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From the man that the New York Times calls "the most important person you've never heard of," renowned Cambridge University economist Sir Partha Dasgupta, comes a paradigm shifting treatise, asking a...

“A brilliant and visionary book.” —Anne-Marie Slaughter, CEO, New America What has happened to the nation-state? From a prize-winning writer, a sweeping history of this most unquestioned of modern...

As a child growing up in New Delhi, Sayantani Dasgupta wanted to go on adventures involving shipwrecks and treasure chests. Her parents wanted her to stay in school instead. She satisfied her...

A geneticist and internationally recognized anti-racism educator provides a powerful, science-based rebuttal to common fallacies about human difference.Well-meaning physicians, parents, and even...

**Winner of the 2017 Ryszard Kapuściński Award for Literary Reportage**    **Short-listed for the Orwell Prize and for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize**An extraordinary portrait of the...

Few things require a finer blend of practical knowledge and creative imagination than the invention of new technologies. Great innovators like Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, and Henry Ford...

An essential anthology of leading academics, activists, and artists on the state of queer studies today.The David R. Kessler Lectures, established in 1992 by CLAGS: Center for LGBTQ Studies at the...

From New York Times bestselling author comes a world packed with action and adventure, perfect for fans of Rick Riordan and Soman Chainani.MEET KIRANMALA:INTERDIMENSIONAL DEMON SLAYER(Only she...

Finalist for the 2025 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist for the 2026 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Finalist for the 2026 Maine Literary Award One of NPR's "Books We Love" for...

Heinz Giegerich investigates the way in which alternations in the sound patterns of words interact with the processes of word formation in the language. Drawing examples from English and German, he...

When the hexarchate's gifted young captain Kel Cheris summoned the ghost of the long-dead General Shuos Jedao to help her put down a rebellion, she didn't reckon on his breaking free of centuries of...

Three plays by the comedian of Ancient GreeceWriting at the time of political and social crisis in Athens, Aristophanes was an eloquent yet bawdy challenger to the demagogue and the sophist. The...

Testi di Francesca Salvadori.Introduzione di David Bindman.Milano, 2003; cartonato, pp. 240, 280 ill. b/n, cm 29x29.(Arte e cultura). Il volume riunisce e riproduce per la prima volta il corpus delle...

This collection of survey and research articles brings together topics at the forefront of the theory of L-functions and Galois representations. Highlighting important progress in areas such as the...

By treating the history of moral concepts as geological strata, Rosenthal discovered the archaeological method long before it became fashionable. The appeal of this book - in addition to its wryly...

Narrated by a man whose light skin enables him to "pass" for white, describes a journey through the strata of Black society-- from a cigar factory in Jacksonville to an elite gambling club in New...