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Pub Date 12 May 2020
The definitive history of the dynasty that dominated Europe for centuries
In The Habsburgs, Martyn Rady tells the epic story of a dynasty and the world they built -- and then lost -- over nearly a millennium. From modest origins, the Habsburgs gained control of the Holy Roman Empire in the fifteenth century. Then, in just a few decades, their possessions...
The Habsburgs
Martyn Rady
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The Kindness of Strangers
How a Selfish Ape Invented a New Moral Code
by Michael E. McCullough
Pub Date 12 May 2020
A sweeping psychological history of human goodness
How did humans, a species of self-centered apes, come to care about others? Since Darwin, scientists have tried to answer this question using evolutionary theory. In The Kindness of Strangers, psychologist Michael McCullough shows why they have failed and offers a new explanation instead. From the moment...
How did humans, a species of self-centered apes, come to care about others? Since Darwin, scientists have tried to answer this question using evolutionary theory. In The Kindness of Strangers, psychologist Michael McCullough shows why they have failed and offers a new explanation instead. From the moment...
The Kindness of Strangers
Michael E. McCullough
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Cinderella and the Glass Ceiling
And Other Feminist Fairy Tales
by Laura Lane; Ellen Haun
Pub Date 10 Mar 2020
This wickedly wise (and wisecracking) parody of classic fairy tales redefines happily ever after for the modern feminist era.
You know what? It's super creepy to kiss a woman who is unconscious. And you know what else? The way out of poverty isn't by marrying a rich dude -- or by wearing fragile footwear, for that matter. And while we're at it, why is the...
Cinderella and the Glass Ceiling
Laura Lane; Ellen Haun
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The Betrayal of the Duchess
The Scandal That Unmade the Bourbon Monarchy and Made France Modern
by Maurice Samuels
Pub Date 14 Apr 2020
Fighting to reclaim the French crown for the Bourbons, the duchesse de Berry faces betrayal at the hands of her closest advisor in this dramatic history of power and revolution.
The year was 1832 and the French royal family was in exile, driven out by yet another revolution. From a drafty Scottish castle, the duchesse de Berry -- the mother of the...
The year was 1832 and the French royal family was in exile, driven out by yet another revolution. From a drafty Scottish castle, the duchesse de Berry -- the mother of the...
The Betrayal of the Duchess
Maurice Samuels
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The Idea of the Brain
The Past and Future of Neuroscience
by Matthew Cobb
Pub Date 21 Apr 2020
A powerful examination of what we think we know about the brain and why -- despite technological advances -- the workings of our most essential organ remain a mystery.
For thousands of years, thinkers and scientists have tried to understand what the brain does. Yet, despite the astonishing discoveries of science, we still have only the vaguest idea of how...
For thousands of years, thinkers and scientists have tried to understand what the brain does. Yet, despite the astonishing discoveries of science, we still have only the vaguest idea of how...
The Idea of the Brain
Matthew Cobb
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Private Investigations
Mystery Writers on the Secrets, Riddles, and Wonders in Their Lives
by Victoria Zackheim
Pub Date 21 Apr 2020
In this thrilling anthology, bestselling mystery writers abandon the cloak of fiction to investigate the suspenseful secrets in their own lives.
For many of us, a good, heart-pounding mystery is the perfect escape from real-world confusion and chaos. But what about the writers who create those stories of suspense and intrigue? How do our favorite novelists...
For many of us, a good, heart-pounding mystery is the perfect escape from real-world confusion and chaos. But what about the writers who create those stories of suspense and intrigue? How do our favorite novelists...
Private Investigations
Victoria Zackheim
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The Abandonment of the West
The History of an Idea in American Foreign Policy
by Michael Kimmage
Pub Date 21 Apr 2020
This definitive portrait of American diplomacy reveals how the concept of the West drove twentieth-century foreign policy, how it fell from favor, and why it is worth saving.
Throughout the twentieth century, many Americans saw themselves as part of Western civilization, and Western ideals of liberty and self-government guided American diplomacy. But today...
Throughout the twentieth century, many Americans saw themselves as part of Western civilization, and Western ideals of liberty and self-government guided American diplomacy. But today...
The Abandonment of the West
Michael Kimmage
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The Sword and the Shield
The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
by Peniel E. Joseph
Pub Date 31 Mar 2020
This dual biography of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King upends longstanding preconceptions to transform our understanding of the twentieth century's most iconic African American leaders.
To most Americans, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. represent contrasting ideals: self-defense vs. nonviolence, black power vs. civil rights, the sword vs. the shield...
To most Americans, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. represent contrasting ideals: self-defense vs. nonviolence, black power vs. civil rights, the sword vs. the shield...
