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Title Index 48

Author Index 4 9

Meet the Editors 50

Media Contact 52

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N E W H A R D C O V E R • A P R I L

Sociology / Urban Studies • $28.00 / $36.50 CAN

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 • 320 pages

Tables and line drawings throughout

978-0-465-07974-2

E-BOOK 978-0-465-09778-4

Selling Territory: WxUK,CW

Author photo © Lorne Bridgman

One of the world’s leading urbanists confronts the dark side of the back-to-the-city movement

R I C H A R D F LO R I DA

T HE NE W UR B A N CR ISIS

How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class— and What We Can Do About It

In recent years, the young, educated, and

affluent have surged back into cities, reversing

decades of suburban flight and urban decline.

And yet all is not well. Richard Florida, one of the

first scholars to anticipate this back-to-the-city

movement in his groundbreaking The Rise of the

Creative Class, demonstrates how the same forces

that power the growth of the world’s superstar

cities also generate their vexing challenges:

gentrification, unaffordability, segregation,

and inequality. Meanwhile, many more cities

still stagnate, and middle-class neighborhoods

everywhere are disappearing. Our winner-take-

all cities are just one manifestation of a profound

crisis in today’s urbanized knowledge economy.

A bracingly original work of research and

analysis, The New Urban Crisis offers a compelling

diagnosis of our economic ills and a bold

prescription for more inclusive cities capable of

ensuring growth and prosperity for all.

RI C H A RD F LO RI DA

is a University Professor and

director of the Martin Prosper-

ity Institute at the University

of Toronto’s Rotman School of

Management and a Global Research Professor at

New York University. Florida lives in Toronto.

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N E W H A R D C O V E R • M A R C H

Social Science / Current Affairs • $28.00 / $36.50 CAN

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 • 272 pages

978-0-465-09788-3

E-BOOK 978-0-465-09789-0

Selling Territory: WxUK,CW*

Author photo © Glenn Jussen

A veteran war correspondent journeys to remote mountain communities across the globe—from Albania and Chechnya to Nepal and Colombia—to investigate why so many conflicts occur at great heights

J U D I T H M AT LO F F

NO F R IENDS BU T

T HE MOU N TA INS

Dispatches from the World’s Violent Highlands

M ountainous regions are home to

only ten percent of the world’s

population yet host a strikingly

disproportionate share of the world’s conflicts.

Mountains provide a natural refuge for those who

want to elude authority, and their remoteness has

allowed archaic practices to persist well into our

globalized era.

As Judith Matloff shows, the result is a

combustible mix we in the lowlands cannot afford

to ignore. Traveling to conflict zones across the

world, she introduces us to Albanian teenagers

involved in ancient blood feuds, Mexican peas-

ants hunting down violent poppy growers, and

Jihadists who have resisted the Russian military

for decades. At every stop, Matloff reminds us that

the drugs, terrorism, and instability cascading

down the mountainside affect us all.

A work of political travel writing in the vein

of Ryszard Kapuscinski and Robert Kaplan, No

Friends but the Mountains is an indelible portrait

of the conflicts that have unexpectedly shaped

our world.

J U D I T H M AT L O F F teaches conflict reporting

at the Columbia Graduate

School of Journalism. Her

articles have appeared in

numerous publications including the New York

Times Magazine, Economist, and Christian Science

Monitor. Matloff lives in New York City.

E U G E N I A C H E N G

BE YOND INF INI T Y

From Uncountable Numbers to a Chicken-Sandwich Sandwich, an Exploration of Math’s Biggest Topic

E very child had a schoolyard fight that

ended with this classic exchange: “Nuh-

uh, times infinity!” “Yeah-huh, times

infinity plus one!” The argument goes to the heart

of a question everyone has wondered about: What

is infinity?

Musician, chef, and mathematician Eugenia

Cheng has some answers. Whether pondering why

some numbers are uncountable, or why infinity

plus one is not the same as one plus infinity,

Cheng takes readers on a staggering journey

from math at its most elemental to its loftiest

abstractions. Along the way she considers how

you could use a chessboard to help plan a dinner

party for the world, what it would mean to make

a chicken-sandwich sandwich, and if you could

create infinite cookies from a finite ball of dough

(the math says yes!).

For readers of Here’s Looking at Euclid and

The Joy of X, Beyond Infinity shows how this little

symbol—∞—can make us kings and queens of

infinite space.

E U G E N I A C H E N G

is a senior lecturer in pure

mathematics at the Uni-

versity of Sheffield and the

scientist in residence at the

School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She lives

in Chicago, Illinois.

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Mathematics • $27.00 / $35.00 CAN

5-1/2 x 8-1/4 • 304 pages

100 figures and illustrations throughout

978-0-465-09481-3

E-BOOK 978-0-465-09482-0


Author photo © Charlie Round-Turner

The brilliant and charismatic Eugenia Cheng takes us on a dizzying journey through what’s bigger than infinity and smaller than its opposite

B E N J A M I N R E I S S

W IL D NIGH T S

How Taming Sleep Created Our Restless World

W hy is sleep so frustrating for so

many people? While human history

presents a vast diversity of sleeping

styles, today we define a good night’s sleep very

narrowly: eight hours in one straight shot, sealed

off in private bedrooms, children apart from

parents. The curious product of industrialization,

electricity, medicine, and capitalism, this set of

sleeping rules has existed for only a few centuries.

Yet few seem to be able to live by them. For the

world’s poor, “modern” sleep is full of financial

and physical risk, but even the well-off now

require drugs and gadgets to regulate waking

and sleeping. Taming sleep is big business, but it

has come at an enormous cost to our well-being.

In Wild Nights, Benjamin Reiss draws on

centuries of literary, medical, and scientific

writings to show how ordinary lives were upended

as sleep became modern. In so doing, he offers

hope to weary readers: as sleep was transformed

once before, so too can it change again today.

B E N J A M I N RE I S S is a

professor of English at Emory

University. The author of The

Showman and the Slave and

Theaters of Madness and the

recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, Reiss lives

in Atlanta, Georgia.

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History • $28.00 / $36.50 CAN

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 • 320 pages

978-0-465-06195-2

E-BOOK 978-0-465-09485-1

Selling Territory: W

Author photo © Gretchen Connell

Why the modern world forgot how to sleep

R I C H A R D F. H A R R I S

R IG OR MORT IS

How Sloppy Science Creates Worthless Cures, Crushes Hope, and Wastes Billions

A merican taxpayers spend $30 billion an-

nually funding biomedical research. By

some estimates, half of the results from

these studies can’t be replicated elsewhere—the

science is simply wrong. Often, research insti-

tutes and academia emphasize publishing results

over getting the right answers, incentivizing poor

experimental design, improper methods, and

sloppy statistics. Bad science doesn’t just hold

back medical progress, it can sign the equivalent

of a death sentence. How are those with breast

cancer helped when the cells used in 900 breast-

cancer studies turn out not to be breast-cancer

cells at all? How effective could a new treatment

for ALS be when it failed to cure even the mice

it was initially tested on? In Rigor Mortis, award-

winning science journalist Richard F. Harris

reveals these urgent issues with vivid anecdotes,

personal stories, and interviews with the nation’s

top biomedical researchers. By laying bare the

dysfunctions in our biomedical system, this book

represents the first step toward fixing it.

