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Nudge
An updated and refreshed edition of the groundbreaking book that shows how people can be nudged toward decisions that will improve their lives “If you’ve read Nudge and think you fully grasp the concept...
Household Servants and Slaves
A Visual History, 1300–1700
The first book-length study of household servants and slaves, exploring a visual history over 400 years and four continents The first book-length study of both images of ordinary household workers and their material...
Decision Leadership
Empowering Others to Make Better Choices
A fresh, research-driven playbook for how successful leaders can maximize the potential of others When we think of leaders, we often imagine lone, inspirational figures lauded for their behaviors, attributes, and...
Scent
A Natural History of Fragrance
A fascinating exploration of the natural history of scent and human perceptions of fragrance from the viewpoint of plant and pollinator “An evocative journey that awakens one’s curiosity to an oft-forgotten...
Autobiographies of an Angel
A Novel
An unflinching narrative of family history in Hungary’s Jewish community and the nation’s deep complicity in the Holocaust “Gábor Schein is that rarest of elegists, endowed equally with a respect for history and...
Your Dry Eye Mystery Solved
Reversing Meibomian Gland Dysfunction, Restoring Hope
A top expert reveals his insights into Meibomian gland dysfunction, a ubiquitous, misunderstood disease that leads to Dry Eye syndrome In Reversing Dry Eye Syndrome (Yale University Press 2007),...
Founding God's Nation
Reading Exodus
A chapter-by-chapter explanation of the Book of Exodus, revealing its wisdom about nation building and people formation"Kass draws from Exodus’ record of the founding of Judaism timely—even urgent...
Grafted Arts
Art Making and Taking in the Struggle for Western India, 1760-1910
Conceptualizes “graft”— the violent and creative processes of suturing arts as a method of empire building in western eighteenth-century IndiaGrafted Arts focuses on Maratha military rulers and British East...
Competitive Arms Control
Nixon, Kissinger, and SALT, 1969-1972
The essential history of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) during the Nixon Administration How did Richard Nixon, a president so determined to compete for strategic nuclear advantage over the Soviet Union,...
In the Dragon's Shadow
Southeast Asia in the Chinese Century
A timely look at the impact of China’s booming emergence on the countries of Southeast Asia“An expert and lucid synthesis of the historical context and recent developments of Southeast Asia’s rich and...