaging account of how Shaftesbury revolutionized Western philosophyAt the turn of the eighteenth century, Anthony Ashley Cooper, the third Earl of Shaftesbury (1671–1713), developed the first comprehensive philosophy of beauty to be written in English. It revolutionized Western philosophy. I...
Read MoreRegular price $42.00Sale price $42.00 Regular price $42.00Unit price per -
The institutional foundation of economic development
A systemic account of how institutions shape economic developmentInstitutions matter for economic development. Yet despite this accepted wisdom, new institutional economics (NIE) has yet to provide a comprehensive look at what constitutes the institutional foundation of economic development (IFED...
Read MoreRegular price $37.00Sale price $37.00 Regular price $37.00Unit price per -
The rise and fall of imperial china
How social networks shaped the imperial Chinese stateChina was the world’s leading superpower for almost two millennia, falling behind only in the last two centuries and now rising to dominance again. What factors led to imperial China’s decline? The Rise and Fall of Imperial China offers a syste...
Read MoreRegular price $35.00Sale price $35.00 Regular price $35.00Unit price per -
That tyrant, persuasion
How rhetorical training influenced deeds as well as words in the Roman EmpireThe assassins of Julius Caesar cried out that they had killed a tyrant, and days later their colleagues in the Senate proposed rewards for this act of tyrannicide. The killers and their supporters spoke as if they were f...
Read MoreRegular price $24.95Sale price $24.95 Regular price $24.95Unit price per -
In hitler's munich
From acclaimed historian Michael Brenner, a mesmerizing portrait of Munich in the early years of Hitler's quest for powerIn the aftermath of Germany's defeat in World War I and the failed November Revolution of 1918–19, the conservative government of Bavaria identified Jews with left-wing radical...
Read MoreRegular price $48.00Sale price $48.00 Regular price $48.00Unit price per -
Every household its own government
An up-close account of how Nigerians’ self-reliance in the absence of reliable government services enables official dysfunction to strengthen state powerWhen Nigerians say that every household is its own local government, what they mean is that the politicians and state institutions of Africa’s r...
Read MoreRegular price $29.95Sale price $29.95 Regular price $29.95Unit price per -
Work pray code
How tech giants are reshaping spirituality to serve their religion of peak productivitySilicon Valley is known for its lavish perks, intense work culture, and spiritual gurus. Work Pray Code explores how tech companies are bringing religion into the workplace in ways that are replacing traditiona...
Read MoreRegular price $18.95Sale price $18.95 Regular price $18.95Unit price per -
The closed book
A groundbreaking reinterpretation of early Judaism, during the millennium before the study of the Bible took center stageEarly Judaism is often described as the religion of the book par excellence—a movement built around the study of the Bible and steeped in a culture of sacred bookishness that e...
Read MoreRegular price $39.95Sale price $39.95 Regular price $39.95Unit price per -
Key terms of the qur'an
An essential single-volume companion to the critical interpretation of Islamic scriptureThis book provides detailed and multidisciplinary coverage of a wealth of key Qur’anic terms, with incisive entries on crucial expressions ranging from the divine names allāh (“God”) and al-raḥmān (“the Mercif...
Read MoreRegular price $60.00Sale price $60.00 Regular price $60.00Unit price per -
Christian supremacy
A panoramic cultural and legal history that traces the roots of antisemitism and racism to early Christian theologySince the earliest days of Christianity, theologians expressed pervasive anxiety about Jews as equal members of society, and, with European expansion in the early modern period, that...
Read MoreRegular price $35.00Sale price $35.00 Regular price $35.00Unit price per -
Aporophobia
Why “aporophobia”—rejection of the poor—is one of the most serious problems facing the world today, and how we can fight itIn this revelatory book, acclaimed political philosopher Adela Cortina makes an unprecedented assertion: the biggest problem facing the world today is the rejection of poor p...
Read MoreRegular price $29.95Sale price $29.95 Regular price $29.95Unit price per -
The state
A major new account of the state and its importance by a leading political philosopherThe future of our species depends on the state. Can states resist corporate capture, religious zealotry, and nationalist mania? Can they find a way to work together so that the earth heals and its peoples prospe...
Read MoreRegular price $39.95Sale price $39.95 Regular price $39.95Unit price per -
A joyfully serious man
The brilliant but turbulent life of a public intellectual who transformed the social sciencesRobert Bellah (1927–2013) was one of the most influential social scientists of the twentieth century. Trained as a sociologist, he crossed disciplinary boundaries in pursuit of a greater comprehension of ...
Read MoreRegular price $48.00Sale price $48.00 Regular price $48.00Unit price per -
The sounds of life
An amazing journey into the hidden realm of nature’s soundsThe natural world teems with remarkable conversations, many beyond human hearing range. Scientists are using groundbreaking digital technologies to uncover these astonishing sounds, revealing vibrant communication among our fellow creatur...
Read MoreRegular price $21.95Sale price $21.95 Regular price $21.95Unit price per -
The essence of software
A revolutionary concept-based approach to thinking about, designing, and interacting with softwareAs our dependence on technology increases, the design of software matters more than ever before. Why then is so much software flawed? Why hasn’t there been a systematic and scalable way to create sof...
Read MoreRegular price $23.95Sale price $23.95 Regular price $23.95Unit price per -
The liars of nature and the nature of liars
A natural history of cheating from selfish genes to lying politiciansNature is rife with cheating. Possums play possum, feigning death to cheat predators. Crows cry wolf to scare off rivals. Amphibians and reptiles are inveterate impostors. Even genes and cells cheat. The Liars of Nature and the ...
Read MoreRegular price $19.95Sale price $19.95 Regular price $19.95Unit price per -
Snow crystals
A definitive new investigation of the science of snowflakes by the world’s leading expertA snowflake’s sophisticated symmetry emerges when crystalline ice grows from water vapor within the winter clouds. While certain iconic snowflake shapes are visually familiar to us, microscopic close-ups of f...
Read MoreRegular price $142.00Sale price $142.00 Regular price $142.00Unit price per -
The process of animal domestication
The first modern scholarly synthesis of animal domesticationAcross the globe and at different times in the past millennia, the evolutionary history of domesticated animals has been greatly affected by the myriad, complex, and diverse interactions humans have had with the animals closest to them. ...
Read MoreRegular price $51.00Sale price $51.00 Regular price $51.00Unit price per -
The road to dien bien phu
A multifaceted history of Ho Chi Minh’s climactic victory over French colonial might that foreshadowed America’s experience in VietnamOn May 7, 1954, when the bullets stopped and the air stilled in Dien Bien Phu, there was no doubt that Vietnam could fight a mighty colonial power and win. After n...
Read MoreRegular price $35.00Sale price $35.00 Regular price $35.00Unit price per
Something went wrong
Please try again