RICHARD F. HARRIS

is one of the nation’s most-

celebrated science journalists,

covering science, medicine,

and the environment for

twenty-nine years for NPR, and the three-time

winner of the AAAS Science Journalism Award.

He lives in Washington, DC.

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Science / Medicine • $28.00 / $36.50 CAN

5-1/2 x 8-1/4 • 272 pages

978-0-465-09790-6

E-BOOK 978-0-465-09791-3


Author photo © Meredith Rizzo

Something is rotten in the state of scientific research today—and it has lethal consequences for us all

T H O M A S M . S H A P I RO

TOX IC INEQUA L I T Y

How America’s Wealth Gap Destroys Mobility, Deepens the Racial Divide, and Threatens Our Future

E conomic inequality is at historic highs,

but its impact differs by race. African

Americans’ net wealth is just a tenth that

of white Americans. In our increasingly diverse

nation, sociologist Thomas M. Shapiro argues,

wealth disparities must be understood in tandem

with racial inequities—a dangerous combination

he terms “toxic inequality.”

Toxic Inequality reveals how these forces

trap families in place. Shapiro’s longitudinal

research vividly documents the Great Recession’s

toll on parents and children, the ways families

use financial assets, and the real reasons some

families build wealth while others struggle in

poverty. The structure of our neighborhoods,

workplaces, and tax code—much more than in-

dividual choices—push some forward and hold

others back. Toxic inequality has been forged by

history and preserved by policy, and only bold,

race-conscious reforms can move us toward a

more just society.

THOMAS M. SHAPIRO

is the Pokross Professor of

Law and Social Policy at

Brandeis University, where

he directs the Instit ute

on Assets and Social Policy. The author of

four books, including The Hidden Cost of

Being African American, he lives in Jamaica

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Social Science • $29.00 / $38.00 CAN

5-1/2 x 8-1/4 • 272 pages

978-0-465-04693-5

E-BOOK 978-0-465-09487-5


Author photo © Max Pearlstein

From a leading authority on race and public policy, a deeply researched account of how and why families rise and fall in America today

S T E P H E N W E S TA BY

OPEN HE A RT

A Cardiac Surgeon’s Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table

W hen Stephen Westaby witnessed a

patient die on the table during open-

heart surgery for the first time, he

was struck by the quiet, determined way the

surgeons walked away. As he soon understood,

this detachment is a crucial survival strategy in

a profession where death is only a heartbeat away.

In Open Heart, Westaby reflects on over 11,000

surgeries, showing us why the procedures have

never become routine and will never be. With

astonishing compassion, he recounts harrowing

and sometimes hopeful stories from his operating

room: we meet a pulseless man who lives with

an electric heart pump, an expecting mother

who refuses surgery unless the doctors let her

pregnancy reach full term, and a baby who gets

a heart transplant—only to die once it’s in place.

For readers of Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal

and Henry Marsh’s Do No Harm, Open Heart offers

a soul-baring account of a life spent in constant

confrontation with death.

STEPHEN WESTABY

is a pioneer in artificial heart

technology and serves as a

consultant cardiac surgeon at

the John Radcliffe Hospital,

Oxford. He lives in Oxford, United Kingdom.

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N E W H A R D C O V E R • M A Y

Medicine • $27.00 / $35.00 CAN

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 • 320 pages

Line drawings throughout

978-0-465-09483-7

E-BOOK 978-0-465-09484-4

Selling Territory: USCO

Author photo © John Radcliffe Hospital

In gripping prose, one of the world’s leading cardiac surgeons lays bare both the wonder and the horror of a life spent a heartbeat away from death

LO U I S WA R R E N

G OD’S R ED SON

The Ghost Dance Religion and the Making of Modern America

I n 1890, on Indian reservations across the

West, followers of a new religion danced in

circles until they collapsed into trances. In

an attempt to suppress this new faith, the US Army

killed over two hundred Lakota Sioux at Wounded

Knee Creek. Louis Warren’s God’s Red Son offers

a startling new view of the religion known as the

Ghost Dance, from its origins in the visions of a

Northern Paiute named Wovoka to the tragedy

in South Dakota. To this day, the Ghost Dance

remains widely mischaracterized as a primitive

and failed effort by Indian militants to resist

American conquest and return to traditional

ways. In fact, followers of the Ghost Dance

sought to thrive in modern America by working

for wages, farming the land, and educating their

children, tenets that helped the religion endure

for decades after Wounded Knee. God’s Red Son

powerfully reveals how Ghost Dance teachings

helped Indians retain their identity and reshape

the modern world.

L O U I S WA R R E N is

the W. Turrentine Jackson

Professor of Western US

History at the University of

California, Davis. The award-

winning author of several books, Warren lives in

Davis, California.

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History • $32.00 / $42.00 CAN

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 • 496 pages

Twenty black-and-white illustrations throughout

978-0-465-01502-3

E-BOOK 978-0-465-09868-2


Author photo © Rachel St. John

The definitive account of the iconic Ghost Dance religion, which led to the infamous massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890

J A N S WA F FO R D

L A NGUAGE OF T HE SPIR I T

An Introduction to Classical Music

F or many of us, classica l music is

something serious—something we study

in school, something played by cultivated

musicians at fancy gatherings. In Language of

the Spirit, renowned music scholar Jan Swafford

argues that we have it all wrong: classical music

has something for everyone and is accessible to

all. Ranging from Gregorian chant to Handel’s

Messiah, from Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons to the

postmodern work of Philip Glass, Swafford is an

affable and expert guide to the genre. He traces the

history of Western music, introduces readers to

the most important composers and compositions,

and explains the underlying structure and logic

of their music.

Language of the Spirit is essential reading for

anyone who has ever wished to know more about

this sublime art.

J A N S WA F F O R D is a

preeminent composer and

music scholar and the author

of the bestselling The Vintage

Guide to Classical Music. A

regular contributor to Slate, the Guardian, and the

Boston Globe and a former professor of composition

at the Boston Conservatory, Swafford lives in

Medford, Massachusetts.

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Music • $27.00 / $35.00 CAN

5-1/2 x 8-1/4 • 304 pages

978-0-465-09754-8

E-BOOK 978-0-465-09755-5


Author photo © Carolee Asia

In this lively introduction, a pre-em inent composer a nd schola r proves that classical music is nothing to be intimidated by

P E T E R B RO O K S

F L AUBERT IN T HE RUINS

OF PA R IS

The Story of a Friendship, a Novel, and a Terrible Year

F rom the summer of 1870 through

the spring of 1871, France suffered a

humiliating defeat in its war against

Prussia and witnessed bloody class warfare

that culminated in the crushing of the Paris

Commune. In Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris, Peter

Brooks examines why Flaubert thought his

recently published novel, Sentimental Education,

was prophetic of the upheavals in France during

this “terrible year,” and how Flaubert’s life and

that of his compatriots were changed forever.