The Sword and the Shield
Peniel E. Joseph
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More than Ready
Be Strong and Be You . . . and Other Lessons for Women of Color on the Rise
by Cecilia Munoz
Pub Date 07 Apr 2020
Advice and inspiration for women of color seeking new heights of influence, from the top Latinx advisor to President Obama
Women of color are becoming more visible and more powerful than ever, achieving higher levels of success and blazing new paths for future generations. These women are pioneers, finding their own way in otherwise white-dominated arenas.
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More than Ready
Cecilia Munoz
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The Sum of the People
How the Census Has Shaped Nations, from the Ancient World to the Modern Age
by Andrew Whitby
Pub Date 31 Mar 2020
This fascinating three-thousand-year history of the census traces the making of the modern survey and explores its political power in the age of big data and surveillance.
In April 2020, the United States will embark on what has been called "the largest peacetime mobilization in American history": the decennial population census. It is part of a tradition of...
In April 2020, the United States will embark on what has been called "the largest peacetime mobilization in American history": the decennial population census. It is part of a tradition of...
The Sum of the People
Andrew Whitby
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Pub Date 24 Mar 2020
This history of Britain set in a global context for our times offers a new perspective on how the rise and fall of an empire shaped modern European politics.
When the British voted to leave the European Union in 2016, the country's future was thrown into doubt. So, too, was its past. The story of British history is no longer a triumphalist narrative of...
When the British voted to leave the European Union in 2016, the country's future was thrown into doubt. So, too, was its past. The story of British history is no longer a triumphalist narrative of...
Island Stories
David Reynolds
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War Fever
Boston, Baseball, and America in the Shadow of the Great War
by Randy Roberts; John Smith
Pub Date 24 Mar 2020
A "richly detailed" portrait of the three men whose lives were forever changed by WWI-era Boston (Michael S. Neiberg): baseball star Babe Ruth, symphony conductor Karl Muck, and Harvard Law student Charles Whittlesey.
In the fall of 1918, a fever gripped Boston. The streets emptied as paranoia about the deadly Spanish flu spread. Newspapermen and vigilante...
In the fall of 1918, a fever gripped Boston. The streets emptied as paranoia about the deadly Spanish flu spread. Newspapermen and vigilante...
War Fever
Randy Roberts; John Smith
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Hitler's First Hundred Days
When Germans Embraced the Third Reich
by Peter Fritzsche
Pub Date 17 Mar 2020
This unsettling and illuminating history reveals how Germany's fractured republic gave way to the Third Reich, from the formation of the Nazi party to the rise of Hitler.
Amid the ravages of economic depression, Germans in the early 1930s were pulled to political extremes both left and right. Then, in the spring of 1933, Germany turned itself inside out...
Amid the ravages of economic depression, Germans in the early 1930s were pulled to political extremes both left and right. Then, in the spring of 1933, Germany turned itself inside out...
Hitler's First Hundred Days
Peter Fritzsche
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Fighting Words
The Bold American Journalists Who Brought the World Home Between the Wars
by Nancy F. Cott
Pub Date 17 Mar 2020
From a Harvard historian, this riveting portrait of four trailblazing American journalists highlights the power of the press in the interwar period.
In the fragile peace following the Great War, a surprising number of restless young Americans abandoned their homes and set out impulsively to see the changing world. In Fighting Words, Nancy F. Cott follows...
In the fragile peace following the Great War, a surprising number of restless young Americans abandoned their homes and set out impulsively to see the changing world. In Fighting Words, Nancy F. Cott follows...
Fighting Words
Nancy F. Cott
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Pub Date 17 Mar 2020
Perfect for readers of Women in Clothes, this beautifully designed philosophical guide to fashion explores art, literature, and film to uncover the hidden meaning of a well-chosen wardrobe.
We all get dressed. But how often do we pause to think about what our clothes say? When we dress ourselves, we are presenting to the world an essence of who we are, who...
We all get dressed. But how often do we pause to think about what our clothes say? When we dress ourselves, we are presenting to the world an essence of who we are, who...
Dressed
Shahidha Bari
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We Know It When We See It
What the Neurobiology of Vision Tells Us About How We Think
by Richard Masland
Pub Date 10 Mar 2020
p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.3px Times} A Harvard researcher investigates the human eye in this insightful account of what vision reveals about intelligence, learning, and the greatest mysteries of neuroscience.
Spotting a face in a crowd is so easy, you take it for granted. But how you do it is one of science's great mysteries. And...
