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Fugitive Landscapes
The Forgotten History of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
Published in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest StudiesIn the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Mexicans and Americans joined together to transform the U.S.–Mexico...
Sustainability by Design
A Subversive Strategy for Transforming Our Consumer Culture
Treating the symptoms of global ecological stress isn’t enough; we need to think about sustainability in an entirely different light The developed world, increasingly aware of “inconvenient truths”...
The Illusions of Entrepreneurship
The Costly Myths That Entrepreneurs, Investors, and Policy Makers Live By
A challenge to the myths we hold about entrepreneurs in America—who they are, what they do, and how they succeed There are far more entrepreneurs than most people realize. But the failure rate of new...
The Crisis of Islamic Civilization
A bold analysis of the sources of the crisis in today’s Islamic world, from a public intellectual and statesman at its heart Islam as a religion is central to the lives of over a billion people, but its...
Money, Markets, and Sovereignty
Winner of the 2010 Hayek Book Prize given by the Manhattan Institute "Money, Markets and Sovereignty is a surprisingly easy read, given the complicated issues covered. In it, Mr. Steil and Mr. Hinds...
Demobbed
Coming Home After World War Two
The trials, troubles and triumphs of returning home after the end of World War Two. What happened when millions of British servicemen were “demobbed”—demobilized—after World War II? Most had been absent for years,...
Radial Symmetry
Katherine Larson is the winner of the 2010 Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition. With Radial Symmetry, she has created a transcendent body of poems that flourish in the liminal spaces that separate scientific inquiry...
Ida
A Novel
A welcome new edition of Stein’s witty novel of fame and identity, inspired by the celebrity life of the Duchess of Windsor Gertrude Stein wanted Ida to be known in two ways: as a novel about a...
Gustav Mahler
A Life in Crisis
Crises in the life of Gustav Mahler inspired some of his greatest works—but eventually led to an early death The life of the brilliant composer and conductor Gustav Mahler was punctuated by crisis. His...
Cosima Wagner
The Lady of Bayreuth
An enthralling new biography of the woman behind Bayreuth In this meticulously researched book, Oliver Hilmes paints a fascinating and revealing picture of the extraordinary Cosima Wagner—illegitimate...