Longlisted for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year AwardA novel economic interpretation of how religions have become so powerful in the modern worldReligion in the twenty-first century is alive and well across the world, despite...

THE INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A Wall Street Journal Top 10 Book of 2024 • A New York Times and Washington Post Notable Book • One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2024 • A TIME 100 Must-Read Book of 2024 • Named a Best Book of 2024 by the...

A prominent historian provides an engaging on-the-ground account of the everyday authoritarianism that produced the Arab Spring in Egypt "A visceral and perceptive study of life under autocracy."--Publishers Weekly An unmatched contemporary history...

A great theater critic brings twentieth-century playwright Arthur Miller’s dramatic story to life with bold and revealing new insights“Lahr’s cogent analyses are revelatory. . . . He does not reduce the work to the life, but shows how it explains the...

A sweeping, lavishly illustrated one-volume history of the rise of American naval power during World War II "When he is at his best, as he often is in these pages, Kennedy can be dazzling."--Ian W. Toll, New York Times "The book makes for enjoyable...

A moving meditation on recent geopolitical crises, viewed through the lens of ancient and modern tragedy“Spare, elegant and poignant. . . . If there is a single contemporary book that should be pressed into the hands of those who decide issues of war and...

A leading critic's acclaimed story of "the photo boom" during the crucial decades of the 1970s and '80s "Grundberg . . . is a vibrant, opinionated, authoritative guide to the medium's past and present."--Jackie Wullschläger, Financial Times When...

A FINANCIAL TIMES “BEST SUMMER BOOKS OF 2023: MONEY” AND “BEST SUMMER BOOKS OF 2023: ECONOMICS”“Historically informed and lucid.”—Martin Wolf, Financial Times"Brilliantly clear and concise.”—Juliet Samuel, Times (UK)"Excellent and readable.”—Larry...

A revealing examination of how mental illness informs and connects the highly charged work of Edvard Munch and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner The Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (1863-1944) and the German artist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938) are considered...

A beautifully produced facsimile of the last known intact sketchbook by J. M. W. Turner J. M. W. Turner (1775-1851) seldom left home without a sketchbook. Over the course of his lifetime, he filled more than three hundred, most of them small enough to...

A landmark survey of the artistic traditions and cross-cultural exchange of Ethiopia, from the early centuries of our era to todayThis monumental volume celebrates the artistic traditions of Ethiopia from their origins to the present day, spanning over...

From two distinguished experts on election law, an alarming look at how the American presidency could be stolen—by entirely legal means“Their new book asks whether a second Trump attempt to subvert democracy could succeed. Their answer makes for...

A biography of Native Son's Bigger Thomas that examines his continued relevance in debates over Black men and the violence of racism Bigger Thomas, the central figure in Richard Wright's novel Native Son (1940), eludes easy categorization. A violent and...

The best essays from America’s premier cultural historianJackson Lears has been hailed as the “dean of American cultural history” and “one of the few pre-eminent historians of our time.” Well known for his elegant, daring scholarship on topics such as...

Charles Holland challenges us to look beyond the day-to-day familiarity of buildings to rediscover the pleasure of experiencing architectureArchitecture is bound up with our daily lives but, for most of us, it is experienced as a blur of habit. Our...

A landmark history of the world economic order, exploring how developing countries have fought to escape impoverishment Over the past two decades, experiments in neoliberal economics have opened up a chasm of inequality between the Global South and...

A surprising study reveals a plethora of attempts to communicate with non-humans in the modern era.In Interspecies Communication, music scholar Gavin Steingo examines significant cases of attempted communication beyond the human—cases in which the...

A #1 bestseller on The New York Times, USA Today, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times!From the celebrated author of The Nightingale and The Four Winds comes Kristin Hannah's The Women—at once an intimate portrait of coming of age in a dangerous time...

A National Bestseller • A New York Times Top 10 Book of 2024 • Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, Chicago Tribune, Newsweek, PBS NewsHour, LitHub, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Lunch, Christian Science Monitor, and Counterpunch • One of Barack...

Make your garden and home look and smell heavenly with this accessible gardening guide that explains how to grow fragrant flowers outdoors and bring natural scents indoors by creating floral arrangements, scented beauty products, and more.“A practical...