We Know It When We See It
Richard Masland
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The Truth About Animals
Stoned Sloths, Lovelorn Hippos, and Other Tales from the Wild Side of Wildlife
by Lucy Cooke
Pub Date 17 Apr 2018
Mary Roach meets Bill Bryson in this "surefire summer winner" (Janet Maslin, New York Times), an uproarious tour of the basest instincts and biggest mysteries of the animal world
Humans have gone to the Moon and discovered the Higgs boson, but when it comes to understanding animals, we've still got a long way to go. Whether we're seeing a viral video of...
Humans have gone to the Moon and discovered the Higgs boson, but when it comes to understanding animals, we've still got a long way to go. Whether we're seeing a viral video of...
The Truth About Animals
Lucy Cooke
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Why We're Wrong About Nearly Everything
A Theory of Human Misunderstanding
by Bobby Duffy
Pub Date 26 Nov 2019
A leading social researcher explains why humans so consistently misunderstand the outside world
How often are women harassed? What percentage of the population are immigrants? How bad is unemployment? These questions are important, but most of us get the answers wrong. Research shows that people often wildly misunderstand the state of the world, regardless...
How often are women harassed? What percentage of the population are immigrants? How bad is unemployment? These questions are important, but most of us get the answers wrong. Research shows that people often wildly misunderstand the state of the world, regardless...
Why We're Wrong About Nearly Everything
Bobby Duffy
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Average is the New Awesome
A Manifesto for the Rest of Us
by Samantha Matt
Pub Date 07 Jan 2020
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A celebration of ordinary awesomeness, for all of us who were told "You can do anything!" and then found out we actually can't
Crappy homes, lame love lives, getting passed over for a great job (again)--not what we expected for our adulthoods. Americans tell their children you can become anything! But let's face it--most of us can't.
Sure, some of our peers...
Crappy homes, lame love lives, getting passed over for a great job (again)--not what we expected for our adulthoods. Americans tell their children you can become anything! But let's face it--most of us can't.
Sure, some of our peers...
Average is the New Awesome
Samantha Matt
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Pub Date 10 Dec 2019
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From an award-winning historian, a magisterial account of the revolution that created the modern world
The principles of the French Revolution remain the only possible basis for a just society -- even if, after more than two hundred years, they are more contested than ever before. In A New World Begins, Jeremy D. Popkin offers a riveting account of the...
The principles of the French Revolution remain the only possible basis for a just society -- even if, after more than two hundred years, they are more contested than ever before. In A New World Begins, Jeremy D. Popkin offers a riveting account of the...
A New World Begins
Jeremy Popkin
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The Great Democracy
How to Fix Our Politics, Unrig the Economy, and Unite America
by Ganesh Sitaraman
Pub Date 10 Dec 2019
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A leading progressive intellectual offers an "illuminating" agenda for how real democracy can triumph in America and beyond (Ari Berman, New York Times).
Since the New Deal in the 1930s, there have been two eras in our political history: the liberal era, stretching up to the 1970s, followed by the neoliberal era of privatization and austerity ever since. In...
Since the New Deal in the 1930s, there have been two eras in our political history: the liberal era, stretching up to the 1970s, followed by the neoliberal era of privatization and austerity ever since. In...
The Great Democracy
Ganesh Sitaraman
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Pub Date 29 May 2018
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We’ve decided by consensus that consensus is good. In In Defense of Troublemakers, psychologist Charlan Jeanne Nemeth argues that this principle is completely wrong: left unchallenged, the majority opinion is often biased, unoriginal, or false. It leads planes and markets to crash and can make people think blue is green. It causes juries to convict innocent...
In Defense of Troublemakers
Charlan Jeanne Nemeth
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Pub Date 15 May 2018
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p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.3px Times} A Chernobyl survivor and award-winning historian "mercilessly chronicles the absurdities of the Soviet system" in this "vividly empathetic" account of the worst nuclear accident in history (The Wall Street Journal).
On the morning of April 26, 1986, Europe witnessed the worst nuclear disaster in...
Chernobyl
Serhii Plokhy
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Blood Letters
The Untold Story of Lin Zhao, a Martyr in Mao's China
by Lian Xi
Pub Date 20 Mar 2018
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The staggering story of the most important Chinese political dissident of the Mao era, a devout Christian who was imprisoned, tortured, and executed by the regime
Blood Letters tells the astonishing tale of Lin Zhao, a poet and journalist arrested by the authorities in 1960 and executed eight years later, at the height of the Cultural Revolution. The only...
Blood Letters tells the astonishing tale of Lin Zhao, a poet and journalist arrested by the authorities in 1960 and executed eight years later, at the height of the Cultural Revolution. The only...
