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Nudge
Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
A New York Times bestseller with more than 1.5 million copies soldNamed a Best Book of the Year by the Economist and the Financial Times “An...
Numbers 21-36
The Book of Numbers is an account of how the Israelites wandered in the wilderness after receiving the Ten Commandments of Mount Sinai. Through this time of testing, while facing an uncertain future, the people complained...
The Golem and the Wondrous Deeds of the Maharal of Prague
The first English translation, from the original Hebrew, of the golem stories by Yudl Rosenberg, who gives Golem a name (Yossele), expands his humanity, and changes forever the dynamic of the legend...
Writings on Architecture
The first collection of writings by one of the most innovative architects and educators of the 1950s and 1960s, this book includes a wealth of recently discovered archival materials and many previously unpublished...
Taliban
Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia
Second Edition
“The standard work in English on the Taliban” (Christopher de Bellaigue, New York Review of Books) and its impact on Afghanistan A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ...
How Rome Fell
Death of a Superpower
A major new history of the fall of the Roman Empire, by the prizewinning author of Caesar In AD 200, the Roman Empire seemed unassailable, its vast territory accounting for most of the...
Thinking in Circles
An Essay on Ring Composition
Exploring beyond the usual boundaries of social anthropology, a leader in the field shows why our readings of ancient literary texts may be off the mark Many famous antique texts are misunderstood and...
Five Spice Street
The first full-length novel by Chinese author Can Xue to appear in EnglishFive Spice Street tells the story of a street in an unnamed city whose inhabitants speculate on the life of a...
A New History of Early Christianity
This stimulating history of early Christianity revisits the extraordinary birth of a world religion and gives a new slant on a familiar story The relevance of Christianity is as hotly contested today as...
Calvin
A revealing new portrait of John Calvin that captures his human complexity and the sixteenth-century world in which he fought his personal and theological battles During the glory days of the French...