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The Last Days of Stalin
A gripping account of the months before and after Stalin’s death and how his demise reshaped the course of twentieth-century history Joshua Rubenstein’s riveting account takes us back to the second half of 1952 when...
Notes from the Pianist's Bench
A master class on piano performance and pedagogy from the world-renowned concert pianist In this newly revised edition of a comprehensive guide to piano technique, performance, and music interpretation,...
The End of Europe
Dictators, Demagogues, and the Coming Dark Age
The disintegration of Europe’s post–Cold War consensus in the face of anti-Semitism, populist nationalism, and territorial aggression Once the world’s bastion of liberal, democratic values, Europe is now...
The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright
An eye-opening biography of a woman whose life intersected with three distinct cultures in eighteenth-century America: colonial New England, French Canadian, and Native American“Esther Wheelwright’s...
The Chessboard and the Web
Strategies of Connection in a Networked World
From a renowned foreign-policy expert, a new paradigm for strategy in the twenty-first century In 1961, Thomas Schelling’s The Strategy of Conflict used game theory to radically reenvision the U.S....
The Vory
Russia's Super Mafia
The first English-language book to document the men who emerged from the gulags to become Russia’s much-feared crime class: the vory v zakone Mark Galeotti is the go-to expert on organized crime in...
Invisible Countries
Journeys to the Edge of Nationhood
A thoughtful analysis of how our world’s borders came to be and why we may be emerging from a lengthy period of “cartographical stasis” What is a country? While certain basic criteria—borders, a government,...
Supermarket USA
Food and Power in the Cold War Farms Race
America fought the Cold War in part through supermarkets—and the food economy pioneered then has helped shape the way we eat today Supermarkets were invented in the United States, and from the 1940s on they...
The Kremlin Letters
Stalin’s Wartime Correspondence with Churchill and Roosevelt
A penetrating account of the dynamics of World War II’s Grand Alliance through the messages exchanged by the "Big Three" Stalin exchanged more than six hundred messages with Allied leaders Churchill and...
Nature's Giants
The Biology and Evolution of the World's Largest Lifeforms
A beautifully illustrated exploration of the science behind the awe-inspiring giants of past and present The colossal plants and animals of our world—dinosaurs, whales, and even trees—are a source of...