Blood Letters
Lian Xi
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Edge of Chaos
Why Democracy Is Failing to Deliver Economic Growth-and How to Fix It
by Dambisa Moyo
Pub Date 24 Apr 2018
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From an internationally acclaimed economist, a provocative call to jump-start economic growth by aggressively overhauling liberal democracy
Around the world, people who are angry at stagnant wages and growing inequality have rebelled against established governments and turned to political extremes. Liberal democracy, history's greatest engine of growth, now...
Edge of Chaos
Dambisa Moyo
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Pub Date 12 Jun 2018
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A contrarian argues that modern physicists' obsession with beauty has given us wonderful math but bad science
Whether pondering black holes or predicting discoveries at CERN, physicists believe the best theories are beautiful, natural, and elegant, and this standard separates popular theories from disposable ones. This is why, Sabine Hossenfelder argues, we...
Whether pondering black holes or predicting discoveries at CERN, physicists believe the best theories are beautiful, natural, and elegant, and this standard separates popular theories from disposable ones. This is why, Sabine Hossenfelder argues, we...
Lost in Math
Sabine Hossenfelder
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Pub Date 18 Sep 2018
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A lively introduction to opera, from the Renaissance to the twenty-first century
There are few art forms as visceral and emotional as opera--and few that are as daunting for newcomers. A Mad Love offers a spirited and indispensable tour of opera's eclectic past and present, beginning with Monteverdi's L'Orfeo in 1607, generally considered the first...
There are few art forms as visceral and emotional as opera--and few that are as daunting for newcomers. A Mad Love offers a spirited and indispensable tour of opera's eclectic past and present, beginning with Monteverdi's L'Orfeo in 1607, generally considered the first...
A Mad Love
Vivien Schweitzer
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Fierce Enigmas
A History of the United States in South Asia
by Srinath Raghavan
Pub Date 16 Oct 2018
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The two-hundred-year history of the United States' involvement in South Asia--the key to understanding contemporary American policy in the region
South Asia looms large in American foreign policy. Over the past two decades, we have spent billions of dollars and thousands of human lives in the region, to seemingly little effect. As Srinath Raghavan reveals...
South Asia looms large in American foreign policy. Over the past two decades, we have spent billions of dollars and thousands of human lives in the region, to seemingly little effect. As Srinath Raghavan reveals...
Fierce Enigmas
Srinath Raghavan
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Gene Machine
The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome
by Venki Ramakrishnan
Pub Date 06 Nov 2018
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A Nobel Prize-winning biologist tells the riveting story of his race to discover the inner workings of biology's most important molecule
"Ramakrishnan's writing is so honest, lucid and engaging that I could not put this book down until I had read to the very end." --Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The Gene
Everyone has heard...
"Ramakrishnan's writing is so honest, lucid and engaging that I could not put this book down until I had read to the very end." --Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The Gene
Everyone has heard...
Gene Machine
Venki Ramakrishnan
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Pub Date 13 Nov 2018
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The life of John Marshall, Founding Father and America's premier chief justice.
In 1801, a genial and brilliant Revolutionary War veteran and politician became the fourth chief justice of the United States. He would hold the post for 34 years (still a record), expounding the Constitution he loved. Before he joined the Supreme Court, it was the weakling of...
In 1801, a genial and brilliant Revolutionary War veteran and politician became the fourth chief justice of the United States. He would hold the post for 34 years (still a record), expounding the Constitution he loved. Before he joined the Supreme Court, it was the weakling of...
John Marshall
Richard Brookhiser
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Land of Tears
Robert Harms
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America for Americans
A History of Xenophobia in the United States
by Erika Lee
Pub Date 26 Nov 2019
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An award-winning historian reframes our continuing debate over immigration with a compelling history of xenophobia in the United States and its devastating impact
The United States is known as a nation of immigrants. But it is also a nation of xenophobia. In America for Americans, Erika Lee shows that an irrational fear, hatred, and hostility toward...
The United States is known as a nation of immigrants. But it is also a nation of xenophobia. In America for Americans, Erika Lee shows that an irrational fear, hatred, and hostility toward...
America for Americans
Erika Lee
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American Queenmaker
How Missy Meloney Brought Women Into Politics
by Julie Des Jardins
Pub Date 21 Jan 2020
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The first biography of Missy Meloney, the most important woman you've never heard of
Marie "Missy" Mattingly Meloney was born in 1878, in an America where women couldn't vote. Yet she recognized the power that women held as consumers and family decision-makers, and persuaded male publishers and politicians to take them seriously. Over the course of her life...
Marie "Missy" Mattingly Meloney was born in 1878, in an America where women couldn't vote. Yet she recognized the power that women held as consumers and family decision-makers, and persuaded male publishers and politicians to take them seriously. Over the course of her life...
American Queenmaker
Julie Des Jardins
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