Brooks uses letters between Flaubert and his

friend and confidante George Sand to tell the story

of Flaubert and his work, exploring his political

commitments and his understanding of war,

occupation, insurrection, and bloody political

repression. Interweaving history, art history, and

literary criticism—from Flaubert’s magnificent

novel of historical despair, to the building of the

reactionary monument the Sacré-Coeur on Paris’s

highest summit, to the emergence of photography

as historical witness—Brooks sheds new light on

the pivotal moment when France redefined herself

for the modern world.

P E T E R B R O O K S is

Sterling Professor Emeritus

of Comparative Literature at

Yale University. The author

of several award-winning

books, Brooks currently teaches at Princeton

University and lives in Alexandria, Virginia.

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Literature / History • $30.00 / $39.00 CAN

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 • 288 pages

Thirty black-and-white illustrations throughout

978-0-465-09602-2

E-BOOK 978-0-465-09607-7


Author photo © Maureen Chun

From a distinguished literary critic and historian, a look at Gustave Flaubert and his correspondence with George Sand during the traumas of France’s “terrible year”

M A R K M OYA R

OPPOSE A N Y FOE

The Rise of America’s Special Operations Forces

O ppose Any Foe tells the epic story of

America’s most elite warriors: the

Special Operations Forces. Weaving

together their triumphs and tribulations, his-

torian Mark Moyar introduces a colorful cast of

military men, brimming with exceptional talent,

courage, and selflessness.

Presidents from Roosevelt to Obama have

enthusiastically championed Special Operations

Forces, although their enthusiasm has often

surpassed their understanding of the limitations

of these groups. Lacking clearly defined missions,

Special Operations Forces have had to reinvent

themselves time and again to prove their value

in the face of fierce critics—many of them from

the conventional military, which from the start

opposed the segregation of talent and resources

in distinct units. The first comprehensive history

of these elite warriors and their courageous

missions, Oppose Any Foe is essential reading for

anyone interested in America’s military history—

and the future of warfare.

M A R K M OYA R is the

director of the Center for

Militar y and Diplomatic

History, and has served as

a senior fellow at the Joint

Special Operations University and a consultant

for the US Special Operations Command. He lives

in Oak Hill, Virginia.

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History • $28.00 / $36.50 CAN

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 • 400 pages

978-0-465-05393-3

E-BOOK 978-0-465-09301-4


Author photo © Denis Largeron

An acclaimed military historian charts the tumultuous history of America’s Special Operations Forces, highlighting both the heroism of A merica’s elite warriors and the controversies surrounding their meteoric growth

A N D R E W S H T U L M A N

SCIENCEBL IND

Why Our Intuitive Theories About the World Are So Often Wrong

W hy do we catch colds? What causes

seasons to change? And if you fire a

bullet from a gun and drop one from

your hand, which bullet hits the ground first? In a

pinch we almost always get these questions wrong.

Worse, we regularly misconstrue fundamental

qualities of the world around us. In Scienceblind,

cognitive and developmental psychologist

Andrew Shtulman shows that the root of our

misconceptions lies in the theories about the

world we develop as children. They’re not only

wrong, they close our minds to ideas inconsistent

with them, making us unable to learn science

later in life. So how do we get the world right?

We must dismantle our intuitive theories and

rebuild our knowledge from its foundations.

The reward won’t just be a truer picture of the

world, but solutions to many controversies—

around vaccines, climate change, or evolution

—that plague our politics today.

ANDREW SHTULMAN

is an associate professor of

psycholog y and cognitive

science at Occidental, where

he directs the Thinking

Lab. His work has been featured in Scientific

American, CBS News, and the New Yorker. He lives in

Pasadena, California.

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Science / Psychology • $29.00 / $38.00 CAN

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 • 304 pages

978-0-465-05394-0

E-BOOK 978-0-465-09492-9


Author photo © Max S. Gerber

Humans are born to create theories about the world—unfortunately, we’re usually wrong

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Biography • $35.00 / $45.50 CAN

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 • 656 pages

Twenty-five black-and-white illustrations throughout

978-0-465-09468-4

E-BOOK 978-0-465-09469-1


Author photo © Jeff Fitlow

From an eminent scholar of the American South, the first full-scale biog raphy of Thomas Jefferson since 1970

J O H N B . B O L E S

JEF F ER SON

Architect of American Liberty

N ot since Merrill Peterson’s Thomas

Jefferson and the New Nation has

a schola r at tempted to w r ite a

comprehensive biography of the most complex

Founding Father. In Jefferson, John B. Boles

plumbs every facet of Thomas Jefferson’s life, all

while situating him amid the sweeping upheaval

of his times. We meet Jefferson the politician

and political thinker—as well as Jefferson the

architect, scientist, bibliophile, paleontologist,

musician, and gourmet. We witness him drafting

the Declaration of Independence, negotiating

the Louisiana Purchase, and inventing a politics

that emphasized the states over the federal

government—a political philosophy that shapes

our national life to this day.

Boles offers new insight into Jefferson’s

actions and thinking on race. His Jefferson is not

a hypocrite, but a tragic figure—a man who could

not hold simultaneously to his views on abolition,

democracy, and patriarchal responsibility. Yet

despite his flaws, Jefferson’s ideas would outlive

him and make him into nothing less than the

architect of American liberty.

J O H N B . B O L E S is the

William P. Hobby Professor

of History at Rice University

and the former editor of the

Journal of Southern History.

Boles lives in Houston, Texas.

C A RO L B E R K I N

A SOV ER EIGN PEOPL E

The Crises of the 1790s and the Birth of American Nationalism

T oday the United States is the dominant

power in world affairs, and that status

seems assured. Yet in the decade fol-

lowing the ratification of the Constitution, the

republic’s existence was contingent and frag-

ile, challenged by domestic rebellions, foreign

interference, and the always-present danger of

collapse into mob rule.

Carol Berkin argues that the nation survived

almost entirely due to the actions of the Federal-

ist leadership—George Washington, Alexander

Hamilton, and John Adams. Reacting to succes-

sive crises, they extended the power of the federal

government and fended off foreign attempts to

subvert American sovereignty. As Berkin reveals,

the result was a spike in nationalism, as ordinary

citizens began to identify with their nation first,

their home states second.

While the Revolution freed the states and

the Constitution linked them as never before,

this landmark work shows that it was the Fed-

eralists who transformed the states into an

enduring nation.

C A R O L B E R K I N is

the Bar uch Presidential

Professor of History at the

CUN Y Graduate Center.

She is the author of many

acclaimed books, including A Brilliant Solution.

Berkin lives in New York City and Guilford,

Connecticut.

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History • $30.00 / $39.00 CAN

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 • 336 pages

978-0-465-06088-7

E-BOOK 978-0-465-09493-6


Author photo © Matthew Ciscart

The momentous story of how George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and John Adams navigated the crises of the 1790s and bound the states into a unified nation

M A S S I M O P I G L I U C C I

HOW TO BE A STOIC

Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life

W henever we worry about what to eat,

how to love, or simply how to be

happy, we are worrying about how

to lead a good life. No goal is more elusive. In How

to Be a Stoic, philosopher Massimo Pigliucci offers

Stoicism, the ancient philosophy that inspired the

great emperor Marcus Aurelius, as the best way

to attain it. Stoicism is a pragmatic philosophy

that focuses our attention on what is possible and

gives us perspective on what is unimportant. By

understanding Stoicism, we can learn to answer

crucial questions: Should we get married or

divorced? How should we handle our money in a

world nearly destroyed by a financial crisis? How

can we survive great personal tragedy? Whoever

we are, Stoicism has something for us—and How

to Be a Stoic is the essential guide.

