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The Master and His Emissary
The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
Second Edition, New Expanded Edition
A pioneering exploration of the differences between the brain’s right and left hemispheres and their effects on society, history, and culture—"one of the few contemporary works deserving classic status” (Nicholas Shakespeare,...
Judaism for the World
Reflections on God, Life, and Love
National Jewish Book Award winner An internationally recognized scholar and theologian shares a Jewish mysticism for our times in this " humane, accessible " book (Publishers Weekly, Starred...
Danish Golden Age Painting
A vibrant survey of visual culture in Golden Age Denmark (1801-1864) Following the disastrous outcome of the Napoleonic Wars and national bankruptcy, Denmark affected a remarkable cultural renaissance, spawning such...
God after Einstein
What’s Really Going On in the Universe?
A leading theologian presents a hopeful account of the universe after Einstein, exploring it as a meaningful drama of awakening“This book is a deep and provocative piece of theology that proposes we engage with...
A Little History of Poetry
A vital, engaging, and hugely enjoyable guide to poetry, from ancient times to the present, by one of our greatest champions of literature--selected as the literature book of the year by the London Times ...
Job
A New Translation
This "bold new English translation” (Adam Kirsch, Wall Street Journal) of Job by one of the world’s leading biblical scholars will reshape the way we read this canonical text “A work of erudition...
Cairo 1921
Ten Days that Made the Middle East
The first comprehensive history of the 1921 Cairo Conference which reveals its enduring impact on the modern Middle East Called by Winston Churchill in 1921, the Cairo Conference set out to redraw the map of the...
A World Out of Reach
Dispatches from Life under Lockdown
Selections from the "Pandemic Files" published by The Yale Review, the preeminent journal of literature and ideas“If only our response to the pandemic on other fronts could have been as speedy and...
Cheap Speech
How Disinformation Poisons Our Politics—and How to Cure It
An informed and practical road map for controlling disinformation, embracing free speech, saving American elections, and protecting democracy “Hasen puts forth a number of solid recommendations on how to combat...
Tales from the Borderlands
Making and Unmaking the Galician Past
The story of the diverse communities of Eastern Europe’s borderlands in the centuries prior to World War II “A powerful combination of history and personal memoir . . . A richly contextual, skillfully woven historical...