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Why Nudge?
The Politics of Libertarian Paternalism
The bestselling author of Simpler offers a powerful, provocative, and convincing argument for protecting people from their own mistakes Based on a series of pathbreaking lectures given at Yale...
Spiritual Defiance
Building a Beloved Community of Resistance
A leading voice of progressive Christianity makes a powerful case for faith as a radical way of being in the world During his thirty-year career as a parish minister and professor, Robin Meyers has focused...
Void
The Strange Physics of Nothing
The rising star author of The Physics of Wall Street explores why “nothing” may hold the key to the next era of theoretical physics James Owen Weatherall’s previous book, The Physics of Wall...
War
An Enquiry
A renowned philosopher challenges long-held views on just wars, ethical conduct during war, why wars occur, how they alter people and societies, and more For residents of the twenty-first century, a vision...
Belarus
The Last European Dictatorship
New Edition
A comprehensive and revelatory history of modern Belarus—from independence to Lukashenka's contested 2020 re-election"Andrew Wilson has done all students of European politics a great service by making...
Utopia
"It is an immense work of painstaking erudition, and will undoubtedly be the standard text for this generation."—Times Literary Supplement"Both the completeness of this volume and the care...
Art of the Twentieth Century
A Reader
This reader, a companion to The Open University’s four-volume Art of the Twentieth Century series, offers a variety of writings by art historians and art theorists. The writings were originally published as...
Origins of the Bill of Rights
Americans resorted to arms in 1775 not to establish new liberties but to defend old ones, explains constitutional historian Leonard W. Levy in this fascinating history of the origins of the Bill of Rights. Unencumbered by a...
Proust
The Search
An arresting new study of the life, times, and achievement of one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century “Taylor’s endeavor is not to explain the life by the novel or the novel by the life...
The Gift of the Gab
How Eloquence Works
A many-faceted exploration of spoken eloquence: how it works, how it has evolved, and how to tap its remarkable power We all know eloquence when we hear it. But what exactly is it? And how might we gain...