MASSIMO PIGLIUCCI is the K.D. Irani Professor of

Philosophy at the City College

of New York. He holds PhDs

in genetics, evolutionary bio-

logy, and philosophy. He has written for many

outlets, including the New York Times, and has

written or edited ten books. He lives in New York,

New York.

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Self-Help / Philosophy • $27.00 / $35.00 CAN

5-1/2 x 8-1/4 • 288 pages

978-0-465-09795-1

E-BOOK 978-0-465-09796-8


Author photo © Simon Wardenier

In the tradition of How to Live and How Proust Can Change Your Life, a philoso-pher asks how ancient Stoicism can help us flourish today

DAV I D PA P I N E AU

K NOW ING T HE SCOR E

What Sports Can Teach Us About Philosophy (And What Philosophy Can Teach Us About Sports)

I n Knowing the Score, philosopher David

Papineau uses sports to illuminate some

of modern philosophy’s most perplexing

questions. As Papineau demonstrates, the study

of sports clarifies, challenges, and sometimes

confuses crucial issues in philosophy. The tactics

of road bicycle racing shed new light on questions

of altruism, while sporting family dynasties

reorient the nature v. nurture debate. Why do

sports competitors choke? Why do fans think

God will favor their team over their rivals? How

can it be moral to deceive the umpire by framing

a pitch? From all of these questions, and many

more, philosophy has a great deal to learn.

An entertaining and erudite book that

ranges far and wide through the sporting

world, Knowing the Score is perfect reading for

armchair philosophers and Monday morning

quarterbacks alike.

DAV I D PA P I N E AU

is a professor of philosophy

of natural science at Kings

College London and a dis-

ting uished professor of

philosophy at the City University of New York.

The author of eight philosophy books, Papineau

lives in London, United Kingdom.

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Philosophy / Sports • $26.00 / $34.00 CAN

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 • 256 pages

978-0-465-04968-4

E-BOOK 978-0-465-09494-3

Selling Territory: USC

Author photo © Stephen Tiley

A philosopher uses sports to illuminate modern philosophical questions

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A N N H O R N A DAY

TA L K ING PIC T UR E S

How to Watch Movies

W hether we are trying to impress a date

after an art-house film screening

or discussing Oscar nominations

with friends, we all need ways to watch and talk

about movies. But with so much variety between

an Alfred Hitchcock thriller and a Nora Ephron

romantic comedy, how can everyday viewers

determine what makes a good movie?

In Talking Pictures, veteran film critic Ann

Hornaday walks us through the production of

a typical movie—from writing the script and

casting to the final sound edit—and explains

how to evaluate each piece of the process. How

do we know if a film is well-written, above and

beyond snappy dialogue? W hat constitutes

a great screen performance? What goes into

praiseworthy cinematography, editing, and sound

design? And what does a director really do? Full

of engaging anecdotes and interviews with actors

and filmmakers, Talking Pictures will help us see

movies in a whole new light—not just as fans, but

as film critics in our own right.

A N N H O R N A DAY is

a film critic at the Washington

Post and was a finalist for

the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in

criticism. Hornaday lives in

Baltimore, Maryland.

N E W H A R D C O V E R • J U N E

Film & Television • $26.00 / $34.00 CAN

5-1/2 x 8-1/4 • 272 pages

Twenty black-and-white illustrations throughout

978-0-465-09423-3

E-BOOK 978-0-465-09424-0


Author photo © Marion Ettlinger

A veteran film critic offers a lively, opinionated guide to thinking and talking about movies—from Casablanca to Clueless

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M I K E R A P P O RT

T HE U NRULY CI T Y

Paris, London, and New York in the Age of Revolution

I n The Unruly City, historian Mike Rapport

offers a vivid history of three intertwined

cities at the end of the eighteenth century—

Paris, London, and New York—all in the midst of

political chaos and revolution. From the British

occupation of New York during the Revolutionary

War, to agitation for democracy in London and

popular uprisings, and ultimately regicide in

Paris, Rapport explores the relationship between

city and revolution, asking why some cities

engender upheaval and some suppress it.

Why did Paris experience a devastating

revolution while London avoided one? And how

did American independence ignite activism

in cities across the Atlantic? Rapport takes

readers from the politically charged taverns and

coffeehouses on Fleet Street, through a sea battle

between the British and French in the New York

Harbor, to the scaffold during the Terror in Paris.

The Unruly City shows how the cities

themselves became protagonists in the great

drama of revolution.

M I K E R A P P O R T is

a professor of history at the

University of Glasgow in

Scotland and a fellow of the

Royal Historical Society.

The author of numerous books, Rapport lives in

Stirling, Scotland.


History • $32.00 / $42.00 CAN

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 • 432 pages

Sixteen-page black-and-white gallery

978-0-465-02228-1

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A lauded historian paints a vivid picture of Paris, London, and New York during the Age of Revolution, exploring the role the cities themselves played in the struggle for democracy

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History • $30.00 / $39.00 CAN

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 • 384 pages

Forty black-and-white illustrations

and maps throughout

978-0-465-03990-6

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The definitive history of the Russian Revolution from an award-winning scholar

S E A N M c M E E K I N

T HE RUSSI A N R E VOLU T ION

A New History

I n The Russian Revolution, historian Sean

McMeekin traces the origins and events

of the Russian Revolution, which ended

Romanov rule, ushered the Bolsheviks into power,

and changed the course of world history. Between

1900 and 1920, Russia underwent a complete

and irreversible transformation: by the end of

these two decades, a new regime was in place,

the economy had collapsed, and over 20 million

Russians had died during the revolution and what

followed. Still, Bolshevik power remained intact

due to a remarkable combination of military

prowess, violent terror tactics, and the failures

of their opposition. And as McMeekin shows,

Russia’s revolutionaries were aided at nearly every

step by countries like Germany and Sweden who

sought to benefit—politically and economically—

from the chaotic changes overtaking the country.

The first comprehensive history of these

momentous events in a decade, The Russian

Revolution combines cutting-edge scholarship

and a fast-paced narrative to shed new light on

a great turning point of the twentieth century.

S E A N M c M E E K I N

is a professor of history at

Bard College. The award-

winning author of several

books, McMeekin lives in

Red Hook, New York.

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History • $30.00 US

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 • 368 pages

Black-and-white illustrations throughout

978-0-465-09477-6

E-BOOK 978-0-465-09478-3

Selling Territory: US

Author photo © Gill Thomas

The definitive account of Passchendaele, the months-long battle that epitomizes the immense tragedy of the First World War

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N I C K L LOY D

PA SSCHENDA EL E

A New History

P asschendaele. The name of a small,

seemingly insignificant Flemish village

echoes across the twentieth century

as the ultimate expression of meaningless,

industrialized slaughter. In the summer of 1917,

upwards of 500,000 men were killed, wounded,

maimed, gassed, drowned, or buried in this small

corner of Belgium.

