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Sidney Reilly
Master Spy
A revealing biography of Sidney Reilly, the early twentieth-century virtuoso of espionage “Mr. Morris’s dogged research . . . lends impressive rigor to this portrait of an often-cryptic figure.”—Diane Cole,
The King's Harvest
A Political Ecology of China from the First Farmers to the First Empire
A multidisciplinary environmental history of early China’s political systems, featuring newly available Chinese archaeological data “Over four thousand years of unsustainable growth, Chinese states replaced a...
A World Without Soil
The Past, Present, and Precarious Future of the Earth Beneath Our Feet
A celebrated biologist's manifesto addressing a soil loss crisis accelerated by poor conservation practices and climate change “Jo Handelsman is a national treasure, and her clarion call warning of a looming...
An Economist Goes to the Game
How to Throw Away $580 Million and Other Surprising Insights from the Economics of Sports
An engaging look at the ways economic thinking can help us understand how sports work both on and off the field “Mr. Oyer writes clearly and ranges across all sorts of sports as well as across the globe,...
The War on Music
Reclaiming the Twentieth Century
A prominent conductor explores how aesthetic criteria masked the political goals of countries during the three great wars of the past century “[Mauceri’s] writing is more exhilarating than any helicopter ride we...
Condemned
The Transported Men, Women and Children Who Built Britain's Empire
A powerful account of how coerced migration built the British Empire In the early seventeenth century, Britain took ruthless steps to deal with its unwanted citizens, forcibly removing men, women, and...
Striking Back
The End of Peace in Cyberspace - And How to Restore It
Faced with relentless technological aggression that imperils democracy, how can Western nations fight back? Before the cyber age, foreign interference in democratic politics played out in a comparatively narrow...
Dark Persuasion
A History of Brainwashing from Pavlov to Social Media
A "highly readable and compelling" account (Science) of brainwashing’s pervasive role in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries“Riveting. . . . Dimsdale . . . shows how the art of dark persuasion a...
The Castle
A History
A vibrant history of the castle in Britain, from the early Middle Ages to the present day The castle has long had a pivotal place in British life, associated with lordship, landholding, and military might, and...
Durer's Journeys
Travels of a Renaissance Artist
An exploration of Dürer’s career and legacy as an international traveling artist The visual legacy of Dürer’s travels extends far beyond his lifetime and throughout Europe, and the documents illuminating...