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Manufacturing Consensus
Understanding Propaganda in the Era of Automation and Anonymity
An in-depth exploration of social media and emergent technology that details the inner workings of modern propaganda Until recently, propaganda was a top-down, elite-only system of communication control used...
The No-State Solution
A Jewish Manifesto
A provocative manifesto, arguing for a new understanding of the Jews’ peoplehood “A self-consciously radical statement that is both astute and joyous.”—Kirkus Reviews Today there are two...
Risky Business
Why Insurance Markets Fail and What to Do About It
An engaging and accessible examination of what ails insurance markets—and what to do about it—by three leading economists Why is dental insurance so crummy? Why is pet insurance so expensive? Why does your auto...
Making the Imperial Nation
Colonization, Politics, and English Identity, 1660-1700
How did the creation of an overseas empire change politics in England itself? After 1660, English governments aimed to convert scattered overseas dominions into a coordinated territorial power base. Stuart monarchs...
The Great Mongol Shahnama
A detailed study of the Great Mongol Shahnama, considered to be the greatest of all Persian illustrated manuscriptsThe Great Mongol Shahnama is widely considered to be the definitive version of...
Democracy in Our America
Can We Still Govern Ourselves?
One of America’s most distinguished political theorists examines what happens when national politics enters a small New England town After the election of 2016 and, even more urgently, after the election of 2020,...
Perceptual Drift
Black Art and an Ethics of Looking
A powerful reframing of the study of Black art and the historical and contemporary status of Black livesPerceptual Drift offers a new interpretive model drawing on four key works of Black art in the Cleveland...
The Arts of the Ancient Americas at the Dallas Museum of Art
An illustrated compendium of artworks from the ancient Americas Including Indigenous works from the southwestern United States, Mesoamerica, the Isthmo-Colombian Area, and the Andes of South America, this book...
Beauty Born of Struggle
The Art of Black Washington
A collection of illustrated essays highlights the works of influential Black artists from Washington, DC, from the 1920s to the present In a twentieth century during which modern art largely abandoned beauty as its...
Why Architecture Matters
A classic work on the joy of experiencing architecture, with a new afterword reflecting on architecture’s place in the contemporary moment “Architecture begins to matter,” writes Paul Goldberger, “when it brings...