On the centennial of the battle, military

scholar Nick Lloyd brings to vivid life this epic

encounter along the Western Front. Drawing

on both British and German sources, he is the

first scholar to reveal the astonishing fact that,

for the British, Passchendaele was an eminently

winnable battle. Yet the advance of British troops

was undermined by their own high command,

which, blinded by hubris, clung to failed tactics.

The result was a familiar one: stalemate. Lloyd

forces us to consider that trench warfare was

not necessarily a futile endeavor, and that had

the British won at Passchendaele, they might

have ended the war early, saving hundreds of

thousands, if not millions, of lives. A captivating

narrative of heroism and folly, Passchendaele is

an essential addition to the literature on the

Great War.

N I C K LLOY D is a senior

lecturer in defense studies at

King’s College London and

the author of Hundred Days.

He lives in Cheltenham, UK.

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E DWA R D D O L N I C K

T HE SEEDS OF L IF E

From Aristotle to da Vinci, from Shark’s Teeth to Frog’s Pants, the Long and Strange Quest to Discover Where Babies Come From

T hroughout most of human histor y,

babies were surprises. People knew the

basics: men and women had sex, and

sometimes babies followed. But beyond that, the

origins of life were a mystery. The Seeds of Life is

the remarkable, rollicking story of how a series

of blundering geniuses and brilliant amateurs

struggled to discover where babies come from.

Acclaimed science writer Edward Dolnick

looks to these early scientists as if they were

detectives hot on the case: including an Italian

surgeon who used shark teeth to prove that

female reproductive organs were not “failed”

male genitalia, and a Catholic priest who designed

miniature pants to prove that frogs required

semen to fertilize their eggs.

A witty and rousing history of science,

The Seeds of Life presents our greatest scien-

tists struggling to uncover how and where we

come from.

E DWA RD D O L N I C K is the former chief science

writer for the Boston Globe and

the author of, among others,

The Rush a nd Clockwork

Universe. Dolnick splits his time between Virginia

and New York City.

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Science / History • $27.00 / $35.00 CAN

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 • 272 pages

978-0-465-08295-7

E-BOOK 978-0-465-09496-7

Selling Territory: USC

Author photo © Lynn Golden

W hy cracking the code of human conception took centuries of wild theories, misogynist blunders, and ludicrous mistakes

A N D R E W E RV I N

BI T BY BI T

How Video Games Transformed Our World

V ideo games have seemingly taken

over our lives. Whereas gamers once

constituted a small and largely male

subculture, today 67 percent of A merican

households play video games. The average gamer

is now thirty-four years old and spends eight

hours each week playing—and there is a 40 percent

chance this person is a woman.

In Bit by Bit, A ndrew Er vin sets out to

understand the explosive popularity of video

games. He travels to government laboratories,

junk shops, and arcades. He interviews scientists

and game designers, both old and young. In

charting the material and technological history

of video games, from the 1950s to the present, he

suggests that their appeal starts and ends with the

sense of creativity they instill in gamers. As Ervin

argues, games are art because they are beautiful,

moving, and even political—and because they turn

players into artists themselves.

A N D R E W E RV I N is

the author of Extraordinary

Renditions and Burning Down

George Orwell’s House. He has

written essays and reviews

for the New York Times Book Review, Chicago Tribune,

San Francisco Chronicle, and others. He teaches

part time at Temple University and lives with his

wife in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Games • $26.00 / $34.00 CAN

5-1/2 x 8-1/4 • 288 pages


978-0-465-03970-8

E-BOOK 978-0-465-09658-9


Author photo © Angelica Bautista

An acclaimed critic argues that video games are the most vital art form of our time

M A R K P E N D E RG R A S T

CI T Y ON T HE V ERGE

Atlanta and the Fight for America’s Urban Future

A t la nta is on t he verge of eit her

tremendous rebirth or demographic

meltdown. Atlanta has the highest

income inequality in the entire country, blighted

neighborhoods and hideous highways, suburban

sprawl, and racial injustice. While many cities

across America suffer similarly, nowhere but

Atlanta have they so dangerously collided.

The most promising plan for Atlanta’s

rebirth is the Beltline, a massive ring of defunct

railways already being transformed into a series of

parks, pathways, and streetcars. Cutting through

forty neighborhoods ranging from affluent to

impoverished, the Beltline will complete a

twenty-two–mile loop encircling downtown:

shifting the character of the city toward a more

walkable, prosperous, and enlightened future. By

embracing its physical limitations, by building

infrastructure and public amenities, and by

offering citizens a vision to fight for, Atlanta is

hoping to redeem its past and save its future. City

on the Verge reveals how cities across the country

can transform themselves for the better.

MARK PENDERGRAST

was born and raised in Atlanta,

Georgia, and is the author

of seven books, including

Common Grounds and For God,

Country, and Coca-Cola. He lives in Vermont.

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Social Science • $30.00 / $39.00 CAN

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 • 352 pages


978-0-465-05473-2

E-BOOK 978-0-465-09498-1


What we can learn from Atlanta’s struggle to reinvent itself in the twenty-first century

M I C H A E L S C OT T

A NCIEN T WOR L DS

A Global History of Antiquity

T w en t y-f i v e-hu n d r e d y e a r s a g o,

civilizations around the world entered

a revolutionary new era that overturned

old order and laid the foundation for our world

today. In the face of massive social changes

across three continents, radical new forms of

government emerged; mighty wars were fought

over trade, religion, and ideology; and new faiths

were ruthlessly employed to unify vast empires.

In Ancient Worlds, historian Michael Scott

presents a gripping narrative of this unique age

in human civilization, revealing how diverse

societies responded to similar pressures and how

they influenced one another: through conquest

and conversion, through trade in people, goods,

and ideas.

An ambitious reinvention of our grandest

histories, Ancient Worlds reveals new truths about

our common human heritage.

“A bold and imaginative page-turner that challenges

ideas about the world of antiquity.”

—Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads

M I C H A E L S C O T T

is an associate professor in

classics and ancient history

at the University of Warwick,

United Kingdom. Scott is the

author of Delphi and has written television and

radio programs for National Geographic, History

Channel, Nova, and BBC.

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N E W H A R D C O V E R • N O V E M B E R

P U B L I S H E D F A L L 2 0 1 6

History • $29.99 / $38.99 CAN

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 • 448 pages

Two eight-page galleries and maps throughout

978-0-465-09472-1

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“As panoramic as it is learned, this is ancient history for our globalized world.” —Tom Holland, author of

Dynasty and Rubicon

n e w pa per b ack s from

B A S I C B O O K S

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N E W P A P E R B A C K • M A Y

History • $21.99 / $28.99 CAN

6 x 9 • 760 pages

Three sixteen-page black-and-white galleries

978-0-465-09489-9

E-BOOK 978-0-465-07397-9


Author photo © Rory Carnegie

“A gripping new book. . . . Stargardt has given us a truly profound piece of history.” —Adam Tooze, New York Times Book Review

N I C H O L A S S TA RG A R DT

T HE GER M A N WA R

A Nation Under Arms, 1939–1945

Citizens and Soldiers

Winner of the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize

W hen war broke out in September 1939,

it was deeply unpopular in Germany.

