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Dark Persuasion

A History of Brainwashing from Pavlov to Social Media

Joel E. Dimsdale

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...

February 21, 2023, Paper, $22.00

Why Argument Matters

Lee Siegel

Hailed by the New York Times as a book that “examines the role that argument has played throughout history and how it has shaped human existence.”“An invigorating reflection on the nature and value of...

February 21, 2023, Paper, $20.00

A Map of Longings

The Life and Works of Agha Shahid Ali

Manan Kapoor

The beautifully written first biography of one of the world’s finest twentieth-century poets   Agha Shahid Ali (1949–2001) was one of the most celebrated American poets of the latter twentieth century, and his works...

February 28, 2023, Hardcover, $30.00

Nalini Malani

National Gallery Contemporary Fellowship

Will Cooper and Daniel F. Herrmann, with contributions by Mieke Bal, Zehra Jumabhoy, Nalini Malani, and Priyesh Mistry

A unique and compelling view of the work of leading contemporary artist Nalini Malani through the lens of her most recent commission This publication presents the latest work of Nalini Malani (b. 1946), recipient of...

February 28, 2023, Hardcover, $35.00

Bruegel and Beyond

Netherlandish Drawings in the Royal Library of Belgium, 1500-1800

Daan van Heesch, Sarah Van Ooteghem, and Joris Van Grieken

The Royal Library of Belgium in Brussels houses the largest collection of drawings in the country. Among its highlights are works by leading artists of the Low Countries, including Pieter Bruegel I, Joris Hoefnagel, Hendrick Goltzius,...

February 28, 2023, Hardcover, $75.00

Confronting Climate Gridlock

How Diplomacy, Technology, and Policy Can Unlock a Clean Energy Future

Daniel S. Cohan; Foreword by Michael E. Webber

An atmospheric scientist explains why global climate change mitigation and energy decarbonization demand American diplomacy, technology, and policy  “Daniel Cohan makes a compelling case that the problem of...

February 28, 2023, Paper, $22.00

The World Before Us

The New Science Behind Our Human Origins

Tom Higham

A fascinating investigation of the origin of humans, based on incredible new discoveries and advanced scientific technology "Conveys the thrill of archaeological discovery.”—Alexander Larman, The Observer

February 28, 2023, Paper, $24.00

Mel Brooks

Disobedient Jew

Jeremy Dauber

A spirited dive into the life and career of a performer, writer, and director who dominated twentieth-century American comedy   Mel Brooks, born Melvin Kaminsky in Brooklyn in 1926, is one of the great comic voices...

March 7, 2023, Hardcover, $26.00

Journeys to Heaven and Hell

Tours of the Afterlife in the Early Christian Tradition

Bart D. Ehrman

A New York Times bestselling scholar’s illuminating exploration of the earliest Christian narrated journeys to heaven and hell  “[An] illuminating deep dive . . . An edifying origin story for contemporary...

March 7, 2023, Paper, $23.00

Woman

The American History of an Idea

Lillian Faderman

A comprehensive history of the struggle to define womanhood in America, from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century  “Exhaustively researched and finely written.”—Alexandra Jacobs, New York Times...

March 7, 2023, Paper, $25.00

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