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Sick to Debt
How Smarter Markets Lead to Better Care
An informed argument for reworking the broken market-based U.S. healthcare system by making cost and quality more transparent The United States has the most expensive healthcare system in the world. While...
The Warrior, the Voyager, and the Artist
Three Lives in an Age of Empire
A portrait of empire through the biographies of a Native American, a Pacific Islander, and the British artist who painted them both Three interconnected eighteenth-century lives offer a fresh account of...
Rav Kook
Mystic in a Time of Revolution
The life and thought of a forceful figure in Israel’s religious and political life Rav Abraham Isaac Kook (1865–1935) was one of the most influential—and controversial—rabbis of the twentieth century. A...
Minds Make Societies
How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create
A watershed book that masterfully integrates insights from evolutionary biology, genetics, psychology, economics, and more to explore the development and workings of human societies “There is no good reason...
Poulenc
A Biography
An authoritative account of the life and work of Francis Poulenc, one of the most prolific and striking figures in twentieth-century classical music"An assured overview of Poulenc’s life and work."—Alex...
Tea War
A History of Capitalism in China and India
A history of capitalism in nineteenth- and twentieth-century China and India that explores the competition between their tea industries “Tea War is not only a detailed comparative history of the...
The Book of Collateral Damage
Sinan Antoon returns to the Iraq war in a poetic and provocative tribute to reclaiming memory Widely-celebrated author Sinan Antoon’s fourth and most sophisticated novel follows Nameer, a young Iraqi...
English Paleography and Manuscript Culture, 1500-1800
An engaging, accessible introduction to reading and understanding early modern English manuscripts This engaging book provides an essential introduction to the manuscript in early modern England. From birth...
Nahmanides
Law and Mysticism
A finalist for the 2020 National Jewish Book Award for scholarship--a broad, systematic account of one of the most original and creative kabbalists, biblical interpreters, and Talmudic scholars the Jewish tradition has...
The Mathematics Lover’s Companion
Masterpieces for Everyone
Twenty-three mathematical masterpieces for exploration and enlightenment“A mind-broadening experience.”—Paul J. Campbell, Mathematics Magazine How can a shape have more than one...