Yet without the active participation

and commitment of the German people, it could

not have continued for almost six years. What,

then, was the war Germans thought they were

fighting? Told from the perspective of those who

lived through it—soldiers, schoolteachers, and

housewives; Nazis, Christians, and Jews—The

German War’s masterful historical narrative sheds

fresh and disturbing light on the beliefs, and fears

of a people who embarked on and fought to the end

a brutal war of conquest and genocide.

“This is splendid scholarship.”

—Wall Street Journal

“Enthralling.” —Foreign Affairs

“A superb study.” —Guardian (UK)

N I C H O L A S S T A R G A R D T is

a professor of modern

European history at Mag-

dalen College, Oxford, and

a fellow of the Royal Histori-

cal Society. Stargardt lives in

Oxford, England.

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Y U VA L L E V I N

T HE F R AC T UR ED R EPUBL IC

Renewing America’s Social Contract in the Age of Individualism

Updated with a new epilogue

A mericans today are anxious—about

the economy, about politics, about our

government. The institutions that once

dominated our culture have become smaller,

more diverse, and personalized. Individualism

has come at the cost of dwindling solidarity. No

wonder, then, that voters and politicians alike

are nostalgic for a time of social cohesion and

economic success.

But the policies of the past are inadequate

for the A merica of today. In The Fractured

Republic, Yuval Levin presents new solutions to

the dysfunctions of our fragmented national

life. By embracing individualism and diversity

and rejecting extremism and nostalgia, we can

revive the middle layers of society and enable an

American revival.

“Yuval Levin is one of the most important

conservative intellectuals of his generation, so

his books are worth reading almost regardless

of the topic. But The Fractured Republic stands

on its own as an indispensable piece of work.”

—Jonah Goldberg

Y U VA L L E V I N is the

Hertog Fellow at the Ethics

and Public Policy Center, the

founder and editor of Nation-

al Affairs, and a contributing

editor to National Review and the Weekly Standard.

He lives in Maryland.

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N E W P A P E R B A C K • A P R I L

Political Science • $17.99 / $23.49 CAN

5-1/2 x 8-1/4 • 288 pages

978-0-465-09324-3

E-BOOK 978-0-465-09325-0


Author photo © Moshe Zusman

“An invaluable resource for understand-ing how America came to its present predicament and what must be done to rescue it.” —National Review

L EO N A R D S A X

T HE COL L A PSE OF PA R EN T ING

How We Hurt Our Kids When We Treat Them Like Grown-Ups

A New York Times Bestseller

I n The Collapse of Parenting, internationally

acclaimed author Leonard Sax argues that

rising levels of obesity, depression, and

anxiety among young people can be traced to

parents abdicating their authority. The result is

children who have no standard of right and wrong,

who lack discipline, and who look to their peers

and the Internet for direction. Sax shows how

parents must reassert their authority—by limiting

time with screens, by encouraging better habits

at the dinner table, and by teaching humility and

perspective—to help their children thrive in an

increasingly complicated world.

“[Sax is] sounding some alarms that we’d do well

to heed, and for our kids’ sakes, I think sooner is

better than later.” —Chicago Tribune

“Dr. Leonard Sax’s The Collapse of Parenting should

be required reading for all parents.”

—Dr. Nancy Kehoe, author of

Wrestling with Our Inner Angels

L E O N A R D S A X , M D , P H D ,

is a doctor and psychologist

and the founder of the Na-

tional Association for Choice

in Education (NACE). The

author of Boys Adrift and Girls

on the Edge, Sax lives in suburban Philadelphia.

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Parenting • $16.99 / $22.49 CAN

5-1/2 x 8-1/4 • 304 pages

978-0-465-09428-8

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“The Collapse of Parenting is academic but practical, simple but deep. If you have time to read only one book this year, read this one.” —Meg Meeker, MD

S E R H I I P LO K H Y

T HE GAT E S OF EUROPE

A History of Ukraine

A ward-winning historian Serhii Plokhy

presents the authoritative history of

Ukraine and its people from the time

of Herodotus to the present crisis with Russia.

As Ukraine once again finds itself at the center

of global attention, The Gates of Europe provides

unique insight into the origins of the most

dangerous international crisis since the end of

the Cold War.

“An assured and authoritative survey.”

—Financial Times

“[An] admirable new history. . . . In his elegant

and careful exposition of Ukraine’s past, Mr.

Plokhy has also provided some signposts to

the future.” —Economist

“Readers can find no better place to turn than

Plokhy’s new book. . . . Plokhy navigates the

subject with grace and aplomb.” —Foreign Affairs

“Elegantly written.” —New York Review of Books

S E R H I I P L O K H Y is

the Mykhailo Hrushevsky

Professor of U k rain ian

History at Harvard and the

director of the university’s

Ukrainian Research Institute. The award-

winning author of nine books, Plokhy lives in

Arlington, Massachusetts.

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History • $18.99 / $24.99 CAN

6 x 9 • 432 pages

Ten maps throughout

978-0-465-09486-8

E-BOOK 978-0-465-07394-8

Selling Territory: WxUK

Author photo © Susan Wilson

“[An] exemplary account of Europe’s least-known large country . . . leavened by aphorism and anecdote.” —Wall Street Journal

A L E X A N D E R WAT S O N

R ING OF ST EEL

Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I

Winner of the Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in Military History

Winner of the Wolfson History Prize

I n Ring of Steel, Alexander Watson retells the

story of World War I from the perspectives

of its instigators and losers, the Germans

and Austro-Hungarians. A major reevaluation of

World War I, Ring of Steel is essential reading for

anyone seeking to understand the last century of

European history.

“It is a mark of talent in a historian to take familiar

narratives and open them to new interpretation.

Mr. Watson’s book is a brilliant demonstration of

this skill.” —Wall Street Journal

“Ring of Steel is perhaps the most important of the

current crop of [WWI] books—and certainly one

of the best.” —Guardian (UK)

ALEXANDER WATSON is a professor of history at

Goldsmiths, University of

London. Author of the Fraen-

kel Prize–winning Enduring

the Great War, Watson lives in Cambridge, United

Kingdom.

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N E W P A P E R B A C K • M A R C H

Military History • $24.99 US

6 x 9 • 832 pages

Sixteen-page black-and-white gallery

978-0-465-09488-2

E-BOOK 978-0-465-05687-3

Selling Territory: US

“This book, at times gripping, at other times poignant, and always revealing, marks a valuable contribution to debate on the war’s place in twentieth-century history.” —Financial Times

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P A P E R B A C K • N O V E M B E R

P U B L I S H E D F A L L 2 0 1 6

History / Biography • $16.99 / $21.99 CAN

5-1/2 x 8-1/4 • 400 pages


978-0-465-09322-9

E-BOOK 978-0-465-09323-6


Author photos: © Marjorie Traylor Roberts (Roberts);

© Evie Perez (Smith)

“A rigorously researched book that gracefully pivots between the world of the ring and the racial politics of the early ’60s.” —New York Times Book Review

R A N DY RO B E RT S a n d J O H N N Y S M I T H

BL OOD BROT HER S

The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X

I n 1962, no one believed that the obnoxious

Cassius Clay would ever become the

heavyweight champion of the world. But

Malcolm X saw the potential in Clay, not just for

boxing greatness, but as a means of spreading

the Nation of Islam’s radical message. Malcolm

secretly molded Clay into Muhammad Ali—a

patriotic boxing star in public, and a radical

reformer behind the scenes. Soon, however, their

friendship would sour, with disastrous and far-

reaching consequences.

Based on previously untapped sources, Blood

Brothers is the first book to offer an in-depth

portrait of this complex bond. An extraordinary

narrative of love, betrayal, and violence, this story

is a window into the lives of two of our greatest

national icons, and the tumultuous period in

American history that they helped to shape.

R A N DY RO B E RT S is

a distinguished professor of

history at Purdue University.

An award-winning author, he

lives in Lafayette, Indiana.

J O H N N Y S M I T H is

an assistant professor of

Amer ican history at Georgia

Tech. The author of The Sons

of Westwood, he lives in

Atlanta, Georgia.

B A S I C B O O K S

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The Patient Will See You NowEric Topol

978-0-465-04002-5

The Magic of MathArthur Benjamin

978-0-465-09621-3

The Social Transformation of American MedicinePaul Starr

978-0-465-09302-1

The Interpretation of CultureClifford Geertz

978-0-465-09355-7

The Making of Modern ZionismShlomo Avineri

978-0-465-09479-0

Church of SpiesMark Riebling

978-0-465-09411-0

First BiteBee Wilson

978-0-465-09412-7

The Nazi DoctorsRobert Jay Lifton

978-0-465-09339-7

highlights from

Group GeniusKeith Sawyer

978-0-465-09663-3

The Boy Who Was Raised as a DogBruce Perry and Maia Szalavitz

978-0-465-09445-5

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B A S I C B O O K S

The Master AlgorithmPedro Domingos

978-0-465-09427-1

Book of RhymesAdam Bradley

978-0-465-09440-0

America’s Great GameHugh Wilford

978-0-465-09628-2

The Fall of the OttomansEugene Rogan

978-0-465-09742-5

Group GeniusKeith Sawyer

978-0-465-09663-3

The Cause of All NationsDon H. Doyle

978-0-465-09697-8

The Half Has Never Been ToldEdward E. Baptist

978-0-465-04966-0

Three Roads to Quantum GravityLee Smolin

978-0-465-09454-7

Einstein’s Dice & Schrodinger’s CatPaul Halpern

978-0-465-09683-1

B A S I C B O O K S

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The Design of Everyday ThingsDon Norman

978-0-465-05065-9

Boys AdriftLeonard Sax

978-0-465-04082-7

The Drama of the Gifted ChildAlice Miller

978-0-465-01690-7

After the ReichGiles MacDonogh

978-0-465-00338-9

Trauma and RecoveryJudith Herman

978-0-465-06171-6

Gödel, Escher, BachDouglas R. Hofstadter978-0-465-02656-2

The Evolution of DesireDavid M. Buss

978-0-465-09776-0

The Art of Biblical NarrativeRobert Alter

978-0-465-02255-7

A History of IranMichael Axworthy

978-0-465-09876-7

highlights from

Just and Unjust WarsMichael Walzer

978-0-465-05271-4

B A S I C B O O K S

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Letters to a Young ContrarianChristopher Hitchens978-0-465-03033-0

Born DigitalJohn Palfrey and Urs Gasser

978-0-465-05392-6

The Grand ChessboardZbigniew Brzezinski

978-0-465-09435-6

The ConstitutionMichael Stokes Paulsen and Luke Paulsen

978-0-465-09410-3

Just and Unjust WarsMichael Walzer

978-0-465-05271-4

The Word DetectiveJohn Simpson

978-0-465-06069-6

The Republic of PlatoAllan Bloom

978-0-465-09408-0

Letters to a Young CatholicGeorge Weigel

978-0-465-02832-0

Love and MathEdward Frenkel

978-0-465-06495-3

B A S I C B O O K S

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Rise of the RobotsMartin Ford

978-0-465-09753-1

Consider the ForkBee Wilson

978-0-465-05697-2

The Trainable CatJohn Bradshaw and Sarah Ellis

978-0-465-05090-1

The Theoretical MinimumLeonard Susskind and George Hrabovsky

978-0-465-07568-3

The ArabsEugene Rogan

978-0-465-02504-6

Sun-Tzu: The Essential Art of WarRalph D. Sawyer

978-0-465-07204-0

Love’s ExecutionerIrvin D. Yalom

978-0-465-02011-9

How to Bake PiEugenia Cheng

978-0-465-09767-8

Letters to a Young TherapistMary Pipher

978-0-465-03968-5

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The Rise of the Creative Class—RevisitedRichard Florida

978-0-465-04248-7

Girls on the EdgeLeonard Sax

978-0-465-02206-9

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I Am a Strange LoopDouglas R. Hofstadter978-0-465-03079-8

It’s Even Worse Than it Looks Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein

978-0-465-09620-6

The Rise of the Creative Class—RevisitedRichard Florida

978-0-465-04248-7

Girls on the EdgeLeonard Sax

978-0-465-02206-9

One Nation Under GodKevin M. Kruse

978-0-465-09741-8

The Happiness HypothesisJonathan Haidt

978-0-465-02802-3

The Rape of NankingIris Chang

978-0-465-06836-4

Creatures of a DayIrvin D. Yalom

978-0-465-09743-2

Finding FlowMihaly Csikszentmihalyi

978-0-465-02411-7

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The Art SpiritRobert Henri

978-0-465-00263-4

The Story FactorAnnette Simmons

978-0-465-07807-3

Man’s Search for Ultimate MeaningVictor E. Frankl

978-0-7382-0354-6

The Science of EvilSimon Baron-Cohen978-0-465-03142-9

The Physics of Star TrekLawrence M. Krauss978-0-465-00204-7

Alone TogetherSherry Turkle

978-0-465-03146-7

The Classical WorldRobin Lane Fox

978-0-465-02497-1

Cat SenseJohn Bradshaw

978-0-465-06496-0

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“Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?”Beverly Daniel Tatum978-0-465-08361-9

ChinaJohn Keay

978-0-465-02518-3

http://www.amazon.com/Simon-Baron-Cohen/e/B001HCV9R8/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1439847634&sr=8-1

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B A S I C B O O K S

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The Mystery of CapitalHernando De Soto

978-0-465-01615-0

The Interpretation of DreamsSigmund Freud and James Strachey

978-0-465-01977-9

A Kingdom StrangeJames Horn

978-0-465-02490-2

“A Problem from Hell”Samantha Power

978-0-465-06151-8

ChinaJohn Keay

978-0-465-02518-3

The Two-Income TrapElizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi

978-0-465-09770-8

The Way We Never WereStephanie Coontz

978-0-465-09883-5

Osman’s Dream

Caroline Finkel

978-0-465-02397-4

BloodlandsTimothy Snyder

978-0-465-03147-4

B A S I C B O O K S

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The Little Ice AgeBrian Fagan

978-0-465-02272-4

The Evolution of CooperationRobert Axelrod

978-0-465-00564-2

The Misbehavior of MarketsBenoit Mandelbrot and Richard L. Hudson

978-0-465-04357-6

Quantum MechanicsLeonard Susskind and Art Friedman

978-0-465-06290-4

A Mad CatastropheGeoffrey Wawro

978-0-465-05795-5

Catching FireRichard Wrangham

978-0-465-02041-6

Why Orwell MattersChristopher Hitchens978-0-465-03050-7

Words and RulesSteven Pinker

978-0-465-07270-5

EnduranceAlfred Lansing

978-0-465-06288-1

highlights from

The Global Achievement GapTony Wagner

978-0-465-05597-5

Words and RulesSteven Pinker

978-0-465-07270-5

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Gay New YorkGeorge Chauncey

978-0-465-02621-0

The Creative Destruction of MedicineEric Topol

978-0-465-02550-3

The End of PowerMoisés Naím

978-0-465-06569-1

The Global Achievement GapTony Wagner

978-0-465-05597-5

Summer for the GodsEdward J. Larson

978-0-465-07510-2

Neanderthal ManSvante Pääbo

978-0-465-05495-4

The Tyranny of ExpertsWilliam Easterly

978-0-465-08973-4

Anarchy, State, and UtopiaRobert Nozick

978-0-465-05100-7

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The Death and Life of the Great American School System (3rd ed)Diane Ravitch

978-0-465-03658-5

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Richard P. Feynman from B A S I C B O O K S

The Pleasure of Finding Things Out978-0-465-02395-0

The Meaning of It All978-0-465-02394-3

Feynman’s Tips on Physics978-0-465-02797-2

Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track978-0-465-02371-4

Six Not-So-Easy Pieces978-0-465-02526-8

Six Easy Pieces978-0-465-02527-5

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T I T L E I N D E X

A

Ancient Worlds, Michael Scott, 26

B

Beyond Infinity, Eugenia Cheng, 5

Bit by Bit, Andrew Ervin, 24

Blood Brothers, Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith, 34

C

City on the Verge, Mark Pendergrast, 25

Collapse of Parenting, The, Leonard Sax, 31

F

Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris, Peter Brooks, 12

Fractured Republic, The, Yuval Levin, 30

G

Gates of Europe, The, Serhii Plokhy, 32

German War, The, Nicholas Stargardt, 29

God’s Red Son, Louis Warren, 10

H

How to Be a Stoic, Massimo Pigliucci, 17

J

Jefferson, John B. Boles, 15

K

Knowing the Score, David Papineau, 18

L

Language of the Spirit, Jan Swafford, 11

MMetropolis, Mike Rapport, 20

NNew Urban Crisis, The, Richard Florida, 3No Friends but the Mountains, Judith Matloff, 4

OOpen Heart, Stephen Westaby, 9Oppose Any Foe, Mark Moyar, 13

PPasschendaele, Nick Lloyd, 22

RRigor Mortis, Richard F. Harris, 7Ring of Steel, Alexander Watson, 33Russian Revolution, The, Sean McMeekin, 21

SScienceblind, Andrew Shtulman, 14Seeds of Life, The, Edward Dolnick, 23Sovereign People, A, Carol Berkin, 16

TTalking Pictures, Ann Hornaday, 19Toxic Inequality, Thomas M. Shapiro, 8

WWild Nights, Benjamin Reiss, 6

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B

Berkin, Carol, A Sovereign People, 16

Boles, John B., Jefferson, 15

Brooks, Peter, Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris, 12

C

Cheng, Eugenia, Beyond Infinity, 5

D

Dolnick, Edward, The Seeds of Life, 23

E

Ervin, Andrew, Bit by Bit, 24

F

Florida, Richard, The New Urban Crisis, 3

H

Harris, Richard F., Rigor Mortis, 7

Hornaday, Ann, Talking Pictures, 19

L

Levin, Yuval, The Fractured Republic, 30

Lloyd, Nick, Passchendaele, 22

M

Matloff, Judith, No Friends but the Mountains, 4

McMeekin, Sean, The Russian Revolution, 21

Moyar, Mark, Oppose Any Foe, 13

P

Papineau, David, Knowing the Score, 18

Pendergrast, Mark, City on the Verge, 25

Pigliucci, Massimo, How to Be a Stoic, 17

Plokhy, Serhii, The Gates of Europe, 32

A U T H O R I N D E X

R

Rapport, Mike, Metropolis, 20

Reiss, Benjamin, Wild Nights, 6

Roberts, Randy, and Johnny Smith, Blood Brothers, 34

S

Sax, Leonard, The Collapse of Parenting, 31

Scott, Michael, Ancient Worlds, 26

Shapiro, Thomas M., Toxic Inequality, 8

Shtulman, Andrew, Scienceblind, 14

Smith, Johnny, and Randy Roberts, Blood Brothers, 34

Stargardt, Nicholas, The German War, 29

Swafford, Jan, Language of the Spirit, 11

W

Warren, Louis, God’s Red Son, 10

Watson, Alexander, Ring of Steel, 33

Westaby, Stephen, Open Heart, 9

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Press. She has published numerous New York Times bestsellers by authors including Timothy Snyder, John

Bradshaw, Arthur Brooks, Edmund Morgan, and Ahmed Rashid. Recent titles include Edward Baptist’s

The Half Has Never Been Told, Eugene Rogan’s The Fall of the Ottomans, Nicholas Stargardt’s The German War,

Bee Wilson’s First Bite, and Yuval Levin’s The Fractured Republic. A graduate of Princeton University, Lara

acquires primarily in the field of history, broadly conceived—from world wars to marginalia, from culinary

history to political theory, from diaspora to doodles.

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Vice President and Associate Publisher


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coming to Basic Books, he held editorial positions at Natural History magazine, Smithsonian Books, and

Seed magazine, as well as the Bond Buyer. A graduate of Harvard University, he is particularly interested in

evolutionary theory, computer science, and tax increment financing. Recent highlights include Martin

Ford’s Rise of the Robots, Edward Frenkel’s Love and Math, Eric Topol’s The Patient Will See You Now, Leonard

Susskind’s Theoretical Minimum series, and Sherry Turkle’s Alone Together. He is also responsible for the

publishing program surrounding The Feynman Lectures on Physics.

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Senior Editor


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Davidson, Walter Johnson, Carol Berkin, Gary Gallagher, Jeremy Popkin, Joan Biskupic, Marilyn Yalom, and

John Pfaff. Dan holds a BA from Princeton University and an MA in American Studies from Yale University.

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Editor


Brian J. Distelberg joined Basic Books in 2015 from Harvard University Press. He acquires in politics, law,

sociology, technology, media, and history. A graduate of Harvard University, Brian also holds a PhD in US

history from Yale University.

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Associate Editor


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social and cultural history), social sciences, women’s studies, biography, and religion.

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Hélène Barthélemy joined Basic in 2015, after interning and freelancing for Verso Books and Nation Books.

A graduate of Columbia University, she holds a double major in philosophy and Middle Eastern studies.

She is interested in law, economics, religion, philosophy, anthropology, and politics.

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